Florida CIO Community
Executive Summit
December 7, 2023 | Loews Miami Beach Hotel
December 7, 2023
Loews Miami Beach Hotel
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Florida'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:
Aligning technology with the entire organization to improve business outcomes
Creating a culture of innovation to improve processes and efficiencies
Building a Culture of Security and Enabling Smart, Secure Decision Making
Florida CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Otto Contreras
City of Miami, FL
Deputy CIO
Jennifer Greenman
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Chief Information Officer
Christina Shannon
KIK Consumer Products
Chief Information Officer
Luis Suarez
H.I.G. Capital
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer
Christine Vanderpool
Florida Crystals Corporation
VP & Chief Technology 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 Florida CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience
Hosted by Tanium
Arthur Zards
Thought Leader, TED/TEDx Speaker, Coach & Producer
Guest Speaker
Speakers want action, not just applause. But busy executives don’t have time to learn complex communication models or esoteric storytelling processes — they need a simple, effective speaking framework that can help them not only connect with any audience, but also elicit real change. Enter the "Swarm Effect."
Join this session with Arthur Zards — a thought leader, TEDster and provocateur — to:
- Hone your skills in executive influence
- Adopt a more authentic and engaging approach to speaking
- Take your next presentation from “understandable” to “compelling"
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Achieving Organizational Transformation with Emerging Technologies
Hosted by Island
Scott Montgomery
VP, Strategic Accounts
Island
As CIOs look for ways to bolster productivity and efficiencies across the enterprise, they are more and more reliant on emerging technologies, such as the enterprise browser. According to recent Gartner research, "Enterprise browsers will evolve to become the core platform for almost all of the day-to-day enterprise productivity and security software used by the workforce."
Join this presentation to understand how tech leaders can leverage emerging applications to transform the enterprise. In this session, we will share:
- Creating an employee experience centered on productivity and flexibility
- Reimagining how IT leaders can enable users while creating unique business value
- Benefits and possibilities for critical application protection
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Data IS Your Business – How Do You Secure it in the Cloud-Era
Hosted by Rubrik
Matt Castriotta
Manager, Tech GTM
Rubrik
Christopher Knauer
SVP and Chief Security Officer
Foundever
Giancarlo Yin
Regional CIO - North America
Bacardi
In these times of rapid technological advancement, data stands as the cornerstone of innovation. As we navigate through the information age, it's evident that data residing in the cloud represents the fastest area of growth. To maintain pace with the agility of cloud operations, it is imperative to discover and adopt strategic approaches and robust architectures.
Gather with your C-level peers to:
- Start solving the challenge of data visibility in the cloud
- Determine who in your organization should own data security (CISO? CDO? CPO?)
- Discuss how automation and agility can be accomplished through tooling or processes
10:25am - 11:00am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Leading with Digital Sustainability — A Strategy Led by Technology
Hosted by ChromeOS
Loren Hudziak
Sr Customer Engineer Manager
Google Chrome Enterprise
Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.
Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:
- Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
- How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
- Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Analyzing Your Application and Infrastructure Technology Strategy
Chad Simpson
Chief Information Officer
City Furniture
Eric Gonzalez
VP, Business Intelligence Architecture
Eastern Bank
Applications can make or break an organization’s growth. Too many and you create an opportunity for redundancies and inefficiencies; too few and you risk getting left in the past. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives and remain agile in the face of constant change?
Join your peers to discuss:
- Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
- Building a business case for application and technology rationalization
- Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements
11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Florida CIO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
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
Venue & Accommodation
Loews Miami Beach HotelIMPORTANT - Loews Miami Beach - Room Block Cancellation Policy:
- Any cancellations made after the Cutoff Date (November 5, 2023) are subject to a cancellation fee of one (1) night room charge plus tax. The cancellations after the Cutoff date are payable to the Venue by the attendees and will be the Venue’s responsibility to collect.
Parking:
Hotel Valet: $41
Public Parking Garage (across the street): $20/day
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-879-0462. Please mention EFS123 to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $599 USD (plus tax) is November 5, 2023.
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