Plan to join your global sourcing & outsourcing colleagues at:
The Global Sourcing Council Annual Meeting
When: Wednesday, December 3 at 8:00 AM -10:00 AM (Eastern)
Where: Fordham University Graduate School of Business
12th Floor Lounge
113 W. 60th Street (NW corner of 9th Avenue)
New York, NY 10023
The Global Sourcing Council (GSC) is joining with the Fordham CIO Roundtable in hosting Atefah Riazi as our speaker on: Global E-waste Challenges.
Atti Riazi is the Senior Partner and Chief Information officer for Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide. In her efforts to create efficient business processes through innovation, Atti has become an advocate of “green” approaches in the management of IT. In particular she has researched the effects of e-waste and is committed to preventing the improper recycling of used electronic equipment and is in favor of efforts to eliminate the use of the carcinogenic material in the manufacture of computer components. She has traveled widely and personally seen the horrific results of U.S. electronics dumped in other parts of the world. She is one of the founders of the newly formed organization committed to battling these issues, the E-Waste Task Force. In her talk, Atti will discuss her experience with these issues, relate in-house green IT practices with those that should become sourcing practices, and invite the audience to share their own experiences.
Agenda
8:00 AM to 8:30 AM – Breakfast and GSC business meeting
8:30 AM – Guest Speaker – Atefah Riazi
10:00 AM – end of Annual Meeting
The meeting is FREE to GSC Members and CIO Roundtable members.
- Early registration fee until 11/12/08: $30
- Regular registration fee starting 11/13/08: $50
- Join the GSC now and get benefit of no registration fee for this meeting and a 14 month membership in the GSC for the 12 month fee of $200
Speaker Bio:
Atefeh Riazi
Senior Partner and Chief Information Officer
Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide
Atefeh (Atti) Riazi Senior Partner and Chief Information Officer of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, a leading global Marketing and Communications agency with 497 offices in 125 countries supporting more than 2,300 clients.
In her role as CIO, her focus is in driving the technology strategy to create efficient business processes across the organization. Throughout her career, she has had a tremendous track record of innovation and successful large-scale deployments allowing for productivity gains and competitive advantage.
Atti oversees the global systems and infrastructure network supporting an integrated, cross-discipline organization providing marketing communications across all media. Under Atti’s leadership Ogilvy and Mather has earned a place on InformationWeek’s 500 list of innovative IT organizations and is viewed in the advertising sector as a leader in new and innovative technologies
Atti is a graduate of electrical engineering with over 23 years experience managing large organizations, private and public, in the manufacturing, engineering, advertising and transportation sectors. Most recently, she was Vice President and CIO of Technology for MTA New York City Transit responsible for implementing the $1.5B MetroCard in New York City. Prior to that she was the Sr. VP of Manufacturing.
Atti has published many articles and studies. She speaks frequently on issues involving technology, organizations and work. She has delivered keynote addresses and seminars globally and serves on the Board of major financial and marketing organizations.
