In-Person

France CIO Community

Executive Summit

5 December 2024 | Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile

5 December 2024
Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile

Governing Body Agenda Location Sponsors Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Nicolas Drapier

B&B Hotels
Group CIO

Valéria Fernandes

Vallourec
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

François Gauthier

Veolia
Global Chief Digital Business & Technology Officer

Dominique Guivarch

InVivo Group
Group CIO

Christopher Tollnert

GSF
Group CIO & Head of Digital Innovation

Francesca Vergara

Disneyland Paris
CIO

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 France 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.

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Agenda

CIO Agenda CISO Agenda

4 December 2024

evening

5 December 2024

morning afternoon evening

18:30 - 21:30 Governing Body Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45 Keynote

Unlocking GenAI’s Transformative Potential to Build a Sustainable Future

Youssef Tahani

Group CTO

ENGIE

With sustainability and safety at its core, and climate change evolving before our very eyes, Engie recognised an opportunity to utilise advanced analytics and AI to its advantage. Join Youssef Tahani, Group CTO at Engie as he shares the journey from identifying valued use cases to scaling generative AI and changing mindsets.

In this keynote, Youssef will share insights into:

Incorporating generative AI into your IT strategy to demonstrate tangible value
Reshaping your corporate DNA to adopt an ‘AI at scale’ mindset and deliver sustained change
Balancing associated AI risks with the desire to innovate

09:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session

A New Era of Computing — Embracing Security, Sustainability and the Modern Endpoint

Philippe Kauffmann

ChromeOS Enterprise Lead, Europe

Google

Marc Lemke

EVP, CIO

Delfingen

*This session will take place in French*

For CIOs, current external forces are making it tough to prepare for success. This, coupled with a fast-moving technology landscape means that the CIO must wear more hats than ever before. Hear from Marc Lemke, CIO at Delfingen as he shares how a cloud-first IT strategy boosted productivity, enhanced security and delivered cost savings for their bottom line.

Join this session and conversation with your peers to discuss:

Reliable IT strategies that deliver a boost to TCO and productivity
Building a Zero Trust IT mentality and prioritising security
Securing stakeholder buy-in for wide scale digital transformation

10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom

Strategic Cyber Transformation — Empowering Business Resilience and Cyber Awareness

Neil Thacker

CISO EMEA

Netskope

Jerome Nevicato

CIO

SIG plc

Michel Tournier

IT Operating Partner & Digital Director

Wendel

Digital business transformation combined with the increasing threat of cyberattacks creates unprecedented security risks. CIOs must balance cybersecurity with the need to run the business, but what are the best ways to enable risk-based decisions across the organisation whilst protecting against security threats and other cybersecurity events? Join this boardroom to discuss:

Implementing a robust and defensible cybersecurity programme that enhances overall business value
Ensuring your cybersecurity strategy supports business resilience and growth while reducing risk
Effective partnership across the business to drive cyber awareness

10:45 - 11:50 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.

11:50 - 12:35 Breakout Session

Outpacing the Adversary — Securing AI Innovation Before It’s Too Late

Raphaël Marichez

Chief Security Officer, South Europe

Palo Alto Networks

In an era where threats evolve with unprecedented speed and sophistication, IT leaders must rise to the challenge. As attackers harness AI, the role of a CIO becomes pivotal in safeguarding their organisation without stifling innovation. Join this boardroom to share insights on how to balance these and keep on track to achieve enterprise priorities.

Specifically, you will discuss:

Anticipating and counteracting the demands of the new threat landscape
Future-proofing your AI journey to embrace innovation and protect the organisation
Driving cybersecurity consolidation with proven TCO benefits

11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom

Rationalise Your Application Infrastructure to Reduce Cost

Eric Helmer

SVP & Chief Technology Officer

Rimini Street

Raphaël Hélion

Global CITO

Mazars

Matthieu Tanguy

CIO International

GE Healthcare

Applications can make or break an organisation’s growth. Too many and you create opportunity for inefficiencies; too few and you risk being behind the curve. How can CIOs streamline their application infrastructure to minimise cost and balance vendor relationships?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss how to:

Build a business case to rationalise technology and increase resource allocation
Communicate legacy application cost and link technology spend to business objectives
Optimise your vendor relationships to ensure your mission-critical systems are supported

12:35 - 13:30 Lunch Service

13:30 - 14:15 Keynote

The CIO & CISO’s Guide to Navigating Complexity in IT/OT Security

Christoph Schuhwerk

CISO in Residence — EMEA

Zscaler

CIOs and CISOs today face a Gordian Knot of complexity when it comes to their organization's IT/OT security. This complexity is the source of many of their problems for reliability, usability, and security. Learn how two strategic paths for streamlining your security stack to a selection of highly versatile partners can help empower security teams and simplify architecture to better protect critical connected devices.

Join this session to learn:

How to consolidate your security stack to a few central platforms by leveraging the unique abilities of each
How to free application teams to take control over their entire value chain and delegate meaningful decisions on development speed and cybersecurity
How modern platforms enable consolidation and a DevSecOps “shift-left” approach through revolutionary architecture

14:15 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 15:15 Breakout Session

Scale Local Applications for Global Deployment to Transform & Simplify User Experience

Olivier Gibert

Global CTO

Carrefour

In some cases, applications initially built and deployed for a country scope can afterwards be good candidates for a wider deployment. Where do you begin when these conditions arise? What are the Dos & Don'ts of this approach to ensure success? Join Olivier Gibert, Global CTO at Carrefour as he shares his team’s efforts to scale applications to deliver a seamless, omnichannel user experience.

In this session, Olivier will share how to:

Identify local applications which should be deployed at scale to bring tangible business benefits
Transform the application to make compatible with the target global scope
Ensure a smooth and incremental deployment while decommissioning legacy systems

14:30 - 15:15 Executive Boardroom

Create a Unified Approach to Digital Employee Experience for Improved Productivity

Marc Frentzel

Sr Solutions Consulting Director, Europe

Nexthink

Michaël Manouvrier

Chief Digital & Information Officer

Roquette Frères

CIOs know that identifying employee experience issues quickly will increase productivity. However, in a hybrid workplace, Service Desks are under resourced and information exists in silos which leads to poor IT service delivery. How can CIOs create a unified Digital Employee Experience across IT infrastructure to improve efficiency?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss how to:

Identify DEX problems before they become IT issues to build efficient workplace teams
Determine context, extent and impact of issues to prioritise response and accelerate troubleshooting
Communicate the ‘why’ behind a unified approach to IT which can break down silos

15:15 - 15:45 Networking Break

15:45 - 16:30 Executive Boardroom

Mastering Compliance — Organising and Protecting Digital Content

Samantha Wessels

SVP and President, EMEA

Box

Béatrice Mabille

CIO / VP Internal IT

Criteo

Ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting sensitive data, and effectively managing risks are critical in compliant content management. However, challenges arise from fragmented data and a complex and constantly evolving regulatory landscape. By implementing secure practices and policies, CIOs can not only improve operational efficiency but also build stakeholder trust and safeguard the organisation's reputation.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

Streamlining content governance with retention and disposition management
Ensuring practices align with relevant laws, regulations and industry standards
Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure digital content protection

15:45 - 16:30 Executive Boardroom

Embrace Endpoint Management to Enhance Digital Work

Pierrick Alby

Workplace Consulting Services Manager, France

Insight

Philippe Bosquier

Global CIO

ARKANCE

CIOs know that businesses depend on familiar, and often outdated, legacy systems. Yet in a hybrid workplace, a unified and efficient IT management system is challenging to achieve. CIOs must place greater focus on securing endpoints and improving devices’ lifecycle to offer a streamlined digital workplace. In doing so, a more efficient workforce is a more productive one.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

Driving efficient endpoint security and management to increase productivity
Lowering costs to optimise the modern endpoint
Contributing towards a sustainable future with device lifecycle management

16:30 - 16:45 Break

16:45 - 17:30 Keynote

Harness Resilience to Lead Teams Through Adversity and Change

Peggy Bouchet

Adventurer,

First Woman to Row Solo Across the Atlantic

The first woman to dare to row solo across the Atlantic, Peggy Bouchet is a passionate speaker, entrepreneur. From a very early age, she learned to cultivate her boldness, her ability to adapt and to learn from each experience. She understood that life is never written, it’s up to us to build it through our own decisions and efforts. In this keynote Peggy will share her insights on resilience, motivation and how best to communicate change to your teams.

Join this keynote to learn more about the importance of:

Embracing change and overcoming challenges
Using every experience to adapt and motivate
Defining clear milestones and goals to communicate change to your team

17:30 - 18:00 Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45 Keynote

Unlocking GenAI’s Transformative Potential to Build a Sustainable Future

Youssef Tahani

Group CTO

ENGIE

In this keynote, Youssef will share insights into:

Incorporating generative AI into your IT strategy to demonstrate tangible value
Reshaping your corporate DNA to adopt an ‘AI at scale’ mindset and deliver sustained change
Balancing associated AI risks with the desire to innovate

09:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session

CISOs & Security Posture — How to Stop the Attack Before It Happens

Karl Buffin

VP Southern Europe

XM Cyber

Maxime Blacha

Group CISO

Elior Group

The cyber threat landscape continues to grow, and CISOs need to make faster, more confident decisions about which exposures to fix and which to safely ignore. With 82% of security leaders reporting an increasing gap between vulnerabilities/exposures and their ability to address them, what are the strategies CISOs should employ to continually improve their security posture? Join this session to learn how continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) strategies can greatly enhance security posture.

Specifically, you’ll hear:

Why the disconnect exists and CTEM’s 5-step approach.
How to reduce risk and increase efficiency with a comprehensive exposure management approach.
How to measure and report security posture gains to the board

10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom

Threat Intelligence and Third-Party Risk — Doubling Down on Critical Vulnerabilities

Rigo Van den Broeck

EVP, Cyber Security Product Innovation

Mastercard

Franck Veysset

Group CISO

Michelin

Philippe Netzer-Joly

Group Chief Cyber Security Officer

Arkema

The complete entanglement of cyber risk with business risk is becoming increasingly visible. CISOs now have an opportunity to better pinpoint third parties that present a threat to the organisation. Yet the increasing complexities of third party, and even fourth party, risk management, prompted by a wide range of evolving threats, demands heightened attention. How can CISOs ensure they have a clear overview of the threat landscape and vulnerabilities across ecosystems and supply chains?

Join this session to discuss:

Identification of vulnerabilities across your vendor landscape to prioritise response efforts
Best practices for mitigating a new wave of sophisticated attacks to keep assets safe
The role threat intelligence plays in risk management strategies to safeguard your digital ecosystem

10:45 - 11:50 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.

11:50 - 12:35 Breakout Session

Modern Workforce, Modern Security Strategy

Vincent Robin

Chrome Browser Enterprise Specialist

Google Chrome Enterprise

Fabien Schwebel

CISO

Europcar Mobility Group

Thomas Leveque

Group CISO

Bonduelle

Remote and hybrid work models open the door to a new wave of browser-based cyber threats. With sensitive data constantly flowing online, businesses face escalating risks and costly attacks. This session explores how to fortify your business against cyberattacks by securing the browser—the gateway to your sensitive data—all without disrupting the flow of work.

Join this session and hear from your peers about:

The browser's role in a business's security strategy
How the browser can secure your workers and company data on managed or non managed devices
Managing resources for cybersecurity in a time of economic uncertainty

11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom

Securing SaaS — Tackling Key Vulnerabilities Across an Evolving Attack Surface

Brandon Romisher

VP EMEA

AppOmni

Thuyen Pham

Group CISO

DomusVi

Marcus Setina

CISO

Ingenico Group

Dominique Galland

Head of IT Security

FM Logistics

SaaS applications power today’s business, and downtime or compromise will pause operations. Despite the increase in SaaS-first strategies, Security teams continue to rely on perimeter-based SASE and IDP solutions which do not match the complexity of the SaaS-native attack surface. This boardroom will encourage you to look inside your SaaS systems to match secure configuration with advanced detection and response capabilities. Specifically, you will discuss how to:

Bypass Zero Trust strategies and the mitigating controls to consider
Advance your detection & response programme to maintain a cohesive security posture
Ensure your metrics to measure SaaS Security are effective to keep up with attack surface

12:35 - 13:30 Lunch Service

13:30 - 14:15 Keynote

The CIO & CISO’s Guide to Navigating Complexity in IT/OT Security

Christoph Schuhwerk

CISO in Residence — EMEA

Zscaler

Join this session to learn:

How to consolidate your security stack to a few central platforms by leveraging the unique abilities of each
How to free application teams to take control over their entire value chain and delegate meaningful decisions on development speed and cybersecurity
How modern platforms enable consolidation and a DevSecOps “shift-left” approach through revolutionary architecture

14:15 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 15:15 Executive Boardroom

From Migration to Maturity — Transforming SOCs for Cloud-Ready Security Operations

Nicolas Ehrman

Product Marketing Manager

Wiz

Sébastien Carriere

Global Head of Technology & Group CISO

Louis Dreyfus Company

Alain Rogulski

Group CISO

Sodexo

No matter where CISOs are on their cloud journey, they know their SOC must evolve to address the challenges of cloud-native threats. CISOs must adopt a proactive approach to these risks to ensure comprehensive visibility and rapid response. How can CISOs empower SOC teams and secure critical resources across multi-cloud environments?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss how to:

Benchmark your SOC performance against cloud-native threats and fill gaps you’ve identified
Leverage tools, processes and skills to build a scalable multi-cloud infrastructure
Empower SOC teams to have more visibility on critical assets to accelerate response time

15:15 - 15:45 Networking Break

15:45 - 16:30 Breakout Session

Integrate OT into Security Posture for Comprehensive Approach to Cybersecurity

Frank Van Caenegem

VP Cybersecurity, CISO EMEA

Schneider Electric

The number of connected devices is growing by the second. Operational Technology (OT) is no longer limited to key industry players. For a CISO, visibility is key: you need to know what you have to protect, which leads to an expansion of the CISO's traditional role and responsibilities. However, protecting your IT and OT environments is not the same. By focusing on the three pillars of people, process and technology, the IT and OT worlds can aim for resilience.

Join this session to understand:

Your new or expanding responsibilities in Operational Technology
What you can do to establish cybersecurity governance in an OT environment
How you can best collaborate with other corporate leaders to work towards cyber resiliency

16:30 - 16:45 Break

16:45 - 17:30 Keynote

Harness Resilience to Lead Teams Through Adversity and Change

Peggy Bouchet

Adventurer,

First Woman to Row Solo Across the Atlantic

Join this keynote to learn more about the importance of:

Embracing change and overcoming challenges
Using every experience to adapt and motivate
Defining clear milestones and goals to communicate change to your team

17:30 - 18:00 Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

4 December 2024

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5 December 2024

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