
Charlotte CIO Community
Inner Circle
February 20, 2024 | Sophia's Lounge/The Ivey's Hotel
February 20, 2024
Sophia's Lounge/The Ivey's Hotel
Collaborate with your peers
Join Charlotte's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Creating simplified, agile IT environments with minimal disruption to productivity
Allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems
Modernizing quickly and efficiently to keep up with evolving security threats
Charlotte CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Reenie Askew
City of Charlotte, NC
Assistant City Manager & CIO

Ken Athanasiou
VF Corp
CISO

William Curtiss
Paper Excellence
Global CISO

Frank DePaola
Enpro
VP, CISO

Steve Hagood
Trane Technologies
SVP & CIO

Murshid Khan
Coastal Federal Credit Union
CIO

Margarita Rivera
Lowe's Companies
Sr. Director of Information Security

John Scrimsher
Kontoor Brands
CISO

Patrick Thompson
Albemarle
Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer

Bonnie Titone
Duke Energy
SVP & CIO

Kimberly Trapani
American Tire Distributors
SVP & CISO
Agenda
February 20, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Modernizing Your Tech Stack
Hosted by ChromeOS

Rafael Shamailov
Head of East GTM, ChromeOS

Reenie Askew
Assistant City Manager & CIO
City of Charlotte, NC

Andy Basinger
CTO
Monarch

Patrick Thompson
Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer
Albemarle

Todd Wiedman
Global Chief Security Officer
Landis+Gyr
With a constantly evolving organization, IT environments need to be simplified and agile allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems. As security threats grow and evolve, so does our need to modernize quickly and efficiently. Within a modern workplace, our needs to securely embrace employees productivity from home or elsewhere must evolve too. How we approach investments today can deliver greater value in the future.
As technology and security leaders, CIOs and CISOs must continue to tackle these challenges on a daily basis, but what tangible outcomes exist? What can be done today to modernize what we have in place with minimal disruption to productivity?
Come together with your peers to have an in-depth discussion on the challenges you face with modernization and what considerations you might be missing as we all tackle this together.
Current Landscape and Outlook of Modernization
- What does it mean to be a modern organization?
- From your lens and industry, what is IT up against as it applies to security, complexities, productivity and keeping costs low?
- How are CIOs and CISOs providing a modern work experience? Are there any unique aspects you are modeling now?
How to Prepare for the Future
- What are key pillars CIOs and CISOs are considering when modernizing their tech stack?
- With future technology considerations in mind, what foundational elements have you already put in place?
- How do you measure the success of technology modernization? What key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics will be used?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
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Location
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Parking
There are two parking garages nearby:
Dandelion Market Garage (across the street from the hotel on 5th St.)
- 118 W. 5th Street
- $25 max, $21 for 4 hours
Fifth 3rd Bank Parking Garage (0.1 miles from venue)
- Off of W 6th Street
- $25 max all-day
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