2025 San Francisco CIO Town Hall

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Embrace Complexity for Strategic Advantage (and Optimize Everything Else)

Participate with your CIO peers in the San Francisco community in small, breakout discussions on a mission-critical priority for IT leaders. These informal discussions allow you to share your insights and learn from the lessons, approaches and experiences of a diverse group of peers in virtual breakout rooms.

Join fellow CIOs in the San Francisco community to discuss:

Embracing complexity in areas where it enables clear market differentiation

Balancing risks of complexity vs. optimization initiatives

Offloading non-core functions to vendors to prioritize simplicity

Discussion Leaders

Members of the San Francisco CIO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.

Stephane Adam

Hilmar Cheese

VP, IT

Discussion Leader

Agenda

February 12, 2025

1:00pm - 2:00pm PST

Embrace Complexity for Strategic Advantage (and Optimize Everything Else)

CIOs must thoughtfully balance complexity and efficiency in their technology stack in order to optimize outcomes in an evolving landscape of AI, privacy, compliance, and ever-increasing consumer expectations. Success comes from identifying and embracing complexity in those areas where it enables clear market differentiation or competitive advantage for your organization, and then working to optimize the rest. How can you strike the right balance and what strategies are leading organizations using to accelerate value realization by optimizing everything else?

Join this Town Hall to discuss:

Embracing complexity in areas that differentiate the organization in the market
Offloading non-core functions to vendors to prioritize simplicity and maintain focus on core business areas
Leading internal conversations on risks of complexity vs. optimization initiatives