
Chicago CIO Community
Inner Circle
March 15, 2023 | Smith and Wollensky
March 15, 2023
Smith and Wollensky
Collaborate with your peers
Join Chicago'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:
Accelerating High Growth and Digitally-Driven Outcomes
Thriving through Volatility - Empowering People, Resiliency and Insights
Orchestrating Change - Influencing Culture and Creating Value
Chicago CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Deb Hall Lefevre
Starbucks
CTO

Rajeev Khanna
Aon
Chief Information Officer

Mike Parisi
ITW
VP CIO

Gagan Singh
Ascension
Chief Information Officer

Tom South
Northern Trust
Executive VP & Chief Information Officer

Edward Wagoner
JLL
Executive Director, Digital Chief Information Officer
Agenda
March 15, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Digitally-Driven Outcomes, Quicker Business Decisions

Jeff Burlin
Director, Enterprise Innovation
Twilio

Ron Guerrier
Global CIO
HP Inc.

Mike Maresca
Global Chief Technology Officer
Walgreens Boots Alliance

Ashley Pettit
Senior Vice President & CIO
State Farm

Samir Shah
EVP & Global CIO
Fortune Brands Home & Security

Kevin Steele
CIO
National Restaurant Association

David Todd
Chief Information and Security Officer
White Lodging
As global economic and political volatility continue, the enterprise is looking at IT to accelerate digital ecosystems in order to create an avenue for high growth and quicker benefits. To respond to this increased demand, CIOs are scaling productivity by solving business challenges with product-centric teams and architecting sophisticated ecosystems to ensure insights are delivered to key decision makers.
Organizations are moving beyond the stage of ‘transformation’ and now demanding digital execution, as they position the enterprise to weather economic storms and unpredictable setbacks in the future.
Join your peers to discuss how CIOs are capturing the outcomes of digital execution.
Accelerating Decision Making For Timely Value Realization
- Describe your current and ideal data ecosystem.
- Has the demand for self-service data and analytics risen for your organization? What are you doing to enable business leaders with dashboards and insights in real time? Has that affected your data governance strategy?
- Have you seen the level of adoption that you’d like from leaders to impact quicker decision making? What steps have you taken to identify value realization and measure outcomes obtained by data and analytics?
Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes
- What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? Are they more business focused or technology focused?
- Many CIOs have turned toward the organization of fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing? How are you changing mindsets, while supporting agile journeys?
- How do you start building your tech-environment and work environment for the future workforce?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Chicago CIO Community Inner Circle.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
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