2024 Minneapolis CIO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Minneapolis's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

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

Engaging the C-Suite and Driving Secure Modernization

Scaling Best Practices Through a Shared Responsibility of IT and Security

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Brett Craig

Target
CIO

Tammylynne Jonas

Donaldson
Global CIO

Carissa Rollins

Illumina
CIO

Tarek Tomes

State of Minnesota
CIO & Commissioner

Agenda

August 13, 2024

4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics

Strengthening Partnerships Across the C-Suite to Accelerate Digital Business

Ashish Srivastava

Vice President - Digital & IT (CDIO)

Daikin Applied

Peter Bucka

SVP - Sr. Director of Software Engineering - Head of Risk & Corporate Treasury Tech

U.S. Bank

Andre Burgaud

CTO

Strategic Education

Michelle Roemer

CIO

Apogee

Chris Schueler Sullivan

CIO

Self Esteem Brands

Shady Taha

Global Vice President Information Technology

Ergotron

CIOs find themselves striking a challenging balance of budget constraints and increasing demands from the organization. This, combined with an ongoing pressure for greater efficiency and security, means that IT leaders must focus on transparency and communication across the C-suite to provide real outcomes through digital technology investments that drive value. But with the ever-increasing complexity of digital business and AI innovation, scaling governance and enabling consistent ways of working can be tough to deliver.

To be successful, CIOs must show their business partners that secure modernization is a shared responsibility. With collaborative business goals and agile ways of working, executives can co-deliver initiatives that grow the bottom line while modernizing the organization.

Join your peers to discuss how to drive value and true collaboration for sustained success.

Topic 1: Engaging the C-Suite and Driving Secure Modernization

How are you currently working across your C-suite to overcome budget, talent and capacity constraints? How does this change in the face of resource scarcity?
What strategies are you employing to communicate risk? What do you say to colleagues with low risk-tolerance when it comes to technology investments?
How are you collaborating with fellow leaders to optimize operating models to better manage and deliver digital capabilities? What still needs to be improved?

Topic 2: Scaling Best Practices Through a Shared Responsibility of IT and Security

How do you work with non-technical C-suite counterparts to scale the IT strategy and enable consistent ways of working?
How are you adapting your approach to advise on safe and secure practices across the enterprise, especially in a business landscape that demands rapid solution innovation and modernization?
In an age of constant advancement, what is your data governance strategy? How are you communicating that strategy across the business and driving organizational adoption of new processes?