Be a part of the inaugural Optimization for Innovation conference, where executives, senior-level practitioners, experts and thought leaders will share real-world experiences and pragmatic 90-day action items to harvest savings and trapped value from existing processes, resources and capabilities. The conference will consist of a combination of invited guest speakers, keynotes, case studies, presentations and tutorials.


The Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations including (but not limited to) the following topics:


Program Topics
Optimization for Innovation Success Stories
Business-Technology Reset: Optimization for Innovation
Governance Models for the New Normal
Business Analytics as Optimization Foundation
New Normal Linchpins: Business-Tech Savvy Professionals
Business-IT Alignment is a Dead-End
Business Optimization Techniques

Tutorial Topics
Instituting a Business Performance Measurement Framework
Cyber Risk Analysis: Assessment, Policy, & Economics
Business Process Modeling and Business Instrumentation
Lean / Six Sigma in the New Normal

Presentations and tutorials proposed should be geared toward an audience comprising direct reports and senior staff of the COO, CFO and CIO.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should be prepared in English, containing the following information:
» Presenter name, title and affiliation
» Presenter Bio
» Session Title
» 2-3 paragraph description of proposed session
» 3-5 bullets on what attendees will learn
» Target audience characteristics: role, skill and industry

Presentations and tutorials proposed should be geared toward an audience comprising direct reports and senior staff of the COO, CFO and CIO. All presentations and tutorials must include a 90-day action plan for attendees to pursue post-conference.

Please Note: Submissions that are direct pitches for product or services will not be considered.

Submit abstracts as described above to Program Chair, Brenda M. Michelson via e-mail at brenda@elementallinks.com

Deadline for submissions is August 13, 2010