Philadelphia CISO Community
Executive Summit

As a security leader 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. The modern security leader must 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

The present moment offers an opportunity to unlock GenAI's transformative power, but maturity across organizations varies. Business leaders recognize this technology as a catalyst for innovation. By understanding real-world case studies with lessons learned, those leaders can create real progress inside their own organizations. 

Join this session to:

• Explore a practical GenAI use case and identify opportunities together
• Compare and measure platforms and solutions for value outcomes
• Balance approaches to value and risk through shared insights

In the dynamic world of renewable energy, integrating IT and OT systems is essential for driving innovation and efficiency. Join James Clark and Mike Bizzoco of South Jersey Industries to explore a pioneering security-by-design solution that enables seamless data flow and analytics across energy farms. This approach ensures enhanced cybersecurity, resiliency, operational visibility, and compliance, setting a benchmark for future projects.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Strategies for effective IT and OT alignment
• Methods to bolster cybersecurity and resiliency
• Best practices for achieving compliance and safety
• Techniques for improving operational visibility and analytics

At a time when new threats emerge daily, cybersecurity leaders understand they must be one thing above all others: enablers of business. And what's the foundation of business enablement? Culture.

Join this session to hear how your peers are successfully leveling up the security culture at their organizations and share your own insights about:

• Separating awareness and training from conversations about culture
• Leveraging culture to drive business impact through cybersecurity
• Tailoring approaches to security culture for different levels/groups

According to Gartner, improving operating margins and ensuring compliance/minimizing risks are the most-critical outcomes of digital technology investments across industries. As these priorities shape the future, CIOs and CISOs must align strategies for impactful results.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Leveraging technology investment trends
• Navigating IT budget changes and vendor choices
• Maximizing outcomes of digital investments

What does your body language say about you? What shifts might you make to change how others perceive you? Join this special one-on-one session exclusively for Governing Body members with body-language expert Chris Ulrich for candid feedback on your in-person and online body language. Sessions are 20-minutes and pre-registration is required.

In this unique, private session, you’ll receive:

• One-on-one consultation with a premier expert
• Live analysis of your unique body language cues
• Personalized executive presence improvements

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.

In today's fast-paced world, leaders need more than just strategic acumen; they need heart. Discover how embracing empathy and grace can transform your leadership style, fostering trust and resilience in your team. Whether you're an experienced executive or an emerging leader, this session will equip you with the tools to lead with compassion while maintaining accountability.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Harnessing emotional intelligence for impactful leadership
• Navigating challenges with empathy to achieve meaningful results
• Cultivating an inclusive and collaborative team culture

In the quest to leverage data and analytics for business growth, IT leaders face both cultural and technical challenges. To succeed, they must collaborate closely with business leaders to develop a powerful, long-term analytics strategy that drives data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Join this session to explore:

• Ensuring data quality standards and ownership
• Utilizing analytics to allow for better decision making across the business and measurable outcomes
• Building a foundation for successful innovation including AI

Vendor selection, pre-partner due diligence, and trusted implementation are merely the beginning of a healthy third-party management culture. With those pieces in place, the real work (like battling for constant visibility and enforcing your requirements) begins. You’ll need to be prepared.

Gather and discuss how to CISOs have successfully:

• Vetted new and prospective third-parties
• Monitored network of existing third-parties
• Asserted security requirements with vulnerable, but critical, third-parties

As IT's role within the business continues to evolve, CIOs must create a clear line of sight between IT strategy and business outcomes and priorities.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• Aligning IT strategy with business goals and objectives
• Positioning IT as a value driver for the business
• Shaping a business-driven culture within IT

What does your body language say about you? What shifts might you make to change how others perceive you? Join this special one-on-one session exclusively for Governing Body members with body-language expert Chris Ulrich for candid feedback on your in-person and online body language. Sessions are 20-minutes and pre-registration is required.

In this unique, private session, you’ll receive:

• One-on-one consultation with a premier expert
• Live analysis of your unique body language cues
• Personalized executive presence improvements

Transformative technology and security leaders are agents for change. However, managing change using traditional methods can still be challenging and may not yield the transformative results we desire. In this session, we will reexamine our approach to change, embrace owning our roles in leading change, and strengthen the link between strategy and transformation. With this enhanced approach, today’s CIOs & CISOs can get in front of change, resulting in decreased change resistance and sustained performance.

Join Kevin Smith, Gartner Analyst, to learn:

• Strategies to decrease change resistance
• Methods to link strategy with transformation
• Techniques to sustain performance during change

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.