Ten IT Experts Chosen as Finalists in NCTA's CIO.IT | Competition 2010

WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine executives of vendor companies for cable industry Information Technology (IT) services, and one academic, have been chosen by a selection committee of cable Chief Information Officers (CIOs) as finalists in the first-ever CIO.IT | Competition, a program of solution-based presentations scheduled for the CIO.IT program at The Cable Show 2010 in Los Angeles.

The ten finalists will participate in three panel sessions during the CIO.IT program May 11 and 12, 2010, and present their solutions to some of cable's greatest IT challenges before panels of CIO judges.  The judges will select their favorite solution concept after observing the presentations.  

The Cable Show 2010, NCTA's 59th Annual Convention and International Exposition, takes place May 11-13, 2010, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The finalist presentations, selected from a group of 44 applications received last month, span a variety of major issue areas for cable IT professionals, including challenges in cloud computing, data analytics, addressability, service delivery, the integration of IT and engineering data, and other topics.  

Finalists selected to make a presentation include:

Herb VanHook, BMC Software

Topic: The Efficient and Profitable Cloud: Best Practices for Running a Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Ramsay Hall, Georgia Institute of Technology

Topic: Breakthroughs: Another Way

Robert Hritsko, SAP

Topic: Solutions for the App Economy -- Roadmap to Becoming a "Platform of Value"

R.J. Juneau, Maxxian

Topic: Why engineering hates you and thinks you're morons; and, Identifying system problems and revenue leakage by integrating IT and engineering data

Brian Cappellani, Sigma Systems

Topic: Advanced Advertising and Subscriber Knowledge

Michael Manzo, Openet

Topic: The Truth is in the Data: Being a Better MSO through Subscriber Data Management

Simon Marwood, Scorecard Systems Inc.  

Topic: Subscriber Analysis for MSOs

Brian O'Rourke, Acumen Solutions

Topic: Turning Up and Tuning Up Sales and Service in the Cloud

Shally Stanley, Acumen Solutions

Topic: Maximizing Web Orders: The Perfect Storm of Usability, Integration and Up/Cross-Selling

Gabriel Totino, Motorola

Topic: The Architecture of a Whole Home Device Management System

Cable Show delegates may register separately to participate in the CIO.IT program at no charge in addition to their Cable Show registration fee.  Delegates can sign up for the CIO.IT program when they register to attend The Cable Show.  More information about CIO.IT is available online at http://2010.thecableshow.com/Attending/Programs/CIOIT.

For further information on The Cable Show 2010, and to register for periodic updates, visit www.thecableshow.com.  For more information about exhibit space at The Cable Show 2010, contact NCTA Convention Headquarters at (202) 463-7905 or e-mail [email protected].

NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The cable industry is the nation's largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet access, serving more than 40 million customers, after investing more than $145 billion to build two-way digital networks with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to more than 20 million American consumers.

SOURCE The Cable Show 2010