Atlanta CIO Executive Summit

Join your peers, summit speakers and top vendor partners for a fun, interactive evening at SunTrust Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. CIO Greg Gatti hosts what is sure to be a great night, featuring on-field batting practice, tech tours of the stadium and some surprises left to be discovered once you are onsite.

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

Changing demands on enterprise architects require a new approach to tooling. The need to provide smart answers – and fast – to challenging business questions means a fundamentally different approach to architecture design. LeanIX’s André Christ explores:

• The benefits of making the switch from diagram-driven to data-driven architecture
• How it positively impacts the perceived value of enterprise architecture
• The potential to provide daily benefits to hundreds of people in the organization, not just a few

M&A is an integral part of any company’s growth strategy and at Graphic Packaging International, it has developed an industrial M&A playbook to support the 15-plus transactions it has done over the last several years. Beginning with standardization of its due diligence models all the way to systems-decommissioning and synergy capture, its playbook takes a holistic approach to ensure business operational continuity, appropriate governance controls and process simplification. CIO Vish Narendra shares tips for:

• Industrializing your M&A approach
• Leveraging new technologies and standing up applications to drive cycle times and costs down
• Building new capabilities and aligning disparate systems with an integrate-and-sunset or lift-and-shift first, synergize later approach to standardization

From Wall Street to defense contractors, FBI agents have seen just about everything in the world of cybersecurity. With this issue at the forefront of boards across the country, CIOs must stay apprised of recent trends in the threat landscape and prepare for unforeseen cyberattacks. In this session, VP & CIO Marie Mouchet interviews Atlanta’s FBI ASAIC over Cyber and Counterintelligence Rick Grave de Peralta about his cross-industry analysis of today’s most potent threat vectors, including the most recent trends in state-sponsored attacks. Further, they will explore how the current threat landscape might influence the nature of future attacks — preparing CIOs for board updates as they manage this enterprise risk.

The average person makes 35,000 decisions a day, each of which is based on data and taxes the brain. AI helps automate many of those decisions, freeing up teams to focus on what really matters, but many organizations are still striving to achieve their journey to AI.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Common challenges businesses face in their AI journey
• Steps to collect, organize, analyze, infuse AI, and modernize your data.
• Efficient information architectures (IA) for AI

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact: Lindsey Estep at lindsey.estep@evanta.com or 971-222-2365.

TireHub is a national tire distributor formed in 2018, a joint venture between tire manufacturing giants Bridgestone and Goodyear. While TireHub has close to 70 distribution centers across the country, it really is a software and service company that created a global exchange to meet its customers’ demands in real-time and provide same-day delivery. Overnight, CIO Ashok Vantipalli and his team had to create a scalable SaaS platform and be ready to onboard and service 20,000-plus B2B customers. He addresses:

• How technology leadership convinced shareholders and executives to take a software product-centric approach to grow the business and disrupt the industry
• How being agile requires making quick decisions and hiring the right team members and partners to be successful in a startup/high-growth environment

Still encumbered by legacy business processes? Struggling to speed up onboarding, improve customer experience, and secure collaboration across the extended enterprise? Business processes need to keep up with the digitization of your enterprise. Join a group of your peers to discuss how to:

• Identify opportunities for improving outdated processes
• Unlock new customer experiences with digital practices
• Empower your workplace with seamless business processes

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

In this executive boardroom session – aimed at IT leaders from mid-market enterprises (less than $5 billion in annualized revenue) – come prepared to discuss your approach to digital strategy and how you plan to attract, develop and retain the right IT talent to make sure your organization is evolving and adapting to execute on all of its business goals. This two-part conversation will focus on:

Discussion Topic 1: Making Digital Strategy Part of Your IT Game Plan

• How are you looking to overhaul your organization and the way it does business to flourish in the digital age?
• How are you evolving your infrastructure and risk strategies?
• What are you doing to manage internal and external stakeholder needs and pioneering a whole new way of envisioning work?

Discussion Topic 2: Equipping the Future – New Ways of Tackling the Talent Crunch

• What is your human capital strategy when it comes to finding the specialized talent required of innovation, introducing a new way of working and managing multi-generational teams?
• What fresh approaches are you, as IT leaders, taking to address talent attraction, development and retention?
• What are the greatest impacts you are seeing across the organization when it comes to talent in this new digital era?

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact: Lindsey Estep at lindsey.estep@evanta.com or 971-222-2365.

Seeking to rapidly capture new business value and better serve their customers, Martin Davis and his peers across the enterprise took a multifaceted, collaborative approach to harnessing fresh ideas. Linking IT, R&D, and their own innovation hub, Southern Company has created a continuum of the cutting edge.

Davis shares his insights on:

• Forming strong partnerships across the business to create innovation alignment throughout the organization
• Building strong teams with the right tools to capture and deliver value
• Measuring the success of the strategy and what it means for the future