Charlotte CISO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Of all the technologies fueling digitization, perhaps none is as rife with transformative promise as Artificial Intelligence. How are organizations approaching their AI journeys to harness this promise and accelerate innovation?

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Building an AI strategy that targets the areas of greatest opportunity for business growth
• Ensuring the quality, governance and availability of data to maximize AI efficacy
• Overcoming silos and cultural hurdles to increase the speed-to-value of your initiatives

The CIO and CISO Role in Accelerating Digital Business

As digital initiatives across enterprises have accelerated quickly, leaders must balance the right structures and strategies. Whether restructuring existing applications, infrastructure and security ecosystems or preempting new initiatives to bring services and applications to market faster than ever before, CIOs and CISOs are immersed in strategizing and building support for these critical business objectives.

In this interactive conversation among peers, CIOs and CISOs will discuss their role in proactively contributing to organizational success.

Topic Option 1: Designing a holistic digital framework

1. How are you evolving your operating model to deliver better speed, agility and innovation?
2. How are you optimizing for future resilience and not just immediate efficiency?
3. How are you shifting funding from less valuable initiatives to new channels or services?

Topic Option 2: Fostering a digital-first mindset

1. How have you evolved your cross-business partnerships in the past year?
2. What’s new or next in your organizational structure to support digital business?
3. How are you establishing credibility in your role to drive the enterprise in a digital direction?

CIO-CISO partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. IT leaders must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.

Join this keynote as Steve Hagood and Jim Powell from Trane Technologies share their story on how to:

• Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
• Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
• Collaborate in different business sectors while moving business initiatives forward

One could say networking and security always follow the compute, but rapid adoption of multi-cloud and hybrid computing means networks are now more distributed than ever before with business value shifting to agility, innovation and software - leading to the rise of the software defined enterprise.

In this session, you will explore:

• How to better balance risk management with business objectives and customer experiences
• Practical strategies to secure cloud computing while delivering better outcomes and experiences
• New and emerging technology trends

Security leaders are always trying to improve their metrics to better inform organizational decision-making. How can you effectively use metrics to both demonstrate progress and trends?

Join Frank DePaola from EnPro Industries as he shares:

• How his team successfully build out a metrics reporting program
• Why it’s important to determine the audience and what metrics should matter
• How the right metrics will benefit the business and win investment for security

With people working remotely and most user traffic destined for SaaS and cloud, network security requires transformation. It’s no longer efficient or cost-effective to route traffic through the corporate network to apply security controls. Adopting a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Architecture while focusing on Zero-Trust principles ensures that your employees can be productive and secure working from anywhere.

In this session, we will discuss:

• The economics and business case for a SASE journey
• Best practices for implementing Zero Trust within a SASE architecture
• The importance of granular Cloud and SaaS visibility in a SASE architecture

The world has changed; so has your workforce. Technology and security leaders are competing against organizations across the world for talent and boosting employee engagement can be the competitive advantage needed to recruit and retain the strongest performers.

Join this benchmarking session to learn:

• Strategies to improve employee engagement and performance to future-proof your hybrid workforce

• Compare initiatives with a cross-section of your peers

• Walk away with actionable insights to address remote culture breakdowns and elevate productivity

Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can security leaders best face changing threat vectors?

Join Brian Cyprian, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss:

• The current threat landscape
• How to best discover and thwart nation-state attacks
• What security executives can do to build resiliency

IT executives rewrote the innovation playbook in 2020 and pioneered new ways of thinking about how IT partners with employees on developing and supporting technology solutions. The opportunities of a hybrid and digitally savvy workforce create an environment ripe for innovation and collaboration to fuel business outcomes. Now is the time for IT to review its roadmap to ensure the enterprise is empowered with tools, processes, and support to develop solutions and reach new heights.  

Join this session to discuss:

• Defining successful innovation within the enterprise

• Transforming operations and empowering employees in developing technology solutions

• Fostering a culture that allows people to experiment, learn, be curious, and fail

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

Smart organizations are fueling their operations with the power of data and AI. Through integrated technologies, a data fabric architecture enables dynamic and intelligent data flows and orchestration across any enterprise to create a network of instantly available information, empower people to do higher value work, and hyper-personalize digital experiences. However, only 2 of 10 firms have scaled their transformation and technology solutions.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Preparing your workforce for a date-first world
• Improving business outcomes through data-driven decisions and innovation
• How data and AI can deliver instant benefits to your organization today

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

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As organizations rush to cover gaps in an expanding attack surface, thanks to digital transformation and remote work, they are realizing that this strategy is creating an uncontrolled technology sprawl. Yet many organizations continue purchasing more tools than they can manage, actually increasing their overall risk while wasting limited program budget. How is your technology investment strategy helping you meet your security outcomes?

In this discussion, you will learn:

• The state of “tools sprawl” and data showing its impact on security organizations
• Insights and best practices to reduce complexity and increase tool efficacies
• Maturing your security posture to drive desired outcomes

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

Zero Trust Network Access adoption spiked in 2020 as organizations scrambled to solve an unprecedented remote access challenge. Now, looking ahead, enterprises are faced with the conundrum of staying fully remote, returning full-time to the workplace, or more likely landing somewhere in between. But not all ZTNA solutions are created equal, and many are ill-suited to address a range of use cases or environments.

Join this roundtable discussion to:

• Understand the limitations of remote access-only solutions
• Explore a wide variety of use cases that can be addressed by ZTNA
• Learn best practices for transitioning to ZTNA from a legacy solution

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

Whether “business as usual” is a place we return to – or a constant moving target – we are all living in a digital world and there’s no going back. As the pace accelerates, opportunity is rich, and the organization’s future rides on how CIO business leaders exploit an expanding array of digital tools. Join this peer-led conversation on seizing digital momentum to work in new ways and reach savvy consumers on new platforms. Among the key talking points:

• Transforming your workforce to think, operate and deliver as a digital-first enterprise
• Optimizing digital capabilities and digital channels to create business-wide value
• Strategizing to expand digital business and maturity for long-term 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

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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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Marsha Wick. (marsha.wick@evanta.com)

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