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October 30, 2024 | Westin Governor Morris
October 30, 2024
Westin Governor Morris
Get together with New Jersey'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:
Delivering and defining value through generative and traditional AI
Prioritizing risk mitigation within cybersecurity strategies is paramount
Improving cloud security metrics and KPIs while enhancing processes and efficiencies
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Roota Almeida
Amazon
Head of Security Governance, Amazon Stores
Lookman Fazal
NJ Transit
Chief Information & Digital Officer
Zouhair Guelzim
L'Oreal Americas
VP & CISO
Hussein Syed
RWJBarnabas Health
CISO
Gabrielle Wolfson
Quest Diagnostics Inc
Senior VP & Chief Information & Chief Digital Officer
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Vijay Pendakur, Ph.D.
Team Effectiveness Coach
Guest Speaker
Disruption, change, and extended uncertainty are hallmarks of our time, but can lead even strong teams to fail. How can some teams outperform consistently in these conditions? The Alchemy of Talent is Dr. Pendakur’s proven model for high performing teams, backed by extensive research and his own experience leading teams across numerous complex organizations. This high-energy keynote will focus on the science and skills of trust and team connection, along with the innovation potential of harnessing team complexity.
Audience members will learn:
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Hosted by ChromeOS
IT leaders are under pressure to innovate their organization’s tech stack to meet the demands of modern business. While web-based apps, AI and other modern solutions offer a better user experience, advanced security and simpler management, many businesses are still critically dependent on legacy apps and systems. How can IT teams innovate their infrastructure without disrupting operations and end users? This session breaks down some common misconceptions about modernization and reveals a direct path for IT leaders towards more efficient, secure, and cost-effective endpoint management.
Join this session and breakout-style conversation with ChromeOS and your peers to discuss:
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by CrowdStrike
Zlatko Saric
Tech Strategist, CTO Americas
CrowdStrike
Security consistency, performance and visibility across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments is the desired end state for enterprise CISOs. However, challenges including siloed security tools, increasing numbers of adversary attacks on cloud, limited runtime protection, and the lack of visibility while trying to enforce compliance can stand in the way of getting there.
Join this session to discuss how to:
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
As leaders seek to drive business value from data and analytics initiatives, they face both cultural and technical challenges. CIOs must partner with the business in creating a long-term analytics strategy that enables the organization to make data driven decisions.
Join this session to hear perspectives on:
Evolving data governance efforts to power accuracy in reporting and analytics
Overcoming technical obstacles and cost pressure to ensure analytics programs get prioritized
Building a business case to create a strategy that has measurable outcomes and results
10:25am - 11:05am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am 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.
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Raman Kaur
Senior Director, UM Technology
Evernorth
CIOs and CISOs can harness GenAI's potential by identifying high-impact initiatives that align with business goals. However, as they adopt GenAI in a way that drives innovation to create a competitive advantage, they must take a methodical approach that ensures responsible and innovative use of the technology.
Join this interactive session to:
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Palo Alto Networks
Details coming soon.
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Roopesh Das
SVP, Digital Acceleration & Innovation
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, technology is the driving factor of business strategy and organizational success. But for CIOs to deliver digital, the technology must have a meaningful impact. Otherwise, the dollars are not worth spending.
In this session:
11:50am - 12:35pm Lunch Service
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Westin Governor Morris at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-627-8419. Please mention New Jersey Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $249 USD (plus tax) is October 8, 2024.
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