DACH CIO Executive Summit

Ahead of the DACH Summit, Governing Body members will host an exclusive networking reception for all CISO attendees. Please join your peers for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

The rapid adoption of business technologies has driven an exponential growth in cyber risk. Security leaders inherit a vast technology stack with few insights into its health or management. This may lead to security paralysis, where problems are tackled piecemeal through audits or as they rise to visibility. Taking this approach leaves the vast majority of business systems under-examined and potentially vulnerable to attack. This session will cover proven methods for simplifying and solving cybersecurity problems by gaining increased visibility into the environment. 

Join this session to learn:

• Ways to eliminate redundancy in business architecture and reduce the attack surface
• How increased visibility into the environment can help you quickly locate and remediate issues at their point of origin
• How insights gained from increased visibility can drive competitive advantage

With a recession inching its way out of the shadows, CIOs are expected to drive down costs in order to create growth opportunities. As you navigate these economic pressures, and relationships with key stakeholders, now is the time to lean on and learn from peers.

In this interactive session, you'll come together to:

• Brainstorm innovative techniques and best practices for cost optimization
• Uncover opportunities by harnessing technology and data potential
• Discuss crucial aspects of building and maintaining productive relationships with key stakeholders

As organisations collect more data, it’s crucial to empower the enterprise to use this data to ensure better business and customer outcomes. Organisations who want to futureproof their business will think beyond the dashboard to use data for decision making. Learn how technology leaders are modernizing their data platforms and automating processes to get the most value from their data.

Join this session to discuss:

• Laying the foundation for predictive and advanced analytics
• Balancing the benefits of data control with data democratisation
• Encouraging the enterprise to make more data informed decisions

Rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure has set in motion new concerns for the CIO. Cloud sometimes fails to deliver on promised cost savings leaving some organizations exposed to unwelcome risk. CIOs must lead the charge to find the skillset necessary to plan, build, and operate in a way that delivers on the cloud’s promise of business agility.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating unwelcome risk
• Refocusing on the right observability and operational processes

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, leaders can lose sight of the vital importance of IT resilience in favour of emerging technologies, innovation and automation. First, CIOs must adapt their core IT to meet the challenges of modernisation and cybersecurity threats to transform and thrive in the future-focused digital age.

Join Dr. Jochen Göttelmann, CIO, at Lufthansa as he shares his insights on:

• The role and importance of security across a standardised IT architecture
• Aligning business, digital, security and IT priorities in an increasingly complex operating model
• Creating strategy in a highly regulated market with little digital DNA

A key enabler of franchising digital delivery is co-delivery. Gartner's research shows that a critical success factor for business led delivery is creating the right communities of practice (CoPs) and for IT to be proactively engaging the delivery teams.

Join this interactive workshop exclusively for ExP clients to:

• Learn about the concepts and background of CoPs
• Explore how to create the right communities and what to consider
• Create your own foundation using the CoP charter template

 **Exclusively for Gartner EXP Clients** 

Enterprise automation has rapidly evolved from tactical, efficiency-driven initiatives to strategic, game-changing imperatives. This shift, combined with the increasing adoption of Data, AI, and ML, has created a complex and ever-changing landscape. CIOs now face the challenge of navigating this landscape to achieve both digital transformation and operational excellence. This requires a careful balancing of business strategy, scalable operating models, and the right mix of tools, technologies, and techniques.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Creating an ‘Enterprise Automation Layer’ that sits above all enterprise applications and cloud services to better manage the processes that flow across them
• Intelligently manage workflows and orchestration between people, systems & "digital workers" towards a Hyper Automated enterprise.
• Coordinating automation across data, security and business strategies to ensure more effective business outcomes

For CIOs, there’s nothing new about managing internal expectations on hyped technologies, but the recent advancements in AI have caused an increased and urgent demand for the evaluation and adoption of generative AI models. There is no question that these breakthroughs, such as ChatGPT, are just the beginning, but CIOs must temper expectations and ensure a thoughtful approach to building AI models that will add more value than risk. 

Join the panel as they share thoughts and insights into:

• Communicating and quantifying the benefits and risks of generative AI adoption
• Identifying and aligning a business need and use case for AI implementation
• Keeping up and staying ahead of the continuous AI advancements