Nashville Technology Council

Sean Cassidy, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Healthcare, IBM

As senior vice president and general manager, healthcare, Sean Cassidy is responsible for leading Initiate’s healthcare business globally and driving its growth. Sean previously led the company’s services, field operations, products and business development teams. Prior to joining in 2004, Sean held executive positions at a number of enterprise software and e-commerce companies, including London based YouDevise, Ltd., OurHouse.com, and TenFold Corporation. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He has broad technology and consulting experience in the healthcare, financial services, utilities, retail, telecommunications and transportation industries.

7:00 – 7:50 – Continental Breakfast/Coffee in Curb Center

7:50 – 8:00 – Welcome & Announcements

  8:00– 8:20 – Mike McWherter, Gubernatorial Candidate

Hear from a Gubernatorial Candidate who will discuss the pressing issues of technology, and the platform for Technology in Tennessee. Issues to be discussed:

-affordable energy costs for data centers
-continuation of strong economic development initiatives to attract new technology companies region
-creation of new economic development initiatives to attract new individuals to the region in technology jobs 
-Continuation of Internet Tax Credits on sales tax
-Security/Privacy for all citizens
-Broadband growth and wireless incentives
-Tax credits for incumbent workers who need to be retrained for technology jobs

8:20 – 8:30 – Nashville Technology Community Update (Jobs, Wifi, Professional Development)

Tod Fetherling, President & CEO, Nashville Technology Council

8:30 – 8:50 – State of Tennessee Update

Mark Bengel, Chief Information Officer, State of Tennessee

8:50 – 9:30 – CEO Panel

Don Enfinger, Managing Director/ Production Services – Technology Services Group, BNYMellon
Ron Samuels, CEO, Avenue Bank
Tim DuBois, VP & Managing Executive, ASCAP
Jason Grant, Healthways

Moderator: Steven Howard Smith, President & CEO, Zycron

Hear from four Enterprise Level CEO’s representing four key industries: Health Care, Music & Publishing, Retail and Transactions. The purpose of this panel is to tell the Nashville Technology Story. The panel will answer questions such as:-What impact does the economic environment in Nashville have on your business?

-As a CEO, what challenges do you have in the technology industry, and how have you overcome them? 
-As a CEO, how do you ensure your business is innovative, while maintaining a profit margin? Is innovation about building new or creating efficiencies in operations? 
-From your perspective, how is the technological landscape changing in Nashville?

9:30 – 9:45 – Exhibitors/Break

9:45 – 10:30 – Breakout Groups

Listen as one entrepreneur and one enterprise level CTO or CIO from each of the 4 key industries share their perspective on technology in Nashville. This will be a “deeper dive” into each industry, and the challenges associated with technology in that respective industry. Choose from: Health Care, Music & Publishing, Retail and Transactions.

Healthcare
Scott Blanchette, CIO, Healthways 
Christopher Parks, Co-Founder & CEO, change:healthcare

Music/Publishing
Rachel Barnhard, Founder, Big Data Marketing
TBD

Retail
Ed O’Kelley, Director of Information Systems, Goodwill Industries
Jeff Orton, CIO, Genesco

Transactions
Todd Joseph, CIO, Comdata
Darwin Melnyk, President/CEO Iron Solutions

10:30 – 10:50 A Platform for Tennessee

Zach Wamp, US Congressman and Gubernatorial Candidate

Hear from a Gubernatorial Candidate who will discuss the pressing issues of technology, and the platform for Technology in Tennessee. Issues to be discussed:

-affordable energy costs for data centers
-continuation of strong economic development initiatives to attract new technology companies region
-creation of new economic development initiatives to attract new individuals to the region in technology jobs 
-Continuation of Internet Tax Credits on sales tax
-Security/Privacy for all citizens
-Broadband growth and wireless incentives
-Tax credits for incumbent workers who need to be retrained for technology jobs

10:50 – 10:55 T3 Update

David Suply, Student Congress Representative

10:55 – 11:30 Higher Education Panel

Dr. Curtis Armstrong, Tennessee Technological University
David Welch, Nashville State Technical Community College
Dr. Edward Anthony, Trevecca Nazarene University
Glenn Acree, Belmont University

Moderator: John Kepley, CEO, Teknetex

Hear from a panel of University Presidents and Business Leaders as we discuss the following:

-How do get more students into the technology field?
-How do we retain college graduates in Nashville?
-How do we make sure Universities are teaching students the right skill set, so when they graduate they are ready for employment?
-What programs and applications skills are most needed in the technology industry today?

11:30 – 11:45 Exhibitors/Break

11:45 –12:00 – Lunch

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Keynote: Music Mash-Up – Artists, Writers, Media & Digital discussing new opportunities for growth in Nashville’s Music Business

Cory Gierman, Founder of MuzikMafia
Mark Montgomery, Entrepreneur, Founder Echo Music
David Mead, Professional Writer, Recording Artist, and Music Journalist

1:00 Buses to Reception at Cha Chas (Reception is 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.)

2:00 Shotgun Start/Golf at Legends Golf Course

3:00 Party Bus returns Curb Center/Cha Chas

The Nashville Tech Story (1/11/10)

Social Fresh rolls into town today. This is the first time it has been to Nashville and promises a stellar line up of main stream brands and their stories of social media.

Why all the fuss over social media? According to the Pew Foundation, 46% of adults are now on social media sites and 65% of teens. By the way, the total number of adults in America on the Internet is now at 80%. Who’s left? Unlike the Internet in its early days, there is less racial differences in who is using Social Media. This is a very positive trend as we look to the next evolution of the Web and communication online. Women are more likely than men to use Social Media sites.

Our own Tod Fetherling will be moderating a panel on Social Media in Healthcare today. Tod will be joined by Tracey Van Der Spuy from HealthSpring, Chris Fenoglio from LifePoint Hospitals, Bayard Saunders from i7, and Steve Parker from Level Wing Media. Social Media can be a great way to innovate and see into the lives of patients, especially those with chronic diseases.

“Social media is simply the current expression of patient activation and engagement,” said Susannah Fox from Pew Foundation. “But this time e-patients are part of a larger cultural change that assumes access to information, enables communication among disparate groups, and expects progress.”

The Nashville Tech Story (8/8/09)

This week we heard from several leaders in healthcare and technology about micro apps and EHRs.  Yesterday, the DOD announced a new initiative to entrust Google and Microsoft with the housing of their EHR.  This seems to be a major tipping point for our country and possibly for Nashville.

So it started us thinking about what is Nashville’s EHR strategy.  I believe every health system in town is working on something, but shouldn’t we, the Silicon Valley of Healthcare, be doing something as a community?  We would really like to hear from the providers, payers, and consumers about your thoughts on this critical topic.

We will meet again on August 27, 2009, at 7:30 am at Midtown Noshville to talk EHRs.  This breakfast will focus on micro apps as they relate to the EHR.  What could we build to provide base analytics to the community?