Mid-Atlantic CIO Forum: Meeting Announcement

Mid-Atlantic CIO Forum: Meeting Announcement

Topic: Megatrends and the Future

Date: February 18, 2016

Location: Towson University

Please join members of the Mid-Atlantic Forum and invited guests at this February 18th Forum.

Beyond technology trends and directions, Executives and CIOs must understand and plan for those global economic forces that will impact their customers, suppliers, and partners, and necessarily change how they might do business accordingly. No one can “predict” the future, but we must have a sense for the megatrends and global forces that are in play. In this Forum we will explore with some outside help and to the extent possible, what factors might drive future directions in the world, for countries, and for our businesses and organizations

To kick off our forum, Jim Lee, professional futurist and founder of Strategic Foresight Investments (StratFI), will help us look at the interaction between society and technology. Jim will share his insights on “megatrends” of the coming decade, so that we can consider how to ride the waves of innovation and social change. We will learn more about:

· Where to look for opportunities

· Why “trend blending” is a remarkable tool for finding even bigger trends

· When demographics indicate the next major expansion for the U.S. economy

· How to use trends in our roles, for our corporations, and in our own portfolio

Harry Zimmer is our second speaker for the morning. Harry leads the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Global Competitive & Market Intelligence team. Harry and his team are responsible for doing deep competitive & market analysis for HDS and are viewed internally as the internal version of Gartner and IDC. Harry meets with the Hitachi Product Engineering, Product Planning and Strategy teams and works closely with HDS’ product management team.

At HDS, Harry is viewed as a global expert on the information technology marketplace. He has extensive experience visiting 200+ customers and prospects during the past 12 months and works closely with all the major industry analysts. Sessions with Harry are meant to be highly interactive with an open two way (no-spin/non-marketing) discussion. He uses a very popular interactive chalk talk format using a quarterly updated list of ‘Hot Topics’ which he has evolved and maintained for the past 8 years. This format has proven to be an extremely popular and effective one with customers and CIO’s.

Please join ourmembersand their guests at this Full Membership meeting.The meeting starts at 8:00 AM and ends by 1PM. Brunch and lunch are provided.Pre-registration is required. Meeting logistics including agenda, directions to the meeting place and parking information will be emailed to you after you register.For registration for this meeting, please reply to the meeting request send out by Bonnie Lawson or contact her at or 410-704-4252.