The startup world is filled with bright technologists who are dim about marketing. "They don't know how to tell their stories," says Coke's Chief Information and Innovation Officer Alan Boehme. "But startups have fresh ideas and intellectual property that we don’t have." So this past summer, Coke launched an incubator-type pilot program in Israel called The Bridge -- a commercialization program that bridges the gap between local entrepreneurs and major global markets. In this inspiring opening keynote, Alan will talk about the challenges and rewards of mentoring new high-growth tech companies. "We've cracked the code on how to do innovation."

Organizations in all industries and geographies are undergoing significant transformations in their business models. Some are creating entirely new ones, while others are adding products and services that blend the digital and physical worlds seamlessly. Everyone is looking for fresh ways to enhance customer experiences and boost organizational performance. Making this digital transformation requires dramatic change on multiple fronts – from leadership to the management of information and labor, to new operating models and customer experiences. In this session, Meredith Whalen will discuss IDC’s latest benchmark research on how digital transformation is sharpening business outcomes and broadening the role of IT leaders everywhere.

• Cloud DR for Traditional Apps: Taking the Hybrid Cloud from Interesting to Indispensable, hosted by CloudVelox
• Innovate and Lead, hosted by Dell
  
• Secure DevOps: Combining Speed and Security in Data Management, hosted by Delphix
• Enterprise Consumerization at Scale, hosted by Dropbox
• How Mobile Messaging is Transforming the Total Customer Experience, hosted by OpenMarket
• The BI hurdle  - how to enable more users to have secured data intelligence, hosted by OpenText
• The SDDC and SDN: How to Define and Deploy in Your Existing Network, hosted by Pluribus Networks
• The Hybrid Cloud Playbook, hosted by Red Hat

Creating the ideal partnership between IT and the rest of the business is a work-in-progress at most companies today. "We were given a mantra with no instructions," says CIO Steve Comstock of CBS Interactive, noting that even the best-intentioned IT people don't always understand business processes well enough to help. In this presentation, Steve will talk about his approach to "leaning in" to business collaboration at CBS Interactive. He'll provide examples where IT played a critical role in making projects successful. "Ultimately, we want to offer help where we can contribute, and get out of the way when we can't."

In this fast paced session, CIO Publisher Adam Dennison will share some key research findings on emerging technologies and industry trends surrounding the SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) stack. Then his industry expert panelists will talk about how they see various market dynamics affecting their customers in this new era of IT. What business problems do their products solve? What value do these new market players bring to CIOs?

Today’s CIO faces a rapidly changing world as new technologies, economic realities and workplace dynamics evolve at record speeds. CEOs are looking for technology innovation as the new competitive differentiator, so both business and IT leaders must adapt quickly -- and collaboratively -- to new insights and strategies. This calls for fresh approaches to thinking, analyzing, managing and engaging your staff. In this real-time crowdsourcing workshop, we'll share ideas about how CIOs can strike the right balance between tactical and strategic activities. We'll ask ourselves and each other what we should stop doing, start doing, or do differently to position our companies for longterm success. Together, we will envision and map out the future of the strategic CIO role.