New York CIO Virtual Executive Summit

As the ongoing rush to the cloud continues, many organizations falter because they equate “movement” with “strategy.” Getting the most out of your cloud journey is the product of clear communication of terms and expectations, alignment with other business processes and functions, and partnerships among multiple internal and external stakeholders.

This session puts strategy in the crosshairs and discusses:

• Creating definitional clarity for your comprehensive approach to cloud to eliminate ambiguity and crystalize the best processes for your organization
• Building adaptability into your strategy so it can be augmented or amplified at any step in the journey to address shifting business needs
• Breaking cloud strategy away from IT and creating cross-functional, business-wide alignment

In a highly disruptive and digital environment, hyper-automation and agility are critical to the transformation and optimization of business operations. To keep pace, organizations are increasingly looking to empower their technology-savvy workforce with low-code automation platforms to modernize legacy systems, improve customer experience and ignite innovation.

Join this boardroom discussion to explore how CIOs are:

• Improving critical business processes with low-code automation platforms
• Leveraging talent across the business to enable scalable enterprise ready innovation
• Managing the pros and cons of democratized technology

Studies show that 74% of CEOs believe cloud computing will be the most helpful technology to deliver results over the next 2-3 years. How can businesses digitally transform with cloud, while ensuring they have a secure environment where customers’ data is not compromised?

Join us for an interactive boardroom that explores how businesses can:

• Make the transition to cloud rapidly while keeping experiences frictionless for consumers
• Build secure and open hybrid cloud architecture and distributed cloud environments
• Explore strategic cloud options and execute on them seamlessly

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Keeping pace with business demands requires IT to embrace transformation. Poor user experience, slowed M&A value, expanded security concerns, and IT misalignment with business goals prevent top enterprises from obtaining agility and resiliency. As last year demonstrated, legacy systems don’t react quickly or scale to accommodate rapid change. It’s imperative that CIOs focus on removing the legacy infrastructure that slows IT transformation and impedes business growth.

Join this session to discuss:

• Providing corporate access to any user on any device from any location
• Promoting alignment between IT objectives and business initiatives
• Deploying cloud technology that accelerates enterprise scaling and agility strategies

A CIO’s 2021 marching orders come straight from the top: In a Gartner survey, 7 out of 10 boards demanded digital acceleration in a disrupted global climate, while operational excellence through digital business topped the forward-driving agenda. How does your digital strategy measure up to the mission? Join your peers in an interactive discussion on modern digital design.

In this session, you will discuss:

• What it means to be ‘digital-first’ – breaking down roadblocks and navigating roadmaps
• What levers to pull to expand digital business and increase digital maturity
• How CIOs can create the ability for remote and hybrid work environments

In the burgeoning age of information gathering and sharing, organizations cannot afford to lose track of unstructured, unsecure content. This peer-driven boardroom will delve into the challenges of managing the explosive growth of information, and what tools can effectively capture and govern the most vital assets in the enterprise.  CIOs will discuss: 

• Ways to reduce risk and achieve compliance while managing large volumes of information
• Strategic advantages of modernizing infrastructure and cloud for customers, partners and employees
• Approaches to increasing productivity and improving business process

As digitization becomes embedded in the business, CIOs will take on greater responsibility for customer relationships. Personalized customer experiences will be a key differentiator, while new partnerships across the business and data-driven insights will be paramount to success. The pace of change is accelerating – are you prepared to lead the charge?

In this interactive conversation, CIOs will discuss:

• Creating unique, personalized customer experiences to create a competitive advantage
• Alignment with CMO and other customer-facing stakeholders on new digital strategies
• Increasing speed-to-insight on the data and analytics journey

According to Gartner, the challenge for many IT and business leaders today is to instill a culture of data-driven decision making across the organization. Those who want to exploit the potential of new data and advanced analytics capabilities at scale typically face numerous challenges. As CIO, it's critical to develop a strong, clear strategy connecting business, technology, and data and analytics to maintain your competitive advantage and mitigate these challenges.

In this session, CIOs will

• Discuss best practices for designing data and analytics programs
• Identify and define quick-win opportunities supporting the business data strategy
• Brainstorm technology and resource alignment

As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During these disruptive times, organizations can leverage digital offerings to alleviate impacts on operations and business performance.

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• How to reprioritize digital projects to meet new needs
• Strategies to communicate value to your board/senior leadership
• New and existing partnerships to push objectives forward

Progressive organizations have included permanent work-from-anywhere (WFX) options in their connectivity strategy and according to IDC, 64% of business leaders will subsidize this connectivity. These new solutions will reduce the in-home bandwidth battle for employees, alleviate the burden of managing multiple vendors, and reduce security vulnerabilities is needed. Join your peers in a focused discussion on options to manage your work-from-anywhere environment.

In this session, we’ll discuss

• Investing in the right technologies to support WFX and decrease risk
• Long-term planning to deliver equitable access across your workforce
• Moving from workforce support to workforce innovation

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CIO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the New York community. 

Many CIOs need to transform their current project model into a product-centric model, building cross-functional teams that are faster, more iterative and better at managing uncertainty. As a CIO, this presents funding and operational challenges to ensure new delivery models maximize business impact and efficiency. This interactive boardroom will explore how CIOs move technology funding and delivery from rigid project-based models to focus on products, innovation and continuous delivery. Join this session to:

• Understand what is driving the need to move from project to product
• Discuss the practicalities of moving from project to product-centric models
• Explore how your functional capabilities compare, to optimize value and cost

Seismic shifts in the global workforce have only accelerated the appetite for automation to fuel organizational speed, operational agility and competitive edge. This round table conversation will look beyond baseline process efficiencies to explore the robust future of intelligent automation — a seamless blend of humans, digital workers and systems. Join your CIO peers to discuss:  

• Intelligent automation advancements through AI and machine learning that generate measurable ROI 

• RPA knowledge-sharing, including on where to test, how to scale and what is possible  

• Innovations that expand the scope of digital workers throughout the enterprise 

As CIOs modernize their technology ecosystems, those reliant on on-prem ERP technology face several key challenges. These ERP systems may lead to gaps in capabilities or limit necessary customization. How you tackle these challenges – ERP upgrades, select cloud-based applications or a wholesale migration to the cloud – you need to have a strong strategy for maximizing your ecosystem today with an eye toward greater value tomorrow.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• The unique challenges of on-prem ERP systems and what you're doing to solve them
• Optimizing your current environment while building a plan to evolve it
• Navigating cultural and organizational changes on your journey

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues