IN-PERSON

San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

June 26, 2024 | Grand Hyatt at SFO

June 26, 2024
Grand Hyatt at SFO

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with San Francisco's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Adapting to an ever-changing landscape of digital priorities

Measuring the success of outcomes to further illustrate IT as a business driver

Using data-driven insights to compete in the race for swift AI adoption and automation capabilities

San Francisco CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Anantha Ganga

Coherent Corp.
Chief Information Officer

Pallavi Gupta

IMPOSSIBLE
CIO

Monica Khurana

Dodge & Cox
Chief Technology Officer

Geeta Pyne

TIAA
Chief Architect, Architecture and Innovation

Avi Sokol

KLA
CIO

Evan Wayne

World Market
CIO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your San Francisco CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


June 26, 2024

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Building Your Portfolio of Impact

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Lisa Davis

EVP & CIO

Blue Shield of California

Whether your trajectory points outside your seat or toward better collaboration with stakeholders, it’s never too early to think about reframing your climb up the ladder. Harnessing your wisdom, confidence, energy, and passion as a leader, to stop climbing, branch out, and maximize your impact. Join EVP & CIO at Blue Shield of California, Lisa Davis, as she discusses how to build your Portfolio of Impact as you are making career transitions and set yourself up for the next step.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Designing your holistic brand based on themes from your career and life experiences
  • Identifying how you can meaningfully contribute during various phases of your professional life
  • Strategically charting pivots in your career and beyond

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Building an AI-Powered and Secure Unstructured Data Strategy

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Ravi Malick

Global CIO

Box

Your unstructured data holds immense value in the files that define your business. To maximize the potential of this data, it's crucial to establish a comprehensive unstructured data strategy that prioritizes both security and AI integration.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Identifying your valuable unstructured data sources and tools
  • Developing robust security measures for internal and external data use
  • Balancing AI with stringent security and compliance protocols to increase utility

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Privacy by Design — Win Consumer Trust and Loyalty in Age of AI

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Vanessa Thompson

VP Marketing

Twilio

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Shadaab Kanwal

MD - Digital, Data, and Analytics

Charles Schwab

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Uy Ut

CIO

Accel

Personal data holds immense value for organizations and, as more commerce takes place over digital channels, consumers are increasingly concerned about what’s happening to all their data.  According to a recent study, 98% of consumers want brands to do more to guarantee the privacy of their data, as well as be more transparent about how their data is used. Earning consumer trust starts with being a good steward of customer data, which makes the topic of data privacy and protection a critical issue for all businesses, and especially for those companies looking to use new AI tools to scale.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Navigating the convergence of consumer, government, and market forces that shape global flows of data
  • Integrating privacy by design principles into the entire customer journey and product life cycle
  • Responsibly leveraging new technologies, such as AI, without sacrificing customer trust and loyalty


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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Solving the AI Conundrum to Drive Transformative Communication for Everyone

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John Finch

VP, Product Marketing

RingCentral

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Pavan Attur

Area Information Officer

Kaiser Permanente

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Manjula Mahajan

VP, Head of IT

Model N

AI can be an incredibly powerful tool, but it is only as powerful as the solution it is enhancing. In a business climate that demands doing more with less, new tools are required to augment business communications, engage and enable the workforce, and drive deeper customer satisfaction.

Join this peer roundtable to discuss:

  • Injecting AI across your app portfolio
  • Powering intelligent business interactions
  • Doing more with less

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

10:25am - 11:05am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

11:05am - 11:50am  Breakout Session

Operational Excellence to Improve Customer Experience

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Jonathan Rende

SVP & GM, Products

PagerDuty

Meaningful enhancements in IT operations performance have often been achieved incrementally, demanding intensive attention over long time horizons. Does the rise of AI present an opportunity to make transformative leaps in customer experience or should CIOs wait to assess the results of early adopters?

Join this session to learn about:

  • Differentiating between hype and practical value
  • Choosing the right time to invest in AI, GenAI, and automation
  • Communicating the ROI behind quick wins

11:05am - 11:50am  Executive Boardroom

Building and Validating Your Workforce’s Technical AI Skills

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Corey Hynes

Co-Founder

Skillable

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Robert Henderson

CTO

University of the Pacific

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Geeta Pyne

Chief Architect, Architecture and Innovation

TIAA

AI is transforming the workplace, including how we build the skills of our teams and validate their capabilities. IDC’s Global IT Skills Survey indicates that, by 2025, more than 90% of worldwide organizations will experience the negative impacts of the IT skills crisis. Leaders must have a scalable, robust development program in place to enable a workforce capable of producing ROI for the business.

Join Corey Hynes, Skillable’s Founder and Executive Chairman, to discuss:

  • Harnessing the power of AI for efficiency and accuracy
  • Redefining the role managers play in skill development
  • Implementing an evidence-based training program


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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

11:05am - 11:50am  Executive Boardroom

Business, Process and Technology Best Practices for Generative AI

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Asad Ali

VP, Solutions Engineering

Dynatrace

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Herman Brown

CIO

City and County of San Francisco, CA

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Vivek Sukhthankar

Master Principal Business Architect - Cloud ERP and Analytics

Oracle

Generative AI has created an unprecedented wave of investment, and any organization who moves too slowly, or not at all, stands to be left behind as the AI boom is under way. Early adopters formulated strategies and prioritized investments for their Gen AI initiatives and demonstrated value in key areas.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Establishing centers of excellence for responsible Gen AI programs and oversight
  • Prioritizing technology investment areas targeted at fast early results
  • Making Gen AI a foundation for business planning and maximizing productivity

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

11:50am - 12:35pm  Lunch Service

12:35pm - 1:10pm  Keynote

From Buzzword to Business Tool — A Story of Successful AI Adoption

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Chester Lui

Head of Americas Chrome Customer Engineers

Google Chrome Enterprise

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Hira Dangol

Vice President, Technology Platform - AI/ML and Automation

Bank of America

It’s time to move past the theoretical and talk about the actual adoption of AI integrations. Regardless of where you are, lessons can be learned from each enterprise that has undergone some type of adoption process. This keynote will explore lessons learned, governance and different perspectives to consider as you deploy your own journey.

Join this keynote to learn:

  • Recent progress, evolution and trends
  • Challenges and opportunities with adoption
  • GenAI and LLM lessons and how to learn from them


1:10pm - 1:35pm  Break

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Breakout Session

So Now What? — What We're Not Talking About

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Kim Barrier

Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Amy's Kitchen

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Sharon Mandell

SVP & Chief Information Officer

Juniper Networks

San Francisco is always on the leading edge of technology and innovation. Bay Area leaders spend their careers in a perpetual state of “What’s next?” Amid the constant buzz of hype and hope, what should we really be talking about? What are leaders missing, and what actually is next?

Join your peers for a discussion about:

  • Where we’re not looking for the next idea
  • How we can see farther down the track
  • Ways to differentiate real opportunity from noise

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Executive Boardroom

The Costs of Complexity…and How to Cut Both

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Caitlin Russell

Senior Director, Corporate Communications

Citrix Systems, Inc.

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Pavan Attur

Area Information Officer

Kaiser Permanente

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Sidharth Mukherjee

Chief Digital Officer

Teleperformance

In today's complicated digital landscape, reducing operational complexity is a powerful force of cost optimization and efficiencies that ultimately drive business outcomes. IT is continually asked to do more with less, avoid negative impacts to user experience, and maximize existing investments.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Identifying and prioritizing inefficiencies across hybrid, cloud and on-prem deployments
  • Defining clear, measurable optimization goals and tracking business outcomes
  • Analyzing existing resources to ensure maximum efficacy of tools already in your toolkit

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Executive Boardroom

Elevate AI from Personal to Organizational Productivity

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Saket Srivastava

CIO

Asana

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Orlando Leon

Chief Information Officer

East Bay Municipal Utility District

Asana’s State of IT research reveals that 77% of IT leaders feel responsible for leading AI transformation within their organization. Saket Srivastava, CIO at Asana, leads this discussion on the ways AI is transforming from a personal tool to an organizational productivity teammate that helps accelerate growth.

Join this peer roundtable to discuss:

  • Building the right foundation for AI implementation
  • Deploying AI tools at scale across teams and workflows
  • Delivering greater ROI at every level


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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

2:20pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Breakout Session

Invest in Differentiating Capabilities to Build Competitive Advantage

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Janelle Hill

Distinguished VP Analyst

Gartner

Many executive leaders chase growth wherever an opportunity appears rather than sustaining investment in differentiating capabilities to proactively create growth opportunities and build competitive advantage. By prioritizing investments in differentiating capabilities, CIOs can intentionally transform the enterprise operating model to create and sustain competitive advantage and drive growth.

Join Gartner Analyst, Janelle Hill to learn about:

  • Prioritizing investment in differentiating capabilities
  • Intentionally transforming their enterprise operating model
  • Pursuing too many opportunities simultaneously

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Executive Boardroom

Supply Chain AI & Automation – Drive Better Change Management

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Puneet Saxena

CVP, Industry Strategies

Blue Yonder

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Saket Mishra

Head of Corporate Applications

Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company

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NC Nagumallu

Chief Technology Officer

Helly Hansen

Automation and AI are now critical drivers of change and transformation in supply chains, but many teams remain at an impasse. In this facilitated conversation, peers discuss the hurdles their logistics and planning teams are facing in implementing automation and AI in their supply chain process.

Join this peer roundtable to discuss:

  • Best practices in AI adoption
  • How to measure impact
  • Insights into driving better change management


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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Executive Boardroom

Quit Over Grit — When to Abandon the Unsuccessful

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Kishore Kondragunta

VP, Head of IT

Woven by Toyota

Doing more with less has become a mantra for the technology leader. The balance can only sway so far before it tips. Instead of adding more to the scale, the effective leader knows how to put a process in place to assess and identify when projects or processes are no longer viable.

Join this peer roundtable to discuss:

  • Developing and implementing an exit strategy
  • Communicating the benefits and value of innovation
  • Resisting the pressure to add on without subtracting


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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

3:45pm - 4:10pm  Break

4:10pm - 4:45pm  Keynote

The Performance Paradox — Mental Health and High Productivity

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Kara Hardin

Registered Psychotherapist & LEO of The Practice Lab

Guest Speaker

Today's relentless pursuit of success can lead to profound dissatisfaction and dramatically affect mental health. Accomplishments lack satisfaction, work is ceaseless, sleep and self-care are sacrificed. Recognizing this, leaders can play a pivotal role in breaking this cycle and nurturing a healthier and more fulfilled workforce.

Join this keynote from a mental health educator and former lawyer to learn:

  • How time, efficiency, and productivity challenges individual and community health
  • Why mental health of individuals and teams drives performance (and not vice versa)
  • What steps leaders can take, for themselves and others, to shift away from the paradox and towards a more healthy relationship with work


4:45pm - 5:00pm  Social Hour

4:45pm - 7:00pm  Networking

Governing Body Reception

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to close out the event with an evening of peer networking. Attendees also have the option to assemble care packages in conjunction with a local food bank.

June 26, 2024

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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Grand Hyatt at SFO
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