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June 4, 2025 | Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
June 4, 2025
Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
Get together with Atlanta'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:
Leveraging C-Suite Collaboration to Enable Technology Innovation and Efficiency
Navigating an Evolving Cybersecurity, Risk, and Governance Landscape
Leveraging Data & Analytics to Improve Business Outcomes
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Guy Brassard
Shaw Industries
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Curtis Carver Jr.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vice President and CIO
Raghu Sagi
Carter's
EVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer
Regina Salazar
Novelis
SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer
Grant Shih
Vestis
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
How to Develop the Skills Needed to Realize Generative AI Results
Enterprises that build superior learning capabilities will develop AI and other skills needed to out-compete their competition. Generative AI promises breakthrough benefits but these will not be realized, nor the risks mitigated, without upskilling and reskilling employees.
Join this session to explore:
Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out
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complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls.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:
Law & Order — Cross Examining AI's Legal Boundaries
As AI technologies rapidly evolve, the laws and ethical standards designed to govern them lag behind, creating a mismatch in the pace of innovation and regulation. This misalignment often leads to inadequate alignment with core principles such as trustworthiness, safety, and ethics. For AI leaders, mastering governance strategies that drive alignment with these core principles is key to ensuring the organization’s risk profile is effectively managed.
Join AI, cybersecurity, and IP law expert Eran Kahana as he offers actionable insights on:
AI in Action — Identifying High-Impact Use Cases to Accelerate Value
The pressure is mounting to embed AI across the business to maintain a competitive edge, and capitalize on efficiency gains. Many executive teams are eager to rush into implementation and the pressure is on CIOs to deliver value from these investments quickly. In a world where AI is becoming easier to implement and the velocity of change keeps increasing, how can CIOs ensure they deliver engaging AI-powered solutions to maximize ROI without losing control of AI?
Join this boardroom to discuss:
The Future of ERP ― Shifting the IT Operating Model
AI, hyperautomation, and unified user experiences are reshaping how we work and compete. Are these transformations valuable, necessary, or feasible? Engage with peers to explore strategies for funding and accelerating prioritized transformations while maximizing returns on existing software investments.
Join this session to discuss:
Balancing Priorities — The CIO's Role in AI Value Creation
CIOs are responsible for implementing AI investments and strategies in ways that benefit both their internal IT teams and business leaders – balancing AI mania among executive leadership and opportunities for AI-enabled IT productivity improvements.
Join this boardroom session to discuss:
Building a Secure and Compliant AI-First Business
AI is quickly changing business landscapes and demanding a new way to secure your enterprise. AI agents have become integral members of the workforce and are accelerating content creation and collaboration, creating new threats and challenges for security teams. Building on a secure framework enables your organization to fully embrace AI-powered advancements while preserving trust, privacy, and content security.
Join this session to learn about:
CIO Workshop — Becoming Champions of Change
In an age of continuous and pervasive technological advancement, change management has become a key focus for CIOs. Come together with peers to work through common scenarios and pitfalls CIOs are navigating today.
Join this workshop session to:
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Hotel does not offer valet parking. Self- Park only in the Concourse lot directly across from The Westin at a discounted rate of $5/day.
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Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $199 USD (plus tax) is May 12, 2025.
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