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• CIO Summit Brisbane pictures

  By Georgina Swan | 09 November, 2011 14:28

  The CIO Summit is a unique opportunity for CIOs and IT professionals to acquire knowledge and insight from industry pundits as well as real–world experience on a variety of important topics concerning IT.

• Real social networking: The CIO Summit in Melbourne

  By Georgina Swan | 13 October, 2011 10:00

  CIO tooks some time to catch up and network - face-to-face

• In pictures: CIO Summit Melbourne 2011 speakers

  By Georgina Swan | 13 October, 2011 09:07

  The CIO Summit is a unique opportunity for CIOs and IT professionals to acquire knowledge and insight from the industry and real–world experience on a variety of important topics concerning IT.

• CIO Summit: South East Water embarks on green IT initiative

  By Chloe Herrick | 12 October, 2011 16:50

  Under constant pressure driven by both the global financial crisis and climate change, Australian water utility, South East Water (SEW) identified a need to clean up its carbon footprint.

• CIO Summit Roundtable: Application specific SLAs for the enterprise

  By Georgina Swan | 12 October, 2011 11:06

  Some enterprises have centralised, moved consolidated global ICT assets without giving much thought to the performance of their business applications. While consolidation can help to lower costs, users can have very different experiences for accessing data and applications based on the physical distance to the data centre, where latency may be an issue.

• In pictures: CIOs discuss print services in the mobile enterprise

  By Georgina Swan | 10 August, 2011 09:22

  CIOs discuss print services in the mobile enterprise at the CIO Summit 2011 in Sydney

• CIO Summit 2011: General shots

  By CIO Staff | 25 July, 2011 09:22

  In pictures

• CIO Summit 2011: Prize winners pictures

  By CIO Staff | 25 July, 2011 08:55

  In pictures

• CIO Summit 2011: Breakfast roundtable pictures

  By CIO Staff | 25 July, 2011 08:42

  In pictures

• CIO Summit: Death, taxes and iPads

  By Lisa Banks | 22 July, 2011 12:11

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  The increased prevalence of the iPads and other mobile devices in enterprises is now inevitable -- "just like death and taxes” -- Parsons Brinckerhoff’s CIO, Chris Johnson, told the CIO Summit in Sydney.

• CIO Summit: How IT keeps elite athletes running

  By Chloe Herrick | 22 July, 2011 11:50

  The NSW Institute of Sport is renowned for fostering the talent and dedication of Australia’s elite athletes. However, as IT manager, Greg Baxter, told the CIO Summit in Sydney, a lot of IT work goes on behind the scenes to help it maintain this reputation.

• CIO Summit 2011 speakers

  By Georgina Swan | 22 July, 2011 10:47

  Pictures from the event

• CIO Summit: How to write a security strategy (that CIOs will read)

  By Diana Nguyen | 22 July, 2011 10:30

  If you want to ensure your security strategy gets read by the right people then keep it short, Tabcorp’s chief information security officer, Troy Braban, told the 2011 CIO Summit.

• CIO Summit 2011 in pictures

  By Georgina Swan | 22 July, 2011 09:20

  All the action from the Sydney event

• CIO Summit: Mobility soars as priority for CIOs

  By Lisa Banks | 21 July, 2011 15:42

  In the space of just 12 months mobility has increased dramatically as a priority for Australian CIOs, according to IDC's latest CIO Forecast for Management Survey.

• CIO Summit: Turning to virtualization to cut costs and carbon

  By Chloe Herrick | 21 July, 2011 15:21

  Faced with significant business growth and constant pressure to improve the operations while coping a decreasing budget, South East Water (SEW) IT manager, Stuart Brockwell, turned to virtualization.

• CIO Summit: CIOs need to embrace BYO technology, social media: Gen-i

  By Hamish Barwick | 21 July, 2011 12:14

  CIOs should welcome rather than fear employees' desire to bring their own device to work, Gen-i Australia's chief executive, Paul Wilson, has argued.

• CIO Summit: Coming to grips with the future of Cloud computing

  By Hamish Barwick | 21 July, 2011 12:09

  The challenges faced by the chief information officer of 2015 will include changes to outsourcing, a winnowing of the number of Cloud vendors and increasingly converged IT, according to IDC's Chris Morris.

• CIO Summit: QBE LMI forms business intelligence team, creates in-house BI application

  By Lisa Banks | 21 July, 2011 11:18

  QBE Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) has turned to a new BI suite in an effort to gain greater insight into customer needs.

Past Events

• The future of mobility in enterprise: Q&A

  By CIO Staff | 08 October, 2010 15:08

  During the CIO Summit 2010 in Melbourne, a panel session was held to discuss how mobility technology can aid the enterprise.

• Tennis Australia CIO talks about the changing role of the CIO

  By Hamish Barwick | 07 October, 2010 13:51

  Moving Tennis Australia from blaming the IT department to working in harmony has been a key task for CIO, Chris Yates

• In pictures: CIO Summit 2010 Melbourne

  By Georgina Swan | 07 October, 2010 10:16

  All the action from Australia's premier CIO event

• Melbourne Storm chief talks about changing the business of sport

  By Hamish Barwick | 07 October, 2010 10:03

  Turning around the fortunes of National Rugby League (NRL) club, the Melbourne Storm, has been no easy task for new CEO, Ron Gauci, but his background in management and technology gives him a unique advantage.

• NBN to drive Australian business technology

  By Georgina Swan | 06 October, 2010 10:09

  About 70 per cent of Australian organisations think the NBN will better enable their business, particularly in the areas of video conferencing, virtual desktops and IT as a service, according to IDC research.

• Globalisation, IT talent and cloud top list of CIO issues

  By Lisa Banks | 02 August, 2010 11:47

  Cloud computing, finding the right IT talent and working for a globalisation organisation are the top issues CIOs discussed at the recent Next Gen CIO summit on the Gold Coast.

• 'Goldie' super users lead IT change at Immigration Dept

  By James Hutchinson | 26 July, 2010 10:20

  Implementing change within an organisation is never easy, particularly when it comes to replacing whole IT systems. That’s why the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) chief information officer, Bob Correll, relied largely on "super users" to lead the IT change management in its ambitious Systems for People program.

• IT staff core to the customer experience

  By James Hutchinson | 26 July, 2010 11:47

  A company's stakeholders can become their advocates, provided IT staff make up a part of the externally facing customer team, according to Haas School of Business professor, Peter Wilton.

• Federal election delays visa, immigration changes

  By James Hutchinson | 23 July, 2010 12:31

  The Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) plan to complete its transformational change under the Systems for People program has been delayed due to the Federal election on 21 August.

• In pictures: CIO Summit 2010

  By CIO Staff | 23 July, 2010 10:47

  Photos from the event

• Transition to the cloud like steam power to electricity

  By Lisa Banks | 22 July, 2010 15:26

  The transition to cloud-based applications is in a similar vein to the move from steam power to electricity, according to Wilson HTM chief information officer, Scott Stewart.

• Honesty key to building customer trust: ACMA CIO

  By James Hutchinson | 22 July, 2010 14:52

  Building trust is best achieved through finding the right person, and always being honest, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) chief information officer, Carsten Larsen.

• Social media policy isn't all about IT: CIOs

  By Lisa Banks | 22 July, 2010 13:00

  A panel of CIOs have agreed developing a workplace social media policy around the use of sites like Twitter is not exclusively an IT issue.

• NLA web services traffic rises above 2.5 billion in 2009

  By Trevor Clarke | 22 July, 2010 12:18

  The National Library of Australia (NLA) has more than doubled its web services traffic to reach more than 2.5 billion hits in 2009.

• 70 per cent of CIOs say GFC effects have passed: IDC

  By Lisa Banks | 22 July, 2010 11:47

  A survey of some 400 CIOs across the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region indicates that while 70 per cent feel the effects of the GFC have passed, an average 2.3 per cent budget increase will take place in these organisations.

• In-source leads way for fast acquisitions: Programmed Group

  By James Hutchinson | 22 July, 2010 11:04

  Amidst the rush to outsource as much IT possible in the enterprise space, one company has bucked the trend.

• Annual CIO summit to showcase new business IT strategies

  By Lisa Banks | 21 July, 2010 09:55

  The CIO summit kicks off in Sydney tomorrow with more than 200 CIOs from across Australia set to converge on Sydney’s Westin Hotel.

• Scalability core focus for Asia-Pacific CIOs: report

  By Lisa Banks | 15 July, 2010 09:22

  The role of the CIO has become more about business priorities and driving revenue growth with CIOs in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region rating cloud computing and stability as their top priorities.