IN-PERSON

Washington, DC CISO Executive Summit

May 3, 2022 | Marriott Marquis Washington DC

May 3, 2022
Marriott Marquis Washington DC

Governing Body Agenda Location Partners Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Ryan Boulais

AES Corporation
CISO

Mike Gordon

Lockheed Martin
VP & CISO

Jamie Holcombe

United States Patent & Trademark Office
Chief Information Officer

Kurt John

Siemens USA
Chief Cybersecurity Officer

André Mendes

Department of Commerce
CIO

Shamim Mohammad

CarMax Inc
EVP, Chief Information and Technology Officer

Chris Porter

Fannie Mae
Chief Information Security Officer

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 Washington, DC 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

CISO AGENDA CIO AGENDA

May 2, 2022

afternoon

May 3, 2022

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

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

Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Business Transformation in Market Redefinition

Michael Fitz

VP of Global Wireline Solutions and Strategic Accounts

T-Mobile for Business

Tomorrow's CIOs & CISOs understand the need to identify new optimized opportunities in an evolving market. The pressure to make decisions rapidly while focusing on driving growth and balancing legacy ambitions will create a unique opportunity for business transformation.

In this keynote session, we'll discuss:

Capitalizing on new business opportunities during market redefinition
Creating a strategic vision to drive growth
Balancing optimization and transformation

1:05pm - 1:20pm Break

1:20pm - 2:05pm Breakout Session

Let's Brainstorm! Solving the Talent Gap

Howard Spira

Senior Vice President and CIO

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Navigating the talent pool in a post-pandemic work environment has CIOs & CISOs seeking out solutions to engage their teams and build up new talent. With employee expectations at an all-time high, CIOs & CISOs are finding that now is the time to get creative.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate about team building scenarios including:

Keeping the right people – thinking beyond just retention
Mentoring a multigenerational workforce – creating operational excellence
Exploring employee potential – diversifying skill sets

1:20pm - 2:05pm Executive Boardroom

Starting at Customer Centricity

Ben Sweezy

Director, Federal Digital Strategy

Salesforce

Lawrence Anderson

Deputy CIO

Department of Commerce

Alan Thompson

Chief Information Officer

United States House of Representatives

Discovering customer needs has grown beyond the purview of just a call center or customer feedback function — public organizations are increasingly putting the voice of the customer at the center of technology decisions, financial decisions, and operations decisions. How are CIOs & CISOs elevating the customer experience to guide the strategy of whole organizations?

In this session, we will discuss:

Using new technologies to incorporate customer learning into strategy
Leveraging enterprise analytics into relevant customer insights for product and service leaders
Building internal relationships and governance to get value from customer-facing technology

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

1:20pm - 2:05pm Executive Boardroom

Manage Security Posture and Risk Across SaaS Environments

Brandon Conley

CRO

AppOmni

Scott Daitzman

vCISO/Managing Partner

SJD Cyber

Massimo Favro

CISO

NVR

As the adoption of enterprise SaaS grows, high-profile SaaS application data breaches are also on the rise. CISOs are ultimately responsible for the security of their organization’s data, including access by third-party applications, and must implement appropriate security settings and data governance for their environments. The challenge is that the most widely-used gateway architecture solutions don’t deliver visibility into the complex, unique characteristics of different SaaS applications.

Join this Boardroom to discuss:

How to gain immediate visibility into what data can be accessed by all types of users and integrations, including third-party applications, to understand and mitigate risk
How to better secure your organization’s SaaS data across applications
How to integrate security into the Software Development Lifecycle to improve DevSecOps during the product development process

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 9:00am Keynote

#EpicFail — A Ransomware Choose Your Own Adventure

Brett Conlon

Chief Information Security Officer

American Century Investments

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

Collaborate to identify threat responses
Respond to choices and forces out of their control
Discuss pitfalls and best practices

9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break

9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session

Shadow in the Darkness — Cyberdefense in a Changing Threat Landscape

Aamir Lakhani

Global Security Strategist and Researcher

Fortinet

Cybercrime and cybercrime activities are not only increasing exponentially each year, but also easier to execute successfully. Complicated attack crime toolkits can be created or purchased easily, making sophisticated attacks more attainable. Furthermore, the changing geopolitical and economic landscapes have given State-sponsored threat attackers with unlimited resources to target NGOs and critical resources.

In this session we will examine:

Techniques, tools and deceptions threat actors use to bypass perimeter security, compromise cloud environments, and manipulate users
Methods cybercriminals use to cover tracks and stay hidden
Both cloud and on-premise strategies on how to protect your organization from motivated and sophisticated attackers

9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom

Aligning Risk Management to Strategy

Kevin Apperson

CIO

Maxim Healthcare Services

Garrett Smiley

CISO & VP of Information Security

Serco Inc

Security and risk leaders are slowly evolving risk and assurance functions but need to move faster by adopting dynamic risk governance and use risk governance intensity. Risk management will never be seen as a truly strategic function until risk management can be more balanced with strategy, respond more quickly to changing strategies or external events, and capture risk upside as well as prevent risk downside.

Join this roundtable with Kevin Apperson, CIO, Maxim Healthcare Services, and Garrett Smiley, CISO & VP of Information Security, Serco Inc., to discuss:

Balancing an increasing risk appetite with stronger decision-making guidance to avoid “risk debt”
Communicating risk strategies to partners across the enterprise
Leveraging automation and analytics to safeguard the riskiest components of your digital portfolio

10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break

10:20am - 10:45am 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.

10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session

Prioritizing Data — Ensuring Accuracy, Accessibility and Literacy

Ryan Bateman

CTO

Sands Capital

April Wiggs

Chief, IT Enterprise Project Services

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

The key to better customer experiences might be hiding in the data you already have. Auditing your current resources could help you identify useful insights and use them to sharpen your organization's competitive edge.

Join this interactive fireside chat to discuss:

Investing in modern data tools
Determining what data is valuable vs. unnecessary
Creating buy in and driving data literacy across the enterprise

10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom

Future Challenges: Security, Transformation, Hybrid and More

Greg Shields

Director, Zero Trust Cloud Strategy

Appgate

Ryan Boulais

CISO

AES Corporation

Jesse Whaley

VP, CISO

Amtrak

Enterprises are forced to adopt wildly different workforce logistical solutions while providing protection against ever-emerging threats. With greater reliance on the Cloud in 2022 and beyond, it’s time to improve efficiencies while still mitigating risks and protect ALL environments. Not just cloud transformation, but hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem.

Join this roundtable discussion to learn about:

Improving processes and efficiencies
Extending protections to all workloads
Analyzing tools, strategies, and technologies available

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom

Multi-cloud Data Management – Tackling New Cyber Vulnerabilities

Praveen Vunnava

Americas Field CTO

Veritas

Chris Panagiotopoulos

CTO

LifeBridge Health

Laura Walsh

Global SVP & CIO

Smithfield Foods Inc

A multi-cloud strategy has clear advantages, but there are also challenges with managing these distributed environments. Organizations face silos of data protection solutions across multiple clouds resulting in increased operational costs and fragmented data protection policies that leave the door open to vulnerabilities such as ransomware attacks.

Join this session to discuss:

Exposing the hidden cost and cyber vulnerability of cloud native data protection
Balancing the pace of application investment while mitigating risk
Combating the hidden data management and protection costs in the cloud

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

11:30am - 11:40am Break

2:05pm - 2:35pm Networking Break

2:10pm - 2:35pm 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.

2:35pm - 3:20pm Breakout Session

Future Planning, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Jamie Holcombe

Chief Information Officer

United States Patent & Trademark Office

According to Gartner research, loss of data or devices cost organizations an average of $4.11 million worldwide in 2021. You hope it never happens, but if your organization is targeted, it’s critical to already have a plan in place to avoid as many business disruptions as possible and have a faster recovery.

In this session, Jamie Holcombe, CIO, United States Patent & Trademark Office, will discuss:

Proactive protocols to ensure a quick response
Tools to identify gaps such as IT disaster recovery exercise
Building confidence in disaster recovery plans and personnel

2:35pm - 3:20pm Breakout Session

Take Control of Innovation with High Performance Low-Code

Tiago Azevedo

Chief Information Officer

OutSystems

The demands on IT are at the apex, but there are still more apps to build, technologies to integrate, threats to combat and talent to find. Is the constant chasing and fixing forcing your innovation to the side? It’s time to take control of both.

In this session you’ll learn how to:

Turn your development team into a high-performance innovation factory that builds web and mobile apps with radical productivity, output and business impact
Fit your existing SaaS architecture into this new high-performance model
Foster teams that can build the specialized applications you need for your business — in weeks and months, not years

2:35pm - 3:20pm Executive Boardroom

Software Supply Chain Management Hygiene

Wayne Jackson

CEO

Sonatype

Michael Levin

Vice President of Cyber Defense Engineering

UnitedHealth Group

Andy Purdy

Chief Security Officer

Huawei Technologies USA Inc

Keith Young

Enterprise Information Security Official

Montgomery County

Software hygiene practices are like handwashing prior to surgery; at one point laughable, now an essential and integral step prior to every procedure. Why are organizations still not putting enough focus on adopting essential software hygiene practices for supply chain management, even though they know they should?

Join this roundtable session to discuss:

Encouraging developers to adopt a set of security and governance daily routines
Overcoming the knowledge sharing gap between Security, Developer, and IT Operations
Positioning software hygiene as a practice that generates not simply risk value, but revenue value

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

3:20pm - 3:35pm Networking Break

3:35pm - 4:10pm Keynote

Coaching Resilient Leaders Through Challenges and Change

Dr. Kiki Ramsey

CEO, The Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute

Guest Speaker

Creating a true work culture of diversity, happiness, and belonging is not impossible. Unfortunately, many leaders just don’t know where to start for fear of getting it wrong. The good news is we can all learn to positively relate and communicate around issues of DEI and leadership through our strengths! Positive Psychologist Dr. Kiki Ramsey has coined this Positively Diverse Leadership™.

In this presentation leaders will discover:

A new and refreshing strength-based approach to DEI and leadership
Happiness is the key to employee engagement and retention
How to become a Positively Diverse Leader and create true organizational transformation

4:10pm - 4:40pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Business Transformation in Market Redefinition

Michael Fitz

VP of Global Wireline Solutions and Strategic Accounts

T-Mobile for Business

In this keynote session, we'll discuss:

Capitalizing on new business opportunities during market redefinition
Creating a strategic vision to drive growth
Balancing optimization and transformation

1:05pm - 1:20pm Break

1:20pm - 2:05pm Breakout Session

Let's Brainstorm! Solving the Talent Gap

Howard Spira

Senior Vice President and CIO

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate about team building scenarios including:

Keeping the right people – thinking beyond just retention
Mentoring a multigenerational workforce – creating operational excellence
Exploring employee potential – diversifying skill sets

1:20pm - 2:05pm Executive Boardroom

Starting at Customer Centricity

Ben Sweezy

Director, Federal Digital Strategy

Salesforce

Lawrence Anderson

Deputy CIO

Department of Commerce

Alan Thompson

Chief Information Officer

United States House of Representatives

In this session, we will discuss:

Using new technologies to incorporate customer learning into strategy
Leveraging enterprise analytics into relevant customer insights for product and service leaders
Building internal relationships and governance to get value from customer-facing technology

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 9:00am Keynote

#EpicFail — A Ransomware Choose Your Own Adventure

Brett Conlon

Chief Information Security Officer

American Century Investments

In this interactive session attendees will:

Collaborate to identify threat responses
Respond to choices and forces out of their control
Discuss pitfalls and best practices

9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break

9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session

Shadow in the Darkness — Cyberdefense in a Changing Threat Landscape

Aamir Lakhani

Global Security Strategist and Researcher

Fortinet

In this session we will examine:

Techniques, tools and deceptions threat actors use to bypass perimeter security, compromise cloud environments, and manipulate users
Methods cybercriminals use to cover tracks and stay hidden
Both cloud and on-premise strategies on how to protect your organization from motivated and sophisticated attackers

9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom

Aligning Risk Management to Strategy

Kevin Apperson

CIO

Maxim Healthcare Services

Garrett Smiley

CISO & VP of Information Security

Serco Inc

Join this roundtable with Kevin Apperson, CIO, Maxim Healthcare Services, and Garrett Smiley, CISO & VP of Information Security, Serco Inc., to discuss:

Balancing an increasing risk appetite with stronger decision-making guidance to avoid “risk debt”
Communicating risk strategies to partners across the enterprise
Leveraging automation and analytics to safeguard the riskiest components of your digital portfolio

9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom

Beyond the Hybrid Cloud Hype — Accelerating Your Business Strategy

Satinder Sethi

GM, IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services

IBM

Vishal Gupta

CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology

Lexmark

David Tamayo

CIO

DCS Corporation

CIOs must balance security, with innovation and speed - and are asked to create IT environments that can adapt to spikier workloads, interdependent applications, and more data at the edge, even as cyber-attacks and ransomware increase. How can businesses digitally transform with the cloud – ensuring they have a secure environment where customer data is not compromised – while dealing with application sprawl and siloed data? The answer is clear - a secure and open hybrid cloud architecture, but the path to getting there is murky.

In this discussion, we will explore ways to:

Connect and integrate across a distributed and hybrid cloud environment to create a common experience for applications and data
Modernize and de-risk regulated industries to keep workloads compliant, secure, and resilient
Optimize control of decentralization to manage and maintain enterprise systems infrastructure.

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break

10:20am - 10:45am 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.

10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session

Prioritizing Data — Ensuring Accuracy, Accessibility and Literacy

Ryan Bateman

CTO

Sands Capital

April Wiggs

Chief, IT Enterprise Project Services

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Join this interactive fireside chat to discuss:

Investing in modern data tools
Determining what data is valuable vs. unnecessary
Creating buy in and driving data literacy across the enterprise

10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom

Future Challenges: Security, Transformation, Hybrid and More

Greg Shields

Director, Zero Trust Cloud Strategy

Appgate

Ryan Boulais

CISO

AES Corporation

Jesse Whaley

VP, CISO

Amtrak

Join this roundtable discussion to learn about:

Improving processes and efficiencies
Extending protections to all workloads
Analyzing tools, strategies, and technologies available

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom

Multi-cloud Data Management – Tackling New Cyber Vulnerabilities

Praveen Vunnava

Americas Field CTO

Veritas

Chris Panagiotopoulos

CTO

LifeBridge Health

Laura Walsh

Global SVP & CIO

Smithfield Foods Inc

Join this session to discuss:

Exposing the hidden cost and cyber vulnerability of cloud native data protection
Balancing the pace of application investment while mitigating risk
Combating the hidden data management and protection costs in the cloud

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

11:30am - 11:40am Break

2:05pm - 2:35pm Networking Break

2:10pm - 2:35pm 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.

2:35pm - 3:20pm Breakout Session

Future Planning, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Jamie Holcombe

Chief Information Officer

United States Patent & Trademark Office

In this session, Jamie Holcombe, CIO, United States Patent & Trademark Office, will discuss:

Proactive protocols to ensure a quick response
Tools to identify gaps such as IT disaster recovery exercise
Building confidence in disaster recovery plans and personnel

2:35pm - 3:20pm Breakout Session

Take Control of Innovation with High Performance Low-Code

Tiago Azevedo

Chief Information Officer

OutSystems

In this session you’ll learn how to:

Turn your development team into a high-performance innovation factory that builds web and mobile apps with radical productivity, output and business impact
Fit your existing SaaS architecture into this new high-performance model
Foster teams that can build the specialized applications you need for your business — in weeks and months, not years

2:35pm - 3:20pm Executive Boardroom

Software Supply Chain Management Hygiene

Wayne Jackson

CEO

Sonatype

Michael Levin

Vice President of Cyber Defense Engineering

UnitedHealth Group

Andy Purdy

Chief Security Officer

Huawei Technologies USA Inc

Keith Young

Enterprise Information Security Official

Montgomery County

Join this roundtable session to discuss:

Encouraging developers to adopt a set of security and governance daily routines
Overcoming the knowledge sharing gap between Security, Developer, and IT Operations
Positioning software hygiene as a practice that generates not simply risk value, but revenue value

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Melissa Tarpley at melissa.tarpley@evanta.com

3:20pm - 3:35pm Networking Break

3:35pm - 4:10pm Keynote

Coaching Resilient Leaders Through Challenges and Change

Dr. Kiki Ramsey

CEO, The Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute

Guest Speaker

In this presentation leaders will discover:

A new and refreshing strength-based approach to DEI and leadership
Happiness is the key to employee engagement and retention
How to become a Positively Diverse Leader and create true organizational transformation

4:10pm - 4:40pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

May 2, 2022

afternoon

May 3, 2022

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

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

Location

Venue & Accommodation

Marriott Marquis Washington DC

MORE INFORMATION

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott Marquis Washington DC at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-202-824-9200.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $429 USD (plus tax) is April 15, 2022.

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