IN-PERSON

Southern California CIO Inner Circle

September 24, 2024 | Meadowlark Golf Club

September 24, 2024
Meadowlark Golf Club

Collaborate with your peers

Join Southern California's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Creating simplified, agile IT environments with minimal disruption to productivity

Allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems

Modernizing quickly and efficiently to keep up with evolving security threats

Southern California CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Suzie Bonner

Reliance, Inc.
SVP & CIO

Allen Fazio

Houlihan Lokey
Chief Information Officer

Chad Hamilton

Fremantle
VP, Technology

Kelly Hamilton

Sony Pictures Entertainment
CIO

Greg Moore

KB Home
VP & CIO

Anthony Moses

Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation
Global Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer

Thomas Phelps

Laserfiche
Executive Chair and Laserfiche CIO

Agenda


September 24, 2024

4:30pm - 5:30pm  Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm  Discussion Topics

Modernizing Your Tech Stack

Tania Mercer headshot

Tania Mercer

Chrome Enterprise Specialist

Google

Kiran Vankamamidi headshot

Kiran Vankamamidi

EVP & CIO

Ventura Foods

Suzie Bonner headshot

Suzie Bonner

SVP & CIO

Reliance, Inc.

Feroz Merchhiya headshot

Feroz Merchhiya

CIO

City of Santa Monica, CA

Shahin Mohammadkhani headshot

Shahin Mohammadkhani

VP, Engineering & Artificial Intelligence

United Talent Agency

Rachel Yegiaian headshot

Rachel Yegiaian

CIO, Spectrolab, IT Business Success Leader, Boeing Exploration Systems

The Boeing Co

With a constantly evolving organization, IT environments need to be simplified and agile allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems. As security threats grow and evolve, so does our need to modernize quickly and efficiently. Within a modern workplace, our needs to securely embrace employees productivity from home or elsewhere must evolve too. How we approach investments today can deliver greater value in the future.

As technology and security leaders, CIOs must continue to tackle these challenges on a daily basis, but what tangible outcomes exist? What can be done today to modernize what we have in place with minimal disruption to productivity?

Come together with your peers to have an in-depth discussion on the challenges you face with modernization and what considerations you might be missing as we all tackle this together.

Current Landscape and Outlook of Modernization

  • What does it mean to be a modern organization?
  • From your lens and industry, what is IT up against as it applies to security, complexities, productivity and keeping costs low?
  • How are CIOs providing a modern work experience? Are there any unique aspects you are modeling now?

How to Prepare for the Future

  • What are key pillars CIOs are considering when modernizing their tech stack?
  • With future technology considerations in mind, what foundational elements have you already put in place?
  • How do you measure the success of technology modernization? What key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics will be used?

6:45pm - 7:15pm  Networking Break

7:15pm - 8:30pm  Summary Discussion & Dinner

8:30pm - 9:30pm  Social Hour

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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  • Free parking lots available onsite

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Lauren Hursley

Senior Community Program Manager

503-575-8524

lauren.hursley@evanta.com