Ohio CISO Community
Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this reception for attendees to open the event with an evening of peer networking and an opportunity to participate in a team building challenge. 

Team work, creativity, and perseverance, are just a few of the skills your team will need to win this unique Minute to Win it style game show! A combination of skill testing challenges and brain teasers will have your team firing on all cylinders. 

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability.  This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:

• Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
• How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
• Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)    

As work has increasingly shifted remote following the pandemic and a growing desire for more flexibility, leaders have been challenged with building a thriving company culture. Working from home can have a natural silo effect, which is why leaders are looking to create stickiness amongst their teams. These challenges highlight the need for clear communication and a shared purpose and vision.  

Join your peers as they discuss: 

• Providing strategies for clear communication, virtual team-building and employee well-being 
• How to facilitate connections on your team 
• Best practices for managers and leaders looking to build and maintain a strong company culture in a remote work setting

This will be an intimate, informal space for women in technology & cybersecurity leadership roles and their allies to freely discuss best practices, key challenges, and mission-critical priorities. Come prepared to share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and the wider Ohio community.

This session is aimed at, but not limited to, women who are leading the technology or cybersecurity function at their organizations (CIO/CISO or equivalent) and those reporting directly to the CIO/CISO/equivalent. Priority access will be reserved to these groups.

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 this keynote to learn: 

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

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for organizations to maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. Technology and security leaders have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience strategy by leading with business and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How CIOs & CISOs can lead or support customer experience initiatives
• How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
• What strategies lead to more efficient and effective customer interactions

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs and CISOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How new technology movements will impact key stakeholders
• The importance of communicating emerging trends with the board
• Strategies for collaboration across the organization

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.

As we continue to address challenges of how workers work and the impacts on the customer experience, what can we learn from those who have developed their strategies to collaborate in the hybrid world. How do we best collaborate outside of home and office regardless of your industry, location or platform?

Come together to explore:

• Use cases that provide a comprehensive future work strategy
• Collaboration techniques that foster innovation
• Challenges and predictions for the future of work

The term "data-driven" is often used as a coveted descriptor for business excellence. But does this description hit the mark? A data-driven enterprise must convert trusted data while leaning heavily into predictive analytics to inform decision-making.

Join this interactive roundtable discussion to discuss:

• Ensuring data quality standards truly benefit from analytical insights
• Empowering the enterprise to make more data informed decisions
• Troubleshooting to drive business value

Digital enterprises strive for the best business outcomes, but let’s face it, legacy technology is a hurdle many organizations have yet to clear. As leaders work to prioritize investments that support high-value technology opportunities, they must balance existing resources and planning for future upgrades.

Join this interactive session to:

• Identify new ways to leverage legacy technology to bring value to the customer
• Strategize what to sequentially modernize using data
• Discuss integration challenges CIOs can anticipate as they plan for eventual upgrades

Technology and security leaders must sharpen their leadership and communication skills, particularly when it comes to addressing the needs and expectations of the organization. As those roles expand from a sole focus on technology and security to being true business partners leading innovation efforts, they must be laser-focused on the strategy behind it all.

Join our panel of executives as they discuss:

• Successfully pushing business strategies and managing competing priorities
• How technology and cybersecurity can become a revenue-generator
• Building trust with business leaders to convey the indispensable value of technology initiatives