IN-PERSON

Seattle CISO Executive Summit

June 20, 2023 | Sheraton Grand Seattle

June 20, 2023
Sheraton Grand Seattle

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Seattle'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:

Accelerating High Growth and Digitally-Driven Outcomes

Advancing the Business Value of Security

Thriving through Volatility - Empowering People, Resiliency and Insights

Seattle 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

Brian Abrahamson

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
CIO

Anja Canfield-Budde

University of Washington
Associate Vice President, Information Technology

Laurent Rotival

Cambia Health Solutions
SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Seattle CISO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

The Keys to Success — Collaboration Before and During an Attack

Darren Challey headshot

Darren Challey

Director, Global Security Operations Technology

Amazon

 Security and risk management leaders need to ensure the business is protected as best as possible when an inevitable ransomware attack strikes. But, those leaders must also have relationships in place across the business so when the time comes to execute the incident response plan, key players from different parts of the business are prepared to act quickly and efficiently.

Join this INTERACTIVE session to discuss in groups:

  • Identifying the key players across the organization who will need to take part in creating and activating your incident response plan
  • Training those involved so everyone knows their roles
  • Best ways to collaborate during a sophisticated cyberattack

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Making Every Security Investment Count

Philip Swiderski headshot

Philip Swiderski

Executive Cybersecurity Advisor

Expel

Julie Ellis headshot

Julie Ellis

VP, Information Security Architecture

The Walt Disney Company

Dave Wolf headshot

Dave Wolf

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Washington Federal

Today’s business leaders find themselves squaring up against a two-headed monster: more attack surfaces and threats to cover than ever before and macroeconomic challenges loom. Cybersecurity isn’t something that orgs can afford to “cut down on,” so increasingly, leaders are asked to achieve even greater outcomes with the same or fewer resources — from budgets to tech to headcount. How can CIOs and CISOs evaluate spend without compromising on risk?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Ways organizations are improving return on investment (ROI) on existing security investments
  • How leaders can translate risk into business outcomes for leadership and boards, enabled by security investment
  • How to overcome challenges security leaders face as they work to scale, grow, and innovate without sacrificing security

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Accelerating Agility and Innovation in Cloud Operations

Travis Runty headshot

Travis Runty

CTO, Public Cloud

Rackspace Technology

Jerry Cochran headshot

Jerry Cochran

Deputy CIO & Division Director for Cybersecurity & DigitalOps

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Viggo Forde headshot

Viggo Forde

CIO and Director of IT

Snohomish County

Brian Lee headshot

Brian Lee

Director of Cybersecurity

Oil States International

In this era of unprecedented digital transformation, CIOs and CISOs are grappling with many challenges. The operational landscape is evolving rapidly from agile methodologies and automation to cloud-native services. Amid the potential of cloud transformation, obstacles such as talent gaps and outdated processes still persist.

Join this boardroom to discuss with your peers:

  • Navigating cloud transformation complexities while ensuring efficiency and innovation
  • Integrating new application and infrastructure models
  • Fortifying and streamlining business operations through automation and platform engineering
  • Focusing on the distinct security and governance considerations intrinsic to agile cloud operations

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Building a Business Case for Secure Digital Transformation

Jay Chaudhry headshot

Jay Chaudhry

CEO, Chairman & Founder

Zscaler

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

CIOs and CISOs may have different motives for pursuing digital transformation. Whether the ultimate goal is simplifying connectivity to critical business resources or protecting against cyber threats, it's important to frame discussions with boards and executives in terms of business needs.

Join this session and learn to:

  • Calculate hard and soft costs
  • Quantify risk reduction and business productivity gains
  • Recruit business champions for zero trust transformations

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

7:45am - 8:15am  Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 9:15am  Keynote

Facing Adversity with Boston Strong Resilience

Adrianne Haslet headshot

Adrianne Haslet

Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor

Guest Speaker

Adrianne Haslet is an exemplar of resilience, a world-renowned professional ballroom dancer at the peak of her career, she was spectating the Boston Marathon when terror struck. Adrianne lost her left leg on impact, along with all hope of dancing again. Yet she pulled from the strength of the city of Boston to not only dance but finish in fourth place at the Boston Marathon. Adrianne shares the life lessons she had to learn and relearn with unparalleled strength over adversity.

Join Seattle native Adrianne Haslet as she shares her story in,

  • Finishing the race in every corporate and personal challenge
  • Learning to face challenges with a renewed mindset
  • Facing adversity with a renewed perspective

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity in a Generation

Steve Riley headshot

Steve Riley

Field CTO

Netskope

We live in a world where everything is hybrid and the blend between personal, corporate, private and public is ever-changing and presents us with a host of new challenges. This has increased and complicated the attack surface and the pressure to converge tools and do “more with less” is at peak levels. We must meet this watershed moment with the right team, plans, and technology.

Join this interactive session to learn:

  • How to build an effective plan for change without adding to the chaos
  • What consolidation approaches save money without sacrificing security
  • Use cases that deliver immediate value and efficiency while improving user experience

10:25am - 11:00am  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.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Staying Ahead of Bad Actors and Securely Accelerating your Cloud Transformation

Ankur Shah headshot

Ankur Shah

SVP & GM, Prisma Cloud

Palo Alto Networks

Digital business is driving the continued migration of workloads to the cloud at a greater pace than ever. However, the complexity of securing cloud applications and their development and delivery pipelines across multi-cloud environments are causing many organizations to fall behind or inadvertently introduce security weaknesses. Between misconfigurations, over privileged identities, exposed sensitive data, source code vulnerabilities, and supply chain risks there are a myriad of considerations that have made cloud security humanly challenging to address.

In this cloud transformational session, we will discuss

  • How to get a 360° view of cloud security challenges across the code/build/deploy and run lifecycle
  • How to harness the power of data, threat intelligence, and AI to detect and prevent cloud threats
  • Ways to foster teamwork between developers, cloud ops, and security teams

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Shifting the Paradigm for Recruiting IT & Security Talent

Brian Talbert headshot

Brian Talbert

Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer

Alaska Airlines

Mark Simon headshot

Mark Simon

VP, CIO - Colorado & Washington

Kaiser Permanente

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

Traditional recruitment for technology & security positions oftentimes shrinks the talent pool. Leaders can help bolster their teams and expand their collection of potential candidates through new talent pipelines. Creating partnerships that help underserved and career-transitioning individuals break into the technology & security industry can expand recruitment to an unexpected hire.

In this fireside chat, we'll discuss:

  • Attracting diverse talent
  • Building your own talent pipeline
  • Changing requirements to attract new candidates

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Peer Perspectives on Simplifying DevSecOps

Akil Muralidharan headshot

Akil Muralidharan

Senior Director of Product Management

Fastly

The threat landscape is continuing to expand and diversify as organizations move to a multi-cloud environment. CIOs & CISOs need to ensure that their DevSecOps capabilities are incorporated within their overall business strategy to guarantee that their cloud applications and code can remain secure.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Understanding there is no one-size-fits-all model for DevSecOps
  • Best practices for integrating DevSecOps into your cloud security strategy
  • Exploring the intersection between development, security and DevSecOps

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Generative AI — What’s Your Take?

Sanjay Srivastava headshot

Sanjay Srivastava

Chief Digital Officer

Genpact

Generative AI — oh my! As this topic makes its way to the boardroom and dinner table alike, it’s up to technology & security leaders to determine the priorities to focus on now. 

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

  • Hot topics surfacing across industries
  • Business impacts of emerging trends
  • Key strategies for communicating new trends to stakeholders

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Customer Experience: The IT Imperative

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

Matt Modarelli headshot

Matt Modarelli

CIO & Director, IT

Washington State Department of Transportation

As the digital space takes over our human-to-human interactions, the importance of IT & Security leaders interacting directly with customers is increasing year over year. Holding a “drivers-seat” position in the organization’s CX strategy is now imperative for a technology leader to gain influence with the rest of the stakeholders at the table.

In this session, you’ll discuss

  • Converting operations architecture to become an experience ecosystem architecture
  • Refocusing and reshaping IT to enable technology ecosystems
  • Positioning for differentiated experiences for diverse consumers for the long term

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

IT as a Business Driver — Driving a Digital Mindset

Lutz Beck headshot

Lutz Beck

CIO

Daimler Trucks North America

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

Join Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, as he shares:

  • How to successfully push business strategies and manage priorities
  • How IT can become a revenue-generator
  • How to convince leadership of the indispensable value of IT

4:35pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

5:00pm - 7:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Celebration Reception

Governing Body members host this dinner for all attendees to celebrate the culmination of the summit with an evening of peer networking immediately following the closing keynote. Join us on the 35th floor of the Grand Sheraton for music, beverages, and an optional interactive activity.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Leading with Digital Sustainability — A Strategy Led by Technology

Connor Poske headshot

Connor Poske

Senior Chrome Enterprise Customer Engineer

Google Chrome Enterprise

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 to maximize 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) 

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Accelerating Agility and Innovation in Cloud Operations

Travis Runty headshot

Travis Runty

CTO, Public Cloud

Rackspace Technology

Jerry Cochran headshot

Jerry Cochran

Deputy CIO & Division Director for Cybersecurity & DigitalOps

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Viggo Forde headshot

Viggo Forde

CIO and Director of IT

Snohomish County

Brian Lee headshot

Brian Lee

Director of Cybersecurity

Oil States International

In this era of unprecedented digital transformation, CIOs and CISOs are grappling with many challenges. The operational landscape is evolving rapidly from agile methodologies and automation to cloud-native services. Amid the potential of cloud transformation, obstacles such as talent gaps and outdated processes still persist.

Join this boardroom to discuss with your peers:

  • Navigating cloud transformation complexities while ensuring efficiency and innovation
  • Integrating new application and infrastructure models
  • Fortifying and streamlining business operations through automation and platform engineering
  • Focusing on the distinct security and governance considerations intrinsic to agile cloud operations

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Building a Business Case for Secure Digital Transformation

Jay Chaudhry headshot

Jay Chaudhry

CEO, Chairman & Founder

Zscaler

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

CIOs and CISOs may have different motives for pursuing digital transformation. Whether the ultimate goal is simplifying connectivity to critical business resources or protecting against cyber threats, it's important to frame discussions with boards and executives in terms of business needs.

Join this session and learn to:

  • Calculate hard and soft costs
  • Quantify risk reduction and business productivity gains
  • Recruit business champions for zero trust transformations

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

7:45am - 8:15am  Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 9:15am  Keynote

Facing Adversity with Boston Strong Resilience

Adrianne Haslet headshot

Adrianne Haslet

Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor

Guest Speaker

Adrianne Haslet is an exemplar of resilience, a world-renowned professional ballroom dancer at the peak of her career, she was spectating the Boston Marathon when terror struck. Adrianne lost her left leg on impact, along with all hope of dancing again. Yet she pulled from the strength of the city of Boston to not only dance but finish in fourth place at the Boston Marathon. Adrianne shares the life lessons she had to learn and relearn with unparalleled strength over adversity.

Join Seattle native Adrianne Haslet as she shares her story in,

  • Finishing the race in every corporate and personal challenge
  • Learning to face challenges with a renewed mindset
  • Facing adversity with a renewed perspective

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

From Projects to Products: Disney's Cloud Journey

Alexi Varanko headshot

Alexi Varanko

VP of Cloud, Automation, & Systems Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

The traditional project management approach is characterized by its emphasis on planning, predictability, and adherence to the initial scope. However, in today's fast-paced and dynamic cloud landscape, this approach may be less suitable for managing products & services with rapidly evolving customer needs and continuous improvement & release cycles.

Join this session to learn from Alexi Varanko, VP of Cloud, Automation, & Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company, about:

  • Shifting from project to product management for adaptable and rapid innovation in the cloud
  • Maintain customer focus and flexibility while managing shared products and services
  • Choosing the right management tool, depending on project specifics, to drive business value

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Modernizing IT Infrastructure While Protecting Mission-Critical Data

Andrew Stone headshot

Andrew Stone

CTO - Americas

Pure Storage

Matt Knox headshot

Matt Knox

CIO

Sound Physicians

Michael Boyd headshot

Michael Boyd

CISO

Qorvo

The challenges facing technology leaders are myriad and constantly evolving - ransomware, secure digital transformation initiatives, ever-growing data sets, and new cloud-native software development, to name just a few. Shifting directions in IT can often introduce complexity, and complexity can lead to security gaps. As IT departments navigate these commitments, how can CIOs and CISOs increase resiliency and implement multi-layered security strategies without skipping a beat?

Join this session to discuss the following:

  • Transforming your IT infrastructure while protecting your mission-critical data
  • Getting the most from your data by streamlining siloed data protection systems
  • Eliminating complexity and costs while mitigating risk and accelerating operational agility

10:25am - 11:00am  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.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Shifting the Paradigm for Recruiting IT & Security Talent

Brian Talbert headshot

Brian Talbert

Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer

Alaska Airlines

Mark Simon headshot

Mark Simon

VP, CIO - Colorado & Washington

Kaiser Permanente

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

Traditional recruitment for technology & security positions oftentimes shrinks the talent pool. Leaders can help bolster their teams and expand their collection of potential candidates through new talent pipelines. Creating partnerships that help underserved and career-transitioning individuals break into the technology & security industry can expand recruitment to an unexpected hire.

In this fireside chat, we'll discuss:

  • Attracting diverse talent
  • Building your own talent pipeline
  • Changing requirements to attract new candidates

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Driving Innovation Through Strategic Planning

Jason Hester headshot

Jason Hester

EVP/Chief Digital Officer

Umpqua Bank

Chuck Markarian headshot

Chuck Markarian

CISO

PACCAR

When innovation can mean many things, how do you operationalize it to lead organizational change effectively? Innovation and continuous improvement remain top of mind for technology and security leaders to drive business growth and revenue. Balancing the complexities of an organization’s architecture, risk, and appetite, a CIO or CISO must be strategic about how and when to push for ingenuity.

Join this session to discuss the following:

  • Working with teams across the business to operationalize innovation
  • Planning for and weaving innovation into business processes
  • Examples of innovative business outcomes from game-changing technologies

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Generative AI — What’s Your Take?

Sanjay Srivastava headshot

Sanjay Srivastava

Chief Digital Officer

Genpact

Generative AI — oh my! As this topic makes its way to the boardroom and dinner table alike, it’s up to technology & security leaders to determine the priorities to focus on now. 

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

  • Hot topics surfacing across industries
  • Business impacts of emerging trends
  • Key strategies for communicating new trends to stakeholders

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Customer Experience: The IT Imperative

Laurent Rotival headshot

Laurent Rotival

SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO

Cambia Health Solutions

Matt Modarelli headshot

Matt Modarelli

CIO & Director, IT

Washington State Department of Transportation

As the digital space takes over our human-to-human interactions, the importance of IT & Security leaders interacting directly with customers is increasing year over year. Holding a “drivers-seat” position in the organization’s CX strategy is now imperative for a technology leader to gain influence with the rest of the stakeholders at the table.

In this session, you’ll discuss

  • Converting operations architecture to become an experience ecosystem architecture
  • Refocusing and reshaping IT to enable technology ecosystems
  • Positioning for differentiated experiences for diverse consumers for the long term

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

IT as a Business Driver — Driving a Digital Mindset

Lutz Beck headshot

Lutz Beck

CIO

Daimler Trucks North America

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

Join Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, as he shares:

  • How to successfully push business strategies and manage priorities
  • How IT can become a revenue-generator
  • How to convince leadership of the indispensable value of IT

4:35pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

5:00pm - 7:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Celebration Reception

Governing Body members host this dinner for all attendees to celebrate the culmination of the summit with an evening of peer networking immediately following the closing keynote. Join us on the 35th floor of the Grand Sheraton for music, beverages, and an optional interactive activity.

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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Location


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Sheraton Grand Seattle
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Grand Seattle at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 206-621-9000. Please mention Seattle CIO & CISO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $356 USD (plus tax) is May 29, 2023.

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