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November 19, 2024 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 19, 2024
Grand Hyatt at SFO
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:
Harnessing AI and Data Analytics for Strategic Advantage
Strengthening Cybersecurity and Modernizing IT Governance
Optimizing Applications and Remodeling Operations for Business Alignment
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
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
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Jae Sook Evans
CIO
Oracle
Shanthi Iyer
CIO
DocuSign
Yvonne Wassenaar
Board Director and Senior Advisor
Guest Speaker
As a leader, you’re under pressure to building new capabilities to increase business impact and/or do more with less — while taking advantage of breakthrough technologies. Jae Sook Evans will share her insights, explore practical ways to deploy AI, data management best practices and cloud computing, to do just that.
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9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Hosted by Dropbox
Hiten Shah
Co-Founder and Product Leader of Nira
Dropbox
Enterprise information is scattered across countless apps and platforms and finding the right data quickly and securely is a constant challenge. In this interactive session, we’ll explore strategies to centralize your company’s knowledge with AI to improve accessibility, as well as security, with robust data governance and access controls.
Join your peers to discuss:
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Dialpad
Prashanti Aduma
Chief Information Officer
Dialpad
Madhuri Racherla
VP of Infrastructure
Shan Swaminathan
VP, Enterprise Architecture and Innnovation
Delta Dental of California
Adopting a comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy minimizes risks associated with business communications and helps maintain trust and integrity in your critical systems.
Join this session to discuss:
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) 230-355
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Lenovo and Intel®
Additional details coming soon.
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) 230-355
10:25am - 11:05am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am 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 - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Michelle Geddes
CIO, Department of Emergency Management
City and County of San Francisco, CA
Gartner research often highlights CIO’s mixed confidence in their third-party vendors, reflecting a range of concerns and priorities. Building trust and ensuring alignment with organizational goals are key to maintaining strong and reliable third-party relationships.
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11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Ashish Sarkar
Chief Information Officer
Owens & Minor Inc
Take a collective approach to tackling the most pressing challenges in your field. In this interactive session, CIOs will sit with industry-specific peers to discuss priority topics and engage in focused small-group discussions on key issues. Tables will report back to the larger group to exchange ideas and solutions.
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11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Succession planning is critical for CIOs and CISOs to ensure continuity and resilience in leadership roles. By identifying and developing internal talent, organizations can mitigate risks associated with unexpected departures and maintain strategic momentum.
Join this boardroom to strategize on:
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) 230-355
11:50am - 12:35pm Lunch Service
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
VALET PARKING:
$25 - up to 2 hours
$35 - up to 6 hours
$48 - 6+ hours and overnight
Hotel does not offer self-parking. However, there is the Garage A airport parking lot, 1.5 blocks away from the hotel that has similar pricing.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Grand Hyatt at SFO at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-402-501-9860.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $309 USD (plus tax) is October 28, 2024.
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.