Melbourne CIO Virtual Executive Summit

Keeping pace with business demands requires IT & security to embrace transformation. Poor user experience slowed M&A value, expanded security concerns, and IT misalignment with business goals prevent top enterprises from obtaining agility and resiliency. As last year demonstrated, legacy systems don’t react quickly or scale to accommodate rapid change. It’s imperative that CIOs & CISOs focus on removing the legacy infrastructure that slows IT transformation and impedes business growth and foster the culture necessary to achieve this.

Join this session to discuss:

• Implementing a technology strategy that accelerates enterprise scaling and agility strategies with security at the core
• Promoting alignment between IT, security, and the business to provide better value to customers 
• Creating the organisational culture needed to accomplish a successful legacy infrastructure transformation

Financial and operational agility are the keys to value capture in a world where business and technology are inseparable. New technologies and methods are creating new classes of “haves” and “have nots” among peers. The importance of juggling efficiency gains while informing strategies and intelligent adoption of cloud, agile and hybrid operations has never been greater. 

Join this boardroom for a timely discussion on:

• A CIO’s view of strategic cost and consumption optimisation
• How finance, the business, and IT team inform better strategic decisions and outcomes
• What characterises “maturity” in organisations that successfully achieve this three-way capability

Customer expectations and behaviors are changing as business, technology, and society at large evolve. Despite the rapid adoption of digital initiatives, the speed and responsiveness to customer needs has been lagging. New channels and technologies open up opportunities that can help organisations differentiate. Rethinking how organisations can leverage innovation to create value for customers is critical, now more than ever.

Join this session to learn:

• Simplifying IT transformation for a better customer experience
• Accelerate application delivery to keep up with customer demands
• Cut operational costs by leveraging technology

As the volume and velocity of digital disruption accelerate, traditional training can’t keep pace leaving employees behind and enterprises riddled with skills gaps. There is a crucial need for IT leaders to quickly adapt their strategies and approaches to identifying, acquiring, developing, and retaining talent in response to changing business circumstances.

Join this interactive session with your peers to share and learn how to:

·        Reduce IT and Cyber talent flight risks by understanding the top attrition drivers

·        Identify upskilling priorities that align with corporate goals

·        Create learning opportunities for your IT workforce

With the massive rise in threats across dynamic attack surfaces, CISOs are reinventing cybersecurity with intelligent automation. Leveraging machine learning, cloud scaling, and workflow automation to reduce detection times to milliseconds, and takedown times to minutes. And because people cant scale, automation plays a crucial role in strengthening the security posture of organisations that wish to be proactive in this era of digital convergence.

Join this session with security leaders to discuss:

• How prevention, detection, and response can scale via workflow automation
• How intelligent automation can empower security teams to focus on higher-value tasks

• How automating attack surface management can be achieved with AI

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.

CISOs are increasingly looking for ways to protect their organisation’s cyber resilience against new and changing threats. Having complete visibility across the entire digital ecosystem is critical to effectively communicate cyber risk while protecting vulnerable networks and critical assets.

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices to ensure visibility of your threat landscape 

• Strategies to effectively communicate risk with relevant stakeholders

• Securing data while making it more accessible to help make informed decisions 

Getting privacy right isn’t just an exercise in compliance. Increasingly, consumers expect that organisations are protecting their data while providing more control over its use. Without robust data governance, security, and privacy triad, today’s digital enterprise will find customers losing trust and pivoting to rivals. Is your privacy program creating the necessary foundation of trust your company depends on?

During this session you will discover:

• How Privacy plays into business strategy across industries in today’s economy
• Different reporting structures, roles, and the C-suite responsibility in privacy
• Specific challenges for data privacy and security across third-party vendors

As networks continue to evolve and digitize, organisations are confronted with the challenge of increased cyber risk. This has increased the burden on CISOs to manage expectations and keep up with the ever-changing attack tactics by cybercriminals. A strong security posture and true leadership demonstrate how well-equipped organisations are to identify, prevent and respond to cyber-attacks. 

Join this session learn:

• Demonstrating true leadership in the wake of an attack 
• C-suite role in fostering a culture of security awareness
• Addressing risk beyond primary vendors

The demand for business resilience in a post-pandemic environment will translate to an imperative for responsive, agile applications and innovative software engineering. As enterprises transform to their digital futures, the experience of making, buying, and using applications will also transform. This track will help you to pave your unique road to the future of applications:

• Emerging technologies that are driving the future of applications
• Application modernization, rationalization and integration strategies
• Lead strategic IT-business collaboration through technological, organizational, and cultural change when delivering future applications

To capture the real value from cloud, organisations need to focus their investments and build a cloud-ready operating model. This session will discuss the experiences of the Victorian state government’s health and human services departments in leveraging public cloud services and agile methods to implement digital transformation.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage digital investment as a multi-year investment portfolio
• Best practices to adopt agile cloud transformation
• How to build and empower in-house teams
• How to execute high cadence project delivery