DACH CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us at the Holbein's Restaurant in the Städel Museum where attendees will enjoy dynamic discussions, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes as the kitchen lets their passion for cooking run wild. 

The era of digitisation and automation is here, and it will soon affect every sphere of our lives from work to home. Dominik Bösl explores how you should be navigating the impact of technology on the human.

In this session, you will hear about:

• The challenges of ethical technology governance
• Autonomous business as the next wave of change
• The new ways people, and employees, are interacting with corporations

As technologies reshape customer strategy, businesses explore new ways to disrupt the customer experience. BMW partnered with Cognizant to apply data, advanced analytics and marketing automation technologies to achieve a lifecycle management approach that is fully centered on the customer.

Join this session to explore:

• Why a customer-centric approach is imperative for modern business strategy
• Leveraging data, analytics and marketing automation to support customer centricity
• Lessons learned in data discovery, technology and scalability

Today’s digitisation wave puts IT under pressure to be more disruptive. While the demand for apps is exploding, many organisations struggle to fulfill business needs and shorten time-to-value.

This roundtable will explore:

• Why executing a digital transformation strategy is more than just buying new technology
• Best practices within the four pillars of portfolio, people, process and platform
• Lessons learned in business and IT alignment, talent scarcity and rapid application delivery

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

Ninety percent of all cyberattacks start with an email targeting your end-users. Discuss with your peers how to reduce phishing attacks and malware infections by changing risky behavior within your organisation.

In this boardroom, we’ll explore:

• Who is being targeted, and who is falling victim
• What attackers are sending, and which lures are working
• When threats arrive, and when people are most likely to click

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

Consumers engage with brands through multiple channels and devices, but they don’t distinguish between these interactions. Consumers expect a seamless, relevant experience – from mobile to desktop to in-store. Keeping up with these rising expectations requires a culture with customer value at its centre.

This keynote will explore how to:

• Foster a culture of consumer-driven innovation
• Build workflow around data and actionable insights
• Leverage AI, machine learning and automation technology to deliver standout customer experiences

ProSieben’s security awareness program pivots away from the traditional fear tactic and instead focuses on the “why” rather than the “how” of the human exposure factor.

Join this session to discover:

• The tangible impact this positive approach can have on your security program
• Lessons hiding in plain sight in your awareness policies
• The benefits of — and roadblocks to — educating disparate business units with e-learning

Organisations that build an intelligent edge today will be the dominant force of tomorrow. To join the ranks of these future-forward competitors, your team needs to go beyond business intelligence to deliver widely applicable insights.

In this breakout session, you’ll learn:

• How to transform your organisation into a data-driven enterprise
• Ways to harness traditionally counteractive forces such as convenience and security
• Ecosystem solutions to help manage data securely while remaining agile

Today, digital roadmaps rule and AI enables your customers to demand new, personalized experiences at any given moment. Your IT department has become a driver of this transformation, joining forces with marketers to drive revenue and growth.

Join this session to discover:

• Actionable steps for transforming into a data-driven business
• How to unleash content velocity while keeping your data meaningful and secure
• AI as next level marketing — truly personalized, at the scale of the cloud

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

It is now much easier to determine what’s important, dangerous and a real risk to your cybersecurity posture. Using a common framework leads to more effective conversations on risk with your security teams, board members, business partners, insurers and regulators.

Join the roundtable to explore:

• Managing third and fourth party risk in today’s hyper-connected environment
• Prioritisation, justification and validation of IT security investments to underpin business digital transformation
• Supporting audit and compliance tracking including GDPR

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

Prevailing models of information systems security are more problematic — and dangerous — than most enterprises recognise. The digital revolution has increased the stakes and led to “best practice” security architectures that are fatally flawed — a mix of components doing the wrong job and having an outsized impact on overall systems safety.

James Kretchmar explores:

• Getting to the heart of the security problem
• Rethinking how safety systems work
• Executing the simpler, safer and more consistent methods of zero trust

Enterprises face significant pressure to accelerate the migrations of core business applications and data to the cloud — safely. As businesses assess their data architecture and data migration strategies, you must ensure that data is safe and complies with regulations like GDPR.

This roundtable will cover key challenges in:

• Migrating apps and data to the cloud
• Overcoming the constraint that is data
• Ensuring data security whilst moving to the cloud 
• Realising the benefits of a cloud infrastructure

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

Blockchain presents an enormous opportunity for business-focused CIOs, but the depth of awareness around its potential remains fragmented at best – even at the executive level. Moving from hype-cycle concept to practical reality requires a deeper understanding of the technological possibilities, profound business impact, and long-term evolution of blockchain.

Join this discussion if you want to:

• Lean in to blockchain technology
• Compete with disrupters, new business models and ways of thinking
• Embrace the impact blockchain will soon have on the entire organisation

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Lucy Guille at +441784267397 or lucy.guille@gartner.com.

Are you asking your CEO the right questions? Klaus Vehns, CEO of Rabobank Germany, believes the future of information technology will not just be an investment in the business, it will be the business. Learn how to set up game changing conversations that can radically transform your company and position it as a progressive leader in the rapidly changing IT and security industry for years to come.

Join this interactive closing keynote to:

• Establish a close and constant dialogue with your CEO and executive board
• Influence decision making on every level of the organisation to ensure that technology implementation matches the speed of change
• Explore what is really driving innovation at your company — from business needs to customer demand to the evolution of technology