Executive Summit

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

Event Keynote

Aligning All “Wheels” for Peak Organizational Performance

Drawing from his military background, Gordo Wilson believes communication and coordination are key to maintaining and improving high-performance teams across the enterprise. IT leaders who blend the lines between business and technology can leave a legacy as CIO.

Join Gordon Wilson, CIO – Americas at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to discuss:

• Creating avenues for continuous knowledge sharing
• Leveraging the strength of technology teams to enable the business
• Implementing a strong culture to drive consistent performance

New, special demands constantly arise for decision-makers who steer the fortunes of companies. Recently, business success has become linked to IT infrastructure. Seamless and secure connectivity is the key to unlocking innovation and accelerating business outcomes. To reach this state, enterprises are transforming their networks and security to a zero trust architecture augmented by AI/ML capabilities, thereby reducing risk, eliminating cost and complexity and increasing agility.

Join this session and learn:

• How zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, IoT/OT devices, and your business partners by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture
• How to reduce network complexity without exposing your organization to new risks
• How AI/ML adds defensive and business analytics capabilities that have the power to turn IT into the engine propelling business success forward

CIOs can increase the value of IT through operating model changes and creating business alignment efficiencies. By working collaboratively with business units, CIOs can prioritize technology needs and invest in capabilities to achieve excellence in operating model structure. 

Join this session with an interactive panel to discuss:

• Building an IT strategy closely aligned with the business strategy
• Driving operational change with strategic change management
• Attaining efficiencies with a consistent approach to processes

With the data and artificial intelligence landscape rapidly increasing in complexity with new models, platforms, tools, and apps being released to the market all the time, IT leaders must have strong data management foundations in place. To take advantage of AI, organizations must rely on being a data-driven company that is powered by digital solutions.

In this session, we’ll discuss:

• Analyzing scalability, security, and data governance
• Using data management in adjusting and extending AI models
• Achieving a return on investment with change management

Recent advancements in AI and data ecosystems have propelled CIOs into an arena full of opportunity. How IT leaders choose to leverage the current momentum and hype around AI could determine whether they catapult the enterprise ahead of their competitors or position the organization in a laggard state.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Balancing the benefits and risks of AI implementation
• Evaluating your organizational readiness for scaling AI capabilities
• Managing internal expectations to ensure a thoughtful approach to delivering results with AI

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

The intersection of digital business and advanced technologies has inevitably brought life to continuous innovation. But when faced with economic instability and fiscal responsibility, how can CIOs maintain a constant innovative mindset and culture?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Encouraging experimentation, ideation and failure in order to succeed
• Cultivating an innovation-rich culture
• Communicating and quantifying the value of innovation for long-term growth

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

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.

As the hype around generative AI continues to build, being a reluctant adopter is no longer an option. Maybe you already dove in headfirst; maybe you’re still testing the waters as your team contemplates governance or ethical concerns. No matter which approach your organization is taking to AI implementation, come to this interactive session ready to share, ask questions, collaborate and get inspired.

Pull up a seat to discuss:

• Practical AI use cases
• Strategies for creating governance and managing risk around AI
• How companies are keeping up with the changing AI landscape

AI is changing how we think about the customer experience and the ways we can interact with them.  What if implementing real-time data can help us customize their experiences even further? What can the future hold to improve business outcomes and optimize the customer experience? 

Join this session to learn:

• Driving communication strategies by incorporating behavioral, engagement and pricing data
• How quickly adapting your customer experiences can drive revenue
• Ways that the customer profile can be supported through the entire engagement cycle 

CIOs are constantly seeking the right talent at the right time with an increased focus on future proofing the talent pipeline to build retention efforts. With the many advances in AI comes a shift in the skillsets necessary to propel the digital business forward. How can CIOs approach recruiting the right talent while effectively utilizing current employees' skills to effectively close talent gaps and future proof the workforce in an age of constant change?

Join your peers to discuss:

• Preparing employees for change and utilizing their full potential
• Strategies to not only upskill but reskill to keep up with digital business demands
• Blending traditional and unconventional approaches to close talent and skill gaps

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organizations. But soon, intelligent software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. CEOs believe that by 2030, up to 20% of their companies’ revenue will come from machine customers.

Join Don Scheibenreif, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner and Author of When Machines Become Customers to discuss how:

• Machine customers will be involved in a wide range of consumer and business purchases
• Marketing and selling to machines will be very different
• Machine customers will operate based on rules and logic