5th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Wrestle with Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership in a Global Economy

Business Wire, April 10, 2008

Morning Keynote by Aetna CEO Ronald A. Williams

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- More than 500 CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology executives will attend the 5th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium taking place Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at the Kresge Auditorium at MIT, in Cambridge, MA. The theme for this year's global event is "Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership in Your Firm."

The 5th Annual MIT Sloan Symposium will feature a morning CEO Keynote presentation by Ronald A. Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Aetna. Other speakers will include nearly 50 senior executives and professors with such organizations as Rolls Royce, Alcatel-Lucent, Marriott International, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bank of America, Forbes.com, IDC, Adobe, Special Olympics International, MIT, and Harvard Business School. The program will also feature CIO and Academic Keynote Panels. In addition, there will be a luncheon to honor winners of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2008 Award for IT Innovation.

"In an era of unprecedented global competition, CIOs need to be at the top of their game," said Gopi Bala, Co-Chair of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. "The 2008 conference offers a unique program combining the pragmatism of industry with leading-edge academic research to help CIOs move ahead. We're excited about the quality of this year's program, which will address topics that are very much on the minds of today's technology executives."

Sessions will help participants achieve success by leveraging innovative technologies while maintaining cost-efficiency. Themes include the greening of the data center, virtualization of the IT infrastructure, the "analytics-driven" enterprise, and enterprise 2.0 technology enablers. Discussions will also focus on key vertical industries, including financial services, telecommunications/utilities, healthcare and life sciences, and the public sector.

"The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium focuses on the core value propositions associated with global delivery models, emerging capabilities, and best practices. It is an opportunity to look beyond the day-to-day issues and focus on solutions that are either here already or just over the horizon," said Michael Johnson, Co-Chair.

For more information and registration details, including special early registration pricing until April 22nd, please visit www.mitcio.com.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global CIO event, with a full day of cutting-edge sessions addressing the changing roles of CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives in a time-efficient format. It combines seminal academic insights on IT trends with CIO best practice recommendations within MIT's intimate and exclusive setting that is also a proven and effective high-value learning and networking environment.

This event is produced by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, in association with the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), and the MIT Center for Digital Business. These non-profit organizations developed the content for the conference with a single purpose--to help technology executives become more successful. Proceeds support academic programs at MIT Sloan, benefiting current and future IT executives. The conference is part of the MIT Sloan CXO series. For more information, visit www.mitcio.com.

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