Atlanta CIO Executive Summit

As Governing Body members and invited guests, come and enjoy a fun, casual and interactive Casino Night at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. The evening – a celebration of the work you all put into building a great summit agenda the next day – features table games, prizes, drinks and a fabulous dinner to kick off the fall “by CIOs, for CIOs” executive gathering. Gambling not your thing? There will still be plenty of entertainment, peer networking and desserts to be had.

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

In this networking lunch, take the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

Developing IT leaders

• What are human capital strategies for building and developing the specialized talent required for IT and business innovation?
• How are IT leaders tackling challenges related to new ways of working and trying to manage multi-generational teams?
• How do you integrate an overall leadership strategy into the IT side of the business?

Leveraging AI

• How have you deployed AI initiatives; what has worked and what needs improvement? Share lessons learned.
• How do you measure the return on investment from AI projects?
• How do you drive employee engagement and overcome barriers to realizing AI’s true potential?

Customer-centric Strategies

• What data management strategies generate the most actionable insights into the digital needs and behaviors of your customers?
• What have been your most successful tactics for increasing the speed with which your technology organization responds to customer demand and delivers value?
• What is the role of the CIO in ensuring a seamless customer experience?

Executing While Modernizing

• How are you helping the business to articulate “value” so that effort and energy are spent on the right things?
• How can you liberate more of your human capital/talent to focus on transformative, value-added work, and less on “keeping the trains running on time?”
• What can CIOs do to increase the change appetite of their organizations and foster a culture of continual evolution?

Improving the Pace of IT

• What are the greatest “friction” areas in your organization, and what has been successful in reducing that friction?
• What frameworks or operational models (e.g. agile, DevOps, reorganization) have been most successful in creating more efficient, effective technology organization? 
• What can CIOs do to ensure that speed is a value of the entire organization, not just the technology org?

The cloud and mobility are powerful enablers of digital transformation, but many IT organizations are grappling with legacy architectures and processes that haven’t evolved in over 30 years. When apps lived in the data center, it made sense to invest in building a ‘hub-and-spoke' network and to protect that network by employing a ‘castle-and-moat' security model. But agility demands from both internal and external stakeholders in the new world of SaaS, cloud and mobility requires organizations to evolve their network and security architectures.

While many organizations have had formal innovation programs for several years, scaling proven ideas to fully commercialized or deployed solutions is a constant challenge for CIOs. IT leaders can use the recommendations in this presentation to address the perennial barriers to scaling innovation. Learn:

• Nine core barriers to successfully scaling innovative ideas in the enterprise
• How these pitfalls can adversely impact proven ideas at multiple stages in their journey
• Recommendations for how to overcome these barriers within your organization

Hurricanes, wildfires and man-made disasters threaten your operations every day. Are your systems up? Can your staff get to work? What happens when they aren’t available? How much/what kind of data do you need? Where is it located? Come prepared to share:

• Creative, reliable and cost-effective solutions you have uncovered
• Ways to improve your DR/BC posture to ensure your organization can operate when disaster strikes
• Your thoughts on what constitutes an adequate budget

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Bogart at 971-717-6661 or annie.bogart@evanta.com.

With massive amounts of data at their organization’s disposal, organizations continually look for ways to find true meaning – and value – in all the data. It requires a sense of urgency for CIOs to implement a holistic approach to mass data management and a data-first mindset. Come ready to learn and share:

• Tips for implementing solid data strategies, and how CIOs can help the business exploit and safeguard the data
• Methods for creating a culture of clear data ownership, including meeting internal compliance and external regulatory compliance requirements
• Approaches for creating a shared cross-functional vision and systematic approach to next-level data management

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Bogart at 971-717-6661 or annie.bogart@evanta.com.

Got a problem you need solved? Got a solution you can provide? This session encourages interaction between attendees to share problems and solutions to pressing needs – from small to big. Leave this session knowing you received or offered a viable solution or resource.

Any digital strategy cannot be absent of a plan for IT talent. Whether it’s retooling the skillsets of existing staff or attracting new talent with the right stuff, IT is at the heart of any organization’s ability to keep pace in a fast-moving digital era. This interactive session explores:

• Human capital strategies for finding the specialized talent required of innovation
• Fresh approaches to talent attraction, development and retention
• The impacts from new ways of working – think flexible scheduling or at-home work arrangements – and managing multi-generational teams

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Annie Bogart at 971-717-6661 or annie.bogart@evanta.com.

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