Dallas CIO Executive Summit

Curtis Zimmerman’s award-winning keynote “Living Life at Performance Level” is an interactive, empowering experience that will inspire you with heart-level stories, real business takeaways and real tools you can start using today. Without understanding how the script in your head impacts your thoughts, your relationships and your work, your efforts will fall flat. Curtis’ message guides you to reach “performance level” in new ways—this presentation is about real life, not theory. Get ready to have fun, get inspired, make new friends, and reclaim the starring role in your life.

Seeing his way clear through a complex world of digital integrations, Greg Ericson views his CIO mission through a simple lens: How do we make it easier for our customers to do business with us? This session explores how an industry leader is leveraging data insights, RPA and AI to digitally enhance the entire consumer experience. Ericson will discuss:

• Horizontal and vertical integration focused on the consumer journey
• Successful case studies and the partnerships that magnify execution
• Digitization and business integration efforts that can be scaled globally

When it comes to your IT department’s relationship with the business – do you view yourselves as order takers or rain makers? You’ll address this key question, and many others, as our team of CIO moderators leads you through an interactive group discussion on how to improve the IT-business relationship. You’ll share ideas and explore new ways to reduce friction, make a strong first impression and carry forward IT’s lasting impact.

Organizations today have migrated only about 20 percent of their workloads to the cloud. CIOs are charged with aligning mission-critical tasks to the right types of cloud environments and determining how to clear cloud-adoption hurdles, including meeting compliance and resiliency requirements and achieving cultural buy-in. This interactive session explores:

• • How to successfully design, implement and manage a multiple-cloud operating environment
• • How to foster digital transformation and create a competitive advantage through cloud migration
• • How to adopt and accelerate a culture of agile innovation that leverages AI and cloud

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact:Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com. 

If IT departments aren’t evolving and adapting technology at the pace required by the business, they’re running behind. CIOs must lead the charge to enable game-changing insights by laying an agile digital foundation. This roundtable discussion will explore:

• Every CIO is focused on enabling their organization to move faster than the competition. What organizational, cultural and technological changes are needed?
• Making change stick at scale often proves elusive. How do you overcome this?
• How can you build a business case for IT modernization at scale?

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact:Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com.

Having just added Chief Strategy Officer to his CIO responsibilities, Sumit Anand tees up his approach to delivering more than expected IT value. This session explores what comes next for CIOs who have the desire, capacity and power to “unleash something bigger” for the organization, as Sumit puts it. He’ll encourage audience participation on answering the question “Why can’t we?” in the following areas:

• Channel relevant data and technology tools to uncover hidden value throughout the organization
• Balance EQ with IQ to have more influence as a strategic business partner
• Provide a compelling IT story to the C-Suite on a quarterly basis

In today’s digital economy, enterprises around the world are witnessing an explosion of data. Businesses must make rapid decisions based on accurate data and actionable insights to stay on top of the game. In this session, you’ll explore how to:

• Reap dividends from sustainable behavioral change for your organization to be Business 4.0^TM ready
• Chart a data-driven, analytics-led roadmap by scaling up a ‘Data and AI Democratization’ model
• Discover the unexplored dimensions of data by leveraging evolving data regulations and open data’s potential

Digital Transformation is already a tired buzzword, but CIOs are living it and are looking to hone their strategies and speed up implementation. Join this interactive roundtable session to discuss:

• What key components should go into your digital journey blueprint
• Going beyond IT services to cross-functional workflow automation on a single platform and shared data model
• What a digital journey maturity model looks like (including velocity, experience and 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact:Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com. 

Hailed as the most transformative force in IT since the dawn of the digital age, cloud-based operating models promise to optimize cost and increase agility. But it falls to the CIO to fulfill this promise. Learn from your peers to uncover:

• How to proactively manage your cloud shift
• Ways to optimize existing infrastructure with a hybrid-cloud
• Where to leverage a multi-cloud model

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact:Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com.