New York CIO Executive Summit

Research shows that 81% of team members believe they collectively fail to achieve their full potential, while 71% feel they don't sufficiently collaborate on their organization's most critical challenges. "Never Lead Alone," Ferrazzi's latest book, addresses this untapped potential with insights and practical strategies for building dream teams in the age of AI.

In this transformative keynote, you'll discover the power of Co-Elevation behaviors and how they can dramatically improve team performance:

• 10 critical shifts that provide a roadmap for transforming team dynamics in as little as six months
• High Return Practices for fostering a culture of candor, inclusivity, and purposeful collaboration
• Strategies for leveraging both human and AI perspectives to drive innovation and bold thinking
• Insights on building resilience, accountability, and sustained alignment around a shared vision
• As AI reshapes the business landscape, the teams that will thrive are those who can adapt, innovate, and co-create with both human and AI teammates.

This keynote is your guide to making the leap from leadership to teamship and unlocking your team's full potential in the AI era.

The need for observability is increasingly important to protect and drive business revenue. However, IT leaders often face challenges in enabling total stack visibility: uncontrolled cloud expenses, complex software architectures, rapid innovation, emerging security threats, ever-increasing customer experience expectations, and more.

Join this session to discuss:

• The top trends driving the need for observability
• How to overcome challenges and deliver increased business value
• How generative AI is driving the next generation of intelligent observability

The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.

Join this interactive session to explore:

• Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
• Robust content workflows and use cases for AI-first businesses
• Tips for optimizing while balancing your AI and security strategies

Swift recovery from IT disruptions is vital for sustaining business operations and financial stability. As IT environments become more complex, resilient strategies are essential for ensuring continuity. CIOs can utilize observability tools and other best practices to bolster IT resiliency, minimizing downtime and maintaining seamless operations during challenges.

Join this session to discuss:

• Leveraging observability for real-time situational awareness and faster incident resolution
• Architecting robust IT infrastructure to endure future disruptions
• Enhancing application reliability through proactive monitoring and automation

In our increasingly automated world, the human touch remains a factor that separates exceptional customer service from the ordinary. AI improvements create tension between rapid scalability and effective human oversight. CIOs can overcome this challenge by designing for human-AI collaboration to elevate customer experiences with transparency and control.

Join this session to discuss:

• Strategies for integrating human oversight in AI processes without sacrificing speed
• Techniques for transparent decision-making in AI deployments
• Best practices for AI systems that enhance customer-agent interactions

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.

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Enterprise productivity is top of mind for business leaders everywhere and CIOs play a crucial role in showcasing progress and true value to the business in this mission. A well-crafted digital employee experience (DEX) strategy that addresses changes in the way employees work and interact with digital tools will ensure that your processes and technologies advance the mission of a high performing workforce and improved enterprise productivity.

Join this case study to discuss a journey with DEX, including:

• Improving operational efficiency and business outcomes
• Measuring IT impact to strategic business growth
• Leveraging DEX to improve optimization and visibility of IT assets

In a world where the pace of change is accelerating, every CIO has become a critical enabler of organizational velocity. Helping leaders align their workforce, employees streamline their workflow and enterprises accelerate their decision making – these all depend on IT teams providing a seamless digital workplace. However, less than half of enterprise digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets, according to the Gartner 2025 CIO Survey.

Connect with your peers to discuss:

• How IT leaders can embrace a velocity mindset and eliminate the digital friction
• Balancing AI innovation
• Governance challenges in a face paced workplace

Cloud threats are outpacing security measures, creating hidden risks in cloud networks.  Traditional security models don’t address the dynamic nature of cloud networking, exposing businesses to downtime and increased costs.

Join this session to learn about:

• Cloud security blind spots
• Impact of changes in the "shared responsibility model"
• Strategies for communicating risk and securing budget support

More details coming soon.