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itSMF  USA Fusion 09 - Uniting the world of IT service management - Sept. 20-23, 2009 Dallas, TX

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Sessions on Saturday, September 19
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 166 ITIL® v2/v3 Foundation Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Joy Yoder (ITSM Academy, Inc. )
Pre/Post Convention Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 104 ISO/IEC 20000 Foundation Certification Training (Includes Certification Exam)
Mart Rovers (InterProm USA Corporation)
Pre/Post Convention Training
 
Sessions on Sunday, September 20
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 166 ITIL® v2/v3 Foundation Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Joy Yoder (ITSM Academy, Inc. )
Pre/Post Convention Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 104 ISO/IEC 20000 Foundation Certification Training (Includes Certification Exam)
Mart Rovers (InterProm USA Corporation)
Pre/Post Convention Training
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 507 Outsourcing Roundtable
Larry Killingsworth (Independent Consultant)
Maria C. Metcalf (Unisys)
Michael McGaughey (Dream Catchers, Inc.)
Charles Reinecke (Cerner Corporation)
Michael Collier (Procter & Gamble)
Kevin Smilie (TPI)
George Assenheimer (Capgemini)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 508 Healthcare Forum & Special Interest Group Meeting
Joel Splan (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 384 Service Costing: Determining True Unit Cost Per Service
Boris Pevzner (Lontra)
Ron Bradley (The Player Group)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 143 Goal to Objective Mapping
Beverly Wileman-Pratt (Pepperweed Consulting)
George Spafford (Pepperweed Consulting, LLC)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 45 How to Measure IT Service Quality
Hank Marquis (Global Knowledge)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM 157 Service Asset and Configuration Management Design Simulation
Drew Hart (Unisys)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 37 ABC of ICT Roundtable
Paul Wilkinson (GamingWorks)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 493 Root Cause Analysis in IT Service Management
W. Charles Slaven (MAX Technical Training)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 128 Building the Business Case for Service Management
Reginald Lo (Third Sky, Inc.)
Lou Hunnebeck (Third Sky, Inc.)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 204 Building Your IT Service Portfolio To Deal With Hard Economic Times
Randy Steinberg (Deloitte Consulting)
Jan Vromant (Deloitte Consulting LLP)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 256 Understand and Leverage Your Role as a Courageous Leader - Improve Your Efficiency and Effectiveness
Michael Kublin (PeopleTek)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM 336 Building Communication and Education Campaigns for ITIL®
Sean McClean (Katalyst Now, LLC)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
 
Sessions on Monday, September 21
Time Session Number Session Track
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 522 Ask the Expert - Service Strategy
Majid Iqbal (Senior Director, Gartner)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 523 Ask the Expert - Service Design
Vernon Lloyd (International Client Director, FoxIT)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 526 Ask the Expert - Continual Service Improvement
Troy DuMoulin (Pink Elephant)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 350 Are Your People Ready for Change?
Troy DuMoulin (Pink Elephant)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 126 Maturity Assessments, Friend or Foe
Cathy Kirch (Allstate Insurance Company)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 44 The Mighty OLA
Doug Tedder (Haverstick Consulting)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 210 Defining an IT Service - The Root Cause of All IT Issues
Randy Steinberg (Deloitte Consulting)
Jan Vromant (Deloitte Consulting LLP)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 159 From Rags to KPI Reporting
Pedro Hidalgo (Cook Children's Health Care System)
Beverly Wileman-Pratt (Pepperweed Consulting)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 261 ITSM + PMO = NWO
Robbin Trusty (Austin Energy)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 525 Identifying the Root Cause and Quick Problem Resolution: An End-to-end Application Performance Case Study
Jonathan Dowell (Con-Way Inc.)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 514 Sponsorship Panel Discussion: The Right Stuff: Measuring IT Performance Using Business-Relevant Metrics
Corrine Siba (EMC)
Evelyn Hubbert (Forrester Research)
Pedro Hidalgo (Cook Children's Health Care System)
Gary Albitz (Oracle)
Robert Stroud (CA, Inc)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 513 Enabling Effective Asset Management -- Requisition to Receiving Automation
Bob Balassi (Maryville Technologies)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 511 Managing the Cloud in the New Economy
Patrick Reynolds (IBM)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 512 Accelerated ISO/IEC 20000 Adoption Case Study
Victoria White (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab))
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 518 Real Business Benefits, Real Easy: Successful ITSM Implementations at 7-Eleven and Core Media Technologies
Brian Cator (7-Eleven)
Tulio Quinones (Core Media Technologies, a company of WPP)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 84 ITIL® -- Useful for Small Companies?
Michael Gill (Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 265 Service Desk State of the Future Report
Donna Knapp (ITSM Academy, Inc. )
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 148 Demystifying Service Catalog
Keith Fessler (IBM)
Christopher Dawson (IBM)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 83 ITIL® Implementation: Qualitative Keys to Success
Nancy Lee Hutchin (US Department of Transportation)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 353 Acheiving Global ISO 20000 Certification in 12 Months
Maria C. Metcalf (Unisys)
Rajan Kanda (Unisys Corporation)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM 438 Rethinking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) During an Economic Downturn
Link Alander (Lone Star College System)
Shah Ardalan (Lone Star College System)
Track 7 - Governance and IT Financial Management: Keys to Running IT Like a Business
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 534 Vroom! Running IT Like a Business
David Coyle (Gartner, Inc.)
General Session
 
Sessions on Tuesday, September 22
Time Session Number Session Track
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 524 Ask the Expert - Service Transition
Ivor Macfarlane (Service Management Consultant & Evangelist, IBM)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 527 Ask the Expert - Service Operations
David Cannon (ITSM Practice Principal, Hewlett Packard)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
8:15 AM - 9:40 AM 533 From Gloom and Doom to Bloom! The Power of Being Positively Contagious
Kirk Weisler (Chief Morale Officer)
General Session
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 11 IT Strategy - The Key to Winning Executive Support
Dalibor Petrovic (Deloitte & Touche LLP)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 162 ITIL® IT Service Management Transformation Journey: It's Worth the Journey
Lu Verosko (Jeppesen A Boeing Company)
Patrick Burnes (Jeppesen - A Boeing Company)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 156 Optimizing ITIL® Problem Management
Mark Hall (Apollo Associated Services, LLC)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 22 Enterprise Governance in a Virtual World
William Banks (Integrated Solutions Management)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 66 ITIL® v3 and Virtualization
Anthony Orr (BMC Software)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 209 Teaming CobiT® and ITIL® for Improved Value and Service
Robert Stroud (ITGI/CA)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 509 ISO 20000 Forum & Special Interest Group Meeting
Jayne Groll (ITSM Academy)
Mart Rovers (InterProm USA Corporation)
Lori Smiley (Metro Nashville Government)
Celia Carboni (Fidelity Investments)
Pre-Convention Workshops & Forums
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 443 People & Process First, then Tools!
Trudie Hegel (Blue Shield of California)
Michael Robinson (Third Sky, Inc.)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 10 The Need For Trust: Building a Trustworthy IT
Ken Wendle (HP/itSMF Intl.)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 237 Implementing Change Management in a Regulated Enviroment: A Case Study
Valerie Arraj (Compliance Process Partners LLC)
Tracy Lampula (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 8 Guided Tour Through a Service Level Agreement
Richard Russell (Hospital Corporation of America)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 29 Use OLAs to Drive Down Costs and Foster Continual Process Improvement
Lina Patel (European Patent Office)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 240 From SaaS to SAS -- How a Service Provider Is Leveraging CobiT® and ITIL® To Meet Audit Requirements
David Marts (Transzap, Inc.)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 301 Organizational Change - All Aboard and Rowing
Scott Williams (National City/PNC)
Margaret Hanlon (Hewlett-Packard)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 276 Knowledge Management Fusion: Uniting CMDBs, CMS and SKMS
Linh C. Ho (Compuware)
Joshua Personius (Sun Microsystems)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 137 IT Change Management - Without the Nasty Surprises
Cheryl Tóvizi (Christchurch City Council)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 458 Release & Deployment Management; What the Books Didn't Tell You
Dave Howard (Toyota Financial Services)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 78 How 'Normal' Is Your IT Data
Mazda Marvasti (Integrien)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 175 Frameworks: Driving ITSM Beyond Operations
Terri Richards (Intel)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 532 Cloud Service Management- What's the Forecast?
Alex Hernandez (Plexent)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 515 IT Service Management: Lessons Learned from the Field
Rob Harper (Motorola)
Troy Olson (Cox Enterprises)
LaTanya Burton (National Institute of Health)
Doris Holley (National Institute of Health)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 531 Delivering Customer Value from Outsourcing Your Enterprise IT Services -- A Multi- Disciplinary Approach to Applying ITIL®
Ashley Culbertson (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Jennifer Marie Parker (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Robert Whitkop (Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN), Dept of the Navy)
Speaker Name531 (-)
Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 520 Speed Kills - Ensuring the Journey Isn't Just a Trip in the Passing Lane
Myra Davis (Texas Children's Hospital)
Clifford Shier (CompuCom)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 521 Extreme Management: Implementing ITIL® At Oracle IT & 1,000 Customers
Watson Wat (Oracle)
Ken Wells (Oracle)
Speaker Name521 (-)
Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 510 The Power of ITIL®: Driving Consistent Global Service Delivery for a Leading IT Outsourcer -- (A Case Study with TechTeam Global)
Vicki Neville (TechTeam Global)
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Track 8 - Sponsored Sessions: Customer Case Studies and Panel Discussions
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 295 CSI -- Just Click Your Heels and Sprinkle Pixy Dust……Right?
Tom Pierce (AT&T)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 92 Bridging the Gap Between Incident and Problem Management
Tony Krasinski (Erie Insurance Group)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 222 Aligning IT with Real Business Drivers
Lawrence Sheets (Caterpillar Inc.)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 497 Top Process Improvement Lessons Learned at Largest Internet Companies
Gene Kim (Tripwire)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 275 Achieving ETE Integration/Transparency in a Large Scale Multi-Supplier Environment
Daryl Goetz (Procter & Gamble)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 91 How to Develop an IT Service Agreement
Robert Benyon (Rhodes University)
Track 7 - Governance and IT Financial Management: Keys to Running IT Like a Business
 
Sessions on Wednesday, September 23
Time Session Number Session Track
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM 528 Evolution & Development - ITSM Career Development
Brent Knipfer (Executive Career Mgmt Mentor - ITSM Global Capability Manager, Dell, Inc.)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM 529 Evolution & Development - ITIL® Evolution/Growth & Certification Scheme
Richard Pharro (Director, APM Group)
Sharon Taylor (President – Aspect Group & ITIL V3 Chief Examiner, Aspect Group, Inc.)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM 530 Evolution & Development - Speaking on Success
Kirk Weisler (Chief Morale Officer)
Breakfast Club Discussion Groups
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 27 Planning Business Manager and Customer ITIL® Induction
Malcolm Fry (FRY-Consultants)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 503 Transitioning to a Knowledge-Powered Service Desk
Paul Dooley (Optimal Connections, LLC)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 248 The Journey to Service Catalog: You CAN Get There From Here
Michele Bonner (Austin Energy)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 488 How to Measure the Value and Risk Elements that are Important to the Business
Gary Albitz (Oracle)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 474 Implenting ITIL® v3 to Obtain ISO/IEC 27001
Linda Budiman (CSC)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM 173 How Did P&G's Operations Project Save $5 Million and its Continual Evolution
Bob Angel (Procter & Gamble)
Judy Sanker (Procter & Gamble Company)
Track 7 - Governance and IT Financial Management: Keys to Running IT Like a Business
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 307 Knowledge is Power -- Supplanting Unconscious Incompetence
Jeremy Hart (First American Corporation)
Craig Davis (First American Corporation)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 87 Roadmapping Service Management Success
Wil LeBlanc (Safeway)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 378 Delivering on Your Service Management Strategy OR "What have you done for me lately?"
Heather Deane Strickland (Spectrum Health)
Track 3 - Service Operations with a Side of Change
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 391 Lessons Learned from a Service Catalog Implementation
Carolyn Hennings (Windward IT Solutions)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 117 Does IT Measure Anything Useful?
Ivor Macfarlane (Service Management Consultant & Evangelist, IBM)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 495 Sustainable Certification
Sue Conger (University of Dallas)
Beki Picus (ACS)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 6 Managing Change and Diversity
Donald Loftin (Lockheed Martin)
Track 1 - ITSM and Organizational Change: A New Way of Life
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 80 Tools are the Icing on the Cake
Mart Rovers (InterProm USA Corporation)
Track 2 - Achieving Operational Excellence through Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 86 ITIL®: You Can Do It - Simple Tools Can Help
Morris Volkov (Marion County I.T.)
Track 4 - Service Portfolio Management: Your quickest route to greater business value
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 244 Aligning Service Catalog with Service Performance Reporting
Chuck Wysocki (McKesson Corporation)
Track 5 - KPIs and Performance Metrics: Measuring IT’s Value to the Business
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 411 It Doesn't Take a Howitzer to Kill a Housefly
Patrick Musto (Column Technologies)
Track 6 - IT Management Frameworks: Moving Beyond ITIL
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 212 Lessons Learned Implementing ITIL® in a Children's Health Care System
Tracy Waller (Cook Children's Health Care System)
George Spafford (Pepperweed Consulting, LLC)
Track 7 - Governance and IT Financial Management: Keys to Running IT Like a Business
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM 535 Zoom! Carpe Diem: Moving Forward As Heroes of IT
Glenn O'Donnell (Forrester Research)
General Session
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM 481 ITIL® v3 Managers Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Roc Paez (Hewlett Packard)
Pre/Post Convention Training
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM 506 Create a KPI Based Dashboard in Only Four Hours
Arjan Woertman (ITpreneurs Nederland BV)
Pre/Post Convention Training
 
Sessions on Thursday, September 24
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 481 ITIL® v3 Managers Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Roc Paez (Hewlett Packard)
Pre/Post Convention Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 284 ITIL® v3 Intermediate Module - Service Transition (Includes Certification Exam)
Rosemary Gurney (Wardown Consulting Ltd)
Barry Corless (Remarc Group)
Pre/Post Convention Training
 
Sessions on Friday, September 25
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 481 ITIL® v3 Managers Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Roc Paez (Hewlett Packard)
Pre/Post Convention Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 284 ITIL® v3 Intermediate Module - Service Transition (Includes Certification Exam)
Rosemary Gurney (Wardown Consulting Ltd)
Barry Corless (Remarc Group)
Pre/Post Convention Training
 
Sessions on Saturday, September 26
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 481 ITIL® v3 Managers Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Roc Paez (Hewlett Packard)
Pre/Post Convention Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 284 ITIL® v3 Intermediate Module - Service Transition (Includes Certification Exam)
Rosemary Gurney (Wardown Consulting Ltd)
Barry Corless (Remarc Group)
Pre/Post Convention Training
 
Sessions on Sunday, September 27
Time Session Number Session Track
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM 481 ITIL® v3 Managers Bridge (Includes Certification Exam)
Roc Paez (Hewlett Packard)
Pre/Post Convention Training