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Detroit CIO Executive Summit
June 4, 2025 | The Henry, Autograph Collection
June 4, 2025
The Henry, Autograph Collection
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Detroit's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Delivering Digital Innovation to Drive Value Across the Enterprise
Maximizing Existing Resources to Optimize Emerging Costs
Securing the Organization Through Advanced Technology Adoption
Detroit CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Janette Barretto
Yazaki North America
Global Security and Risk Manager
Brent Cieszynski
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
VP & CISO
Russ Gordon
PHINIA
CISO
Steven Herrin
DTE
Director, Information Protection and Security/CISO
Rich Hook
Penske
EVP & CIO
Rachelle Putnam
General Dynamics Land Systems
Chief Information Technology Officer
Jeff Small
Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO
Ryan Talbott
BorgWarner
VP & Global CIO
Erik Wille
Cabinetworks Group
CISO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Detroit CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.
Agenda
Coming Soon
The CIO & CISO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ‘by CIOs & CISOs, for CIOs & CISOs’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.
Deliver Digital Innovation to Drive Value Across the Enterprise
Technology and security executives must lead across the C-Suite to place the delivery and management of digital capabilities where the most value will be created. Though challenges abound, leaders have to drive the democratization of digital delivery while maintaining the appropriate amount of risk mitigation.
Maximize Existing Resources to Optimize Emerging Costs
Growth is the number one business priority for CEOs, and new technology brings higher expectations for productivity and efficiency. CIOs & CISOs are expected to maximize the value of their current technology and security investments in a way that allows for bolder investment in new digital value-drivers.
Secure the Organization Through Advanced Technology Adoption
Novel technology disruptions like GenAI and AI in general naturally create uncertainty for organizations. Economic headwinds and geopolitical activity only add to the chaos. To combat this, CIOs and CISOs must proactively lead their organization toward finding the right balance of business impact today and strategic change for the future.
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