Vancouver, BC CIO Executive Summit

With security a top concern for CIOs and CISOs — and their jobs depending on it — a clear understanding of the organization’s security footprint and key metrics is essential and must be skillfully articulated to stakeholders. This session explores the DNA of effective communication and how to address the health, safety, resilience and sustainable growth of the company. Board members have woken up to the ever-evolving security threat landscape and are leaning on their CIOs and CISOs to deliver. Join Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie to explore proven approaches in communicating security metrics, risk profiles and strategic plans to the board.

In the new digital economy, CIOs and CISOs are playing a pivotal role in the digital transformation of the organization. But many are struggling to create a digital roadmap for the future. CIOs and CISOs from “reinventor” organizations can show the way, as revealed in the newly released 2017 IBM Global C-Suite Study. Join Xerxes Cooper and Kurt Pregler as they share how leaders are becoming the new platform builders and digital reinventors. Learn how they are securely integrating emerging technologies, while fostering talent and pursuing an agile culture. Hear how you can strengthen your organization’s competitive edge through digital reinvention.

Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster is a cross-industry initiative that solidifies Canada’s leadership in the digital economy, bringing together more than 300 organizations across BC and Canada to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Through applying data, analytics and visualization, it aims to supercharge traditional industries, boost BC’s strong technology sector and create jobs. Join co-founder Greg Caws and explore the connective, transformative power this project is bringing to Vancouver. Learn what this means for your company, the leadership role you can take in transforming the nation and what tactics make sense for your own programs.

Digital transformation is everywhere and every enterprise has or will take a unique path to their future platforms. But there must be universal frameworks, philosophies and models to act as way posts on the journey. Mihai Strusievici and Mike Hughes discuss real life examples of transformation visions that became realities and the paths they took to get there. Building on experience and case studies, they will outline the cultures, structures and tools that have supported actual digital renovations — beginning to end.

AI and automation are top-of-mind technologies, and organizations are eager to take advantage of them. Evaluating these opportunities requires a careful and candid assessment of a company's competitive landscape, its digital maturity, the effectiveness of existing business practices versus industry benchmarks, the potential for improvement, and the complexity of the technological context into which AI and automation would be inserted. While this process takes time, there's no time to wait. Join this discussion on how to combine the right automation technology with the right situation at the right time.

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 CIO/CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shaman Anderson at 971-717-6664 or shaman.anderson@evanta.com

Given today’s complex environment, large attack surfaces and scant budgets and resources, moving to an intelligence-based security program is the logical next step for many companies. A central piece of this? The ability to morph raw data into valuable intelligence. Rob Labbe and David Swan have accomplished this by embracing simplified concepts and a return to basics. Join this session to see how tools and indicators, given correct connections and context, can be part of the solution. Return to your program with a streamlined view of the future of intelligence-led security.

As smart city infrastructure rapidly becomes the purview of both the public and private sectors, businesses and public-sector organizations must prepare for the new age of metropolitan operations. What challenges will arise from the new technologies and partnerships? What are the security implications of a heightened level of interconnectedness? Attend this panel to explore the threats facing cities’ futures and hear ideas on how to mitigate them.

The evolution of cloud technologies, advanced third-party solutions and software-as-a-service offerings have been steadily transforming the enterprise, allowing for greater flexibility and advanced customization of the IT environment. The ascendance of these tools has also introduced myriad challenges to CISOs charged with securing critical data. As organizations look to the cloud, they must also weigh the risks of migrating data in an increasingly threatened world. How can data in the cloud be secured? How does the risk-minded organization evaluate and trust the security posture of their vendor partners? In this session, security executives will examine the benefits, threats and challenges of the new cloud business.

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 CIO/CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shaman Anderson at 971-717-6664 or shaman.anderson@evanta.com

We have all heard the saying “CIO stands for: ‘Career is over.’” This certainly was not the case for Oliver Gruter-Andrew. After 14 years as a CIO/VP IT in several industries, he seized the opportunity to become president and CEO of E-Comm 9-1-1, putting him in charge of a wide range of services to the public, police, fire and ambulance throughout BC. In this session, he will explore his path from CIO to CEO. Listen in to hear why he was asked to fill this role, which CIO experiences turned out to be highly transferable, and what his challenges are now.