As the global trend towards digitization accelerates, organizations need to reinvent their digital enterprises, again. More than new technologies are required; a whole cultural transformation is needed. Strong leadership will be essential to identifying and implementing compelling new technologies and to overcoming organizational obstacles. How can you prepare for the next digital revolution? Find out at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 21, 2014.

Now in its 11th year, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is a world class, one-day conference, held on the MIT campus. Over 700 CIOs, senior IT executives and MIT academic thought leaders will network, collaborate, and explore how innovative technologies and leading-edge research can help address the digital transformation.

"The CIO is ideally placed to lead the technical and cultural shifts necessary to bring their digital enterprises forward," said Lindsey Anderson, Chair of the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. "However, being ideally placed is no guarantee of future success. To meet this challenge, attendees will leave the Symposium armed with actionable insight on how to embrace the organizational and technical changes needed as they guide their organizations in the months and years ahead."

More than a dozen keynote presentations and interactive panel discussions will feature business leaders, technology trendsetters, and thought leaders from academia. Topics to be addressed include:

  • CEO Keynote Panel -- Creating the Digital Vision
  • CIO Keynote Panel -- Leading the Digital Enterprise
  • Academic Panel -- Are You Ready for the Shifting Frontier of Mind and Machine?
  • Big Data, Analytics, and Insights
  • Tracking Business Technology Value in the Digital Enterprise
  • Security, Privacy and Availability in the Digital Enterprise
  • How Critical is the CIO-CMO Partnership to the Digital Enterprise?
  • Will CIOs Still Be Relevant in the Future?
  • Transforming 'Digital Silos' to 'Digital Care Enterprise'

The Symposium will take place Wednesday, May 21, 2014 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium on the MIT Campus, located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

Additionally, the Symposium's Innovation Showcase will feature 10 carefully selected early-stage companies that are providing innovative and valuable IT solutions. The Showcase will be open to the public from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. on May 21st.

During the Innovation Showcase, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business will be signing their new book, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.

The Symposium is co-organized by the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association and the MIT Center for Digital Business.

For more information and to register for the Symposium, visit www.mitcio.com.

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