San Francisco CIO Virtual Executive Summit
December 9, 2020 | 8:00am - 4:00pm PST
December 9, 2020 | 8:00am - 4:00pm PST
Collaborate with your peers
Come together with your peers virtually to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the San Francisco CIO Virtual Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Leveraging AI and automation to streamline a remote work environment
New norms in acquiring and nurturing IT talent
Creating a security-centric culture
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Opinder Bawa
University of San Francisco
VP & CIO
Kevin Cornish
Covered California
Chief Information Officer
Tom Rodden
Varian Medical Systems
SVP & CIO
Avi Sokol
KLA
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Agenda
December 9, 2020
11:00am - 12:00pm PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Delivering Value at the Speed of Business
Hosted by OpenText Corporation
Matt Moore
Global Director, Supply Chain Solutions
OpenText
Erik Molitor
VP, CIO
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Jacob Sorensen
CIO
Bank of the West
Pranab Sinha
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Genesys
In an increasingly competitive landscape – new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. To fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to organizational strategy and execution.
Join this boardroom strategy session on how to embed innovation at the core of your business, discussing:
- Evaluating emerging technologies and building the business case for their implementation
- Strategies for building a resilient supply chain to minimize disruption
- Creating a comprehensive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes
11:00am - 12:00pm PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Enabling Employees for Remote Work
Hosted by RingCentral
William Miller
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer
NetApp
Amith Nair
CIO
Vituity
EJ Tague
Regional VP, Enterprise
RingCentral
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
11:00am - 12:00pm PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
The "Remote Right" Secure Digital Workplace
Hosted by CompuCom
Sudhir Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
The Wine Group
Linda Gerull
CIO
City and County of San Francisco, CA
Mick Slattery
President
CompuCom
Sharon Mandell
Chief Information Officer
Juniper Networks
Supporting a large, permanently distributed workforce means the traditional “castle and moat” approach to enterprise IT infrastructure and security no longer works. CIOs must embrace alternative IT roadmaps that are more agile, adaptive and most importantly, people-centric. As you grapple with the challenges of quickly moving from Remote Light –just maintaining business continuity, to “Remote Right” – delivering agile, scalable and secure workplace solutions in the new normal, you must embrace a new strategy to truly reimagine the future of work.
Join CompuCom President Mick Slattery to discuss:
- Using new technology capabilities to deliver secure remote work solutions
- Mapping out your IT “blind spots” as you adapt to the new normal
- The value of managed services to augment skills gaps in your security team
11:00am - 12:00pm PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Driving the Business Forward with Data at the Core
Hosted by Rubrik
Shadaab Kanwal
Leader for Data and Analytics Services
Charles Schwab
Faisal Mushtaq
Chief Technology Officer
Sleep Number
Rama Naageswaran
VP, Product Management
Rubrik
Today’s enterprise has access to endless amounts of data and CIOs must continually find true meaning and value in the data. This peer-to-peer discussion will consider ways to mature your data and analytics program to provide accurate, real-time data.
Come ready to discuss how to:
- Implement data strategies that align with desired business outcomes
- Leverage data to gain greater insights and drive value
- Define clear data ownership and standardization
12:00pm - 12:45pm PST Virtual Summit Keynote
Cloud Strategies to Power Digital Transformation
Hosted by IBM
Howard Boville
SVP - IBM Hybrid Cloud
IBM
Laiq Ahmad
CTO, VP & Global Head, Digital Platform Engineering & Technology
GE Digital
Anisha Vaswani
Corporate CIO
Box
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:
- Examples of 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
By registering for this session, this serves as your authorization to Evanta or its vendor to provide your contact information to IBM to follow up on your interaction and participation. IBM’s use of your contact information is governed by the IBM Privacy Policy. If you need more information on how IBM is using your personal data you may refer to the IBM Privacy Statement. To withdraw your marketing consent and unsubscribe to receiving emails click on the unsubscribe button at this address: ibm.biz/marketingoptout.
12:45pm - 1:15pm PST Networking
Community Discussion
Shadaab Kanwal
Leader for Data and Analytics Services
Charles Schwab
An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups.
8:00am - 8:45am PST Virtual Summit Keynote
Supporting a Productive Distributed Workforce
Hosted by Citrix Systems, Inc.
Meerah Rajavel
Chief Information Officer
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Rashmi Kumar
SVP & CIO
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bill Sole
Sr Director, Enterprise Cyber Security Infrastructure
PayPal
At the start of the pandemic organizations quickly turned to have their employees work fully remote. As the months wear on, new challenges emerge. Now, CIOs are at the forefront of building and nurturing a new remote work culture that will outlast the emergency and set the business up for long-term success.
In this virtual discussion, CIOs will discuss:
- Keeping teams engaged and connected through technology
- Tools and partnerships to support creativity and productivity
- How workplace culture may look post pandemic
8:45am - 9:00am PST Break
9:00am - 10:00am PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Is Your Technology Getting the Most Out of Your Strategy?
Hosted by DataStax
Bryan Kirschner
Vice President, Strategy
DataStax
Snehashish Sarkar
Acting CIO
Varian Medical Systems
Kevin Cornish
Chief Information Officer
Covered California
Srinivasan Rangaswamy
Global Head, Advanced Analytics & Data Science
GlobalFoundries
Technology itself is not a strategy, but maximizing the right technology makes a strong strategy successful. Getting there requires excellent data for decision-making, actionable metrics for benchmarking and AI-enrichment of quality information to take the next step. In this session, CIOs will dive into the ways that data-driven enterprises leverage tech better to come out on top.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
Data scalability, data portability and AI-ready infrastructure
The right tools to enhance to enhance your digital-consumer strategy
Benchmarking tools and processes
9:00am - 10:00am PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Accelerating Digital Business Initiatives
Hosted by Appian
Srini Tanikella
Vice President Information Technology
SMART Modular
Datta Junnarkar
Senior Director, IT
The Boeing Co
Michael Heffner
Vice President, Solutions and Industry Go-To-Market
Appian Corp
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
9:00am - 10:00am PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
2020 Mobility Trends – 5G’s Role in the “New Normal”
Hosted by T-Mobile for Business
Nelly Pitocco
VP of Product and Solution Engineering
T-Mobile for Business
Narendra Dhara
CTO & SVP, Cloud Infrastructure
ALTEN Calsoft Labs
Mallik Tatipamula
CTO, Group Function Technologies & Architechtures
Ericsson
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
- How 5G and advanced mobility will help bridge the digital divide
9:00am - 10:00am PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Reimagining Your Technology Transformation Plans
Hosted by IBM
Gaja Nagarajan
Head of IT
eHealth
Milind Wagle
Chief Information Officer
Equinix
Mahmoud Elmashni
Cloud and Application Services Leader, North America
IBM
Deepika Rayala
SVP, CIO
Yext
A winning CIO or CTO always thinks several moves ahead, but how do you effectively plan for the future in a time marked by constant uncertainty? What began as an emergency response has become the new normal, and an organization’s success depends on its ability to adapt and stay agile. This session covers the essential business of re-evaluating your technology roadmap – what stays, what goes and how to reinvent for the new year ahead.
In this virtual boardroom, you will discuss:
- How your business is preparing for customer expectations in a Post-Covid world
- The impact to your strategic roadmap and digital transformation initiatives
- What initiatives are being prioritized heading into 2021
By registering for this session, this serves as your authorization to Evanta or its vendor to provide your contact information to IBM to follow up on your interaction and participation. IBM’s use of your contact information is governed by the IBM Privacy Policy. If you need more information on how IBM is using your personal data you may refer to the IBM Privacy Statement. To withdraw your marketing consent and unsubscribe to receiving emails click on the unsubscribe button at this address: ibm.biz/marketingoptout.
9:00am - 10:00am PST Virtual Summit Boardroom
Productivity by Automation
Hosted by Software AG
Pethuraj Perumal
IT Infrastructure Director
Juniper Networks
Scott Little
Senior Vice President of the Americas
Software AG
Prakash Kota
CIO
Autodesk
Automating processes can save valuable time and resources across the business, which is more important today than ever before. With so much emphasis being placed on productivity and efficiency, CIOs need strategies that stick.
Join your peers to discuss:
- Overcoming common roadblocks to successfully implementing a strategy and platform
- Delivering productivity gains and increased effectiveness to processes company-wide
- Scaling automation processes to drive cross-company impact in days, not months
10:00am - 10:45am PST Virtual Summit Keynote
Designing the Digital Future with Customers in Mind
Hosted by Pegasystems
Don Schuerman
CTO
Pegasystems
Sanjay Srivastava
Chief Digital Officer
Genpact
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
10:45am - 11:00am PST Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm PST Virtual Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Meet virtually for 1-to-1 in-depth conversations with your colleagues
Conducting business virtually makes it more challenging to meet and network with like-minded peers, and now it’s become even more critical to collaborate with CIOs who are facing the same challenges.
This is an opportunity to meet 1-to-1 in a private, virtual setting with community peers directly after the Virtual Executive Summit.
Peer-to-Peer meetings are 25 minutes in length, giving you the chance for more personal interaction and in-depth conversation with your fellow San Francisco CIO peers.
All conversations are private and will not be recorded
Meet up to 3 peers based on your shared interests or priorities
How to Participate
Available if you sign up and select peer meetings prior to the summit. To join your meetings or download meeting calendar invites, please reference the instructions that were emailed to you from evanta@delegateselect.com.
December 9, 2020
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