Chicago CIO Executive Summit

Ditch the office, but stay boss. Join the Chicago CIO Governing Body and invited guests for a night of old-school arcade games and classic tunes from the 80s — or grab some grub and hang with your C-level peers.

Oversized blazers and acid wash jeans welcome, but not required.

In today’s talent economy, developing and keeping talent is a critical need. Rather than relying solely on HR, technology leaders can lead a shift in retention conversations and build an environment that honors each person’s skills, helps them do their best work and gives them space to grow.

Join this session to discuss:

• The framework and frequency of conversations to support growth and retention
• How to evaluate business needs to place employees in positions to optimize their skills
• The changing data and trends in employee retention

While uptake of multi-cloud architecture has started to gain momentum, not all businesses are sufficiently prepared to implement cloud roadmaps due to migration and skills-related challenges. Many businesses are taking stock of their applications and developing a phased modernization roadmap to enable appropriate cloud decisions for the future’s increasingly complex hybrid enterprise infrastructure.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How to prioritize applications and data for modernization and migration
• Strategic options for both modernization and migration initiatives to achieve key priorities
• Balancing internal and external resources to drive success

Customers are demanding more robust digital experiences, but security threats are growing, making for a complex, ever-changing web of regulations extending across the globe. IT Leaders must balance security, with innovation and speed as well as create IT environments that can adapt to workload spikes, interdependent applications, and more data at the edge, even as cyber-attacks, and ransomware increase. How can businesses digitally transform with the cloud – ensuring they have a secure environment where customers’ data is not compromised – while dealing with application sprawl and siloed data?

In this discussion, we will explore ways to:

• Connect and integrate across a distributed and hybrid cloud environment to create a common experience for applications and data
• Modernize and de-risk regulated industries to keep workloads compliant, secure, and resilient
• Evaluate investment impacts to bottom-line and communicate to stakeholders

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

The term "data-driven" is often used as a coveted descriptor for business excellence. But does this description hit the mark? A data-driven enterprise must convert trusted data while leaning heavily into predictive analytics to inform decision-making.

Join this roundtable as CIOs discuss:

• Ensuring data quality standards truly benefit from analytical insights

• Empowering the enterprise to make more data informed decisions

• Troubleshooting to drive business value

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for most organizations to achieve and maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. CIOs have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience initiatives by leading with technology and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

• How CIOs can support or lead customer experience initiatives
• How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
• What strategies lead to more efficient and effective customer interactions

Economic growth across the globe is being challenged due to various post pandemic-related supply chain disruptions. As organizations look for opportunities to rebound and thrive, CIOs must look to overcome supply chain roadblocks and forge a new path for their enterprise.

Join this timely session as your peers discuss:

• Designing supply chain strategies and capabilities for faster outcomes
• Uncovering lessons learned on how CIOs responded to recent events
• Creating a supply chain resiliency framework to ensure excellence and reduce risk

Simplicity is the keystone of a great user experience and technology leaders must create a balanced digital strategy that incorporates adaptive and robust security without disrupting the workflows of hybrid employees. With the right approach, CIOs can deliver workspaces as flexible as their workforce while boosting security, productivity and collaboration.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Building secure workspaces that improve employee experience and productivity for a hybrid workforce
• Measuring and communicating the successes and opportunities within your digital strategy
• Looking forward to the workspaces of the future - what leaders can do now to prepare?

Digitally fluent organizations experience dramatically higher growth, lower attrition, and higher customer satisfaction. Yet, for most CIOs, this is an ongoing journey and many organizations still describe themselves at mid to lower levels of digital maturity.

Join this session with CIO peers to discuss:

• Leading strategic change within your organization: recent hits or misses
• Looking ahead in your digital evolution: the next big thing
• Evaluating needs for digital evolution and analyzing IT provider involvement

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

With an ever-changing technology landscape, innovation is increasingly critical to leadership and the enterprise at large. Not only are companies using advanced technology to reengineer decision making, but to innovate and iterate for the future. How can CIOs blaze a trail, across industries, to develop the next cutting-edge trends?

Join this session as CIOs discuss:

• Exploring the metaverse and digital twins
• Harnessing the power of NFTs
• Positioning innovation within the 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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

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.

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify threat responses
• Respond to choices and forces out of their control
• Discuss pitfalls and best practices

As employees depend on technology now more than ever before, current tools do not empower IT to efficiently support today’s modern, hybrid environment. A major gap exists between the level of digital experience employees need, and the one they’re actually getting. Where is this digital friction coming from and how can we address it?

Join this session to discuss:

• The impact of digital employee experience on organizational productivity, downtime and turnover
• How CIOs can better measure digital employee experience and track effectivity
• How to proactively prioritize IT incidents and automate remediations at scale

For decades, the confluence of globalization and digitization drove supply chains toward increasing complexity, optimization and insecurity. These physical and digital ties are now rapidly fracturing along geopolitical fault lines – bringing forth a new era of increased cyber risk.

Join this session of peers to discuss:

• How tech-tonic shifts are reshaping cyber risk
• The challenges and opportunities associated with said shifts
• How to achieve greater residence during geopolitical uncertainty

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

Rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure has set in motion new concerns for the CIO. Cloud sometimes fails to deliver on promised cost savings and often leaves organizations exposed to unwelcome risk. CIOs must lead the charge to find the skillset necessary to plan, build and operate in a way that delivers on the cloud’s promise of business agility.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating unwelcome risk
• Refocusing on the right observability and operational 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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

Sustainability isn’t seen as going the extra mile anymore, it’s a company value now expected by customers and employees alike. Developing the right sustainability strategy can give organizations the competitive edge needed for long-term success. How are you leading your enterprise into a more sustainable and vibrant future?

Join this keynote as CIO Eddy Wagoner and Aquatic Ecologist Dr. Nancy Tuchman discuss:

• Keys to successful sustainability programs and the future of sustainability tech
• Overcoming implementation challenges and defining the value of your investment
• Collecting the right data to track and measure progress toward your net zero goals