San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

The San Francisco CIO Governing Body members welcome attendees for dinner to launch the first summit of 2019. Join us for an evening of networking with peers, complimentary casino games, and interactive stations.

We’re all familiar with the old joke that CIO stands for “Career Is Over”, but there’s good news! Becoming a CEO is not your only option. Listen in as former CIOs discuss their unique career paths after holding the top technology role at a large enterprise.

Explore how to:

• Get rid of your bias by stepping out of leadership
• Approach and manage career risk
• Find clarity for possible next steps at your current organization

It's the classic chicken-or-the-egg problem every CIO faces. In the age of digital disruption, do you adapt technology to company culture or shape culture to your technology? The most successful businesses will be the ones that create a “Culture of Action”.

Lepofsky outlines four steps to:

• Combine culture and technology
• Understand and meet the expectations of your employees and customers
• Empower every employee across your business

As companies continue to rely on customer-centric technologies to drive strategy, CIOs are being asked to reinvent organizational structures and operating models to drive agility, innovation, and business value. To do this, CIOs must help their organization think and work in new ways.

Join a group of your peers to discuss:

• Building and scaling a Digital Operating Model to think and work differently
• Shifting the business from projects to a product or platform focus
• Leading the org through change and transformation

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact  Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com.

CIOs play an important role in keeping an enterprise’s supply chain functional. But often mired by aging equipment and various stakeholders, how can technology leaders support their colleagues in mitigating potential disruption?

Join your peers for a discussion around:

• Collaborating with supply chain stakeholders across the enterprise
• Combating aging equipment and incompatible technology platforms
• Finding the right talent for the future of your supply chain

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com.

Jay Chaudhry, founder and CEO of Zscaler, leads a discussion on how cloud and mobility are forcing organizations to rethink their security and network architectures. Joined by Erik Molitor, Bio-Rad Laboratories, listen in as they discuss:

• How adoption of SaaS applications and the migration of internal applications to private clouds are driving security transformation
• Examples, lessons learned and best practices from Bio-Rad Laboratories’ cloud transformation journey

Staying technically current is an innate skill of most IT leaders, but as every new technology evolves from emerging to commodity to obsolescence, great leadership endures. CIO’s can distinguish themselves by mastering a number of less technical, less obvious and more strategic leadership skill. Weis will explain three of these skills that are not usually taught or traditionally valued as one moves up the IT career ladder:

• Understanding and speaking corporate finance, the CEO’s language
• Developing a point of view for IT negotiations
• Committing to a change management framework

Still encumbered by legacy communication hardware? Struggling to speed up roll-outs, improve the internal customer experience, and secure collaboration across the extended enterprise? Hear how Conde Nast is partnering with 8x8 to bring their legacy business processes into the digital age.

Martin and Holland share about:

• Targeting the final pieces of infrastructure for migration to the cloud
• Avoiding silos as you transition to new ecosystems
• Improving customer experience and the digital workplace

According to Gartner, chatbots have displaced fraud detection as the top use of AI in 2019. While chatbots are well positioned to enable digital transformation, they could just as easily fail. How do you ensure your AI initiative will succeed?

Join fellow CIOs in a roundtable focused on:

• The most important things to consider when evaluating an AI-based solution
• The pros and cons of AI-based conversational self-help tools for employees
• The benefits to extending ROI on your AI initiative to the entire enterprise

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com

Organizations are constantly looking to the CIO for the next big business-enhancing innovation, and in today’s technology landscape, many of those opportunities are in the cloud. A veteran of cloud migration, Amazon Web Services’ Jake Burns – formerly with Live Nation Entertainment – moderates this peer-driven discussion on:

• Why technology executives must understand the business value of migrating to the cloud
• Why IT leaders must have a firm grasp on the most effective ways to get there
• How the cloud can truly drive business value

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com.

There must be more to technology than the ability to store, synthesize, and manipulate information. The drive to create real value for your enterprise and the general public must be at the heart of adopting new technology. Join Linda Gerull, Andrew Peterson, and Rob Lloyd as they share their experience in leveraging technology for the greater good. Then they’ll turn the conversation over to you. Each table will have the chance to discuss the opportunity that technology provides to impact your customers both in and outside of your organization.

As technology continues to innovate at a rapid pace, CIOs are tasked with keeping up with the pace of change while keeping legacy systems running smoothly. So what’s coming next in data and analytics that will disrupt your current processes?

Adrian unpacks:

• The top disruptive trends in data and analytics
• Why you need to pay attention to the implications
• Steps you can take tomorrow to prepare for change

It’s hard to find a progressive organization that hasn’t embraced and implemented some form of agile transformation. But how many are truly realizing the value of mobilizing teams to work faster at an enterprise level? This boardroom explores the vital change management and culture elements of the agile transformation journey.

Join your CIO peers to discuss:

• How to put the right people in place to drive agility and rapid adoption
• How effective deployment of change management tools can ensure sustainable impact
• How to encourage a culture of continuous improvement — always maturing

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com

As companies add connected products to their offerings, the roles of CTO and CIO are beginning to blur. While CTOs are traditionally responsible for building products and CIOs are responsible for the IT infrastructure, the lines are less defined as the IT and OT portions of the enterprise draw closer every day. Companies are creating roles like Chief Digital Officers to bridge this gap. This discussion explores the changing roles of technology leaders as concepts like digital twins and IoT platforms gain momentum in the market.

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Garner at 971-978-5012 or annie.garner@evanta.com.

As emerging technologies continue to reshape the digital landscape, the lines between digital and in-person customer experience are moving from blurred to non-existent. Albertsons is exploring new ways to create smart and engaging digital customer experiences across all channels and Anuj Dhanda has fully embraced the initiative.

Join Dhanda as he dives into:

• The importance of operating where your customers spend their time
• How to create a wholistic customer experience across platforms
• Why data is the lifeblood of a successful CX framework