Toronto CIO Executive Summit

Zero Trust architecture is disrupting the IT industry as enterprises are forced to react to ransomware and strive for cloud adoption. Zero Trust, however, isn’t just another appliance in your data center. Rather, it’s a philosophical reimagining of your network architecture that touches every corner of the enterprise, not just IT.

Join Brett James, Field CTO as he explores:

• The birth of Zero Trust
• What it means to the modern enterprise
• Kick starting a Zero Trust transformation

Navigating the talent pool in a post-pandemic work environment has CIOs seeking out solutions to engage their teams and build up new talent. With employee expectations at an all-time high, CIOs are finding that now is the time to get creative.

Join this interactive session to debate and collaborate about team building scenarios including: 

• Keeping the right people – thinking beyond just retention 
• Mentoring a multigenerational workforce – creating operational excellence
• Exploring employee potential – diversifying skill sets

Two major priorities for CIOs are enabling employees to work more productively and improving the customer experience. Creating a holistic communications system around delivering positive experiences can achieve gains for both priorities. How can these changes support the kind of hyper-personalization and knowledge accumulation that delivers customer satisfaction at every step of the journey?

This session will address:

• Developing a strategic communications system with the customer journey in mind
• Creating customer experience synergies by blending capabilities like unified communications and contact centers
• Real-world challenges and strategies to overcome them

Today's CIO has a unique opportunity to act as a change agent for an entire organization. With the help of executive leadership, the CIO can work in tandem to develop the strategy for how an organization operates. According to Gartner, almost 70% of organizations have accelerated their digital business initiatives in the wake of the pandemic disruption, thereby increasing the volume, frequency and complexity of change. Traditional change management is no longer sufficient for organizations to foster growth in a post-pandemic era in which change is a constant.

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.

As enterprises are integrating technology with all aspects of the business, their need increases for higher levels of integration between key business support functions and greater data availability to ensure that the business is ready to withstand any challenge. Combining the best practices from IT security, business continuity, disaster recovery and other disciplines creates a cyber-resilience strategy more in line with the needs and goals of the digital business.

Join this session to learn about:

• The five components of the cyber-resilience framework
• Cyber-resilience practices that help enterprises defend against risks and enable efficient and effective recovery from breach or failure
• Strategies to modify data protection and recovery practices to better align with current targeted and malicious attacks

How can CIOs and IT leaders mitigate the negative aspects of the hype surrounding AI while preserving the enthusiasm rightfully associated with its power to create real value? By the end of 2022, all personnel working on AI projects will be required to demonstrate competency in and an understanding of responsible AI practices. Having the right framework in place, IT leaders can see through the hype, breaking the concept down into tangible pieces and removing the philosophical element from the AI discussion. 

This session will cover: 

• Techniques of solving real world business problems with AI

• Steps for pragmatically implementing Advanced Tech 

• Use Cases to Seize AI Investment Opportunities

Successful cloud transformations require highly-skilled people, but cloud skills are in high demand and the market for these skills is competitive. What strategies for recruiting and retaining top talent are working, and how do CIOs motivate and re-skill existing employees so they can be as successful as possible as quickly as possible?

Join AWS Enterprise Strategist Jake Burns/Phil Le-Brun to discuss how to:

• Turn nay-sayers and doubters into allies
• Quickly up-skill existing employees with what they need to succeed
• Build momentum in your transformation through small wins that deliver big results

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: Lee Hutchison at lee.hutchison@evanta.com

Value driven leadership can be challenging but also rewarding! Technology leaders sit at the intersection of digital, cyber, and diversity and have a responsibility to merge them together. With true value driven leadership, CIOs can develop digital humanism for the needs of the user, while also enhancing cybersecurity for personal safety, and identifying more comprehensive diversity ideas and actions.

Join us as Kelley Irwin discusses this intersection:

• Sharing her belief about responsibility to create positive change
• Providing a roadmap for defining a positive change strategy
• Challenging technology leaders to commit to positive change