IN-PERSON

St. Louis CIO Executive Summit

June 27, 2023 | Marriott St. Louis Grand

June 27, 2023
Marriott St. Louis Grand

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with St. Louis's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Accelerating High Growth and Digitally-Driven Outcomes

Advancing the Business Value of Security

Thriving through Volatility - Empowering People, Resiliency and Insights

St. Louis CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Joe Caro

Post Holdings
CIO

Kevin Hardcastle

Washington University in St. Louis
Associate CISO

Dan Henke

Mercy
VP, CISO

Matt Modica

BJC HealthCare
CISO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your St. Louis CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


June 26, 2023

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

On behalf of the St. Louis Governing Body, we invite you to come enjoy an evening of peer networking followed by trivia games! 

Test your world knowledge against your peers as you dine together ahead of a full day of networking and learning from one another.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Leading with Digital Sustainability – A Strategy Led by Technology

Loren Hudziak headshot

Loren Hudziak

Sr Customer Engineer Manager

Google Chrome Enterprise

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability.  This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues to maximize sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:

  • Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
  • How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
  • Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)    

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

The CIO and CISO Partnership – Managing Cybersecurity as a Business Decision

Karey Barker headshot

Karey Barker

CISO

Safety National

Steve Kappel headshot

Steve Kappel

VP & CIO

Safety National


The CIO and CISO share a goal of protecting the organization while ensuring access to information that allows for faster and more confident decision-making. They are business partners working to put the enterprise in the best position possible and with that comes the responsibility of earning trust from one another and the C-Suite. The leaders at Safety National have a collaborative and transparent approach that balances risk with the support of important business objectives and goals.

Join this session as Karey Barker and Steve Kappel share how to:

  • Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
  • Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
  • Collaborate to push business initiatives forward


11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

CIO & CISO Leadership to Advance Customer Experience

Naveed Husain headshot

Naveed Husain

VP, Enterprise Applications Architecture

RingCentral

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for organizations to maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. Technology and security leaders have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience strategy by leading with business and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

  • How CIOs & CISOs can lead or support customer experience initiatives
  • How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
  • What strategies lead to more efficient and effective customer interactions

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Networking Break

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Coaching Resilient Leaders Through Challenges and Change

Dr. Kiki Ramsey headshot

Dr. Kiki Ramsey

CEO, The Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute

Guest Speaker

Challenges arise every day in the workplace whether it’s dealing with disgruntled staff, diversity, budget cuts, changes in management, shortage of good staff, or even managing personal issues. With all these challenges arising there is a need for leaders to understand and employ resilience. In this highly engaging keynote, Dr. Kiki, Executive Coach, and Positive Psychologist will teach leaders how to use coaching as an effective tool to resolve conflict and challenging issues and employ resilience, all while still setting and meeting meaningful company goals and remaining competent leaders.

Join your peers as Dr. Kiki Shares:

  • The Research on What Makes Resilient Leaders
  • How to Overcome the Tough Issues and Remain Relevant
  • How to Use Coaching as a Tool to Resolve Conflict and Develop Resilience

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Security Essentials for Strengthening your Cyber Strategy

Willi Nelson headshot

Willi Nelson

Field CISO, OT

Fortinet

As organizations continue to evolve, incorporating advanced technology to increase efficiency and improve the customer experience reinforces the need to mature your cybersecurity strategy. However, aspects that make improvements possible, such as mobile computing, convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) environments, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) offerings often make it challenging. Maintaining a robust security posture requires security essentials that protect a business from internal and external threats across all network environments.

Join Willi Nelson, Fortinet’s CISO for Operational Technology as he discusses:

  • Arming decisions with advanced threat intelligence for a proactive defense
  • Reducing cyber risk when providing access to operational and business systems
  • Exposing potential threats early in the attack kill chain to before damage occurs

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Analyzing Your Application and Infrastructure Technology Strategy

Chris Moore headshot

Chris Moore

VP IT

Bayer Corporation

Brian Hofmeister headshot

Brian Hofmeister

Chief Information Officer

BellRing Brands

Applications can make or break an organization’s growth. Too many and you create an opportunity for redundancies and inefficiencies; too few and you risk getting left in the past. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join your peers to discuss:

  • Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
  • Building a business case for application and technology rationalization
  • Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Driving Growth with Data and Insights

Teresa Sanzottera headshot

Teresa Sanzottera

Vice President, IT

Barry-Wehmiller

Business leaders are challenged with developing a D&A strategy that expands business value and inspires leaders to make data-driven decisions confidently. Their success hinges on the ability to navigate the complexities of the enterprise, while increasing the company’s data accessibility and culture of insights.  All this, as it's more important than ever to establishing a secure data governance program that successfully aligns with business priorities is paramount.

Join this conversation to discuss:

  • Challenging leaders across the enterprise to embrace data
  • Inspiring actions throughout the D&A value chain to increase growth opportunities
  • Implementing strategies to ensure availability, integrity and confidentiality in data while mitigating risks

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Company Culture – The Driver for Talent Recruitment and Retainment

Jericho Simmons headshot

Jericho Simmons

VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Sound Physicians

Brandon Ray headshot

Brandon Ray

Business Operations Manager

The Boeing Co

CIOs and CISOs are constantly seeking the right talent at the right time with an increased focus on future proofing the talent pipeline to build retention efforts. Big tech layoffs provide some level of advantage, but how do leaders use company culture as a strategy to source talent and keep the right people? The time is now to identify and develop technical leaders by creating opportunities for upskilling and innovation.

Join the conversation to discuss:

  • Becoming a destination in employee’s career journey
  • Creating opportunities for growth through upskilling and innovation
  • Understanding the needs of different generations of workers

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Let’s Brainstorm! Influencing Across the Organization

Dan Henke headshot

Dan Henke

VP, CISO

Mercy

To lead resilient organizations, security leaders must be able to communicate to the board, c-suite and employees effectively. CIOs and CISOs are tasked to use visuals, communicate business value and synthesize complex information in a way that makes sense to the audience.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate on influencing across the enterprise with various scenarios including:

  • Communicating generative AI concerns and opportunities to your CEO
  • Keeping your board informed following a ransomware attack
  • Working with CHRO to get employee buy-in on creating a more security driven culture

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Cybersecurity Investments – Creating Business Value

Ryan Schlimpert headshot

Ryan Schlimpert

SVP, CIO

Drury Hotels

Mike Ehlers headshot

Mike Ehlers

CISO

Olin

According to the 2022 Gartner IT Budget and Efficiency Benchmark, cybersecurity is the No. 1 spend item on the IT budget, and it remains a board-level concern. But spend does not always equal protection. Now is the time to choose the right investments that deliver value to the business and look at outcome driven metrics.
Join this session to discuss:

  • Identifying the right investments that align with organizational goals
  • Determining success with outcome-driven metrics
  • Communicating with the board about cybersecurity through a business perspective

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:45pm  Keynote

The Future of Data and Analytics — Driving Innovation and Growth

Tsuneo Fujiwara headshot

Tsuneo Fujiwara

VP Analyst, and Gartner Fellow, Research and Advisory

Gartner

As business leaders are tasked with producing strategies that drive enterprise growth, they must be innovators. By providing data that allows for faster, more confident decision-making across the enterprise, IT becomes a catalyst for opportunities that can evolve into a competitive edge. So how can data-driven leaders create a sustainable business impact and transform company culture?

Join Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, and Gartner Fellow, Research and Advisory as he discusses:

  • Leveraging the value of data-driven decisions to the business
  • Leading data-innovations that improve business outcomes (AI and automation)
  • Transforming company culture in a data-driven manner
  • Balancing data-protection with access for more confident decision-making

4:45pm - 5:15pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

On behalf of the St. Louis Governing Body, we invite you to come enjoy an evening of peer networking followed by trivia games! 

Test your world knowledge against your peers as you dine together ahead of a full day of networking and learning from one another.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

The CIO and CISO Partnership – Managing Cybersecurity as a Business Decision

Karey Barker headshot

Karey Barker

CISO

Safety National

Steve Kappel headshot

Steve Kappel

VP & CIO

Safety National


The CIO and CISO share a goal of protecting the organization while ensuring access to information that allows for faster and more confident decision-making. They are business partners working to put the enterprise in the best position possible and with that comes the responsibility of earning trust from one another and the C-Suite. The leaders at Safety National have a collaborative and transparent approach that balances risk with the support of important business objectives and goals.

Join this session as Karey Barker and Steve Kappel share how to:

  • Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
  • Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
  • Collaborate to push business initiatives forward


11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity in a Generation

Gerry Plaza headshot

Gerry Plaza

Field CTO - Chief Strategy Officer

Netskope

Jessie Showers headshot

Jessie Showers

Cybersecurity Chief

Department of Defense - Defense Information Systems Agency

Andrew Wilder headshot

Andrew Wilder

Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity

Washington University of St. Louis

We live in a world where everything is hybrid and the blend between personal, corporate, private and public is ever-changing and presents us with a host of new challenges. This has increased and complicated the attack surface and the pressure to converge tools and do “more with less” is at peak levels. We must meet this watershed moment with the right team, plans, and technology.

Join this interactive session to learn:

  • How to build an effective plan for change without adding to the chaos
  • What consolidation approaches save money without sacrificing security
  • Use cases that deliver immediate value and efficiency while improving user experience

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

CIO & CISO Leadership to Advance Customer Experience

Naveed Husain headshot

Naveed Husain

VP, Enterprise Applications Architecture

RingCentral

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for organizations to maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. Technology and security leaders have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience strategy by leading with business and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

  • How CIOs & CISOs can lead or support customer experience initiatives
  • How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
  • What strategies lead to more efficient and effective customer interactions

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Networking Break

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Coaching Resilient Leaders Through Challenges and Change

Dr. Kiki Ramsey headshot

Dr. Kiki Ramsey

CEO, The Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute

Guest Speaker

Challenges arise every day in the workplace whether it’s dealing with disgruntled staff, diversity, budget cuts, changes in management, shortage of good staff, or even managing personal issues. With all these challenges arising there is a need for leaders to understand and employ resilience. In this highly engaging keynote, Dr. Kiki, Executive Coach, and Positive Psychologist will teach leaders how to use coaching as an effective tool to resolve conflict and challenging issues and employ resilience, all while still setting and meeting meaningful company goals and remaining competent leaders.

Join your peers as Dr. Kiki Shares:

  • The Research on What Makes Resilient Leaders
  • How to Overcome the Tough Issues and Remain Relevant
  • How to Use Coaching as a Tool to Resolve Conflict and Develop Resilience

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Security Essentials for Strengthening your Cyber Strategy

Willi Nelson headshot

Willi Nelson

Field CISO, OT

Fortinet

As organizations continue to evolve, incorporating advanced technology to increase efficiency and improve the customer experience reinforces the need to mature your cybersecurity strategy. However, aspects that make improvements possible, such as mobile computing, convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) environments, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) offerings often make it challenging. Maintaining a robust security posture requires security essentials that protect a business from internal and external threats across all network environments.

Join Willi Nelson, Fortinet’s CISO for Operational Technology as he discusses:

  • Arming decisions with advanced threat intelligence for a proactive defense
  • Reducing cyber risk when providing access to operational and business systems
  • Exposing potential threats early in the attack kill chain to before damage occurs

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Bringing DevSecOps to Cloud Security

Josh Estell headshot

Josh Estell

Senior Sales Engineer

Fastly

Jason Bush headshot

Jason Bush

CISO & VP, Enterprise Technology

Save-A-Lot

Jerry Counts headshot

Jerry Counts

Director, Information Security

Graybar Electric Company

The threat landscape is continuing to expand and diversify as organizations move to a multi-cloud environment. CISOs need to ensure that their DevSecOps capabilities are incorporated within their overall business strategy to guarantee that their cloud applications and code can remain secure.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Understanding there is no one-size-fits-all model for DevSecOps
  • Best practices for integrating DevSecOps into your cloud security strategy
  • Exploring the intersection between development, security and DevSecOps

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

A CISO’s Plan – The Future for the Cybersecurity Expert

Andrew Wilder headshot

Andrew Wilder

Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity

Washington University of St. Louis

Alan Berry headshot

Alan Berry

VP & CISO

Centene Corporation

Erica Wilson headshot

Erica Wilson

Vice President, Global Security and Privacy Risk Management Global Technology

Reinsurance Group of America

As a security leader, it’s never too early to start planning your future. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of boards will include one member with cybersecurity experience. On the heels of the recent SEC proposal requiring cybersecurity experts on public boards, private and non-profit organizations will likely follow. As the regulatory environment continues to evolve, what can CISOs do now to prepare for their next move?

Join this session to hear from panelists on:

  • Laying the foundation for future opportunities
  • Setting yourself up as a security expert who is a powerful communicator
  • Exploring the best practices about joining boards you care about

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Driving Growth with Data and Insights

Teresa Sanzottera headshot

Teresa Sanzottera

Vice President, IT

Barry-Wehmiller

Business leaders are challenged with developing a D&A strategy that expands business value and inspires leaders to make data-driven decisions confidently. Their success hinges on the ability to navigate the complexities of the enterprise, while increasing the company’s data accessibility and culture of insights.  All this, as it's more important than ever to establishing a secure data governance program that successfully aligns with business priorities is paramount.

Join this conversation to discuss:

  • Challenging leaders across the enterprise to embrace data
  • Inspiring actions throughout the D&A value chain to increase growth opportunities
  • Implementing strategies to ensure availability, integrity and confidentiality in data while mitigating risks

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Company Culture – The Driver for Talent Recruitment and Retainment

Jericho Simmons headshot

Jericho Simmons

VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Sound Physicians

Brandon Ray headshot

Brandon Ray

Business Operations Manager

The Boeing Co

CIOs and CISOs are constantly seeking the right talent at the right time with an increased focus on future proofing the talent pipeline to build retention efforts. Big tech layoffs provide some level of advantage, but how do leaders use company culture as a strategy to source talent and keep the right people? The time is now to identify and develop technical leaders by creating opportunities for upskilling and innovation.

Join the conversation to discuss:

  • Becoming a destination in employee’s career journey
  • Creating opportunities for growth through upskilling and innovation
  • Understanding the needs of different generations of workers

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

The Evolution of Identity Access Management

Brett Perry headshot

Brett Perry

CISO

Dot Foods

Randy Raw headshot

Randy Raw

CISO

Veterans United Home Loans

As an organization’s security strategy matures, so does the complexities associated with ensuring the proper authorization for accessing systems and application resources. Security leaders must have the right tools and processes in place to make certain that the right people have the right access – nothing more. How can leaders propel the organization into the next generation of IAM and fraud detection strategies that protects business outcomes while enables identity-first security?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Looking at the business and technology changes driving the most significant trends in the evolution of access management
  • Making a business case for investing in the next generation of tools that have a demonstrated ROI
  • Creating more efficient processes that allows for employee buy-in

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:45pm  Keynote

The Future of Data and Analytics — Driving Innovation and Growth

Tsuneo Fujiwara headshot

Tsuneo Fujiwara

VP Analyst, and Gartner Fellow, Research and Advisory

Gartner

As business leaders are tasked with producing strategies that drive enterprise growth, they must be innovators. By providing data that allows for faster, more confident decision-making across the enterprise, IT becomes a catalyst for opportunities that can evolve into a competitive edge. So how can data-driven leaders create a sustainable business impact and transform company culture?

Join Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, and Gartner Fellow, Research and Advisory as he discusses:

  • Leveraging the value of data-driven decisions to the business
  • Leading data-innovations that improve business outcomes (AI and automation)
  • Transforming company culture in a data-driven manner
  • Balancing data-protection with access for more confident decision-making

4:45pm - 5:15pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

June 26, 2023

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Marriott St. Louis Grand
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott St. Louis Grand at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-877-303-0104. Please mention St Louis Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $194 USD (plus tax) is June 5, 2023.

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