Keynote Speaker: Bob Evans   Senior vice-president and director of InformationWeek's Global CIO business unit "The Transformative Power of Business Technology"

"IT is becoming BT (business technology) as it shifts from an internal focus on processes and transactions to the external world of customers, revenue, engagement and interactions. As more business customers and consumers deman more flexibility and options from their suppliers / partners than ever before, business technology becomes even more strategic. Can your company keep up? Why do some companies miss this point so badly? and how can they change that outdated -- and dangerous -- view of the world? How are some world-class companies transforming themselves to offer more-valuable and more-enduring value to their customers? We'll look into the question, "What Business Are You In Today?", and the role strategic BT can play in shaping the proper answer for the future."

-Bob Evans

Bob Evans is senior vice-president and director of InformationWeek's Global CIO business unit, which he has been leading since it's launch at the beginning of 2009. Global CIO brand enhances InformationWeek's strategic focus on rapidly evolving and increasingly vital role of the CIO in today's high-volume, high-velocity global economy. Evans had been TechWeb's SVP and content director following several years as editor-in-chief of InformationWeek during its years of massive growth. Evans has been an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and speaks frequently at technology and business events and at universities. You can access his Global CIO columns at

http://www.informationweek.com/authors/showAuthor.jhtml?authorID=1097.