Toronto CIO Executive Summit

In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, businesses are grappling with complex infrastructure challenges while seeking to harness the power of generative AI to drive innovation and operational efficiency. CIOs must spearhead strategy at the critical intersection of infrastructure and GenAI.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Integrating GenAI into your existing infrastructure
• Addressing business challenges such as optimizing resource allocation, enhancing security and improving scalability
• Using GenAI to streamline operations and accelerate digital transformation

In today's digital landscape, enterprises manage an ever-growing array of technologies across multiple clouds, with the average organization using 1,000 applications and thousands of physical assets. Generative AI is set to boost developer productivity by nearly 40%, leading to a surge in AI-embedded applications. This complexity can cause inefficiencies and vulnerabilities.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Create visibility across disparate systems for informed decision-making
• Streamlining integrations to increase productivity and accelerate delivery
• Maintain compliance by managing integrations centrally to prevent shadow IT

As AI adoption accelerates, it is critical for organizations to prioritize security, compliance, and governance in order to mitigate risk. From protecting sensitive data, to ensuring AI models operate ethically and transparently, developing a security-focused AI strategy is essential to long-term success. Let’s talk industry-leading AI infrastructure, security frameworks, and responsible AI practices, and learn how to confidently scale AI while maintaining trust and compliance.

Join this session to explore:

• Security, privacy, and regulatory risks in AI deployments
• Best practices for managing AI data lifecycles and compliance
• Building a resilient AI infrastructure that balances innovation with risk management

Gartner research predicts by 2028 there will be at least a 25% decline of women in IT leadership roles. How can we work to reverse this decline and create a supportive community in Toronto that equips women for senior roles, amplifies their visibility and mitigates bias?

Join this session of your peers to discuss:

• Building an equitable talent pipeline
• Addressing the real reasons women choose to leave the technology field
• Maintaining the spirit of DEI programs without official "branding"

CIOs can enhance organizational success by strategically allocating IT resources to innovative, value-generating opportunities, rather than relying on traditional cost-cutting measures. This proactive approach aligns IT investments with business objectives, fostering long-term value creation.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Implementing cultural changes around cost management
• Anticipating the long-term implications of short-term cost cuts
• Engaging business stakeholders in cost management decisions

Technology is increasingly intertwined with organizational performance, making it more important than ever for CIOs to define and demonstrate IT’s activities in terms of business outcomes.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• Aligning IT strategy with business goals and objectives
• Positioning technology as a business value driver, not a cost center
• Measuring and communicating value to stakeholders

IT is evolving at a rapid pace and impacting every aspect of businesses. It is important for CIOs to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to key trends to adequately identify risks and opportunities to build a strong and forward-thinking IT strategy.

This session delves into an exclusive IT Trends report to uncover:

• A greater understanding of the top priorities of Canadian organizations (cybersecurity, AI, cloud, modernization and beyond)
• Where and how organizations are allocating their budgets
• Attracting, training, and retaining talent in a shifting ecosystem

Delivering AI and GenAI value at scale is top of mind with many CIOs while juggling the needs to maintain a secure scalable technology foundation, but how can CIOs accomplish this? Prioritizing a high-quality data, security and infrastructure foundation provides all the necessary ingredients that will unlock the greatest value in AI.

Join this session to discuss:

• Building a value driven AI strategy
• Delivering high-quality, well-structured data to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven initiatives
• Driving a modern secure AI ready infrastructure roadmap for scale, efficiency and ease of use

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Join David Senf, Senior Director Analyst, Emerging Technologies, as he outlines disruptors driving innovation by sharing research-backed, practical guidance.

 As high volumes of sensitive data flow through web browsers, three in five organizations believe their current IT and security infrastructure makes the risk of data leakage likely or highly likely. This reflects the growing complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls. What is a modern approach to enterprise operations that simplifies IT while strengthening security?

Attendees will discover:

• Why disparate IT and security solutions accumulate technical debt and bog down operations
• How to articulate the business impacts of technology operations and security challenges beyond IT
• New approaches to enterprise application delivery that enhance end-user productivity

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