Sydney CIO Community
Virtual Executive Summit

CIOs and CISOs have the responsibility to ensure that the IT and security teams have the right skills and competencies to successfully execute digital business strategy. Recruiting top talent and ensuring a diverse talent pool are challenging tasks, especially given Australia's unique geographical location that restricts current offshore talent opportunities. How are you getting creative to ensure a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce?

In this interactive keynote, you and your peers will discuss:

• Understanding today’s IT and security talent landscape 
• Cultivating a diverse candidate pool 
• Building programs to develop and retain your existing IT and security staff

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues

In 2020, the multi-decade process of turning the digital enterprise inside out accelerated instantly. We’ve now passed an inflection point – most cyber assets live outside the old “walls'' of the organisation and cybersecurity controls must be scalable, flexible and reliable. How are CISOs and CIOs partnering to establish a security strategy that is an enabler of the digital business rather than an obstacle?

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Redesigning cybersecurity architecture to enable the work-from-anywhere culture
• Foundational technologies to support a global cybersecurity mesh
• Reconceptualising traditional ideas of how to approach security within the enterprise and shifting the business mindset

Added to the list of bona fides for today’s information security leader is a multilingual mandate for speaking the languages of risk. Business risk, legal risk and more all intertwine with an effective security strategy, yet the owners of each area don’t always see eye to eye. Where business units aren’t looking at risk the same way, an opportunity opens for malicious actors.

Join this session to discuss:

• Successful examples of cross-functional partnerships in risk management
• Metrics that effectively describe risk within, and outside of, security
• Tips for leveraging risk discussions to gain support for security

Faced with demands for modernisation, cost optimisation and digital business transformation, CIOs are looking at how data and analytics programs can support expanding their digital business and increasing their D&A maturity. After a D&A strategy is set, IT leaders must execute and deliver on the intended business outcomes.

Join your peers in discussing:

• Approaches to leveraging technology and resources to support D&A program and improve business outcomes
• Best Practices for building out new business process and executing change management across the enterprise
• Management of cultural shifts in the organisation

In this era of digital transformation, organizations rely heavily on their third parties, however, third-party relationships come with risks. To help mitigate those risks, CISOs and CIOs must work closely with their partners to ensure security.

Join this session to discuss:

• Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
• How to create an accurate inventory of all vendors within your ecosystem
• What to do when your third party gets breached

Consumer trends speak volumes: Digital experience is the new order – and a winning game plan tracks with increasing digital demands. As the rules of engagement shift, a CIO is well-positioned to guide the organization from digital ambition to execution.

This interactive, peer-driven discussion will cover: 

• Identifying digital opportunities that drive adoption and customer satisfaction
• Optimizing digital platforms to build business capabilities
• Delivering value through deeper external and internal engagement