Calgary CIO Community
Executive Summit

We have partnered with Together We Rise (a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the way youth navigate through the foster care system in North America) and we will be filling backpacks for foster children in need. All items will be provided at zero cost to you. Simply show up, enjoy a beverage, light appetizers, network with peers and enjoy an opportunity to give back to the community.

Amid disruptive and uncertain business environments, strategic portfolio management is critical to accelerate digital initiatives. At the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, IT leaders are focusing on student retention as one of the main drivers of transformative change in its physical and virtual presence. Through the power of story and interactive technology, Michael Barr, CIO of SAIT, hopes to engage the audience in learning while sharing ways to elevate the CIO and CISO positions to those of trusted advisors.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Approaches and frameworks for strategic portfolio management within an organization
• Tools to create business agility and accelerate digital initiatives
• Strategies for using KPIs as a north star to guide the work

According to Gartner, the challenge for many IT and business leaders today is to instill a culture of data-driven decision making across the organization. Those who want to exploit the potential of new data and advanced analytics capabilities at scale typically face numerous challenges.

In this session, CIOs will:

• Discuss best practices for designing data and analytics programs
• Identify and define quick-win opportunities supporting the business data strategies
• Brainstorm technology and resource alignment

IT and security leadership is necessary to meet critical business gains for the remainder of 2023. The pressure is on leadership teams to drive revenue growth, optimize their budgets and teams and a find a faster path to realizing ROI. Among the many areas of modernization and innovation is in workplace collaboration to get the most out of your workforce.

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

• Creating a roadmap to implement new capabilities for greater productivity
• Embedding security and privacy into workforce collaboration
• Developing technology strategies that lead to increased value

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability.  This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:      

• Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)      
• How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
• Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)    

Amid economic turbulence, technology leaders must look beyond cost savings to operation resiliency and efficiency. As economic conditions tighten, executives are looking for ways to strategically optimize costs while reinvesting in sustainable technologies.

Join your peers in this session to discuss:

• Adoption of planning processes that accelerate new capabilities to support growth
• Ways to optimize performance during turbulent times
• When to accelerate, reduce or eliminate investment

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.

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs and CISOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. Leadership has an obligation to be responsive to emerging tech that will either enhance or threaten the business. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• The importance of communicating emerging trends like generative AI with key stakeholders
• What impacts automation can have on an organization’s future
• How organizations are adapting to the rapidly changing technology landscape

Getting total buy-in from leadership isn’t easy but can accelerate your initiatives and increase success and adoption. If you can learn to communicate with your board by leveraging data to tell a compelling story, IT’s effectiveness will be recognized — inspiring trust and future buy-in across the enterprise.

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices for communicating with your board
• Using data to tell IT’s story
• Building relationships with stakeholders

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Aislin Courtis at aislin.courtis@evanta.com

Technology leaders are constantly preparing for the inevitable: a cyber breach or ransomware attack. But what if the threat is not a breach, but a catastrophic system failure instead? What might work to combat a tech outage might not be enough to take on a system-wide outage that compromises the organization. Robert Martin, CISO, Alberta Health Services, and his team were front and center of the response and came out the other side.

Join this keynote to discuss:

• Creating proactive protocols for a system-wide outage
• Implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan
• Understanding and communicating the impact of a major system failure