In-Person

Milwaukee CIO Community

Executive Summit

November 14, 2023 | Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

November 14, 2023
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

Governing Body Agenda Location Sponsors Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Richard Flahaven

Harley-Davidson
Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer

Mandy Huth

Kohler Co.
VP, Cybersecurity

John Paape

Roehl Transport
Vice President of Technology/CIO

Rick Sackett

ProAmpac
Global Director, Information Security & Privacy

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 Milwaukee 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

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November 13, 2023

evening

November 14, 2023

morning afternoon

6:00pm - 8:30pm Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Sam Hilgendorf

CIO

Fox World Travel

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am Keynote

You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience

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

Assessing Risk - Collaboration Across the Enterprise

Mandy Huth

VP, Cybersecurity

Kohler Co.

In today’s business environment, organizations are held responsible for the actions of their suppliers, vendors and partners, in addition to their own internal activities. Knowledge and understanding of supplier and third-party risk is of the utmost importance to CISOs and the teams they support. Organizations must know their business well enough to understand where risks may materialize and employ processes to detect and react to their evolving risk from third parties.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate on third party risk with various scenarios including:

How to practically and contractually protect the business from risk
Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
What to do when your third party gets breached

9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom

Overcoming Legacy Technology — Stuck in the Middle of Modernization

Steve Hannan

Chief Information and Risk Officer

Landmark Credit Union

Lynne Briggs

Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Versiti

Antony D'Cruz

CIO & SVP IT & PMO

HSA Bank

Digital enterprises strive for the best business outcomes, but let’s face it, legacy technology is a hurdle many organizations have yet to clear. As leaders work to prioritize investments that support high-value technology opportunities, they must balance existing resources and planning for future upgrades.

Join this interactive session to:

Identify new ways to leverage legacy technology to bring value to the customer
Strategize what to sequentially modernize using data
Discuss integration challenges CIOs can anticipate as they plan for eventual upgrades

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

Daniel Busse

Senior Chrome Enterprise Customer Engineer

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

Putting AI to Work

Richard Flahaven

Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer

Harley-Davidson

John Mandli

CISO

S C Johnson & Son Inc

Greg Mueller

Worldwide Technical Sales Executive Director, Cognitive Risk & Compliance Solutions

IBM

AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 and its evolution leaped forward in 2023 with advances in generative AI that hold the potential to unlock trillions in economic value over the next decade. However, implementing AI for business has unique needs – it needs to be open, properly governed, designed for the enterprise, and most importantly, create value.

Explore the age of AI including:

Developing a data governance approach
Delivering a competitive business advantage through strategic use cases
Deploying governed AI with responsibility

11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom

Delivering Business Value Through Cybersecurity Investments

Nick Watson

Executive Director of Information Security & Compliance

Quad

Jeremy Bauer

CISO

Molson Coors Beverage Company

Molly Mulroy

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

WEC Energy Group

According to the 2022 Gartner IT Budget and Efficiency Benchmark, cybersecurity is the No. 1 spend item on the IT budget, and it remains a board-level concern. But spend does not always equal protection. CIOs and CISOs can make a difference by making sure investments into cybersecurity can create business value. Now is the time to measure the return on investment and make sure the organization’s goals are aligned.
Join this session to discuss:

Choosing the right investments that deliver value to the business
Going beyond the metric of number attacks to outcome-driven metrics such as how fast systems can be patched
Communicating with the board about cybersecurity through a business perspective

11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Delivering and Securing Digital Dividends

Matt Lehman

Industry Principal, Financial Services

RingCentral

William Cummings

Vice President Cybersecurity

Generac Power Systems

IT and security leadership is necessary to meet critical business gains for the remainder of 2023. The pressure is on leadership teams to drive revenue growth, optimize their budgets and teams and a find a faster path to realizing ROI. Among the many areas of modernization and innovation is in workplace collaboration to get the most out of your workforce.

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

Creating a roadmap to implement new capabilities for greater productivity
Embedding security and privacy into workforce collaboration
Developing technology strategies that lead to increased value

1:05pm - 1:30pm Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm Breakout Session

5 Days of Ransomware: From Threat to Recovery

Ryan Wessels

Director - IT Governance Risk & Compliance

Schreiber Foods

It's a company's worst nightmare. A threat actor gains access to the network, leading to the business having to shut down. That's exactly what happened at Schreiber Foods. After 5 days they were able to get 95% of their systems globally back up and running.

Hear from Ryan Wessels, Director - IT Governance Risk & Compliance at Schreiber Foods, as he shares about that ransomware attack, which was the beginning of Lockbit 2.0. You'll also hear:

Details of the attack and how events unfolded
Lessons learned and how IT teams can fully prepare
Key changes following the attack

1:30pm - 2:15pm Executive Boardroom

CIO Leadership to Advance Customer Experience

Matt Lehman

Industry Principal, Financial Services

RingCentral

Ivan Imana

CIO

World Travel

Ricki Koinig

Chief Information Officer

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for organizations to maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. Technology leaders have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience initiatives by leading with business and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

How CIOs can support or lead customer experience initiatives
How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
What strategies lead to more efficient and effective interactions

1:30pm - 2:15pm Executive Boardroom

Powering Growth with Data and Insights

Laurie Panella

CIO

Marquette University

Jody McDonough

VP, IT & CIO

Sub-Zero

Alignment of data and analytics with measurable business outcomes should be straightforward, right? Yet articulating, tracking and capturing business value remains a challenge for IT leaders. Showing measurable value is hard, but it can be done.

Join this session as your peers discuss:

Tools and techniques on how to deliver on your transformational data projects
How you can ensure you are delivering data-driven transformation at pace, cost and scale in times of operational uncertainty
What you can do today to foster a data-driven culture

2:15pm - 2:50pm Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm 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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm Breakout Session

Buzzers Over Buzzwords

Jennifer Westphal

VP, CISO

MGIC Investment Corporation

What's your community's top priority? What do your C-Level peers consider the largest hurdle to accomplishing their goals? What percentage of your peers are experiencing the same struggles as you? In this fun, highly interactive, game-show-style session, we'll put your knowledge to the test and provide insight into your community.

Come on down to:

Compete in a data-driven, community-specific, gamified quiz
Learn more about the struggles and opportunities reported by members of your community
Share and expand on these reported goals and challenges

2:50pm - 3:35pm Executive Boardroom

Aligning With the Business — IT’s Game Plan

Ken Garfinkel

GVP of IT and CX

Broan-NuTone

Tod Huber

VP of IT, Platform Engineering & Delivery

IAT Group

Getting total buy-in from leadership isn’t easy but can accelerate your initiatives and increase success and adoption. If you can learn to communicate with your board by leveraging data to tell a compelling story, IT’s effectiveness will be recognized — inspiring trust and future buy-in across the enterprise.

Join this session to discuss:

Best practices for communicating with your board
Using data to tell IT’s story
Building relationships with stakeholders

3:35pm - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm - 4:45pm Keynote

Balancing the Risk Versus Reward of AI

Chris Merkel

Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operations

Northwestern Mutual

Angela Johnson

CISO & VP IS Infrastructure

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

The hype around generative AI has been focused on opportunities and concerns. Technology executives are now looking to take the conversation a step further to discuss specific use cases and how organizations are using AI as a driver of innovation. With the ease of access, companies are hurrying to implement policies and are working cross-functionally with peers to figure out how AI can address business needs.

During this keynote, speakers will discuss:

Practical AI use cases
Strategies for creating governance and policies around AI
How AI is affecting IT and security talent

4:45pm - 5:10pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am Keynote

You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience

Arthur Zards

Thought Leader, TED/TEDx Speaker, Coach & Producer

Guest Speaker

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

Assessing Risk - Collaboration Across the Enterprise

Mandy Huth

VP, Cybersecurity

Kohler Co.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate on third party risk with various scenarios including:

How to practically and contractually protect the business from risk
Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
What to do when your third party gets breached

9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom

The Evolution of Network Segmentation

Britt Lindley

CISO

Trustmark

Reshad Alam

Vice President, Information Systems Security

Regal Rexnord

Benny Lakunishok

CEO & Co-Founder

Zero Networks

With the explosion of connected devices from onprem to cloud, clients, servers and OT, the challenge of effectively governing user and machine network access has never been greater. Security leaders must have the right tools and processes in place to make certain that the right people have the right access – nothing more. How can leaders propel the organization into the next generation of segmentation to stop attacks from spreading once they get in?

Join this session to discuss:

Looking at the business and technology changes driving the most significant trends in the evolution of network segmentation and microsegmentation
Making a business case for investing in the next generation of tools that have a demonstrated ROI
How to effectively take inventory of assets and their permissions on your network

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

Daniel Busse

Senior Chrome Enterprise Customer Engineer

Google Chrome Enterprise

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

Delivering Business Value Through Cybersecurity Investments

Nick Watson

Executive Director of Information Security & Compliance

Quad

Jeremy Bauer

CISO

Molson Coors Beverage Company

Molly Mulroy

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

WEC Energy Group

Choosing the right investments that deliver value to the business
Going beyond the metric of number attacks to outcome-driven metrics such as how fast systems can be patched
Communicating with the board about cybersecurity through a business perspective

11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Delivering and Securing Digital Dividends

Matt Lehman

Industry Principal, Financial Services

RingCentral

William Cummings

Vice President Cybersecurity

Generac Power Systems

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

Creating a roadmap to implement new capabilities for greater productivity
Embedding security and privacy into workforce collaboration
Developing technology strategies that lead to increased value

1:05pm - 1:30pm Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm Breakout Session

5 Days of Ransomware: From Threat to Recovery

Ryan Wessels

Director - IT Governance Risk & Compliance

Schreiber Foods

Hear from Ryan Wessels, Director - IT Governance Risk & Compliance at Schreiber Foods, as he shares about that ransomware attack, which was the beginning of Lockbit 2.0. You'll also hear:

Details of the attack and how events unfolded
Lessons learned and how IT teams can fully prepare
Key changes following the attack

2:15pm - 2:50pm Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm 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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm Breakout Session

Buzzers Over Buzzwords

Jennifer Westphal

VP, CISO

MGIC Investment Corporation

Come on down to:

Compete in a data-driven, community-specific, gamified quiz
Learn more about the struggles and opportunities reported by members of your community
Share and expand on these reported goals and challenges

2:50pm - 3:35pm Executive Boardroom

Up Your Cloud Game

Tim Van Ryzin

Director, Information Security

Milliman

David Hotchkiss

VP & CIO

Medical College of Wisconsin

Mark Prodoehl

CIO

ManpowerGroup

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, so too should the strategies leaders develop in order to remain secure. The seismic changes of cloud migration, and ultimately cloud maturity, can be difficult to manage, but the CIOs and CISOs who transition effectively will find their organizations more agile and secure.

During this peer-discussion you will explore:

Strategies to guide your organization's cloud priorities
Connecting a “cloud right” strategy to business value
Setting realistic goals to achieve cloud maturity

3:35pm - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm - 4:45pm Keynote

Balancing the Risk Versus Reward of AI

Chris Merkel

Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operations

Northwestern Mutual

Angela Johnson

CISO & VP IS Infrastructure

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

During this keynote, speakers will discuss:

Practical AI use cases
Strategies for creating governance and policies around AI
How AI is affecting IT and security talent

4:45pm - 5:10pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

November 13, 2023

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November 14, 2023

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Agenda

November 13, 2023

November 14, 2023

Governing Body Welcome Reception

You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience

Assessing Risk - Collaboration Across the Enterprise

Overcoming Legacy Technology — Stuck in the Middle of Modernization

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Leading with Digital Sustainability — A Strategy Led by Technology

Putting AI to Work

Delivering Business Value Through Cybersecurity Investments

Delivering and Securing Digital Dividends

5 Days of Ransomware: From Threat to Recovery

CIO Leadership to Advance Customer Experience

Powering Growth with Data and Insights

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Buzzers Over Buzzwords

Aligning With the Business — IT’s Game Plan

Balancing the Risk Versus Reward of AI

Governing Body Welcome Reception

You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience

Assessing Risk - Collaboration Across the Enterprise

The Evolution of Network Segmentation

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Leading with Digital Sustainability — A Strategy Led by Technology

Delivering Business Value Through Cybersecurity Investments

Delivering and Securing Digital Dividends

5 Days of Ransomware: From Threat to Recovery

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Buzzers Over Buzzwords

Up Your Cloud Game

Balancing the Risk Versus Reward of AI

November 13, 2023

November 14, 2023

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