Detroit CISO Community
Executive Summit

 Join us at the Detroit Beer Exchange for an evening of great food and peer networking. This event is hosted for you by your Governing Body members to launch the 2023 summit.

Traditional recruitment for technology & security positions oftentimes shrinks the talent pool. Leaders can help bolster their teams and expand their collection of potential candidates through new talent pipelines. Creating partnerships that help underserved and career-transitioning individuals break into the technology & security industry can expand recruitment to an unexpected hire.

In this case study, we'll discuss:

• Attracting diverse talent
• Building your own talent pipeline
• Changing requirements to attract new candidates

We live in a world where everything is hybrid and the blend between personal, corporate, private and public is ever-changing and presents us with a host of new challenges. This has increased and complicated the attack surface and the pressure to converge tools and do “more with less” is at peak levels. We must meet this watershed moment with the right team, plans, and technology.

Join this interactive session to learn:

• How to build an effective plan for change without adding to the chaos
• What consolidation approaches save money without sacrificing security
• Use cases that deliver immediate value and efficiency while improving user experience

Cybersecurity is no longer an objective reserved only for IT, it’s mission critical for senior executives and all board members. As a leader in a quickly-changing landscape, you must balance following new regulations and educating company leaders about cybersecurity.

Join this session to discuss the following:

• How to prepare your board
• What impacts the new SEC ruling is already having
• How to protect yourself from liability

Edge computing continues to evolve the modern enterprise. Gartner’s strategic planning assumption is that by the end of 2026, 70% of large enterprises will have a documented strategy for edge computing, compared to fewer than 10% in 2023. One reason for the expected increase is the benefits of edge data and its value in becoming a data-driven organization.

Join this session to learn more about:

• The challenges of edge data and the opportunities to accelerate innovation
• Modern industry use cases on how edge data is being utilized
• Overcoming obstacles to securing edge data

Supercomputers, or high-performance computing, represent some of the most powerful tools for industry, government, and academia. Supercomputing is pushing new frontiers in the future of flight and transition to a zero-carbon energy future. GE has been able to model and simulate new designs in future scenarios, which have been vital in advancing the outcomes and accelerating the future. 

Join this session to hear a case study of how GE is:

• Bringing research to reality
• Driving new scientific discoveries and better engineering
• Enabling the products of the future (electrification, decarbonization)

Now that the pandemic is behind us, how do we make people better moving forward? Regardless of whether they are working remotely, in office or hybrid, we need to continue to create a culture of collaboration and innovation. Please join this session for an in-depth discussion on unleashing human excellence.

Join this session for a conversation on:

• How to upskill our employees to be the best that they can be - striving for human excellence
• How you utilized UCaaS and CCaaS to support the enterprise
• Predictions for the future of work

Trust is at the center of what we do in cybersecurity. Trust in your team, trust in your tools, and the business’ trust in you. However, security teams face challenges everyday that erode that trust: analysts get burned out and disengage, tools deliver more noise than outcomes, and your security program is more likely to slow down your business rather than help it run at full speed. In this session, we will discuss why this is the case and how to reverse this dynamic.

Join this executive boardroom to discuss:

• How false positives can erode trust
• Building engineering principles into your SecOps process
• Why a flatter SOC is a better SOC

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.

Generative AI — oh my! As this topic makes its way to the boardroom and dinner table alike, it’s up to technology & security leaders to determine the priorities to focus on now. 

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

• Hot topics surfacing across industries
• Business impacts of emerging trends
• Key strategies for communicating new trends to stakeholders

As cloud infrastructure strategies become more complex, a game plan is more important than ever to execute the blueprints. Technology & Security leaders must lead the charge to improve efficiencies, buy smartly and improve resiliency. As the journey progresses, what are the lessons learned that will make for smoother transitions in the future?

Join this session to discuss:

• Improving processes and efficiencies to create speed of accessibility
• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating risk by embedding a strong cybersecurity strategy

The term "data-driven" is often used as a coveted descriptor for business excellence. But does this description hit the mark? To be truly data-driven, an enterprise must encourage practices that generate reliable and accurate data and simultaneously incorporate predictive analytics to guide decision-making processes.

Join this interactive roundtable discussion as technology and security leaders discuss:

• Ensuring data quality standards are upheld to maximize the benefits of analytical insights
• Empowering the enterprise to make more data-informed decisions
• Troubleshooting and optimizing your models to drive business value

Today’s digital-era is proving misaligned with our industrial-era leadership mindsets. Disruption and volatility are only accelerating and becoming more complex. Thankfully, today’s digital leaders hold the key to leading in this new paradigm of uncertainty. This session discusses how CIOs & CISOs can cultivate the evolution of today’s executive mindsets to accelerate the realization of growth and value from digital transformation.

Join Gartner Analyst Kevin Smith in this closing keynote to discuss,

• The deep psychology holding us back from growth and how to break through
• The digital leader’s role in leading a new approach to disruption in the C-suite
• Actionable ideas for today, to build change expertise for tomorrow