Southern California CIO Virtual Executive Summit

One of the biggest challenges facing the modern CIO is balance. When it comes to business transformation, the sky is the limit… until you run into budget, time and resource constraints. How can CIOs balance these real limitations while encouraging their teams to dream big and come up with outside the box solutions?

Join this keynote to discuss:

• Crafting a technology and cultural transformational strategy
• Successful frameworks that allow space for a “test fast, learn quick” environment
• Strategies for enabling and securing a hybrid WFH workforce

In a highly disruptive and digital environment, hyperautomation and agility are critical to the transformation and optimization of business operations. To keep pace, organizations are increasingly looking to empower their technology-savvy workforce with low-code automation platforms to modernize legacy systems, improve customer experience and ignite innovation.

Join this boardroom discussion to explore how CIOs are:

• Improving critical business processes with low-code automation platforms
• Leveraging talent across the business to enable scalable enterprise ready innovation
• Managing the pros and cons of democratized technology

Smart organizations are infusing the intelligence of AI and the agility of hybrid cloud to better predict and shape future outcomes, and automate decisions and processes. As a result, organizations can empower people to do higher value work and hyper-personalize digital experiences. However, only 2 out of 10 firms have scaled AI solutions.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Preventing project stall due to data complexity, talent scarcity, and a lack of trust in AI systems
• Scaling AI across the organization with the right approach and architecture
• Leveraging AI technologies and data science tools to proactively optimize workflows and experiences

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Progressive organizations have included permanent work-from-anywhere (WFX) options in their connectivity strategy and according to IDC, 64% of business leaders will subsidize this connectivity. These new solutions will reduce the in-home bandwidth battle for employees, alleviate the burden of managing multiple vendors, and reduce security vulnerabilities is needed. Join your peers in a focused discussion on options to manage your work-from-anywhere environment. In this session, we’ll discuss:

• Investing in the right technologies to support WFX and decrease risk
• Long-term planning to deliver equitable access across your workforce
• Moving from workforce support to workforce innovation

Keeping pace with business demands requires IT to embrace transformation. Poor user experience, slowed M&A value, expanded security concerns, and IT misalignment with business goals prevent top enterprises from obtaining agility and resiliency. As last year demonstrated, legacy systems don’t react quickly or scale to accommodate rapid change. It’s imperative that CIOs focus on removing the legacy infrastructure that slows IT transformation and impedes business growth.

Join this session to discuss:

• Providing corporate access to any user on any device from any location
• Promoting alignment between IT objectives and business initiatives
• Deploying cloud technology that accelerates enterprise scaling and agility strategies

As organizations have embraced remote work out of necessity during the pandemic, the market for tech talent has shifted dramatically. Employers can compete for tech talent regardless of location while simultaneously creating a culture that is founded on collaboration and communication. This session will address the unique opportunities the work from anywhere movement has provided to enable a productive and purpose-led organization. 

Join this session for a discussion on:

• What you can do to maximize the benefits of a distributed workforce
• How you’re thinking about the future of talent and culture
• How an increasingly remote tech talent landscape can provide more equitable access

As the ongoing rush to the cloud continues, many organizations falter because they equate “movement” with “strategy.” Getting the most out of your cloud journey requires clear communication of terms and expectations, alignment with other business processes and functions, and partnerships among multiple internal and external stakeholders.

This session puts strategy in the crosshairs and discusses:

• Expanding cloud strategy beyond IT and creating cross-functional, business-wide alignment
• Establishing policies and guardrails to streamline best practices and eliminate ambiguity on your cloud approach across your organization
• Building adaptability into your strategy so it can be adjusted as needed to address shifting business needs at any step in the journey

Employee experience and company culture will continue to be primary pillars of the unfolding era of hybrid-remote work environments. While leading with a people-first strategy, technology plays a crucial role in this evolution, to foster unique work styles, meet changing employee expectations, and streamline business processes.

In this interactive roundtable, join your peers for a deep dive exploring:

• How technology talent will enable innovation and inspire the future workplace
• The role of technology in organizational health in terms of culture and well-being
• How newly formed digital workspaces can blend seamlessly with digital design and strategy

A CIO’s 2021 marching orders come straight from the top: In a Gartner survey, 7 out of 10 boards demanded digital acceleration in a disrupted global climate, while operational excellence through digital business topped the forward-driving agenda. How does your digital strategy measure up to the mission? Join your peers in an interactive session built around modern digital design.

Among the key talking points:

• What it means to be ‘digital-first’ – breaking down roadblocks and navigating roadmaps
• What levers to pull to expand digital business and increase digital maturity
• How CIOs create the ability for remote and hybrid work environments

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CIO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the Southern California community.

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues