
Chicago CISO Community
Inner Circle
November 2, 2021 | Mid America Club
November 2, 2021
Mid America Club
Collaborate with your peers
Join Chicago's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Strategies for a risk-aligned, resilient organization
Developing and investing in the security workforce of tomorrow
Creating business value and supporting agile business operations
Chicago CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Waqas Akkawi
SIRVA Worldwide
VP, CISO

Sarah Buerger
Coyote Logistics
Director, IT Security

Jim Cameli
Walgreens Boots Alliance
VP & Global Chief Information Security Officer

JJ Markee
Baxter
Chief Information Security Officer

Arlan McMillan
Kirkland & Ellis
Chief Security Officer

Paolo Vallotti
Tate & Lyle
CISO & VP of Operations
Agenda
November 2, 2021
4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Manage Risk — Build Resiliency

Sarah Buerger
Director, IT Security
Coyote Logistics

Victor Hsiang
Information Security Director
GATX

Benjamin Lawson
Director, Information Security
Groupon

Brenda Santos
Information Security Specialist (Office of the CISO)
ServiceNow

Mike Zachman
CSO
Zebra
In today's shifting and complex risk landscape, and the need for faster strategic decision making, CISOs are supporting evolving information risk decisions more than ever while facing increased visibility from regulators, executive teams, and boards of directors. To enable risk decisions and deliver value while protecting the business from security threats and data breaches, security leaders must develop processes, build relationships, and strengthen risk culture to continue to embed risk management into the organization.
In this interactive conversation among peers, CISOs will discuss their role in proactively balancing organizational risk.
Topic 1: Enabling risk decisions to prompt business agility
How are you setting the risk management strategy and enabling risk decisions in your organization?
What areas of risk do you own in your role, and what would you change or enhance in the future?
What metrics do you use that effectively quantify and describe risk within, and outside of, security?
Topic 2: Fostering a risk-ownership mindset
What communication strategies around risk have been most persuasive as you discuss information security with other business units?
How do you feel the conversation around information risk is evolving, and what does that mean for the sorts of skills you will need in your teams going forward?
How would you describe the perspective of your board of directors when it comes to risk appetite? Is this constructive for your goals?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Chicago CISO Community Inner Circle.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue
Mid America ClubMore Information
Parking & Transportation
Parking is available at the Aon Center Parking Garage on the Lower Level. The Mid-America Club is located on the 80th floor.
Health & Safety Local Guidelines
In addition, our host venue, Mid America Club, requires all guests to wear a mask in all public spaces. Masks will be provided for your convenience.
Community Program Manager
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