2024 Atlanta CIO Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Atlanta'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:

Building trust and reliability in data to enable business growth and efficiencies

Establishing a strong cybersecurity strategy amidst an ever-evolving threat landscape

Leading the organization through the adoption of advanced and emerging technologies

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Guy Brassard

Shaw Industries
Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Curtis Carver Jr.

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vice President and CIO

Martin Davis

Southern Company
EVP & CIO

Raghu Sagi

Carter's
EVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer

Regina Salazar

Novelis
SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer

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 Atlanta CIO 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

Executive Boardroom Sessions

The Critical CFO-CIO Partnership for Realizing IT Value

In today’s dynamic business landscape, the synergy between CFOs and CIOs is crucial for shaping enterprise technology investments and driving innovation. Collaboration is essential for aligning financial strategies with technological advancements.

Join this session to explore:

Strengthening the CFO-CIO relationship to make data-driven decisions on emerging technologies and ROI
Harmonizing views on IT investments and driving results-driven projects
Communicating business and technology priorities

Building an IT Value Story

In today's fast paced digital landscape, CIOs, as business and IT leaders, must know how stakeholders perceive benefits to tell a value story that resonates.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

Identifying IT-influenced business value metrics
Aligning IT priorities with business goals and objectives
Communicating IT’s relevance and impact on wider outcomes

Keynote Sessions

Telling Your Data Story

The way we talk about data is holding the industry back so it’s time to rework your “data speak”. Are you struggling with leadership support, craving stakeholder engagement and begging for proper funding? Even though you may create Gen AI wonders with your data, it won’t matter unless you explain the value in practical business terms.

Join The Data Whisperer’s rollicking and riotous review of current buzzwords and some practical tips and tricks on what you can do about it including:

Differentiating between a data management narrative and other data storytelling and data literacy efforts
Developing strategies to secure sponsorship and funding
Executing a simple storytelling approach

Transforming Application and Service Delivery for the Modern IT Environment

Delivering business critical applications safely is a delicate balancing act. The user experience is frequently compromised as application, infrastructure, and security teams negotiate the adoption of new services. Unfortunate trade-offs are sometimes necessary to address operational needs for the sake of maintaining security, but these trade-offs can make certain use cases unfeasible or diminish their value to the organization.

In this session, we will discuss:

Revolutionizing workspaces by balancing productivity, security, availability, and user experience.
How quickly new technologies like the enterprise browser can be adopted to provide a competitive advantage
Strategies forreducing the effort required to deliver applications and enhance organizational operations

Breakout Session

10-Minute Wins — Building a High Performing Team

Why learn from one peer when you can learn from two? Grab a seat as your fellow community members each take the floor for 10 minutes to share how their organizations are strategically building strong, business-enabling teams.