Chicago CIO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

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.

One of the biggest challenges facing the modern CIO is balance. When it comes to business transformation, the sky is the limit…until you run into budget, time and resource constraints. How can CIOs balance these real limitations while encouraging their teams to dream big and come up with outside the box solutions?

Join this panel to discuss:

• Crafting a technology and cultural transformational strategy
• Successful frameworks that allow space for a “test fast, learn quick” environment
• Strategies for enabling and securing a hybrid WFH workforce

CIOs have been working with distributed workforces for over a year now. While IT leaders were quick to shift to remote working, as offices open up, strategies will change and evolve to meet the ever-changing operational landscape. As a CIO, how do you ensure you’re making the right decisions around ensuring an efficient and secure workforce, and how can you continue to build agility, resilience by delivering the same user experience in a hybrid work model?
Join this session to share best practices, including:

• Investing in the right technologies to support work-from-anywhere and decrease the risk
• A digital workspace that improves employee experience and productivity for a hybrid workforce
• Moving from workforce support to workforce innovation

“Data is at the core of everything we do.” Whether or not you relate to this Fortune 250 CIO’s decree, the struggle to be a well-oiled, data-driven enterprise is real. What opportunities has your organization missed along its data journey, and what strategic levers can you pull to drive competitive advantage? Learn what your CIO peers have achieved on the data forefront.

In this session you’ll consider:

• Best practices for generating accessible, actionable data insights across the enterprise
• Leverage points for executing on data strategy for short-term wins and long-term impact
• Advanced analytics tools that improve decision-making, business process and customer experience

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). To reserve your seat, please contact: Summer Parisi at summer.parisi@evanta.com

Heightened cybersecurity risks of the last two years have proven security initiatives and business continuity planning must be ingrained in every enterprise’s corporate culture. CIOs must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps. 

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Building robust cybersecurity strategies that align with new business objectives and hybrid workforce models
• Reconceptualizing cyber roadmaps to enable digital business rather than inhibit innovation
• Tackle growing security threats against infrastructure through security awareness and threat intelligence

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). To reserve your seat, please contact Summer Parisi. (summer.parisi@evanta.com)

As technology evolves, the use of data is expanding and becoming more valuable to the enterprise. The focus is now on IT leaders to communicate the value of these assets to stakeholders. In order to demonstrate how these data assets deliver faster and more accurate business outcomes, leaders must communicate the benefits succinctly.

Join this session as your peers discuss:

• Practical metrics that align with and advance key business objectives
• Combining storytelling and data to demonstrate revenue growth, innovation, customer wins and risk management
• Fostering a data-centric focus the organizational culture

Now more than ever, DevOps plays an important role in transforming our digital landscape and driving business revenue. To quickly deliver new customer-centric services or simply just to fail fast, IT teams are transitioning to DevOps models that close the gap between development and operations while drastically increasing their business relevance.

Join this peer-driven conversation to explore:

• Effective DevOps strategies
• Successes in transforming your delivery model
• Challenges in driving DevOps in organizations

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).

To reserve your seat, please contact Summer Parisi. (summer.parisi@evanta.com

As businesses strive to function more like digital-native tech companies, many are experiencing growing pains on the road from strategy to execution. New opportunities for speed and agility often run headlong into the old processes, sourcing and organizational structures of traditional operating models. In this session, CIOs will help one another master the new operating mechanics that tie strategy to business outcomes.

Join this session to discuss:

• Creating clear and aligned business priorities for digital strategy
• Adopting the right operating model to rapidly unlock business value through technology
• Reducing friction with better processes and the right sourcing plan

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). To reserve your seat, please contact, Summer Parisi. (summer.parisi@evanta.com)

IT and security partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. IT leaders must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.

Join this keynote as State Farm shares their story on how to:

• Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
• Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
• Collaborate in different business sectors while moving business initiatives forward