Southern California CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

There is no doubt that the workplace has undergone an unprecedented transformation. Organizations are taking their own unique approach to the future of work. CIOs play a critical role in this new environment to find a balance between productivity, security, sustainability, culture and wellbeing. Join this session to learn how CIOs can provide flexibility and agility to future proof their business.

Specifically, this session will cover:

• Leading a diverse and inclusive workplace through culture, process and technology
• How business transformation is forcing CIOs to think differently about security prevention
• Inspiring future sustainability ideas and how these can be technology driven

The most successful organizations drive value from their technology investment by considering a people-first approach to implementation. What are some best practices that peers can learn as they seek to accelerate digital innovation and transformation across user experience, employee and customer engagement, product adoption and beyond?

Join this boardroom to explore:

• Leveraging emerging technologies to accelerate innovation
• Breaking down silos across the business while enhancing the employee and customer journey
• Technology enablement to drive IT as a strategic partner and revenue generator

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: Dennis Keenan at dennis.keenan@evanta.com

How do you look at your data environment? Does it sit in a data lake, or have you started letting it "flow" within a data river? Shahin Mohammadkhani, Vice President of Engineering at UTA, will take you through his own trip up a data river and how he has managed data in unique environments to better position its role in the organization. 

Join this interactive session to learn more about:

• How people, process and approach affect your data
• How you may build a data river
• The top down model

Tomorrow's CIOs & CISOs understand the need to identify new optimized opportunities in an evolving market. The pressure to make decisions rapidly while focusing on driving growth and balancing legacy ambitions will create a unique opportunity for business transformation.

In this keynote session, we'll discuss:

• Capitalizing on new business opportunities during market redefinition
• Creating a strategic vision to drive growth
• Balancing optimization and transformation

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.

Two major priorities for CIOs are enabling employees to work more productively and improving the customer experience. Creating a holistic communications system around delivering positive experiences can achieve gains for both priorities. How can these changes support the kind of hyper-personalization and knowledge accumulation that delivers customer satisfaction at every step of the journey? 

This session will address:

• Developing a strategic communications system with the customer journey in mind
• Creating customer experience synergies by blending capabilities like unified communications and contact centers
• Real-world challenges and strategies to overcome them

Digital technology is now an integral part of our professional and personal lives. The speed and ease at which we connect with people, shop online, and consume entertainment are shaping our expectations. The current IT processes and organizational structure can slow the pace of innovation needed, and businesses need to reimagine the IT operating model to remain competitive.

Join this session to learn:

• Key challenges and shortcomings of the traditional operating model
• What to think about when building a business-centric operating model
• Examples of operating model transformations

Whether its supply chain issues, disaster events or a security crisis, organizations are facing constant pressures that impact business resiliency and crisis management. Shareholder and employee activism may also impact a company’s response to legislative matters, and lead to consequences such as a new Florida law that impacts one global corporation. Depending on your role, technology leaders may get called upon to help CEOs and boards respond to crisis events. 

 Join this breakout session to learn: 

• Insights on goods movement resiliency and the supply chain from the Port of Long Beach
• Lessons learned from how companies responded to recent crisis events
• Leading practices on business continuity management from ISACA

Public and private organizations of all sizes are feeling the impact of increased cyberattacks. Handling cybersecurity is a team event - and no longer just IT's responsibility. But building that kind of focus and culture takes time - as we know that no one organization is all buttoned up to perfection.

 Join Carol Fawcett, VP and CIO of Golden State Foods in our closing keynote of the day to discuss:

• Getting Cyber buy-in and participation from the entire organization 
• What to do with tech while working on getting your business back up and running
• Where to find resources that enable proactive behavior rather than reactive behavior