2023 Charlotte CIO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Charlotte's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

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

Hiring the right employees and encouraging collaboration for a better product-centric organization

Creating secure and flexible infrastructure to ensure better digital business outcomes

Gaining leadership buy-in for quicker decision making

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Reenie Askew

City of Charlotte, NC
Assistant City Manager & Chief Information Officer

Ken Athanasiou

VF Corp
Chief Information Security Officer

William Curtiss

Hanesbrands
CISO & CTO / Director, Global Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure

Frank DePaola

Enpro
VP, CISO

Steve Hagood

Trane Technologies
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer

Margarita Rivera

Quarterra Group , A Lennar Company
Vice President, Information Security & Privacy

John Scrimsher

Kontoor Brands
CISO

Patrick Thompson

Albemarle
Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer

Bonnie Titone

Duke Energy
SVP & CIO

Kimberly Trapani

American Tire Distributors
Chief Digital Security Officer

Agenda

February 7, 2023

4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics

Navigating the Digital Future to Accelerate Transformation

Ken Athanasiou

Chief Information Security Officer

VF Corp

Frank DePaola

VP, CISO

Enpro

Margarita Rivera

Vice President, Information Security & Privacy

Quarterra Group , A Lennar Company

Martin Strasburger

Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

Duke Energy

As global economic and political volatility continue, organizations need to look beyond the skills shortage to grow relevant capabilities to ensure their workforce can operate efficiently and align with digital business objectives. Technology and security leaders are looking to challenge and redefine the enterprise's digital value propositions to create an avenue for high growth and quicker benefits. Organizations are moving beyond the stage of ‘transformation’ and now demanding digital execution, as they position the enterprise to weather economic storms and unpredictable setbacks in the future.

Join your peers to discuss how CIOs & CISOs are capturing the outcomes of digital execution.

Accelerating Decision Making For Timely Value Realization

Describe your current and ideal data ecosystem
How have you enabled a technology platform to create secure and flexible infrastructure to capture digital business outcomes?
Have you seen the level of adoption that you’d like from leaders to impact quicker decision making? What steps have you taken to identify value realization and measure outcomes obtained by data and analytics?

Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes

What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? How are you prioritizing competency-based job descriptions?
Many CIOs & CISOs have turned toward the organization of fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing? How are you changing mindsets, while supporting agile journeys?
How do you start building your tech-environment and work environment for the future workforce?