IN-PERSON

Vancouver, BC CIO Inner Circle

April 23, 2024 | The Roof at Black and Blue

April 23, 2024
The Roof at Black and Blue

Collaborate with your peers

Join Vancouver, BC'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

Vancouver, BC 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

Rob Davidson

Pacific Blue Cross
CISO

David Royer

West Fraser
CISO

Greg Sieg

Ledcor
SVP & CIO

Tim Swanson

FortisBC Energy
Director, Corporate Security & Business Continuity

Agenda


April 23, 2024

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

5:30pm - 6:45pm  Discussion Topics

Modernizing Your Tech Stack

Mike Puzen headshot

Mike Puzen

Head of Central GTM, ChromeOS

Google

Hilary Sinclair headshot

Hilary Sinclair

Director, IS & Technology - VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

University of British Columbia

Dmitry Tyan headshot

Dmitry Tyan

Chief Architect (IT)

Interfor

Wyman Chin headshot

Wyman Chin

SVP and CIO

Pacific Blue Cross

Hardeep Mehrotara headshot

Hardeep Mehrotara

VP, Information Security & Architecture

Concert Properties

Rob Davidson headshot

Rob Davidson

CISO

Pacific Blue Cross

Martin Palacios headshot

Martin Palacios

Chief Information And Security Officer

Paper Excellence

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 and CISOs 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 and CISOs 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 and CISOs 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


Evanta cares about the health and safety of our community. Please review the following recommendations prior to attending the gathering.

Location


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Parking: 

Street parking available as well as public parking in WestPark Garage next to restaurant.

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

Aislin Courtis

Community Program Manager

503-407-4886

aislin.courtis@evanta.com