Milwaukee CIO Executive Summit
December 14, 2021 | Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
December 14, 2021
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Milwaukee'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:
Seizing momentum – influencing and leading the enterprise
Thriving through uncertainty - empowering people and delivering value
Advancing and scaling strategic, outcome-based technologies
Milwaukee 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
Eric Hanson
HUSCO
Global VP, Information Services
Michael Kahler
Old Republic Surety
VP of Information Services
John Paape
Roehl Transport
Vice President of Technology/CIO
What to Expect
Agenda
December 13, 2021
December 14, 2021
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
The Path to Alignment — The CIO & CISO Relationship
Mandy Huth
VP, Cybersecurity
Kohler Co.
Paul Ryan
Chief Information Officer
Kohler Co.
CIO-CISO partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. IT leaders must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.
Join this keynote to hear the success story on how to:
- Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
- Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
- Collaborate in different business sectors while moving business initiatives forward
9:00am - 9:15am Break
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Technology and the Boardroom: A CIO's Guide to Engaging the Board
Rick Britton
EVP, CIO
Viad
Tim Brown
EVP, CIO
Johnson Financial Group, Inc.
Larry Pedrazoli
Director of Cyber Security
Generac Power Systems
Corporate directors often lack the technological background to navigate the nuanced discussions of operational IT. This session will inform CIOs of ways to communicate with CEOs and board of directors on why cyber security and the investment needed in today’s environment address concerns effecting corporate branding and the secondary and tertiary effects of a need for a secure IT network and systems. The best CIO board presenters are savvy communicators who can focus on the right metrics and the right message.
Join your peers to discuss:
- How CIOs can lead and guide the conversation on how technology can enable business trajectory
- Engaging the board in continuous dialogue in areas related to performance, risk, and strategy
- Demystifying technology spend and showing clear ties to enabling and protecting the business
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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Taking a Strategic Approach to Third-Party Risk
Scott Crouch
Senior Vice President, Information Technology
GMR Marketing
Doug Michelz
CISO
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Chad Steighner
CIO
Clarios
For many businesses, third-party vendors have become an important source of strategic advantage and business value. Yet outsourcing is not without its risks. As these external partnerships become increasingly complex, the need for a new strategic approach to vendor risk management is clear.
Join this session to discuss:
- Ways to partner across the c-suite on third-party risk efforts
- New approaches for managing third, fourth, and even fifth-party partners
- Strategies that will help you make the best choices for your organization
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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).
10:00am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:15am Breakout Session
Actionable Intelligence — Keeping Pace with Relentless Threats
Amanda Knutson
Supervisory Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bill Nash
Cybersecurity Advisor
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can security leaders best face changing threat vectors?
Join Amanda Knutson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bill Nash, Cybersecurity Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to discuss:
- Understanding the adversary’s goals and objectives
- How to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure through preparedness, incident response, and mitigation
- What security executives can do to build resiliency
10:30am - 11:15am Executive Boardroom
CIOs Promise: Delivering Data & Analytics
Eric Hanson
Global VP, Information Services
HUSCO
Sam Hilgendorf
CIO
Fox World Travel
Faced with demands for modernization, cost optimization and digital business transformation, CIOs are looking at how data and analytics programs can support expanding their digital business and increasing their D&A maturity. After a D&A strategy is set, IT leader must execute and deliver on the intended business outcomes.
Join your peers in discussing:
- Approaches to leveraging technology and resources to support D&A program and improve business outcomes
- Best practices for building out new business processes and executing change management across the enterprise
- Management of cultural shifts in the organization
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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).
11:15am - 11:25am Break
December 13, 2021
December 14, 2021
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Hyatt Regency MilwaukeeHealth & Safety Local Guidelines
Information regarding local health and safety guidelines coming soon.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 414-276-1234.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $154 USD (plus tax) is November 19, 2021.
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