
France CIO Community
Executive Summit
5 December 2023 | Les Salons Hoche, Paris
5 December 2023
Les Salons Hoche, Paris
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with France'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:
Converging IT & digital transformation to accelerate business value & enable data driven decisions
Understanding CIO & CISO’s role in reducing cost and increasing efficiency for cloud infrastructure
Embedding a resilient security culture without compromising on threat management
France 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

Valéria Fernandes
Vallourec
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
08:15 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote
The Last Frontier – Global Digitalisation in the Construction Industry

Ursula Soritsch-Renier
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer
Saint-Gobain
Bringing a global construction group with a 358-year history into the digital age is no easy task. It requires a fundamental shift in ways of working; moving from a labour-intensive approach utilising traditional materials to one with a lighter carbon footprint. Join Ursula Soritsch-Renier, as she shares how the Saint-Gobain Group have embraced digitalisation to reshape the construction industry.
In this keynote, Ursula will share how to:
- Embed IT and digitalisation as a pillar in the wider Group’s strategy
- Align the IT and Digital strategy closer to business needs to accelerate transformation
- Communicate digitalisation use case to demonstrate results to stakeholders
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
Transforming the IT Operating Model to Fuel Business Growth

Hélène Chaplain Lambert
Global CIO
Pernod Ricard
You may have a technology ambition and the leadership endorsement to drive profitable and sustainable growth, however, without the right organizational conditions, your strategy will most likely not deliver. Join Hélène Chaplain Lambert, Pernod Ricard Global CIO as she shares how Pernod Ricard is reframing a new Tech operating model to deliver an ambitious strategic agenda.
In this session, you will hear more on:
- Embedding technology and data as strategic enablers of growth strategy whilst defining the right set of priorities
- Positioning CIO as strategic partner to businesses and functions, creating a balanced and expert operating model to foster excellence in execution
- Instilling clear governance parameters to support both strategy and transformation in highly volatile environments
10:45 - 11:45 Networking Break
10:55 - 11:40 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.
11:45 - 12:30 Breakout Session
Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Cyber Resilience
Hosted by Palo Alto Networks

Raphael Marichez
Chief Security Officer, South Europe
Palo Alto Networks
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive efficiency and technological innovation. Yet taking advantage of this opportunity in the wrong way can have serious security consequences for the organization. IT and Security leaders need to anticipate and prepare to mitigate potential risks as data is increasingly accessed and analysed in increasingly different ways. For business stakeholders to secure investment, how can CIOs and CISOs demonstrate the benefits of these technologies? Join this session to learn about:
- How AI plays a role in sophisticated attacks today and how to prepare
How leaders can use AI capabilities to enhance cybersecurity and demonstrate value to the business
Examples of how to leverage AI to process and analyse large volumes of data quickly and safely
11:45 - 12:30 Executive Boardroom
Optimising Applications to Achieve Growth and Profitability in Complex Times
Hosted by Rimini Street

Eric Helmer
Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer
Rimini Street

Dominique Guivarch
Group CIO
InVivo Group

Béatrice Mabille
CIO / VP Internal IT
Criteo
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 how to:
- Reprioritise application strategy to ensure collaboration between IT and business units
- Establish a unified platform strategy to meet your business application and automation needs
- Improve operational efficiency by eliminating the barriers presented by legacy applications
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the France CIO Community Executive Summit.
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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.
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