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St. Louis CISO Executive Summit
June 11, 2024 | Marriott St. Louis West
June 11, 2024
Marriott St. Louis West
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with St. Louis's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:
Ensuring resiliency and mitigating risk is top of mind within the cloud security strategy
Using AI to improve processes and efficiencies while keeping up with the changing landscape
Building a culture of security to enable smart, secure decision-making
St. Louis CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Joe Caro
Post Holdings
CIO, SVP
Kevin Hardcastle
Washington University in St. Louis
Associate CISO
Dan Henke
Mercy
VP, CISO
Matt Modica
BJC HealthCare
CISO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CISO 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 St. Louis CISO 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
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:45am - 9:15am Keynote
Weaponize Risk Appetite to Drive Risk Decisions
Paul E. Proctor
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Risk appetite fails when it is expressed in fuzzy, imprecise terms. Repositioning risk appetite in the context of investment and value delivery creates a measurable scale of risk that powers a new type of governance.
Join this session to learn:
- How concrete assertions of risk appetite can make executive decisions binding
- How can risk appetite drive risk decisions
- What scale can be used to measure risk appetite
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Weaponize Risk Appetite to Drive Risk Decisions — Follow Up Q&A
Paul E. Proctor
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Paul Proctor, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner, encourages executives to bring burning questions to this follow-up session which will dive deeper into outcome-driven metrics, protection-level agreements, risk appetite and how organizations can measure and motivate risk-driven decision making.
Join this interactive session to:
- Ask pertinent questions
- Examine case studies
- Receive implementation guidance
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Optimize Application Rationalization to Reduce Cost
Hosted by Rimini Street
Keith Siegfried
GVP, Unified Service Experience
Rimini Street
Chris Moore
VP IT
Bayer Corporation
Ryan Schlimpert
SVP, CIO
Drury Hotels
CIOs are balancing an ever-increasing number of service providers which requires a strong vendor and application rationalization integrated into strategic decision-making. In order to allocate more funds towards innovation and differentiation initiatives, mission-critical systems need to be optimized, cost effective, and flexible.
Join this session to discuss:
- Incorporate effective contract management
- Strategies to avoid vendor lock-in
- Financially optimizing the vendor portfolio
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
The New Era of Cyber Resiliency
Alan Berry
Regional Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Centene Corporation
Larry Woods
VP, Chief Information Security (CISO) and Privacy Officer (CPO)
Post Holdings
Travis Nichols
Director Of Information Security
Shelter Insurance
Becoming a truly cyber-resilient organization requires changing the way InfoSec and risk challenges are addressed at all levels of the organization, particularly in light of the SEC's enhanced breach disclosure requirements.
Join this session to discuss strategies for:
- Establishing a zero-trust framework for minimizing third-party risk
- Diversifying solution providers while still remaining effective
- Articulating cyber risk posture, controls and mitigation strategies
10:25am - 11:05am 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.
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Emerging Technology Trends — An Interactive Tabletop Exercise
Roftiel Constantine
CISO
Barry-Wehmiller
To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs and CISOs must stay up to date with emerging trends. How are you communicating across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?
Join this interactive session to discuss real-life scenarios including:
- Large Language Models
- AI-Augmented Development
- Sustainable tech advancements
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Routing Your Generative AI Implementation Marathon
Karey Barker
CISO
Safety National
Steve Kappel
VP & CIO
Safety National
Teresa Sanzottera
Vice President, IT
Barry-Wehmiller
Early adopters confirm, AI-implementation isn't for the faint of heart (or the light of checkbook). Yet, the expectation to welcome this booming tech advancement into your organization remains. Today, studying the efforts of those same early adopters proves the easiest first step in drawing up your own AI road map.
Gather with your peers to:
- Compare your varying stages of AI-adoption progress
- Share what you've learned through that progress so far
- Gather proactive tips on clearing hurdles to come
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Deriving Value with Data — a Quality Checkup
Jessie Showers
Cybersecurity Chief
Department of Defense - Defense Information Systems Agency
Pete Williams
Director of Data Services & Analytics
TKC Holdings
Subbu Subramanian
CIO
Anchor Packaging
Quality is truly the first step when working to derive value from D&A. Without a standard of quality in place, D&A can't be trusted or relied upon. Executives should be constantly evaluating the state of data quality checks and/or the success of data observability.
Join this roundtable session as your peers discuss:
- Measuring data quality — what works and what doesn't?
- Identifying challenges to data quality in the wake of generative AI
- Creating strategies to build trust and reliability in data
11:50am - 12:35pm Lunch Service
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Location
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott St. Louis West at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-236-2427. Please mention St. Louis Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $149 USD (plus tax) is May 20, 2024.
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