Southern California CIO Executive Summit

Integrating a complex ecosystem across all security areas can optimize defenses without simplifying adversaries’ challenges. This approach balances robust security with efficiency, crucial for navigating generative AI and tech advancements. Achieving this requires strategic selection and consolidation of platforms to enhance agility, reduce risk, and maintain cost-effectiveness.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The composition of an effective security architecture
• Value you can derive from a converged networking and security platform
• Common consolidation mistakes people make and how to avoid them

Now more than ever, organizations globally are looking at cyber attacks and business disruptions through a new lens of severity. With the stakes high, CIOs are evaluating how to create a resilient IT strategy in alignment with the broader organization.

Join this interactive session to discuss with your peers:

• How to respond and adapt quickly to disruptions or unplanned changes
• Diversification of tooling to reduce risk
• Tactics for a cyber-resilient future

Starting down the path of an ERP cloud migration can be both exciting and daunting. This change initiative is no longer an IT project, but rather a means to a fully digital enterprise. Join this boardroom as CIOs discuss the journey of moving from an on-prem ERP to a cloud-based ERP.

In this session, CIOs will discuss:

• Setting and communicating a vision for cloud-based ERP journey
• Creating a strategy and execution plan for seamless integration and adoption
• Maximizing business value with data availability and a robust application architecture

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 Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

In today's challenging digital landscape, reducing operational complexity is a powerful force of cost optimization and efficiencies that ultimately drive business outcomes. IT is continually asked to do more with less, avoid negative impacts to user experience, and maximize existing investments.

Join this session to discuss:

• Optimizing cloud costs and mitigating the effects of tool sprawl
• Defining clear, measurable optimization goals and tracking business outcomes
• Ensuring automated workloads run smoothly and cost-effectively

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 Lauren.Hursley@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.

The IT operating model comprises a number of key facets that need to evolve together as you mature I&T to support digital transformation. 

This workshop will enable you to:

• Assess your current enterprises’ I&T operating model maturity
• Apply tactics tailored to design, implement and evolve your I&T operating model components to the next level
• Transform projects to products and beyond

IT leaders face the critical task of ensuring data's trust and reliability —essential for informed decision making and strategic advantage. Aligning data strategies with business objectives ensures compliance but also positions data as a pivotal force for competitive differentiation.
Join your peers to discuss:

• Establishing robust governance for data trust-building
• Adopting technology to ensure data quality
• Fostering organizational culture for data literacy

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 Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

Tracking risk among digital assets to ensure high-level resiliency is top of mind for technology leaders. As remote work and use of mobile devices and cloud services continues to increase, this makes self-learning artificial intelligence an even handier threat detection tool. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Ways to improve competency in tools and processes
• How to leverage self-learning AI to identify advanced threats
• Strategies to increase security operation efficiency and innovation

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 Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

As IT leaders seek to advance their data management strategy, challenges with siloed data, data quality, security and cost continue to create barriers. As Chief Data Officer at DIRECTV, Usman Quddoos has successfully transformed their data strategy by implementing a data mesh framework to enable the business to thrive.

Join this session to learn about:

• Creating a solid data foundation with quality at the forefront
• Driving business outcomes through self-service
• Delivering and defining value beyond reporting analytics

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.