Calgary CIO Executive Summit

Join us for a night of delicious cuisine and a friendly competition. Your Japanese culinary skills will be put to the test during a 30-minute sushi-making competition. There will be a demonstration before participants are split into teams to craft the most enticing dish. Each team's dish will be judged and eligible to win a special prize.

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

As a security leader, you’re asked to find ways to securely enable your business to use data to drive innovation and become a data master. But this takes a fundamental understanding of what data exists within your environment, where it's running, its risk level, who has access to it, and how it's being used. Join Lamont Orange, CISO of Cyera, for this interactive discussion on the challenges and solutions CISOs use to discover their data attack surface, monitor, detect and respond to data threats, including the scope of breach identification, as well as ensure data compliance.

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining data visibility as a foundation for data governance
• Managing the evolving landscape of laws, regulations and industry standards around data security
• Working with the right tools and teams across a shared responsibility model to ensure compliance

Join a friendly discussion and debate with peers to challenge your ideas on cloud and security ease of access. Explore the concept of polarity and determine if you can have the best of both worlds.

Join this session to:

• Build community through interactivity
• Expand your thinking on polarizing topics
• Understand the journey your peers are on

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.

CIOs and CISOs face significant IT security challenges in managing complexity, risk, and limited resources. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) converges network and security functions into a single, cloud-delivered service, addressing increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats and regulatory demands, while enabling seamless, autonomous management. A cloud-native platform approach to SASE reduces vulnerabilities, delivers robust security, and provides 360-degree visibility to support business growth and compliance. Gain practical insights from real-world case studies to transform your IT strategy, optimize ROI, and mitigate risk.

This session will address critical concerns, and answer key questions including:

• How can I improve network performance and agility without compromising security?
• How can I build cyber resilience and manage risk?
• How can I optimize security investments and combat resource constraints?

Technology is at the heart of an organization's sustainability transformation. Gartner expects that by 2027, 25% of CIO’s compensation will be linked to their sustainable technology impact. But focusing only on the sustainability of internal IT operations (“sustainable IT”) is too narrow a way to think about sustainable technology. As sustainable technology has the potential to facilitate new business models and tech-enabled products, how can CIOs make the right decisions when defining IT strategies with sustainability in mind and create an effective sustainable technology portfolio?

Join this session to discuss:

• Understanding the business priority around sustainability, and what CIOs can actually control
• Defining your role in driving sustainability across the organization
• Evolving your teams mindset to drive momentum around sustainable initiatives

The present moment is unlocking GenAI's transformative power, but maturity across organizations varies. Technology executives are now looking to discuss GenAI use cases and organizational readiness.

Join this session to hear from executives who have:

• Implemented practical use cases
• Created an environment that’s AI ready
• Considered security components for AI implementation