France CIO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

In fast-changing business environments, you need to move fast, be more resilient and become a magnet for top talent. For CIOs, it’s more important than ever to understand your digital capabilities and use them to create a winning culture. But what else can CIOs do, apart from higher salaries, to attract top talent into their organisation?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Rethinking technology and talent in a remote work world
• Providing workspaces that help attract and retain top talent
• Collaborative strategies to drive meaningful ways of working

**This session is for CIOs only. Please contact Chloe.Stevenson@gartner.com if you have any queries**

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 CIO attendees. 

Managing distributed risk is today’s defining cybersecurity challenge. Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers, and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritise, and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

Rebuilding an infrastructure network, migrating legacy technology and maintaining existing systems are large undertakings when considered individually. Where do you begin when these projects launch simultaneously? Join Daniel Cukier, Director of IT, Infrastructure, Operations & Cyber Resiliency at Banque de France as he shares his team’s efforts to overhaul IT infrastructure to ensure cyber resiliency.

In this session, Daniel will share how to:

• Identify IT migration, maintenance and renewal priorities to translate into budget requests for senior stakeholders
• Determine existing directories and structures to integrate into new networks which streamline processes and efficiencies and maintain service quality 
• Execute an IT and Operational strategy which balances an ecosystem renewal with a system phase-out to overcome glitches at the point of transition

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.

One critical hurdle IT and security teams face when overseeing cloud migration is achieving buy-in from the leadership team. The shift to cloud is often costly and may require an overhaul in IT infrastructure and collaboration with other business units. For cloud migration to be a success, CIOs must consider how to streamline IT processes in conjunction with the business motivations for migrating their company's digital assets to the cloud.

During this peer-discussion you will:

• Justify the business case for cloud migration and align it with wider company objectives
• Discuss methods to enhance cross-functional collaboration which strengthens existing IT infrastructure and security
• Share strategies to overcome challenges on your cloud migration journey

**This session is for CIOs only. Please contact Chloe.Stevenson@gartner.com if you have any queries**

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 CIO attendees.

Cyber & IT wages are inflating at an exponential rate, and new employees are being poached days before they start their new roles. Recruitment and retention require out-of-the-box thinking to stay ahead of the curve. In this interactive session, CISOs and CIOs will come together to discuss lessons learnt and strategies to apply in the months to come. You will brainstorm:

• Understanding what makes your employees happy and strategies to combat staff turnover
• Fostering a culture which nurtures and rewards existing talent
• Rethinking your job requirements to diversify the entry point for the IT and security professions

Cybersecurity is a continuous battle for CIOs; both from external threats and internal users’ IT hygiene. CIOs must work across business units to communicate an education strategy which integrates IT hygiene into an organisation’s culture. Improving internal resiliency is one step closer to the goal of mitigating cyber risk.

Join this boardroom to discuss how to: 

• Embed IT risk into organisation culture to elevate users’ accountability in protecting the business
• Upskill teams to demonstrate the value strong IT hygiene brings to an organisation
• Pressure-test applications and network capabilities to keep up with an ever-changing security landscape

**This session is for CIOs only. Please contact Chloe.Stevenson@gartner.com if you have any queries**

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 CIO attendees.

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, so must a company’s security profile. Security ratings can give good insight into an organisation’s behaviour towards cyber risk and ultimately help to protect the security framework when an attack does occur. Join Laurent Amsel, Group CISO at Carrefour and Alain Rogulski, Group CISO at Sodexo as they share their experiences with security ratings as a tool to increase cyber awareness.

Join this keynote to explore:

• Why CISOs use security rating tools and how they form part of a unified security framework
• How these tools can be used as an efficient way to communicate cyber awareness to COMEX
• How to navigate the vendor landscape and understand the value of the rating market