STANFORD, Calif.-In collaboration with the nonprofit Chief Technology Forum, the Stanford Graduate School of Business will launch a custom executive education program aimed at overcoming the challenges that Fortune 500 chief technology officers face. This year?s CTO Institute program, The Indispensable CTO: Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation, will convene June 15-18, 2011 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

?There are so many challenges that face CXOs,? said Robert Burgelman, Faculty Director of the CTO Institute and Edmund Littlefield Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. ?The CTO Institute at Stanford provides an excellent opportunity for these leaders of industry to learn how to embrace challenges, see opportunities and frame the big picture.?

?The most effective technology executives take an active role in authoring their organization?s future through business transformation, resisting the temptation to hold too much affection for the past,? said Basheer Janjua, Executive Director of the CTO Institute and Founding Chair and President of the CTO Forum. ?We expect that each participant in the program will take away a unique set of insights, frameworks, and strategies for energizing and revolutionizing their organization.?

As the U.S. economy slowly recovers, there is a need for business and technology executives who can stimulate the economy, develop rapid innovation cycles, and lead their companies and the economy in a new direction. The CTO Institute aims to help stimulate that change by gathering senior technology and business leaders to develop fresh thinking for the 21st Century business environment.

Featured keynote speakers are:

Andy Bryant, Chief Administrative Officer, Intel Corporation
Antonio Perez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eastman Kodak Dan Hesse, Chief Executive Officer, Sprint Nextel Corporation
John Donahoe, President & Chief Executive Officer, eBay

Executives speaking at the Technology Innovation Roundtables include:

Darlene Solomon, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,  Agilent  Technologies
Bob Wadsworth, Vice President Technology, Blue Shield of CA
Mark Carges, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, eBay
Jennifer Johnson, Chief Operating Officer,  Franklin Resources
Patricia Connolly, Executive Director Technology, Kaiser Permanente
Josephine Cheng, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM Almaden Research Center
Dan Gray, Vice President, Technology, McKesson Corporation
Ahmad Bahai, Chief Technology Officer,  National Semiconductor
Marc Frons, Chief Technology Officer, New York Times
Steve Hoover, Chief Executive Officer, PARC (a Xerox company)

For more information about application to the 2011 CTO Institute, go to: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/cto/index.html