Melbourne CIO Executive Summit

In this collaborative networking event find out how others are working together to lead a powerful, innovative and diverse team.

Governing body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Please join us at Vue Events at Rialto from acclaimed Vue de Monde restaurant concept. Enjoy the stunning views of the city while networking with colleagues during an evening of dynamic discussion, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes.

The role of the CIO has evolved to become a business-enabling, customer-facing, revenue-driving executive. How are tech leaders aligning structure to business function while removing preconceived perceptions of IT? This panel of CIOs shares how they are proactively engaging with the business while driving IT objectives.

In this session, you’ll unpack how to:

• Deliver IT-enabled change through broader use of agile techniques
• Change the perception of and culture within the IT department and spread that across the business
• Maximise – and prove – the value technology has to power business objectives
• Innovate change and technology through the business 

The new way of work is remote, mobile-first, and cloud-based. Employees expect instant, secure access to applications, information, and resources. Meanwhile, threats proliferate, VPNs lag, hardware costs rise, and little is truly secure. Hub-and-spoke networks employing castle-and-moat security are no longer tenable, and leaders that cling to legacy architectures put enterprises at risk.

In this session, we'll discuss how enterprise IT leaders can:

• Improve customer digital experience while safeguarding sensitive information
• Increase user performance while minimizing risk
• Drive revenue and scalability while controlling costs

For decades, digital technology has been used to automate business processes in pursuit of efficiency dividends. The next stage of business value creation will result from applying digital technology to empower customers and employees in pursuit of their goals and to enable them to accomplish what they didn’t realise was possible. Digital Humanism is an over-arching framework that describes the processes and perspectives that allow business leaders to achieve this outcome.

In this session you will hear:

• Why industrial age views of technology are insufficient for a digital business
• How to contextualize technology for people in a way that creates business value

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, technology and ways of doing business are essential. But to fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to the strategy and execution of the organisation whilst driving business evolution around customers' digital expectations.
In this interactive session, you’ll discuss methodologies for defining new opportunities through technology, including:

• Exploring APIs to expose key business assets to make faster, better decisions
• Providing employees with the right techniques to foster a digital culture
• Powering the next set of innovative solutions and customer experiences with APIs
• How an API platform aids innovation and shortens your maturity curve for emerging technologies

CIOs have a vital role in steering the business towards new opportunities arising from new technologies, while also addressing the challenges of adapting to customer demands in the digital era. In today’s digital ecosystem, customers wield considerable influence over business processes and strategies. Mobile technology, social media, agile startups and diverse options have transformed the consumer landscape, and that’s merely the beginning.

Join your CIO peers to discuss:

• Examples of what digital thinking looks like in your business, and how you are defining success
• Tactics for reaching the customer in a shifting digital ecosystem
• How you are overcoming challenges in building a digital strategy

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 and CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Kelly Douglas at 02 9459-4723 or kelly.douglas@evanta.com. 

Together, this panel of senior women from the IT and security field will reflect on their distinguished careers, offering insights from their journey, what they learned and how they want to impact the future within their industries.

In this session they’ll discuss:

• The characteristics that led to their advancement to leadership
• How they have handled and overcome unconscious bias
• Ways to discuss how you can foster an inclusive workplace
• What they are doing to mentor and encourage females