Atlanta CIO Executive Summit

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

While the vast majority of infrastructure has been upgraded and modernized to support the shift to the cloud, enterprise IT teams are still missing an equally seamless access method to deliver cloud-native apps and data to their end users. While traditional browsers have become the de-facto access point for the majority of business critical applications, they lack the deep visibility and hyper-granular policy controls enterprises need. This results in IT leaders surrounding their browsers with layers of tech to meet those needs.

Join this keynote session to discover:

• Why traditional cloud security methods undermine your modernization efforts and end-user experience
• Embracing technological momentum to adapt to a "more-with-less" IT landscape
• How enterprise CIOs are using this solution to bolster cloud security

According to Gartner, $3 trillion dollars will be spent on AI in the next 3 years. The value on offer is enormous, but realizing it requires creativity and management of new types of risk. CIOs have a great leadership opportunity, but they need to make space and step up security in order to pursue it.

Join this keynote to discuss:

• Navigating the pressures of AI innovation vs. near-termism
• Addressing new and unique issues presented by AI-powered malinformation
• Building your AI treasure map

Providing support and guidance to the next generation of IT leaders can be invaluable to rising talent but can positively impact the mentor as well. Jay Ferro leads this panel of CIOs to discuss the influence mentoring continues to have on their career paths and lives.

Join this session to discuss:

• Championing rising stars in IT
• Building lasting, productive relationships
• Advancing the business through leadership and development

Companies have been collecting data on their customers since the dawn of direct marketing, but in today’s digital era, gathering information is only the first step. Truly knowing your customer requires integrating data and insights from all your existing tools — including your CRM, marketing suite, ecommerce platform and contact center — to build an accurate and real-time picture of who they are and what they want.  Only then can you consistently deliver the highly personalized interactions that customers expect and that create value for them and your organization.

Join this session to learn about:

• Generating actionable insights from an endless sea of customer data
• Unlocking value and enabling conversions from every conversation
• Building differentiated engagement without sacrificing consumer data privacy and transparency

A divestiture presents an opportunity for IT to drive value, promote an innovative culture, and build an effective team. However, the CIO must balance planning for the new company while minimizing disruption at the parent company. Grant Shih shares his strategy for leading Vestis through its spin-off from Aramark.

Join this session to discuss:

• Preparing IT for a divestiture
• Leading effective communication and change management
• Defining an IT operating model to organize talent, processes, technology and data

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

In the evolving landscape of mergers and acquisitions, IT leadership is no longer an afterthought but a crucial voice in the M&A process. With technology tightly integrated into business processes, IT leaders have the potential to drive positive transformation and permanent business growth. Join Alok Gupta as he shares strategies for thoughtfully executing business integrations that unlock new potential. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Evolving M&A playbooks and executing successful roadmaps 
• Growing pains and gains through organizational pivots
• Excelling in change management leadership for sustainable transformation

Today’s CIO must be an innovation, strategy, and business leader that can implement technology to advance the business while effectively communicating value to stakeholders. Yogaraj Jayaprakasam leads this session on where the role of the CIO is today and where it is headed in the future.

Join this session to discuss:

• Being a business technologist in an ever-changing landscape
• Communicating the value of IT by simplifying technology
• Balancing innovation amid economic uncertainty

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

As lines of business continue to invest in new applications and processes, disconnected, siloed, and individual initiatives are creating shockwaves throughout the organization. Such random acts of digital lack the necessary degrees of strategic oversight and organizational change control, leading to unpredictability and elevated levels of organizational risk.

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

• Adopt new digital solutions with proactive approaches
• Eliminate chance outcomes from random acts of digital
• Promote unity while mitigating risks

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: Heather Bolick at Heather.Bolick@evanta.com

As digital enterprises evolve to stay competitive, continuous modernization is imperative to minimize cost, risk and impact of legacy technology. Leveraging new technologies and innovation can become a challenge in legacy environments. What is the CIO’s best path forward to successfully allow legacy systems to coexist with new digital products?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Keeping legacy systems agile to meet business needs
• Prioritizing which legacy systems to modernize
• Balancing a legacy environment with the business need to leverage AI

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: Heather Bolick at Heather.Bolick@evanta.com