Houston CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

To lead resilient organizations, CIOs must support transformation while communicating with various stakeholders across the c-suite. According to Gartner, sixty-six percent of CIOs surveyed indicated they needed to improve their ability to influence stakeholders. 

Join this interactive session with CIOs to debate and collaborate on influence with various scenarios including:

• Building emotional connections with key stakeholders through stories
• Overcoming resistance by seeking to understand and acknowledge 
• Earning a seat at the table by recognizing politics within the c-suite

Your digital transformation journey must be efficient, effective and secure. Where does cybersecurity fit into your post pandemic IT and digital enablement? With the recent shift in IT priorities, your CISO should be a strategic thinker and an ally who promotes security readiness as you shape your company or organization’s success.

In this session, you will explore:

• The components of an effective cybersecurity strategy that drive your program and reduce risk
• Strategies that ensure the major building blocks of your IT transformation are secured
• Ways to evolve your cybersecurity strategy to align with line of business goals

Today’s CIO balances a substantial number of applications across the enterprise. Providing visibility, control, and automation to efficiently manage the growing number of applications requires a robust observability solution to gain full visibility into modern workloads.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Free your DevOps teams from the burden of manual observability and application monitoring
• Get full context across applications and infrastructure
• Drive intelligent actions to minimize troubleshooting and optimize performance

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 Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

To optimize processes and expand digital business, more organizations are implementing digital twins. Digital twins are disrupting traditional operating models and accelerating digital transformation for value creation. Join this session to learn how to optimize processes, reduce costs and create efficiencies using digital twin technology.

Panelists will discuss:

• Going beyond advanced analytics
• Creating sustainable energy solutions and enabling safety and operational efficiency
• Discovering the future of digital twins with the metaverse

Dow has been driving digital innovation into manufacturing operations for over a decade. So when the company turned its focus to modernizing plant maintenance, leadership leaned in with an ambitious plan to create a private cellular network and wireless device management system.

Join this session to learn how Dow leveraged technology to:

• Improve the employee experience by enabling digital tool use for frontline workers
• Provide information quickly for agile operations
• Increase plant productivity and reliability

Sustainable technology is a fast-evolving market with a growing array of new platforms and products available to help companies cut their carbon emissions and ensure the accuracy and transparency of their reporting. CIO leaders have an opportunity to partner with ESG management to help better capture and understand the data reporting behind sustainability initiatives.

Join Ken Piddington CIO at U.S. Silica in this insightful conversation to discuss:

• Keys to successful sustainability programs and the future of sustainability tech

• Overcoming implementation challenges and defining the value of your investment

• Collecting the right data to track and measure progress toward your net zero goals

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:

• The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
• Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
• Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

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 Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@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.

Join a friendly debate with your CIO peers on the ever-pressing topic of cyber insurance. Premiums are rising and leaders from every organization are questioning the value of holding cyber insurance. Join this session to debate and collaborate on this evolving conversation.

In this session discuss,

• Perspectives on the changing cyber insurance industry
• Dissecting differing values of organizations who carry cyber insurance
• Open conversations about the struggles and benefits of investing in cyber insurance

A well-structured applications and technology strategy is both the lifeblood of every business and is a strategic differentiator as CIOs accelerate digital transformation across the enterprise. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives, and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining insight into technical debt and building a business case for application and technology rationalization
• Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
• Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

Rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure has set in motion new concerns for the CIO. Cloud sometimes fails to deliver on promised cost savings leaving some organizations exposed to unwelcome risk. CIOs must lead the charge to find the skillset necessary to plan, build, and operate in a way that delivers on the cloud’s promise of business agility.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating unwelcome risk
• Refocusing on the right observability and operational processes

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 Ashley Coryell at ashley.coryell@evanta.com

Role evolution is nothing new to CIOs. Technology has impacted every organization's growth and in turn has changed the role of the IT organization and evolved the CIO from a technical leader to a valuable business executive. Tomorrow’s CIO must ask themselves, what's next for the role of the CIO? 

Join this session to discuss:

• Orchestrating new technology resources across the enterprise and beyond IT 

• Enabling business led IT and innovation 

• Envisioning the future of CIO leadership