IN-PERSON

Indianapolis CIO Executive Summit

June 6, 2019 | JW Marriott Indianapolis

June 6, 2019
JW Marriott Indianapolis

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Indianapolis CIO Executive Summit.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Investing in your people and the right technologies

Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models

Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes

Indianapolis 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

Karen Delozier

Sallie Mae
VP, IT Risk Management & Compliance

Meredith Harper

Eli Lilly
Chief Information Security Officer

Dewand Neely

State of Indiana
CIO

Judd Williams

NCAA
CIO

Agenda


June 5, 2019

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

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

7:00am - 7:45am  Registration & Breakfast

7:45am - 8:30am  Keynote

What's Trust Got to Do With It?

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David Horsager

CEO and Best-Selling Author, "The Trust Edge"

Trust is both a fundamental business issue and the biggest asset of a company. Without trust, companies lose reputations, relationships, and revenue. With trust, organizations enjoy greater creativity, productivity, and results. Through extensive research and experience, David Horsager learned what it takes to gain — and keep — the “Trust Edge.”

Join this session as Horsager outlines:

  • The keys to building morale, sales, and customer loyalty
  • His Eight-Pillar Framework for building trust in an organization
  • Creating successful leaders and organizations centered on the tenants of trust

8:30am - 9:00am  Networking Break

9:00am - 9:50am  CIO & CISO Featured Session

Next Gen Talent – Developing Indy’s Tech Community

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Bill Russell

CISO

Cummins

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Katie Sauls

IT Director, Indianapolis CoE & Commercial Systems

GEICO

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Mike Langellier

President & CEO

TechPoint

With rapid digital transformation both in recent years and moving forward into the foreseeable future, there is a need to profoundly address the tech talent shortage. This session will confront the challenges of building out a workforce with the right skills that will translate across decades of transformation. 

In this interactive brainstorming session, we’ll explore:

  • Attracting and retaining top tech talent
  • Educating the next generation of IT professionals
  • Innovating internal development strategies


9:00am - 9:50am  CIO Executive Boardroom

Transforming the IT Value Chain

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Brett Flora

Chief Technology Officer

Elwood Staffing Services, Inc.

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Gary Kern

Vice President & CIO

MutualBank

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KJ Kusch

Senior Advisory Solution Architect

ServiceNow

As technology continues to be the primary driver of business capability, CIOs have stopped being looked to as simply providers of internal technical support. IT executives must modernize the enterprise to move to value-based, iterative approaches to technology implementation and utilization while also driving cultural change. This session explores:

  • Enterprise platform strategy vs. siloed, single-purpose technology stack
  • How do CIOs align IT investments to business top priorities?
  • How does IT make smarter decisions with real-time analytics across the entire IT value chain?


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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

9:50am - 10:20am  Networking Break

10:20am - 11:10am  CIO Featured Session

Leveraging Data for the Good of Indiana

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Ted Cotterill

Chief Privacy Officer

State of Indiana

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Jared Linder

CIO

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration

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Dewand Neely

CIO

State of Indiana

In recent years, the State of Indiana has developed a set of custom analytics solutions that has become a game-changer across the state. Data is not only being used to drive new initiatives, but also for policy decisions regarding the opioid epidemic, workforce development, and Medicaid optimization. 

Join this dynamic conversation to hear about:

  • The unique partnerships that are increasing the state’s innovative capabilities
  • Effective KPIs that are being used to measure outcomes across the state
  • How data has improved customer experience with government organizations

10:20am - 11:10am  CIO & CISO Executive Boardroom

Becoming Agile and Staying Agile

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Meredith Harper

Chief Information Security Officer

Eli Lilly

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James Jordan

Chief Information Officer

Ascension Health Ministry Service Center

Agile methodologies are an increasingly attractive way for organizations to accelerate the pace of innovation. Yet transitioning to new modes of work can create friction for existing employees, and success depends on buy-in across the organization.

Join your peers in this round table discussion to consider:

  • How to take agile dev-ops to the next level
  • Challenges to adopting and implementing agile methodologies
  • What are some common misconceptions about agile dev-ops


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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

11:10am - 11:40am  Networking Break

11:40am - 12:50pm  Keynote

Networking Lunch

 Join the Governing Body for a lunch and interactive networking.

12:50pm - 1:20pm  Networking Break

1:20pm - 2:10pm  CIO Featured Session

Innovating through Digital Transformation

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Tracy Kemp

SVP & CIO

Allegion

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Matt O'Dell

Director of Global Software Services

Allegion

Successful organizations apply innovative strategies and identify market opportunities to keep ahead of competition and disrupt the marketplace. At Allegion, while their core strength is in mechanical security, when they combine that with digital, mobile and interconnected electronic solutions – and their expertise in style and design – makes them a leader in their markets.

In this session you’ll hear about:

  • Educating executive leadership in an innovative way
  • Creating intentional and purposeful innovation teams
  • Learning points around tools, techniques and capabilities

1:20pm - 2:10pm  CIO Executive Boardroom

Shifting Your Digital Boundaries to Meet Customer Demands

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Nirav Shah

VP, IT

Republic Airline

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Sandy Smith

VP, IT

Kimball Electronics

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Keith Llorens

Senior Business Value Consultant

AppDynamics

As a high-level business strategy, digital transformation requires reimagining tradition and reinventing the way companies do business. Emerging technologies continue to expand the digital landscape and CIOs are exploring how to create smart, engaging customer experiences.

Join this boardroom for a peer-to-peer discussion on:

  • Enabling your organization to drive the business forward
  • Enhancing digital customer experiences
  • Managing people and processes as digital is scaled across the enterprise


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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

2:10pm - 2:30pm  Networking Break

2:30pm - 3:10pm  CIO Featured Session

Impact Your Organization with an Intrapreneurial Mindset

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James Jordan

Chief Information Officer

Ascension Health Ministry Service Center

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. But to fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs, like speaker James Jordan of Ascension, must be disruptors themselves. How can “design thinking” improve your team and drive value for the business?

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Embrace agility
  • Embody the voice of the customer
  • Create an intrapreneur factory

2:30pm - 3:20pm  CIO Executive Boardroom

Adapting through the Evolution of Cloud Technologies

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Larry Hawkins

Director, Information Security & Network Operations

Kimball Electronics

Lynn Murphy headshot

Lynn Murphy

Global Head of Technology

Dorel Juvenile Group

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Brian Barnes

CTO

Coretek Services

The cloud has proven to be an enduring aspect of the tech-driven business. But for all its ubiquity, there is no “one size fits all” for your organization; with as many cloud strategies as there are businesses, skepticism and enthusiasm often share the same office. If you want answers to clouds most fundamental questions, you need this interactive conversation with peers that are living it.

In this boardroom, you’ll exchange successes and challenges around:

  • Demonstrating substantial ROI on your cloud initiatives
  • Lessons learned across the cloud spectrum, from cloud-native companies to hybrid adherents to cloud opportunists
  • What strategy and scale are the right fit for your organization now and into the future


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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

2:30pm - 3:20pm  CIO & CISO Featured Session

Wear the Black Hat in a Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Kai Chin

Senior Security Engineer, Global IT

Boston Scientific

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Allan Lam

Sr. Manager of Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering

Boston Scientific

As a security executive, you know how many disparate pieces of information can together leave you vulnerable to hackers. Framed photos. Letters from family. Personal documents tucked away in a drawer. For 50 minutes, you’ll try on the black hat, assuming the role of a hacker trying to access an organization’s most sensitive data.

The catch—you only have 40 minutes to gather all the correct intel to gain access to the data, and you’re limited to the clues around the room.

In this session, be prepared to:

  • Hack a Facebook account using information left behind on employees’ desks
  • Identify which sensitive documents commonly found on employees’ desks can be used to access important accounts
  • Learn a new way to gamify insider threat training

3:20pm - 3:40pm  Networking Break

3:40pm - 4:20pm  Keynote

Diversity in Tech — Opening the Door to New Perspectives

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Meredith Harper

Chief Information Security Officer

Eli Lilly

It is no secret that digital transformation continues to bring forth disruption and massive cultural change to organizations. As a woman of color who has built a successful career in tech, Meredith Harper has a unique perspective on how disruption provides the opportunity to not only drive growth, but also radically transform diversity and inclusion in tech.

Join Harper as she shares insights on:

  • Building diverse teams to increase innovation
  • Eliminating the fear of having difficult conversations about diversity
  • Looking for talent in nontraditional spaces

4:20pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

June 5, 2019

Location


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JW Marriott Indianapolis

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Christopher Carcich

Program Manager

310-383-9390

christopher.carcich@gartner.com