
Detroit CIO Community
Inner Circle
March 21, 2023 | Waterview Loft
March 21, 2023
Waterview Loft
Collaborate with your peers
Join Detroit'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:
Accelerating High Growth and Digitally-Driven Outcomes
Thriving through Volatility - Empowering People, Resiliency and Insights
Orchestrating Change - Influencing Culture and Creating Value
Detroit 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

Brent Cieszynski
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Earl Duby
Lear Corporation
VP & CISO

Richard Hook
Penske
EVP & CIO

Fred Killeen
General Motors
VP of Global Information Technology & CIO

Raman Mehta
Johnson Electric
SVP & CIO

Jeff Small
Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO

Sangy Vatsa
FIS Global
EVP, Chief Technology and Digital Officer

Erik Wille
American Axle & Manufacturing
CISO
Agenda
March 21, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Digitally-Driven Outcomes, Quicker Business Decisions

Eric Ranta
Director, Customer Value & Transformation Advisors
Google Cloud

James McFarlane
Vice President of Information Technology
HoMedics

Amir Jabri
VP of IT and Security
exactuals

Soma Venkat Ph.D.
SVP & Chief Information Technology Officer
Cooper Standard

Kevin Berch
Director, Global Market, Sell, and Service IT
Ford

Raj Polanki
Head of IT / Divisional CIO
Wacker Chemical

Mike Glenn
Director, Business and Engineering Systems
BorgWarner
As global economic and political volatility continue, the enterprise is looking at IT to accelerate digital ecosystems in order to create an avenue for high growth and quicker benefits. To respond to this increased demand, CIOs are scaling productivity by solving business challenges with product-centric teams and architecting sophisticated ecosystems to ensure insights are delivered to key decision makers.
Organizations are moving beyond the stage of ‘transformation’ and now demanding digital execution, as they position the enterprise to weather economic storms and unpredictable setbacks in the future.
Join your peers to discuss how CIOs are capturing the outcomes of digital execution.
Accelerating Decision Making For Timely Value Realization
Describe your current and ideal data ecosystem?
Has the demand for self-service data and analytics risen for your organization? What are you doing to enable business leaders with dashboards and insights in real time? Has that affected your data governance strategy?
Have you seen the level of adoption that you’d like from leaders to impact quicker decision making? What steps have you taken to identify value realization and measure outcomes obtained by data and analytics?
Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes
What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? Are they more business focused or technology focused?
Many CIOs have turned toward the organization of fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing? How are you changing mindsets, while supporting agile journeys?
How do you start building your tech-environment and work environment for the future workforce?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Detroit CIO Community Inner Circle.
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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.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
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