Detroit CIO Executive Summit

The CIO Governing Body hosts this Welcome Reception at Comerica Park. We’ve reserved two adjoining suites to enjoy an evening of networking and baseball as the Detroit Tigers face the Tampa Bay Rays at 7:10 p.m. – light appetizers, beer and wine provided. 

The digitization of content has opened opportunities for enterprises to collaborate internally and drive new experiences for their customers. But outdated architectures are standing in the way of business processes and their evolution in a digital age. Join Jon Herstein and David White as they share how to:

• Approach content as a strategic asset
• Discover new content management possibilities
• Tackle fragmented content systems and outdated architectures

Not satisfied to simply have a digital thread running randomly throughout his organization, Sangy Vatsa intentionally cast Comerica’s digital agenda as a business-wide call-to-action by partnering with major stakeholders across the company. This session explores how they did it and the positive results they’ve enjoyed so far. Vatsa will cover:  

• Key ingredients and necessary steps to elevate the digital agenda
• A tech-business partnership construct that enables co-creation and out-of-the-box capabilities
• Human capital management and culture-shift to achieve shared digital goals

When sizing up demands of the digital future — can employees be adequately reskilled to keep pace, or must transformation wait on the next wave of advanced tech talent? Wayne State’s Provost, Dr. Keith Whitfield, leads a panel discussion on what it will take to position Detroit as a digital hub in the coming decade. The panel weighs in on:

• Requirements for IT talent to match the rapid evolution of digital technology
• Ingredients for a partnership between educators and enterprise IT leaders to create digital-ready talent
• Initial results from Wayne State’s pilot program to incorporate professional IT curriculum into course work

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is here to stay – gaining a foothold and transforming business performance around the world. In this boardroom, UiPath steers a peer exchange of the POCs and pilots generating RPA results in various industries. You will discuss:

• The power of RPA, analytics and AI to reduce cost while raising quality and efficiency
• Concrete examples of how automation is being successfully deployed across the enterprise
• Employee engagement and overcoming barriers to realize RPA’s true potential

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: Samantha Flaherty  |  971-717-6665

Still encumbered by legacy business processes? Struggling to speed up onboarding, improve customer experience, and secure collaboration across the extended enterprise? Business processes need to keep up with the digitization of your enterprise.

Join a group of your peers to discuss how to:

• Identify opportunities for improving outdated processes
• Unlock new customer experiences with digital practices
• Empower your workplace with seamless business processes

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: Samantha Flaherty  |  971-717-6665

Raman Mehta, CIO for Visteon Corporation, leads an in-depth discussion on emerging trends of autonomous and connected vehicles — including the current shift toward driver monitoring and safety-focused use cases. Join Raman and Visteon colleague Abhay Rai as they explore:

• The pressing infrastructure challenges in managing large amounts of data
• The co-existence between cloud and edge computing for sensor fusion-related use cases
• The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in developing a smarter digital cockpit

A rock-solid CIO succession plan is only as good as your rising talent; polished and ready to assume the mantle. Moderated by La-Z-Boy CIO David Behen, this panel of up-and-coming direct reports weighs in on their aspirations and the skills they need to take that giant next step. Talking points include:

• What life is like for a next-in-line direct report in the demanding digital ecosystem
• Which development opportunities to focus on for professional growth
•  How they’re working with the current CIO to ensure readiness for the role

Data-driven insights pave the way to define and delight your customer like never before. Is your business taking full advantage? This boardroom aims to close the gap between the promise of a true 360-degree customer view, and what digital capabilities truly elevate customer experience. Come ready for a give-and-take with your peers on:

• Getting to the nirvana of consolidated customer information
• Using data and technology to build a better brand experience based on what your customers want and need
• Considering a project vs. a product mentality

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: Samantha Flaherty  |  971-717-6665

"The amount of innovation a company produces is inversely related to the number of PowerPoint slides or elaborate process diagrams it makes about innovation.” — The DeGraff Hypothesis

Productivity is no longer enough. Leaders are finding the drive for growth is pushing strategic innovation initiatives down into operating units where management and staff lack the tools, culture and competencies to really make it happen. In this session organized around the Innovation Genome, CIO leaders will:

• Learn a simple approach to recognize, develop and launch creative ideas into winning solutions that create value
• Consider the importance of having diversity on teams for improved innovation thinking