It is a scary world out there for those tasked with securing intellectual property and personally identifiable information. From nation state attacks and advanced persistent threats to hacktivists, the amount and complexity of threats are increasing. How can individual organizations counter the array of evolving sophisticated attacks? Kelvin Coleman, the director at the Government Engagement within the DHS Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, believes that the answer lies in collaborating across public, private and community lines. Coleman will highlight the importance of building relationships with stakeholders and raising awareness of cybersecurity threats and corresponding safeguarding measures across communities. Join this session to learn about the programs, resources and services the Department of Homeland Security has in place to assist you.

TrueBlue has grown through acquisition since 2004 by purchasing a broad range of staffing firms focused on specialty blue collar jobs. Those companies have operated as five distinct brands since their acquisition. In 2012, TrueBlue began to reverse the strategy and embarked on a journey to bring all the collective capabilities to market as one brand. Join Billie Otto, EVP and CIO, to hear about the company’s progress and how technology is being leveraged to facilitate the transformation.

Session discovery topics:
• Organizational change management — strategy, culture, process and technology
• Technology implications of change
• Lessons learned in IT and the business as a whole

Social tools are quickly gaining traction in the enterprise by filling a core, unmet need within many organizations — a common space where employees can easily connect with one another while sharing and discovering information across teams and locations. Still, getting social right can be harder than it looks, and companies must be willing to adapt to a new way of working in order to make the shift to a social enterprise. Join Brian Murray, director of enterprise strategy at Yammer, as he shares how leading organizations have implemented successful social strategies, what governance and cultural barriers an organization might face, as well as the future of social collaboration tools within the enterprise and what the next generation CIO should be prepared for.

Without a standard set of security guidelines in the healthcare industry, companies determine their risk management process individually. Franciscan Health System, part of Catholic Health Initiatives, adopted the HiTrust Common Security Framework (CSF) and conducted a risk assessment across the organization. To meet the HiTrust control requirements, an IT security committee composed of CISOs and business leaders was formed to analyze risks as they were identified and determined who the stakeholders and sponsors of the action would be. This allowed Gregg Braunton, regional information security officer, to address risks as disparate as vendor management, USB encryption and email security. Join this session to learn how an agreed upon control framework and risk management process simplify the conversation to get business support for IT risks.

In today’s dynamic business environment, CIOs are attempting to execute on strategies which transform their IT environments into the driver for business transformation. This view of the “New IT” requires a detailed consideration of not just the technology, but the underlying people and processes. Join your peers for a closed door discussion about the journey to the cloud, the software defined data center, and the bring-your own device movement. We will share our collective experiences with respect to what is working well, where the roadblocks are and how to measure the business value created by an agile IT department.

The escalation and sophistication of cyber-attacks has a lot of people wondering just how safe information really is. The threat landscape has evolved to the point of being more reactive than proactive and CISOs are looking to quickly understand how this space is evolving. What kind of attacks are we seeing? How do we detect new behaviors based on the behaviors we’re seeing? What new competencies are we seeing emerge as a result of the maturing cyber-attacks? Join this Boardroom to discuss all these questions and more with Aaron Card and your CISO peers.

Many CIOs are faced with divisional and functional silos within their organization, but may be hesitant to introduce collaboration solutions for fear of an unclear ROI. How can CIOs help their organizations maintain the autonomy of their respective business units and advocate for a culture of transparency and cooperation — all while driving down the bottom line? In this session, join Christopher Morace, chief strategy officer at Jive, for a real-world case study focused on the business benefits of enabling teams, divisions and departments to operate as one company.

Each company’s ERP implementation is unique and comes with its own set of challenges. Because of that, sharing best practices has limited value when it comes to specific products or platforms. Viji Murali has experienced three distinct ERPs, allowing her to learn what a CIO needs to know and do when embarking on an ERP. Join this session to hear some of the common traits and stumbling blocks of ERP implementation and come ready to share your own experiences.

Session discovery topics:
• Dealing with budget constraints
• Communicating value of the system’s change
• Managing board expectations

CISOs must completely re-think the way they do business by transforming their role from reactive and infrastructure-focused to proactive data and risk-centric business leaders. Join Lamont Orange as he discusses new concepts for layering data controls alongside infrastructure controls to transform your security defenses. By examining these concepts and the framework and tools essential for enabling people, process and technology to collaborate and redefine a next generation security program, Orange will provide actionable insights to recalibrate security defenses and protect company intellectual property.

Session discovery topics:
• New data-driven approaches to identifying, mitigating and combating threats
• Transforming your users — from greatest vulnerability to volunteer security team
• Evolving your threat model — from acceptable to amazing security

With the rapid commoditization of products and services, the speed at which new market entrants emerge, and the rise of consumerization, experience is the new battle ground. Tata Consultancy Services will host a boardroom session focused on questions like: What role do mobile and social play in creating an engagement foundation? How do analytics and Big Data deliver the context required to inform interactions? How do you use co-creation and visualization to deliver experience-based differentiation? What type of talent do you need to create consumer-like experiences? Join this session to share your experiences and learn what your peers are doing to focus on the customer.

As data volumes continue to grow and new analytical tools emerge, data is becoming a key source of business advantage. Even data that may not have much relevance now could have significant value in the future. So how do you ensure that your data is being preserved and protected so that it is accessible today and tomorrow to meet your business needs? Join Jon Gacek, CEO at Quantum, as he leads a closed-door discussion on key issues involved in addressing this challenge.

Boardroom discussion topics:
- Keeping more data longer, while ensuring its integrity
- How to balance availability, accessibility and affordability
- Leveraging new technologies to overcome shortcomings in current solutions
- Emphasis on strategic resource allocation

New technology and ways of doing business create significant upheaval in organizations ill-prepared for the change. Because of this, the role of CIO is evolving and technology executives need to know where to invest their resources. Matt McIlwain has made a career out of identifying promising companies as a venture capitalist and will share his thoughts about what is coming next. Join this session to hear how consumerization of IT, mobility and cloud are shaping the empowered organization of the future.

Session discovery topics:
• Empowered end-users impacting your company by using mobile, SAAS and cloud applications
• Transitioning to service provider management and IT services clearinghouse
• Leveraging data, as both an input and an output, to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization

Premera Blue Cross is in a mature, highly regulated industry which limits how quickly new ideas can be brought to market. Further, healthcare is going through a major transformation within a highly uncertain business environment. So how do you strike the right balance between operational excellence and innovation to stay competitive in a changing marketplace?

Kirsten Simonitsch helped transform the company’s technology culture by encouraging new ways of thinking to solve problems more creatively, and growing the organization’s ability to take risks. Deciding to be innovative did not come easy or without challenges, but it has become the biggest pivotal point at Premera Blue Cross. Join this session to hear how Simonitsch impacted the customer experience, employee engagement and speed-to-market.

Doing more with less has been a constant refrain in the IT world over the last 10 years. What if IT was able to save millions of dollars without cutting services and by increasing server utilization and energy efficiency? That is exactly what Mentor Graphics was able to accomplish. Ananthan Thandri, CIO at Mentor, oversaw a focused program to increase utilization while transitioning from 35 to 2 energy efficient data centers, one in Oregon and one in Ireland that provided the company substantial savings in energy and server costs. Join Thandri to learn the decision making process behind this initiative, and the potential cost savings your company could achieve.

What are the legal implications for companies with information online, on devices and in the cloud? This question is evolving in complexity as technology options increase. Because of this, new strategies need to be adopted to mitigate threats. Jim Steele, director of corporate investigations and digital forensics at T-Mobile, has co-authored five books about forensics and eDiscovery and can help explain the do’s and don’ts. Join this session to learn how to educate the business and protect your organization.

The business landscape is transforming at an unprecedented rate and applications have become the lifeblood of the new digital enterprise. CIOs have to deal with application environments that are highly dynamic and complex, and they have to adapt to an increasingly mobile workforce and customer base. These shifts are leading to a more application-centric IT, focused on being proactive in order to drive bottom-line results. Application performance as experienced by users, be they customers, partners or employees, has never been more important or challenging. In this session, John Van Siclen will discuss the challenges and successes organizations face as they work to capitalize on these changes. He will share case studies focused on CIOs who are using application performance management to grow their business and optimize their impact as leaders.