Chicago CIO Executive Summit
May 15, 2019 | Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
May 15, 2019
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Chicago CIO Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Investing in your people and the right technologies
Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models
Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes
Chicago CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Steve Betts
Health Care Service Corporation
SVP & CIO
Mark Booth
Reyes Beverage Group
SVP & CIO
Deb Hall Lefevre
Couche-Tard
Senior VP & CIO
Paul Martin
Baxter International Inc.
SVP & CIO
Mike Parisi
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
VP CIO
Francesco Tinto
Kraft Heinz
Global CIO
Agenda
May 14, 2019
May 15, 2019
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45am - 8:50am Keynote
The New Reality — Make Change Your Competitive Advantage
Karl Schoemer
Founder & CEO
VisionQuest
Like a school of fish, an adaptive organization must move rapidly and in unison toward new opportunities. From navigating the uncertainty of today’s tight talent markets to responding to evolving employee expectations, leaders and employees alike must embrace the power of change to make it a part of their individual and organizational competitive advantage.
Karl Schoemer will draw on his 20 years’ experience studying change to share:
- Insights on how leadership behaviors facilitate change
- Strategies to help change contribute to culture
- Tactics for creating change-adaptive individuals
8:50am - 9:20am Networking Break
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Embracing Disruption - Meeting the Challenge of Change
Deepa Soni
US CIO & US P&C CIO
Bank of Montreal
Emerging technologies, fresh business models, shifting consumer expectations, and lower barriers of entry for nimble competitors mean that disruption is a way of life for the modern CIO. Deepa Soni and her team decided to confront the challenge of disruption head on. In this session, Soni tells the story of BMO's IT reinvention and the ways it positions them to overcome disruption.
In this session, Soni will share:
- The three core pillars of her transformation strategy, and the way these pillars impact organizational structure and business alignment
- Practical examples of how she and her team were able to effectively execute this strategy
- Outcomes and potential for the future resulting from profound change
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Simplifying the Multi-Cloud Environment
Hosted by IBM
Kavita Chavda
Distinguished Engineer & CTO IBM US, Communications and CSI Market
IBM
Today, companies have migrated only about 20% of their workloads to the Cloud. How are CIOs aligning their workloads to the right types of clouds and what are some of the challenges they are facing to move the rest?
This session will explore:
· ways to successfully design, implement and manage a multiple cloud operating environment
· greater competitive advantage your organization can achieve through cloud migration
· effective strategies for managing multiple cloud vendors
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
What We Mean When We Talk About Digital
Hosted by Softtek
Vince Chapa
SVP
Softtek
Julie Ragland
SVP & Chief Information Officer
Navistar
Simona Rollinson
Chief Information Officer
Clayco
If the dreaded “D” word turns to ash in your mouth, you’re certainly not alone. But there’s a reason that “digital” has proven to be an enduring catch-all. It’s an infinitely flexible, adaptive term for discussing an entirely new way of thinking about business – one informed by technological possibility and unrestrained by outdated modes of thinking. Are you dying to get more specific? This is the session for you. You and your peers will:
- Discuss ways to refine your digital perspective, citing specific examples of what digital thinking looks like to your business and industry – and how that might translate to others
- Create a mission statement for the Digital CIO – what does it mean to integrate digital capabilities with the business, and what does success there mean for the future of your role?
- Identify the fundamental challenges to comprehensive digital transformation
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.
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
A Sprint, Not a Marathon – Enhance Your Speed to Value
Hosted by HelloSign
Chris Harrick
VP, Marketing
HelloSign
Roberta Cadieux
CIO
American Hotel Register Company
Scot Berkey
Chief Information Officer
Illinois Housing Development Authority
The window of opportunity closes quickly in the global economy. As CIOs ruthlessly hunt down value for the business, speed must be a skill that is cultivated throughout the organization. In this session, you’ll share insights on greasing the wheels of value and moving swiftly toward impact. Come prepared to discuss:
- The biggest roadblocks impeding the speed of your organization – and practical steps you can take to overcome them
- Effectively scaling agility and prioritizing a more rapid approach to execution
- Leveraging digital capabilities and frameworks to create the foundation for a fast-twitch enterprise
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.
10:10am - 10:40am Networking Break
10:40am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Communication for Lasting Transformation – An Interactive Brainstorm
Hosted by Smartsheet
Wayne Bulmahn
CIO
UNITE HERE HEALTH
Chris Walter
CIO
Central Garden & Pet Co.
As rapid, continual change becomes standard operating procedure, CIOs must work closely with partners across the enterprise to build and articulate a lasting transformational strategy. In this interactive session, you and your fellow CIOs will develop (and critique) essential messaging for communicating and capturing value with the business.
You and your peers will brainstorm communication and education strategies for:
- Prioritizing high-value projects to address business-unit challenges
- Securing capital for technology modernization – regardless of maturity levels
- Addressing risk and security strategy when undertaking transformative projects
10:40am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Building and Executing an Impactful API Strategy
Swati Shah
SVP, Emerging Technology
U.S. Bank
Seth Blacher
Product Head, Global Payables
U.S. Bank
API strategy can the key to unlocking agility, revenue growth, and innovation. In this session, the team at U.S. Bank shares insights into partnering across the business to build the right API strategy to compete in a rapidly changing world.
10:40am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Clouds in the Forecast – Taking Control of Your Public Cloud
Hosted by Cass Information Systems
Ian Murray
Global Director, Cloud Management Services
Cass Information Systems
Bruce Schinelli
VP, IT & CIO
TTX Company
Susan Malisch
VP & CIO
Loyola University Chicago
Are you challenged with uncontrolled costs and unknown risks from your adoption of public cloud services? Concerned with whether your IaaS investments are endangering your security or compliance? Or perhaps you’re just watching your budget disappear seemingly on its own. You’re not alone.
Join your peers for a discussion around:
- Optimizing the cost of the public cloud
- Improving security, compliance, and governance in public cloud architectures
- Leveraging the resources and controls you already have
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.
10:40am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Creating a Business-First Culture in Executing the Digital Agenda
Hosted by PwC
Dan Priest
Partner
PwC Strategy&
Steve Betts
SVP & CIO
Health Care Service Corporation
Francesco Tinto
Global CIO
Kraft Heinz
The integration of technology and business in a digital ecosystem marks a fundamental shift in the way organizations operate. To make this change meaningful and valuable, CIOs must transform culture in lockstep with technology and create greater alignment between traditional IT and business outcomes. In this roundtable, executives will share strategies for creating a business-centric, digital culture.
Discussion will focus on:
- Defining the cultural values of your IT organization and developing diverse talent aligned to these values
- Sharpening business/technology acumen across the enterprise
- Developing new ways of working (operationally and structurally) to maximize digital capability, drive innovation, and capture the value of emerging technology
- Refining governance across the organization to ensure consistent data-driven decision making and common metrics for success
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.
May 14, 2019
May 15, 2019
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