San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking at the Cooperstown S. F. Baseball Hall Of Fame Exhibit. For more information, contact Annie Garner at annie.garner@evanta.com or 971-978-5012.

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

Developing IT leaders

• What are human capital strategies for building and developing the specialized talent required for IT and business innovation?
• How are IT leaders tackling challenges related to new ways of working and trying to manage multi-generational teams?
• How do you integrate an overall leadership strategy into the IT side of the business?

Leveraging AI

• How have you deployed AI initiatives; what has worked and what needs improvement? Share lessons learned.
• How do you measure the return on investment from AI projects?
• How do you drive employee engagement and overcome barriers to realizing AI’s true potential?

Customer-centric Strategies

• What data management strategies generate the most actionable insights into the digital needs and behaviors of your customers?
• What have been your most successful tactics for increasing the speed with which your technology organization responds to customer demand and delivers value?
• What is the role of the CIO in ensuring a seamless customer experience?

Executing While Modernizing

• How are you helping the business to articulate “value” so that effort and energy are spent on the right things?
• How can you liberate more of your human capital/talent to focus on transformative, value-added work, and less on “keeping the trains running on time?”
• What can CIOs do to increase the change appetite of their organizations and foster a culture of continual evolution?

Improving the Pace of IT

• What are the greatest “friction” areas in your organization, and what has been successful in reducing that friction?
• What frameworks or operational models (e.g. agile, DevOps, reorganization) have been most successful in creating more efficient, effective technology organization? 
• What can CIOs do to ensure that speed is a value of the entire organization, not just the technology org.?

Changing demands on enterprise architects require a new approach to tooling. The need to provide smart answers – and fast – to challenging business questions means a fundamentally different approach to architecture design. LeanIX’s Managing Director Hylton Southey explores:

• The benefits of making the switch from diagram-driven to data-driven architecture
• How it positively impacts the perceived value of enterprise architecture
• The potential to provide daily benefits to hundreds of people in the organization, not just a few

Talent is an ongoing concern for technology executives. Recruiting, retention and attracting a diverse workforce are obstacles for organizations in finding the right people at the right time, especially for critical areas such as data and analytics. During this panel, you’ll hear diverse perspectives on:

• Strategies to attract and retain diverse talent
• The importance of a STEM based workforce
• What the future of the workforce looks like and what that means for you

Digital transformation doesn’t have to be a drawn-out process. Reimagine how business can be done with data to maximize the impact of your established infrastructure and accelerate your digital transformation. This conversation between Tony Scott, former Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Government, former CIO at Microsoft, Walt Disney and General Motors Information Systems and Catherine Wong, Chief Product Officer and EVP of Engineering for Domo, Inc. will provide guidance for developing cultural, technological, and data strategies that deliver a measurable competitive advantage.

As more enterprises test-and-commit to AI and machine learning-based solutions, many CIOs sit poised to wade into the emerging waters — often weighed down by questions. Who is successfully deploying AI? What progress and what challenges have they seen so far? Join this session for a peer-to-peer exchange of perspectives, including:

• Finding opportunities to use AI and ML in the modern enterprise
• Sorting out AI hype versus reality when searching for valid solutions
• Building a business case for AI and ML implementations

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 Annie Garner at annie.garner@evanta.com or 971-978-5012.

Hurricanes, wildfires and man-made disasters threaten your operations every day. Are your systems up? Can your staff get to work? What happens when they aren’t available? How much/what kind of data do you need? Where is it located?

Come prepared to share:

• Creative, reliable and cost-effective solutions you have uncovered
• Ways to improve your DR/BC posture to ensure your organization can operate when disaster strikes
• Your thoughts on what constitutes an adequate budget

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 Annie Garner at annie.garner@evanta.com or 971-978-5012.

The un-siloed CIO must be a strategic business force — a corporate master in the art of winning support and influencing people. What is your go-to approach for getting CEO/executive and board buy-in for a challenging IT initiative? You’ll learn-by-doing in this interactive session on compelling and calculated influence. Join this tabletop exercise to:

• Role play common IT scenarios by practicing your elevator pitch and listening as others make their case
• Share real-time feedback across the table, moderated by CIO peers
• Walk away with new tips and techniques in the art of executive persuasion 

With cloud taking center stage in boardroom discussions, enterprise organizations must change their approach to address evolving customer expectations. Join this boardroom session to discuss how cloud 2.0 can enable a business-first mindset and help CIOs drive business acceleration, customer experience and connected insights.

In this boardroom, you'll discuss:

• How to transform the enterprise to meet digital demands and evolving customer expectations
• The importance of data driven insight in making better business decisions
• The intersection of human centric experiences and technology

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 Annie Garner at annie.garner@evanta.com or 971-978-5012.

Technology is no longer a back-office function, but a critical enabler for the business and the mission. Leading through change is hard, and as leaders, we learn by sharing our triumphs and struggles. In this session, Snehal will talk through lessons learned driving change from his experiences as a former CIO in financial services, and now as a CTO within the DoD, where he is taking a break from industry to serve. 

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Strategies to leverage your data to improve decision making
• How to quickly take ideas from whiteboard to pilot
• Common ways to fail at change