CIOsynergy empowers leadership one community at a time. Its flagship initiative CIOsynergy, delivers a community engagement program that brings forth enterprise CIO's and IT Leaders. With a shared vision and passion for knowledge they empower one another through inspiring conversation under the umbrella of local thought leaders. Unprecedented networking opportunities with local leaders that will share their knowledge, experience, and insights for years to come as they remain at arms reach. Recent additions to the family of CIOsynergy programs include directIT, here tomorrows aspiring IT leaders are equipped with a local network of contacts that face the same daily hurdles, while our panel of CIO's share tactics to include Personal Branding, Building an External Network, and managing in a down economy - beyond cost cutting to adding business value. Participating IT leaders are from the likes of Apple, Affymetric, Sun, Symantec, TiVo, Palm, Magellan, Cost Plus World Market, VISA, KLA-Tencor, Walmart, JDSU, Adobe, Savi, Applied Biosystems, American Express, Discover, Allstate, & ComPsych among many more. Our partnering organizations have included Kognitio, Vidyo, Satyam, CheckPoint Software, Genpact, Trianz, ArcSight, Cast Iron Systems, Centrify, HostMySite, among others