Found: CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER M/F!

That is what this year’s conference was about!

In previous editions of the CIO Day we facilitated discussions regarding a primary stake in the boardroom, the CIO's agility, Business & IT-alignment and even leadership and high performance information culture. In the end the question remains: How about the impact of the CIO on the business? That was the most important theme we talked about this conference!

Together with over 600 attendees, including executives from the US and India, the 5th CIO Day was again the most successful senior level IT event this year. Several IT professionals, visionary, industry leaders and other hotshots took the centre stage; Fons Trompenaars, Ralf Dreischmeier, Paul Excell, Peter Korsten, Jan Kees de Jager, Steve Schuckenborck and Dr. Werner Vogels, have provided inspiration to our guests.

Arjen Dorland, VP & CIO of Shell Downstream has been elected CIO of the Year 2009.  The jury has chosen him as the successor of Rob de Haas, who at his election was Group CIO of ABN Amro. Chairman HRH Bernhard van Oranje “His strategy and mode of operation resulted in flexible and cost-efficient referring to the IT. Especially Dorland has been a strong leader; someone who had been working on a very high level within a very demanding environment.” However the ten nominees were a match for each other, the CIO of Shell Downstream-organisation already had a very good perspective to the Award because of the quality and quantity research that has been done by The Hackett Group and Qhuba.

€ 43.500 has been collected by the Dutch IT-industry for IICD en War Child. This amount was the result of the CharITy auction led by Christie’s , which was part of the exclusive CIO VIP Diner on the 16th of November. Through this, we would like to thank every attendee for their presence during this conference. For those, who unfortunately couldn’t be there, we have beautiful moments, captured on photo, comments of participants and presentations available on this website.

We look forward to welcoming you on the 3rd Conference IT Transformation in May 2010 or maybe we will meet again at the 6th CIO Day in November 2010.

We look back at a very successful 5th CIO Day. Many attendees also! Click here for the references. 

With Kind Regards,

Rob Beijleveld                                                  Hennie Wesseling

                                               
CEO ICT Media BV                                            Chairman CIO Platform
Publisher CIO Magazine
Organiser CIO Day