New York CIO Executive Summit

The race to accelerate innovation starts small, relies upon courage and humility in equal measure, and requires a universal mindset to have a lasting impact. Viv Goldstein, who co-led a massive cultural transformation at General Electric now advises leaders across the Fortune 500 at Bionic, cuts through the complexity on how to simply get your people to think, act and behave in a different way. In this keynote, Goldstein will share culture-changing pearls of wisdom — including six top lessons for driving growth at companies large and small.

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The questions below can serve as a guideline to start your table conversations.

Developing IT leaders

• What are human capital strategies for building and developing the specialized talent required for IT and business innovation?
• How are IT leaders tackling challenges related to new ways of working and trying to manage multi-generational teams?
• How do you integrate an overall leadership strategy into the IT side of the business?

Leveraging AI

• How have you deployed AI initiatives; what has worked and what needs improvement? Share lessons learned.
• How do you measure the return on investment from AI projects?
• How do you drive employee engagement and overcome barriers to realizing AI’s true potential?

Customer-Centric Strategies

• What data management strategies generate the most actionable insights into the digital needs and behaviors of your customers?
• What have been your most successful tactics for increasing the speed with which your technology organization responds to customer demand and delivers value?
• What is the role of the CIO in ensuring a seamless customer experience?

Executing While Modernizing

• How are you helping the business to articulate “value” so that effort and energy are spent on the right things?
• How can you liberate more of your human capital/talent to focus on transformative, value-added work, and less on “keeping the trains running on time?”
• What can CIOs do to increase the change appetite of their organizations and foster a culture of continual evolution?

Improving the Pace of IT

• What are the greatest friction areas in your organization, and what has been successful in reducing that friction?
• What frameworks or operational models (e.g. agile, DevOps, reorganization) have been most successful in creating more efficient, effective technology organization? 
• What can CIOs do to ensure that speed is a value of the entire organization, not just the technology org?

The cloud and mobility are powerful enablers of digital transformation, but many IT organizations are grappling with legacy architectures and processes that haven't evolved in over 30 years. When apps lived in the data center, it made sense to invest in a 'hub-and-spoke' protection network to employ a 'castle-and-moat' security model. But agility demands from internal and external stakeholders in the new world of SaaS, cloud and mobility requires organizations to evolve their network and security architectures. In this session, we'll discuss how enterprise IT leaders can:

• Improve customer digital experience while safeguarding sensitive information
• Increase user performance while minimizing risk
• Drive revenue and scalability while controlling costs

Riveted by the power of emerging technologies to analyze and predict user patterns, the CNN technology team had to click pause and flip the perspective: How can AI, Machine Learning and data science allow us to view our audience as humans, not simply blips on the latest analytics report? In this session, WarnerMedia Head of Data Science Haile Owusu explores:

• CNN’s full circle journey toward valuing human experience beyond technology acceleration
• Successfully building in-house data sciences and ML capabilities to treat its audience as humans
• Strategies to build a long-term viewer/customer relationship – refusing to sacrifice for short-term gain

In today’s digital economy, enterprises around the world are witnessing an explosion of data. Businesses must make rapid decisions based on accurate data and actionable insights to stay on top of the game. In this session, you’ll explore how to:

• Reap dividends from sustainable behavioral change for your organization to be Business 4.0^TM ready
• Chart a data-driven, analytics-led roadmap by scaling up a ‘Data and AI Democratization’ model
• Discover the unexplored dimensions of data by leveraging evolving data regulations and open data’s potential

APIs and API management have become essential to how enterprises deliver applications in and across clouds. They help build and connect modern applications, increase execution times at scale to optimize costs and use analytics and machine learning to make smarter decisions. This interactive discussion explores:

• How to build transformation strategies across the business with APIs in mind
• How to measure ROI on your API strategy, including tracking early wins and demonstrating value
• How your API platform aids innovation and shortens your maturity curve for emerging technologies

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

Toss out the manual on redundancies in the business process; RPA is automating its way to greater efficiencies and a brighter bottom line. This CIO session is a mix of RPA advocates, early adopters and outside observers — joining forces to learn from each other and explore:

• How peers have deployed Robotic Process Automation— what has worked and what needs work
• How to measure the return on investment for automated processes
• How to overcome human barriers — such as employee engagement ­and leadership buy-in — to realize the full potential of RPA

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

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s powerful retort when challenged to tell a story in six words, Earl Newsome’s go-to leadership mantra is compact and compelling. When motivating at-risk youth, Newsome’s deft reply to “I’ll never be a CIO,” doubles as a six-word challenge: You’re the story you tell yourself. In this interactive exercise, you’ll share a few choice words with the Earl of New York CIOs — crafting and collaborating over the six words that epitomize your one-of-a-kind legacy.

Sure, ninjas are cool and fun to talk about. More importantly, they’re a superhuman symbol of transcendent leadership – always 100 percent engaged. They equate their personal achievement with the success of the team and the greater mission. How productive would your teams be if they were always completely engaged like ninjas? In this session, you’ll learn:

• Interview and hiring tips to ensure you get the people you need
• Techniques to build your bench by creating a reserve of goodwill
• Tools to better communicate with, and motivate, a fully-aligned, fully-engaged team

As businesses rely more on cloud apps, they must refocus security from defending perimeters to following users regardless of location. Security executives are being challenged to ensure that enterprise data remains secure in a cloud first world. In this session you’ll discuss:

• Advantages of cloud security solutions based on a Cloud 2.0 architecture
• How you can more seamlessly transition security from appliances
• Ways to incorporate the cloud into a fully articulated security strategy

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

In the burgeoning space of agile development and delivery, if technology leaders aren’t setting the pace, they are scurrying to keep pace with nonstop business-wide demand. See how you measure up and what needs shoring up in a roundtable that probes agile’s many angles, including:

• Reducing friction; achieving a collaborative mindset to iterate faster and show value
• Setting up cross-functional teams focused on products/outcomes over process
• Considering the future state delivery model and agile’s transforming capabilities at scale

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

Minda Dentler, paralyzed with polio as an infant, overcame failure and roadblocks to become the first female wheelchair athlete to complete Kona’s vaunted Ironman World Championship. In this keynote, Minda challenges attendees to see beyond their fears, get back up, set goals and conquer their personal Ironman.