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Toronto CIO Executive Summit
June 24, 2025 | Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre
June 24, 2025
Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Toronto'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:
Harnessing Data and Analytics to Drive Strategic Business Outcomes
Leveraging Emerging Technology for Competitive Advantage and Growth
Collaboration across the C-Suite to Enable Technology Innovation and Efficiency
Toronto 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
Dave Aeri
Confidential
Chief Technology Officer & CIO
Mike Baxter
Kijiji
Chief Technology Officer
Cecilia Carbonelli
Haventree Bank
CIO
Melody Wallis
Procter & Gamble
Vice President - Analytics & Insights and Technology - P&G Canada
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 Toronto CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Opening Keynote — Gartner Analyst
David Senf
Senior Director Analyst
Gartner
Join David Senf, Senior Director Analyst, Emerging Technologies, as he outlines disruptors driving innovation by sharing research-backed, practical guidance.
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Ahead of the Game — Trends for IT Decision Makers
Hosted by Blair
Alain Cormier
Vice President
Novipro
IT is evolving at a rapid pace and impacting every aspect of businesses. It is important for CIOs to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to key trends to adequately identify risks and opportunities to build a strong and forward-thinking IT strategy.
This session delves into an exclusive IT Trends report to uncover:
- A greater understanding of the top priorities of Canadian organizations (cybersecurity, AI, cloud, modernization and beyond)
- Where and how organizations are allocating their budgets
- Attracting, training, and retaining talent in a shifting ecosystem
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Connecting the Dots to Generate Business Value with GenAI
Hosted by Nutanix
Nicholas Holian
Worldwide Field CTO
Nutanix
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, businesses are grappling with complex infrastructure challenges while seeking to harness the power of generative AI to drive innovation and operational efficiency. CIOs must spearhead strategy at the critical intersection of infrastructure and GenAI.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- Integrating GenAI into your existing infrastructure
- Addressing business challenges such as optimizing resource allocation, enhancing security and improving scalability
- Using GenAI to streamline operations and accelerate digital transformation
10:25am - 11:10am Networking Break
10:35am - 11:00am 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.
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Modern Infrastructure Foundation — Unlocking Value in AI
Hosted by Google Cloud
David Porter
Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisory
Google Cloud
Delivering AI and GenAI value at scale is top of mind with many CIOs while juggling the needs to maintain a secure scalable technology foundation, but how can CIOs accomplish this? Prioritizing a high-quality data, security and infrastructure foundation provides all the necessary ingredients that will unlock the greatest value in AI.
Join this session to discuss:
- Building a value driven AI strategy
- Delivering high-quality, well-structured data to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven initiatives
- Driving a modern secure AI ready infrastructure roadmap for scale, efficiency and ease of use
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Fireside Chat Hosted by OutSystems
Hosted by OutSystems
Tiago Azevedo
Chief Information Officer
OutSystems
Anand Inbasekaran
Vice President, Process & Digital Transformation
CSA Group
Session Details Coming Soon...
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Chaos of Connectivity ― Strategies for Agility, Productivity, and Compliance
Hosted by IBM
Ernie Denninger
webMethods and Streamsets Brand Sales Director, North America
IBM
Ranjika Manamperi
CIO
Ontario Power Generation
Steve Mohammed
CIO
Canadian Tire Bank
In today's digital landscape, enterprises manage an ever-growing array of technologies across multiple clouds, with the average organization using 1,000 applications and thousands of physical assets. Generative AI is set to boost developer productivity by nearly 40%, leading to a surge in AI-embedded applications. This complexity can cause inefficiencies and vulnerabilities.
Join this session to learn how to:
- Create visibility across disparate systems for informed decision-making
- Streamlining integrations to increase productivity and accelerate delivery
- Maintain compliance by managing integrations centrally to prevent shadow IT
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Lenovo
Patricia Wilkey
SVP & GM SSG International Sales
Lenovo
Session Details Coming Soon...
11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
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Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton CentreA block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 416-597-9200. Please mention Gartner Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $403 CAD (plus tax) is June 2, 2025.
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