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November 19, 2024 | Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
November 19, 2024
Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
Get together with Washington, DC'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:
Strengthening influence and partnerships across organization
Thoughtfully leveraging AI to develop needed, business-enabling tools and processes
Building a culture of security to enable smart, secure decision-making
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Ryan Boulais
AES Corporation
CISO
Vishal Gupta
Lexmark
CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology
Securing the Everywhere World — Building Cyber Resilience through a “Connectivity Cloud”
When users are everywhere and digital operations span cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, achieving cyber resilience becomes paramount. The challenge lies in navigating this complexity and maintaining visibility and control to ensure continuous operation despite cyber threats.
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:
AI Vs AI — How Adversaries and Security Teams Use AI
With the explosion of Generative AI into widespread use over the past year, there are rising indications that threat actors are exploiting AI to launch cyberattacks. Tackling the evolving threat landscape means getting ahead of the threat - cyber defenders need to be prepared, using the power of AI to defend their organizations.
Join this session to discuss:
Buy or Build? Investing Time and Resources in Applications
Gartner research shows a near split of CIOs opting to build an application in-house versus buying or partnering with a third-party. Regardless of the choice, IT executives must deliver programs that are relevant and both cost and time effective to manage.
In this boardroom, you will discuss:
D&A Strategies that Improve Organizational Outcomes
In the quest to leverage data and analytics for business growth, IT leaders face both cultural and technical challenges. To succeed, they must collaborate closely with business leaders to develop a powerful, long-term analytics strategy that drives data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Join this session to explore:
The Critical Importance of Managing Third-Party Risk
The recent incidents highlight the critical importance of managing third (or even fourth)-party risk in today's interconnected business ecosystem. As CIOs and CISOs, it is crucial to understand the potential vulnerabilities that arise from third-party relationships, develop effective strategies to mitigate these risks and communicate those risks to the business.
In this session you will discuss:
Resilient and Impactful Leadership While Under Pressure
Navigating the roles of CIO and CISO is inherently complex, demanding, and often exhausting. Whether you've faced burnout, a security breach, or both, the pressures of being a C-level executive are at an all-time high. Amidst the immense responsibility of steering company-wide initiatives, are you taking the necessary steps to manage stress and avoid fatigue?
Join this session have a support environment to explore:
Time 2.0 — Applying Design Thinking to the Human Experience of Time
Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do we pretend that it is? How do we measure the true value of our time? In this mind-bending session, John K. Coyle will apply creative deconstruction to what we think we know about time, and you will learn how to slow, stop and reverse the perceived acceleration of time most adults feel and experience the endless summers of youth again.
Grab a seat and learn how to:
Transforming Application and Service Delivery for the Modern IT Environment
Delivering business critical applications safely is a delicate balancing act. The user experience is frequently compromised as application, infrastructure, and security teams negotiate the adoption of new services. Unfortunate trade-offs are sometimes necessary to address operational needs for the sake of maintaining security, but these trade-offs can make certain use cases unfeasible or diminish their value to the organization.
In this session, we will discuss:
Governing Body Reception
Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.
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.
Parking & Transportation
More information to come.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 703-521-1900. Please mention Evanta CIO CISO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $209 USD (plus tax) is October 28, 2024.
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