Seattle CIO Executive Summit

Many assume that creating incredible team and company cultures and engaging employees requires Pixar-level budgets. But simple, cost-effective tactics and processes can create incredible change for your employees. Coonoor Behal, Founder & CEO of Mindhatch and author of I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up, will share her tips for leading workplaces with empathy and humanity, and creating cultures of innovation and creativity.

Join this keynote to learn:

• Opportunities most leaders miss when it comes to cultivating a organizational culture
• How to view employee engagement and experience as strategic assets
• How to become a leader catalyst for innovation and creativity
• Actionable steps you can start taking today to cultivate a more innovative and creative team culture

With people working remotely and most user traffic destined for SaaS and cloud, network security requires transformation. It’s no longer efficient or cost-effective to route traffic through the corporate network to apply security controls. Adopting a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Architecture while focusing on Zero-Trust principles ensures that your employees can be productive and secure working from anywhere.

In this session, we will discuss:

• The economics and business case for a SASE journey
• Best practices for implementing Zero Trust within a SASE architecture
• The importance of granular Cloud and SaaS visibility in a SASE architecture

With an increase in threat vectors comes the increased need for a sound cybersecurity program. CIOs and CISOs must take a proactive approach in ensuring cybersecurity risk is considered at every step, even in times of rapid disruption.

Join this boardroom for a discussion on:

• Managing third parties and holding them to cybersecurity standards
• Quantifying, measuring, and communicating risk across the organization
• Upskilling your cybersecurity teams to stay ahead of emerging threats

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Regardless of the environment your users are working in, it is the CISOs responsibility to defend the enterprise. While we are incorporating new tools, has the conversation of traditional workload and endpoint protection changed inside of the cloud environment vs legacy?

Join this conversation to discuss:

• A shift how we think about workloads
• The gap in adopting cloud and what the long-term looks like
• Hybrid attacks changing the legacy environment

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Whether it’s criminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of increased cyberattacks. In today’s evolving risk environment, you can’t always predict where and when cybercriminals will strike, but you can control how your company faces changing threat vectors and how you will respond to any attacks.

Join FBI Special Agent Kevin Brennan to discuss:

• Strategies to defend against the ever-changing threat landscape and build resiliency
• Step-by-step guidance for navigating ransomware response protocols
• Best practices for creating a well-rounded response plan that includes internal and external partners

Gartner research indicates that throughout the global crisis, business leaders relied upon CIOs more than ever to educate and drive high-impact initiatives. With trust in technology at an all-time high, how can you form a more perfect union between IT and the rest of your business?

This interactive boardroom discussion feeds on how IT leaders must show up to:

• Embed technology as a connected, proactive driver of business transformation, versus reactively serving as a business tool
• Drive the big discussion, lead the conversation and challenge the business to think differently
• Strategically redesign the IT operating model to foster greater collaboration and business alignment

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Zero Trust Network Access adoption spiked in 2020 as organizations scrambled to solve an unprecedented remote access challenge. Now, looking ahead, enterprises are faced with the conundrum of staying fully remote, returning full-time to the workplace, or more likely landing somewhere in between. But not all ZTNA solutions are created equal, and many are ill-suited to address a range of use cases or environments.

Join this roundtable discussion to:

• Understand the limitations of remote access-only solutions
• Explore a wide variety of use cases that can be addressed by ZTNA
• Learn best practices for transitioning to ZTNA from a legacy solution

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.