Southern California CIO Executive Summit

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

New, special demands constantly arise for decision-makers who steer the fortunes of companies. Recently, business success has become linked to IT infrastructure. Seamless and secure connectivity is the key to unlocking innovation and accelerating business outcomes. To reach this state, enterprises are transforming their networks and security to a zero trust architecture augmented by AI/ML capabilities, thereby reducing risk, eliminating cost and complexity and increasing agility.

Join this session and learn:

• How zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, IoT/OT devices, and your business partners by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture
• How to reduce network complexity without exposing your organization to new risks
• How AI/ML adds defensive and business analytics capabilities that have the power to turn IT into the engine propelling business success forward

As the hype around generative AI continues to build, doing nothing is no longer an option. Maybe you already dove in headfirst; maybe you’re still testing the waters as your team contemplates concerns like governance and ethics. No matter which approach your organization is taking to AI implementation, come to this interactive session ready to share, ask questions, collaborate and get inspired.

Pull up a seat to discuss:

• Practical AI use cases
• Strategies for creating governance and managing risk around AI
• How companies are keeping up with the changing AI landscape

Generative AI occupies multiple spaces in the minds of CIOs and IT leaders: at once a formidable ally, a novel threat vector and a critical asset. Inside the security operations center, GenAI forms the bridge between security data and actionable knowledge while enhancing analyst capabilities and reducing response times. Meanwhile, the data that powers AI represents a high-value target for adversaries, and GenAI itself may introduce novel attack-paths.

Join this boardroom to explore:

• Navigating the dichotomy of AI in cybersecurity
• Sharing strategies for safeguarding AI systems while embracing innovation
• Empowering leaders to balance AI’s potential with the responsibility of securing it

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:  Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

In an uncertain economy with shrinking budgets on the horizon, remodeling operations can be a cost-effective step towards simpler and more efficient enterprises. However, getting the right stakeholders on board can be a challenge to the holistic benefits of streamlining processes and procedures.

Join this session to talk with your peers about:

• Analyzing market trends to identify and adopting competitive technologies
• Creating compelling communication to ensure stakeholder buy-in
• Reallocating and training your workforce for adapted roles

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: Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

What does your body language say about you? What shifts might you make to change how others perceive you? Join this special one-on-one session exclusively for Governing Body members with body-language expert, Chris Ulrich for candid feedback on your in-person and online body language. Sessions are 20-minutes and pre-registration is required.

In this unique, private session, you’ll receive:

• One-on-one consultation with a premier expert
• Live analysis of your unique body language cues
• Personalized executive presence improvements

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.

CIO’s opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, with a greater focus on delivering business outcomes. They need to focus and align peers, partners and the IT organization to contribute to achieving business objectives. ODL is about adopting new leadership mindsets, principles and practices to become the outcome-driven leader the organization needs.

• Defining outcomes in terms the enterprise will understand
• Aligning IT to business value
• Developing systems to manage work

CIOs are tasked to lead the enterprise with proactive and persistent cost management discipline. IT leaders forging this path are constantly revaluating their strategy of doing more with less to prioritize technology investments. By defining and demonstrating IT’s ROI, CIOs can overcome technical debt and lack of resources.

In this session, CIOs will discuss:

• Communicating a strategic vision to drive financial company growth through digital initiatives
• Harvesting undervalued investments to recover and reinvest funds
• Improving efficiency and productivity of current services and assets

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: Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

Getting total buy-in from leadership isn’t easy but can accelerate your initiatives and increase success and adoption. If you can learn to communicate with your board by leveraging data to tell a compelling story, IT’s effectiveness will be recognized — inspiring trust and future buy-in across the enterprise.

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices for communicating with your board
• Using data to tell IT’s story
• Building relationships with stakeholders

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: Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

Role evolution is nothing new to CIOs. Technology has impacted every organization's growth and in turn has changed the role of the IT organization evolving the CIO from a technical leader to a valuable business executive. Tomorrow’s CIO must ask themselves, what's next for the role of the CIO?

Join this session to discuss:

• Orchestrating new technology resources across the enterprise and beyond IT
• Enabling business led IT and innovation
• Envisioning the future of CIO leadership