Pittsburgh CIO Community
Virtual Executive Summit

As companies evolve to keep pace with a digital world, successful cloud strategies elude many IT departments. Dealing with high operational costs and a talent shortage are just some of many reasons that cloud solutions are often a bigger undertaking than they first appear.

This session will focus on:

• Discovering the right road map for your organization
• Winning the business' trust during transition
• Avoiding common pitfalls

As a technology leader, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During this unprecedented time, organizations can leverage digital offerings to alleviate impacts on operations and business performance.

In this virtual boardroom discussion, leaders will discuss:

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

An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups.

Remember when “embracing disruption” was an aspirational call-to-action – not a necessary navigation of everyday life? Now that you have your company’s undivided, fully-disrupted attention, why look back? This virtual panel discussion plays on the technology leaders golden opportunity to design a digital future with intention – making that future happen rather than sitting back and reacting.

Technology leaders will lean into discussing:

• Designing and delivering an optimal digital future for your business
• Innovating around COVID-related impacts on budget and revenue
• Leveraging a cultural shift to more agile, rapid technology outcomes

Today’s enterprise has access to endless amounts of data and CIOs and CISOs must continually find true meaning and value in the data. This peer-to-peer discussion will consider ways to mature your data and analytics program to provide accurate, real-time data.

Come ready to discuss how to:

• Implement data strategies that align with desired business outcomes
• Leverage data to gain greater insights and drive value
• Define clear data ownership and standardization

If a winning leader always thinks several moves ahead, how should you effectively plan beyond crisis response to make up for major technology advancement time lost before the books close on 2020? This virtual boardroom covers the essential business of reprioritizing your technology roadmap – what stays, what goes and how to reinvent the second-half game plan.

In this virtual boardroom discussion, technology leaders will discuss:

• How technology priorities have shifted to align with business objectives
• What success looks like during and after the pandemic
• How benchmarking tools can be utilized when business markers have shifted

Many CISOs would agree that human error remains a huge challenge in a cohesive information security strategy. Employees, vendors and even customers all have a role to play when clicking one malicious link can put the organization at serious risk. The CISO must instill discipline, responsibility and buy-in across a huge swath of users – no easy task.

Join this session to learn:

• How today’s society informs security awareness training needs and objectives
• Training techniques that work at scale and resonate with audiences
• How to measure success and hold users accountable

The timeline for adopting strategic technology and security trends rapidly increased in recent months, and now CIOs and CISOs are on the forefront of leading innovative business opportunities. 

Join Omar and Beth as they share:

• Dynamic leadership in a volatile world
• Remastering your brand in times of transition
• Practical examples of adaptive strategy in action

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