The drive to innovate and accelerate business value remains as urgent as ever for CIOs and senior IT leaders. As the global economy moves toward recovery, companies are looking to their IT organizations for sustainable innovation that continually creates value, attracts new customers and moves the business toward a more profitable future.

The intensity of that focus on sustainable innovation and productive growth has shaped this year’s CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony into an extraordinary forum for pragmatic ideas, effective strategies and inventive approaches. From our keynote presentations to CIO panel discussions and case studies on evolving business models, attendees will gain insight into customer strategies, change management and IT/business value creation in sessions such as:

• “Close the Performance Gap: How to Energize and Unite Your Team,” with John Foley, Former Lead Solo Pilot, The U.S. Navy Blue Angels
• “Innovate and Create Marketplace Disruption,” with Adam Hartung, author of “Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition”
• “Innovation, Emotional Intelligence and the Collaborative IT Organization,” with Frank Wander, SVP and CIO of Guardian Life Insurance
• “Who’s Got Your Back?” with New York Times best-selling author Keith Ferrazzi, Chairman and Co-Founder of Ferrazzi Greenlight
• “Transforming Business with Innovative IT Services at Procter & Gamble,” with Filippo Passerini, CIO and President of Global Business Services for P&G

This legendary event will showcase the 2010 winners of the prestigious CIO 100 awards, which celebrate a broad range of innovative approaches to solving some of the toughest business problems today.