New York CIO Virtual Executive Summit

Technology itself is not a strategy, but maximizing the right technology makes a strong strategy successful. Getting there requires excellent data for decision-making, actionable metrics for benchmarking and AI-enrichment of quality information to take the next step. In this session, CIOs will dive into the ways that data-driven enterprises leverage tech better to come out on top.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Data scalability, data portability and AI-ready infrastructure
• The right tools to enhance to enhance your digital-consumer strategy
• Benchmarking tools and processes

Necessity drove most organizations to rapidly (and successfully) deploy a remote workforce for the first time. For this success to outlast necessity, CIOs must be at the forefront of building strong culture, sustained productivity and mutual trust for the remote work of the future.

In this virtual boardroom, CIOs will discuss:

• Best practices for sustaining productivity and addressing burnout in a virtual environment
• Tools and partnerships to ease this technical and cultural transition
• A vision for the next evolution of remote work – what companies can do to thrive today and win in the future

In digital transformation parlance, the word “value” is vaulting up the list of buzzwords. From here on out, CIOs will be translators of value, helping the business define its terms, build a rational strategy for execution, and align its technology investments accordingly.

In this session, you and your peers will:

• Gain insight into the nuts and bolts of value creation in a variety of organizations
• Gather tools for not only articulating and communicating value, but also tracking and measuring results
• Develop the rules of engagement for discussing value with disparate business partner

As the new realities of remote work and shifting consumer demands expand the scope of endpoints throughout your enterprise, transformational CIOs are focused on simplicity, security and system-reliability.

This virtual roundtable discussion sorts through the complexities of your cloud-connected world and seeks solutions for:

• Managing endpoints quickly and securely to drive transformation
• Maintaining and enhancing productivity in your remote workforce
• Strategies for long term remote work post-pandemic

A winning CIO or CTO always thinks several moves ahead, but how do you effectively plan for the future in a time marked by constant uncertainty? What began as an emergency response has become the new normal, and an organization’s success depends on its ability to adapt and stay agile. This session covers the essential business of re-evaluating your technology roadmap – what stays, what goes and how to reinvent for the new year ahead.

In this virtual boardroom, you will discuss:

• How your business is preparing for customer expectations in a Post-Covid world
• The impact to your strategic roadmap and digital transformation initiatives
• What initiatives are being prioritized heading into 2021

Long before a jarring pandemic blindside threatened to sack major sports in 2020, technology innovators behind the scenes blazed away at redefining fan experience and engagement. This pivotal moment provided an opportunity to create a fresh game plan to reach customers and fans in different ways – expanding the use of technology to enrich experiences and bring fans closer to the game, its players and the organizations. This keynote panel brings together the technology champions who enabled the NBA’s acclaimed bubble and the WWE’s high-charged action in the ring.

RingCentral connects these powerful, customer-focused innovation stories that cover:

• Quick pivots in workforce and technology implementation to get sports back up and running
• Data and automation plays to elevate fan/customer experience beyond the venue
• Technology’s game-changing ability to reimagine any field or industry

An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups.

Most organizations will continue to have some portion of the workforce remain remote long after Covid-19 distancing requirements are behind us. For CIOs, the task of building the infrastructure to support that workforce begins now.

Join your peers for this panel discussion addressing:

• Organizational preparedness for a future hybrid-remote environment
• Challenges and insights around managing distributed workforces long-term
• How secure content modernization will facilitate productivity anywhere

Remember when “embracing disruption” was an aspirational call-to-action – not a necessary navigation of everyday life? Now that you have your company’s undivided, fully-disrupted attention, why look back? As the pandemic pushes more and more customers online, CIOs must ensure that their experience is seamless – creating the right channels for connection and utilizing the right data to innovate products or services.

This conversation will focus on:

• Designing and delivering an optimal digital future for your business
• Leveraging a cultural shift to more agile, rapid technology outcomes
• Ways to evolve a data-centric approach to consumer insight – fostering new business opportunities

In an increasingly competitive landscape – new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. To fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to organizational strategy and execution.

Join this boardroom strategy session on how to embed innovation at the core of your business, discussing:

• Evaluating emerging technologies and building the business case for their implementation
• Strategies for building a resilient supply chain to minimize disruption
• Creating a comprehensive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes

Data governance is often at odds with data curiosity; stifling an organizations ability to develop a data-driven culture. How can CIOs strike the right balance to lead this transformation?

During this peer conversation, you will uncover:

• IT’s role in sparking data curiosity across your org
• How to let the data flow in safe, certified, secure ways
• Advantages of being data shop keeper (vs. a data gate keeper)
• Strategies for shifting shadow IT into a force for responsible curiosity

As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. Organizations have built new capacity for agility and speed, and they have learned to navigate uncertainty. The question is: what happens next for the faster, more adaptive digital business?

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• Reprioritizing digital projects to meet new needs
• Strategies to communicate value across the organization, from the board to the front line
• Capturing innovation opportunities to fuel the next phase of digital evolution

The most successful businesses today connect digital transformation to business goals using innovative technology and increasing moving more of their enterprise workload to the Cloud. CIOs are charged with clearing adoption hurdles to align mission-critical tasks and business priorities with the multiple cloud environments.

This interactive session explores:

• Case studies on successful transformations using open, flexible, and secure multi-cloud operating environments
• Fostering digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage through a hybrid cloud strategy
• Accelerating the skills and culture that leverages AI and cloud

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Meet virtually for 1-to-1 in-depth conversations with your colleagues

Conducting business virtually makes it more challenging to meet and network with like-minded peers, and now it’s become even more critical to collaborate with CIOs who are facing the same challenges.

This is an opportunity to meet 1-to-1 in a private, virtual setting with community peers directly after the Virtual Executive Summit.

• Peer-to-Peer meetings are 25 minutes in length, giving you the chance for more personal interaction and in-depth conversation with your fellow CIO peers.

• All conversations are private and will not be recorded

• Meet up to 3 peers based on your shared interests or priorities

How to Participate 

Available if you sign up and select peer meetings prior to the summit. To join your meetings or download meeting calendar invites, please reference the instructions that were emailed to you from evanta@delegateselect.com.