Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership, to Preside as Master of Ceremonies at 2010 CIO Government Summit

Honolulu, HI, March 04, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The CIO Government Summit team is pleased to announce that Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership, will participate in the government technology event for CIOs and senior level IT executives as the Master of Ceremonies. In this role, Koeppel will help develop agenda content and present the welcome address to summit attendees. The CIO Government Summit will be held May 23-26, 2010 in Scottsdale, AZ.

“Harvey Koeppel is an accomplished and highly-esteemed IT executive with years of experiences working with technology CIOs. As a former CIO himself and presently as the Executive Director for the Center for CIO Leadership, Koeppel’s insight into CIO priorities and concerns is inimitable. We’re pleased to welcome him as the CIO Government Summit Master of Ceremonies,” said Mark Southam, Event Director, CIO Government Summit.

As the Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership, Harvey Koeppel sets the Center’s strategy and directs internal and external operations. He also serves as Chairman of the Center’s Advisory Committee. From 2004 through June 2007, Harvey served as the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group (GCG). In that role, Harvey set the strategic direction for the GCG’s operations and technology and actively supported the development and growth of the operations and technology community across all GSG lines of business globally.

Koeppel has a distinguished record of IT innovation; he designed the first graphical user interface for the NASDAQ trader workstation. He was also the architect for FXNet, a software program that revolutionized the way large financial institutions manage settlement risk within FX portfolios. Additionally, Koeppel is the named inventor on the Citibank patent of the “Recommendation Engine,” a software component that advises sales and service staff about products and services to discuss with clients based upon their goals and objectives.

As the Master of Ceremonies of the CIO Government Summit, Harvey Koeppel will help develop of agenda topics and present the event’s welcoming and closing remarks. Koeppel will also moderate the keynote executive visions panel discussion, “Head in the Cloud,” of which Chuck Prow, Managing Partner, Public Sector, IBM Global Business Services, and Conrad Cross, CIO, City of Orlando, will be seated as featured panelists. To view the CIO Government Summit’s full agenda, please visit http://www.ciogovernmentsummit.com/agenda.php.

About CIO Government Summit

The CIO Government Summit will be hosted May 23 -26, 2010 at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, AZ. The summit is designed to provide an educational and content focused forum for North America’s IT executives in the government sector. The CIOs, C-level IT executives and IT decision makers that attend the CIO Government Summit will participate in a strategic three-day agenda filled with workshops, case studies and keynote presentations surrounding industry trends and challenges. The CIO Government Summit is organized by the Strategic Business Summit (SBS) division of CDM Media. This SBS division delivers effective, vertically-focused events for IT leaders in technology. For more information about the CIO Government Summit, please visit http://www.ciogovernmentsummit.com/

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