IN-PERSON

Washington, DC CIO Executive Summit

December 5, 2023 | Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel

December 5, 2023
Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Washington, DC'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:

Supporting Business Agility with Risk-based Programs

Managing and Analyzing Data to Improve Business Decisions

Building a Culture of Security and Enabling Smart, Secure Decision Making

Washington, DC 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

Ryan Boulais

AES Corporation
CISO

Vishal Gupta

Lexmark
CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology

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 Washington, DC CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


December 4, 2023

December 5, 2023

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

On behalf of the Washington DC Governing Body, we invite you to come enjoy an evening of peer networking followed by trivia games! Test your world knowledge against your peers as you dine together ahead of a full day of learning from one another. Also take part in an activity to support our service members.

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Eliminating Stress and Burnout: A Symphony for Success

Julian Reeve headshot

Julian Reeve

Burnout Specialist, Former Music Director of Hamilton

Guest Speaker

Julian Reeve, former Music Director of the Broadway musical Hamilton, has spent a lifetime chasing results. On and off Broadway, his achievements have been applauded, conducted by ambition, and underscored by self-criticism. But a major life event demanded a change of tune. Now, as a noted authority on burnout and perfectionism, he offers concrete tools on how to build a burnout-free culture, retain high achievers and optimize self-care and performance for you and your team. Reeve is an Advisory Board Member for HR.com’s Research Institute, and his work has been featured in The Hill Newspaper and Fast Company/CEO World Magazines in addition to his TEDx Talk and children's book.

Join Reeve as he explores:

  • Recognizing and managing stress and burnout in yourself and your team
  • Identifying six keys to burnout control & avoidance
  • Clarifying individual vs. organization burnout responsibility

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Future of AI

Scott Baker headshot

Scott Baker

CMO & VP, Hybrid Cloud Portfolio

IBM

It is no secret that 2023 has been a revolutionary time for AI. These advances are driving enterprises to leverage generative AI capabilities to improve business performance and create stakeholder value. With the push to implement AI, how do you modernize your infrastructure to realize it’s full value? The answer goes beyond legacy infrastructure.

In this session, we will explore:

  • Strategies for modernizing systems and architectures
  • The data foundation for extending AI deep into the business
  • Modernization with resiliency, performance, security, sustainability, and compliance in mind

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

The Importance of Influencing – A Renewed Focus on Soft Skills

Andrea Simpson headshot

Andrea Simpson

Chief Information Security Officer

Howard University

John McClure headshot

John McClure

CISO & VP, Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Kenyatta Powers headshot

Kenyatta Powers

CIO

Maryland Department of Human Services

Kyle Waggoner headshot

Kyle Waggoner

Sr. Director – Chief Information Security Officer

Perdue Farms

Technical know-how is not enough to lead a team of IT and security experts.  Security roles are typically highly technical, but the best leaders know that by building up the skills not found in textbooks, they can be a major influence across the organization.  By becoming a better communicator, learning how to adapt and attuning to the needs of the employees, security leaders can help foster a successful culture that creates proactive defenders of the business.

Come with your questions as a panel discusses:

  • Prioritizing soft skill development
  • Learning how to be a better communicator, thus influencer, across the organization
  • Exploring the connection between company culture and boosting cybersecurity resilience

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Managing Risk from Critical Vulnerabilities

Julian Waits headshot

Julian Waits

SVP Business Development and Strategic Alliances

Rapid7

Vikas Mahajan headshot

Vikas Mahajan

VP & CISO

American Red Cross

Jenny Menna headshot

Jenny Menna

Chief Security Officer

Sallie Mae

In today’s threat landscape, security teams are frequently forced into reactive positions, lowering security program efficacy and sustainability. Strong foundational security program components, including vulnerability and asset management processes, are essential to building resilience in a persistently elevated threat climate.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

  • Defining what your emergency procedures and “playbooks” look like
  • How you prioritize CVEs, VPNs and firewalls
  • Combatting the challenge of zero-day exploitation

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  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.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Leading with Digital Sustainability - A Strategy Led by Technology

Loren Hudziak headshot

Loren Hudziak

Sr Customer Engineer Manager

Google Chrome Enterprise

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:

  • Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
  • How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
  • Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Generative AI — Enhancing Cybersecurity and Beyond

Glenn Schoonover headshot

Glenn Schoonover

Executive Partner, Security and Risk Management

Gartner

Massimo Favro headshot

Massimo Favro

CISO

NVR

Vishal Gupta headshot

Vishal Gupta

CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology

Lexmark

AI and chatbots are quickly making their way into our daily lives, revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. The introduction of Chat GPT and other new Generative AI tools is bringing a new level of sophistication to chatbots, enabling them to generate human-like responses with high accuracy. As a CISO, you might be wondering how AI and Chat GPT can be leveraged to enhance cybersecurity and other aspects of your business. But you also may be thinking how you are exposing the company to potential threats.

Join this session to learn:

  • What possibilities and limitations these technologies provide
  • Why you may be at a disadvantage if you do not embrace the future of AI and Chat GPT
  • What risks are involved in using AI and Chat GPT type applications

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

DE&I Considerations for Technology-Driven Organizations

Carol Assi headshot

Carol Assi

Cybersecurity Chief Operations Officer

Co-Chair

Joe Dyer headshot

Joe Dyer

CISO

ICF

While technology and security leaders are competing with organizations across the world for skilled employees, now is the time for organizations to create opportunities for talent in under-represented groups.  Recruiting people who can enhance your culture and bring new perspectives (and getting them to stay!) will cultivate a rich company culture and create new leaders.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Giving further visibility to under-represented groups to fill growth opportunities
  • Developing and setting DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion) benchmarks using both quantitative and qualitative measures
  • Creating successful internal initiatives that focus on representation

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Worth the Risk? Security That Advances Innovation

Patrick Foxhoven headshot

Patrick Foxhoven

Chief Innovation Officer

Zscaler

Michael Levin headshot

Michael Levin

Deputy CISO

3M

 “No risk, no reward” is an adage applicable to today’s modern enterprise. Cyber and business risk conversations weave together to form a strategy that propels innovation as the key to creating business value. As CIOs and CISOs grapple with increasingly complex risk decisions and ever-changing digital transformation roadmaps, how can leaders position cybersecurity as a pillar for supporting innovation?

Join this panel to learn:

  • Collaborating across the C-suite on a wide-ranging business and cyber risk strategy
  • Identifying initial steps and key phases of zero trust implementation within a broader risk strategy
  • Demystifying zero trust architecture for other leaders and recruit business champions for transformation

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Uncovering And Navigating The Threat Landscape For The Modern Day CISO

John Wood headshot

John Wood

Director of Unit 42 & Former FBI Special Agent

Palo Alto Networks

The CISO’s mission is to keep their organization ready to handle rising threats and build a strong security culture, but staying ahead of threat actors and reducing the risk to your organization can be a challenge.

Understanding the current threat landscape and your attack surface is crucial to preparing for today’s most significant risks. Learn what’s happening in cybersecurity today, based on Unit 42’s first-hand incident response case experience and threat intelligence that provide valuable insights every CISO needs to know, including:

  • Ransomware and other prevalent attack trends, methods, and techniques that allow attackers to damage and exploit your organization.

  • An overview of cybersecurity governance, like the new SEC cybersecurity rule, and its significance to CISOs and cybersecurity leaders. 

  • Actionable recommendations to reduce risk and how to effectively communicate with leadership, the board and regulators. 

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Risk Driven Cybersecurity – Measuring What Matters

Matt Conner headshot

Matt Conner

Chief Information Security Officer

Westinghouse Electric Co

Michael Levin headshot

Michael Levin

Deputy CISO

3M

Sounil Yu headshot

Sounil Yu

Author

Cyber Defense Matrix

With ever-evolving cyber threats, IT and security leaders must adopt a risk-driven approach. Rather than chasing compliance, they should focus on metrics that communicate business risk trajectory, like patching cadence and incident closure times. In light of the new SEC rules mandating breach disclosure based on impact, metrics and board communication need to evolve beyond maturity or compliance checkboxes.

Join this panel to discuss:

  • Advantages of prioritizing risk reduction over compliance
  • Benchmarks that demonstrate cybersecurity's business value by lowering risk
  • Transparency between security leaders and their organizations

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Embracing Innovation with Generative AI

Mark Booth headshot

Mark Booth

SVP & CIO

Perdue Farms

André Mendes headshot

André Mendes

CIO

Department of Commerce

Chris Panagiotopoulos headshot

Chris Panagiotopoulos

CTO

LifeBridge Health

By recognizing and acknowledging the potential of generative AI and machine learning models, businesses can elevate the customer experience and leverage technology as a catalyst for digital innovation. The present moment offers an opportunity to unlock AI's transformative power by setting up the necessary business readiness, objectives, and guidelines.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Using generative AI to drive innovation
  • Incorporating company values, principles of fairness and governance to ensure responsible and ethical practices
  • Implementing data engineering to build efficient and sustainable AI systems

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Outcome-Driven Leadership Is About... Well, Outcomes

Christie Struckman headshot

Christie Struckman

VP Analyst

Gartner

CIO’s and CISO's opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, with a greater focus on delivering business outcomes. They need to focus and align peers, partners and the IT organization to contribute to achieving business objectives. ODL is about adopting new leadership mindsets, principles and practices to become the outcome-driven leader the organization needs.

Join this interactive session with Interactive Session with Gartner VP Analyst, Christie Struckman to discuss:

  • Defining outcomes in terms the enterprise will understand
  • Aligning IT to business value
  • Developing systems to manage work

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

New SEC Rules – Going Beyond Checking the Box

Amit Chaudhary headshot

Amit Chaudhary

Head of Cyber Security North America & Defense

Rolls-Royce North America

Howard Spira headshot

Howard Spira

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Cybersecurity is no longer an objective reserved only for IT, it’s mission critical for senior executives and all board members. As a leader in a quickly-changing landscape, you must balance following new regulations and educating company leaders about cybersecurity.

Join this session to discuss:

  • How to prepare your board
  • What impacts the new SEC ruling is already having
  • How to protect yourself from liability

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Winning Together — Exploring the CIO and CISO Relationship

Vanetta Pledger headshot

Vanetta Pledger

Chief Information Officer & Director, IT Services

City of Alexandria

Dave Shive headshot

Dave Shive

CIO

General Services Administration

The relationship between the CIO and CISO is critical to an effective enterprise information security program. In some cases, the objectives of the two executives do not align on priorities and business objectives. Without a well-disciplined, integrated and communicative strategy, the likelihood of failed program delivery and greater vulnerabilities to not only system operations, but also the business as a whole, only increases. 

Join this session to discuss how to:

  • Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to push business initiatives forward
  • Align potential risk and threats with a comprehensive IT strategy
  • Address combined goals into a single reporting package for board level discussions

3:35pm - 3:55pm  Networking

Rising Together — Empowered Women, Empower Women

This will be an intimate, informal space for women in leadership roles and their allies to freely discuss best practices, key challenges, and mission-critical priorities. Come to network, share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and communities.

This session is aimed at, but not limited to, women who are head of function at their organizations (CIO/CISO or equivalent) and those reporting directly to the CIO/CISO/equivalent. Priority access will be reserved for these groups.

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Delivering on Innovation and Leadership

Pritha Mehra headshot

Pritha Mehra

Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President

United States Postal Service

Your local Post Office, Postal vehicles on your street, and your local carrier – all hallmarks of the beloved United States Postal Service. But Pritha Mehra, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, is re-envisioning and transforming the organization to add innovation leader to its brand. Under her dynamic leadership, USPS technology teams are modernizing the ecosystems, platforms, and network to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace. Just recently, her team supported the White House’s COVID pandemic responsive initiative that led to the delivery more than 750 million free test kits to U.S. households—and they only had three weeks to deploy an intuitive website that could handle millions of orders per hour.

Join this keynote as she shares how to:

  • Inspire a team to maintain a modernization-focused approach
  • Be a leader the effort for innovation
  • Use technology to create an exceptional customer experience

4:35pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

On behalf of the Washington DC Governing Body, we invite you to come enjoy an evening of peer networking followed by trivia games! Test your world knowledge against your peers as you dine together ahead of a full day of learning from one another. Also take part in an activity to support our service members.

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Eliminating Stress and Burnout: A Symphony for Success

Julian Reeve headshot

Julian Reeve

Burnout Specialist, Former Music Director of Hamilton

Guest Speaker

Julian Reeve, former Music Director of the Broadway musical Hamilton, has spent a lifetime chasing results. On and off Broadway, his achievements have been applauded, conducted by ambition, and underscored by self-criticism. But a major life event demanded a change of tune. Now, as a noted authority on burnout and perfectionism, he offers concrete tools on how to build a burnout-free culture, retain high achievers and optimize self-care and performance for you and your team. Reeve is an Advisory Board Member for HR.com’s Research Institute, and his work has been featured in The Hill Newspaper and Fast Company/CEO World Magazines in addition to his TEDx Talk and children's book.

Join Reeve as he explores:

  • Recognizing and managing stress and burnout in yourself and your team
  • Identifying six keys to burnout control & avoidance
  • Clarifying individual vs. organization burnout responsibility

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Future of AI

Scott Baker headshot

Scott Baker

CMO & VP, Hybrid Cloud Portfolio

IBM

It is no secret that 2023 has been a revolutionary time for AI. These advances are driving enterprises to leverage generative AI capabilities to improve business performance and create stakeholder value. With the push to implement AI, how do you modernize your infrastructure to realize it’s full value? The answer goes beyond legacy infrastructure.

In this session, we will explore:

  • Strategies for modernizing systems and architectures
  • The data foundation for extending AI deep into the business
  • Modernization with resiliency, performance, security, sustainability, and compliance in mind

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

The Importance of Influencing – A Renewed Focus on Soft Skills

Andrea Simpson headshot

Andrea Simpson

Chief Information Security Officer

Howard University

John McClure headshot

John McClure

CISO & VP, Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Kenyatta Powers headshot

Kenyatta Powers

CIO

Maryland Department of Human Services

Kyle Waggoner headshot

Kyle Waggoner

Sr. Director – Chief Information Security Officer

Perdue Farms

Technical know-how is not enough to lead a team of IT and security experts.  Security roles are typically highly technical, but the best leaders know that by building up the skills not found in textbooks, they can be a major influence across the organization.  By becoming a better communicator, learning how to adapt and attuning to the needs of the employees, security leaders can help foster a successful culture that creates proactive defenders of the business.

Come with your questions as a panel discusses:

  • Prioritizing soft skill development
  • Learning how to be a better communicator, thus influencer, across the organization
  • Exploring the connection between company culture and boosting cybersecurity resilience

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Managing Risk from Critical Vulnerabilities

Julian Waits headshot

Julian Waits

SVP Business Development and Strategic Alliances

Rapid7

Vikas Mahajan headshot

Vikas Mahajan

VP & CISO

American Red Cross

Jenny Menna headshot

Jenny Menna

Chief Security Officer

Sallie Mae

In today’s threat landscape, security teams are frequently forced into reactive positions, lowering security program efficacy and sustainability. Strong foundational security program components, including vulnerability and asset management processes, are essential to building resilience in a persistently elevated threat climate.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

  • Defining what your emergency procedures and “playbooks” look like
  • How you prioritize CVEs, VPNs and firewalls
  • Combatting the challenge of zero-day exploitation

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  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.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Leading with Digital Sustainability - A Strategy Led by Technology

Loren Hudziak headshot

Loren Hudziak

Sr Customer Engineer Manager

Google Chrome Enterprise

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues maximizes sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:

  • Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
  • How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
  • Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Generative AI — Enhancing Cybersecurity and Beyond

Glenn Schoonover headshot

Glenn Schoonover

Executive Partner, Security and Risk Management

Gartner

Massimo Favro headshot

Massimo Favro

CISO

NVR

Vishal Gupta headshot

Vishal Gupta

CTO & CIO, SVP Connected Technology

Lexmark

AI and chatbots are quickly making their way into our daily lives, revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. The introduction of Chat GPT and other new Generative AI tools is bringing a new level of sophistication to chatbots, enabling them to generate human-like responses with high accuracy. As a CISO, you might be wondering how AI and Chat GPT can be leveraged to enhance cybersecurity and other aspects of your business. But you also may be thinking how you are exposing the company to potential threats.

Join this session to learn:

  • What possibilities and limitations these technologies provide
  • Why you may be at a disadvantage if you do not embrace the future of AI and Chat GPT
  • What risks are involved in using AI and Chat GPT type applications

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

DE&I Considerations for Technology-Driven Organizations

Carol Assi headshot

Carol Assi

Cybersecurity Chief Operations Officer

Co-Chair

Joe Dyer headshot

Joe Dyer

CISO

ICF

While technology and security leaders are competing with organizations across the world for skilled employees, now is the time for organizations to create opportunities for talent in under-represented groups.  Recruiting people who can enhance your culture and bring new perspectives (and getting them to stay!) will cultivate a rich company culture and create new leaders.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Giving further visibility to under-represented groups to fill growth opportunities
  • Developing and setting DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion) benchmarks using both quantitative and qualitative measures
  • Creating successful internal initiatives that focus on representation

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Worth the Risk? Security That Advances Innovation

Patrick Foxhoven headshot

Patrick Foxhoven

Chief Innovation Officer

Zscaler

Michael Levin headshot

Michael Levin

Deputy CISO

3M

 “No risk, no reward” is an adage applicable to today’s modern enterprise. Cyber and business risk conversations weave together to form a strategy that propels innovation as the key to creating business value. As CIOs and CISOs grapple with increasingly complex risk decisions and ever-changing digital transformation roadmaps, how can leaders position cybersecurity as a pillar for supporting innovation?

Join this panel to learn:

  • Collaborating across the C-suite on a wide-ranging business and cyber risk strategy
  • Identifying initial steps and key phases of zero trust implementation within a broader risk strategy
  • Demystifying zero trust architecture for other leaders and recruit business champions for transformation

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Uncovering And Navigating The Threat Landscape For The Modern Day CISO

John Wood headshot

John Wood

Director of Unit 42 & Former FBI Special Agent

Palo Alto Networks

The CISO’s mission is to keep their organization ready to handle rising threats and build a strong security culture, but staying ahead of threat actors and reducing the risk to your organization can be a challenge.

Understanding the current threat landscape and your attack surface is crucial to preparing for today’s most significant risks. Learn what’s happening in cybersecurity today, based on Unit 42’s first-hand incident response case experience and threat intelligence that provide valuable insights every CISO needs to know, including:

  • Ransomware and other prevalent attack trends, methods, and techniques that allow attackers to damage and exploit your organization.

  • An overview of cybersecurity governance, like the new SEC cybersecurity rule, and its significance to CISOs and cybersecurity leaders. 

  • Actionable recommendations to reduce risk and how to effectively communicate with leadership, the board and regulators. 

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Risk Driven Cybersecurity – Measuring What Matters

Matt Conner headshot

Matt Conner

Chief Information Security Officer

Westinghouse Electric Co

Michael Levin headshot

Michael Levin

Deputy CISO

3M

Sounil Yu headshot

Sounil Yu

Author

Cyber Defense Matrix

With ever-evolving cyber threats, IT and security leaders must adopt a risk-driven approach. Rather than chasing compliance, they should focus on metrics that communicate business risk trajectory, like patching cadence and incident closure times. In light of the new SEC rules mandating breach disclosure based on impact, metrics and board communication need to evolve beyond maturity or compliance checkboxes.

Join this panel to discuss:

  • Advantages of prioritizing risk reduction over compliance
  • Benchmarks that demonstrate cybersecurity's business value by lowering risk
  • Transparency between security leaders and their organizations

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Outcome-Driven Leadership Is About... Well, Outcomes

Christie Struckman headshot

Christie Struckman

VP Analyst

Gartner

CIO’s and CISO's opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, with a greater focus on delivering business outcomes. They need to focus and align peers, partners and the IT organization to contribute to achieving business objectives. ODL is about adopting new leadership mindsets, principles and practices to become the outcome-driven leader the organization needs.

Join this interactive session with Interactive Session with Gartner VP Analyst, Christie Struckman to discuss:

  • Defining outcomes in terms the enterprise will understand
  • Aligning IT to business value
  • Developing systems to manage work

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

New SEC Rules – Going Beyond Checking the Box

Amit Chaudhary headshot

Amit Chaudhary

Head of Cyber Security North America & Defense

Rolls-Royce North America

Howard Spira headshot

Howard Spira

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Cybersecurity is no longer an objective reserved only for IT, it’s mission critical for senior executives and all board members. As a leader in a quickly-changing landscape, you must balance following new regulations and educating company leaders about cybersecurity.

Join this session to discuss:

  • How to prepare your board
  • What impacts the new SEC ruling is already having
  • How to protect yourself from liability

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Winning Together — Exploring the CIO and CISO Relationship

Vanetta Pledger headshot

Vanetta Pledger

Chief Information Officer & Director, IT Services

City of Alexandria

Dave Shive headshot

Dave Shive

CIO

General Services Administration

The relationship between the CIO and CISO is critical to an effective enterprise information security program. In some cases, the objectives of the two executives do not align on priorities and business objectives. Without a well-disciplined, integrated and communicative strategy, the likelihood of failed program delivery and greater vulnerabilities to not only system operations, but also the business as a whole, only increases. 

Join this session to discuss how to:

  • Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to push business initiatives forward
  • Align potential risk and threats with a comprehensive IT strategy
  • Address combined goals into a single reporting package for board level discussions

3:35pm - 3:55pm  Networking

Rising Together — Empowered Women, Empower Women

This will be an intimate, informal space for women in leadership roles and their allies to freely discuss best practices, key challenges, and mission-critical priorities. Come to network, share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and communities.

This session is aimed at, but not limited to, women who are head of function at their organizations (CIO/CISO or equivalent) and those reporting directly to the CIO/CISO/equivalent. Priority access will be reserved for these groups.

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Delivering on Innovation and Leadership

Pritha Mehra headshot

Pritha Mehra

Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President

United States Postal Service

Your local Post Office, Postal vehicles on your street, and your local carrier – all hallmarks of the beloved United States Postal Service. But Pritha Mehra, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, is re-envisioning and transforming the organization to add innovation leader to its brand. Under her dynamic leadership, USPS technology teams are modernizing the ecosystems, platforms, and network to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace. Just recently, her team supported the White House’s COVID pandemic responsive initiative that led to the delivery more than 750 million free test kits to U.S. households—and they only had three weeks to deploy an intuitive website that could handle millions of orders per hour.

Join this keynote as she shares how to:

  • Inspire a team to maintain a modernization-focused approach
  • Be a leader the effort for innovation
  • Use technology to create an exceptional customer experience

4:35pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

December 4, 2023

December 5, 2023

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Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-236-2427.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $169 USD (plus tax) is November 6, 2023.

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Melissa Tarpley

Community Program Manager

619-300-6401

melissa.tarpley@evanta.com