2024 Charlotte CIO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Charlotte's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Creating simplified, agile IT environments with minimal disruption to productivity

Allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems

Modernizing quickly and efficiently to keep up with evolving security threats

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Reenie Askew

City of Charlotte, NC
Assistant City Manager & CIO

Ken Athanasiou

VF Corp
CISO

William Curtiss

Paper Excellence
Global CISO

Frank DePaola

Enpro
VP, CISO

Steve Hagood

Trane Technologies
SVP & CIO

Murshid Khan

Coastal Federal Credit Union
CIO

Margarita Rivera

Lowe's Companies
Sr. Director of Information Security

John Scrimsher

Kontoor Brands
CISO

Patrick Thompson

Albemarle
Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer

Bonnie Titone

Duke Energy
SVP & CIO

Kimberly Trapani

American Tire Distributors
SVP & CISO

Agenda

February 20, 2024

4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics

Modernizing Your Tech Stack

Rafael Shamailov

Head of East GTM, ChromeOS

Google

Reenie Askew

Assistant City Manager & CIO

City of Charlotte, NC

Andy Basinger

CTO

Monarch

Patrick Thompson

Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer

Albemarle

Todd Wiedman

Global Chief Security Officer

Landis+Gyr

With a constantly evolving organization, IT environments need to be simplified and agile allowing new technology to thrive next to legacy systems. As security threats grow and evolve, so does our need to modernize quickly and efficiently. Within a modern workplace, our needs to securely embrace employees productivity from home or elsewhere must evolve too. How we approach investments today can deliver greater value in the future.

As technology and security leaders, CIOs and CISOs must continue to tackle these challenges on a daily basis, but what tangible outcomes exist? What can be done today to modernize what we have in place with minimal disruption to productivity?

Come together with your peers to have an in-depth discussion on the challenges you face with modernization and what considerations you might be missing as we all tackle this together.

Current Landscape and Outlook of Modernization

What does it mean to be a modern organization?
From your lens and industry, what is IT up against as it applies to security, complexities, productivity and keeping costs low?
How are CIOs and CISOs providing a modern work experience? Are there any unique aspects you are modeling now?

How to Prepare for the Future

What are key pillars CIOs and CISOs are considering when modernizing their tech stack?
With future technology considerations in mind, what foundational elements have you already put in place?
How do you measure the success of technology modernization? What key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics will be used?