Philadelphia CIO Executive Summit

It’s no secret there’s a lack of female representation on corporate leadership teams, board seats and executive positions. The same is true for women in top technology roles. How do organizations attract more women to tech leadership positions? And how do they cultivate a culture that encourages women to rise up through leadership ranks? A panel of HR and technology leaders tackle these and other questions in this 45-minute panel. Afterward, join your peers for 45 minutes of roundtable discussions to share actionable ways to promote female leadership.

Over her career, Angela Yochem has been a developer and an architect, and has been CIO/CTO/CDO at several multi-billion dollar companies. She’s worked in healthcare, retail, transportation, high-tech, and banking, and has held board seats in banking and high-tech. Moving between industries can be challenging for CIOs, but Angela says the ability to adapt comes naturally to technologists and leaders. She credits her success to being able to learn quickly, to flex with changing business environments and market opportunities, and to quickly apply lessons from other industries to realize value in advance of the competition. In this session, Angela shares her insight on making cross-industry moves and the importance of rejecting an industry-specific mindset.

How do you build a customer engagement platform that works? Let the customer lead. That’s the path AmerisourceBergen took when building its e-commerce platform, which was co-designed and led by its customers. The organization engaged with customers in new and creative ways to tailor the platform specifically to them. Join the three-person team that led the project as they discuss the project’s agile journey, share project metrics and discuss how this platform has helped drive digital in other parts of the organization.

The fourth industrial revolution is here, and its technological advancements are accelerating the adoption of digital technologies. To keep pace, companies are adopting AI, analytics, cloud and automation to create agile, responsive enterprises. They’re also hiring new talent and upskilling existing talent to meet new needs. Join Balaji Ganapathy in this session as he shares his insights on closing the global skills gap, retooling talent and preparing for the future of work by driving equity and inclusion.

In a business environment driven by technology, the ongoing evolution of the cloud, the growing range of cloud-based analytics solutions and the redefined data center are essential considerations for IT executives. With their promise of greater agility, enhanced service levels, and innovation enablement, these offerings present an attractive path for the enterprise seeking to leverage every advantage. But no two organizations are the same, and charting a course amid a cacophony of tools, providers, and promises is an increasingly complex endeavor. In this session, you and your peers will examine the present and future of the cloud and build strategies for navigating them to ensure maximum agility, security, and new ways of doing 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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Rich Borders at 1-503-972-4031 or rich.borders@evanta.com

Creating an agile enterprise has clear advantages for organizations. The ability to pivot nimbly in a rapidly changing world can be a major differentiator, but making the transition demands a reimagination of business models, technology strategies and company culture—all at the same time. Penn Mutual Life Insurance has made this smooth switch to agile methodologies, but it didn’t come easy. Still, the 171-year-old organization has reaped major rewards since saying goodbye to segregated project management in favor of continuous delivery, allowing them to innovate faster than competitors. Listen to Greg Driscoll as he shares the tools, tactics and pitfalls of Penn Mutual’s path to agility.

While you invest time, resources and millions of dollars in protecting endpoints and network perimeter, are you addressing one of the largest footprints of your network? You may be allowing hackers and malware to take the easy route to your organization’s network and data. Jason O’Keeffe will share real-world breach examples of how some of the most secure organizations are still lagging in overall security for critical endpoints like printers. O’Keeffe will share best practices on how to secure these valuable endpoints in the most effective way.

Digital technologies that drive innovation and transformation are making major strides. But digital technology alone doesn’t make for an impactful enterprise-wide transformation. Culture must be part of that equation. Without it, everything from becoming an agile enterprise to incorporating automation can be more challenging. A supportive culture is needed to drive the seamless adoption of technology and fuel organization-wide transformation. Join this session to identify key cultural challenges within organizations and identify maturity road maps to becoming an adaptive digital enterprise.

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: 

Rich Borders at 1-503-972-4031 or rich.borders@evanta.com

IT is changing, and it’s embracing more than connected devices and artificial intelligence. Technology is a means to enhance something far greater. For Comcast, that something is the customer experience. The organization knows well that people are an organization’s most important asset, which is why it invested in a journey to enhance its own customer experience. Join Charlie Herrin as he relates how Comcast began executing on a transformative customer and employee program, fueled by innovative IT investments.