Dallas CIO Executive Summit

In today’s fast-moving tech landscape, disruption is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to getting stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

• Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it

• The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results

• How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable, and willing to learn from failure

This keynote offers actionable strategies and real-world insights to help teams navigate change, unlock innovation, and perform at their best when it matters most.

With high volumes of sensitive data now flowing through web browsers, three in five organizations say data leakage is likely given current IT and security infrastructures. Stop playing catch-up. Discover new approaches to enterprise operations to reduce risk while simplifying operations.

Join this roundtable to discover:

• How disparate IT and security solutions create technical debt
• What challenges impact internal and end user stakeholders
• How simplifying IT can strengthen security, and boost productivity

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups pose significant risks to global networks and sensitive data. Among these, Salt Typhoon stands out as a formidable adversary. Clarence Foster shares insights into the threat actor’s methods and the broader implications of its activities on global cybersecurity and national security frameworks.

Join this session to:

• Explore effective APT defense strategies
• Uncover the hidden threat of Salt Typhoon and learn how to safeguard against its sophisticated cyber-attacks
• Fortify defenses and protect critical infrastructure from these advanced threats

Communications technology is a vital component in the IT ecosystem that CIOs must prioritize for safeguarding. Adopting a comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy minimizes risks associated with business communications and helps maintain trust and integrity in your critical systems.

Join this session to discuss:

• Strengthening organizational security through robust data protection measures
• Achieving compliance by aligning with key regulatory standards
• Enhancing data privacy by protecting and managing user data responsibly

As major technological advances continue, IT organizations must evolve and transform to ensure the business is enabled and positioned to stay competitive.  Organizational transformation is needed to successfully optimize technology integration with business counterparts, now and in the future.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Prioritizing the right investments
• Delivering value quickly and effectively
• Building more complex solutions while meeting the scale required

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.

Enterprise productivity is top of mind for business leaders everywhere and CIOs play a crucial role in showcasing progress and true value to the business in this mission. A well-crafted digital employee experience (DEX) strategy that addresses changes in the way employees work and interact with digital tools will ensure that your processes and technologies advance the mission of a high performing workforce and improved enterprise productivity.

Join this case study to discuss a journey with DEX, including:

• Improving operational efficiency and business outcomes
• Measuring IT impact to strategic business growth
• Leveraging DEX to improve optimization and visibility of IT assets

The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.

Join this interactive session to explore:

• Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
• Robust content workflows and use cases for AI-first businesses
• Tips for optimizing while balancing your AI and security strategies

The speed of AI’s evolution—and the rapidly developing ecosystem that surrounds it—can create challenges in choosing the best path forward for your business. Is it more important to tackle employee experience or customer experience first? Should your organization start with people or process? When AI is everywhere, business leaders must find ways to cut through the noise, overcome decision-making paralysis, and stay focused on use cases that deliver value quickly. By aligning AI adoption with business objectives, organizations can drive productivity, enhance efficiency, and unlock meaningful outcomes.

Join this session to discuss:

• What AI readiness looks like and how to identify use cases that increase productivity and quickly deliver value
• Evaluating the constantly evolving AI ecosystem to make informed, agile decisions
• Overcoming AI-overwhelm to define a real and transformative AI vision that empowers employees and accelerates business impact

Leading CIOs seek to create a seamless user experience and leverage AI for superior customer outcomes. By creating more intimate and personalized interactions, AI can significantly improve client satisfaction and drive business growth.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Streamline processes and tailor AI insights for a better customer experience
• Capture and analyze customer interactions to derive actionable insights
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing functions