Houston CIO Executive Summit

Integrating a complex ecosystem across all security areas can optimize defenses without simplifying adversaries’ challenges. This approach balances robust security with efficiency, crucial for navigating generative AI and tech advancements. Achieving this requires strategic selection and consolidation of platforms to enhance agility, reduce risk, and maintain cost-effectiveness.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The composition of an effective security architecture
• Value you can derive from a converged networking and security platform
• Common consolidation mistakes people make and how to avoid them

Legacy modernization is essential for business success but comes with significant risks and disruptions. Traditional systems are fragile, costly, and increase security vulnerabilities and technical debt. New practical strategies offer risk-free, disruption-free modernization as pressure to update systems increases.

Join this session to learn about:

• Building confidence, reducing risk and eliminating business disruption during modernization
• Avoiding common pitfalls and using a holistic approach focusing on behavior vs. piecemeal
• Practical applications of AI in advanced tools, rigorous testing, and strong development and talent practices

The intersection of digital business and advanced technologies has inevitably brought life to continuous innovation. But when faced with economic instability and fiscal responsibility, how can CIOs maintain a constant innovative mindset and culture?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Encouraging experimentation, ideation and failure in order to succeed
• Cultivating an innovation-rich culture
• Communicating and quantifying the value of innovation for long-term growth

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jacob.Inman@evanta.com

Almost every organization uses cloud computing, but many do so without a documented strategy that answers what the organization does in the cloud and why. Without that, leaders can’t maximize the benefits of working in the cloud and find their costs skyrocketing out of control.

Join this session to discuss:

• Aligning cloud objectives across the enterprise
• Optimizing cloud scale and execution
• Preparing the organization for what’s next

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jacob.Inman@evanta.com

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Now more than ever, organizations globally are looking at cyber attacks and business disruptions through a new lens of severity. With the stakes high, CIOs are evaluating how to create a resilient IT strategy in alignment with the broader organization.

Join this interactive session to discuss with your peers:

• How to respond and adapt quickly to disruptions or unplanned changes
• Diversification of tooling to reduce risk
• Tactics for a cyber-resilient future

CIOs face mounting pressure to move past temporary "quick fixes" to find reliable solutions for legacy modernization. With compounding technical debt, increasing security vulnerabilities, and the risk of system failures leading to significant revenue loss, the pressure is on to get it right. 

Join this boardroom discussion to dive deeper into:

• Building trust through proven modernization strategies while eliminating fear and risk
• Taking a holistic approach focusing on system behavior not code to avoid failures
• Safe and reliable uses of AI for efficient modernization

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jacob.Inman@evanta.com

To lead resilient organizations, CIOs must effectively communicate with various stakeholders across the c-suite —each with different priorities and communication styles. To build a strong foundation for successful IT strategy creation and execution, collaboration is critical. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Maximizing value from key stakeholder interaction 
• Overcoming resistance by seeking to understand and acknowledge 
• Individualizing your communication tactics based on your audience

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jacob.Inman@evanta.com

CIOs must balance IT costs and innovation while strengthening operational excellence. In this session, Lise Monahan shares her leadership philosophy on running IT like a business to create value.

Join this fireside chat to learn about:

• Managing and building stakeholder partnerships
• Creating a baseline for portfolio and financial management to build for the future
• Embracing advocacy to lead teams to success

Governing Body members host this reception to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks. We will also do a special charity activity putting together sack lunches for Kids Meals Inc that seeks to end childhood hunger in Houston.