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San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

June 26, 2024 | Grand Hyatt at SFO

June 26, 2024
Grand Hyatt at SFO

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with San Francisco'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:

Adapting to an ever-changing landscape of digital priorities

Measuring the success of outcomes to further illustrate IT as a business driver

Using data-driven insights to compete in the race for swift AI adoption and automation capabilities

San Francisco CIO Governing Body


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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Anantha Ganga

Coherent Corp.
Chief Information Officer

Pallavi Gupta

IMPOSSIBLE
CIO

Monica Khurana

Dodge & Cox
Chief Technology Officer

Geeta Pyne

TIAA
Chief Architect, Architecture and Innovation

Avi Sokol

KLA
CIO

Evan Wayne

World Market
CIO

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 San Francisco 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


Keynote Sessions

Innovating an Approach to Cybersecurity with Authentic Leadership

You read that right! Lisa Davis and Eddie Borrero, the EVP & CIO and VP & CISO of Blue Shield of California, are bringing their authentic leadership style to their cybersecurity strategy. Together, they closely collaborate to inspire employees to appreciate the importance of security at all levels with an advocacy- and data-driven approach. The duo collaborates as a true team to find the balance of protecting the organization, while still allowing for quick decision-making in a cloud-first ecosystem.

Join this session as they explore:

  • The dynamic and structure of the CIO and CISO relationship
  • Authentic leadership’s power to motivate your people to mitigate risk
  • Connecting change to a cloud-first strategy with security

From Buzzword to Business Tool: A Story of Successful AI Adoption


It’s time to move past the theoretical and talk about the actual adoption of AI integrations. Regardless of where you are, lessons can be learned from each enterprise that has undergone some type of adoption process. This keynote will explore lessons learned, governance and different perspectives to consider as you deploy your own journey.

Join this keynote to learn:

  • Recent progress, evolution and trends
  • Challenges and opportunities with adoption
  • GenAI and LLM lessons and how to learn from them


The Performance Paradox — Mental Health and High Productivity

Today's relentless pursuit of success can lead to profound dissatisfaction and dramatically affect mental health. Accomplishments lack satisfaction, work is ceaseless, sleep and self-care are sacrificed. Recognizing this, leaders can play a pivotal role in breaking this cycle and nurturing a healthier and more fulfilled workforce.

Join this keynote from a mental health educator and former lawyer to learn:

  • How time, efficiency, and productivity challenges individual and community health
  • Why mental health of individuals and teams drives performance (and not vice versa)
  • What steps leaders can take, for themselves and others, to shift away from the paradox and towards a more healthy relationship with work



Breakout Sessions

Building an AI-Powered and Secure Unstructured Data Strategy

Your unstructured data holds immense value in the files that define your business. To maximize the potential of this data, it's crucial to establish a comprehensive unstructured data strategy that prioritizes both security and AI integration.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Identifying your valuable unstructured data sources and tools
  • Developing robust security measures for internal and external data use
  • Balancing AI with stringent security and compliance protocols to increase utility

Breakout Session Hosted by PagerDuty

 Additional details coming soon.


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Privacy by Design — Win Consumer Trust and Loyalty in Age of AI

Personal data holds immense value for organizations and, as more commerce takes place over digital channels, consumers are increasingly concerned about what’s happening to all their data.  According to a recent study, 98% of consumers want brands to do more to guarantee the privacy of their data, as well as be more transparent about how their data is used. Earning consumer trust starts with being a good steward of customer data, which makes the topic of data privacy and protection a critical issue for all businesses, and especially for those companies looking to use new AI tools to scale.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Navigating the convergence of consumer, government, and market forces that shape global flows of data
  • Integrating privacy by design principles into the entire customer journey and product life cycle
  • Responsibly leveraging new technologies, such as AI, without sacrificing customer trust and loyalty


Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

Executive Boardroom Hosted by Skillable

Additional details coming soon.


Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

The Costs of Complexity…and How to Cut Both

In today's complicated digital landscape, reducing operational complexity is a powerful force of cost optimization and efficiencies that ultimately drive business outcomes. IT is continually asked to do more with less, avoid negative impacts to user experience, and maximize existing investments.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Identifying and prioritizing inefficiencies across hybrid, cloud and on-prem deployments
  • Defining clear, measurable optimization goals and tracking business outcomes
  • Analyzing existing resources to ensure maximum efficacy of tools already in your toolkit

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

Executive Boardroom Hosted by Blue Yonder

Additional Details Coming Soon


Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.


Networking Session

Governing Body Reception

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to close out the event with an evening of peer networking. Attendees also have the option to assemble care packages in conjunction with a local food bank.


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


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Grand Hyatt at SFO
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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Shauna De La Mare

Community Program Manager

shauna.delamare@evanta.com