
Florida CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 13, 2024 | Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
November 13, 2024
Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Florida's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:
Mitigating Risks with Cybersecurity Strategies
Making Data-Driven Decisions to Communicate Risk
Using AI to Improve Processes and Efficiencies While Keeping Up With the Changing Landscape
Florida CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Victor Campos
JM Family Enterprises
Chief Information Security Officer

Gary Eppinger
CSX Corporation
VP, Technology & CISO

Juan Gomez-Sanchez
Whirlpool Corporation
VP & Global CISO

Stacey Halota
Graham Holdings
VP, IS & Privacy

Larry Jarvis
Iron Mountain
SVP, CISO

Rich Latayan
AAA, Inc.
CISO

Marcos Marrero
H.I.G. Capital
CISO

Eduardo Ortiz-Romeu
Techtronic Industries
VP, Global Head of Cybersecurity

Justin Zimmerman
Giant Eagle
VP, CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Harnessing Human Energy — Thriving Amidst Rapid Change
Hosted by Tanium

Josh Allan Dykstra
Future of Work Activist
Guest Speaker
In the face of unrelenting transformation, staying innovative and productive can feel daunting, especially with emerging generations' evolving work expectations, the permanence of hybrid teams and the pervasive influence of AI. The key to thriving in this chaotic environment lies in leveraging and organizing work around intrinsic motivators, such as yourself and the people within your organization.
Join this session to learn:
- The keys for navigating constant change with more energy and resilience
- How to create astonishing psychological safety within your team
- A practical framework to access more productivity across your entire organization
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Transforming Application and Service Delivery for the Modern IT Environment
Hosted by Island

Jason Trunk
Chief Enterprise Architect
Island
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:
- Revolutionizing workspaces by balancing productivity, security, availability, and user experience
- How quickly new technologies like the enterprise browser can be adopted to provide a competitive advantage
- Strategies for reducing the effort required to deliver applications and enhance organizational operations
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
The Art of Data Security — Protecting Your Most Important Asset
Hosted by Cyera

Carrie Busbee
CIO
Core & Main

Louis Lerman
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer
Pediatrix Medical Group
As leaders you’re being asked to find ways to securely enable your business to use data to drive innovation - and become a data master. But this takes a fundamental understanding of what data exists within your environment, where it's running, its risk level, who has access to it, and how it's being used. This interactive discussion will cover the challenges and solutions CISOs and CIOs use to discover their data attack surface, monitor, detect and respond to data threats - including the scope of breach identification - and ensure data compliance.
Join this session to discuss:
- Gaining data visibility as a foundation for data governance
- Managing the evolving landscape of laws, regulations, and industry standards around data security
- Working with the right tools and teams across a shared responsibility model to ensure compliance
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Embrace Complexity for Strategic Advantage (and Optimize Everything Else)
Hosted by Twilio

Jorge Gomez
Principal Cloud Security Engineer
Twilio

Barry Kortekaas
EVP, Information Security & CISO
Morgan & Morgan PA

Rich Latayan
CISO
AAA, Inc.
CIOs and CISOs must thoughtfully balance complexity and efficiency in their technology stack in order to optimize outcomes in an evolving landscape of AI, privacy, compliance, and ever-increasing consumer expectations. Success comes from identifying and embracing complexity in those areas where it enables clear market differentiation or competitive advantage for your organization, and then working to optimize the rest. How can you strike the right balance and what strategies are leading organizations using to accelerate value realization by optimizing everything else?
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- Embracing complexity in areas that differentiate the organization in the market
- Offloading non-core functions to vendors to prioritize simplicity and maintain focus on core business areas
- Leading internal conversations on risks of complexity vs. optimization initiatives
10:25am - 11:05am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Modern Workforce, Modern Security Strategy
Hosted by Google Chrome

Erin Joe
Senior Executive, Cybersecurity, OCISO
Google Chrome Enterprise
In the age of remote and hybrid work, employees now spend the majority of their time in the browser or in virtual meetings. The workforce is more mobile and distributed than ever before. At the same time, we are seeing an increase in cyber attacks and a higher average cost of data breaches. We must think more about protecting users right where they interface with web threats, the browser, without disrupting productivity.
Join this conversation with your peers to discuss:
- The browser's role in a business's security strategy
- Zero trust architecture
- Managing resources for cybersecurity in a time of economic uncertainty
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
The Recipe for a Successful Spin-Off
Hosted by CyberArk

Eric Firer
CIO, North America
Kellanova
A spin-off presents an opportunity for IT to drive value, promote an innovative culture, and build an effective team. However, the CIO must balance planning for the new company while minimizing disruption to current employees and customers. Eric Firer shares how the lessons learned through Kellanova’s spin-off can be applicable to many aspects of IT.
Join this session to discuss:
- Defining an IT operating model to organize talent, processes, technology and data
- Building a high-performing team to make an impact and execute business goals successfully
- Leading effective communication and change management through complex transformation
11:50am - 12:35pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Florida CISO Community Executive Summit.
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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.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale AirportParking
Complimentary self-parking onsite. Valet parking will be $45 per car per day.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Le Meridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 954-920-3500. Please mention Evanta Florida Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $269 USD (plus tax) is October 21, 2024.
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