Charlotte CIO Community
Virtual Executive Summit

Many CIOs need to transform their current project model into a product-centric model, building cross-functional product-aligned teams that are faster, more iterative and better at managing uncertainty. However, as a CIO, this presents funding and operational challenges that sit squarely with you, and other business leaders, to ensure that new delivery and operating models are structured to maximize business impact and efficiency. This boardroom will explore how CIOs move technology funding and delivery from rigid project-based models to one focused on products, innovation, continuous delivery and stakeholder engagement. 

Join this session to:

• Understand what is driving the need to move from project to product
• Discuss the practicalities of moving from project to product-centric models
• Explore how your functional capabilities compare, to optimize value and cost

It’s “one size fits none” when it comes to cloud. As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, so too should the strategies CISOs develop in order to remain secure. Join this boardroom conversation and explore what is on the horizon when it comes to the evolving cloud environment, specifically:

• Current and future cloud security issues
• Top threats to the cloud
• Strategies to guide your organization's cloud priorities

Digital transformation has created a convergence of users, devices, and applications that demands an identity-based security approach. With the identity perimeter exposed, CISOs need new and better ways to protect it. 

Join this interactive boardroom conversation to discuss: 

• Strategies to reach frictionless IAM 
• How identity can protect against automated attacks 
• The future of IAM including passwordless authentication

During this keynote with Angela Yochem, EVP & Chief Digital & Technology Officer; Karl Hightower, CDO; and Onyeka Nchege, SVP and CIO of Novant Health, you will hear best practices on making cross-industry moves and the importance of embracing an industry-agnostic mindset.

Join this session to hear:

• Best practices on bringing in previous work experience to a new industry
• How to align with your leadership team to drive initiatives forward
• How to flex with changing business environments and apply lessons from other industries

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CIO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the Charlotte community. 

As the ongoing rush to the cloud continues, many organizations falter because they equate “movement” with “strategy.” Getting the most out of your cloud journey doesn’t automatically follow from a corporate mandate or new vendor contract. Success is the product of clear communication of terms and expectations, alignment with other business processes and functions, and partnerships among multiple internal and external stakeholders.

This session puts strategy in the crosshairs and discusses:

• Creating definitional clarity for your comprehensive approach to cloud to eliminate ambiguity and crystalize the best processes for your organization
• Building adaptability into your strategy so it can be augmented or amplified at any step in the journey to address shifting business needs
• Breaking cloud strategy away from IT and creating cross-functional, business-wide alignment

Automation transforms work and simplifies how businesses operate. AI accelerates innovation by making every interaction, experience, and process more intelligent. Combining automation with AI will release $134B in labor value in 2022. Whether you want to automate complex operations or automate repetitive tasks, AI-powered automation can help.

Join this interactive conversation to discuss:

• How AI-powered automation is transforming the future of work
• Using machine learning and AI to help collect and analyze operational data
• Optimizing to reduce your manual processes by up to 80%

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For many information security leaders, it’s not technology, but people, that form the weakest link in the organization’s defenses. CISOs need to own the progression of increasing security awareness and creating a robust cyber security culture in their organization, now more than ever.

In this session, you will discuss:

• Effective strategies for security awareness training
• Communication and commitment to higher security expectations
• Gaining buy-in to roll out robust training programs across the organization

How are your peers balancing business agility and business security in their identity and access management strategy? Discover how you can benchmark your framework, and learn the most innovative tactics security leaders are using for IAM in their organizations without interrupting core business operations.

In this session, you'll learn more about:

• Standardizing and automating IAM across an enterprise
• Methodologies that satisfy users while maintaining adequate access controls in cloud and legacy environments
• Roadmaps for deciding what tools will fit best

Some organizations lack resources to help them track and govern their data at scale. With large segments of the workforce now remote, data protection is more critical than ever. How can leaders work to combat this problem and ensure the data is properly managed and secured in the era of increasing privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How to secure business stakeholder buy-in
• How to build, operationalize, and automate your data protection and privacy compliance strategy
• How to quickly adapt to new regulatory requirements and audits

Turning social distancing into creative connecting, Artist/Author Noah Scalin and creator of the Webby award-winning Skull-A-Day project, shares images of his awe-inspiring work and tells the unusual story of how he completely overturned his own working practices to develop a new way of sustaining innovation in his work and life. He will share how his learnings from that experience have helped him to continue creating and connecting despite the challenges of this moment in time.

Join this keynote to learn:

• Actionable lessons to unleash creativity to solve business problems
• Creative concepts to maintain employee engagement in an era of remote work
• How to jump-start and sustain creative leadership

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues