On May 20th at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, more than 500 CIOs, IT leaders and corporate executives will gather for the 6th MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, recognized as the premier international event for CIOs and senior IT executives to become better business leaders. In today’s economy, this conference is more important than ever, as reflected in the strong response organizers have received.

The Symposium brings together MIT thought leaders, recognized around the world as providing the best IT leadership education, with top business executives and technology innovators. It is significant because if offers:

• Access to the latest thinking at MIT
The Symposium brings together the pragmatism of industry with leading-edge academic research. Leading researchers and successful business leaders offer the best thinking on topics of the day.

• Practical insight into innovative technologies
This Symposium explores how new forms of computing fuel innovation and how they can be applied in real-world business settings.

• Connection to peers

The event offers high caliber networking opportunities and provides CIOs with the opportunity to start connecting now with other senior IT executives, then meet at the Symposium and continue learning from each other afterwards.

Symposium sessions cover issues most on the minds of IT leaders today. The day kicks off with CEOs discussing their expectations of IT in today's challenging environment. This year’s panelists include James Champy, Chairman of Consulting, Perot Systems Corporation; Bob Brennan, President and CEO, Iron Mountain; Ron Markezich, Corporate VP, Microsoft, and Alan Treffler, CEO, Pegasystems. This business focus sets the tone for a day packed with sessions and spirited discussion.
This CEO session is followed by a roundtable discussion among leading academicians from MIT debating what “the next big thing” is in IT and why. This is particularly relevant as we approach the fifteen year anniversary of widespread use of the internet and consider that, for the last 50 years, business has been transformed every 15 years or so by technological disruption. What is next?

Later in the morning, the keynote CIO panel discussion on CIO leadership and the bottom line engages the former CIO of IBM and the Rear Admiral and Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, among others, in tough discussion that will yield insight and practical advice.

The thread through the entire program (www.mitcio.com) is on the CIO’s mandate to improve business performance. And today’s economic climate is front and center to each discussion. Topics range from Green IT, Connected Healthcare, and Enterprise 2.0 to Outsourcing, The Virtual Organization and IT Governance and Compliance. More than 30 speakers from around the world participate actively in these discussions.
The day concludes with a panel discussion featuring the leaders of cloud computing ecosystems, both providers and practitioners. The Symposium plans a live broadcast of this significant session via Webcast. Through partners in India, China, and elsewhere, the session will be heard and message considered by literally thousands who define the future of IT in their organizations. Few events can make this kind of claim.

The opportunity to explore how leading edge academic research can help CIOs address the practical challenges they face in today’s changing economy is a big draw of the Symposium. Also relevant, though, is the way the program itself is put together by a group of MIT Sloan volunteers with the collaboration of the Society of Information Management and MIT’s Center for Digital Business. Both topics and speakers are vetted through a team of senior IT and business leaders to provide attendees with the optimal learning experience.
Moreover, because leadership networking is so important in today’s

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