IN-PERSON

Milwaukee CISO Executive Summit

October 9, 2024 | Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

October 9, 2024
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Milwaukee's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:

Delivering Digital Innovation to Drive Value Across the Enterprise

Maximizing Existing Resources to Optimize Emerging Costs

Securing the Organization Through Advanced Technology Adoption

Milwaukee CISO Governing Body


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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Jeremy Bauer

Molson Coors Beverage Company
CISO

David Hotchkiss

Medical College of Wisconsin
VP & CIO

Rick Sackett

ProAmpac
Global Director, Information Security & Privacy

Jennifer Westphal

MGIC Investment Corporation
VP, CISO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO 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 Milwaukee CISO 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


October 9, 2024

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

7:55am - 8:00am  Social Experience

Executive Portrait Studio

Ready for a new professional headshot or LinkedIn profile picture? We've got you covered. Let our professional portrait photographer guide you through striking whatever pose best represents your unique, executive brand. All you have to do is join us outside the keynote space and look sharp (as if you weren't planning to already). They'll be taking pictures from 8am-3:45pm.

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Body Language Secrets for Enhanced Executive Presence

Chris Ulrich headshot

Chris Ulrich

Body Language Expert

Guest Speaker

Uncovering the mysteries of body language — how people communicate their thoughts and feelings without saying a word — is a decisive first step toward mastering any business and social situation.  Top executives know that detecting split-second signals from your team and  leadership then taking immediate action is crucial to being a persuasive communicator and problem-solver especially during tricky internal matters or high-level negotiations.

During this session you will learn how to:

  • Move beyond the vacuum of artificial body language to a behavioral approach based on YOU
  • Strengthen interpersonal relationships, be a more decisive leader and manage your nerves better
  • Uncover the less obvious needs of others and improve your team’s confidence and competence

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Embracing Real-World GenAI Use Cases

Jagan Kolli headshot

Jagan Kolli

Information Security Officer

Great Lakes Cheese

The present moment offers an opportunity to unlock GenAI's transformative power, but maturity across organizations varies. Business leaders recognize this technology is a catalyst for innovation. By understanding real-world case studies with lessons learned, those leaders can create real movement forward inside of their own organizations.

Bring your questions to this session as you hear from executives who have:

  • Implemented practical GenAI use cases and identified opportunities
  • Compared and measured platforms and solutions for value outcomes
  • Balanced approach to value and risk

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Applications Overload ― Strategies to Simplify, Optimize, and Mitigate

David Coffey headshot

David Coffey

VP, Product Management, Software Network & Chief Product Officer

IBM

John Mandli headshot

John Mandli

Senior Director, Global Information Security

S C Johnson & Son Inc

Chris Zimmerman headshot

Chris Zimmerman

Head of IT

Fleet Farm

Business today runs on an ever-growing landscape of enterprise technology across multiple cloud environments. The average enterprise uses 1,000 applications, multiple clouds, and thousands of physical assets. As generative AI improves developer productivity by almost 40%, an explosion of new applications will be created with AI embedded in the next few years. All this complexity creates operational inefficiency and exposure to vulnerabilities.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Creating visibility across disparate systems to resolve the right issues at the right time
  • Simplifying ecosystems to improve efficiencies and optimize costs
  • Mitigate security vulnerabilities in your applications

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

New SEC Rules ― Going Beyond Checking the Box

Nick Watson headshot

Nick Watson

Executive Director of Information Security & Compliance

Quad

Chris Merkel headshot

Chris Merkel

Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operations

Northwestern Mutual

Cybersecurity is no longer an objective reserved only for IT, it’s mission critical for senior executives and all board members. As a leader in a quickly-changing landscape, you must balance following new regulations and educating company leaders about cybersecurity.

Join this session to discuss:

  • How to prepare your board
  • Partnering with legal
  • Changes to risk management, strategy and governance

10:25am - 11:05am  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.

11:05am - 11:50am  Breakout Session

Risk Driven Cybersecurity ― Measuring What Matters

Jeremy Bauer headshot

Jeremy Bauer

CISO

Molson Coors Beverage Company

Mike Waldrop headshot

Mike Waldrop

Sr. Director, Information Security

Schneider National

With ever-evolving cyber threats, IT and security leaders must adopt a risk-driven approach. Rather than chasing compliance, they should focus on metrics that communicate business risk trajectory, like patching cadence and incident closure times.

Join this conversation to discuss:

  • Advantages of prioritizing risk reduction over compliance
  • Benchmarks that demonstrate cybersecurity's business value by lowering risk
  • Transparency between security leaders and their organizations

11:05am - 11:50am  Executive Boardroom

User Access ― Leveraging the Right Technologies

Ray Farrell headshot

Ray Farrell

VP, Enterprise Security & Infrastructure

Milwaukee Tool

Dave Schaibly headshot

Dave Schaibly

Director, IT Security & BCM

Uline

The path to a stronger IAM strategy lies within an agile digital system. CISOs are often challenged with keeping an entire company up to date, as well as identity-related breaches and core business operations being interrupted - but easy to use technology (when leveraged correctly) can be a game changer.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • What the essentials are for building an efficient IAM system
  • The challenges faced when protecting remote workers’ environments
  • Optimizing user experience when adopting a user access program

11:05am - 11:50am  Executive Boardroom

Are We Still Talking About the Cloud?

Steve Hannan headshot

Steve Hannan

Chief Information & Risk Officer

Landmark Credit Union

Michael Reineck headshot

Michael Reineck

Senior Vice President, IT Security

RW Baird

Almost every organization uses cloud computing, but many do so without a documented strategy that answers what the organization does in the cloud and why. Without that, leaders can’t maximize the benefits of working in the cloud and find their costs skyrocketing out of control.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Aligning cloud objectives across the enterprise
  • Optimizing cloud scale and execution
  • Preparing the organization for what’s next

11:50am - 12:35pm  Lunch Service

12:35pm - 1:10pm  Keynote

Innovating with Purpose ― Transformations, Possibilities

Ricki Koinig headshot

Ricki Koinig

CIO

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Lynne Briggs headshot

Lynne Briggs

VP & CIO

Versiti

Kelly Hanson headshot

Kelly Hanson

VP, IT

Culver's

Innovative technologies have pushed leaders to update their investments and transform their business processes. A Gartner survey found that leaders expect a 70% increase in their enterprise applications budget dedicated to innovative technologies this year. Because technology unpins innovation across the organization, ensuring shadow IT doesn't remain in the dark is key to ensuring success. 

Join this keynote conversation as they discuss:

  • Collaborating with business units for technology adoption
  • Aligning innovation initiatives with strategic goals
  • Ensuring technology investments directly contribute to business outcomes

1:10pm - 1:35pm  Break

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Breakout Session

Optimizing Decision-Making with Advanced Analytics

Anup Singh headshot

Anup Singh

CISO

REV Group

Antony D'Cruz headshot

Antony D'Cruz

CIO

HSA Bank

The term "data-driven" is often used as a coveted descriptor for business excellence. But does this description hit the mark? A data-driven enterprise must convert trusted data while leaning heavily into predictive analytics to inform decision-making.

Join this session as your peers discuss:

  • Ensuring data quality standards truly benefit from analytical insights
  • Empowering the enterprise to make more data informed decisions
  • Monitoring data life cycles

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Executive Boardroom

Putting Culture at the Center of Cybersecurity

William Cummings headshot

William Cummings

VP, CISO

Generac Power Systems

Troy Stairwalt headshot

Troy Stairwalt

CISO

State of Wisconsin

At a time when new threats emerge daily, cybersecurity leaders understand they must be one thing above all others: enablers of business. And what's the foundation of business enablement? Culture.

Join this session to hear how your peers are successfully leveling up the security culture at their organizations and share your own insights about:

  • Separating awareness and training from conversations about culture
  • Leveraging culture to drive business impact through cybersecurity
  • Tailoring approaches to security culture for different levels/groups

1:35pm - 2:20pm  Executive Boardroom

Business Alignment for Enhanced Organizational Performance

Tod Huber headshot

Tod Huber

VP of IT, Platform Engineering & Delivery

IAT Group

Organizations that align the technology strategy with the business achieve higher return on assets and equity. Despite the benefits, Gartner found that only 29% of CIOs report their organizations as highly aligned. Developing alignment models that accommodate the dynamic nature of business and technology are key for sustained organizational success.

Join this session to explore:

  • How synchronizing IT capabilities with business objectives can lead to enhanced organizational performance
  • Effective communication between the technology team and business units
  • Practical solutions to common barriers such as cultural differences, misaligned incentives and rapidly evolving technology landscapes

2:20pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  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.

3:00pm - 3:35pm  Keynote

Aligning Enterprise Applications ― IT’s Role in Funding Innovation

Tad Travis headshot

Tad Travis

Vice President, Analyst

Gartner

As resources toward enterprise applications increase, IT plays a critical role in shaping the future of enterprise application landscapes. Modern enterprise applications are evolving to feature interrelated capabilities that significantly enhance usability, intelligence and automation. By 2027, Gartner predicts around 70% of organizations will prioritize GenAI by delivered benefits rather than by product functionality and performance.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Embedded intelligence capabilities for process automation
  • Promoting funding for innovative technologies
  • Enhancing usability of applications

3:35pm - 3:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

3:45pm - 5:00pm  Governing Body Reception

Governing Body Reception

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.

October 9, 2024

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


Evanta cares about the health and safety of our community. Please review the following recommendations prior to attending the gathering.

Location


Venue & Accommodation

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
MORE INFORMATION

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 414-276-1234. Please mention Reference "Evanta Executive Summit" to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $155 USD (plus tax) is September 16, 2024.

Your Community Partners


CISO Thought Leader
Key Partners

Community Program Manager


For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Samantha White

Community Program Manager

623-221-4103

samantha.white@evanta.com