San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

The question “What do I want to be when I grow up?” is one that never truly goes away. Whether you are a college grad entering the workforce, a forty year-old shifting careers, or a sixty-eight year-old trying to define an encore career, the search for a fulfilling life never stops. In this keynote, Bill Burnett teaches audiences how to look at career and life planning through the lens of design. Participants are given the tools to build their way forward and to develop various life scenarios just like a designer tests multiple prototypes. This approach fosters creativity and adaptability and allows audiences to accept that there is never just one right path.

In this talk, Dr. Jonathan Reichental will introduce the deep and wide topic of the fourth industrial revolution. This new wave of change is poised to radically change every facet of modern life. Within a few decades much of the urbanized world will be transformed in terms of how we live, work and play. Its impact will be experienced by each of us and every organization. Participants will leave this session with a sense of the big picture and perhaps areas that they’d like to more deeply explore.

Machine learning – the majority of us use it in some way, make decisions about it or from it, and expect this trend to continue, but how many of us truly understand it?   Do we know how ML outcomes are generated or is it simply a black box?  Through the lens of a custom machine learning development project for predicting data center server failures, Ramon Lim of SLAC shares his insights into why there are valuable lessons to be learned from such a ground-up approach to machine learning and provides guidance on approaching such a project.

Technology is driving businesses forward, and the CIO holds the keys. As technological disruptions accelerate, CIOs are poised to interpret the forces compelling the markets of tomorrow. With that comes new challenges and responsibilities for assessing potential and communicating the value of technology and tools to the enterprise and customers. In this interactive session, hear how your peers are utilizing new technologies and keeping up with the pace of change around Big Data and the Internet of Things, and using that expertise to partner with the business to drive competitive advantage.

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).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com 

It’s easy for the relationship between CIOs and CEOs to be contentious as organizations deal with limited resources and a gap in technical knowledge. See how IT can help lead the business as Umang Jain, CIO, and David Joyner, CEO of Hill Physicians Medical Group share their blueprint for a successful working partnership.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The factors that lead to a successful CIO/CEO relationship
• What CEOs need most from their CIO
• How CIOs can cultivate a business-first mindset

Examples of digital transformation failures span industries, span the globe, and span types of organizations. The commonality between these failures is the treatment of transformation as a siloed process that is largely disconnected from the broader organization. Digital transformation isn’t a “set and forget process” – rather, it is a fundamental change to how an organization runs, and is almost always a cross-departmental set of projects.

In this roundtable, discuss:

• What metrics of transformation are objective?
• How should organizations measure digital transformation success?
• How can organizations prevent common pitfalls on the journey to digital?

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).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com 

It’s clear that a responsive, real-time supply chain is a key differentiator for the world’s leading companies, including Walmart, Home Depot, Apple and Amazon. CIOs are at the forefront of making digital supply chain investment decisions and introducing advanced technologies—including machine learning, AI, IoT, blockchain and more—that deliver end-to-end visibility and supply chain orchestration to power a responsive, revenue-generating supply chain. In this interactive discussion, CIOs will discuss ways they are using these technologies in their supply chains to orchestrate a real-time, connected network of trading partners and bring automation to drive better efficiencies and new opportunities in their organizations.

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).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com