Bestselling Author and International President of ITPI and ISACA to Speak at "Managing IT Service Delivery" Conference in Boston.

Nicholas G. Carr, Everett C. Johnson Join Popular Event

BOSTON -- Incisive Media announced today that bestselling author, Nicholas G. Carr, and International President of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), Everett C. Johnson, will deliver keynote addresses at the Managing IT Service Delivery Summit in Boston on August 14-15, 2007.

Registration is now open for this educational and networking event for advanced IT professionals. The Managing IT Service Delivery Summit will feature presentations and panel discussions on advanced service delivery best practice process frameworks, and will conduct workshops on achieving standards such as ISO/IEC 20000, as well as implementing COBIT[R] controls to meet legislative and regulatory requirements. With the addition of industry luminaries Nicholas G. Carr and Everett C. Johnson as keynote speakers, space is expected to fill up quickly.

Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. He is a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. His 2004 book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His next book, The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny, Carr examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. Carr has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, Business 2.0, The Banker, and The Guardian. He is the author of a column on innovation for Strategy & Business, where he's a contributing editor, and publishes the popular blog Rough Type. In 2005, Optimize magazine named him one of the leading thinkers on information technology, and in 2007 eWeek named him one of the 100 most influential people in IT.

Everett C. Johnson, Jr., CPA, is international president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) and has served on ISACA's board of directors since 2002. Johnson is a partner with Deloitte & Touche, where he served as regional director of the company's enterprise risk services line in Latin America and as the U.S. global director for the computer assurance services practice. Additionally, he has testified before the U.S. Congress on the topic of electronic commerce and consumer protection in cyberspace. He has more than 40 years of experience in audit, control, and security, and was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Accountants in America.

"We are immensely pleased to have such high-caliber speakers lead our upcoming Managing IT Service Delivery Conference," said Matt McGowan, Vice President of Marketing for Incisive Media. "This should prove to be a wonderful learning experience for attendees."

To register or learn more about "Managing IT Service Delivery," please visit www.ManagingITServiceDelivery.com.

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