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Milwaukee CIO Executive Summit
November 14, 2023 | Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
November 14, 2023
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:
Aligning technology with the entire organization to improve business outcomes
Creating a culture of innovation to improve processes and efficiencies
Building a culture of security and enabling smart, secure decision making
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
Richard Flahaven
Harley-Davidson
Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer
Mandy Huth
Kohler Co.
VP, Cybersecurity
John Paape
Roehl Transport
Vice President of Technology/CIO
Rick Sackett
ProAmpac
Global Director, Information Security & Privacy
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 Milwaukee 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
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience
Hosted by SentinelOne
Arthur Zards
Thought Leader, TED/TEDx Speaker, Coach & Producer
Guest Speaker
Speakers want action, not just applause. But busy executives don’t have time to learn complex communication models or esoteric storytelling processes — they need a simple, effective speaking framework that can help them not only connect with any audience, but also elicit real change. Enter the "Swarm Effect."
Join this session with Arthur Zards — a thought leader, TEDster and provocateur — to:
- Hone your skills in executive influence
- Adopt a more authentic and engaging approach to speaking
- Take your next presentation from “understandable” to “compelling"
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Assessing Risk - Collaboration Across the Enterprise
Hosted by Rubrik
Mandy Huth
VP, Cybersecurity
Kohler Co.
In today’s business environment, organizations are held responsible for the actions of their suppliers, vendors and partners, in addition to their own internal activities. Knowledge and understanding of supplier and third-party risk is of the utmost importance to CISOs and the teams they support. Organizations must know their business well enough to understand where risks may materialize and employ processes to detect and react to their evolving risk from third parties.
Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate on third party risk with various scenarios including:
- How to practically and contractually protect the business from risk
- Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
- What to do when your third party gets breached
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Overcoming Legacy Technology — Stuck in the Middle of Modernization
Steve Hannan
Chief Information and Risk Officer
Landmark Credit Union
Lynne Briggs
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Versiti
Antony D'Cruz
CIO & SVP IT & PMO
HSA Bank
Digital enterprises strive for the best business outcomes, but let’s face it, legacy technology is a hurdle many organizations have yet to clear. As leaders work to prioritize investments that support high-value technology opportunities, they must balance existing resources and planning for future upgrades.
Join this interactive session to:
- Identify new ways to leverage legacy technology to bring value to the customer
- Strategize what to sequentially modernize using data
- Discuss integration challenges CIOs can anticipate as they plan for eventual upgrades
10:25am - 11:00am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am 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.
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Leading with Digital Sustainability — A Strategy Led by Technology
Hosted by ChromeOS
Daniel Busse
Senior Chrome Enterprise Customer Engineer
Google Chrome Enterprise
Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.
Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:
- Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
- How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
- Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Putting AI to Work
Hosted by IBM
Richard Flahaven
Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer
Harley-Davidson
John Mandli
CISO
S C Johnson & Son Inc
Greg Mueller
Worldwide Technical Sales Executive Director, Cognitive Risk & Compliance Solutions
IBM
AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 and its evolution leaped forward in 2023 with advances in generative AI that hold the potential to unlock trillions in economic value over the next decade. However, implementing AI for business has unique needs – it needs to be open, properly governed, designed for the enterprise, and most importantly, create value.
Explore the age of AI including:
- Developing a data governance approach
- Delivering a competitive business advantage through strategic use cases
- Deploying governed AI with responsibility
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Delivering Business Value Through Cybersecurity Investments
Nick Watson
Executive Director of Information Security & Compliance
Quad
Jeremy Bauer
CISO
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Molly Mulroy
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
WEC Energy Group
According to the 2022 Gartner IT Budget and Efficiency Benchmark, cybersecurity is the No. 1 spend item on the IT budget, and it remains a board-level concern. But spend does not always equal protection. CIOs and CISOs can make a difference by making sure investments into cybersecurity can create business value. Now is the time to measure the return on investment and make sure the organization’s goals are aligned.
Join this session to discuss:
- Choosing the right investments that deliver value to the business
- Going beyond the metric of number attacks to outcome-driven metrics such as how fast systems can be patched
- Communicating with the board about cybersecurity through a business perspective
11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
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