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Houston CIO Inner Circle
April 24, 2024 | Willie G's Seafood
April 24, 2024
Willie G's Seafood
Collaborate with your peers
Join Houston's top CIOs 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 CIOs 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
Houston CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
David Cain
CVR Energy
VP & CIO
Vagesh Dave
McDermott International
Global VP/ CIO
Paula Smetana Stuart
Crescent Energy
Chief Information Officer
Michael Thompson
Gulfport Energy Corporation
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
John Varkey
WM
VP, Enterprise Digital Services
Agenda
April 24, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Modernizing Your Tech Stack
Mike Puzen
Head of Central GTM, ChromeOS
Puneet Bhasin
EVP, Global CIO & Chief Digital Officer
Unum
Alexis Collins
Chief Information Officer, US
Norton Rose Fulbright
Amyn Gillani
Executive RVP, IT-Digital & Innovation Transformation
McKesson
Rennu Varghese
VP & CIO
The Friedkin Group Inc
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 leaders, CIOs 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 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 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
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