Milwaukee CIO Community
Executive Summit

CIO-CISO partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. IT leaders must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.

Join this keynote to hear the success story on how to:

• Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
• Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
• Collaborate in different business sectors while moving business initiatives forward

Corporate directors often lack the technological background to navigate the nuanced discussions of operational IT. This session will inform CIOs of ways to communicate with CEOs and board of directors on why cyber security and the investment needed in today’s environment address concerns effecting corporate branding and the secondary and tertiary effects of a need for a secure IT network and systems. The best CIO board presenters are savvy communicators who can focus on the right metrics and the right message.

Join your peers to discuss:

• How CIOs can lead and guide the conversation on how technology can enable business trajectory
• Engaging the board in continuous dialogue in areas related to performance, risk, and strategy
• Demystifying technology spend and showing clear ties to enabling and protecting the business

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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com). 

For many businesses, third-party vendors have become an important source of strategic advantage and business value. Yet outsourcing is not without its risks. As these external partnerships become increasingly complex, the need for a new strategic approach to vendor risk management is clear.

Join this session to discuss:

• Ways to partner across the c-suite on third-party risk efforts
• New approaches for managing third, fourth, and even fifth-party partners
• Strategies that will help you make the best choices for your organization

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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com). 

Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can security leaders best face changing threat vectors?

Join Amanda Knutson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bill Nash, Cybersecurity Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to discuss:

• Understanding the adversary’s goals and objectives
• How to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure through preparedness, incident response, and mitigation
• What security executives can do to build resiliency

Faced with demands for modernization, cost optimization and digital business transformation, CIOs are looking at how data and analytics programs can support expanding their digital business and increasing their D&A maturity. After a D&A strategy is set, IT leader must execute and deliver on the intended business outcomes.

Join your peers in discussing:

• Approaches to leveraging technology and resources to support D&A program and improve business outcomes
• Best practices for building out new business processes and executing change management across the enterprise
• Management of cultural shifts in the organization

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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).