San Francisco CIO Community
Executive Summit

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business. 

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for: 

• Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability) 
• How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability) 
• Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)

Attackers will use Generative AI. In fact, they’ve already begun with the creation of more seemingly authentic content, phishing lures and impersonating humans at scale. Leaders must reinforce methods for how they assess exposure to unpredictable threats, and measure changes in the efficacy of their controls as well as formulate user policies, training and guidance. CIOs are leveraging their relationships and resources to manage this evolving threat.

Join this session to discuss:

• Collaborating between IT, security, and the business to mitigate new types of risks
• Minimizing unsanctioned uses of GenAI via organizational counterparts in legal and compliance
• Implementing more flexible roadmaps as the threat landscape evolves

Generative AI occupies multiple spaces in the minds of CIOs and IT leaders: at once a formidable ally, a novel threat vector and a critical asset. Inside the security operations center, GenAI forms the bridge between security data and actionable knowledge while enhancing analyst capabilities and reducing response times, Meanwhile, the data that powers AI represents a high value for adversaries, and GenAI itself may introduce novel attack paths.

Join this boardroom to explore:

• Navigating the dichotomy of AI in cybersecurity
• Sharing strategies for safeguarding AI systems while embracing innovation
• Empowering leaders to balance AI’s potential with the responsibility of securing it

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

Recent advancements in AI and data ecosystems have propelled CIOs into an arena full of opportunity. How IT leaders choose to leverage the current momentum and hype around AI could determine whether they catapult the enterprise ahead of their competitors or position the organization in a laggard state.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Balancing the benefits and risks of AI implementation
• Evaluating your organizational readiness for scaling AI capabilities
• Managing internal expectations to ensure a thoughtful approach to delivering results with AI

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

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.

Today’s digital era is proving misaligned with our industrial-era leadership mindsets. Disruption and volatility are only accelerating and becoming more complex. Thankfully, today’s digital leaders hold the key to leading in this new paradigm of uncertainty. This session discusses how CIOs can cultivate the evolution of today’s executive mindsets to accelerate the realization of growth and value from digital transformation.

• The deep psychology holding us back from growth and how to break through
• The digital leader’s role in leading a new approach to disruption in the C-suite
• Actionable ideas for today, to build change expertise for tomorrow

The intersection of digital business and advanced technologies has inevitably brought life to continuous innovation. But when faced with economic instability and fiscal responsibility, how can CIOs maintain a constant innovative mindset and culture?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Encouraging experimentation, ideation and failure in order to succeed
• Cultivating an Innovation-rich Culture
• Communicating and quantifying the value of innovation for long-term growth

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

Toss out the manual on redundancies in the business process; RPA is automating its way to greater efficiencies and a brighter bottom line. This CIO boardroom is a mix of RPA advocates, early adopters and outside observers — joining forces to learn from each other.

In this boardroom, attendees will explore:

• How peers have deployed RPA— what has worked and what needs work
• How to measure the return on investment for automated processes
• How to overcome human barriers to realize the full potential of RPA

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: 

Shauna del la Mare at shauna.delamare@evanta.com or (971) 230-3550.

Effective communication is a critical component of success for CIOs. Using "words that matter" can help you bridge the gap between technical expertise and business decision-making; which will articulate the value of data and analytics to your CEO, your board, and your investors. Val Wright offers fresh perspectives and techniques to help elevate common business conversations and gain supporters all around you.

Join this keynote to :

• Create communication that resonates and simplifies complex information
• Foster productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Develop powerful responses to navigate resistance and achieve results

Governing Body members host this reception for attendees to celebrate the close of the summit with an evening of peer networking and a service project for the local community. "Readers to Leaders" generates excitement and encouragement to inspire children to continue in their reading and learning journey. Attendees have the option to make bookmarks and bookplates to accompany our donation of books to the program.