Southern California CIO Virtual Executive Summit

As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During this unprecedented time, 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
• New and existing partnerships to push objectives forward

Remote work has quickly gone from a trend to a necessity, and the speed of this shift has placed both companies and employees in a challenging position. During this session front line executives share their advice, strategies, and real-world experience about what it really takes to enable remote work.

Join  your peers to discuss:

• Empowering employees with effective, combined communications and collaboration tools
• Balancing long-term and short term work-from-home strategies
• Addressing rapidly changing challenges with solutions to engage the mobile workforce

Management boards and CIOs alike talk at length about the potential impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on business processes, proficiency and performance. This session aims beyond the AI hype to target real world results in the enterprise.

Join your peers to discuss: 

• Building AI awareness and capabilities to move from POCs to production
• Practical use cases that drive successful outcomes 
• The right tools and suppliers for your business

Today’s enterprise has access to endless amounts of data and CIOs must continually find true meaning and value in the data. In this fireside chat executives will consider ways to mature your data and analytics program to provide accurate, real-time data.

This session will explore:

• Implementing data strategies that align with desired business outcomes
• Leveraging data to gain greater insights and drive value
• Defining clear data ownership and standardization

An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups. 

Most organizations will continue to have some portion of the workforce remain remote long after Covid-19 distancing requirements are behind us. For CIOs, the task of building the infrastructure to support that workforce begins now.

Join your peers for this panel discussion addressing:

• Organizational preparedness for a future hybrid-remote environment
• Challenges and insights around managing distributed workforces long-term 
• How secure content modernization will facilitate productivity anywhere

Necessity drove most organizations to rapidly (and successfully) deploy a remote workforce for the first time. For this success to outlast necessity, CIOs must be at the forefront of building strong culture, sustained productivity and mutual trust for the remote work of the future. 

In this virtual boardroom, CIOs will discuss:

• Best practices for sustaining productivity and addressing burnout in a virtual environment
• Tools and partnerships to ease this technical and cultural transition
• A vision for the next evolution of remote work – what companies can do to thrive today and win in the future

Information security is now more than ever playing a role in the organization’s mission to make security personal and in collaboration. How are CIOs partnering with CISOs to help establish a security strategy that is an enabler of the digital business rather than an obstacle?

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• How the security team can enable strategy and be a successful partner with the IT team
• Best practices for organizational change management
• Create a communication strategy that ties security to organizational success

The past year has put cloud adoption into hyper-speed for many organizations, but how can you be sure your move to the cloud stays strategic and not reactive? The key is in solid planning and partnerships.

Join this discussion to understand how to:

• Choose the right partners to accelerate your cloud transformation
• Simplify cloud management in a multi-cloud environment
• Increase visibility across business units to ensure business goals are met

Remember when “embracing disruption” was an aspirational call-to-action – not a necessary navigation of everyday life? Now that you have your company’s undivided, fully-disrupted attention, why look back? As the pandemic pushes more and more customers online, CIOs must ensure that their experience is seamless – creating the right channels for connection and utilizing the right data to innovate products or services.

This conversation will focus on:

• Designing and delivering an optimal digital future for your business
• Leveraging a cultural shift to more agile, rapid technology outcomes
• Ways to evolve a data-centric approach to consumer insight – fostering new business opportunities

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues

Conducting business virtually makes it more challenging to meet and network with like-minded peers. During this time of disruption and uncertainty, it’s become even more critical to collaborate with peers who are facing the same challenges.

Now, we are bringing you the opportunity to set up 1-to-1 meetings in a private, virtual setting with community peers directly after the Virtual Executive Summit.

• Peer-to-Peer meetings are 25 minutes in length, giving you the chance for more personal interaction and in-depth conversation with your fellow Southern California CIO Virtual Executive Summit peers.
• All conversations are private and will not be recorded
• Meet up to 3 peers based on your shared interests or priorities

Participant Testimonials

• ‘If I came just for the peer to peer meetings, my time was well spent. This is truly your USP.’ Stuart Hughes, CDIO at Rolls Royce
• ’The peer to peer mtgs were maybe the BEST part of this mtg’ Edward Wagoner, Executive Director, Digital, JLL
• ‘Best idea ever; I had such productive sessions with all three of my peers’ Dd Budiharto Sr. Director of Cybersecurity, Baker Hughes

How to participate

Available if you sign up and select peer meetings prior to the summit. To join your meetings or download meeting calendar invites, please reference the instructions that were emailed to you from evanta@delegateselect.com.