France CIO Executive Summit

Bringing a global construction group with a 358-year history into the digital age is no easy task. It requires a fundamental shift in ways of working; moving from a labour-intensive approach utilising traditional materials to one with a lighter carbon footprint. Join Ursula Soritsch-Renier, as she shares how the Saint-Gobain Group have embraced digitalisation to reshape the construction industry.

In this keynote, Ursula will share how to: 

• Embed IT and digitalisation as a pillar in the wider Group’s strategy
• Align the IT and Digital strategy closer to business needs to accelerate transformation
• Communicate digitalisation use case to demonstrate results to stakeholders

The threats are constantly growing and so are the costs. Protecting endpoints is one of the many challenges faced by CISOs. Faced with continuously evolving attacks, CISOs must now escape from this quagmire and make game-changing improvements in cybersecurity and administration to prevent cyberattacks and ransomware. Every endpoint could provide an attacker access to the corporate network, but IT organisations today can capitalise on several layers of control to ensure stronger security and operations, whilst ensuring productivity is not compromised. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Rethinking your capabilities for strengthening endpoint security and simplifying endpoint management
• Looking at defence in-depth, securing devices as well as connections, and creating innovative multi-layered defences at different levels
• Striking the balance between effectively protecting the enterprise without compromising the overall productivity of users

With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated and frequent, it is a challenge for CISOs to stay ahead of threats and be ready to respond in case of an attack. Even after investing in the right people, processes and technologies and conducting tabletop exercises, are we confident we will be able to translate theory into action when the attack comes?

Join Jean-Jacques Mallet, Group CISO at L’Oréal as he shares insights on Incident Detection & Response. In this session, you will have insights on:  

• How to navigate an ever-growing flow of threat information
• Vulnerabilities identification and prioritisation for remediation
• Detection capabilities efficiency
• How to help the teams respond better and faster and learn from concrete use cases

Faced with growing economic uncertainty and budget concerns, CIOs are under more pressure than ever to keep costs under control while still supporting the company’s growth opportunities. With the right application strategies in place, they can make ROI-based decisions more confidently during these complex times.

Join this boardroom session to discuss how to:

• Reprioritise application strategy to ensure collaboration between IT and business units
• Establish a unified platform strategy to meet your business application and automation needs
• Improve operational efficiency by eliminating the barriers presented by legacy applications

The adoption of cloud-native technologies by businesses has been a significant challenge for CISOs, as it requires adapting to new security risks and maintaining security in a rapidly changing environment. However, many CISOs are adapting to these challenges by implementing new strategies and technologies to secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• With the number of cloud threats increasing and the adoption of cloud-native technologies, what are the key challenges and risks that CISOs are facing?
• The importance of correlation across the entire cloud environment to prevent attacks or minimise their impact
• What strategies CISOs are adopting to transform and secure their cloud security operation model

CIOs understand that bringing IT closer to the business will enable better, faster decision-making. IT leaders must collaborate with business units to prioritise technology investment, accelerating organisations’ digital ambitions. By defining and demonstrating IT’s ROI, CIOs can overcome technical debt and lack of resources.

In this boardroom, CIOs will come together to discuss how to:

• Define, measure and report the business value of IT to senior stakeholders
• Refine your IT strategy’s ‘what’ ‘why’ and ‘how’ to demonstrate its tangible value and link to business outcomes
• Debate communication strategies that encourage trust, ability and action

Cybersecurity is a continuous battle for CIOs; from external threats and internal readiness to maintain critical IT functions. CIOs must question existing assumptions to ensure the security programme is secure and efficient. However, technical debt can impede CIOs from executing a robust business continuity plan.

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

• Embed security assumptions into your IT continuity framework to streamline efficiency
• Determine gaps where IT can accelerate cybersecurity processes and mitigate technical debt
• Position security at the core of daily IT operations to demonstrate collaboration and mitigate cyber risk