2012 TI Summit Speaker: Arnold R. Crater

Arnold R. Crater
Chief Information Officer
Deputy Executive Director
Regional Transportation Authority

Arnold Crater was appointed Chief Information Officer in June 2012. He will be responsible for the daily operations of the agency’s information system.

Arnold has over 25 years of experience in the technology field. He is currently the Executive Director, IT for the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) in Aurora where he is responsible for IT services including engineering, help desk, infrastructure, business applications, telecommunications, multi-media production and information resources.

Prior to IMSA, he worked for Accenture, LLC as the Senior Manager where he was responsible for unified communication and network technology services. In addition, he has worked for Motorola as the Director of Worldwide Technical Support, and the Customer Group as Director & Chief Knowledge Officer.

Arnold has expertise in Smart Card technology and Customer Service operations.  Arnold has a MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management and MSME & BSME from University of Illinois, Chicago.

 

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

 

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2012 TI Summit Speaker: Toni Preckwinkle

Toni Preckwinkle

Cook County Board President

Toni Preckwinkle has been a dedicated community leader for over two decades, providing independent and progressive leadership founded on experience, coalition building and a commitment to practical results. 
 
Through collaboration, President Preckwinkle is working with the County Board, our elected officials and county employees to implement major reforms to reshape county government into a world-class institution of which the people of Cook County can be proud. This spirit of collaboration is rooted in a common commitment to fiscal responsibility, innovative leadership, transparency and accountability and improved services.
 
As a high school teacher in Chicago, President Preckwinkle ran a non-profit organization aimed at neighborhood improvement. She stood up to the city’s political machine and prevailed. President Preckwinkle’s tenacious grassroots campaign in 1991 delivered her to the City Council as Alderman of the 4th Ward.
 
In her 19 years as Alderman, President Preckwinkle improved the quality of life of her constituents by providing independent, transparent and accountable leadership. She built a professional and responsive ward organization and worked tirelessly to meet the diverse needs of her constitutents. She has successfully fought for greater funding for education and affordable housing in her ward. She sponsored the Living Wage and Affordable Housing Ordinances, and was a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to institute a more racially equitable map of Chicago's ward boundaries. President Preckwinkle sponsored an ordinance that limits the establishment of payday loan stores and was a lead sponsor of the anti-smoking ordinance. She has not been afraid to stand-up to the status-quo, voting against parking meter privatization and standing with a small minority in opposition to the 2008 tax increases.  
 
President Preckwinkle‘s independent and progressive leadership earned her the IVI-IPO Best Alderman Award in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2005 and 2008, and the 1997 and 2009 Leon Despres Awards. 
 
President Preckwinkle was elected Cook County Board President on November 2, 2010. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago. She taught high school history for ten years before being elected to City Council. She is also a wife and a mother of two children.

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

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2012 TI Summit Speaker: Praveen Gupta

Praveen Gupta

President, Accelper Consulting

Director, IIT Center for Innovation Science and Applications

Praveen Gupta had been instrumental in launching Six Sigma at Motorola. He has worked at Motorola and AT&T Bell Laboratories before starting his consulting practice. Praveen is an entrepreneur, educator, and author. He has authored Business Innovation in the 21^st Century (2007) and The Innovation Solution (2012). Currently, he is a founding Director of the IIT Center for Innovation Science and Applications and President of Accelper Consulting. His current passion is helping people develop innovation competency for maximizing innovation and making innovation predictable, pervasive and profitable for creating new and exciting opportunities. Praveen consults with organizations for sustaining profitable growth through creating a culture of excellence and innovation. He is the editor-at-large for International Journal of Innovation Science.

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

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2012 TI Summit Speaker: Robert E. Kress

Robert (Bob) E. Kress

Executive Director, Global IT Audit

Accenture

Robert Kress is the Executive Director of Global IT Audit in Accenture’s Internal Audit organization that supports the $25 billion company and its 250,000 employees working in 52 countries. Reporting to Accenture’s Chief Audit Executive, Mr. Kress has overall responsibility for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on the full range of client facing and internal IT risk to Accenture senior leadership and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

Prior to this Mr. Kress was the COO in Accenture’s high performance Internal IT organization responsible for running IT like a business, including IT Strategy, IT Planning, Product and Service Management, IT Risk, Application and Infrastructure Management Operations, Supplier and Contract Management, Audit and IT Policy, Communications, Business Performance, Finance, Human Resources, Deployable Resources and Organizational Development.

He has published two books, Running ITlike a Business, in November 2011, and ITGovernance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture, in March 2010.

Bob is a member of the Executives Club of Chicago and co-chair of the Technology Committee, i.c.stars Board of Directors, Chicago Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at The University of Iowa.

Mr. Kress holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Iowa.

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.
 

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Maria Thompson’s Thoughts about Government Technology

Maria Thompson

Director of Innovation Strategy,

Intellectual Asset Management at

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

CTO Innovation Champion



“Freeware.  No such thing. Especially when we talk about the government and municipal Information Technology infrastructure.  As consumers and government workers have ubiquitous access to Smartphone technology, government IT staff must be proficient with supporting - and authenticating and securing - ever-increasing numbers of "free" user applications and data access points. Everyone is a Mobile Knowledge Worker with ready access to Cloud Computing, which can be leveraged by IT staff to cost-effectively deploy, update and maintain worker applications. We will discuss the technology intersection between Smartphones and Cloud Computing and how IT staff needs to change their support model."

 

 

“The Technology Innovation summit brings together technology experts and government & municipality workers to create thought-provoking conversations addressing how we might "move from the Information Age to the Understanding Age."

- Maria Thompson (Speaker at TIS 2012)

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

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2012 TI Summit Speaker: Maria Thompson of Motorola

   

Maria Thompson

Director of Innovation Strategy,

Intellectual Asset Management at

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

CTO Innovation Champion

Past

·         Director, Legal Operations: Portfolio and Change Management at Motorola Solutions
·         Director, Intellectual Asset Management Process and Tools at Motorola
·         Invention Leadership and Software Process Improvement Program Management at
      Motorola

Maria coordinates, plans, and facilitates Directed Innovation creative problem solving sessions, resulting in high-quality, novel, and patentable solutions to targeted critical challenges. She benchmarks, tailors, adapts and manages the transition and institutionalization of process and technology best practices to enhance organizational capability.

Significant Achievements

·         Facilitated over 100 Directed Innovation ideation workshops, resulting in 1000's of patent applications and novel solutions to consumer, product, process, service, market, organization, and infrastructure problems.

·         Digitized entire IPR (patent) Management lifecycle from idea conception through to patent expiration and records retention compliance.

·         Prototyped, trialed, tested and deployed seminal methods and technologies for organizational quality, cycle time and productivity improvement, incl.: C++, Apollo workstations, Systems Dynamics, NLP, MBTI, TRIZ, Mindmapping, Policy Deployment, Scenario Planning, House of Quality, Digital Six Sigma, Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, DATT, Invention Machine, Thomson Aureka/ Micropatent/Innovation/IPManager, Pantros IP, LexisNexis, Autonomy.

Specialties

·           Creative Problem Solving, Invention and Innovation Facilitation

·         TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)
·         Change Catalyst
·         Systems Dynamics
·         Scenario Planning
·         Information Technology Management
·         Organizational Process design, Re-engineering and Improvement ( e.g., SEI  CMM)
·         IPR Management: Prior Art Searching, Patent legal processes and tools,
        Patent Analytics
·         Human-Computer Interaction and Communication devices
·         Coaching and Speaking

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

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2012 TI Summit Speaker: Jim Treleavan

Jim Treleaven

Board Member at Illinois Technology Association (ITA)

President & CEO at Via Strategy Group, LLC

Board Member at TechAmerica

 

 

Education : PhD, Management at Case Western Reserve University

 

Jim Treleaven is the President and CEO of Via Strategy Group, LLC (VSG). VSG advises CEOs, Boards of Directors and other C-level executives on growth and turnaround strategies and has affiliates throughout the US and in five countries. He has had a successful career in industry as the CEO of both public and private technology companies ranging in size from $40 to $500 million. Most recently he was Chairman and CEO of Catalyst International, a NASDAQ listed supply chain software company. He also served as CEO of Global CommerceZone and Visual Intelligence Corp. and as President of the Enterprise Solutions Division of GEAC (D&B Software). He served as Managing Partner at Battelle Venture Partners, the Venture Unit of the Battelle Memorial Institute. He has held management, engineering, sales and marketing positions at several leading companies including IBM, Moore Corporation (RR Donnelley) and the Chase Manhattan Bank. He also served as President of DeVry University Chicago, serving 15,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in business and technology.

 

He received his BS Degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, his MBA from the University of Minnesota and his PhD in Management from Case. He has taught at Case and has lectured at several other leading universities. He has published extensively in both refereed and popular journals in fields including corporate strategy, marketing, finance, human-computer interaction and computer-aided-design. He is a frequent speaker and has been featured on CNN and the Financial News Network.

 

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of TechAmerica, the Illinois Technology Association (ITA), and has served as Chair of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case and the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University. He is the current President of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University. Jim is also a member of The Association for Information Systems (AIS), ACM, The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and IEEE.

 

TIS2012 is about the interplay of technology and government. TIS2012 is organised by Iyka Enterprises Inc. jointly with Illinois Institute of Technology. Come to TIS to get a feel for how municipalities are seeing the future and learn how governments can best integrate technology into their visions and planning. Register now to be part of this important discussion.

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