Executive Summit

A successful partnership between the CIO and CTO are necessary for gaining visibility and helping the enterprise accelerate performance. Aligning digital business initiatives and establishing actionable recruitment and retention efforts rely on an equal partnership.

Join Jamie Nelson, CIO and Bashir Agboola, CTO at Hospital for Special Surgery to discuss:

• Relying on a CIO and CTOs unique skill sets
• Aligning a business wide talent retention and recruitment strategy
• Accelerating digital business initiatives

 Disappearing perimeter, expanding attack surface, inevitable breaches, and the acceleration of digital transformation pose an increasingly complex challenge for organizations of all sizes. The Zero Trust framework provides a blueprint to secure data and networks in today’s multi-cloud environment, but the path to get there remains fragmented and challenging.

Join this session with CIO peers to discuss:

• Establishing trusted identities across users, devices, apps and workloads
• Securing data in-transit, at-rest and in-use across public and private cloud environments
• Building a roadmap to protect against threats in a post quantum (PQ) future

In an era of rapid digital transformation, software engineering organizations are pivoting toward a product-centric software delivery model to unlock innovation and foster agility. This roundtable delves into the complexities of adopting the product-centric paradigm, examining its impact on company culture and processes, and offering valuable insights to guide organizations on their transformative journey.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Exploring the potential of product-centricity to drive innovation and digital growth
• Identifying essential success factors and securing the necessary sponsorship for a seamless product-centric transition
• Sharing best practices to empower organizations embarking on their product-centric journey

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: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

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: Haydn Mckee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

Future-facing enterprises are proactively embracing automation into mainstream use cases and operations are becoming “led by humans, assisted by AI.” New users are demanding business-as-a-service models that challenge IT to deliver services that need orchestration, scalability, compliance. How do CIOs overcome the challenges of scalable digital transformation and take advantage of a new generation of automation?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Applying automation and AI for defined outcomes in IT and for the business
• Supporting new demands of orchestration driven by cloud transformation and business-as-a-service models
• Harnessing AI at the center of operations to scale 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: Haydn Mckee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

Change is difficult for any organization and achieving change at scale requires planning, patience, and perseverance. So, when Kyndryl was presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to drive change post-spin, how did they tackle this huge opportunity to radically modernize and simplify to run more efficiently at a much lower cost while providing increased value to the business?

Join Kyndryl’s CDO, Gary Burnette, as he shares:

• How to overcome challenges to provide agile, capable, and cost-effective set of services for their business
• How transformation is underpinned by a well-governed data approach that enables end-to-end process execution and delivers valuable business insight
• What the value is of a tight linkage to the business teams and alignment on outcomes

Connecting data within functional groups and across the enterprise will accelerate innovation and business outcomes and enable a richer set of actionable insights. Bob McCowan, CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and his team have been able to help scientists and their business partners connect data in many different ways enabling faster and more insightful decisions.

Join this session to explore:

• Finding the value in the basics
• Creating consistencies in process delivery
• Increasing speed and quality of decision making

Harness the power of AI to secure your digital workplace and deliver actionable intelligence that unlocks innovation and top-line growth for your business. Learn what a multinational retail corporation, global fast-food chain, global airline and international shipping company are learning by using AI to revolutionize their culture, reduce risk, ensure compliance, and make data-driven decisions.

In this session learn to:

• Understand and quantify the growing data sprawl and security problems facing your organization’s digital conversations

• How to implement AI-driven solutions to mitigate potential risks, ensure compliance, and safeguard sensitive data

• How to drive productivity, increase efficiencies and optimizing resource allocation with AI-Powered Insight

Preparing for a cyber crisis is imperative and can determine whether it becomes a major catastrophe or a manageable incident. Whether you have experience navigating a crisis or are preparing for the inevitable attack to come, come together with your peers to leverage the wisdom in the room to tackle complex challenges and get ahead of the attackers.

Join this session to discuss:

• Evaluating common options, dilemmas, and pitfalls in crisis planning
• Understanding the impact of technical and stakeholder management decisions on the business
• Identifying key gaps and vulnerabilities often overlooked by security teams

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: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

Today's rapidly evolving enterprise requires CIOs to balance agility and conformance performance. Competing priorities can appear to hinder digital transformation. CIOs can execute transformation by providing greater transparency of resources to successfully execute on strategy to seize opportunity before competition. 

 Join this session to discuss:

• Introducing adaptability amongst ongoing market uncertainty
• Prioritizing risk-adjusted execution flexibility
• Synchronization of IT and business stakeholder with real-time collaboration

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: Hadyn Mckee at haydn.mckee@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.

A CIO would never imagine needing to redesign their entire supply chain overnight, but that’s exactly what Rama Donepudi CIO at Reckitt streamlined when the infant formula shortage hit in 2022. Swift and efficient action by Reckitt has led to deploying a reimagined and redesigned supply chain strategy that now produces 40% more product than before, keeping the shelves stocked to meet demand.

Join Rama Donepdudi as he discusses:

• Leading under pressure to produce and deploy fast outcomes

• Implementing stress and performance tests

• Creating a resiliency framework to ensure excellence and reduce risk

Now that the pandemic is behind us, how do we make people better moving forward? Regardless of whether they are working remotely, in office or hybrid, we need to continue to create a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Join this boardroom for a conversation on:

• How to upskill our employees to be the best that they can be - striving for human excellence
• How you utilize UCaaS and CCaaS to support the enterprise
• Predictions for the future of work

CIOs are expected to use technology to help create innovative solutions and drive business value. Given the current macroeconomic environment, expensive tech talent and ongoing supply shortages, CIOs must demonstrate their IT investments are not only meeting the needs of the business but also increasing revenue and reducing cost.

Join this session to discuss: 

• Improving time-to-value and predictability

• Consistently meeting customer and market commitments while avoiding constraints and delivery delays

• Building more accurate plans leveraging leading indicators and better capacity assumptions

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: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

Recent developments in data and AI technologies have the potential to reinvent how CIOs drive a culture of innovation. The current interest around generative AI and its emerging solutions have many IT leaders asking, what would be the first step and how can we maximize the benefit for our organizations?

Join this boardroom session and discuss:

• Driving a culture of innovation to increase efficiency and achieve ESG imperatives
• Operationalizing data and AI at scale to drive business impact
• Balancing data and AI governance with existing IT and security regulations

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: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

Every CIO wants to hit it out of the park. Join Neil Boland, SVP Technology & CISO, MLB as he shares how the league leverages AI and ML to foster a culture of advanced technology.

In this session Neil Boland discusses,

• Visualizing how AI can uncover and enhance key themes and improve real-time decision making with a live product
• Raising the game though dynamic automation
• Getting everyone to the plate by making advanced technology more accessible

Join the New York CIO Governing Body as we celebrate the completion of the 2023 Executive Summit by hearing from industry-leading peers on ways to get involved and give back to your local community. Connect and hear from guest speakers with dinner, drinks, networking and an opportunity to give back and create positive change.