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Toronto CIO Executive Summit

June 24, 2025 | Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

June 24, 2025
Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

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Collaborate with your peers

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:

Harnessing Data and Analytics to Drive Strategic Business Outcomes

Leveraging Emerging Technology for Competitive Advantage and Growth

Collaboration across the C-Suite to Enable Technology Innovation and Efficiency

Toronto CIO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Dave Aeri

Confidential
Chief Technology Officer & CIO

Mike Baxter

Kijiji
Chief Technology Officer

Cecilia Carbonelli

Haventree Bank
CIO

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Janine Leahey

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
CTIO

Melody Wallis

Procter & Gamble
Vice President - Analytics & Insights and Technology - P&G Canada

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Sarah Willock

The Coca-Cola Company
VP of Technology, Canada

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Toronto CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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

Agenda

June 24, 2025

morning afternoon

8:00am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Opening Keynote — Gartner Analyst

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David Senf

Senior Director Analyst

Gartner

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

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Ahead of the Game — Trends for IT Decision Makers

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Alain Cormier

Vice President

Novipro

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




9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Connecting the Dots to Generate Business Value with GenAI

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Nicholas Holian

Worldwide Field CTO

Nutanix

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

10:25am - 11:10am  Networking Break

10:35am - 11:00am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

Modern Infrastructure Foundation — Unlocking Value in AI

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David Porter

Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisory

Google Cloud

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

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

Fireside Chat Hosted by OutSystems

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Tiago Azevedo

Chief Information Officer

OutSystems

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Anand Inbasekaran

Vice President, Process & Digital Transformation

CSA Group

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11:10am - 11:55am  Executive Boardroom

Chaos of Connectivity ― Strategies for Agility, Productivity, and Compliance

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Ernie Denninger

webMethods and Streamsets Brand Sales Director, North America

IBM

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Ranjika Manamperi

CIO

Ontario Power Generation

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Steve Mohammed

CIO

Canadian Tire Bank

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Kim George

CIO, Toyota Canada

Toyota Motor Corporation

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

11:10am - 11:55am  Executive Boardroom

Executive Boardroom

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Patricia Wilkey

SVP & GM SSG International Sales

Lenovo

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11:55am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out

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Scott Montgomery

VP, Strategic Initiatives

Island

 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

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

From Tech Exit to Tech Equity — Addressing Women's Attrition in Technology

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Debra Christmas

Senior Executive Partner

Gartner

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"



1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

A Proactive Approach to Cost Management

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Brad Strom

CIO

York University

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

2:15pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Executive Boardroom

The CIO as a Steward of the Business

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


3:45pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Closing Keynote

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4:35pm - 4:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

4:45pm - 6:00pm  Governing Body Reception

Governing Body Reception

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.

June 24, 2025

morning afternoon

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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 416-597-9200. Please mention Gartner Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $403 CAD (plus tax) is June 2, 2025.

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