Philadelphia CIO Virtual Executive Summit

The agile enterprise relies on the state-of-the-art technologies that allow it to keep up with an ever-changing ecosystem. Transformative technologies such as a secure, reliable, scalable network and infrastructure help to fuel innovation, improve efficiencies, and create memorable interactions with customers. An enterprise built on a versatile network can adapt more rapidly to changing market conditions and leverage agility as a competitive differentiator.

Join your peers to discuss:

• How and why the need for agility and adaptability are critical for today’s enterprise
• Building a scalable and secure network to enable an agile organization
• Redefine how you manage networks, deliver services and enhance visibility

Management boards and CIOs alike talk at length about the potential impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on business processes, proficiency and performance. This session aims beyond the AI hype to target real world results in the enterprise. 

Join your peers to discuss:  

• Building AI awareness and capabilities to move from POCs to production 

• Practical use cases that drive successful outcomes  

• The right tools and suppliers for your business 

Remote work has quickly gone from a trend to a necessity, and the speed of this shift has placed both companies and employees in a challenging position. During this session front line executives share their advice, strategies, and real-world experience about what it really takes to enable remote work.

Join  your peers to discuss:

• Empowering employees with effective, combined communications and collaboration tools
• Balancing long-term and short term work-from-home strategies
• Addressing rapidly changing challenges with solutions to engage the mobile workforce

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

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 multicloud 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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As the enterprise workplace changes at an accelerated pace, enterprise and IT leaders are looking to the advantages of 5G to enable their workforce and support a “mobile-first” mindset. Now more than ever, having a network that can meet and anticipate your evolving business needs is crucial for your future success. 

In this session, engage in an open dialogue with your peers and T-Mobile’s 5G experts about:

• How mobility will drive digital transformation, enable innovation and support a more mobile workforce
• The ways 5G is powering the new remote work reality
• Setting up advanced network security the enterprise can rely on

From front-line employees to top-level directors, CIOs must be able to communicate cyber risk in a way that compels others to act. What metrics, measures, methods and messages resonate in today’s risk environment?

Join your peers in this virtual boardroom to discuss:

• How organizations are assessing cybersecurity and risk
• Metrics that matter
• Tips for improving cybersecurity programs using these metrics

As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During this unprecedented time, organizations can leverage digital offerings to alleviate impacts on operations and business performance.

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• How to reprioritize digital projects to meet new needs
• Strategies to communicate value to your board
• New and existing partnerships to push objectives forward

Designing the Digital Future with Customers in Mind

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