Toronto CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

Even the most successful companies face challenges harnessing the full value of a robust data and AI strategy. Technology leaders must keep abreast of data and AI trends to understand how to realize and prioritize greater potential at scale for optimal business value.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Benefits of a unified data and AI platform
• Customer success insights
• Five trends for an interconnected data strategy

Today's rapidly evolving enterprise requires CIOs to balance agility and conformance performance. Competing priorities can appear to hinder digital transformation. CIOs can execute transformation by providing greater transparency of resources to successfully execute on strategy to seize opportunity before competition.

Join this session to discuss:

• Introducing adaptability amongst ongoing market uncertainty
• Prioritizing risk-adjusted execution flexibility
• Synchronization of IT and business stakeholder with real-time collaboration

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

According to the 2023 IBM X-force Threat Intelligence Report, for the second year in a row, phishing was the leading infection vector, identified in 41% of incidents. The threat of data corruption through a cyberattack presents a new set of protection considerations that require a new level of data resilience. By integrating machine learning, automation, and a modernized storage infrastructure, organizations can turn a breach into a comparatively short-term disturbance.

Join this session to discuss:

• How to gauge if your current plan is comprehensive and effective enough to help you recover from a crisis-level cyber-attack
• How to collaborate with your security teams when recovering from a data breach
• What is the best approach to keeping on top of new attacks that evolve on the threat landscape

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

For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organizations. But soon, intelligent software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. CEOs believe that by 2030, up to 20% of their companies’ revenue will come from machine customers.

Join Don Scheibenreif, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner and Author of When Machines Become Customers to discuss how:

• Machine customers will be involved in a wide range of consumer and business purchases
• Marketing and selling to machines will be very different
• Machine customers will operate based on rules and logic

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hits the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How new technology movements will impact key stakeholders
• The importance of communicating emerging trends with the board
• Strategies for collaboration across the organization

Organizations are balancing more technology than ever before. As digital transformation projects continue to rise, employees are experiencing fatigue in using changing software tools and adapting to new technologies. How can CIOs avoid spending more to achieve goals, mitigate organizational risk, and keep their competitive advantage?

Join this boardroom to explore:

• Implementing digital adoption platforms to prevent software paralysis
• Increasing time-to-value and productivity
• Avoiding employee fatigue due to ever-changing software operating models

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

Now that the pandemic is behind us, how do we make people better moving forward? Regardless of whether they are working remotely, in office or hybrid, we need to continue to create a culture of collaboration and innovation. Please join Zoom’s Global CIO, Gary Sorrentino for an in-depth discussion on unleashing human excellence.

Topics of conversation will include:

• How to upskill our employees to be the best that they can be - striving for human excellence
• Trends to shape UCaaS and CCaaS
• Predictions for the future of work

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

What's your community's top priority? What do your C-Level peers consider the largest hurdle to accomplishing their goals? What percentage of your peers are experiencing the same struggles as you? In this fun, highly interactive, game-show-style session, we'll put your knowledge to the test and provide insight into your community.

Come on down to:

• Compete in a data-driven, community-specific, gamified quiz
• Learn more about the struggles and opportunities reported by members of your community
• Share and expand on these reported goals and challenges

Decreasing the environmental footprint is not only beneficial for the planet but also for businesses as research suggests that those who prioritize sustainability tend to have better long-term success. Both customers and employees have indicated they would rather purchase from and work for sustainable firms. In addition, the government of Canada has released the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 sustainability development goals. Yet, many companies still haven’t implemented their own sustainability goals or published their sustainability statements.

Join this session with thought leadership from the Kyndryl and Microsoft alliance to discuss:

• The synergy of FinOps and GreenOps to reduce carbon emissions and minimize environmental impact
• Practical tips for clear communication, data-driven insights, and leveraging technology to streamline processes and reduce waste
• Aligned KPIs and collaboration between internal teams to drive positive environmental outcomes and financial success

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

As cloud infrastructure strategies become more complex, a game plan is more important than ever to execute the blueprints. CIOs must lead the charge to improve efficiencies, buy smartly and improve resiliency.  As the journey progresses, what are the lessons learned that will make for smoother transitions in the future?

Join this session to discuss:

• Improving processes and efficiencies to create speed of accessibility

• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price

• Navigating risk by embedding a strong cybersecurity strategy

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

For CIOs, the stakes are extraordinary in every conversation. Revenue of millions or billions is in jeopardy during board meetings, investor calls, media interviews, customer interactions, and employee conversations. The most successful executives realize this and prepare what to say and when to say it with precision. Val Wright shares new ways to approach common business conversations.

Join this keynote to learn:

• The power of the written word to boost productivity and customer focus
• How to cultivate a dynamic relationship with your board and get positioned for board roles
• Powerful retorts and feedback that overcome resistance every time and consistently delivers results