Phoenix CIO Executive Summit

Join fellow Governing Body members and invited guests for live music during an evening of peer networking.

Your digital transformation journey must be efficient, effective and secure. Where does cybersecurity fit into your post pandemic IT and digital enablement? With the recent shift in IT priorities, your CISO should be a strategic thinker and an ally who promotes security readiness as you shape your company or organization’s success. In this session, you will explore:

• The components of an effective cybersecurity strategy that drive your program and reduce risk
• Strategies that ensure the major building blocks of your IT transformation are secured
• Ways to evolve your cybersecurity strategy to align with line of business goals

The days of artificial intelligence have arrived, and organizations are replacing human-powered tasks with machine-learning systems. These systems are creating ingenious solutions that are driving business results and quality of data to a new level. As CIOs and CISOs lean forward in modern business, advanced technologies and disruptive innovation are helping drive business success.

Join this session to discuss:

• How IT's partnership with the business can lead to critical success
• The benefits and challenges when deciding to build and develop internal or partner and buy external
• Strategies to tackle workforce challenges

Your people are your most valuable asset, your greatest weakness, and your best defense. CIOs & CISOs seeking to prevent data loss from malicious, negligent or compromised users can correlate content, behavior and threats for better insight and streamlined investigations.

Join this session to discuss:

• Augmenting your data protection program with the right people and processes
• Transforming your employees into effective data defenders
• Managing insider threats and preventing data loss at the endpoint

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@gartner.com

Customers are demanding more robust digital experiences, but security threats are growing, making for a complex, ever-changing web of regulations extending across the globe. IT Leaders must balance security, with innovation and speed as well as create IT environments that can adapt to workload spikes, interdependent applications, and more data at the edge, even as cyber-attacks, and ransomware increase. How can businesses digitally transform with the cloud – ensuring they have a secure environment where customers’ data is not compromised – while dealing with application sprawl and siloed data?

In this discussion, we will explore ways to:

• Connect and integrate across a distributed and hybrid cloud environment to create a common experience for applications and data
• Modernize and de-risk regulated industries to keep workloads compliant, secure, and resilient
• Evaluate investment impacts to bottom-line and communicate to 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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com or 971-978-5045.

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. For CISOs and CIOs that must ensure the security and continuity of business, however, they represent an ever-expanding attack surface at a time when the volume of attacks and the threat of ransomware is increasingly driving news cycles and board-level concern.
Attendees of this keynote will leave with the insights needed to:

• Identify unseen security risks by gaining complete visibility in a rapidly expanding attack surface
• Get ahead of exposure by prioritizing high impact vulnerabilities and threats
• Secure the assets, recover unnecessary CapEx and OpEx and free staff for priority initiatives

Collaboration tools are now a core part of corporate culture. For the modern company, it’s become a primary way of doing business. But the vast amounts of data generated are leaving a tangled mess of increasing liability for IT and security leaders. Without proper controls in place, the door is wide open to insider threats, security breaches and costly investigations. Rather than turning a blind eye, there is a new framework for mitigating these risks while unlocking powerful business intelligence that empowers every business unit with insights that drive informed decision making.

Join this session to learn:

• How to protect and enhance your collaboration security, compliance, and information governance capabilities
• Strategies to get the most value out of your investment in collaboration technology with operational and people intelligence
• Ways to make impactful decisions and keep your finger on the pulse of your organization

Whether your SOC is 24/7/365 or not, cyber threats don't take time off. With varying budgets, staffing and technologies, technology leaders must adapt accordingly to ensure their SOC is able to identify, classify and action ongoing and evolving threats. Ultimately, technology leaders are finding it’s important to advocate for the resources their organization needs.

In this session we’ll discuss:

• How to adapt your SOC to meet changing needs or cyber and third-party threats
• Creative ways to attract talent
• The benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing versus in-house operations

As organizations continue successfully working in hybrid work environments, IT leaders continue to look for ways to improve digital experiences. Sporadic in-office collaboration and networking in hybrid environments can be a challenge for growing global teams. In fostering an environment centered on belonging, employees can experience better connections with their teams. 

Join this session to discuss: 

• Connecting global teams in a virtual environment
• Building a sense of belonging for all individuals
• Creating equal opportunities in hybrid conference rooms

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com or 971-978-5045.

IAM systems are the digital keys to your company’s castle. But the transition to remote, connect anywhere computing means there are thousands of keys created every day, each one exponentially increasing the risk of unauthorized access through any one of the systems your users access daily. So if identity is now the ultimate perimeter and that perimeter is constantly expanding and becoming more complex, how do you build a defense structure capable of protecting it?

During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• The role of zero trust in access management
• How to implement IAM tools without negatively impacting the user experience or core business operations
• How to engage other stakeholders and functions on their access needs to move beyond surface-level coordination

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com or 971-978-5045.

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.

City of Phoenix CISO, Shannon Lawson, will talk about the practical application of a self-supervised Cybersecurity platform to transform the City’s Security Operations Center. Mr. Lawson will be discussing his deployment of an intelligent, automated AI platform to combat known and novel attacks designed to bypass legacy rules-based systems, including nation-state sponsored and zero-day attacks. In addition, the talk will highlight efficiencies gained in security operations and platform expenses by deploying the city’s first Cybersecurity Intelligence Layer℠.

In this session, you will hear:

• What the City of Phoenix deployed to immediately detect novel attacks that other platforms missed
• How the City achieved cost savings through tool optimization, no maintenance, no rules and lower storage fees
• Examples of efficiency gains in the SOC and the corresponding human resource impacts

With a rapidly changing technology landscape, innovation can no longer be shown in the form of one-off project’s when your people ”have the time." Establishing innovation as core DNA of the organization will not only accelerate business outcomes but also improve business resilience.

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Outside-of-the-box methods of influencing innovation across the business
• How to bring in talent to drive innovation
• Strategies to create a more resilient organization

Today’s IT leaders need to unlock the value of data in their organization while dealing with an exploding volume of data, a quickly changing environment, complexity from a multitude of strategic partners and a lack of key IT skills. Join this boardroom to discuss:

• The data explosion dilemma
• Rapidly changing environments
• How to parse through tool complexity

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com or 971-978-5045.

Sometimes, cloud can seem like a "one size fits none" type of hurdle. One thing is certain, however — as the cloud landscape continues to evolve, so too should a CIO & CISO's security strategies.

Join this boardroom to:

• Gather practical takeaways and cloud solutions from your peers
• Explore solutions to current and future cloud security issues
• Gain feedback on your organization's cloud priorities

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 & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com or 971-978-5045

As the strong competition for digital talent continues to heat up, employers must constantly evolve their hiring strategy. This becomes especially important as machine learning becomes prominent within organizations. More executives are now starting to notice the shift in traditional career pathways that's being caused by the quickly changing landscape and rise of artificial intelligence.

Join this panel to discuss:

• Implementing proactive strategies to hire a diverse workforce
• Looking beyond the surface for competencies to creatively upskill and align employees with appropriate roles 
• Executing outside-the-box thinking to attract, train and retain emerging technology leaders