Minneapolis CIO Community
Executive Summit

Join the Minneapolis CIO Governing Body and invited guests for dinner and drinks as we kick off this year's summit. Along with a night of peer networking, we’re partnering with the non-profit "Foster Love" to pack STEM Boxes that will be delivered to local children in foster care. The interactive kits allow kids to experience projects centered around science, technology, engineering and math.

CIOs have an outsized opportunity to contribute to improved DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) by acting as an ally to people in marginalized or underrepresented groups. However, many opportunities are missed because they are unsure exactly what to do, or are afraid their actions might make things worse.

Join this session as Gartner Analyst Tori Paulman shares how you can:

• Show Up - Understand what being an ally means and what prevents us from taking action
• Make a Move - Identify ways we can take meaningful action
• Pass it On - Become a force multiplier by creating an environment where you inspire your team and colleagues to take action

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:

• Maximize the value of applications while remaining agile
• Optimize through service unification
• Improve efficiencies through architectures to support company growth

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: Tori Herson at tori.herson@evanta.com

Getting total buy-in from leadership isn’t easy but can accelerate your initiatives and increase success and adoption. If you can learn to communicate with your board by leveraging data to tell a compelling story, IT’s effectiveness will be recognized — inspiring trust and future buy-in across the enterprise.

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices for communicating with your board
• Using data to tell IT’s story
• Building relationships with stakeholders

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: Tori Herson at tori.herson@evanta.com

Don’t make the mistake of separating cyber risk from business risk. Cyber risk is often viewed as something for IT departments to worry about, while business risk is a shared concern. Of course, any company that has suffered a serious breach knows cyberattacks can be as devastating as lawsuits, legislative non-compliance, and fraud. This session offers board members, executives, and technology leaders ideas for cultivating a strong security mindset throughout their organization.

Join this session to learn:

• How to include everyone in conversations on cybersecurity by framing issues in terms of business risk
• Ways that software-defined solutions can securely transform your business into a supercharged connectivity engine
• How to demystify zero trust architecture while recruiting business champions for transformation

What's your community's top priority? What do your C-Level peers consider the largest hurdle when it comes to accomplishing their goals? In this fun, highly-interactive, game-show-style session, we'll put your knowledge to the test. 

Come on down to:

• Compete in a data-driven, community-specific quiz game
• Learn more about the struggles and opportunities reported by members of your governing body
• Share and expand on these reported goals and challenges

Integrating applications allows companies to use their existing technologies, in combination, to their fullest potential, to provide seamless experiences to internal and external users. As CIOs take stock of their sprawling applications portfolio, how can they cut through the complexity to create integrated experiences underpinned by a modern IT foundation that connects data and technologies?

Join this session to discuss:

• Leveraging low-code/no-code capabilities to free up valuable resources
• Gaining insight into technical debt and maximize the value of applications
• Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements and accelerate transformation

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: Tori Herson at tori.herson@evanta.com

Digital transformation goes beyond technology and must include a culture and mindset shift across the enterprise. Today's CIOs must start thinking differently about the digital capabilities across the organization to drive a successful digital enterprise into the future.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Upskilling leaders (business and technology) to bring digital strategy into all aspects of the organization
• Improving processes within product management, design and technology
• Balancing optimization and transformation and uncovering the role of data in digital transformation

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 Tori Herson at tori.herson@evanta.com

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Today’s CIOs are being asked to do more with less. Some are tasked with driving innovation as they work to cut costs, and others are expected to improve processes and efficiencies while equipped with only legacy technology. All working toward the same goal — optimization and winning leadership buy-in along the way.

Grab a seat, and have your questions ready, as your peers discuss:

• Aligning IT investments to the organization’s strategic business aspirations
• Managing and retaining a team that’s already too small
• Leveraging AI to optimize over time