Robert Fort is the CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group's North America Megastores. At Virgin, Robert has implemented a real-time data warehouse, converged voice & data network, and a chain-wide POS system. He architected the company's highly regarded “digital preview stations”, including the world's largest single store implementation in Times Square. Robert is a member of the National Retail Federation CIO Council, RIS News Advisory Board, Kiosk.Com Advisory Board and Microsoft Retail Advisory Board. In 2005, he was selected one of the Top 15 Pacesetters by RIS News Magazine, in 2006, one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, and in 2008 one of RIS News Magazine's Top 10 Influential's. Prior to Virgin, Robert has held senior management roles at MGM/UA, Nestle, Polygram/A&M Records, and Koo Koo Roo. Less   View all posts

Dennis is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)). This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) - the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies. Dennis also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DoD Chief Information Officer. Dennis is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. In addition, he is the author of several books including DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects. Less   View all posts