Detroit CIO Virtual Executive Summit

Core to any digital transformation are the people who are driving it. Leading CIOs understand that success requires collaboration between IT and line of business leaders. Is that enough? Successful organizations also dramatically shift the culture towards digital transformation by encouraging continuous innovation in workflows that cross departments throughout the business.

This boardroom will address strategies for:

• Fueling a culture of innovation and agility
• Driving the methodical adoption of new technologies
• Fostering a business-first mindset within IT

Today’s enterprise has access to endless amounts of data and CIOs must continually find true meaning and value in the data. This peer-to-peer discussion will consider ways to mature your data and analytics program to provide accurate, real-time data.

Come ready to discuss how to:

• Implement data strategies that align with desired business outcomes
• Leverage data to gain greater insights and drive value
• Define clear data ownership and standardization

Consistently a top-of-mind concern for CIOs, cybersecurity challenges and threats have only ramped up in the remote-enabled 2020 climate. How are CIOs safeguarding the digital environment, managing increased risk and raising security awareness throughout the enterprise? 

In this interactive virtual roundtable, you will discuss:

• How to ensure remote working models are secure for employees and clients
• How to raise the organization’s maturity level with a clear security roadmap
• How to better manage risk and protect critical information

The most successful businesses today connect digital transformation to business goals using innovative technology and increasing moving more of their enterprise workload to the Cloud. CIOs are charged with clearing adoption hurdles to align mission-critical tasks and business priorities with the multiple cloud environments.

This interactive session explores:

• Case studies on successful transformations using open, flexible, and secure multicloud operating environments
• Fostering digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage through a hybrid cloud strategy
• Accelerating the skills and culture that leverages AI and cloud

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An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups.

This spring, when Southeast Michigan became an epicenter for a spike in COVID-related illness, Michigan Medicine CIO Andrew Rosenberg did not hesitate jumping back into the fray as a critical care doctor. Joining forces with a team of dedicated health providers, they stood up several ICUs for COVID patients and got busy saving lives. Rosenberg reflects on profound human interactions with patients and families, the teamwork that made this happen, and what he learned as a technologist, physician and leader.

In this keynote, Rosenberg covers:

• The combined powers of technology and medicine – making the pieces fit during an international crisis
• Real leadership in critical moments – lessons from a CIO’s point-of-view
• Takeaways about telecare – future models of communication and collaboration

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. But to fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to the strategy and execution of the organization. Take this opportunity to share your strategies for embedding innovation into the core of your business.

This conversation will focus on:

• Evaluating emerging technologies and building the business case for their implementation
• Defining new business opportunities through technology
• Creating a comprehensive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes

While the pandemic necessitated a nimble approach to remote work and onsite operations, organizations are sizing up the future of work for their business and industry. This virtual roundtable session draws out CIO best practices on a technology-enabled reimagination of the future workforce.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Resource and cost planning as organizations determine future operations
• Changes to organizational structures, talent and hiring practices going forward
• Ideas to incorporate remote workers into a supportive corporate culture

Results may vary by business or industry, but digital business is booming like never before and CIOs are squarely in the driver’s seat. Digital leaders are dialed in to capturing maximum value, utilizing the right data and delivering a seamless customer experience.

In this interactive session, you will discuss:

• New expectations of the digital-first customer
• The CIO’s role in product development and design in a digital economy
• Capturing consumer insights to foster new business opportunities

Remember when “embracing disruption” was an aspirational call-to-action – not a necessary navigation of everyday life? Now that you have your company’s undivided, fully-disrupted attention, why look back? As the pandemic pushes more and more customers online, CIOs must ensure that their experience is seamless – creating the right channels for connection and utilizing the right data to innovate products or services.

This conversation will focus on:

• Designing and delivering an optimal digital future for your business
• Leveraging a cultural shift to more agile, rapid technology outcomes
• Ways to evolve a data-centric approach to consumer insight – fostering new business opportunities