Event Description

Under the pressure of new disruptive forces, organizations are racing to digitally transform while embracing modern delivery methodologies like DevOps and Agile. In this environment, it’s often difficult to anticipate obstacles that will impede transformation progress or lead to potential resiliency, security and customer satisfaction issues.

Join us as we explore best practices in maximizing digital innovation and reducing organizational risk. Event speaker, CDW, will address how IT leaders are balancing development, software risk and costs while delivering high-quality systems at speed. CDW will also share how gaining visibility into their critical systems now allows them to detect pre-production software defects ahead of time, eliminating maintenance costs and freeing-up budget for innovative IT projects. Learn how you can:

  • Exponentially improve your critical applications availability
    Learn how software analytics can provide you visibility into software engineering flaws, efficiency bottlenecks & scalability issues - the factors impacting app availability
  • Accelerate your time to market
    Learn how you can add new features while addressing existing issues or defects in code
  • Reduce applications support cost
    Learn how to use software analytics to fine tune or improve performance of your apps
  • Mitigate business security risk
    Learn how the application’s architecture, design and code impact security and app operations and which analytics could be used to monitor and manage that

Discover how digital leaders like CDW are improving performance and accelerating transformation success – running their organization as a business.

Who Should Attend:

  • Business Unit CIOs
  • Heads of Global Technology
  • Chief Enterprise Architects
  • Digital Transformation Leaders

Speaker

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Jaime Kruss
Business Systems, IT Application Development
 

Jaime has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry and has been with CDW for over 13 years now.  She has taken on multiple roles from Business Analyst to Project Manager to Manager of Application Development. Jaime has successfully transformed her team from a Waterfall methodology to Agile/SCRUM and increased coworker engagement in the process. Jaime has spear-headed the implementation of CAST at CDW and has the analysis running as part of their development cycle on 20 of their most critical applications on multiple technology platforms.  

 

FAQs


Check-in begins at 8:00 a.m. and the seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m
There is no fee to attend. The breakfast and lunch are sponsored by CAST. Attendees are responsible for the costs of hotel accommodations, airfare, cabs and other incidentals incurred outside of the official program.
 

Venue

Lloyd's Chicago

Address: 1 S. Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606

Website: http://lloydschicago.com/