Charlotte CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this reception for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. We will be decorating chocolate bark with a chance to win a prize!

IT and security leadership is necessary to meet critical business gains for the remainder of 2023 and 2024. The pressure is on leadership teams to drive revenue growth, optimize their budgets and teams and a find a faster path to realizing ROI. Among the many reasons to innovate is fostering productivity and collaboration to do more with less.

Join this interactive keynote to discuss:

• Creating a roadmap to implement new capabilities for greater productivity
• Embedding security and privacy into emerging technology
• Developing technology strategies that lead to increased value

Digital business is driving the continued migration of workloads to the cloud at a greater pace than ever. However, the complexity of securing cloud applications and their development and delivery pipelines across multi-cloud environments are causing many organizations to fall behind or inadvertently introduce security weaknesses. Between misconfigurations, over privileged identities, exposed sensitive data, source code vulnerabilities, and supply chain risks there are a myriad of considerations that have made cloud security humanly challenging to address.

In this cloud transformational session, we will discuss

• How to get a 360° view of cloud security challenges across the code/build/deploy and run lifecycle
• How to harness the power of data, threat intelligence, and AI to detect and prevent cloud threats
• Ways to foster teamwork between developers, cloud ops, and security teams

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs and CISOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How new technology movements will impact key stakeholders
• The importance of communicating emerging trends with the board
• Strategies for collaboration across the organization

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.

As CIOs look for ways to bolster productivity and efficiencies across the enterprise, they are more and more reliant on emerging technologies, such as the enterprise browser. According to recent Gartner research, "Enterprise browsers will evolve to become the core platform for almost all of the day-to-day enterprise productivity and security software used by the workforce."

Join this presentation to understand how CIOs can leverage emerging applications to transform the enterprise. In this session, we will share:

• Creating an employee experience centered on productivity and flexibility
• Reimagining how IT leaders can enable users while creating unique business value
• Benefits and possibilities for critical application protection

AI and chatbots are quickly making their way into our daily lives, revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. The introduction of Chat GPT is bringing a new level of sophistication to chatbots, enabling them to generate human-like responses with high accuracy. As a leader, you might be wondering how AI and Chat GPT can be leveraged to enhance cybersecurity and other aspects of your business. But you also may be thinking how you are exposing the company to potential threats.

Join this session to learn:

• What possibilities and limitations these technologies provide
• Why you may be at a disadvantage if you don't embrace the future of AI and Chat GPT
• What risks are involved in using AI and Chat GPT type applications

As an IT leader, you can no longer wait around for what’s next for your business - you have to create it. Innovation not only can be a priority to the business for improving business outcomes,  IT and digital leaders need to reintroduce stakeholders to a future they want their organizations to thrive in. As always, however, this is easier said than done. 

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Outside-of-the-box methods of influencing innovation across the business
• Communicating how innovation will create tangible results in achieving key business objectives
• Accomplishing more with less as head and tailwinds of a recession pick up

In one form or another, most organizations have their eye on diversity, equity and inclusion, especially as it relates to their people and processes. Technology teams and organizations, however, may have to look at DE&I differently and may face other challenges. Three lead executives from Ally Financial – a company known for “Doing It Right” – are going to discuss the considerations that leaders and their HR partners should evaluate when developing and executing DE&I initiatives for a tech organization. 

• Understanding the DE&I landscape within tech
• Focusing on under-represented groups and the opportunity they have within your organization
• Developing and setting DE&I benchmarks using both quantitative and qualitative measures
• Recruiting people who can enhance your culture and bring new perspectives (and getting them to stay!)
• Dedicating resources for non-traditional career paths