Phoenix CIO Community
Executive Summit

As digital initiatives across enterprises have accelerated quickly, leaders must balance the right structures and strategies. Whether restructuring existing applications, infrastructure and security ecosystems or preempting new initiatives to bring services and applications to market faster than ever before, CIOs and CISOs are immersed in strategizing and building support for these critical business objectives.

In this interactive conversation among peers, CIOs and CISOs will discuss their role in proactively contributing to organizational success.

Research shows that diverse teams are more innovative and productive, but it's no secret that IT and cybersecurity positions have a diversity shortage. It is imperative that leaders take responsibility for promoting diversity and CIOs and CISOs are uniquely positioned to lead the organization in fostering inclusion. With the new hybrid workforce, the opportunity to cast a wider net to build diverse teams is a moment that should not be wasted.

Join this session to discuss:

• Accelerating innovation and business outcomes through the added advantage of having diversity and inclusion
• Path to creating a psychologically safe place at work
• The importance of establishing a support system to hire more diverse candidates

Businesses have to be agile and innovative  to successfully attain or maintain a competitive edge. Yet, there remains a critical need for IT to provide developer-friendly services, modern platforms delivered in optimum processes, shift operations and security early in the software product lifecycle, governance around cost control, vendor management, data protection, and disaster recovery. Modern IT Operations is about this very balance between innovation and governance — an operating model that integrates shared IT services with developer requirements ensuring that developers can drive the business forward without setting the stage for problems, breaches, and cost overruns down the road.

During this session, we will discuss:

• Shifting to modern and hybrid platforms that make your business more nimble and responsive
• Bridging the gap between internal groups to ensure IT Ops can deliver what developers need
• How IT operates in a hybrid cloud environment
• Modernize processes for security and operations governance

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 your event Program Manager, Caroline Timothy (Caroline.Timothy@evanta.com).

Today’s increasingly complex and interconnected supply chain creates more opportunities than ever for malicious actors to cause damage to your business. Third-party data breaches are at an all-time high, and legacy approaches to third-party risk management can’t keep up.

Join this boardroom to explore: 

• Continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties and supply chain partners 

• How to create an accurate inventory of all vendors within your ecosystem

• What to do when your third party gets breached

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 your event Program Manager.

Regardless of the environment, your users are working in, it is the CISOs responsibility to defend the enterprise. While we are incorporating new tools, has the conversation of traditional workload and endpoint protection changed inside of the cloud environment vs legacy?

Join this conversation to discuss:

• A shift in how we think about workloads
• The gap in adopting cloud and what the long-term looks like
• Hybrid attacks changing the legacy environment

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 your event Program Manager.

In an increasingly quickly changing landscape, the CISO paddles against the swift current of lacking resources, legacy processes and inadequate workforce skills. Keeping the organization technologically secure shouldn’t require going down with the ship.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Securing assets effectively at every level with available resources

• Shifting from reactive to proactive strategies across the enterprise

• Preparing effective incident response/business continuity plans