IN-PERSON

France CIO Executive Summit

5 December 2023 | Les Salons Hoche, Paris

5 December 2023
Les Salons Hoche, Paris

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with France's top CIOs 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 CIOs today:

Converging IT & digital transformation to accelerate business value & enable data driven decisions

Understanding CIO & CISO’s role in reducing cost and increasing efficiency for cloud infrastructure

Embedding a resilient security culture without compromising on threat management

France CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO 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 France CIO 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


4 December 2023

5 December 2023

18:00 - 21:00  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

08:15 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Keynote

The Last Frontier – Global Digitalisation in the Construction Industry

Ursula Soritsch-Renier headshot

Ursula Soritsch-Renier

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

Saint-Gobain

Bringing a global construction group with a 358-year history into the digital age is no easy task. It requires a fundamental shift in ways of working; moving from a labour-intensive approach utilising traditional materials to one with a lighter carbon footprint. Join Ursula Soritsch-Renier, as she shares how the Saint-Gobain Group have embraced digitalisation to reshape the construction industry.

In this keynote, Ursula will share how to: 

  • Embed IT and digitalisation as a pillar in the wider Group’s strategy
  • Align the IT and Digital strategy closer to business needs to accelerate transformation
  • Communicate digitalisation use case to demonstrate results to stakeholders

09:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Transforming the IT Operating Model to Fuel Business Growth

Hélène Chaplain Lambert headshot

Hélène Chaplain Lambert

Global CIO

Pernod Ricard

You may have a technology ambition and the leadership endorsement to drive profitable and sustainable growth, however, without the right organizational conditions, your strategy will most likely not deliver. Join Hélène Chaplain Lambert, Pernod Ricard Global CIO as she shares how Pernod Ricard is reframing a new Tech operating model to deliver an ambitious strategic agenda.

In this session, you will hear more on:

  • Embedding technology and data as strategic enablers of growth strategy whilst defining the right set of priorities
  • Positioning CIO as strategic partner to businesses and functions, creating a balanced and expert operating model to foster excellence in execution
  • Instilling clear governance parameters to support both strategy and transformation in highly volatile environments

10:45 - 11:45  Networking Break

10:55 - 11:40  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.

11:45 - 12:30  Breakout Session

Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Cyber Resilience

Raphael Marichez headshot

Raphael Marichez

Chief Security Officer, South Europe

Palo Alto Networks

Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive efficiency and technological innovation. Yet taking advantage of this opportunity in the wrong way can have serious security consequences for the organization. IT and Security leaders need to anticipate and prepare to mitigate potential risks as data is increasingly accessed and analysed in increasingly different ways. For business stakeholders to secure investment, how can CIOs and CISOs demonstrate the benefits of these technologies? Join this session to learn about:

  • How AI plays a role in sophisticated attacks today and how to prepare
  • How leaders can use AI capabilities to enhance cybersecurity and demonstrate value to the business

  • Examples of how to leverage AI to process and analyse large volumes of data quickly and safely

11:45 - 12:30  Executive Boardroom

Optimising Applications to Achieve Growth and Profitability in Complex Times

Eric Helmer headshot

Eric Helmer

Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer

Rimini Street

Dominique Guivarch headshot

Dominique Guivarch

Group CIO

InVivo Group

Béatrice Mabille headshot

Béatrice Mabille

CIO / VP Internal IT

Criteo

Faced with growing economic uncertainty and budget concerns, CIOs are under more pressure than ever to keep costs under control while still supporting the company’s growth opportunities. With the right application strategies in place, they can make ROI-based decisions more confidently during these complex times.

Join this boardroom session to discuss how to:

  • Reprioritise application strategy to ensure collaboration between IT and business units
  • Establish a unified platform strategy to meet your business application and automation needs
  • Improve operational efficiency by eliminating the barriers presented by legacy applications

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch Service

13:30 - 14:00  Keynote

Building a Business Case for Secure Digital Transformation

Yogi Chandiramani headshot

Yogi Chandiramani

Vice President Technical Account Management - EMEA & APAC

Zscaler

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

14:00 - 14:15  Break

14:15 - 15:00  Breakout Session

Attack From Hell: The Anatomy of a High-Impact Attack

Yonatan Lipschitz headshot

Yonatan Lipschitz

Director, Client Leadership, EMEA

Sygnia

Ilan Nacmias headshot

Ilan Nacmias

Cyber Security Manager

Sygnia

In recent years, the Sygnia Incident Response Team has handled numerous nation-state attacks that employed unique attack techniques and posed new challenges to security leaders and incident responders.

In this talk we will guide you through the anatomy of a real-world attack we recently responded to, including attacker TTPs and effective response procedures. This case study will highlight the common pitfalls and key opportunities when defending against even the most sophisticated attacks.

You will come away with: 

  • A deeper understanding of current attack trends
  • Actionable insights into the risks and vulnerabilities exploited by attackers targeting highly complex environments
  • Effective defense strategies employed by leading organisations worldwide

14:15 - 15:00  Executive Boardroom

Enhancing Collaboration to Drive the Business Value of IT

Eric Lafarge headshot

Eric Lafarge

Senior Executive Partner

Gartner

Valéria Fernandes headshot

Valéria Fernandes

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

Vallourec

CIOs understand that bringing IT closer to the business will enable better, faster decision-making. IT leaders must collaborate with business units to prioritise technology investment, accelerating organisations’ digital ambitions. By defining and demonstrating IT’s ROI, CIOs can overcome technical debt and lack of resources.

In this boardroom, CIOs will come together to discuss how to:

  • Define, measure and report the business value of IT to senior stakeholders
  • Refine your IT strategy’s ‘what’ ‘why’ and ‘how’ to demonstrate its tangible value and link to business outcomes
  • Debate communication strategies that encourage trust, ability and action

15:00 - 15:30  Networking Break

15:30 - 16:15  Breakout Session

Cutting Through the Hype to Understand the Next Step in AI Implementation

Michel Tournier headshot

Michel Tournier

IT Operating Partner & Digital Director

Wendel

Christophe Calvez headshot

Christophe Calvez

Group CISO

SANEF

Generative AI has emerged at the forefront of organisations’ agendas when considering new ways to propel digital initiatives to the next stage. However, for both CIOs and CISOs, perennial questions around governance, IT infrastructure and security must be considered before this tool can be effectively scaled and implemented to achieve desired results.

In this interactive session, CIOs and CISOs will come together to discuss:

  • How to communicate IT & Security’s role in AI implementation to governance, risk and legal committees
  • How IT & Security leaders can set expectations on generative AI to the wider business
  • How you are encouraging innovation in use cases whilst also adhering to governance policies

15:30 - 16:15  Executive Boardroom

Fusing IT Operations & Cybersecurity to Ensure Business Resiliency

Malika Pastor headshot

Malika Pastor

Executive Partner

Gartner

Carine Ivanenko headshot

Carine Ivanenko

CIO

BNP Paribas Personal Finance

Cybersecurity is a continuous battle for CIOs; from external threats and internal readiness to maintain critical IT functions. CIOs must question existing assumptions to ensure the security programme is secure and efficient. However, technical debt can impede CIOs from executing a robust business continuity plan.

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

  • Embed security assumptions into your IT continuity framework to streamline efficiency
  • Determine gaps where IT can accelerate cybersecurity processes and mitigate technical debt
  • Position security at the core of daily IT operations to demonstrate collaboration and mitigate cyber risk

16:15 - 16:25  Break

16:25 - 17:00  Keynote

Closing Keynote by Le Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-mer

Dr. Nacira Salvan headshot

Dr. Nacira Salvan

Cheffe de la Mission Politique SSI

Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre Mer

 More details coming soon!

17:00 - 18:00  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

18:00 - 21:00  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

08:15 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Keynote

The Last Frontier – Global Digitalisation in the Construction Industry

Ursula Soritsch-Renier headshot

Ursula Soritsch-Renier

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

Saint-Gobain

Bringing a global construction group with a 358-year history into the digital age is no easy task. It requires a fundamental shift in ways of working; moving from a labour-intensive approach utilising traditional materials to one with a lighter carbon footprint. Join Ursula Soritsch-Renier, as she shares how the Saint-Gobain Group have embraced digitalisation to reshape the construction industry.

In this keynote, Ursula will share how to: 

  • Embed IT and digitalisation as a pillar in the wider Group’s strategy
  • Align the IT and Digital strategy closer to business needs to accelerate transformation
  • Communicate digitalisation use case to demonstrate results to stakeholders

09:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Exploring New Paths in Enterprise Security — Innovating Solutions to Keep Businesses Safe

Vincent Robin headshot

Vincent Robin

Chrome Browser Enterprise Specialist

Google Chrome Enterprise

Sébastien Louyot headshot

Sébastien Louyot

Group CIO

ALTAVIA

Maxime Blacha headshot

Maxime Blacha

Group CISO

SPIE

The costs of protecting endpoints are increasing with the constantly growing threats. CISOs face numerous challenges in cybersecurity and administration, requiring game-changing improvements to prevent cyberattacks. Every endpoint is a potential gateway for an attacker to access the corporate network. However, IT organisations can overcome these challenges by combining strong zero-trust protections, controls and innovations in the secure enterprise browser, ensuring strong protection on both managed and unmanaged devices.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Appropriately assigning resources to strengthen your endpoint security - simplifying and maintaining an effective security program
  • How state of the art security concepts like zero trust and SASE help to be prepared for this next generation of attacks
  • Safeguarding enterprise security while maintaining user productivity

10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

Security Ownership in the Era of Cloud – Strategies to Cope with New Cloud Native

Cyril Sultan headshot

Cyril Sultan

Southern Region Leader

Wiz

Mansur Abilkasimov headshot

Mansur Abilkasimov

VP Cybersecurity & Governance, Deputy Global CISO & CPSO

Schneider Electric

The adoption of cloud-native technologies by businesses has been a significant challenge for CISOs, as it requires adapting to new security risks and maintaining security in a rapidly changing environment. However, many CISOs are adapting to these challenges by implementing new strategies and technologies to secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • With the number of cloud threats increasing and the adoption of cloud-native technologies, what are the key challenges and risks that CISOs are facing?
  • The importance of correlation across the entire cloud environment to prevent attacks or minimise their impact
  • What strategies CISOs are adopting to transform and secure their cloud security operation model

10:45 - 11:45  Networking Break

10:55 - 11:40  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.

11:45 - 12:30  Breakout Session

Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Cyber Resilience

Raphael Marichez headshot

Raphael Marichez

Chief Security Officer, South Europe

Palo Alto Networks

Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive efficiency and technological innovation. Yet taking advantage of this opportunity in the wrong way can have serious security consequences for the organization. IT and Security leaders need to anticipate and prepare to mitigate potential risks as data is increasingly accessed and analysed in increasingly different ways. For business stakeholders to secure investment, how can CIOs and CISOs demonstrate the benefits of these technologies? Join this session to learn about:

  • How AI plays a role in sophisticated attacks today and how to prepare
  • How leaders can use AI capabilities to enhance cybersecurity and demonstrate value to the business

  • Examples of how to leverage AI to process and analyse large volumes of data quickly and safely

11:45 - 12:30  Breakout Session

Translating Insight into Action to Enhance Incident Detection & Response

Jean-Jacques Mallet headshot

Jean-Jacques Mallet

Group CISO

L'Oréal

With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated and frequent, it is a challenge for CISOs to stay ahead of threats and be ready to respond in case of an attack. Even after investing in the right people, processes and technologies and conducting tabletop exercises, are we confident we will be able to translate theory into action when the attack comes?

Join Jean-Jacques Mallet, Group CISO at L’Oréal as he shares insights on Incident Detection & Response. In this session, you will have insights on:  

  • How to navigate an ever-growing flow of threat information
  • Vulnerabilities identification and prioritisation for remediation
  • Detection capabilities efficiency
  • How to help the teams respond better and faster and learn from concrete use cases

11:45 - 12:30  Executive Boardroom

Implementing a Secure by Design Mindset with DevSecOps

Fred Simon headshot

Fred Simon

Co-founder

JFrog

Sergio Kac headshot

Sergio Kac

CISO EMEA

Essilor Group

CISOs are dealing with an increased volume of threats as well as budget and talent challenges. It is evident that one SOC does not fit all. Security leaders must therefore enhance DevSecOps automation to maintain a resilient security posture. What does the next level of SOC look like?

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

  • Rethink the vision for your SOC and source the right technical talent to fill those gaps
  • Integrate DevSecOps into your cloud security strategy
  • Move from a SOC to a VOC (Vulnerability Operations Centre) and how DevOps technology can support this

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch Service

13:30 - 14:00  Keynote

Building a Business Case for Secure Digital Transformation

Yogi Chandiramani headshot

Yogi Chandiramani

Vice President Technical Account Management - EMEA & APAC

Zscaler

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

14:00 - 14:15  Break

14:15 - 15:00  Breakout Session

Attack From Hell: The Anatomy of a High-Impact Attack

Yonatan Lipschitz headshot

Yonatan Lipschitz

Director, Client Leadership, EMEA

Sygnia

Ilan Nacmias headshot

Ilan Nacmias

Cyber Security Manager

Sygnia

In recent years, the Sygnia Incident Response Team has handled numerous nation-state attacks that employed unique attack techniques and posed new challenges to security leaders and incident responders.

In this talk we will guide you through the anatomy of a real-world attack we recently responded to, including attacker TTPs and effective response procedures. This case study will highlight the common pitfalls and key opportunities when defending against even the most sophisticated attacks.

You will come away with: 

  • A deeper understanding of current attack trends
  • Actionable insights into the risks and vulnerabilities exploited by attackers targeting highly complex environments
  • Effective defense strategies employed by leading organisations worldwide

14:15 - 15:00  Executive Boardroom

Best Practices for Securing Your Business-Critical SaaS Systems

Brandon Romisher headshot

Brandon Romisher

VP EMEA

AppOmni

Marcelo França headshot

Marcelo França

CISO

Veolia Water Technologies

Cyril Haziza headshot

Cyril Haziza

Group CISO

Kering

As enterprise SaaS data breaches continue to impact enterprises and make headlines, CISOs must centrally secure and monitor complex and interconnected SaaS ecosystems to mitigate both misconfiguration risk and threat actor attacks. How can security teams monitor highly-dynamic and highly-abstract SaaS systems that are managed outside of the IT function, when tools like CASB have proven ineffective and network-centric?

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

  • Determine the critical components of a comprehensive SaaS security programme
  • Equip the SOC to monitor for attacks on your SaaS system
  • Educate SaaS administrators to automate security reviews to better mitigate data exposure caused by misconfiguration

15:00 - 15:30  Networking Break

15:30 - 16:15  Breakout Session

Cutting Through the Hype to Understand the Next Step in AI Implementation

Michel Tournier headshot

Michel Tournier

IT Operating Partner & Digital Director

Wendel

Christophe Calvez headshot

Christophe Calvez

Group CISO

SANEF

Generative AI has emerged at the forefront of organisations’ agendas when considering new ways to propel digital initiatives to the next stage. However, for both CIOs and CISOs, perennial questions around governance, IT infrastructure and security must be considered before this tool can be effectively scaled and implemented to achieve desired results.

In this interactive session, CIOs and CISOs will come together to discuss:

  • How to communicate IT & Security’s role in AI implementation to governance, risk and legal committees
  • How IT & Security leaders can set expectations on generative AI to the wider business
  • How you are encouraging innovation in use cases whilst also adhering to governance policies

15:30 - 16:15  Executive Boardroom

Adopt a Risk Based Approach to Data Encryption to Enhance Security Posture

Dr. Richard Searle headshot

Dr. Richard Searle

Vice President of Confidential Computing

Fortanix

Carlos Garcia headshot

Carlos Garcia

CISO

Allianz France

Increased focus on regulations and secure use of AI are resulting in CISOs needing to protect data more than ever before. CISOs must prioritise encryption of sensitive data but often struggle with identifying data locations and implementing effective confidentiality rules. How can CISOs leverage technology to adopt a risk-based approach to secure their data?

Join this boardroom to discuss strategies on how to:

  • Create clear policies and remove single points of control over sensitive data
  • Leverage technology to streamline the data encryption process
  • Increase automation to protect your data when at rest, in transit, and in use

16:15 - 16:25  Break

16:25 - 17:00  Keynote

Closing Keynote by Le Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-mer

Dr. Nacira Salvan headshot

Dr. Nacira Salvan

Cheffe de la Mission Politique SSI

Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre Mer

 More details coming soon!

17:00 - 18:00  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

4 December 2023

5 December 2023

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