
Dallas CIO Executive Summit
November 9, 2021 | Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria
November 9, 2021
Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Seizing momentum – influencing and leading the enterprise
Thriving through uncertainty - empowering people and delivering value
Advancing and scaling strategic, outcome-based technologies
Dallas CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Sumit Anand
At Home
Chief Information Officer & Head of Strategy

Mike Anderson
Netskope
Chief Digital & Information Officer

Madhuri Andrews
Jacobs
EVP, Chief Digital and Information Officer

Paola Arbour
Tenet Health
Executive VP & Chief Information Officer

Nellson Burns
Daltile
VP of Information Services

Vipin Gupta
Toyota Financial Services
Chief Information Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
November 8, 2021
November 9, 2021
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
Plotting Your Course: The CIO’s Path To Relevancy

Sumit Anand
Chief Information Officer & Head of Strategy
At Home
The last few years have brought an ocean of change for the CIO -- and the seas are only getting choppier. The evolution of technology environments, the shifting tide of talent and the business demands for speed and agility have all impacted how CIOs must lead today. But how do IT leaders continue to captain their ships and take it to new horizons?
Join Sumit Anand for an inspiring and provocative conversation around:
- Influencing your own evolution and IT’s future
- Staying ahead of the fleet - embracing the blurred lines of business and technology
- Balancing your current reality with increasing your relevancy
9:00am - 9:15am Break
9:15am - 10:00am Breakout Session
Putting AI to Work — How Natural Language Understanding Unleashes the Knowledge Worker
Hosted by Moveworks

Bhavin Shah
CEO & Founder
Moveworks
While AI makes everything instant for consumers, getting tech support at work still takes three days. Bhavin Shah will share how CIOs are finally making AI work in the enterprise—thanks to breakthroughs in natural language understanding. You’ll learn:
- Why AI that understands language is unleashing knowledge workers
- How to transform your “small data” into “big data” that can power AI
- Where CIOs are implementing AI to cut workloads by 40%
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Orchestrating the Convergence of Technology and Business

Jamie Lee
CIO
Ecobat

Heidi Cox
CIO
HKS

Thomas Volmer
Interim CIO
Austin Industries
Surveying that nearly half of all enterprises have achieved maturity of their digital efforts, Gartner concluded “Technology is now an essential element of every successful business strategy.” As advanced digitization and value creation becomes a business-wide mandate, a technology leader’s vision and guidance is vital to enabling pervasive IT adoption.
Join this peer-led session to discuss:
- How to create a thriving, integrated IT partnership across the business
- How to deploy assets to fuel technology advancement – from business relationship managers to business-led fusion teams
- How to leverage the right executive allies to expand technology’s impact
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 your event Program Manager, Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Hello to Human Connection
Hosted by RingCentral

John Rosenbaum
Chief Information Officer
Employbridge

Greg Lewis
Strategic Enterprise Sales Account Executive
RingCentral
The world has become a very different place, and the way we work is forever changed. It took a major wakeup call to stir us into action. For most companies, the response to the challenge was about technology and digital transformation, but it should be more than that. It needs to center on driving the best possible human experience – sustaining human connection - so individuals and the companies they work for can thrive.
Join us to discuss how to:
- Level the playing field for both in-office and remote employees so all experiences are equal
- Bring together employee experience and customer experience to enhance productivity and increase customer satisfaction
- Leverage the spectrum of no-low-pro code APIs to bring together all the ways people can work
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 your program manager Rob Wilson, rob.wilson@evanta.com
10:00am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:15am Breakout Session
Cultivating Hyperautomation Beyond Efficiency for Customer Experience
Hosted by Sutherland

Ashish Julka
CRO
Sutherland Global Services

Doug Gilbert
CIO & CDO
Sutherland Global Services

Scott Lindblom
CTO
Bed Bath & Beyond

Mike Santimaw
SVP, CIO
Rent-A-Center

Jon Summers
CIO, Technology & Operations
AT&T
Today’s CIO is challenged to choose between the efficiencies of automation and the rewards of great customer experience. In order to gain the operational effectiveness of automation for both the business and the consumer, CIOs must strategically balance their operating model.
Join Sutherland Global as IT leaders share how emerging technologies are being applied by:
- Combining tech to deliver operating and customer outcomes
- Achieving digital transformations at pace and scale
- Creating a sustainable trail to success
10:30am - 11:15am Executive Boardroom
Enabling the Hybrid Workforce
Hosted by T-Mobile for Business

Nellson Burns
VP of Information Services
Daltile

Ebele Kemery
Head of Global Technology D&I
JPMorgan Chase
Progressive organizations have included permanent work-from-anywhere (WFX) options in their connectivity strategy and according to IDC, 64% of business leaders will subsidize this connectivity. New solutions like 5G will reduce the in-home bandwidth battle for employees, alleviate the burden of managing multiple vendors, and reduce security vulnerabilities is needed. Join your peers in a focused discussion on options to manage your hybrid work-from-anywhere environment.
In this boardroom, we’ll discuss
Investing in the right technologies to support WFX and decrease risk
Long-term planning to deliver equitable access across your workforce
Moving from workforce support to workforce innovation
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 your event Program Manager, Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com
10:30am - 11:15am Executive Boardroom
Digital Business – Growing Demand, Endless Opportunity

Todd Kackley
EVP & Chief Information Officer
Bell Flight

Sameer Purao
VP & CIO
Celanese

Scott Willett
Executive Director
The University of Texas System
Whether “business as usual” is a place we return to – or a constant moving target – we are all living in a digital world and there’s no going back. As the pace accelerates, opportunity is rich, and the organization’s future rides on how CIO business leaders exploit an expanding array of digital tools. Join this peer-led conversation on seizing digital momentum to work in new ways and reach savvy consumers on new platforms.
Among the key talking points:
- Transforming your workforce to think, operate and deliver as a digital-first enterprise
- Optimizing digital capabilities and digital channels to create business-wide value
- Strategizing to expand digital business and maturity for long-term success
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 your Program Manager, Rob Wilson at rob.wilson@evanta.com
11:15am - 11:25am Break
November 8, 2021
November 9, 2021
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the GalleriaA block of rooms has been reserved at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 972-661-2800.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $168 USD (plus tax) is October 25, 2021.
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