With increasing expectations for technology to help grow the top line, CIOs are pushed to new limits. Rewarding an IT organization that takes risks and has a business-savvy culture is no longer hopeful rhetoric, it's a survival mandate. How are top CIOs innovating for top line results in a mission-critical environment? What business strategies are they using to adapt to globalized customer and user needs? How are they attracting more risk-takers while retaining their best talent? And how are they managing their own CIO careers with steadily increasing expectations?

The answers are at the Tri-State CIO Forum, the leading event for CIOs to network with the best executives in the business, commencing this May 7th at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. Produced by Computerworld, InfoWorld and the Society for Information Management (SIM) chapters in New Jersey, New York Metro and Fairfield/Westchester. ), it's where you'll hear top CIOs talk about today's burning issues. Whether your priorities are to pioneer innovative business opportunities, lead your company with green IT initiatives, or create a contemporary culture that rewards business-savvy IT thinking, the Tri-State CIO Forum will help.

When you attend, you'll hear how award-winning CIOs are meeting these objectives, and you'll network with peers who face the same challenges and opportunities.

• Creating a Risk-Taking, Business-Thinking Culture
• Innovating in a Mission-Critical Environment
• Adapting to Globalized Customer and User Needs
• Attracting and Retaining Talent in Changing Markets
• Closing the Continuous Business Alignment Gap
• Managing Your Own CIO Career

The Agenda is designed by the CIO Forum Governing Body -- a collective group of renowned senior IT executives -- resulting in a compilation of the most relevant topics and challenges faced by CIOs and IT executives covered in a one day program. The focus is on peer-education, rich with case studies and real-world practical insight that provides prescriptive guidance on innovating for success.