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Minneapolis CIO Executive Summit
June 17, 2025 | Sheraton Bloomington Hotel
June 17, 2025
Sheraton Bloomington Hotel
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Minneapolis's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Collaborating for Co-Ownership to Drive Digital Innovation
Empowering Business Technologists
Focusing on Architecture and Innovation
Minneapolis 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
Melissa Flicek
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
CIO
Tammylynne Jonas
Donaldson
Global CIO
Carissa Rollins
Illumina
CIO
Tarek Tomes
State of Minnesota
CIO & Commissioner
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Minneapolis CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Advancing Customer Experience ― A Pathway to Business Growth
Leading CIOs seek to create a seamless user experience and leverage AI for superior customer outcomes. By creating more intimate and personalized interactions, AI can significantly improve client satisfaction and drive business growth.
Join this session to learn how to:
- Streamline processes and tailor AI insights for a better customer experience
- Capture and analyze customer interactions to derive actionable insights
- Increase the efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing functions
Enhancing Efficiency with Increased IT Observability
Managing complex IT infrastructures and multi-cloud environments is challenging. According to a recent IBM study, 81% of IT executives believe reducing IT complexity creates a competitive advantage. Real gains can materialize when leveraging observability tools and other best practices to move being reactive to predictive.
Join this session to discuss:
- Navigating IT complexity and reducing costs
- Proactive IT management with observability
- Strategic resource optimization through automation
Ready or Not – Enabling AI Through Data Management
Gartner research shows through 2026, 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept due, in part, to poor data quality. Has your organization made the necessary changes to ensure its data is AI-ready for any initiative?
Join your peers to discuss:
- Effective collaboration with data management leaders
- Essential data management modifications
- Compelling linkage between AI-ready data and business outcomes
Breakout Session
The Power of Your People in IT
Fostering talent is a critical pillar in building a resilient, well-rounded, high performing IT team. CIOs play an important role in humanizing the role of IT within the business – from promoting inclusion to empowering continuous learning.
Join this session to explore:
- Building and cultivating a high performing team culture
- Fostering the inclusion of diverse skillsets and experiences
- Ensuring talent management is central to your leadership strategy
Keynote Session
Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out
As high volumes of sensitive data flow through web browsers, three in five organizations believe their current IT and security infrastructure makes the risk of data leakage likely or highly likely. This reflects the growing complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls. What is a modern approach to enterprise operations that simplifies IT while strengthening security?
Attendees will discover:
- Why disparate IT and security solutions accumulate technical debt and bog down operations
- How to articulate the business impacts of technology operations and security challenges beyond IT
- New approaches to enterprise application delivery that enhance end-user productivity
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Sheraton Bloomington HotelA block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 952-835-1900.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $173 USD (plus tax) is May 26, 2025.
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