CIOL brings you five sizzling topics addressed by the 'master chefs' from IBM - the technology powerhouse. Discuss key challenges in infrastructure planning spanning - Governance, Process & SOA, Collaboration, Security & Risk Mitigation and 'Green IT' with global experts and peers over a sit- down dinner. Worldwide best practices, corporate perspectives on the above issues and a peek into what's cooking in some of the global corporations are all on the menu!

Governance :IT governance solutions deliver value and enable better alignment of IT to business priorities and opportunities. It's an approach that spans the entire IT lifecycle.In this meet, discuss how to increase opportunity to succeed by aligning IT initiatives with goals of business

Business process management enabled by SOA: BPM enabled by SOA is a discipline enhanced by a flexible IT architecture that enables businesses to accelerate the creation and reuse of business services to facilitate business innovation. With BPM enabled by SOA enables you to easily capture the performance of every component, so you can quickly identify problem areas and eliminate bottlenecks. The team from IBM will highlight you all this and more…

Collaboration: In a recent IBM study, 98% of CEOs surveyed said that collaborative innovation was their number one priority. It also cited 90% of employees work away from headquarters. To become more innovative and more competitive, companies are implementing software that supports more forms of collaboration such as Instant messaging, community-based tools give team members instant, secure access to shared content, and expertise. And new Web 2.0 social computing capabilities - such as tagging, collaborative search filtering, wikis and blogs - help people syndicate their knowledge, and make it easier for everyone in the organization to find and use.

Security & Risk Mitigation: With various threats and catastrophes, business risk runs deep, and CIOs must ensure IT continuity, resilience, compliance and security through it all - to safeguard assets and minimize financial impact to the business.
IBM is investing $1.5 billion globally to strengthen its security offerings that complement its range of technology services, including IT infrastructure management. These services would encompass hardware, software and cover new areas such as intrusion detection and prevention

Green IT: The Green IT project, involving high-density computing systems is part of any organization's goal in order to double their data-center capacity without increasing energy usage or carbon emissions. IBM has been investing significantly to make its clients and itself more energy efficient through achievement of green data centers. IBM expects to deliver assessments, create better data centers that leverage virtualization technology and advanced cooling, and manage power in an optimal way.