Milwaukee CIO Executive Summit

Like a school of fish, an adaptive organization must move rapidly and in unison toward new opportunities. From navigating the uncertainty of today’s tight talent markets to responding to evolving employee expectations, leaders and employees alike must embrace the power of change to make it a part of their individual and organizational competitive advantage.

Karl Schoemer will draw on his 20 years’ experience studying change to share:

• Insights on how leadership behaviors facilitate change
• Strategies to help change contribute to culture
• Tactics for creating change-adaptive individuals

 Join your peers for lunch and an interactive networking session.

With rapid digital transformation both in recent years and moving forward into the foreseeable future, there is a need to profoundly address the tech talent shortage. This session will confront the challenges of building out a workforce with the right skills that will translate across decades of transformation. 

In this interactive brainstorming session, we’ll explore:

• Attracting and retaining top tech talent
• Educating the next generation of IT professionals
• Innovating internal development strategies

Digital transformation has dramatically transformed the enterprise risk surface, automating a vast array of processes while outsourcing a vast array of systems and services. Through this frenetic reshaping, few organizations truly understand the nature of their new risk reality and how to successfully manage it.

In this interactive discussion we will:

• Explore the true nature of the enterprise cyber risk surface
• Discuss threats and regulations driving organizations to better manage their extended enterprise
• Share insights on how to better manage third-party risk (hint: good data!)

DevOps increasingly plays an important role in transforming today’s digital landscape and driving business revenue. To quickly deliver new customer-centric services or simply just to fail fast, IT teams are transitioning to DevOps models that close the gap between development and operations while drastically increasing their business relevance.

During this boardroom discussion, we’ll unpack:

• Defining DevOps and envisioning an outcome
• Successes in transforming your delivery model
• Common pitfalls in driving DevOps in organizations

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 Jenn St. John at jenn.stjohn@evanta.com.

GDPR caused organizations to scramble to meet data protection directives and reassess risk management. Now California has its own Privacy Act set to come into effect, and it’s one of many forthcoming regulations and policies. Join this boardroom to discuss how organizations can create a unified data protection and compliance strategy that meets conflicting requirements.

In this boardroom, discuss:

• Best practices for managing risk associated with data protection frameworks
• Standards and metrics for measuring data protection risk
• Data classification strategies to aid compliance, regardless of regulation

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jenn St. John at jenn.stjohn@evanta.com.

Todd MacKay, CIO, Briggs & Stratton will share the highlights of their global ERP implementation and transformation. Hear how their team achieved a smooth go-live at the end of a four-year journey that was not without its challenges.

This session will cover how to successfully:

• Collaborate and partner with vendors
• Implement new process ownership and organizational change management
• Educate and engage senior leadership

As organizations continue to evolve, cybersecurity is oftentimes viewed as a barrier to innovation. Join Mandy Huth as she shares how she implemented the framework for a consistent cybersecurity program and changed the way Kohler perceives security.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Effectively use a cybersecurity framework to execute your strategy
• Improve business engagement with risk assessments
• Add consistency to measuring controls

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. But to fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to the strategy and execution of the organization – not reacting to disruption, but a critical part of disrupting. Take this opportunity to remove the wishful thinking from emerging technology and share your strategies for embedding innovation into the core of your business.

This conversation will focus on:

• Evaluating new and emerging technologies and building sound business cases for their implementation
• Methodology for defining new business opportunities through technology
• Creating a comprehensive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jenn St. John at jenn.stjohn@evanta.com.

Earlier this year, the Business Roundtable CEOs announced new standards for corporate responsibility — to push for an economy that serves all stakeholders including investors, customers and employees. What role does data privacy play in this mandate? This keynote addresses the growing concerns surrounding data, its uses and the movement towards a more regulated marketplace and the essential role corporations and their leaders have in enforcing privacy laws to maintain long-term value for the communities we serve.

This fireside chat addresses:

• Putting customers and employees first
• Looking at privacy regulations holistically
• Partnering across the C-level to drive privacy changes