Dallas CIO Executive Summit

Create product, initiate service — then bolt on the technology to make it all work. Scratch that outdated recipe. Today, digital capabilities are foundational ingredients to enable business growth. This keynote reveals how Pizza Hut has integrated technology into every element of its business strategy. Artie Starrs, President of Pizza Hut U.S., joins CIO Carol Clements to discuss this tightly-coupled IT/business partnership. They detail:

• How to play offense with technology — building a digital mindset into every strategic initiative
• How Pizza Hut has benefitted from executive leadership viewing opportunity through a technology lens
• How to raise technology’s impact to measure up to heightened expectations

Whether your company growth strategy measures in the millions or billions, your effectiveness as a C-suite leader will be measured by a profound ability to execute the game plan. At Kimberly-Clark, digital transformation is the driving force and foundational enablers are the primary vehicle, as Manoj Kumbhat lays out in a session focused on:

• Digital transformation’s crucial role in supply chain, marketing and growth strategy
• Intelligent automation – robotics, machine learning and cognitive – as a key digital enabler
• Talent needed to navigate the digital roadmap

Acceleration isn’t just something you experience – it’s something you create. But even the fastest cars hit speed bumps that keep them from achieving peak performance. To seize the digital moment, CIOs must clear the road and open up the engine across the enterprise. In this workshop, you and your peers will strategize solutions to the three biggest barriers to digital excellence:

• Digital Talent: How do you ensure you have the right skills, the right training, and the right leadership for the digital economy?
• Operational Excellence: What can you as CIO do to reimagine the way your organization works – and overcome resistance to change at the process level?
• Innovation Friction: How can you close the distance between what technology says is possible and what large organizations can execute?

While many dread the very mention of technology’s catch-all “D” word, digital is here to stay as an infinitely flexible, adaptive way of doing business. This roundtable CIO discussion is a deep dive into the digital possibilities, including:

• Specific examples of what digital thinking looks like in your business, and ways to refine your perspective
• A mission statement for the Digital CIO, and what success means for the role’s future
• Fundamental challenges to comprehensive digital strategy and how to overcome them

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact: Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com.

Any given gesture - a nod, a point of the finger - unconsciously communicates powerful ideas and feelings that have tangible consequences. Top executives are generally proficient in their ability to interact with others, but the stakes are raised during high-level negotiations, reporting to the board, inspiring and empowering senior managers or dealing with tricky internal matters. Join body language expert Chris Ulrich as he shares:

• Why every movement and action is magnified in high-level situations
• Tools and techniques to build rapport quickly
• How executives can communicate more effectively

As technology leaders seek to expand their influence across the business, we’ve assembled a CIO/CMO panel to weigh-in on a vital C-suite partnership in the digital age. Moderated by former CIO – now Gold’s Gym CEO Adam Zeitsiff – our panel explores modern marketing and how the quest for the next gen experience creates new opportunities for technology and marketing synergy. Among the key talking points:

• Marketing’s perspective on technology, technology leadership and effective partnership
• The importance of aligning marketing and technology roadmaps – what success looks like
• Data collaboration to drive the digital customer experience

Still encumbered by legacy business processes? Struggling to speed up onboarding, improve customer experience, and secure collaboration across the extended enterprise? Business processes need to keep up with the digitization of your enterprise. Join a group of your peers to discuss how to:

• Identify opportunities for improving outdated processes
• Unlock new customer experiences with digital practices
• Empower your workplace with seamless business processes

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact: Lucy Putnam at 971-222-2398, or lucy.putnam@evanta.com.

Successful digital transformation hinges on the right partnerships, channels, and ecosystems, and the evolving mobile network is primed to connect the dots like never before. Join this informative roundtable discussion on the transforming capabilities of next generation wireless where CIO’s will explore:

• New network capabilities can create flexibility and spark innovation
• Enterprise connectivity to boost their transformation initiatives
• Implementing private and public networks, SD WAN and edge computing

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.