San Francisco CIO Virtual Executive Summit
May 11, 2021 | 8:00am - 3:00pm PDT
May 11, 2021 | 8:00am - 3:00pm PDT
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:
New frontiers in cybersecurity
Collaboration in the hybrid era
Elevating your data and analytics efforts
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
What to Expect
Connect with your CIO community through a variety of different session formats at the upcoming Virtual Executive Summit. You'll have the opportunity to listen, engage and create lasting relationships with like-minded peers.
Meet the Speakers
Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CIO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the San Francisco community.
Agenda
May 11, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Transformative Technologies for the Agile Enterprise
Hosted by Comcast Business
Jeff Lewis
Vice President, Data Product Management
Comcast Business
Prakash Kota
CIO
Autodesk
Dan Krantz
VP & CIO
Keysight Technologies
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
11:00am - 12:00pm PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Work from Anywhere and the Evolution of Culture and Talent
Hosted by RingCentral
Curtis Peterson
SVP, Operations
RingCentral
Abbas Faiq
Chief Information Officer
Imperva
Sudhir Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
The Wine Group
As organizations have embraced remote work out of necessity during the pandemic, the market for tech talent has shifted dramatically. Employers can compete for tech talent regardless of location while simultaneously creating a culture that is founded on collaboration and communication. This session will address the unique opportunities the work from anywhere movement have provided to enable a productive and purpose-led organization.
Join this session for a discussion on:
- What you can do to maximize the benefits of a distributed workforce
- How you’re thinking about the future of talent and culture
- How an increasingly remote tech talent landscape can provide more equitable access
11:00am - 12:00pm PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
A Model IT Organization - The Lifeblood of Enterprise Strategy
Hosted by Productiv
Kevin Cornish
Chief Information Officer
Covered California
Madhuri Adettiwar
Global Head, SaaS Transformation
GE Healthcare
Aashish Chandarana
Chief Information Officer
Productiv
The limitless promise of digitization demands that IT organizations boldly get behind the wheel to drive enterprise strategy… lest they get left in the dust. The visionary CIO must be a stabilizing force to shift operating models and ultimately achieve long-term strategic success.
Join your peers for an interactive session on propelling your business forward by:
- Choosing the right organizational pathways to infuse IT into enterprise strategy
- Overcoming traditional roadblocks such as company culture and silos to boost adoption of new operating models
- Creating and managing a system of enterprise governance to make measurable transformation progress
12:00pm - 12:45pm PDT Virtual Summit Keynote
Collaboration to Drive the Future Enterprise
Hosted by Google Cloud
Thomas Squeo
Chief Technology Officer
Intrado Inc.
Christian Ward
Chief Data Officer, EVP
Yext
Pete Giordano
Global Solutions Director, Productivity and Collaboration
Google Cloud
Remote and hybrid work is here to stay for many organizations, which creates myriad new opportunities and imperatives for IT solutions that power cross-company collaboration. Is your current application portfolio up to the task?
Join this session to discuss:
- Gaps and challenges in your current solution set
- Integrated, user-centric solutions that make collaboration seamless
- Strategies for expanding upon existing cloud frameworks to evolve with the current landscape
12:45pm - 1:15pm PDT Networking
Meet the Speakers
Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CIO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the San Francisco community.
1:15pm - 1:30pm PDT Break
8:00am - 8:45am PDT Virtual Summit Keynote
Case Study: How Capital One Leads in the Cloud
Hosted by A Cloud Guru
Drew Firment
SVP, Cloud Transformation
A Cloud Guru
Terren Peterson
VP of Engineering
Capital One Financial
Capital One was one of the first enterprises to understand the potential of the public cloud. To help accelerate their cloud adoption, Capital One invested in a talent transformation program that enabled cloud fluency across their entire organization. “We have a strategic imperative for a pretty dramatic transformation of our technology capabilities as a company. And this is a transition from being a company with an IT organization or an IT shop to really being a technology-led company. The hardest part of that transition is really a talent transformation.” Rob Alexander, CIO at Capital One
During this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Build cloud fluency at scale among leadership and learners
- Measure cloud adoption across the enterprise
- Increase employee training engagement
8:45am - 9:00am PDT Break
9:00am - 10:00am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Automating for the Road Ahead
Hosted by IBM
Mike Gilfix
VP, IBM Automation
IBM
Tom Rodden
SVP & CIO
Varian Medical Systems
Shawn Smith
CTO, Residential & Dining Enterprises (RDE)
Stanford University
Automation transforms work and simplifies how businesses operate. AI accelerates innovation by making every interaction, experience, and process more intelligent. Combining automation with AI will release $134B in labor value in 2022. Whether you want to automate complex operations or automate repetitive tasks, AI-powered automation can help.
Join this interactive conversation to discuss:
- How AI-powered automation is transforming the future of work
- Using machine learning and AI to help collect and analyze operational data
- Optimizing to reduce your manual processes by up to 80%
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9:00am - 10:00am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
CIOs Promise - Delivering Data & Analytics
Hosted by DataStax
Bryan Kirschner
Vice President, Strategy
DataStax
Liza Massey
Chief Information Officer
Marin County, CA
Sanjay Srivastava
Chief Digital Officer
Genpact
Faced with demands for modernization, cost optimization and digital business transformation, CIOs are looking at how data and analytics programs can support expanding their digital business and increasing their D&A maturity. After a D&A strategy is set, IT leaders must execute and deliver on the intended business outcomes.
Join your peers in discussing:
- Approaches to leveraging technology and resources to support D&A program and improve business outcomes
- Best practices for building out new business process and executing change management across the enterprise
- Management of cultural shifts in the organization
9:00am - 10:00am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Advancing Digital Business Initiatives
Hosted by ADP
Tashina Charagi
Vice President, Digital Transformation
ADP
William Miller
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer
NetApp
Saket Srivastava
Head of Business Technology
Square
As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During these disruptive times, 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/senior leadership
- New and existing partnerships to push objectives forward
10:00am - 10:45am PDT Virtual Summit Keynote
The CIO Mission: Directly Aligning IT to Business Objectives
Hosted by Zscaler
Jay Chaudhry
CEO, Chairman & Founder
Zscaler
Manesh Patel
SVP & CIO
Sanmina
Keeping pace with business demands requires IT to embrace transformation. Poor user experience, slowed M&A value, expanded security concerns, and IT misalignment with business goals prevent top enterprises from obtaining agility and resiliency. As last year demonstrated, legacy systems don’t react quickly or scale to accommodate rapid change. It’s imperative that CIOs focus on removing the legacy infrastructure that slows IT transformation and impedes business growth.
Join this session to discuss:
- Providing corporate access to any user on any device from any location
- Promoting alignment between IT objectives and business initiatives
- Deploying cloud technology that accelerates enterprise scaling and agility strategies
10:45am - 11:00am PDT Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT Virtual Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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May 11, 2021
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