IN-PERSON

New Jersey CIO Executive Summit

October 30, 2019 | Hyatt Regency New Brunswick

October 30, 2019
Hyatt Regency New Brunswick

Governing Body Agenda Location Partners Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Roota Almeida

Delta Dental of NJ and CT
CISO

Zouhair Guelzim

L'Oreal
VP & CISO

Warren Kudman

Turner Construction Company
VP & Chief Information Officer

Raymond Lipps

Celgene
Executive Director & CISO, Global Information Security

Hussein Syed

RWJBarnabas Health
CISO

Gabrielle Wolfson

Quest Diagnostics
CDO & CIO

Agenda

CIO AGENDA CISO AGENDA

October 29, 2019

afternoon

October 30, 2019

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

6:00pm - 9:00pm Governing Body Welcome Reception

Measuring and Managing Information to the Board

Jack Jones

Chairman

The FAIR Institute

As board members hunger for new technology and security insights, communication is central. However, much of this information is either misunderstood or too technical. Seeking ways to meaningfully share information in a compelling way to the board can be difficult.

FAIR Institute Chairman Jack Jones will share:

What the board is really wanting to know in terms of metrics
How to provide clarity on why the information tends to fall short
What you can do as an organization to provide context to the board

11:40am - 12:10pm Networking Break

12:10pm - 12:50pm Lunch & Comments

Lunch & Interactive Discussion

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

Digital transformation

How do you define digital transformation?
Transform or optimize? Are you changing your business model or are you optimizing your current business model with digital?

Security operations

How have you decided what to outsource and keep internally?
How have you developed effective principles and procedures for a security operations center?
What best practices have you identified in evaluating incidents in the environment?

Delivering business value

How do you help the business make better decisions and reduce friction for major change initiatives?

Communicating risk

What does the board really want to hear from CISOs?
Which metrics will help you craft a compelling story that inspires action?

Talent and developing leaders

What is your greatest challenge related to developing and retaining your top talent?
As a leader, how are you supporting growth amongst your top talent?
How do you keep people motivated and continuously redirecting and retooling themselves?

12:50pm - 1:20pm Keynote

Right-Sizing Risk: How to Talk to the Board About Cybersecurity

Jeff Costlow

Deputy CISO

ExtraHop

As enterprises grow increasingly reliant on technology for every aspect of operations, CISOs have found themselves in a completely new operations center: the boardroom. Headline-grabbing breaches can draw a lot of attention from business stakeholders and board members, but staying focused on the likely scenarios offers the best protection. In this session Costlow will share strategies for discussing security and technology priorities at the board level.

Put risk in perspective and focus on your plan for recovery
Understand the gaps in your program and come with a plan to fill them
Focus on business risk/reward by mapping core security priorities to business objectives
Create a roadmap to “Yes” by prioritizing business performance without sacrificing security

1:20pm - 1:50pm Networking Break

7:30am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 8:30am Opening Comments

8:30am - 9:00am Keynote

Creating a Culture of Celebration

Andrew Bright

Comedian

Panic Squad Improv Comedy

We win more often than we realize. Learning to effectively celebrate your team and the work they do will change your organization. Drawn from his book, “Improv Leadership – A Comedians Guide to Effective Leadership in an Unscripted Workplace,” Andrew Bright reveals the power of simple celebration and how it motivates others to accomplish more, accept constructive criticism, deal with failure and pursue excellence.

In this engaging keynote, you’ll:

Discover how Improv Comedy teams use celebration to motivate and progress
Learn five tangible benefits of celebration in the workplace
Take away five practical ideas for creating a culture of celebration within your teams

9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break

9:30am - 10:20am CIO Featured Session

The Ups, Downs and Sideways of the CIO

Eric Craig

Senior VP & Chief Information Officer

Fareportal

Mario Maffie

Global Business Services CIO, Vice President

Mars

Scott Strickland

EVP & CIO

Wyndham Hotel Group

Joel Garnatz

Director, Global Pre-Sales

Kryon Systems, Inc.

With the demand of continued transformation, CIOs are focusing more on how to innovate as a series of incremental improvements rather than making one radical change. Yet striving for new solutions, cost reduction, and driving business objectives can be both arduous and rewarding.

In this series of short talks, you’ll hear how several seasoned executives are:

Leading their organization through innovation and driving digital
Working through their first 100 days
Navigating through new approaches to talent
Transitioning products from pilot to implementation

9:30am - 10:20am CIO & CISO Featured Session

AI - Marketing Hype vs. Reality

Keith Rayle

Strategist

Fortinet, Inc.

Join Keith Rayle from Fortinet for a brief history and workings of artificial intelligence (AI), to include current and future phases of AI deployment for solving problems. This discussion will examine the use of AI in security tools implementations.

Join this session to learn:

Strategies for deploying AI-based solutions
Cybercriminal uses of AI and what to expect from future attacks
Management potential using AI-based architectures

9:30am - 10:20am CIO Executive Boardroom

Building a Roadmap to Guide Your Digital Journey

Scott Bourne

IT Risk Management/ Attack Surface Reduction

Merck & Co.

Bruce Mathews

CIO

Resideo

Hussein Syed

CISO

RWJBarnabas Health

Yang Lu

Advisory Solution Consultant

ServiceNow

Digital Transformation is already a tired buzzword, but CIOs are living it and are looking to hone their strategies and speed up implementation.

Join this interactive roundtable session to discuss:

What key components should go into your digital journey blueprint
Going beyond IT services to cross-functional workflow automation on a single platform and shared data model
What a digital journey maturity model looks like (including velocity, experience and intelligence)

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 CIO executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

10:20am - 10:50am Networking Break

10:50am - 11:40am CIO Executive Boardroom

Closing the Gap – DevOps Transformation

Michael Livni

CISO

Valley National Bank

Benku Thomas

VP Claims Technology & Architecture

Chubb Corporation

Dan Sarrosick

Financial Services Customer Success Executive

Nutanix

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

1:50pm - 2:40pm CIO Featured Session

The New ‘Chief Enabler’

Sandeep Bajaj

CIO & CDO

Everest Reinsurance Company

Lookman Fazal

Chief Information & Digital Officer

NJ Transit

Jon Harding

Global CIO

Conair Corporation

The role of the CIO has evolved to become a customer-facing, revenue-driving digital expert. While the term digital means something different to everyone, the basic goal remains the same: to best serve the customer. This panel of executives will share how they are driving digital transformation from the ground up.

1:50pm - 2:40pm CIO Executive Boardroom

Public Cloud Adoption — Cost and Security Challenges

Michael Iwanoff

SVP & CISO & CIO

iConectiv

Rob Reiser

Director Information Security

Tory Burch

Josh Bouk

VP, Global Sales & Marketing

Cass Information Systems

Are you challenged with uncontrolled costs and unknown risks from your adoption of public cloud services? Security and cost are the biggest inhibitors to cloud migration, but there are valuable lessons to be learned from past cloud adoptions.

Join your peers to discuss:

Optimizing the cost of the public cloud
Improving security, compliance and governance in public cloud architectures
Management consistency in a multi-cloud environment

2:40pm - 3:00pm Networking Break

3:00pm - 3:50pm CIO Featured Session

Data is the Lifeline

Dutt Kalluri

Senior Vice President, Global Technology

Broadridge

Sunila Gollapudi

Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

Broadridge

Data has become the center of organizations to process, understand and then execute on the business goals and forecasted needs. Broadridge CIO and VP of Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology will share how they have partnered together to create the truth for their organization.

In this session they will share:

How you can review past data to discover why and how things happened
What you can see today and how that speaks to the organization
How combining both past and present views will drive results for the future

3:00pm - 3:50pm CIO Executive Boardroom

Next–Gen Cloud Security Architectures for the Cloud–First Future

Ankur Ahuja

Vice President and CISO

Fareportal

Matt Cerny

Sr Manager, Security Operations

Integra

Paul Martini

CEO

iboss Cybersecurity

As businesses rely more on cloud apps, they must refocus security from defending perimeters to following users regardless of location. Security executives are being challenged to ensure that enterprise data remains secure in a cloud first world.

In this session you’ll discuss:

Advantages of cloud security solutions based on a Cloud 2.0 architecture
How you can more seamlessly transition security from appliances
Ways to incorporate the cloud into a fully articulated security strategy

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 executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

3:00pm - 3:50pm CIO & CISO Executive Boardroom

Executing with AI and Machine Learning

Richard Martin

Senior IT Director & Global BRM - Procurement Technologies

PepsiCo

Gurjinder Singh

Head of Cyber Security, VP Halma IT

Halma p.l.c.

The days of artificial intelligence have arrived, and organizations are replacing human-powered tasks with machine-learning systems. These systems are creating a faster products that are driving business results and quality of data to a new level.

Join this interactive discussion where you’ll learn:

What business assets would benefit from AI and machine learning
Where CIOs are considering applying and how data can be used to determine the ecosystem
How organizations are defining AI, and what AI tools and systems could be beneficial to your security program
How to rapidly prototype AI opportunities and test hypothesis

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 ClSOs executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

3:50pm - 4:10pm Networking Break

4:10pm - 4:20pm Closing Comments

4:20pm - 4:50pm Keynote

Demonstrating and Leading with Purpose

Ralph Groce

Chief Information Officer

BNY Mellon

Afzal Khan

Global CISO

Opko Health, Inc.

Balancing daily tasks while managing and leading a team takes time and initiative. Leadership means sharing the why, inspiring others and fostering innovation for continued success and growth. With experience leading various teams across the enterprise Ralph Groce shares his leadership journey and how he continues to inspire and motivate his team every day.

In this session you’ll hear why:

Inspiring employees can improve culture
Leadership, learning and communicating are value propositions that drive innovation
Executives need to continuously demonstrate high-quality leadership

4:50pm - 5:30pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

11:40am - 12:10pm Networking Break

12:10pm - 12:50pm Lunch & Comments

Lunch & Interactive Discussion

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

Digital transformation

How do you define digital transformation?
Transform or optimize? Are you changing your business model or are you optimizing your current business model with digital?

Security operations

How have you decided what to outsource and keep internally?
How have you developed effective principles and procedures for a security operations center?
What best practices have you identified in evaluating incidents in the environment?

Delivering business value

How do you help the business make better decisions and reduce friction for major change initiatives?

Communicating risk

What does the board really want to hear from CISOs?
Which metrics will help you craft a compelling story that inspires action?

Talent and developing leaders

What is your greatest challenge related to developing and retaining your top talent?
As a leader, how are you supporting growth amongst your top talent?
How do you keep people motivated and continuously redirecting and retooling themselves?

12:50pm - 1:20pm Keynote

Right-Sizing Risk: How to Talk to the Board About Cybersecurity

Jeff Costlow

Deputy CISO

ExtraHop

Put risk in perspective and focus on your plan for recovery
Understand the gaps in your program and come with a plan to fill them
Focus on business risk/reward by mapping core security priorities to business objectives
Create a roadmap to “Yes” by prioritizing business performance without sacrificing security

1:20pm - 1:50pm Networking Break

7:30am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 8:30am Opening Comments

8:30am - 9:00am Keynote

Creating a Culture of Celebration

Andrew Bright

Comedian

Panic Squad Improv Comedy

In this engaging keynote, you’ll:

Discover how Improv Comedy teams use celebration to motivate and progress
Learn five tangible benefits of celebration in the workplace
Take away five practical ideas for creating a culture of celebration within your teams

9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break

9:30am - 10:20am CIO & CISO Featured Session

AI - Marketing Hype vs. Reality

Keith Rayle

Strategist

Fortinet, Inc.

Join this session to learn:

Strategies for deploying AI-based solutions
Cybercriminal uses of AI and what to expect from future attacks
Management potential using AI-based architectures

9:30am - 10:20am CISO Executive Boardroom

Military Principles – Protecting and Defending the Cyber Domain

Mark Kramer

Senior Operating Advisor

Tenex Capital Management

Raymond Lipps

Executive Director & CISO, Global Information Security

Celgene

John Burger

CISO and Vice President of IT Infrastructure

ReliaQuest

Now more than ever, business leaders and cyber security professionals are looking to the military as a source of insight for protecting and defending the cyber domain. Many warfighting principles remain relevant to this new “manmade” domain, but there are pitfalls and nuances – and security technology alone is not the answer.

In this session you’ll discuss:

What principles can be applied and how best to implement them
How to balance the difference in tool proliferation and complexity
Where to focus your team on simplifying across 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 CISO executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

10:20am - 10:50am Networking Break

10:50am - 11:40am CISO Featured Session

The Evolution of Quantum Computing

Balu Arumugam

Chief Security Architect

Mars

A significant amount of data has moved to the cloud with an increase every day. While organizations continue to transform at rocket speed, it is paramount to question the timely, risk based and fit for purpose security measures necessary to protect data. With recent improvements and investments in quantum computing technologies, solving traditional problems will become a reality sooner than we thought.

This session will cover the research, insights and general findings on the:

Evolution of quantum technology and the impact on our current data protection technologies
Various data protection measures currently used and their issues and challenges
Implementing a post-quantum cryptography (PQC)

10:50am - 11:40am CISO Featured Session

Analytics and a Proven Framework for Good Cyber Hygiene

Loren Roberts

Senior Security Advisor

HP Inc.

As the number of connected devices continues to increase, so does the number of potential vulnerabilities. By 2020, there will be 20 billion connected devices, all of which could create security blind spots. How can organizations expand their security measures to protect this ever-expanding attack surface? In this featured session, we will discuss a security posture baseline through the lens of a holistic relationship amongst technology, people and processes.

Loren Roberts draws on real-world examples to demonstrate how to:

Identify and defend against the next wave of hackers
Develop a roadmap to plan, manage and maintain control of your data
Identify existing gaps in endpoint security

10:50am - 11:40am CISO Executive Boardroom

The Next Great Security Challenge — Securing SD-WAN

Chirag Arora

CISO

Crum & Forster

Patrick Park

Director, information Security & CISO

Milbank

Meghan Diaz

Head of Product Marketing & Customer Insights

Cisco Umbrella

The market consideration and adoption of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) represents the largest networking transformation in recent history. Organizations are turning to SD-WAN to improve connectivity, reduce costs, and simplify management at their branch office locations. But what about security?

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

Embracing change — the pros and cons
Addressing weaknesses within brand offices and roaming users
Keeping security top of mind for business leaders

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 CISO executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

1:50pm - 2:40pm CISO Featured Session

Digital Risk Explosion — Managing Risk in a Hyper-Outsourcing World

Eric Blatte

President & Co-Founder

RiskRecon

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!)

1:50pm - 2:40pm CISO Executive Boardroom

Maximizing the Rewards of Information Governance

Rod Aday

CISO

Dexia

Fred Spencer

Global CISO

Everest Reinsurance Company

Ray Zadjmool

CEO & Founder

Tevora

A growing concern for privacy protection and the proliferation of both internal and external risks has led CISOs to a critical information governance crossroads. An effective information governance strategy can stop-up potential access points and shield the company from legal and compliance risks but can also be perceived as a barrier to maximizing the value of a company’s data.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

A proactive approach to the policies, methodologies and controls
How to find balance between business and security
Identifying an appropriate governance direction

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 CISO executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

2:40pm - 3:00pm Networking Break

3:00pm - 3:50pm CISO Featured Session

From Zero Trust to Zero Touch with Intelligent Security

Tom Buxton

Sr. Manager Technical Solutions

BlackBerry

Organizations are challenged to strike a balance between security teams who want a Zero Trust approach and employees who desire seamless Zero Touch access. Bridging that gap is Artificial Intelligence and a Zero Trust Architecture.

This session dives into:

Why the view of endpoints impacts how they’re secured and managed
How adaptive security and artificial intelligence can protect all endpoints
The ultimate goal of increasing security while acknowledging other factors

3:00pm - 3:50pm CIO & CISO Executive Boardroom

Executing with AI and Machine Learning

Richard Martin

Senior IT Director & Global BRM - Procurement Technologies

PepsiCo

Gurjinder Singh

Head of Cyber Security, VP Halma IT

Halma p.l.c.

Join this interactive discussion where you’ll learn:

What business assets would benefit from AI and machine learning
Where CIOs are considering applying and how data can be used to determine the ecosystem
How organizations are defining AI, and what AI tools and systems could be beneficial to your security program
How to rapidly prototype AI opportunities and test hypothesis

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 ClSOs executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Alyssa Berry at 503-972-4430 or alyssa.berry@evanta.com.

3:50pm - 4:10pm Networking Break

4:10pm - 4:20pm Closing Comments

4:20pm - 4:50pm Keynote

Demonstrating and Leading with Purpose

Ralph Groce

Chief Information Officer

BNY Mellon

Afzal Khan

Global CISO

Opko Health, Inc.

In this session you’ll hear why:

Inspiring employees can improve culture
Leadership, learning and communicating are value propositions that drive innovation
Executives need to continuously demonstrate high-quality leadership

4:50pm - 5:30pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing