Ohio CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. For CISOs that must ensure the security and continuity of business, however, they represent an ever-expanding attack surface at a time when the volume of attacks and the threat of ransomware is increasingly driving news cycles and board-level concern.

Attendees of this keynote will leave with the insights needed to:

• Identify unseen security risks by gaining complete visibility in a rapidly expanding attack surface
• Get ahead of exposure by prioritizing high impact vulnerabilities and threats
• Secure the assets, recover unnecessary CapEx and OpEx and free staff for priority initiatives

The remote work experiment succeeded and hybrid work is here to stay. As companies continue to refine their digital workplace strategy, IT plays a pivotal role in the employee experience, work-life balance and recruiting/retention strategies.

Join this session to discuss:

• Balancing an autonomous workplace that empowers employees without exhausting them
• Leveraging advanced technology to attract, retain and upskill talent
• Remediating gaps in the employee experience with digital tools

Nationwide had a reliability problem: their IT and broader culture were stuck in a reactive posture and myriad challenges weren’t being met from platform to platform. Or system to system. Join Jason Patterson, AVP of Site Reliability for a candid conversation on how his team continues to overhaul reactionary support and crisis response culture to be operationally aware, proactive, and intentionally resilient.

Join this session to learn how Nationwide:

• Reduces false incidents and eliminates known errors

• Defines metrics for success and leveraging data for actionable insights

• Leads a cultural shift within IT that can be scaled across the enterprise

Your people are your most valuable asset, your greatest weakness, and your best defense. CIOs and CISOs seeking to prevent data loss from malicious, negligent or compromised users can correlate content, behavior and threats for better insight and streamlined investigations.

Join this session to discuss:

• Augmenting your data protection program with the right people and processes
• Transforming your employees into effective data defenders
• Managing insider threats and preventing data loss at the endpoint

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Ray Wisdom at 1 (971) 978-5010 or ray.wisdom@evanta.com

Remote work environments create an increasingly complex approach to IAM models that rely on multiple users and machines in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. According to Gartner, organizations need to evolve their IAM from a set of distinct tools and processes that manage users and entitlements toward a highly flexible, integrated identity fabric that is secure, composable and distributed, and that underpins an organization’s security posture. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Adopting an adaptive approach to application access to enable remote work

• Building an IAM roadmap in an evolving market

• Implementing automation tools to strengthen integration between IAM models

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Ray Wisdom at 1 (971) 978-5010 or ray.wisdom@evanta.com

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.

Having engaged and interested employees is a key priority for CISOs. This leads to a focused and productive workforce who are satisfied with their projects at hand. Yet, implementing an effective strategy to reach this goal is often a lot harder than perceived.

Join this session to explore effective methods of maintaining employee engagement

• Adapting engagement strategies to hybrid working

• Comparing CISOs philosophies for keeping employees engaged and productive

• Discussing effective measurements of engagement and productivity

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Ray Wisdom at 1 (971) 978-5010 or ray.wisdom@evanta.com

Delivering priorities at speed while retaining top talent need not be mutually exclusive, even when delivering in hybrid environments. Adaptive portfolio managers should design workforce retention into portfolio Governance guardrails. Continuously adaptive delivery by tenured talent keeps digital leaders competitive, builds an internal candidate pipeline, and a culture of workforce retention.

Join this session to learn about:

• Blending the best practices of agile, waterfall, and ops work planning
• Modeling proposal sequencing against the portfolio roadmap and its governance guardrails
• Comparing workforce skillset aspirations to adaptive portfolio demand

Today's workforce includes employees ranging from Gen Z to Baby Boomers and creates a notable generational gap across the enterprise. As the demand of future generations continues to impact technology and workplace performance, this generates a unique opportunity for CIOs to apply agile thinking in engaging their employees.

Join this session to discuss, share and learn from your peers on:

• Implementing a reverse mentoring model

• Fostering an environment to reward and motivate

• Driving skillful career conversations

Privileged accounts are the holy grail for many perpetrators. And while many of these users are likely among your most sophisticated team members when it comes to security awareness, nothing can make them totally invulnerable. How do you balance providing just enough protection for these users without impacting their productivity?

During this peer discussion you will explore:

1. Implementing zero trust and least privilege policies

2. Moving beyond traditional PAM controls to more sophisticated ones like just-in-time privilege approaches

3. Architecting resiliency for your PAM solutions

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Ray Wisdom at 1 (971) 978-5010 or ray.wisdom@evanta.com

 According to the American Psychological Association (APA), there are an unprecedented number of employees struggling with stress and mental health concerns that negatively impact their work and home life. The skill of stress management is more important than ever for leaders to motivate and support their teams effectively while sustaining personal wellbeing.

Join this interactive keynote to:

• Understand the critical role leaders play regarding stress management that can improve employee morale, retention and productivity
• Learn key strategies to reduce stress, overcome burnout and develop resilience in the face of challenges
• Develop a comprehensive stress management plan that will result in long-term wellbeing and enhanced quality of life