Houston 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.

Operations are at a premium with workforce and supply chain challenges. Machine telemetry is driving a larger pipeline and universe of data. Availability is critical and OT security risks are real. Network is the cornerstone for how organizations can accelerate the modernization of OT capabilities while integrating with IT and enabling smarter operations. Join us to learn how new advances in networking can provide the ROI needed to fund your critical manufacturing initiatives.

In this session, we will discuss: 

• Expediting the retirement of technical debt
• Leveraging network to accelerate digitalization in manufacturing
• Driving cost efficiencies with digital transformation

The past 18 months required all of us to pivot our digital business strategy; but what lies ahead for the transition to 2024? Building your company roadmap requires strategic engagement from all departments. It is crucial to create initiatives where employees understand how they can create more value and become engaged in technology.

Join Bhupesh Arora, CIO at Magellan Midstream Partners as he shares his strategy for engaging employees by:

• Hosting multiple workshops with key industry leaders
• Learning how function leaders’ partner with technology
• Shifting mindsets to create an avalanche of ideas

Gaps in the use of data and analytics grow wider as organizations continue to struggle with data literacy. The cultural acceptance of D&A is essential to delivering better business outcomes, yet CIO’s face the challenge of business leaders not leveraging the true value of information assets.

In this session, CIO’s will explore strategies for:

• Creating a data literacy initiative for the entire enterprise
• Expanding data and analytics core competencies to increase self-service capabilities
• Gaining leadership buy-in to effect real culture change

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact your Program Manager, Tim Bigley, tim.bigley@evanta.com

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.

Over the last 16 months, companies have demonstrated productivity in various environments; with teams both together and apart. CIOs are now faced with the opportunity to reimagine the space used for productivity and collaboration by optimizing the way of work.

Join Zoom CIO Advisor, Christine Converse as she offers insights into hybrid work by:

• Discovering the vision for hybrid work
• Preparing your organization for the transition to hybrid
• Uncovering best practices for remote work

Heightened cybersecurity risks of the last two years have proven security initiatives and business continuity planning must be ingrained in every enterprise’s corporate culture. CIOs must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Building robust cybersecurity strategies that align with new business objectives and hybrid workforce models
• Reconceptualizing cyber roadmaps to enable digital business rather than inhibit innovation
• Tackle growing security threats against infrastructure through security awareness and threat intelligence

An efficient and functional organization design is critical for the enterprise to evolve and maintain a competitive edge in the market. A successful structure should not only focus on internal team alignment but also on innovative technologies, like automation, that will allow the organization to reach new heights.

Join this session as CIOs explore ways to:

• Compellingly communicate a vision for the future to gain buy-in from stakeholders
• Analyze market trends to identify and adopt competitive technologies
• Break down silos in the enterprise to innovate collaboratively

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 CIOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact your Program Manager Tim Bigley, tim.bigley@evanta.com

A successful CIO understands technology is only one small piece of their overall responsibilities. By broadening one’s role, the CIO can expand their influence on the organization, impact new processes and technologies and become a success business leader and change agent.

Join Alfred Lindseth, SVP Risk Management & IT at Plains GP Holdings as he considers the CIO as a strategic change agent by:

• Considering behavioral processes when implementing new technology
• Creating influence within the organizational culture
• Leveraging optimal success as a transformative business