IN-PERSON

Calgary CIO Executive Summit

December 4, 2019 | The BMO Centre at Calgary Stampede

December 4, 2019
The BMO Centre at Calgary Stampede

Governing Body Agenda Location Partners Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Rick Begg

Parkland Fuel Corporation
VP & CIO

Brian Bench

CNOOC International
CIO & Vice President – Global IT

Steve Biswanger

ATCO Ltd.
VP & CISO

Shaun Guthrie

Alberta Urban Municipalities Association
Senior Director Information Technology

Kelly Hill

Keyera Corp.
Director, Information Technology

Jason Hinchliff

Husky Energy
Director, Digital Innovation

Miguel Kanafany

Sysco
Interim VP, Business Technology Client Services

Devon Smibert

WestJet
Director, Cybersecurity

Suzie Smibert

Finning International
Global Director Enterprise Architecture & CISO

Agenda

CIO AGENDA CISO AGENDA

December 3, 2019

afternoon

December 4, 2019

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

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

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Jessica Belbin

Performer

The Kinkonauts

Nicole Zylstra

Performer

The Kinkonauts

Join the Kinkonauts improv team for a night of entertainment and practical skills to add to your leadership playbook.

11:40am - 12:10pm Lunch & Comments

12:10pm - 12:40pm Keynote

The Next Chapter in Your Digital Journey

Xerxes Cooper

General Manager, Global Technology Services

IBM Canada

Asad Kamal

Client Leader, O&G Midstream

IBM

Chris Leonard

Director, Strategy & Digital Transformation

Plains Midstream

Candice Onraët

Business Systems Training Optimization Specialist

Plains Midstream

Forward-thinking businesses are moving from AI experimentation, migrating simple workloads to the cloud and random acts of digital into “Chapter 2” of their digital journey — true digital transformation. Join IBM and a panel of executives for a conversation about the critical areas on this journey.

In this keynote, you’ll learn how to:

Build the right team and thinking to ensure success
Collaborate and co-create to effectively align with business needs
Scale your business platform to connect digital and AI
Sustain and accelerate your (AI) journey

12:40pm - 1:00pm Interactive Session

Experience Kinkonauts — Leadership through Improv

Jason Lewis

Co-founder, Executive Coach and Performer

The Kinkonauts

When it comes to leading through disruptive times, there is always room to improve your executive presence. Jason Lewis will lead the audience through a series of interactive sessions to share teachings from improv while adding new leadership traits to your toolbox along the way.

The short interactive sessions will focus on:

Leadership presence and being coach-like
Storytelling and its importance in driving change
Uncertainty and practicing adaptability

1:00pm - 1:30pm Networking Break

7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast

7:45am - 8:00am Opening Comments

8:00am - 8:30am Keynote

The Next Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Hans Mumm

Author & Thought Leader on Future of Artificial Intelligence

IT Thought Leader

Open any newspaper or watch any news station — autonomous systems and AI are everywhere. What is your place in the new autonomous world? Are you ready to lead and govern in this uncertain future?

In this keynote, you’ll hear how:

Social normative behaviors are being redefined
New technology impacts opportunities, provocations, and threats on and off Wall Street
Planned change keeps leaders from becoming obsolete

8:30am - 8:45am Interactive Session

Experience Kinkonauts — Leadership through Improv

Jason Lewis

Co-founder, Executive Coach and Performer

The Kinkonauts

The short interactive sessions will focus on:

Leadership presence and being coach-like
Storytelling and its importance in driving change
Uncertainty and practicing adaptability

8:45am - 9:15am Networking Break

9:15am - 10:05am CIO Featured Session

Leading through Disruption — The Changing Role of IT

Helen Wetherley Knight

Director of Information Technology

The Calgary Drop-In Centre

Kelly Hill

Director, Information Technology

Keyera Corp.

Jan Bradley

Chief Information Technology Officer

City of Calgary

As organizations continue to transform, new opportunities for IT and security leaders continue to arise. This panel will share insights on transformative leadership, the changing workplace and the imperative to gain a seat at the table. Join this session for a discussion on:

Capitalizing on opportunities for CIOs and CISOs to truly move into the C-suite
Inspiring teams and embracing diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Shifting the perception of IT and security across the business

9:15am - 10:05am CIO & CISO Featured Session

Incident Detected! — What's the Worst That Could Happen?!

Joan Ross

Field CISO

Fortinet, Inc.

Join Joan Ross as she exemplifies what a CISO is up against during a cyber-incident response event. She’ll walk through the internal functions of a security team tasked with protecting sensitive information. Better than a murder mystery event because no one dies!

During this interactive mock attack you will:

Sit in the security team’s seat while indicators of an attack occur
Better understand the warning signs and deceptions
Determine if your organization is the target of malicious actors

9:15am - 10:05am CIO Executive Boardroom

Building a Roadmap to Guide Your Digital Journey

Michael Barr

CIO

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Dale James

Senior Executive Architect - Inspire

ServiceNow

Digital Transformation is already a tired buzzword, but CIOs are living it and are looking to hone their strategies and speed up implementation.

Join this interactive roundtable session to discuss:

What key components should go into your digital journey blueprint
Going beyond IT services to cross-functional workflow automation on a single platform and shared data model
What a digital journey maturity model looks like (including velocity, experience and intelligence)

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). To reserve your seat, please contact Andie Alderette at andrea.alderette@evanta.com.

10:05am - 10:30am Networking Break

10:30am - 11:20am CIO Featured Session

Fast Forward Your Organization to Thrive through Digital Innovation

Farrukh Akram

Enterprise Innovation Executive

Amazon Web Services

Cloud-enabled technologies have become the new normal for the industry and are driving meaningful business outcomes. AWS will share insights on innovations that are allowing organizations to sprint past competitors in an environment that is fast-paced and ever-changing.

Join this session to discover how to:

Unleash the power of your data using the latest innovations in data lakes and analytics
Integrate your data with machine learning, smart sensor, robotics and automation systems
Define your innovative vision and align technology with customer expectations

10:30am - 11:20am CIO Executive Boardroom

Harnessing the Power of IoT to Unlock Exponential Value

Greg Bratton

Director, IT

Secure Energy Services

Mark Bryant

CIO

PCL Constructors Inc.

Reguraman (Regu) Ayyaswamy

Global Head IoT

Tata Consultancy Services

IoT is empowering enterprises to innovate with data, bringing context sensitive, real time business capabilities for avant-garde outcomes that can drive both operational and business transformation.

Join this boardroom on IoT to discuss:

Connecting the digital enterprise to deliver exponential value across various industries
Choosing a value chain ecosystem
Achieving customer gratification through mass personalization

11:20am - 11:40am Networking Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm CIO & CISO Featured Session

Interactive Session — A Problems and Solutions Workshop

Brian Bench

CIO & Vice President – Global IT

CNOOC International

Troy Davidson

Head of Security Operation Center

Enbridge

Got a problem you need solved? Got a solution you can provide? This session encourages interaction between attendees to share problems and solutions to pressing needs – from small to big. Leave this session knowing you received or offered a viable solution or resource.

1:30pm - 2:20pm CIO Executive Boardroom

Closing the Gap — DevOps Transformation

Helen Wetherley Knight

Director of Information Technology

The Calgary Drop-In Centre

Dan Feliz

Customer Success Executive

Nutanix

DevOps increasingly plays an important role in transforming today’s digital landscape and driving business revenue. To quickly deliver new customer-centric services or simply just to fail fast, IT teams are transitioning to DevOps models that close the gap between development and operations while drastically increasing their business relevance.

During this boardroom discussion, we’ll unpack:

Defining DevOps and envisioning an outcome
Successes in transforming your delivery model
Common pitfalls in driving DevOps in organizations

2:20pm - 2:40pm Networking Break

2:40pm - 3:30pm CIO Featured Session

Reimagine and Reinvent — Putting the Customer First

Wellington Holbrook

Chief Transformation Officer

ATB Financial

Wellington Holbrook has led ATB Financial through an intense three year business transformation with a big mandate – to reimagine banking and make it work for people. Holbrook will share the roadmap that led to this successful transformation and the strategies necessary for leading through change.

In this session, you'll hear insights on:

The creation of a secure digital customer experience
How tech can drive process decisions for the business
The leadership traits necessary to drive a tech culture transformation

2:40pm - 3:30pm CIO & CISO Executive Boardroom

Lead, Don't Follow — Getting Ahead in the Data Game

Jan Bradley

Chief Information Technology Officer

City of Calgary

Howard Plato

Mgr., IS

Osum

CIOs have endless data at their fingertips, but these leaders understand that leveraging data requires meaningful information, not just lots of information. A data strategy must have clearly defined priorities, the right technological foundation, sound governance, business alignment – and an eye toward the future. Tomorrow’s data-driven organization can’t simply ride the wave; it must direct the wave. Join this interactive conversation to:

Create a shared vision among peers for the next steps in your data journey – wherever you are along the path
Outline the challenges and possible solutions for generating truly predictive analytics
Tackle the data challenge holistically by building the data-first mindset into your entire organization

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 Andie Alderette at andrea.alderette@evanta.com

3:30pm - 3:50pm Networking Break

3:50pm - 4:00pm Closing Comments

4:00pm - 4:15pm Interactive Session

Experience Kinkonauts — Leadership through Improv

Jason Lewis

Co-founder, Executive Coach and Performer

The Kinkonauts

The short interactive sessions will focus on:

Leadership presence and being coach-like
Storytelling and its importance in driving change
Uncertainty and practicing adaptability

4:15pm - 4:45pm Keynote

The Digitally Enabled Business — A Breakdown of Talent and Innovation

Mary Moran

President and CEO

Calgary Economic Development

The economy in Calgary is changing with new opportunities for tech talent and growing innovation - but from where are they being derived? Mary Moran will share insights from Calgary Economic Development’s research on where talent is coming from and where digital spend is going.

In this session, you will hear: