Sunday, June 12, 2011
Reception at the Marist College Historic Cornell Boathouse

5:30 PM

Early Registration

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Welcome Reception
Technology and Science Fiction, Alan Labouseur and Jeff Bass, Marist College
Sponsored by: IT-oLogy/SCANA/BlueCross BlueShield of SC
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Marist College Student Center - Third Floor

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast - Student Lounge Area
Sponsored by the Institute for Data Center Professionals at Marist College
– Student Center – 3rd Floor

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome and Opening remarks
Roger Norton, Dean, Marist College 
– Nelly Goletti Theatre

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Keynote Speaker
Stephen Wiggins, Executive VP and CIO of BlueCross BlueShield of South CarolinaS
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Concurrent Sessions

IBM Academic Initiative  at Your Service (Industry)
Kathleen M. Pfeiffer and Don Resnik, IBM
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– Nelly Goletti Theater

Exploration into Costs and Mitigation Strategies for Invalid Defects in Systems Development (Research)
Keith Mort, Marist College
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– Room 348

Management and Operational Aspects of Enterprise Computing (Industry)
Daniel Squillace, SAS Institute Inc.
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– Room 349

Data Security - Corporate Struggles (Industry)
Peter Gallinari, OpenSky Corp.
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11:10 AM - 11:40 PM

Concurrent Sessions

WIKI: A Systems Programming Productivity Tool Grand Prize Winner SHARE 2011 Academic Award for Excellence
Regina Robbins and John Noel, SAS Institute Inc.
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– Nelly Goletti Theater

Journey to the Cloud - Economics of Cloud Computing (Industry)
Florence Huban Suraci, CISCO Systems Inc.
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Look Under the Covers of the zEnterprise (Industry)
Timothy Slegel, IBM
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– Room 349

Enterprise Computing is Helping Grow our Future Chief Technology Officers (Industry)
Chris Algozzine and Ken Muckenhaupt, IBM
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– Room PAR

11:40 PM - 12:50 PM

Sponsored Lunch: Cabaret 
Sponsored by NewEra Software

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Keynote Speaker
Dr. David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow and Lead Researcher The Watson Jeopardy! Project
– Nelly Goletti Theater

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Smarter Enterprise Computing (Industry)
Greg Lotko, Business Line Executive of the System z Division for IBM Systems & Technology
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– Nelly Goletti theater

ERP Course and Progressive Manufacturing Award (PM100) (Curriculum)
Jill O Sullivan, SUNY Farmingdale
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– Room  349

Mining Sakai to Measure Student Performance: Opportunities and Challenges in Academic Analytics (Curriculum)
Eitel Lauria, Marist College
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– Room 349

Tough Choices or Tough Times: Developing Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Changing Career Dynamics in the IT Industry (Curriculum)
Dr. Bryant C. Mitchell, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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– Room PAR

2:50 PM - 3:20 PM

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Enterprise Level Application Modernization Successes (Industry)
Doug Warner, SCANA Corporation
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– Nelly Goletti Theater

Master the Mainframe Contest & Past, Present and Future (Industry)
Paul Newton, IBM
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– Room 348

The Mainframe Environment: An Awesome Place to Work (Industry)
Michael Myers and Lindsay Edwards, Mentor Services Corp.
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– Room 349

Marist College's ERP System: From PLUS to Banner (Industry)
Christina Buechel, Marist College
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– Room PAR

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Industry Panel Discussion: Current Industry Trends and Skills Requirements

Lindsay Edwards, Mentor Services Corp.
Heather Czech, SAP
Lonnie Emard, IT-oLogy 
Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc.
Scott Fagen, CA Technologies
Don Resnik, IBM
Joseph Sinnott, Verizon
Joseph Verderame, Morgan Stanley
Moderator: Angelo Corridori, Marist College

Enterprise Computing - Hands On! (ECHO!)
Angelo Corridori, Marist College
– Nelly Goletti Theater

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

Dinner Reception on Hancock Saland Plaza
Sponsored by IBM Corporation

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Marist College Student Center - Third Floor

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast - Cabaret
Sponsored by: The Institute for Data Center Professionals

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote Speaker
Deputy Commissioner James Onalfo, CIO of NYPD The NYPD Real Time Crime Center
– Nelly Goletti Theatre

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

Concurrent Sessions

Linux on the Mainframe, When it Makes Sense (Cents) (Industry)
Len Diegel, Velocity Software, Inc.
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– Nelly Goletti Theatre

Enterprise Networks for Low Latency, High Frequency Financial Trading (Research)
Casimer DeCusatis, IBM
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– Room 348

On the Issue of Managing 100,000 Servers Daily (Research)
Uriel Carrasquilla, National Council on Compensation Insurance
– Room 349

A Survey of Mainframe Operating Systems  Similarities and Differences (Curriculum)
Mike Myers, Mentor Services Corp.
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– Room PAR

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Coffee Break

Curriculum Panel Discussion  Computing Education in the 21st Century

Roger Norton, Ben Carle, Anne Matheus, and Eitel Lauria, Marist College; 
Chu Jong, Illinois State University;
Cameron Seay , North Carolina A & T State University;
and Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University
Moderator: Roger Norton, Marist College
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– Nelly Goletti Theater

12:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions
An Industry Partnership Curriculum Development Model Introduction to Enterprise System Testing Class It Can Work for You Too! (Curriculum)
Richard Prewitt, IBM, and John M.Thompson, Mobile Collaborative Educational Consulting
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– Nelly Goletti Theater

Business Intelligence IBM Cognos on z/Linux (Industry)
Timothy Ondrey, Marist College
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– Room 348

Optimizing Guest System's Performance in a VM Environment (Research)
Niranjan Sharma, Illinois State University
– Room 349

Virtualization in Linux a Key Component for Cloud Computing (Research)
Aparicio Carranza and Harrison Carranza, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Sponsored Lunch: Cabaret 
Sponsored by Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Industry Enterprise Innovation - 360
Bill Thirsk, VP and CIO Marist College; and Brian Gormanly, Marist College
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– Nelly Goletti Theatre

Career Paths in Enterprise Systems Testing (Industry)
Michael Browne, IBM
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– Room 348

Capacity Improvement of WiMAX Networks by Dynamic Allocation of Subframes (Research)
Syed Rashid Zaidi, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York
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– Room 349

Exploiting zOS: A look into zOS, its coupling facility, DB2 data sharing, and oh.., did we mention it's all running on a laptop?
Sean Goldsmith, Marist College and Doug Trimboli, IBM
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– Room PAR

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Concurrent Sessions

The Future is Now - Next Generation Mainframe Management (Industry)
Scott Fagen, CA Technologies
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– Nelly Goletti Theatre

Closing the IT Skills Gap: 2011 SHARE Survey for Guiding University and College IT Agenda (Industry)
Harry Williams, Marist College, representing SHARE
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– Room 348

Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z Mainframe (Industry)
Brad Hinson, Red Hat
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– Room 349

Effects of Cloud Computing on Vendors' Data Center Network Component Design (Research)
Carolyn Sher- DeCusatis, Pace University
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– Room PAR

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Student/Recent Graduate Panel
Anthony Cocuzza and Brian Smith, IBM
John Noel and Regina Robbins, SAS Institute Inc.;
Niranjan Sharma and Birendra KC, Illinois State University; 
Lakhbir Singh, Widener University
Moderator: Alan Labouseur, Marist College

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Closing Session
– Nelly Goletti Theatre