IN-PERSON

Houston CIO Executive Summit

November 29, 2022 | C. Baldwin Curio Collection by Hilton

November 29, 2022
C. Baldwin Curio Collection by Hilton

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Houston'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 Strength in Cyber – communicating risk and building resilience

Prioritizing data – ensuring accuracy, accessibility and literacy

Identifying the best resources and strategies for alignment across the business

Houston 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

Jennifer Hohman

Seadrill
Chief Information Officer & Vice President

Michael Thompson

Gulfport Energy Corporation
Vice President & Chief Information Officer

John Varkey

Waste Management
VP, Enterprise Digital Services

David Cain

CVR Energy
VP & CIO

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 Houston 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


November 28, 2022

November 29, 2022

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

11:20am - 12:05pm  Breakout Session

Let’s Brainstorm! Influencing Stakeholders Across the C-Suite

Dharmesh Patel headshot

Dharmesh Patel

CIO

CMA CGM America LLC

To lead resilient organizations, CIOs must support transformation while communicating with various stakeholders across the c-suite. According to Gartner, sixty-six percent of CIOs surveyed indicated they needed to improve their ability to influence stakeholders. 

Join this interactive session with CIOs to debate and collaborate on influence with various scenarios including:

  • Building emotional connections with key stakeholders through stories
  • Overcoming resistance by seeking to understand and acknowledge 
  • Earning a seat at the table by recognizing politics within the c-suite

11:20am - 12:05pm  Breakout Session

Cybersecurity Strategy – Getting Ready for the Next Event

Courtney Radke headshot

Courtney Radke

CISO National Retail

Fortinet

Your digital transformation journey must be efficient, effective and secure. Where does cybersecurity fit into your post pandemic IT and digital enablement? With the recent shift in IT priorities, your CISO should be a strategic thinker and an ally who promotes security readiness as you shape your company or organization’s success.

In this session, you will explore:

  • The components of an effective cybersecurity strategy that drive your program and reduce risk
  • Strategies that ensure the major building blocks of your IT transformation are secured
  • Ways to evolve your cybersecurity strategy to align with line of business goals

11:20am - 12:05pm  Executive Boardroom

Tackling IT Complexity to Make Sense of Your Chaotic Cloud-Native Environments

Alex Saucedo headshot

Alex Saucedo

Data, AI and Automation Leader, US National Market

IBM

Sean Barnes headshot

Sean Barnes

VP, Corporate Operations

Nine Energy Service

Don Reny headshot

Don Reny

VP Information Technology

Gulf States Toyota

Today’s CIO balances a substantial number of applications across the enterprise. Providing visibility, control, and automation to efficiently manage the growing number of applications requires a robust observability solution to gain full visibility into modern workloads.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

  • Free your DevOps teams from the burden of manual observability and application monitoring
  • Get full context across applications and infrastructure
  • Drive intelligent actions to minimize troubleshooting and optimize performance

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 your Program Manager Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

12:05pm - 12:35pm  Lunch Service

12:35pm - 1:10pm  Keynote

Winning with Digital Twins

Lynn Vernon headshot

Lynn Vernon

Chief Engineer for IT

NASA Johnson Space Center

Ladd Laird headshot

Ladd Laird

Vice President & Chief Information Officer (Process Solutions)

Honeywell

Aparna Mathur headshot

Aparna Mathur

VP IT

Nabors Industries

Vagesh Dave headshot

Vagesh Dave

Global VP/ CIO

McDermott International

To optimize processes and expand digital business, more organizations are implementing digital twins. Digital twins are disrupting traditional operating models and accelerating digital transformation for value creation. Join this session to learn how to optimize processes, reduce costs and create efficiencies using digital twin technology.

Panelists will discuss:

  • Going beyond advanced analytics
  • Creating sustainable energy solutions and enabling safety and operational efficiency
  • Discovering the future of digital twins with the metaverse

1:10pm - 1:25pm  Break

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Breakout Session

Driving Digital Into the Heart of the Plant Operations

Jason Jackson headshot

Jason Jackson

Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Industrial Sector

Kyndryl

Clark Dressen headshot

Clark Dressen

Sr. Director

Dow Chemicals

Dow has been driving digital innovation into manufacturing operations for over a decade. So when the company turned its focus to modernizing plant maintenance, leadership leaned in with an ambitious plan to create a private cellular network and wireless device management system.

Join this session to learn how Dow leveraged technology to:

  • Improve the employee experience by enabling digital tool use for frontline workers
  • Provide information quickly for agile operations
  • Increase plant productivity and reliability

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Breakout Session

Powering ESG Initiatives by Capturing the Right Data

Ken Piddington headshot

Ken Piddington

CIO

U.S. Silica

Sustainable technology is a fast-evolving market with a growing array of new platforms and products available to help companies cut their carbon emissions and ensure the accuracy and transparency of their reporting. CIO leaders have an opportunity to partner with ESG management to help better capture and understand the data reporting behind sustainability initiatives.

Join Ken Piddington CIO at U.S. Silica in this insightful conversation to 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

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Executive Boardroom

Security is a Team Sport

James Christiansen headshot

James Christiansen

VP, CSO Cloud Security Transformation

Netskope

Graham Crisp headshot

Graham Crisp

SVP & CIO

TechnipFMC

Jeremy Manning headshot

Jeremy Manning

Chief Information Officer

Gulf Capital Bank

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:

  • The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
  • Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
  • Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

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 your Program Manager Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

7:45am - 8:45am  Registration & Breakfast

8:45am - 9:30am  Keynote

Communicating the Present-Day Threat Landscape

Rob Kotarski headshot

Rob Kotarski

Supervisory Special Agent

Federal Bureau of Investigation

George Reeves headshot

George Reeves

Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Today’s CIO works frequently with federal agencies to collaborate and protect the business against foreign and domestic security concerns. However, multiple agencies can cause confusion for reporting when navigating this vast landscape.

Join the FBI’s Supervisory Special Agent R. Kotarski and CISA/DHS G. Reeves as they discuss:

  • Clarifying agency reporting
  • Collaborating with multiple agencies
  • Addressing the emerging threat landscape

9:30am - 10:00am  Networking Break

10:00am - 10:45am  Breakout Session

How 8 Companies Use AI to Deliver the Best Employee Experience

Bhavin Shah headshot

Bhavin Shah

CEO & Founder

Moveworks

Employee experience is the number one challenge for businesses today: half of employees are actively looking for their next job. To keep your top talent, you need to eliminate distractions from their digital experience, no matter where they’re working.

That’s why industry leaders are now using AI to support their employees — at a scale not possible for people alone.

Join this session to learn how AI:

  • Let LinkedIn onboard 1,000+ new hires by automatically resolving their requests
  • Saved Palo Alto Networks 180,000 hours of productivity for its flexible workforce
  • Enabled Hearst to bring together 360 subsidiaries with a single hub for support

10:00am - 10:45am  Executive Boardroom

The ROI for Change Management-Led Digital Transformation

KJ Kusch headshot

KJ Kusch

Global Field Chief Technology Officer

WalkMe

Ann-Michele Bowlin headshot

Ann-Michele Bowlin

CIO

Norton Rose Fulbright

Sudhakar Virupakshi headshot

Sudhakar Virupakshi

Chief Information Officer

Buckeye Partners

Effective organizational change management drives successful digital transformations. Correctly leveraged, CIOs can deploy technology that empowers end users through change and equips the workforce as change agents while navigating silos across the enterprise. With the right organizational strategies, companies can avoid stagnation and minimize disruption during transitional periods and unexpected events.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Best practices and challenges of promoting a culture of change
  • Promoting technology-enabled change management
  • Overcoming roadblocks to change and increasing agility and resiliency across 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 Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

10:00am - 10:45am  Executive Boardroom

Recession-Proofing your Business — A CIO's Strategy Guide

Michael Thompson headshot

Michael Thompson

Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Gulfport Energy Corporation

Hema Yalamanchi headshot

Hema Yalamanchi

Chief Data Officer

Oceaneering International

Brett Turner headshot

Brett Turner

Head of Solutions Engineering

Zoom Video Communications

Economic growth across the globe is being challenged and aspects of the business are becoming increasingly critical to leadership and the enterprise at-large. As a CIO, how do you stay on top of the change while propelling the business forward?

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:

  • Analyzing processes to help your business be more efficient, effective, and profitable
  • Leveraging innovation and technology to hit enterprise goals
  • Consolidating tech-stack while optimizing business performance

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: Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

10:45am - 11:20am  Networking Break

10:50am - 11:15am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:10pm - 2:40pm  Networking Break

2:15pm - 2:40pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Breakout Session

Cybersecurity Insurance - What Price Will You Pay?

Joe Carroll headshot

Joe Carroll

CIO

CITGO Petroleum

Jennifer Hohman headshot

Jennifer Hohman

Chief Information Officer & Vice President

Seadrill

Bradley Hoover headshot

Bradley Hoover

Chief Information Officer of the RELLIS Campus

Texas A&M University System

Join a friendly debate with your CIO peers on the ever-pressing topic of cyber insurance. Premiums are rising and leaders from every organization are questioning the value of holding cyber insurance. Join this session to debate and collaborate on this evolving conversation.

In this session discuss,

  • Perspectives on the changing cyber insurance industry
  • Dissecting differing values of organizations who carry cyber insurance
  • Open conversations about the struggles and benefits of investing in cyber insurance

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Breakout Session

Vetting Your Applications and Infrastructure Technology Strategy

Jason Bourg headshot

Jason Bourg

VP of IT, CIO

APTIM

David Cain headshot

David Cain

VP & CIO

CVR Energy

A well-structured applications and technology strategy is both the lifeblood of every business and is a strategic differentiator as CIOs accelerate digital transformation across the enterprise. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives, and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Gaining insight into technical debt and building a business case for application and technology rationalization
  • Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
  • Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Executive Boardroom

Cloud Promise Meets Cloud Reality

Joe Maissel headshot

Joe Maissel

Vice President, Digital Advisory and Innovation

NTT Ltd

Noel Malcaba headshot

Noel Malcaba

CIO

Bristow Group

Suresh Rajamani headshot

Suresh Rajamani

CIO

Newpark Resources

Rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure has set in motion new concerns for the CIO. Cloud sometimes fails to deliver on promised cost savings leaving some 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 your Program Manager Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

3:30pm - 3:45pm  Networking Break

3:45pm - 4:20pm  Keynote

The Evolving Role of the CIO

Pragati Mathur headshot

Pragati Mathur

Chief Digital & Information Officer

ConocoPhillips

Alina Parast headshot

Alina Parast

SVP & CIO

ChampionX

Paula Smetana Stuart headshot

Paula Smetana Stuart

CIO

Crescent Energy

Role evolution is nothing new to CIOs. Technology has impacted every organization's growth and in turn has changed the role of the IT organization and evolved the CIO from a technical leader to a valuable business executive. Tomorrow’s CIO must ask themselves, what's next for the role of the CIO? 

Join this session to discuss:

  • Orchestrating new technology resources across the enterprise and beyond IT 

  • Enabling business led IT and innovation 

  • Envisioning the future of CIO leadership 

4:20pm - 4:50pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

11:20am - 12:05pm  Breakout Session

Let’s Brainstorm! Influencing Stakeholders Across the C-Suite

Dharmesh Patel headshot

Dharmesh Patel

CIO

CMA CGM America LLC

To lead resilient organizations, CIOs must support transformation while communicating with various stakeholders across the c-suite. According to Gartner, sixty-six percent of CIOs surveyed indicated they needed to improve their ability to influence stakeholders. 

Join this interactive session with CIOs to debate and collaborate on influence with various scenarios including:

  • Building emotional connections with key stakeholders through stories
  • Overcoming resistance by seeking to understand and acknowledge 
  • Earning a seat at the table by recognizing politics within the c-suite

11:20am - 12:05pm  Breakout Session

Cybersecurity Strategy – Getting Ready for the Next Event

Courtney Radke headshot

Courtney Radke

CISO National Retail

Fortinet

Your digital transformation journey must be efficient, effective and secure. Where does cybersecurity fit into your post pandemic IT and digital enablement? With the recent shift in IT priorities, your CISO should be a strategic thinker and an ally who promotes security readiness as you shape your company or organization’s success.

In this session, you will explore:

  • The components of an effective cybersecurity strategy that drive your program and reduce risk
  • Strategies that ensure the major building blocks of your IT transformation are secured
  • Ways to evolve your cybersecurity strategy to align with line of business goals

11:20am - 12:05pm  Executive Boardroom

Tackling IT Complexity to Make Sense of Your Chaotic Cloud-Native Environments

Alex Saucedo headshot

Alex Saucedo

Data, AI and Automation Leader, US National Market

IBM

Sean Barnes headshot

Sean Barnes

VP, Corporate Operations

Nine Energy Service

Don Reny headshot

Don Reny

VP Information Technology

Gulf States Toyota

Today’s CIO balances a substantial number of applications across the enterprise. Providing visibility, control, and automation to efficiently manage the growing number of applications requires a robust observability solution to gain full visibility into modern workloads.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

  • Free your DevOps teams from the burden of manual observability and application monitoring
  • Get full context across applications and infrastructure
  • Drive intelligent actions to minimize troubleshooting and optimize performance

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 your Program Manager Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

12:05pm - 12:35pm  Lunch Service

12:35pm - 1:10pm  Keynote

Winning with Digital Twins

Lynn Vernon headshot

Lynn Vernon

Chief Engineer for IT

NASA Johnson Space Center

Ladd Laird headshot

Ladd Laird

Vice President & Chief Information Officer (Process Solutions)

Honeywell

Aparna Mathur headshot

Aparna Mathur

VP IT

Nabors Industries

Vagesh Dave headshot

Vagesh Dave

Global VP/ CIO

McDermott International

To optimize processes and expand digital business, more organizations are implementing digital twins. Digital twins are disrupting traditional operating models and accelerating digital transformation for value creation. Join this session to learn how to optimize processes, reduce costs and create efficiencies using digital twin technology.

Panelists will discuss:

  • Going beyond advanced analytics
  • Creating sustainable energy solutions and enabling safety and operational efficiency
  • Discovering the future of digital twins with the metaverse

1:10pm - 1:25pm  Break

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Breakout Session

Driving Digital Into the Heart of the Plant Operations

Jason Jackson headshot

Jason Jackson

Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Industrial Sector

Kyndryl

Clark Dressen headshot

Clark Dressen

Sr. Director

Dow Chemicals

Dow has been driving digital innovation into manufacturing operations for over a decade. So when the company turned its focus to modernizing plant maintenance, leadership leaned in with an ambitious plan to create a private cellular network and wireless device management system.

Join this session to learn how Dow leveraged technology to:

  • Improve the employee experience by enabling digital tool use for frontline workers
  • Provide information quickly for agile operations
  • Increase plant productivity and reliability

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Breakout Session

Powering ESG Initiatives by Capturing the Right Data

Ken Piddington headshot

Ken Piddington

CIO

U.S. Silica

Sustainable technology is a fast-evolving market with a growing array of new platforms and products available to help companies cut their carbon emissions and ensure the accuracy and transparency of their reporting. CIO leaders have an opportunity to partner with ESG management to help better capture and understand the data reporting behind sustainability initiatives.

Join Ken Piddington CIO at U.S. Silica in this insightful conversation to 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

1:25pm - 2:10pm  Executive Boardroom

Security is a Team Sport

James Christiansen headshot

James Christiansen

VP, CSO Cloud Security Transformation

Netskope

Graham Crisp headshot

Graham Crisp

SVP & CIO

TechnipFMC

Jeremy Manning headshot

Jeremy Manning

Chief Information Officer

Gulf Capital Bank

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:

  • The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
  • Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
  • Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

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 your Program Manager Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

7:45am - 8:45am  Registration & Breakfast

8:45am - 9:30am  Keynote

Communicating the Present-Day Threat Landscape

Rob Kotarski headshot

Rob Kotarski

Supervisory Special Agent

Federal Bureau of Investigation

George Reeves headshot

George Reeves

Supervisory Cybersecurity Advisor

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Today’s CIO works frequently with federal agencies to collaborate and protect the business against foreign and domestic security concerns. However, multiple agencies can cause confusion for reporting when navigating this vast landscape.

Join the FBI’s Supervisory Special Agent R. Kotarski and CISA/DHS G. Reeves as they discuss:

  • Clarifying agency reporting
  • Collaborating with multiple agencies
  • Addressing the emerging threat landscape

9:30am - 10:00am  Networking Break

10:00am - 10:45am  Breakout Session

How 8 Companies Use AI to Deliver the Best Employee Experience

Bhavin Shah headshot

Bhavin Shah

CEO & Founder

Moveworks

Employee experience is the number one challenge for businesses today: half of employees are actively looking for their next job. To keep your top talent, you need to eliminate distractions from their digital experience, no matter where they’re working.

That’s why industry leaders are now using AI to support their employees — at a scale not possible for people alone.

Join this session to learn how AI:

  • Let LinkedIn onboard 1,000+ new hires by automatically resolving their requests
  • Saved Palo Alto Networks 180,000 hours of productivity for its flexible workforce
  • Enabled Hearst to bring together 360 subsidiaries with a single hub for support

10:00am - 10:45am  Executive Boardroom

The ROI for Change Management-Led Digital Transformation

KJ Kusch headshot

KJ Kusch

Global Field Chief Technology Officer

WalkMe

Ann-Michele Bowlin headshot

Ann-Michele Bowlin

CIO

Norton Rose Fulbright

Sudhakar Virupakshi headshot

Sudhakar Virupakshi

Chief Information Officer

Buckeye Partners

Effective organizational change management drives successful digital transformations. Correctly leveraged, CIOs can deploy technology that empowers end users through change and equips the workforce as change agents while navigating silos across the enterprise. With the right organizational strategies, companies can avoid stagnation and minimize disruption during transitional periods and unexpected events.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Best practices and challenges of promoting a culture of change
  • Promoting technology-enabled change management
  • Overcoming roadblocks to change and increasing agility and resiliency across 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 Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

10:00am - 10:45am  Executive Boardroom

Recession-Proofing your Business — A CIO's Strategy Guide

Michael Thompson headshot

Michael Thompson

Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Gulfport Energy Corporation

Hema Yalamanchi headshot

Hema Yalamanchi

Chief Data Officer

Oceaneering International

Brett Turner headshot

Brett Turner

Head of Solutions Engineering

Zoom Video Communications

Economic growth across the globe is being challenged and aspects of the business are becoming increasingly critical to leadership and the enterprise at-large. As a CIO, how do you stay on top of the change while propelling the business forward?

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:

  • Analyzing processes to help your business be more efficient, effective, and profitable
  • Leveraging innovation and technology to hit enterprise goals
  • Consolidating tech-stack while optimizing business performance

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: Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

10:45am - 11:20am  Networking Break

10:50am - 11:15am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:10pm - 2:40pm  Networking Break

2:15pm - 2:40pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Breakout Session

Cybersecurity Insurance - What Price Will You Pay?

Joe Carroll headshot

Joe Carroll

CIO

CITGO Petroleum

Jennifer Hohman headshot

Jennifer Hohman

Chief Information Officer & Vice President

Seadrill

Bradley Hoover headshot

Bradley Hoover

Chief Information Officer of the RELLIS Campus

Texas A&M University System

Join a friendly debate with your CIO peers on the ever-pressing topic of cyber insurance. Premiums are rising and leaders from every organization are questioning the value of holding cyber insurance. Join this session to debate and collaborate on this evolving conversation.

In this session discuss,

  • Perspectives on the changing cyber insurance industry
  • Dissecting differing values of organizations who carry cyber insurance
  • Open conversations about the struggles and benefits of investing in cyber insurance

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Breakout Session

Vetting Your Applications and Infrastructure Technology Strategy

Jason Bourg headshot

Jason Bourg

VP of IT, CIO

APTIM

David Cain headshot

David Cain

VP & CIO

CVR Energy

A well-structured applications and technology strategy is both the lifeblood of every business and is a strategic differentiator as CIOs accelerate digital transformation across the enterprise. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives, and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Gaining insight into technical debt and building a business case for application and technology rationalization
  • Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
  • Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

3:30pm - 3:45pm  Networking Break

3:45pm - 4:20pm  Keynote

The Evolving Role of the CIO

Pragati Mathur headshot

Pragati Mathur

Chief Digital & Information Officer

ConocoPhillips

Alina Parast headshot

Alina Parast

SVP & CIO

ChampionX

Paula Smetana Stuart headshot

Paula Smetana Stuart

CIO

Crescent Energy

Role evolution is nothing new to CIOs. Technology has impacted every organization's growth and in turn has changed the role of the IT organization and evolved the CIO from a technical leader to a valuable business executive. Tomorrow’s CIO must ask themselves, what's next for the role of the CIO? 

Join this session to discuss:

  • Orchestrating new technology resources across the enterprise and beyond IT 

  • Enabling business led IT and innovation 

  • Envisioning the future of CIO leadership 

4:20pm - 4:50pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

November 28, 2022

November 29, 2022

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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A block of rooms has been reserved at the C. Baldwin Curio Collection by Hilton at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 713-759-0202.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $209 USD (plus tax) is November 7, 2022.

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