Houston CIO Executive Summit

If you or your organization is afraid of what’s next and feel that there are forces at work that drain your market share, Ben Hammersley is here to help. A futurist, he explains the inherent disconnect between business leaders and the world we live in today. He reveals the extreme interconnectedness between seemingly disparate entities, and how technology is at work in everything you do, whether you realize it or not. Discover how technology can give you super powers and how you can use those special abilities to your advantage to not just survive, but conquer, this age of digital transformation.

Governing Body members host this dinner to launch the event with an evening of peer networking and a presentation.

In this fireside chat with her CIO, Oxy’s leader tells her and her company’s tale of innovation and how the whole organization is involved in driving invention and the business forward.

Continuing off the momentum of the opening keynote and other sessions throughout the day, Reenie, Erik, Klara and Allison help facilitate an interactive workshop for the region's IT leadership to share their ideas for making Houston an innovation front runner.

In this executive boardroom session – aimed at IT leaders from non-energy-related enterprises – come prepared to discuss your approach to digital strategy and how you plan to attract, develop and retain the right IT talent to make sure your organization is evolving and adapting to execute on all of its business goals. This two-part conversation will focus on:

Discussion Topic 1: Making Digital Strategy Part of Your IT Game Plan

• How are you looking to overhaul your organization and the way it does business to flourish in the digital age?
• How are you evolving your infrastructure and risk strategies?
• What are you doing to manage internal and external stakeholder needs and pioneering a whole new way of envisioning work?

Discussion Topic 2: Equipping the Future – New Ways of Tackling the Talent Crunch

• What is your human capital strategy when it comes to finding the specialized talent required of innovation, introducing a new way of working and managing multi-generational teams?
• What fresh approaches are you, as IT leaders, taking to address talent attraction, development and retention?
• What are the greatest impacts you are seeing across the organization when it comes to talent in this new digital era?

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:

Mallory Paige at mallory.paige@evanta.com or 503-808-9828.

In this executive boardroom session – aimed at IT leaders from energy-sector enterprises – come prepared to discuss your approach to digital strategy and how you plan to attract, develop and retain the right IT talent to make sure your organization is evolving and adapting to execute on all of its business goals. This two-part conversation will focus on:

Discussion Topic 1: Making Digital Strategy Part of Your IT Game Plan

• How are you looking to overhaul your organization and the way it does business to flourish in the digital age?
• How are you evolving your infrastructure and risk strategies?
• What are you doing to manage internal and external stakeholder needs and pioneering a whole new way of envisioning work?

Discussion Topic 2: Equipping the Future – New Ways of Tackling the Talent Crunch

• What is your human capital strategy when it comes to finding the specialized talent required of innovation, introducing a new way of working and managing multi-generational teams?
• What fresh approaches are you, as IT leaders, taking to address talent attraction, development and retention?
• What are the greatest impacts you are seeing across the organization when it comes to talent in this new digital era?

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:

Mallory Paige at mallory.paige@evanta.com or 503-808-9828.

IT leaders at Houston’s sports franchises are giving fans tools that makes their pre-game and game-day experience easier. And the technologies they are using to drive a more traditional marketing message are, naturally, helping increase revenues and magnifying the fan experience inside their venues. Learn more about their efforts, including:

• How they are staying up on technologies – namely connectivity tools such as wifi and DAS
• How they are applying ever-changing new technologies to older infrastructure
• What they are doing in their specific venues to support technologies and give the fans what they need and expect

Modern cybersecurity programs must be built around the main theme that there is no perfect protection. The goal to build a sustainable program that balances the needs to protect against the needs to run our businesses works to decrease the likelihood of incident occurrence without overspending or paralyzing the organization. While acceptance of some risks are often necessary to support business needs, energy companies have long targeted no appetite for safety exposure in their respective programs. The recent number of attacks on the operational technology (OT) space where safety is the primary focus creates unique and complex challenges relating to these major themes and program goals. Join this facilitated and interactive peer-to-peer discussion focused on:

• Major challenges of cyber relating to OT cybersecurity
• Applicable technologies, including emerging technologies (e.g. analytics, iOT)
• Industry initiatives, research projects, models from other industries and other considerations to counter these threats and address these issues
• Regulatory constraints and direction
• Group enablement recommendations (e.g. regulatory, industry (company/vendor))

Deep neural networks are bringing new capabilities to AI, creating smart systems that can outperform human labor at many tasks. These new systems bring business advantage to successful implementers. But success is not easy to come by. This session gives an opportunity for you and your peers to discuss progress and challenges in implementing AI-based initiatives to advance your business.

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

To reserve your seat, please contact:

Mallory Paige at mallory.paige@evanta.com or 503-808-9828.

The intelligent enterprise is the ultimate data-driven organization. It harnesses traditionally counteractive forces – agility and governance, convenience and security, ease of use and enterprise functionality – to go beyond business intelligence and deliver transformative insights to every user, constituent and partner. Today, every forward leaning company is racing to become an intelligent enterprise. Why? Because organizations that build this intelligent edge over competitors will be the dominant force of tomorrow.

In this keynote, you’ll hear:

• How to map out your organization into an intelligent enterprise
• Best practices to build Data Analytics throughout the organization
• Ecosystem solutions to help manage data securely but remain agile