2025 Calgary CIO Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Calgary's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Building a Foundation for Cyber Resilience

Leveraging Data & Analytics to Improve Business Outcomes

Maximizing AI for Strategic Advantage

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Ross Ballendine

Trimac Transportation
Vice President Information Technology

Jan Bradley

City of Calgary
Chief Information Technology Officer

Jason Hinchliff

Cenovus Energy
CDIO, Vice President Data & IT

Catherine Mendonsa

Mark Anthony Group
VP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Calgary CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda

Keynote Session

The ROI of Creativity

The World Economic Forum named creativity one of the top must-have skills for success in all industries. It is the key to thriving in this era of rapid innovation and change. But very few organizations have truly invested in the development of this essential capability. Why? Because creativity is considered too intangible to measure, too messy to fit into a strategic plan or simply something that is only for a few specially talented people. In this engaging presentation, Artist/Author Noah Scalin pulls back the curtain on his own creative practice to explain the real ROI of creativity.

In this session, we will learn:

Why creativity is a crucial skill for fostering innovation at your organization
How to use creativity strategically for long-term impact
Simple strategies that anyone can use to innovate, grow and inspire others

Executive Boardroom Session

Communicating Risk — Translating Insight Into Action

Measuring and communicating security risk is integral to reducing an organization's vulnerability to attack. To better inform the broader business, sourcing data that provides a comprehensive view of risk level and security posture is key.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

Translating the ‘what’ ‘why’ and ‘how’ of your cybersecurity strategy to non-IT-focused teams
Linking risk measurement with technical metrics to influence company decision-making
Taking a data-driven approach to prioritization based on the current threat landscape

Breakout Session

Leading Strategic Change to Create Business Synergy

Technology and security leaders have the power to turn change into positive, permanent growth for their organization. Rick Begg, CIO at Bird Construction has been on a transformation journey with the Beam team, shifting from siloed data and legacy technology sprawl to a strong data foundation with aligned and standardized processes.

Join this session to hear about and discuss with your peers: