Charlotte CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members and Fastly host this session for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

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Your digital transformation journey must be efficient, effective and secure. Where does cybersecurity fit into your post pandemic IT and digital enablement? With the recent shift in IT priorities, your CISO should be a strategic thinker and an ally who promotes security readiness as you shape your company or organization’s success. 

In this session, you will explore:

• The components of an effective cybersecurity strategy that drive your program and reduce risk
• Strategies that ensure the major building blocks of your IT transformation are secured
• Ways to evolve your cybersecurity strategy to align with line of business goals

The evolution of the internet transforms how people interact with the world. Now, emerging technologies, such as the metaverse, are advancing and maturing as organizations are looking closer at the merger of physical and digital spaces. How are you, as technology and security executives, planning for the next 3-5 years of technological advancement?

Join this session to brainstorm:

• Successful methods and approaches used to discover disruptive trends and new technologies
• The new threat landscape that arises with emerging technologies
• Supporting a smarter digital investment strategy for cost and risk management to evolve toward an intelligent enterprise

AI adoption is increasingly used to beat the competition, release innovative products and services, better meet customer expectations, and drive revenue growth. However, successful AI is not straightforward. AI initiatives require governance, compliance with corporate and ethical principles, laws, and regulations. Stakeholders, customers, and government entities are demanding responsible and explainable AI – including the White House releasing the “Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights” in October.

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

• Operationalize AI with confidence in your organization
• Better manage AI risk to avoid brand degradation
• Scale while complying with the growing AI regulations

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: Marsha Wick, marsha.wick@evanta.com, 503-701-1111

Despite their efforts, from phishing simulations to security awareness campaigns, CISOs from organizations big and small keep struggling when it comes to stopping Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. But, if everyone has an email security program, why are the losses associated with BEC still climbing?

Join this session to discuss:

• What is working, or not working, with existing processes and technology?
• How do we solve the “human factor” in the equation?
• Best practices for preventing loss related to a BEC attack?

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: Marsha Wick, marsha.wick@evanta.com, 503-701-1111

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. For CISOs and CIOs that must ensure the security and continuity of business, however, they represent an ever-expanding attack surface at a time when the volume of attacks and the threat of ransomware is increasingly driving news cycles and board-level concern.
Attendees of this keynote will leave with the insights needed to:

• Identify unseen security risks by gaining complete visibility in a rapidly expanding attack surface
• Get ahead of exposure by prioritizing high impact vulnerabilities and threats
• Secure the assets, recover unnecessary CapEx and OpEx and free staff for priority initiatives

The race to digitally transform brings CIOs & CISOs many challenges and choices that require specialized teams to work in unison to bring the vision to life. For any industry, AI adoption requires responsible practices and monitoring to provide the desired outcomes for customers. The key to these outcomes involves finding the right technology, solutions, delivery and partnerships for responsible AI.

During this session attendees will:

• Explore ethical, responsible and sustainable AI
• Understand how AI can impact security standards
• Discuss how the right partnerships drive success

As IT continues to outpace its past as a cost center, the technology executive has become a catalyst for the digital business, and the opportunity to drive value has never been greater. Albemarle has been on a digital transformation journey since 2017. They have approached this in three phases: IT transformation, business transformation, and digital strategy.

Join this session with Albemarle to discuss:

• Setting a solid foundation for technology to thrive
• How business transformation is forcing technology executives to think differently about security
• Transforming your workforce to think, operate and deliver as a digital-first enterprise

As we’ve all learned (sometimes painfully — or worse, publicly), the open source libraries and resources developers use to build applications faster also come with vulnerabilities that can all-too-easily make it into products. Board members have learned these lessons, too, and now want more frequent updates and insight into security initiatives.

Join this boardroom hosted by Veracode to discuss bringing the AppSec conversation into the boardroom. You'll leave with actionable tips and advice on:

• Understanding board members’ concerns and priorities
• Presenting information and metrics in a way that board members understand
• Getting board buy-in on your plans and budget to stay ahead of the threat landscape and innovation curve

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: Marsha Wick (marsha.wick@evanta.com) (503-701-1111)

In the past 18 months, ransomware has dropped down from the biggest cyber insurance claim category, to the third spot. Business Email Compromise has taken over the top spot, and the second most common claim made is centered around money movement fraud – companies mistaking an invoice or a wire transfer request from an attacker to be a real request, and wiring or paying millions of dollars to the wrong person. Organizations have been trying to add more steps to their approval processes for any money transfers, but the losses are still climbing – why is that?

In this session, we will discuss:

• What are the challenges of existing approaches of identifying and processing financial requests from vendors?
• How can technology help with vendor tracking and vendor impersonation detection?
• What are some best practices to identify and alert employees about vendor fraud?

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: Marsha Wick, marsha.wick@evanta.com, 503-701-1111

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.

Threat actors constantly target customer passwords, which is why many CISOs view passwordless as a big leap in authentication security. Eliminating passwords is essential, but attackers are still able to takeover customer accounts or create their own fake accounts with more sophisticated methods. To close off all threat vectors and improve the customer experience, identity professionals must take a comprehensive CIAM approach to assess risk and trust throughout the lifecycle of the user journey, from first registration and passwordless authentication to account recovery.

This session explores:

• The role of passwordless authentication in improving protection and customer experience
• How attackers are invading accounts at other points in the identity lifecycle
• Why companies must take a more comprehensive approach to account protection, inclusive of passwordless authentication
• How to deliver security-first CIAM without compromising the user experience

With a rapidly changing technology landscape, innovation becomes increasingly critical to leadership and the enterprise at large. Not only are companies using advanced technology to re-engineer decision-making, but to innovate and iterate for the future. How can CIOs & CISOs blaze a trail, across industries, to develop the next cutting-edge trends?

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Outside-of-the-box methods of influencing innovation across the business
• Communicating how innovation will create tangible results in achieving key business objectives
• Successful methods and approaches used to discover disruptive trends and new technologies

In order to achieve sustainable growth, enterprises are moving to the cloud. But with this, comes an increased risk of business, technical, and operational disruption. This session will discuss how enterprises identify, eliminate, and overcome risks while modernizing legacy platforms to the cloud. By implementing an efficient modernization strategy, enterprises can mitigate:

• Risk of losing business logic during conversion of legacy code written over decades
• The huge manual effort that turns costly with overruns and inefficiency
• The shortage of resources and skills to adapt next-gen cloud technologies
• Risk of not meeting the target SLAs while regulating the price-performance ratio

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: Marsha Wick, marsha.wick@evanta.com, 503-701-1111

According to Gartner, as of January 2022, approximately 85% of AI and machine learning projects have failed to deliver value (with over half not making it from prototype to production). The question is, why? Having the right framework in place is essential. Technology leaders can break down the concept into tangible pieces and remove the philosophical element from the AI discussion to use machine learning to drive key corporate initiatives and capture significant business value.

In this session, your peers will discuss:

• How to understand the most valuable use cases for AI within your business
• How to scope a project to deliver value quickly and build momentum
• Who in the organization should be involved to ensure success and how to approach change 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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Marsha Wick, marsha.wick@evanta.com, 503-701-1111

Technology is integral to every facet of an organization, and a combination of speed, craftsmanship and radical agility is the backbone of innovation today. But as the global landscape and workplace model itself continue to evolve, the once-invisible arm of cybersecurity is now vital to execute innovations and minimize risk.

Duke Energy's Chief Information Officer Bonnie Titone and Chief Information Security Officer Martin Strasburger know how to balance speed, innovation and security. Join their keynote to hear how to:

• Evolve cross-business partnerships to accelerate business initiatives
• Ensure security is a core tenant of the organization
• Overcome challenges when technology and security priorities appear to conflict