Computerworld Recognizes Technology Leaders Advancing their

FRAMINGHAM, MA --(Marketwired - November 14, 2016) - Computerworld -- the leading IT media brand dedicated to being the voice of business technology -- reveals the 2017 Computerworld Premier 100 Technology Leaders ( click to tweet ). One hundred leaders from technology and business are being acknowledged by Computerworld for their exceptional technology leadership and innovative approaches to business challenges. The honorees will be recognized during an awards ceremony at the AGENDA Conference , co-produced by CIO , Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council .

The AGENDA17 conference will be held March 20-22, 2017, at Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. AGENDA is the business leadership conference focused on driving your business forward in changing times. At the 2017 conference, 300+ senior IT and line of business professionals will explore digital business demands including artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality and leadership in the digital economy, as well as hear first-hand experiences from experts and peers, including Premier 100 honorees.

"The Premier 100 awards program highlights the exceptional work of an elite group of IT executives who are leading their organizations through times of unprecedented change. They are using technology to drive high-stakes business projects and create dynamic growth in their organizations," said Scot Finnie, editor-in-chief of Computerworld. "These 100 men and women are not only strategic business thinkers, but also team leaders who recognize the importance of recruiting and retaining the brightest talent to enable digital transformation and harness the opportunities of cloud, big data, mobile and social. We're pleased to recognize their leadership and honor their achievements."

This year's Premier 100 honorees are not only leading their organizations through digital transformation, they are also launching cutting-edge projects that are helping their businesses thrive. This innovative spirit is cultivated throughout their organizations, driving team engagement and new business opportunities.

"Maintaining status quo is no longer a business option. Organizations that cause disruption will quickly advance in their industry, and technology is often the force of this disruption," said Adam Dennison, SVP / General Manager, IDG Events & Publisher, CIO. "We are excited to recognize and bring together such a dynamic group of technology leaders at AGENDA17. Their stories will no doubt spark ideas in future winners and help elevate the technology industry overall."

2017 Premier 100 Honorees: Dimitris Agrafiotis , Chief data officer and head of technology products, Covance Peter Ambs , CIO, City of Albuquerque Peter Anderson , CIO, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Matthew Arvay, CIO, City of Virginia Beach, Va. Sami Ben Jamaa, Senior executive officer and CIO, Coca-Cola East Japan Timothy Birdsall , Senior vice president of Information Services and chief medical information officer, Cancer Treatment Centers of America Douglas Blackwell , Senior vice president and CIO, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Brett Bonner , Vice president, IT Research and Development, Kroger Daniel Bosman, Managing director and assistant vice president, TD Securities Gary Brantley, CIO, DeKalb County School District Michal Cenkl, Director of Innovation and Technology, Center for Information and Technology, Mitre Christopher Chang, Senior vice president and CIO, Darden Restaurants Samuel Chesterman, Worldwide CIO, IPG Mediabrands Abhishek Choudhary, Manager, Information Systems, Indian Oil William Confalonieri, Chief digital officer, CIO and vice president, Deakin University Paul Czarapata, Vice president and CIO, Kentucky Community & Technical College System Paul Daugherty, CTO, Accenture Lesley Dickie, Vice president, Global Business Services, IT, Raytheon Jim Dye, Director, Global IT Infrastructure, Pittsburgh Glass Works Saman Far, Senior vice president, technology, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Kim Felix, Vice president, IT, UPS Airlines Jeff Fields, CIO, Servpro Harry Folloder, CIO, Advantage Waypoint Michael Garcia, Vice president, Development Services, Fannie Mae Rodell Garcia, Chief technology adviser, Manila Water Gint Grabauskas, CTO, VIxxo José Güereque, IT and innovation director, Arca Continental Saravanan Gurumurthy, CTO, ForwardLine Greg Hart, Vice president, Cloud Services, McKesson Joseph Haskell, CTO, Planned Systems International Chong Huan, CIO, The Inland Real Estate Group Konstandinos Kalpos, Senior advisor, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Mohit Kapoor, Chief information and technology officer, TransUnion Hakan Karamanli, Executive vice president and CIO, Tam Faktoring Jeffrey Keisling, Senior vice president and CIO, Business Technology, Pfizer Sajed Khan, Senior vice president and CIO, United Solutions Akash Khurana, Vice president and CIO, McDermott International Georgette Kiser, Managing director and CIO, The Carlyle Group Wolfgang Krips, Executive vice president, Global Operations, and general manager, Amadeus Data Processing George Labelle, CIO, Independent Purchasing Cooperative Jason Lei, General manager, Intelligence Product, MediaMath Paul Lough, Vice president, Technology Strategy and Planning, and CTO, Navy Federal Credit Union Ryan Loy, Vice president, IT, Adtran Nandu Mahadevan, Vice president, SaaS Operations, BMC Software Charles Mance, Director, Communications & Technology Support Services, The George Washington University Saran Mandair, Vice president, Production Operations & IT, Yapstone Dave McCandless, Vice president, IT, Navis Trevor McDougall, CIO, Open Colleges Scott McIsaac, CTO, Secure-24 Matthew Minetola, Executive vice president of technology, CIO, Travelport Sumit Nagpal, Co-founder, chief architect and UX officer, LumiraDx USA Robert Napoli, CIO, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands Sarah Naqvi, Executive vice president, CIO, HMSHost Rafat Naqvi, Vice president, IT Services, Avanade Steven Narvaez , IT director and CIO, City of Deltona, Fla. Timothy Newman, Associate deputy assistance secretary, HR Automation, Systems and Analytics, Department of Veteran Affairs Niel Nickolaisen, Senior vice president and CTO, O.C. Tanner Jim Noel, Vice president, Software Services, Veterans United Home Loans Anthony Norris, Senior vice president, IT, FedEx Services Ken Piddington, CIO and executive advisor, MRE Consulting Phil Potloff, Chief digital officer, Edmunds Prabhakar Posam, Head of IT & Business Process, PAE Kaushik Ray, Vice president, Global Architecture and Customer Engineering, Sungard Availability Services Jamshid Rezaei, CIO, Mitel Olaf Romer, Head of corporate IT and group CIO, Baloise Group Douglas Rousso, Senior vice president and CTO, CBS Theresa Rowe, CIO, Oakland University Sanjay Saraf, Senior vice president and CTO, Western Union Digital, Western Union Robin Sarkar, CIO, Lakeland Health Sorabh Saxena, Senior vice president, Software Development & Engineering, AT&T Julie Schlabach, Senior director, Emerging Technology Services, Cerner Glenn Schneider, Executive vice president and CIO, Discover Financial Services Lori Scott, CIO, NatureServe Carlos Selonke, CIO, Santander Bank John Showalter, Chief health information officer, University of Mississippi Medical Center Shane Snider, Executive vice president, IT and Customer Care, SkillPath Seminars Scott Spradley, Senior vice president and CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sanjay Srinivasan, Vice president and chief technology architect, Business Engineering, Vonage Suresh Srinivasan, CTO, NYU Langone Medical Center Tom Stafford, Vice president and CIO, Halifax Health Raied Stanley, Vice president, Business Systems, Metropolitan Utilities District Alan Stukalsky, Managing director and CIO, North America, Randstad North America Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam, Divisional vice president, IT, United Breweries Mike Sutten, Senior vice president and CTO, Kaiser Permanente Thomson Thomas, Senior vice president, Business Systems and Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Sean Valcamp, Chief information security officer, Avnet Robin Veit, Director, Client Engineering and Operations, Starz Radhika Venkatraman, Senior vice president and CIO, Network and Technology, Verizon Craig Walker, Vice president and Global CIO Shell Downstream, Shell International Petroleum Melissa Ward, Vice president, IT, Eurpac Service Creighton Warren, CIO, USG Florian Wegener, Vice president and head of global ecommerce, Qiagen Tommy Whitten, District technology coordinator, Madison County Schools Judd Williams, CIO, National Collegiate Athletic Association Richard Wilson, Chief, Solution Delivery, Defense Health Agency Lisa Woodley, Vice president, Digital Experience, NTT Data Naoto Yamamoto, Chief, Business Solutions, United Nations Development Programme Michael Young, Chief product security officer, Esri Michael Yzerman, Vice president and Deputy CIO, Community Health Systems Sigal Zarmi , CIO, Network and U.S., PwC

AGENDA17 Sponsorship Opportunities We invite leading technology solution providers to join us at AGENDA17 through our various sponsorship opportunities, including the awards celebration. Please contact Adam Dennison, SVP / General Manager, IDG Events & Publisher, CIO at adennison@idgenterprise.com to learn more.

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About the Premier 100 Technology Leadership Awards The Premier 100 program was created in 2000 to spotlight individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through technology. These are individuals who manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motivate their IT teams and business colleagues, create a positive work environment, envision innovative solutions to business challenges and effectively manage and execute IT strategies. Each year nominees are invited to complete a survey that addresses a number of topics, including their background and experience and their attitude toward risk and innovation. Using Computerworld's IT Leader Index, which is a measurement of how closely an individual matches our definition of the IT Leader, we analyze the data. Each year, 100 honorees are selected to receive this life-time recognition award. Information on previous honorees can be viewed at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/906547...IT_Leaders

About AGENDA17 March 20-22, 2017 :: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida :: AGENDAConference.com AGENDA is the business leadership conference focused on transforming business for the digital world. Transformation changes how companies look at technology, fostering conversations and partnerships among multiple business stakeholders. AGENDA17 brings together more than 300 senior IT and line of business leaders from a range of industries to develop action plans for the digital transformation at their organizations. This event creates a unique atmosphere for technology solution providers to integrate themselves into discussions during the strategic planning stage.

About Computerworld Computerworld from IDG is the leading technology media brand helping senior IT, business decision-makers and key influencers navigate change with effective business strategy. As the voice of business technology, Computerworld enables the IT value chain with unique editorial coverage from setting strategies to deriving value. Computerworld's award-winning website ( www.computerworld.com ), focused conference series, strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 7.2 million monthly page views (Omniture, January 2016 - March 2016 average) and was recognized in BtoB's 2013 Media Power 50 list; recognition Computerworld has received for more than 5 consecutive years. Computerworld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of IDG. Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com .

About IDG IDG connects the world of tech buyers with insights, intent and engagement. IDG is the world's largest media, data and marketing services company that activates and engages the most influential technology buyers. Our premium brands, including CIO®, Computerworld®, PCWorld® and Macworld®, engage the most powerful audience of technology buyers providing essential guidance on the evolving technology landscape. Our global data intelligence platform activates purchasing intent, powering our clients' success. IDG Marketing Services creates custom content with marketing impact across video, mobile, social and digital. We execute complex campaigns that fulfill marketers' global ambitions seamlessly with consistency that delivers results and wins awards. IDG is the #1 tech media company in the world, per comScore.*

*Source: comScore Media Metrix, Desktop Unique Visitors, Worldwide, February 2016