San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

A broad range of unseen human roadblocks stand in the way of sustainable high performance – individually and organizationally. This talk will provide a roadmap to what’s going on inside your people so they can bring more of the best of themselves to work every day.

You will learn:

• The role that fatigue, fear, distraction, disengagement, fixed beliefs, and fragile egos play in undermining performance.
• Cultivating four internal sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
• How cultures of continuous feedback, learning and growth allow individuals and organizations to better navigate an increasingly complex and disrupted world.

When Michael Mathias thinks about driving the goals of his business, he thinks about the overarching blueprint for the company. A clear business vision for Blue Shield of California secondarily informs IT’s priorities. When the digital roadmap and quality of the organization align, it opens the door for a holistic view of where the business should go and how it can get there. Join this session as Mathias shares a roadmap for developing business architecture that has the power to drive the entire business forward.

The journey to the cloud for Live Nation kicked off in 2015 with a mandate to get out of the data center business. Focusing on the growth of the business and aiming to shed increasing infrastructure costs, the company made the strategic decision to migrate to the cloud. Following an aggressive timeline, Live Nation partnered with AWS to migrate its systems to the cloud and shut down related servers and storage in the data center. Tim Moran, SVP of Global IT for Live Nation, shares the pitfalls and successes of the journey and advantages his organization has found with the shift.

Deep neural networks are bringing new capabilities to AI, creating smart systems that can outperform human labor at many tasks. These new systems bring business advantage to successful implementers. But success is not easy to come by. This session explores the fundamental technology, the new classes of automation that it can address, and lay out a model for an AI project. Join to learn how to implement AI-based initiatives to advance your business.

The one constant in business is change. And in a changing environment, speed matters. The right decisions happen when the right people come together at the right time to have the right conversation—yet our communication and productivity tools are failing us. Market disruption is a daily occurrence. As a result, end users have begun to embrace new technologies to drive faster decisions and gain considerable influence over business processes and strategies. In this discussion, executives unpack the next stage of productivity tech adoption, focusing on the best ways to develop processes that empower users and enable organizations to effectively communicate.

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: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com 

What does the term “inclusion” mean in the context of IT spend? This session explores the advantages for companies that embrace it, and dispel common myths and answer any questions. A safe environment to address doubts and questions, this distinguished panel consists of an experienced group of CIO peers, supply chain inclusion experts, and successful minority business owners.

With endless tools and raw data at their fingertips, IT leaders parse a sea of potential for driving business growth. What the hype and promise often obscure is that leveraging data requires action driven by meaningful information, not simply lots of information. A data-driven organization must have clearly defined priorities, the right technological foundation, sound governance and business alignment if there is any hope of imbuing their information with meaning and putting the potential of data to work. In this discussion, executives examine the greatest challenges to taking the next steps on the data path and share best practices that have the biggest impact on driving analytics — and the business — forward.

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.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com 

The changes to business wrought by technology are comprehensive, but tech's greatest impact comes from the people using it every day. As CIOs, the right people are a huge factor in the success of major initiatives, the culture of your organization, and the execution of business goals. Whether you are struggling to find the specialized talent required of innovation or introducing a new way of working to multi-generational teams, a human capital strategy is essential. In this session, top IT leaders share the fresh approaches they have taken to addressing talent attraction, development and retention and explore their impact across the organization.

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: Matthew Boyd at 503-808-9814 or matthew.boyd@evanta.com 

Organizations must continuously revamp their technologies to meet customers’ changing needs and stay competitive. At the same time, the complexity of IT is always growing, due to vastly increasing amounts of data and trends like microservices, IoT, cloud and AI — developments that also offer previously unknown possibilities. In this session, learn what companies need to consider when transitioning to new technologies and how enterprise architecture can make digital transformation a success.