New York CIO Executive Summit

Colleagues like to say Gus Balbontin comes from the future — which can only help — but the Patagonia-born, former CTO and executive director of Lonely Planet has arrived in New York with practical words of wisdom, like — “Spend less time speculating about the future and more time doing something about it.” After guiding one of world’s most recognizable brands through significant business transformation, Balbontin shares what he continues to learn about thriving amid the relentless pace of disruption, including:

• Transforming businesses, teams and individuals to successfully adapt in rapid-changing markets
• Simplifying the often-vague concept of innovation by moving from unsolved to solved problems
• Building a culture of trust and accountability to go beyond limitations and meet the future head-on
  

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“Once you see Agile in action, there’s no going back.” This comment, by a senior business leader at Morgan Stanley, encapsulates the profound business transformation taking hold through Agile. In this session, Monica Cirillo, a leader in the technology transformation group, joins key business partners to share how cross-functional teams embraced Agile at a major financial services firm. Topics include:

• Changing the business mindset from an “ask” of technology to a true dialog about how to drive business value
• Creating sustained business and technology partnership through mobilizing teams to think and work differently
• Advancing business transformation through agile — things to think about during your journey

Digital transformation doesn’t have to be a drawn-out process. Reimagine how business can be done with data to maximize the impact of your established infrastructure and accelerate your digital transformation. This conversation between Enrique Aceves, VP of Marketing Analytics & Data Strategy at Nuveen, and Jim Kowalski, GM of North America at Domo, will provide guidance for developing cultural, technological and data strategies that deliver a measurable competitive advantage.

Today, companies have migrated only about 20% of their workloads to the Cloud. How are CIOs aligning their workloads to the right types of clouds and what are some of the challenges they are facing to move the rest? This session will explore:

• Ways to successfully design, implement and manage a multiple cloud operating environment
• Fostering digital transformation and a competitive advantage through cloud migration
• Effective strategies for managing multiple cloud vendors

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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Despite the escalation of cyber risk in all global organizations, most board members struggle to grasp the business requirements behind an organization’s need for better security. It is often left to the CIO to bridge the gap between the technical know-how of the information security team and the business risk language of the board. F-Secure leads a peer-driven discussion on:

• How to glean relevant and insightful intelligence
• Translating technical talk into business-relevant language
• How to build the business case for security and deliver to the board

Session details coming soon. 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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics. This session will cover:

• Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
• Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
• Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function

The race to embrace digital advancement runs on a circular track: Organization innovates, the market responds, customers expect more — and around you go. This panel looks at the cycle from a collaborative point-of-view. They’ll explore CIO, CMO and Chief Digital roles in today’s demanding world of innovation at scale, discussing:

• Thoughts on who owns digital in the organization — goals and opportunities
• Best practices for C-suite partners working together to achieve lasting transformation
• Ways to rectify challenges that pull technology and marketing in different digital directions

What do today's most successful financial services, insurance companies, manufacturers and government agencies have in common? They’ve all found a better way to deliver exceptional experiences and instant services for their customers and employees. This session explores real examples of how organizations are building digital operations to deliver exceptional experiences. 

Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce. In this peer-driven discussion, discover:

• What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
• How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
• How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth

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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Blockchain presents an enormous opportunity for business-focused CIOs, but the depth of awareness around its potential remains fragmented at best – even at the executive level. Moving from hype-cycle concept to practical reality requires a deeper understanding of the technological possibilities and long-term evolution of blockchain. In this roundtable discussion we will:

• Sort through the noise to find real value
• Uncover the business impact blockchain can have on the entire organization
• Why more blockchain use cases haven’t been deployed in 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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Driven by ongoing research that more diverse teams innovate better and boost performance, we’ve assembled a Diversity 2.0 panel to elevate this important discussion. Join the conversation as the panel explores diversity initiatives that are making a difference, while challenging the audience to consider:

• The benefits of both personal and systematic change
• Takeaways to positively impact more diverse IT leadership in your organization
• Tips for encouraging diverse voices to speak up and be heard

According to Gartner, chatbots have displaced fraud detection as the top use of AI in 2019. While chatbots are well positioned to enable digital transformation, they could just as easily fail. How do you ensure your AI initiative will succeed? Join fellow CIOs in a roundtable focused on:

• The most important things to consider when evaluating an AI-based solution
• The pros and cons of AI-based conversational self-help tools for employees
• The benefits to extending ROI on your AI initiative to the entire 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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

While a DevOps approach can improve throughput and quality in software development and IT operations, it doesn’t have to stop there. Join this boardroom for a peer-driven roundtable discussion on how DevOps can influence design, planning, marketing and cross-team collaboration. This boardroom will cover:

• How your approach to DevOps can be stretched to create continuous delivery
• How to maximize the value of your current tools
• How to identify pitfalls and fix inefficiencies

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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Many organizations become enamored with AI capabilities, but fail to determine the most strategic value drivers. Integrating AI into an organization is a substantial undertaking for many organizations and true case studies are hard to come by. This discussion will explore real-world examples and how to democratize AI into your organization. In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Discover the latest updates and use cases for AI ecosystems
• Find out best practices in democratizing AI in an organization
• Learn how to measure ROI in AI projects

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: Monica Mast at 971-222-2385, or monica.mast@evanta.com.

Consider this a stress-free opportunity to talk technology with the Board of Directors without being put on-the-spot. You’ll hear from our panel of tested, trusted board members on what they want — and don’t want — when a CIO is called into the boardroom. As former large enterprise CIOs who have transitioned into board leadership, the panel offers keen insights on simplifying your technology message, amplifying the “why” and gaining the confidence of your board.