IN-PERSON

Detroit CIO Inner Circle

March 21, 2023 | Waterview Loft

March 21, 2023
Waterview Loft

Collaborate with your peers

Join Detroit'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

Detroit 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

Brent Cieszynski

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Earl Duby

Lear Corporation
VP & CISO

Russ Gordon

BorgWarner
Chief Information Security Officer

Richard Hook

Penske
EVP & CIO

Fred Killeen

General Motors
VP of Global Information Technology & CIO

Raman Mehta

Johnson Electric
SVP & CIO

Jeff Small

Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO

Sangy Vatsa

FIS Global
EVP, Chief Technology and Digital Officer

Erik Wille

American Axle & Manufacturing
CISO

Agenda


March 21, 2023

4:30pm - 5:30pm  Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm  Discussion Topics

Digitally-Driven Outcomes, Quicker Business Decisions

Eric Ranta headshot

Eric Ranta

Director, Customer Value & Transformation Advisors

Google Cloud

James McFarlane headshot

James McFarlane

Vice President of Information Technology

HoMedics

Amir Jabri headshot

Amir Jabri

VP of IT and Security

exactuals

Soma Venkat  Ph.D. headshot

Soma Venkat Ph.D.

SVP & Chief Information Technology Officer

Cooper Standard

Kevin Berch headshot

Kevin Berch

Director, Global Market, Sell, and Service IT

Ford

Raj Polanki headshot

Raj Polanki

Head of IT / Divisional CIO

Wacker Chemical

Mike Glenn headshot

Mike Glenn

Director, Business and Engineering Systems

BorgWarner

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

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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