Executive Summit

Come join the members of the Governing Body for a night of good food, intimate conversations and a charity activity with Readers to Leaders. One in four children grow up not learning how to read. Generating excitement and encouragement can inspire them to continue their reading and learning journey. Join your peers for a fun and rewarding night to kick off the Executive Summit!

IT and security leadership is necessary to meet critical business gains for the remainder of 2023. The pressure is on leadership teams to drive revenue growth, optimize their budgets and teams and a find a faster path to realizing ROI. Among the many areas of modernization and innovation is in workplace collaboration to get the most out of your workforce.

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

• Creating a roadmap to implement new capabilities for greater productivity
• Embedding security and privacy into workforce collaboration
• Developing technology strategies that lead to increased value

Changing privacy laws on the state, national and international levels has organizations examining their compliance posture.  Now is the time to prepare for upcoming regulation changes and to strategize internally to stay ahead of the game.

Join this interactive panel to ask questions about:

• Understanding new privacy obligations of business and security leaders
• Managing customer data – what do you know and where is it stored?
• Moving toward a more cohesive, enterprise-wide security and compliance posture

As an IT leader, you can no longer wait around for what’s next for your business - you have to create it. Innovation not only can be a priority to the business for improving business outcomes,  IT and digital leaders need to reintroduce stakeholders to a future they want their organizations to thrive in. As always, however, this is easier said than done. 

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Outside-of-the-box methods of influencing innovation across the business
• Communicating how innovation will create tangible results in achieving key business objectives
• Accomplishing more with less as head and tailwinds of a recession pick up

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.

To lead resilient organizations, security leaders must be able to communicate to the board, c-suite and employees effectively especially as Generative AI takes center stage. CIOs and CISOs are tasked to use visuals, communicate business value and synthesize complex information in a way that makes sense to the audience.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate on influencing across the enterprise with various Generative AI scenarios including:

• Communicating generative AI concerns and opportunities to your CEO
• Giving cybersecurity guidance to the board for better security/business alignment
• Working with CHRO to get employee buy-in on creating a more security driven culture

According to the 2022 Gartner IT Budget and Efficiency Benchmark, cybersecurity is the No. 1 spend item on the IT budget, and it remains a board-level concern. But spend does not always equal protection. Now is the time to choose the right investments that deliver value to the business and look at outcome driven metrics.
Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying the right investments that align with organizational goals
• Determining success with outcome-driven metrics
• Communicating with the board about cybersecurity through a business perspective

Applications can make or break an organization’s growth. Too many and you create an opportunity for redundancies and inefficiencies; too few and you risk getting left in the past. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join your peers to discuss:

• Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
• Building a business case for application and technology rationalization
• Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

CIO’s and CISO's opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, with a greater focus on delivering business outcomes. They need to focus and align peers, partners and the IT organization to contribute to achieving business objectives. ODL is about adopting new leadership mindsets, principles and practices to become the outcome-driven leader the organization needs.

Join De’Onn Griffin, Research Director with Gartner's CIO Research group as she discusses:

• Defining outcomes in terms the enterprise will understand
• Aligning IT to business value
• Developing systems to manage work