San Francisco CIO Virtual Executive Summit

At the start of the pandemic organizations quickly turned to have their employees work fully remote. As the months wear on, new challenges emerge. Now, CIOs are at the forefront of building and nurturing a new remote work culture that will outlast the emergency and set the business up for long-term success.

In this virtual discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• Keeping teams engaged and connected through technology
• Tools and partnerships to support creativity and productivity
• How workplace culture may look post pandemic

Technology itself is not a strategy, but maximizing the right technology makes a strong strategy successful. Getting there requires excellent data for decision-making, actionable metrics for benchmarking and AI-enrichment of quality information to take the next step. In this session, CIOs will dive into the ways that data-driven enterprises leverage tech better to come out on top.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Data scalability, data portability and AI-ready infrastructure

• The right tools to enhance to enhance your digital-consumer strategy

• Benchmarking tools and processes

As a CIO, 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, CIOs 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

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? As the pandemic pushes more and more customers online, CIOs must ensure that their experience is seamless – creating the right channels for connection and utilizing the right data to innovate products or services.

This conversation will focus on:

• Designing and delivering an optimal digital future for your business
• Leveraging a cultural shift to more agile, rapid technology outcomes
• Ways to evolve a data-centric approach to consumer insight – fostering new business opportunities

As the enterprise workplace changes at an accelerated pace, enterprise and IT leaders are looking to the advantages of 5G to enable their workforce and support a “mobile-first” mindset. Now more than ever, having a network that can meet and anticipate your evolving business needs is crucial for your future success.

In this session, engage in an open dialogue with your peers and T-Mobile’s 5G experts about:

• How mobility will drive digital transformation, enable innovation and support a more mobile workforce
• The ways 5G is powering the new remote work reality
• How 5G and advanced mobility will help bridge the digital divide

A winning CIO or CTO always thinks several moves ahead, but how do you effectively plan for the future in a time marked by constant uncertainty? What began as an emergency response has become the new normal, and an organization’s success depends on its ability to adapt and stay agile. This session covers the essential business of re-evaluating your technology roadmap – what stays, what goes and how to reinvent for the new year ahead.

In this virtual boardroom, you will discuss:

• How your business is preparing for customer expectations in a Post-Covid world
• The impact to your strategic roadmap and digital transformation initiatives
• What initiatives are being prioritized heading into 2021

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Automating processes can save valuable time and resources across the business, which is more important today than ever before. With so much emphasis being placed on productivity and efficiency, CIOs need strategies that stick.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Overcoming common roadblocks to successfully implementing a strategy and platform
• Delivering productivity gains and increased effectiveness to processes company-wide
• Scaling automation processes to drive cross-company impact in days, not months

In an increasingly competitive landscape – new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. To fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to organizational strategy and execution.

Join this boardroom strategy session on how to embed innovation at the core of your business, discussing:  

• Evaluating emerging technologies and building the business case for their implementation
• Strategies for building a resilient supply chain to minimize disruption  
• Creating a comprehensive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes

Remote work has quickly gone from a trend to a necessity, and the speed of this shift has placed both companies and employees in a challenging position. During this session front line executives share their advice, strategies, and real-world experience about what it really takes to enable remote work.

Join  your peers to discuss:

• Empowering employees with effective, combined communications and collaboration tools
• Balancing long-term and short term work-from-home strategies
• Addressing rapidly changing challenges with solutions to engage the mobile workforce

The most successful businesses today connect digital transformation to business goals using innovative technology and increasing moving more of their enterprise workload to the Cloud. CIOs are charged with clearing adoption hurdles to align mission-critical tasks and business priorities with the multiple cloud environments.

This interactive session explores:

• Examples of successful transformations using open, flexible, and secure multicloud operating environments
• Fostering digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage through a hybrid cloud strategy
• Accelerating the skills and culture that leverages AI and cloud

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

Supporting a large, permanently distributed workforce means the traditional “castle and moat” approach to enterprise IT infrastructure and security no longer works. CIOs must embrace alternative IT roadmaps that are more agile, adaptive and most importantly, people-centric. As you grapple with the challenges of quickly moving from Remote Light –just maintaining business continuity, to “Remote Right” – delivering agile, scalable and secure workplace solutions in the new normal, you must embrace a new strategy to truly reimagine the future of work.

Join CompuCom President Mick Slattery to discuss:

• Using new technology capabilities to deliver secure remote work solutions
• Mapping out your IT “blind spots” as you adapt to the new normal
• The value of managed services to augment skills gaps in your security team

Today’s enterprise has access to endless amounts of data and CIOs 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

Meet virtually for 1-to-1 in-depth conversations with your colleagues

Conducting business virtually makes it more challenging to meet and network with like-minded peers, and now it’s become even more critical to collaborate with CIOs who are facing the same challenges.

This is an opportunity to meet 1-to-1 in a private, virtual setting with community peers directly after the Virtual Executive Summit.

• Peer-to-Peer meetings are 25 minutes in length, giving you the chance for more personal interaction and in-depth conversation with your fellow San Francisco CIO peers.

• All conversations are private and will not be recorded

• Meet up to 3 peers based on your shared interests or priorities

How to Participate

Available if you sign up and select peer meetings prior to the summit. To join your meetings or download meeting calendar invites, please reference the instructions that were emailed to you from evanta@delegateselect.com.