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June 26, 2024 | Westin Harbour Castle
June 26, 2024
Westin Harbour Castle
Get together with Toronto's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Leveraging Data & Analytics to Advance the Business
Expanding Digital Business with Advanced and Emerging Technologies
Mitigating Risks and Improving Efficiencies with Cybersecurity Strategies
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Dave Aeri
Lactalis Canada
VP & Head of Information Technology
Mike Baxter
Kijiji
Chief Technology Officer
Cecilia Carbonelli
Haventree Bank
Senior Executive Information Technology
Roman Coba
Federated Co-op Limited (FCL)
CIO & VP Technology
Melody Wallis
Procter & Gamble Canada
Vice President - Analytics & Insights and Technology - P&G Canada
Remarkable Resilience – Tools for Combating Toxic Stress & Burnout
Today’s CIOs face daunting challenges. As the business leader in charge of adding value to the company, finding the right talent and inspiring technology innovation, there’s an incredible amount of pressure. It’s no surprise that CIOs are experiencing burnout at unprecedented rates. While taking care of employees is important, how can CIOs make sure they are taking care of themselves to help make their careers sustainable while maintaining a sense of well-being?
Join this keynote to explore:
AI Strategy — From Hype to Hyperdrive
CIOs are tasked with implementing AI to advance the business, but the fear of failing may hold you back. Coca-Cola jumped headfirst into the world of AI as a competitive, early adopter. Sarah Willock shares where they have found successes while learning from failures.
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Roadmap for Technology — Keeping Up With an Evolving Enterprise
With enterprise-wide changes come opportunities for CIOs to not only drive transformation but create value. Erwin Van Hout navigates these opportunities at SickKids through the hospital’s campus redevelopment program, which has allowed him to accelerate innovation through technology and AI.
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Refreshing the IT Operating Model — Evolving with the Business
Today’s CIO has a seat at the table to discuss business strategy, and the right operating model can increase the value IT brings to the enterprise. How can a CIO determine if it’s time for an operating model refresh to improve efficiencies? Katia Saenko shares the framework she’s executing at Cadillac Fairview.
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The CIO Tech Stack — Embracing Cloud, Security, and Innovation
IT leaders are being asked to do more with less, like adopting innovative tech like GenAI, reducing risks of cyber threats, lowering costs all while spending significant time just on IT maintenance. Balancing the maintenance of existing tech while finding time to invest in innovative work is a foundational priority for all CIOs, but what are best practices to navigate the complexities of an evolving tech landscape? This session empowers CIOs by exploring strategies for cloud-based transformation to achieve superior security, streamlined management, and user-centric, modern experiences.
Join this session and breakout-style conversation with your peers to discuss:
Mastering Change Management
Innovative IT and a winning culture are critical components of change management, particularly when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Technology leaders have the power to turn change into positive, permanent growth for an organization. How can you prepare to thoughtfully deliver your next technology integration in a way that unlocks new opportunities? Bindhu Alvar Thiruvenkadathan shares her strategies for thriving through change at BMO.
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How to Upskill Talent to Realize Generative AI Benefits
GenAI promises to boost productivity, enhance employee experience, create new capabilities and much more! But the benefits won’t be realized, nor the risks mitigated, without upskilling employees.
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Planning Technology Investments to Improve Operations
Generative AI will transform organizations beyond cost efficiencies to reshape how businesses function, from backend operations to customer experiences. Today, businesses operate within a complex ecosystem, leveraging an average of 6 or more clouds, 130 SaaS applications, and thousands of physical assets. CIOs are tasked with determining how best to simplify ecosystems to improve efficiencies and optimize costs.
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Driving Innovation and Improving Business Outcomes with Low-Code & AI
Enterprises are increasingly embracing digital transformation efforts across industries. They are turning to a powerful combination — low-code solutions infused with Artificial Intelligence for business solutions. But what can you actually build with AI & low code?
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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: Lee Hutchison at Lee.Hutchison@evanta.com
Optimize Application Rationalization to Reduce Cost
CIOs are balancing an ever-increasing number of service providers which requires a strong vendor and application rationalization integrated into strategic decision-making. In order to allocate more funds towards innovation and differentiation initiatives, mission-critical systems need to be optimized, cost effective, and flexible.
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Paving the Way for AI Success Through Automation
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way enterprises streamline operations. However, AI cannot magically fix broken IT ops. CIOs must establish a more reliable, consistent, and compliant IT ops foundation for sustainable success with AI.
Join this session to discuss:
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: Lee Hutchison at Lee.Hutchison@evanta.com
Rising Together — Empowering Women in Technology
Women are vastly underrepresented in the technology field, yet their presence is crucial. Every single one of us has the ability to move this dial, to do our part to have impact in driving change. Together we can empower each other, our communities and create a better future for all of us. Join us for this intimate, informal space for women in leadership roles and their allies to freely discuss best practices, key challenges, and mission-critical priorities. Come prepared to share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and communities.
This session is open to all genders and identities.
Governing Body Welcome Reception
Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
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