Benelux CIO Executive Summit

This reception 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, speciality cocktails, wine, and lively networking.

For enterprise priorities, reducing risk maintains its spot as a top priority for IT and Security Leaders. This has never been more apparent in a year faced with uncertainty and global crisis. From the management board and audit and risk committee to external regulators, today’s technology leaders must navigate different tools and methodologies, yet remain confident they’re quantifying risk effectively. Join Allan Cockriel, CIO – Global Functions/IRM and CISO, Shell as he shared his insights and thoughts into communicating risk, as well as managing multiple risks on a global scale. 

Specifically, Allan will share:

• The metrics CIOs and CISOs should be quantifying risk to the business
• Stepping up to meet digital business needs in a time where uncertainty has never been more certain
• Which methodologies and approaches can help transform the security relationship with the business

In fast changing business environments, you need to be agile, be more resilient and become a magnet for top talent. For CIOs, it’s more important than ever to understand your digital capabilities and use them to create a winning culture. But what else can CIOs do, apart from higher salaries to attract top talent into their organisation? 

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Rethinking technology and culture in a hybrid work world
• Providing workspaces that help attract and retail top talent
• Collaborative strategies to drive meaningful ways of working

Demand for security roles is constantly increasing and organisations everywhere are facing the same issues time and again – from difficulties hiring and retaining staff to keeping up with security operational challenges. So how can CISOs make their SOCs run more effectively to enhance their security posture and ultimately evolve their security strategy around their workforce?

Join this boardroom to hear more on:

• Improving data retention through automation and efficient processes
• Amplifying and correlating the right signals while filtering out the noise
• Dealing with complex supply chain attacks, insider threats and vulnerabilities

Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritise and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

As digital business continues to accelerate and cloud work continues to grow, many enterprise assets live outside the old “walls'' of the organisation. The role of the browser is changing rapidly. It’s now a critical endpoint; a strategic productivity and security layer in the enterprise tech stack. CIOs and CISOs alike must now ensure they have enterprise-grade security, speed and stability to empower the workforce and mitigate the risk of harmful web-based threats. 

Join this session to hear more on:

• Thinking differently about architecting your environment through business transformation
• How changing employee behaviours and the rise in flexible working is driving the need for new technology
• Reconceptualising traditional ideas of how to approach security within the enterprise

The focus of the CIO role is now on broader strategic projects and aligning an organisations IT infrastructure with its business goals. Liberated of some “lights on” concerns, today’s CIOs can directly influence product and service development by interacting with internal business partners and customers to better understand their needs. Some IT Leaders have the full backing of the board, and some are still leveraging newly found influence to find their seat at the table. But what are the key skill sets CIOs need to foster to ensure success and adapt at a time where business needs are quickly changing. 

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• The need for CIOs to shift their mindset to focus on driving true business change and the vital role culture plays in this shift
• The importance for CIOs to forge stronger relationships across the business
• Practical steps CIOs can take to make digital journeys take hold, with a focus on harnessing data effectively, and gaining buy-in from other business leaders

Third parties expose businesses to strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. Moreover, leaders have less visibility into third parties than into their own businesses. For many organizations, the pandemic exposed the fragility of the organisation’s third-party network and impressed the need to flex quickly to new third and fourth parties in the extended enterprise to meet demand without increasing risk exposure. 

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Standardising third-party risk management assessments to be used by business units
• Maintaining visibility of all ongoing third-party relationships
• Identifying and mitigating the risks of the third-party network

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.

In the last few years, we have seen an abundance of nefarious events by offenders, both known and unknown, covering over tens of thousands of incidents and breaches. That same catalogue of activities also offers security leaders a first-hand view into current cybercrime trends, and a map towards developing a prosperous and mature security program. So how can IT leaders learn from past breaches to ensure a more secure future for their organisations?

Join this session to hear more on:

• Key findings of DBIR 2022 embellished with Verizon's own Incident Response experience
• Using data breach investigations to evolve your security strategy
• How to respond to security incidents and protect your organisation

Security teams are overloaded with alerts and manual tasks that slow down the speed at which they can respond to threats. Detections can take weeks to deploy and tune, and even when they do work, the alerts can still be noisy and tedious to respond to. CISOs are struggling to hire and retain analysts and engineers and want them to work on the most impactful, risk reduction efforts within their own organisation. How are CISOs prioritising high-risk activity and using automation to protect their organisations in real-time without interrupting workforce productivity? 

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• The current state of Security Operations and continuous adaptation of security policies and access
• Operational benefits and value driven by adaptive security capabilities with a risk focus
• How security automation has assisted you in developing your risk mitigation strategy

The task of exploiting the full potential of new data and advanced analytics capabilities at scale typically face numerous challenges including the convergence of data protection and security. As a CIO, it's critical to develop a strong, clear strategy connecting business, technology, and data and analytics to maintain your competitive advantage and mitigate these challenges.

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Identifying and defining quick-win opportunities supporting the business data strategy
• Best practices for data protection and optimisation
• Weaving cybersecurity through all facets of your approach to technology and data

Recent events in Europe have shaken the expected recovery in the Eurozone and created prolonged periods of uncertainty and times of crisis for organisations and leaders. As turmoil persists, scenario planning can help CIOs and CISOs anticipate disruption in all possible contexts to prepare organisations for likely shifts in consumer trends and operations. Armed with the right information, technology leaders are ideally positioned to inspire customers, employees and fellow executives to pivot their organisations toward new ways of working and revenue streams. 

Join Carsten Brzeski, Global Head of Macro Research and Chief Economist Eurozone at ING as he shares his insights, research and views on:

• The short-term economic outlook in the Eurozone and globally
• The longer-term economic implications of current events in Europe on organisations
• The projected impact on enterprise organisations and their IT and Security functions