Detroit CIO Executive Summit

In a world where reputation and influence can shape your career, a personal brand goes beyond perception. A well-crafted executive brand can open doors to opportunities that align with your goals and values. Join a panel of CIOs & CISOs in an interactive session as they share their journeys in developing impactful personal brands, navigating challenges, and seizing opportunities.

In this interactive session, we'll discuss:

• Building recognition for what truly matters to you
• Creating an authentic and compelling executive brand
• Mastering your brand presence both internally and externally

Operational Technology (OT) security is crucial in today's digital landscape. Steve Herrin, Director, Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk and Engagement/CISO at DTE Energy, shares insights on advancing OT security measures. Discover how a unified approach and strategic training can fortify your organization's defenses.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• Building cohesive cybersecurity teams across business units
• Implementing targeted training programs for enhanced security
• Standardizing roles and compensation to improve retention and knowledge

Navigating current disruptions and social and economic trends is hard. However, CIOs must take the time to look to the future to lead their organizations to success in five years and beyond. Gartner’s top strategic technology trends are the star map you can use to keep your organization heading safely into the future. This session will highlight 10 technologies CIOs must know about to prepare for an uncertain future.

In today's fast-paced threat landscape, security depends on collaboration between technology and business teams. Tool consolidation is crucial to reduce noise, optimize resources, and ensure robust security. This session explores strategies to bridge security and business gaps, focusing on practical approaches to engage developers and leverage tools, including AI, to proactively address risks before they escalate.

Join this session to:

• Explore collaboration methods to boost security
• Understand strategies for tool consolidation
• Align cyber efforts with business goals

An enterprise’s AI strategy must align with business priorities and be supported by quality data, proper governance and guardrails to deliver value.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying goals aligned with AI capabilities
• Overcoming common challenges in AI implementation
• Measuring success and ensuring ROI

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.

Delivering AI and GenAI value at scale is top of mind with many CIOs while juggling the needs to maintain a secure scalable technology foundation, but how can CIOs accomplish this? Prioritizing a high-quality data, security and infrastructure foundation provides all the necessary ingredients that will unlock the greatest value in AI.

Join this session to discuss:

• Building a value driven AI strategy
• Delivering high-quality, well-structured data to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven initiatives
• Driving a modern secure AI ready infrastructure roadmap for scale, efficiency and ease of use

Sensitive data movement poses risks, but outright restriction can hinder operations. Organizations need agile security frameworks to protect data in the AI and quantum era. This session explores modern security platforms that enable secure data flow and prepare for post-quantum encryption (PQE).

Join this session to learn:

• Choosing secure access methods for diverse use cases
• Adapting security to risk, user behavior and AI interactions
• Preparing for post-quantum encryption's enterprise impact

The path to stronger identity security strategies lies within an agile and connected digital system. CISOs are often challenged with managing identity functions across decentralized teams, including non-human identities, but when leveraged correctly, easy-to-use technology can be a game changer.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Essentials for building seamless and secure access
• Challenges faced when protecting against malicious actors
• Automating management of human and non-human digital identities across the organization

IT and Security Leaders must play a pivotal role in assessing corporate risk and taking action as necessary. The current state of geopolitical uncertainty leaves many variables for enterprise risk, including vendor reliability, supply chain consistency, and cyber threats.

Join this session to discuss:

• Understanding the latest geopolitical tensions and regulations affecting the threat landscape
• Evaluating operations in high-risk geographies to strategize resiliency
• Planning disaster recovery in the event of a geopolitical disruption