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Solo Breakfast Buffet
Quiche Lorraine with Bacon, Onions and Swiss Cheese
Applewood Smoked Bacon
American Fried Potatoes
Danishes
Chilled Juices, Hot Tea, Coffee

Reflecting back to time spent with one of his professional role models, Sam Walton, Harry S. Campbell takes the tenants of servant leadership and infuses them with his own business philosophies developed while working at Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Sprint, as well as smaller private companies. What results is an empowering and fresh approach to managing people and business that Campbell calls Get-Real Leadership.

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Take this time to connect with your peers and visit with our partner sponsors to learn how they can be a true partner to your business.

Bach
Moderator: Russ Finney
IT Business Transformation can make or break an organization's efforts at establishing competitive advantage through the tactical use of technology resources.
The term represents a shift in the role of technology beyond just business process management and business - IT alignment, to that of IT business integration. The objective is to create a business environment in which the IT organization is not merely installing technology to support business processes, but is also using technology to shape and transform the business strategy.
So, where's a CIO or IT executive to start in generating or updating a concise IT planning document to guide the organization in the years ahead?
True business transformation requires a fresh look at how a business operates. Today’s CIO/ IT leader needs to rethink the potential of IT and focus on delivering innovation and new value streams to the business. Building a business driven IT roadmap that addresses digital transformation and the introduction of disruptive technology is the new way of life. Cloud, social, mobile, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, places demands on how the enterprise needs to stay connected. CIO/IT leaders that can successfully deliver this new flexible architecture with speed and agility will bring a competitive advantage to their organizations.
Attend this panel session and learn strategies and best practices from experienced IT Leaders

Brahms
Sponsored by Marco
Cybersecurity villains are major threats in the IT industry. Although a quick Internet search indicates the bad guys are winning, Mike will discuss many new tools that help protect our environment. Malware, spear phishing, pharming, and drive-by downloads are some of the many threats to your network today. What about end users? Maybe it’s a data breach? Mike will explain effective strategies that organizations use to protect their data and how to keep your users safe. Simple strategies, though often overlooked or underperforming, can help you remain protected. Core technologies can change your protection and response when the unspeakable happens.

Mozart
Sponsored by Rubrik
This interactive discussion will take you through the steps North Dakota University System leveraged to transform their data center – server, storage, and backup environments – to support the next generation. NDUS will share their process up close, including pitfalls to avoid and the technologies driving their success and future plans. Plus, a Q&A session for peers to share their experiences.

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Bach
Sponsored by Midco
Biometrics has been used on our mobile devices since 2013 when Apple incorporate a fingerprint scanner as a security measure. Sine then Biometrics has taken off as a way for authentication. I will be discussing how Biometrics is used today, the security around biometrics and how it might be used in the future.

Brahms
Sponsored by Nutanix
Cloud has completely reset IT expectations with its pay-as-you-go consumption model, enablement of rapid time-to-market, and one-click convenience and speed. As IT teams grapple with managing multiple clouds—public, private, distributed, and edge—they also struggle with management silos, and unpredictable economics.
Join your IT peers and discover how to unify your clouds, combining the agility; and speed of the public cloud with the security and control of the private cloud. With hyperconverged infrastructure at the core, native virtualization, one-click operations, and application automation capabilities, the Enterprise Cloud provides a single point of control to manage IT infrastructure and applications at any scale. We’ll cover a wide variety of topics including:
Supporting digital transformation initiatives with multicloud
Simplifying IT management and eliminating the need for specialized IT teams
Innovating with flat IT budgets while aligning IT resources to business imperatives
Overcoming DevOps challenges

Mozart
Sponsored by TechND
Not all things that appear innocent actually are. Your project portfolio probably contains seemingly harmless projects that will hurt you. In this session, we will show you exactly how project portfolio managers better evaluate portfolio risk. Learn how to select the right projects and dump the bad ones for the maximum impact to your organization. If you've ever been bitten by a bad project, attend this session and learn how to avoid it happening again!

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Chicken Lunch Buffet
Plaza Salad with Assorted Dressings
Country Fried Chicken
Corn on the Cob
Mashed Potatoes with Gravy
Warm Biscuits and Sweet Butter
Coffee, Iced Tea and Lemonade
Assorted Cookies

This is a brief update on the Technology Council of North Dakota (TechND)

Wannacry. NotPetya. Ransomware. Spearphishing. Equifax.

These terms have made headlines around the world. Companies have been caught in the crossfire between cyberattacks launched by one government against another.

Turning a blind eye and hoping that your company will not be a victim is no longer an option. The threat is real.

So is the opportunity. Companies can start using cybersecurity as a competitive advantage, not a necessary evil. Want to know how? Bryce Austin has written a book on the topic. Through the judicious use of technology, companies are using cybersecurity to gain an edge that leaves their competitors scrambling to catch up.

How can we bring these concepts to life for you and your team? People need to feel the message, not just hear it. Join me in this keynote session as we examine spectacular in-car racing footage for signs to detect, react, prevent and mitigate life safety issues on the racetrack. Then we will apply those techniques to the business world and see how cybersecurity can be a competitive advantage to your organization.

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Bach
Sponsored by Trend Micro
Most criminal syndicates today include a cyber arm because of the vast amounts of money they can make targeting businesses around the world. Jon Clay dives into how these organizations are set up, how they pick their targets, their infection routines and how they maximize breach access for the highest profits. Join this session and leave with a better understanding of how cybercriminals work and how you can defend yourselves against them.

Brahms
In a future full of accelerating business strategies and flexible technological opportunities, the IT department and its leader are going through a dramatic reinvention. Organizational charts are being redrawn and the vital linkages into the business are being rebuilt.

This presentation looks at the new world of the CIO, and how eight new future technologies are changing the world of IT. Today's IT leaders are faced with the myriad of new applications choices available to the business. How do today’s technology executives know if they are employing the correct strategies and solutions? How should the business measure and monitor the progress and impact being made by their own IT enterprise initiatives?

With so many important choices and economical alternatives available both on premise and in the cloud, the focus on alignment between the strategy of the business and the capabilities of IT is more important than ever. Learning best practices and gaining outside insights for tackling these challenges is essential in order to both survive and thrive in today’s IT environment.

This presentation reviews all of these imperatives in the context of eight new future technologies, and the impactful changes and role redefinitions each of them is now driving within IT.

Mozart
Sponsored by DCN
From Dialup & 56k circuits connecting branch location to our current network of mostly fiber and data center systems, we’ve been through it all. This is a story of how Dakota Community Bank & Trust went from having a “Server Closet” to a dedicated “Server Room” to adding a Colocation Server Cabinet “Colo” as our needs grew. I’ll give some ideas on the importance of prioritizing our data & how it made our daily work flow in the branch locations less stressful for the entire staff. I’ll also be touching on centralized internet and our experience with many hurdles and resolutions. Join me for a very informative session on IT networks.

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Bach
Moderator: Marc Windahl
Organizations deal with data every day. Senior management and Boards are taking more interest in how this data can be used and managed within their organizations. This session will feature four local executives sharing their experiences with data. A sampling of questions include:

What is your data analytics usage today?
What's the most challenging project you have seen taken on in the analytics space?
Is it necessary to have a data scientist on staff today? If so, what responsibilities would that role include?
Has data analysis created any unforeseen challenges?
What do you value higher, stats/math or industry/domain knowledge?
Can you highlight some of the analytics tools you use?
Can you share a win due to a change in data analytics tool or process?

Brahms
Does your board know their fiduciary responsibility when it comes to IT? Does your board understand what systems you have in place for your end users? Systems for your security? How do you stay in touch and interact with a diverse group? Hear how one rural health system in central Minnesota has been able to build a strong relationship between IT and their two Boards over the past 18 months.

Mozart
What is this noise about Privacy lately? How is privacy different from secret?
This session is an overview of Privacy principles, especially the GDPR and Privacy Shield; how they are alike, and how they differ. You should know whether these apply to your organization, at least. This session will give you that and will offer the broad and narrow views enough to either assure you that these do not apply, or to give you a head start on how to comply.

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Today’s IT executives are finding themselves challenged by two unrelenting dynamics: the never ending pace of technological change, and the demand from the business to provide unique and competitive innovations.

What are the various ways in which successful CIOs and executives can meet these demands?

Russ Finney has spent his career both as an IT executive and as an advisory researcher understanding these challenges. He draws his insights from his time as an IT executive working inside the computer chip industry at a Japanese semiconductor company, as well as serving as a consultant to some of the most advanced companies in the world. Through his firm’s research he has a direct line of sight into the processes used by cutting edge global organizations to stay on pace and innovate in today’s technology fast lane.

This presentation he examines six key drivers of innovation within a modern day company: Disruption, Obsolescence, Unexpected Incidents, the Bigger View, Tribal Change, and a Structured Process. He gives first hand examples and direct experiences with each method, including the innovations and changes which resulted from his lessons learned from dealing with situations such as the recent Japanese Tsunami.

The key take away from this overview is executive level actionable thinking and ideas for creating IT innovations which can be immediately applied at any company no matter the size or the sophistication.

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Enjoy this complimentary cocktail reception featuring an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and conversation. Make this an important element of your attendance to the Summit. The ability to network and collaborate with your peers in an open and no-hype environment will prove to provide long lasting value to your key business initiatives moving forward.