
Detroit CISO Community
Inner Circle
March 26, 2024 | Roostertail
March 26, 2024
Roostertail
Collaborate with your peers
Join Detroit's top CISOs 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 CISOs 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
Detroit CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Janette Barretto
Yazaki North America
Global Security and Risk Manager

Brent Cieszynski
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
VP & CISO

Steven Herrin
DTE
Director, Cybersecurity/CISO

Rich Hook
Penske
EVP & CIO

Rachelle Putnam
General Dynamics Land Systems
Chief Information Technology Officer

Jeff Small
Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO

Ryan Talbott
BorgWarner
VP & Global CIO

Erik Wille
Cabinetworks Group
CISO
Agenda
March 26, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Modernizing Your Tech Stack
Hosted by ChromeOS

Jeremy Hyland
Director of Cyber Defense
Dow

Bhavani Koneru
CIO
Oakland University

Jeff Small
CIO
Great Lakes Water Authority

Karla Thomas
Threat Detection & Incident Response Leader
Lear Corporation

Art Thompson
CIO
City of Detroit

Noha White
CIO
Detroit Diesel Corporation
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
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Detroit CISO Community Inner Circle.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
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