2024 Florida CIO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Florida'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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Otto Contreras

Miami-Dade County
Division Director, IT

Jennifer Greenman

Cancer Treatment Centers of America
CIO

Christina Shannon

KIK Consumer Products
CIO

Luis Suarez

H.I.G. Capital
CIO

Christine Vanderpool

Florida Crystals Corporation
VP & Chief Technology Officer

Agenda

February 28, 2024

4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics

Modernizing Your Tech Stack

Wil Rivera

Sr Customer Engineering Manager

Google Chrome Enterprise

Roger Auinger

Head of Governance, Risk, Compliance

Spirit Airlines

Shawna Cartwright

Business Information Officer | CIO | SVP Enterprise Technology

Cushman & Wakefield

Brian Hansen

Vice President, Regional Chief Security Officer Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

Mastercard

Christopher Knauer

SVP and Chief Security Officer

Foundever

Lena Licata

Global Head of Blackstone Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance

Blackstone Group

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?