Vancouver, BC CISO Community
Inner Circle
April 23, 2024 | The Roof at Black and Blue
April 23, 2024
The Roof at Black and Blue
Collaborate with your peers
Join Vancouver, BC's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Creating simplified, agile IT environments with minimal disruption to productivity
Allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems
Modernizing quickly and efficiently to keep up with evolving security threats
Vancouver, BC CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Rob Davidson
Pacific Blue Cross
CISO
David Royer
West Fraser
CISO
Greg Sieg
Ledcor
SVP & CIO
Tim Swanson
FortisBC Energy
Director, Corporate Security & Business Continuity
Agenda
April 23, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Modernizing Your Tech Stack
Hosted by ChromeOS
Mike Puzen
Head of Central GTM, ChromeOS
Hilary Sinclair
Director, IS & Technology - VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
University of British Columbia
Dmitry Tyan
Chief Architect (IT)
Interfor
Wyman Chin
SVP and CIO
Pacific Blue Cross
Hardeep Mehrotara
VP, Information Security & Architecture
Concert Properties
Rob Davidson
CISO
Pacific Blue Cross
Martin Palacios
Chief Information And Security Officer
Paper Excellence
With a constantly evolving organization, IT environments need to be simplified and agile allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems. As security threats grow and evolve, so does our need to modernize quickly and efficiently. Within a modern workplace, our needs to securely embrace employees productivity from home or elsewhere must evolve too. How we approach investments today can deliver greater value in the future.
As technology and security leaders, CIOs and CISOs must continue to tackle these challenges on a daily basis, but what tangible outcomes exist? What can be done today to modernize what we have in place with minimal disruption to productivity?
Come together with your peers to have an in-depth discussion on the challenges you face with modernization and what considerations you might be missing as we all tackle this together.
Current Landscape and Outlook of Modernization
- What does it mean to be a modern organization?
- From your lens and industry, what is IT up against as it applies to security, complexities, productivity and keeping costs low?
- How are CIOs and CISOs providing a modern work experience? Are there any unique aspects you are modeling now?
How to Prepare for the Future
- What are key pillars CIOs and CISOs are considering when modernizing their tech stack?
- With future technology considerations in mind, what foundational elements have you already put in place?
- How do you measure the success of technology modernization? What key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics will be used?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
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