2021 Seattle CIO Inner Circle

Collaborate with your peers

Join Seattle's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Investing in your people and the right technologies

Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models

Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Brian Abrahamson

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
CIO

Anja Canfield-Budde

University of Washington
Associate Vice President, Information Management

Darren Challey

Amazon
Director - Security Operations and Technology (SOT) / Global Security Operations (GSO)

Agenda

December 14, 2021

4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

The CIO and CISO Role in Accelerating and Securing Digital Business

Gary Gooden

CISO

Seattle Children's

Chuck Markarian

CISO

PACCAR

Sean Murphy

SVP, CISO

BECU

Dave Wolf

Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

Washington Federal

Micah Schaafsma

AVP of Information Technology / CIO

Seattle Pacific University

Joe Sahagian

RVP

RingCentral

As digital initiatives across enterprises have accelerated quickly, leaders must balance the right structures and strategies. Whether restructuring existing applications, infrastructure and security ecosystems or preempting new initiatives to bring services and applications to market faster than ever before, CIOs and CISOs are immersed in strategizing and building support for these critical business objectives.

In this interactive conversation among peers, CIOs and CISOs will discuss their role in proactively contributing to organizational success.

Topic 1: Designing a holistic secure digital framework

How are you evolving your operating model to deliver better speed, agility and security?
How are you optimizing for future resilience and not just immediate efficiency?
How has your budget strategy evolved to address secure digital priorities?

Topic 2: Workforce and partnership strategies for digital success

How have you evolved your cross-business partnerships in the past year?
How have you overcome challenges when the IT/Security priorities conflict?
How are you establishing credibility in your role to drive the enterprise in a secure digital direction?