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Florida CIO Executive Summit
November 13, 2024 | Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
November 13, 2024
Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
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:
Mitigating Risks with Cybersecurity Strategies
Making Data-Driven Decisions to Communicate Risk
Using AI to Improve Processes and Efficiencies While Keeping Up With the Changing Landscape
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
Carrie Busbee
Core & Main
CIO
Prashant Cherukuri
Qualfon
CIO
Elvis Clemetson
SBA Communications
SVP & Global CIO
Otto Contreras
Miami-Dade County
Division Director, IT
Chad Couch
JM Family Enterprises
CIO
Christina Shannon
KIK Consumer Products
CIO
Luis Suarez
H.I.G. Capital
CIO
Christine Vanderpool
Florida Crystals Corporation
VP & CTO
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 Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Executive Boardroom hosted by Cyera
Details coming soon
Executive Boardroom hosted by Twilio
Details coming soon.
Executive Boardroom hosted by Abnormal Security
Details coming soon.
Driving Value Through Operational Transformation
In the rapidly evolving business landscape, CIOs and CISOs are increasingly tasked with transforming their operational models to drive agility and deliver value swiftly. This session will explore the shift from traditional project-based approaches to a product-centric operating model, emphasizing the importance of quick solution delivery and sustained value creation.
Join this session to discuss:
- Challenges and best practices for transitioning to a product-type operating model
- Strategies to accelerate solution delivery and respond quickly to market changes
- How to leverage advanced technologies and digital tools to automate processes
Strengthening Supply Chain Cyber Resiliency
In today's interconnected digital landscape, potential outages and breaches of vendors pose significant risks to organizational operations and security. Ensuring cyber resiliency involves rigorous vendor vetting, continuous monitoring, and comprehensive incident response planning to mitigate these threats.
Join this session to strategize on:
- Adopting a proactive and holistic approach to improve supply chain risk
- Enhancing resiliency against third-party disruptions
- Safeguarding digital ecosystems from emerging cyber threats
Strategic IT Leadership - Models for Success
Developing a robust IT strategy must be closely aligned with business objectives. This ensures technology investments and initiatives directly contribute to achieving the organization's overall strategic goals.
Join this session to discuss:
- Aligning your IT strategy with business objectives
- Establishing a governance structure that provides necessary oversight
- Creating agile and adaptable operating models
Keynote Session
Harnessing Human Energy — Thriving Amidst Rapid Change
In the face of unrelenting transformation, staying innovative and productive can feel daunting, especially with emerging generations' evolving work expectations, the permanence of hybrid teams and the pervasive influence of AI. The key to thriving in this chaotic environment lies in leveraging and organizing work around intrinsic motivators, such as yourself and the people within your organization.
Join this session to learn:
- The keys for navigating constant change with more energy and resilience
- How to create astonishing psychological safety within your team
- A practical framework to access more productivity across your entire organization
Breakout Sessions
Featured Session with Google Chrome
Details coming soon.
From Endpoint to the Board — Identifying Cyber Risk that Matters
Prioritizing and eliminating the cyber risks that matter most is the ultimate goal of security leaders. But how do you validate that your efforts are hitting the mark? It all comes down to well-crafted measurements: metrics that are reliable and easily understood by all stakeholders across the business.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Cybersecurity risk assessment essentials and which risks truly carry weight
- Concrete approaches to determine effectiveness of security capabilities
- Creating simple "metric cards" to communicate across stakeholders
Governing Body Reception Session
Governing Body Reception
Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
MORE INFORMATION
Parking
Complimentary parking onsite.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 954-920-3500. Please mention Evanta Florida Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $269 USD (plus tax) is October 21, 2024.
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