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The Hollywood IT Society (HITS) has announced that its 3rd Annual Hollywood IT Summit will be held on Tuesday, May 7th in the George Elkins Auditorium at the Malibu Campus of Pepperdine University. This annual meeting of senior-executives from all major studios and their creative and technology partners, is a seminal industry event for technology leaders in charge of the industry’s IT infrastructure and data.

Co-sponsored by Variety, HITS is programmed by the Hollywood IT Society (HITS) and its Advisory Board of CIOs, representing all the major studios.  The Summit condenses all of the pressing issues and significant technology discussions into a one-day event with multiple tracks and break-out sessions.

This year’s program is under the direction of these industry CIOs: Steve Andujar, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment; Gary Davis, Senior Vice President Operations & IT, Image Entertainment; John Herbert, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Fox Filmed Entertainment; Steve Lapinski, Chief Information Officer, Film & West Coast Television, NBCUniversal; Theresa Miller Chief Information Officer & Executive Vice President, Information Technology, Lionsgate; Beth Overhuls, Vice President, Business Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company; Scott Phelan, Group Information Officer, Warner Bros. Entertainment; Abe Wong, Chief Information Officer, Paramount Pictures

The primary areas of focus for this year’s HITS will include: studio case studies (best practices), digital distribution models and analysis, connectivity and real-time decision making, big data and analytics, self-service business discovery, and the exploration of innovative technologies driving business transformation.

“This Summit is the official centerpiece of the year-round series of HITS meetings, initiatives and activities, the Society conducts on behalf of its membership,” says HITS Executive Director and Conference Chairman Devendra Mishra.  “IT is the lifeline for our new digital economy and, as such, the CIOs at the studios and their peers are responsible for making the high-value, high-return investments that assure our industry’s many stakeholders of an efficient, secure and sustainable digital transition.”

Here are this year’s session topics:

• CIO PANEL: Strategic Challenges for Enterprise Growth and Profitability

• Transformational Challenges in the Digital World: The IT Enabler!

• InSourcing IT Services: Rebuilding the Competitive Edge

• Unpacking the Data from Olympics 2012: Playing in the Sandbox!

• The Mashup of Technology Groups in the New Studio Operating Model

• KEYNOTE: How Does Data-Driven Decision Making Affect Performance?

• Integrating Domestic and International Marketing

• The Consumer Decision Journey: Putting Money “Where” and “When” Your Customer Is!

• Mobile Devices: Delivering Content Ubiquitously!

• Metadata: The Rosetta Stone for Data Analytics

• KEYNOTE: Four Learning Curves That May Jostle Your 2013 Agenda

• Integrating the Cloud for Business Transformation

Visit www.hollywoodITsummit.com for more information about this year’s event.

For program information contact: Devendra Mishra, Conference Chair at: (818) 224-1552, [email protected]

For sponsorship information contact: Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA at: (917) 513-5963, [email protected]

To learn more about the Hollywood IT Society click here