Dallas CIO Executive Summit

Just like marathon runners who push themselves too hard and risk injury, CIOs continue to push themselves to do more in high-pressure environments. Between rising CEO expectations, digital accelerations, hybrid work and other disruptions, stress levels are soaring. With leaders feeling the pressure and managing teams who are exhausted, how can CIOs go the extra mile to prioritize the mental health of themselves and their workforce?

Join this session to discuss:

• Redefining your “win” strategy – Prioritizing no more than three goals at a time
• Empowering yourself by empowering others – best practices for prioritizing mental, emotional and physical health
• Broadening your support network – delegating effectively and communicating needs clearly to business partners

Even the most successful companies face challenges harnessing the full value of a robust data and AI strategy. Technology leaders must keep abreast of data and AI trends to understand how to realize and prioritize greater potential at scale for optimal business value.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Benefits of a unified data and AI platform
• Customer success insights
• Five trends for an interconnected data strategy

Digitally fluent organizations experience dramatically higher growth, lower attrition, and higher customer satisfaction. Yet, for most CIOs, this is an ongoing journey and many organizations still describe themselves at mid to lower levels of digital maturity.

Join this session with CIO peers to discuss:

• Leading strategic change within your organization: recent hits or misses

• Looking ahead in your digital evolution: the next big thing

• Evaluating needs for digital evolution and analyzing IT provider involvement

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: Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com

IT is often an afterthought when it comes to mergers and acquisitions processes, but technology leaders have the power to leverage these changes into positive, permanent growth within an organization. How are you preparing now to thoughtfully execute the next business integration in a way that unlocks new potential for your organization?

Join this session as your peers discuss:

• Lessons learned from past mergers and acquisitions

• How to leverage the potential influx of funding and talent

• Why empathetic leadership is crucial during times of change

The ultimate goal for the enterprise is to build a culture where data is free flowing and easily accessible to decision makers. However, company adoption of data and analytics can be hindered by both cultural and technical challenges. Join Sandeep Dave, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at CBRE as he shares his journey in cultivating data literacy and unleashing the power of data across the enterprise.

In this session, we’ll explore:

• Bridging skills gaps and continuing education across the enterprise
• Breaking down silos across departments to ensure data accessibility
• Shifting the responsibility of governance to the business

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How new technology movements will impact key stakeholders
• The importance of communicating emerging trends with the board
• Strategies for collaboration across the organization

Now that the pandemic is behind us, how do we make people better moving forward? Regardless of whether they are working remotely, in office or hybrid, we need to continue to create a culture of collaboration and innovation. Please join Zoom’s Global CIO, Gary Sorrentino for an in-depth discussion on unleashing human excellence.

Topics of conversation will include:

• How to upskill our employees to be the best that they can be - striving for human excellence
• Trends to shape UCaaS and CCaaS
• Predictions for the future of work

Faced with growing economic uncertainty and budget concerns, CIOs are under more pressure than ever to keep costs under control while still supporting the company’s growth opportunities. With the right application strategies in place, they can make ROI-based decisions more confidently during these complex times.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• Maximize the value of applications while remaining agile

• Optimize through service unification

• Improve efficiencies through architectures to support company growth

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: Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com

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.

Today, CIOs are faced with heightened talent challenges not seen in previous economic downturns. The demand for advanced tech skills still outweighs the supply of talent, even considering recent ‘big tech’ layoffs. How can CIOs spearhead a strategy that helps overcome the constant gap in tech skills and lays the cultural foundations for continuous digital ambitions?  

Join your peers to discuss:

• Preparing employees for change and to utilize their full potential
• Blending traditional and unconventional approaches to close talent and skill gap
• Aligning enterprise culture with key business outcomes

Executives plan to spend nearly $5 trillion in enterprise IT spending in 2023 based on Gartner’s latest forecast. Now, more than ever, CIOs have the opportunity to lead transformative change by demonstrating how their IT investments are improving time-to-value and predictability for their organization.

Join this session to discuss:

• Shortening the time from idea to business outcomes
• Meeting customer and market commitments under constraints
• Building more accurate plans via better capacity assumptions

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: Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com

Integrating applications allows companies to use their existing technologies, in combination, to their fullest potential, to provide seamless experiences to internal and external users. As CIOs take stock of their sprawling applications portfolio, how can they cut through the complexity to create integrated experiences underpinned by a modern IT foundation that connects data and technologies?

Join this session to discuss:

• Leveraging low-code/no-code capabilities to free up valuable resources
• Gaining insight into technical debt and maximize the value of applications
• Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements and accelerate transformation

Digital transformation goes beyond technology and must include a culture and mindset shift across the enterprise. Today CIOs must start thinking differently about the digital capabilities across the organization to drive a successful digital enterprise into the future.

Join Dalia Powers, SVP and CIO at Humana to discuss:

• Upskilling leaders (business and technology) to bring digital strategy into all aspects of the organization
• Improving processes within product management, design and technology
• Balancing optimization and transformation and uncovering the role of data in digital transformation