
Denver CIO Executive Summit
June 11, 2019 | The Westin Denver Downtown
June 11, 2019
The Westin Denver Downtown
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Denver CIO Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Investing in your people and the right technologies
Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models
Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes
Denver CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Co-Chairs

Alan Cullop
DaVita Inc.
CIO

Jamie Cutler
QEP Resources, Inc
VP & CIO
Glenn Dally
Molson Coors Brewing Company
CISO

Chuck Fredrick
National CineMedia
CIO
Randall Frietzsche
Denver Health Medical Center
CISO
Mike Kalac
The Western Union Company
Interim Chief Information Officer

Chris Laping
Caribou Coffee & Einstein Bagels and Author, “People Before Things”
Chief Innovation Officer

Sam Masiello
Gates
CISO

Steve Oberg
DaVita Inc.
CISO

Purnima Wagle
DCP Midstream
CIO
Agenda
June 10, 2019
June 11, 2019
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45am - 8:30am Keynote
Inspiring Crazy Loyalty
Hosted by Attivo Networks

Chris Laping
Chief Innovation Officer
Caribou Coffee & Einstein Bagels and Author, “People Before Things”
Despite recent progress, the idea persists that IT is still somehow not an equal player in the business. In reality, IT and security professionals are the ones who can drive game-changing outcomes and inspire crazy loyalty in the communities they serve. CIOs and CISOs must embrace a fundamental mind shift to evolve not only their roles, but the perception of their roles, build a powerful brand for themselves and become transformative change leaders. In this keynote, Chris Laping will challenge you to consider:
- Aligning expectations of IT and security with the overall business strategy
- How CIOs and CISOs can rebrand their role to have a seat at the table
- Shifting IT and security to be seen not as a function, but as an experience
8:30am - 9:00am Networking Break
9:00am - 9:50am CIO Featured Session
Achieve 100% Analytics Adoption with a New Class of Enterprise Intelligence
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.
Marge Breya
Senior EVP & CMO
MicroStrategy, Inc.
Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.
This session will cover:
- Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
- Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
- Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function
9:00am - 9:50am CIO Executive Boardroom
Transforming the IT Value Chain
Hosted by ServiceNow
Ron Batra
Executive Consultant - Inspire
ServiceNow

David Bessen
Director & CIO
Arapahoe County Government

Christian Winward
CIO
FirstBank of Colorado
As technology continues to be the primary driver of business capability, CIOs have stopped being looked to as simply providers of internal technical support. IT executives must modernize the enterprise to move to value-based, iterative approaches to technology implementation and utilization while also driving cultural change. This session explores:
- Enterprise platform strategy vs. siloed, single-purpose technology stack
- How do CIOs align IT investments to business top priorities?
- How does IT make smarter decisions with real-time analytics across the entire IT value chain?
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 Jacob Higdon at jacob.higdon@evanta.com or 503-972-4442.
9:50am - 10:20am Networking Break
10:20am - 11:10am CIO Featured Session
Secure and Agile — Building an Organization to Support a Cloud Transformation
Mike Kalac
Interim Chief Information Officer
The Western Union Company
Transforming technology is just as much a people change as it is a business one. That's why Mike Kalac of Western Union took his technology-centric organization and created a product aligned organization focused on creating end to end accountability that enables modernization.
In this session, Mike will share how he:
- Approached creating an organization with end to end product focused accountability
- Restructured and realigned his team based on skill set and job function
- Created a Cloud Center of Excellence
- Ensured security was embedded and supported along the way
10:20am - 11:10am CIO Executive Boardroom
Journey to the Intelligent Enterprise — A CIO Roundtable
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.

Rick Zeni
CIO
Frontier Airlines

Chris Laping
Chief Innovation Officer
Caribou Coffee & Einstein Bagels and Author, “People Before Things”
Marge Breya
Senior EVP & CMO
MicroStrategy, Inc.
Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce. In this peer-driven discussion, discover:
- What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
- How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
- How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth
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 Jacob Higdon at jacob.higdon@evanta.com or 503-972-4442.
11:10am - 11:40am Networking Break
June 10, 2019
June 11, 2019
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