Seattle CIO Executive Summit

 Security and risk management leaders need to ensure the business is protected as best as possible when an inevitable ransomware attack strikes. But, those leaders must also have relationships in place across the business so when the time comes to execute the incident response plan, key players from different parts of the business are prepared to act quickly and efficiently.

Join this INTERACTIVE session to discuss in groups:

• Identifying the key players across the organization who will need to take part in creating and activating your incident response plan
• Training those involved so everyone knows their roles
• Best ways to collaborate during a sophisticated cyberattack

Today’s business leaders find themselves squaring up against a two-headed monster: more attack surfaces and threats to cover than ever before and macroeconomic challenges loom. Cybersecurity isn’t something that orgs can afford to “cut down on,” so increasingly, leaders are asked to achieve even greater outcomes with the same or fewer resources — from budgets to tech to headcount. How can CIOs and CISOs evaluate spend without compromising on risk?

Join this session to discuss:

• Ways organizations are improving return on investment (ROI) on existing security investments
• How leaders can translate risk into business outcomes for leadership and boards, enabled by security investment
• How to overcome challenges security leaders face as they work to scale, grow, and innovate without sacrificing security

In this era of unprecedented digital transformation, CIOs and CISOs are grappling with many challenges. The operational landscape is evolving rapidly from agile methodologies and automation to cloud-native services. Amid the potential of cloud transformation, obstacles such as talent gaps and outdated processes still persist.

Join this boardroom to discuss with your peers:

• Navigating cloud transformation complexities while ensuring efficiency and innovation
• Integrating new application and infrastructure models
• Fortifying and streamlining business operations through automation and platform engineering
• Focusing on the distinct security and governance considerations intrinsic to agile cloud operations

CIOs and CISOs may have different motives for pursuing digital transformation. Whether the ultimate goal is simplifying connectivity to critical business resources or protecting against cyber threats, it's important to frame discussions with boards and executives in terms of business needs.

Join this session and learn to:

• Calculate hard and soft costs
• Quantify risk reduction and business productivity gains
• Recruit business champions for zero trust transformations

Digital business is driving the continued migration of workloads to the cloud at a greater pace than ever. However, the complexity of securing cloud applications and their development and delivery pipelines across multi-cloud environments are causing many organizations to fall behind or inadvertently introduce security weaknesses. Between misconfigurations, over privileged identities, exposed sensitive data, source code vulnerabilities, and supply chain risks there are a myriad of considerations that have made cloud security humanly challenging to address.

In this cloud transformational session, we will discuss

• How to get a 360° view of cloud security challenges across the code/build/deploy and run lifecycle
• How to harness the power of data, threat intelligence, and AI to detect and prevent cloud threats
• Ways to foster teamwork between developers, cloud ops, and security teams

Traditional recruitment for technology & security positions oftentimes shrinks the talent pool. Leaders can help bolster their teams and expand their collection of potential candidates through new talent pipelines. Creating partnerships that help underserved and career-transitioning individuals break into the technology & security industry can expand recruitment to an unexpected hire.

In this fireside chat, we'll discuss:

• Attracting diverse talent
• Building your own talent pipeline
• Changing requirements to attract new candidates

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.

The threat landscape is continuing to expand and diversify as organizations move to a multi-cloud environment. CIOs & CISOs need to ensure that their DevSecOps capabilities are incorporated within their overall business strategy to guarantee that their cloud applications and code can remain secure.

Join this session to discuss:

• Understanding there is no one-size-fits-all model for DevSecOps
• Best practices for integrating DevSecOps into your cloud security strategy
• Exploring the intersection between development, security and DevSecOps

Generative AI — oh my! As this topic makes its way to the boardroom and dinner table alike, it’s up to technology & security leaders to determine the priorities to focus on now. 

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

• Hot topics surfacing across industries
• Business impacts of emerging trends
• Key strategies for communicating new trends to stakeholders

As the digital space takes over our human-to-human interactions, the importance of IT & Security leaders interacting directly with customers is increasing year over year. Holding a “drivers-seat” position in the organization’s CX strategy is now imperative for a technology leader to gain influence with the rest of the stakeholders at the table.

In this session, you’ll discuss

• Converting operations architecture to become an experience ecosystem architecture
• Refocusing and reshaping IT to enable technology ecosystems
• Positioning for differentiated experiences for diverse consumers for the long term

CIOs & CISOs must sharpen their leadership and communication skills, particularly when it comes to addressing the needs and expectations of the organization. As their roles expands from a sole focus on technology to being true business partners leading innovation and revenue efforts, they must be laser-focused on the strategy behind it all.

Join Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, as he shares:

• How to successfully push business strategies and manage priorities
• How IT can become a revenue-generator
• How to convince leadership of the indispensable value of IT

Governing Body members host this dinner for all attendees to celebrate the culmination of the summit with an evening of peer networking immediately following the closing keynote. Join us on the 35th floor of the Grand Sheraton for music, beverages, and an optional interactive activity.