Nordic CIO Virtual Executive Summit

Keeping pace with business demands requires IT 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 focus on removing the legacy infrastructure that slows IT transformation and impedes business growth.

Join this session to discuss:

• Providing corporate access to any user on any device from any location
• Promoting alignment between IT objectives and business initiatives 
• Deploying cloud technology that accelerates enterprise scaling and agility strategies

As employees emerge from the protection of their homes and return-to-office policies become the norm, leaders must reconfigure their talent, culture and workplace strategies to support a flexible and collaborative work environment. With technology capabilities critical to workforce planning strategies, it's imperative for CIOs to lead this conversation to ensure the business is setup for success.

Join this thought-provoking session to discuss:

• Implications, opportunities and risks of a fully remote or hybrid workforce
• Resetting organizational culture for a new style of work and retaining employees
• Designing and securing the new collaborative workplace

With an increase in threat vectors comes the increased need for a sound cybersecurity program. CIOs must take a proactive approach in ensuring cybersecurity risk is considered at every step, even in times of rapid disruption. 

Join this boardroom for a discussion on:

• Managing third parties and holding them to cybersecurity standards
• Quantifying, measuring, and communicating risk across the organization
• Upskilling your cybersecurity teams to stay ahead of emerging threats

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.

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 to inform better strategic decisions and outcomes
• What characterises “maturity” in organisations that successfully achieve this three-way capability

The widespread drive to accelerate digital business initiatives has meant big changes in the way work gets done and decisions are made, but as hybrid workforce models persist, CIOs are finding it critical to keep up digital momentum. That means ensuring that non-digital behaviors and practices don’t creep back into processes and decisions that were transformed during the pandemic response. Join Peter Skyttegaard as he shares recommendations and views on:

• What successful digital business acceleration demands
• Ways to prioritise digital business acceleration to achieve better business results
• 5 things CIOs can do to create digital momentum

2021 has seen the role of the CIO undergo a gear change within their organisation. Armed with new found influence and leverage, IT Leaders are poised to progress their organisations along the digital business path. But transformation programs can still stall behind organisational resistance and, in some instances, lack of motivation. This boardroom will explore the strategies being used to re-engineer organisations to be agile, adaptable and well placed to deliver on their digital vision, together with what really works, and what the key pitfalls to avoid on your journey. 

Specifically you will discuss how to:

• Have effective conversation and communication with the board to drive your initiatives forward
• Ensuring you have the right culture and future skills in place to fuel transformation
• Identify digital opportunities that drive adoption and customer satisfaction

Sustainability is a business imperative, and competitive advantage lies with companies that develop a winning sustainability strategy – encompassing environmental, social and governance. Today’s Sustainable Enterprise is built on open platform architectures that let CIOs dynamically respond to growing regulatory, global, social and investor expectations. No matter where you are on this critical journey, this session will help you build a smarter sustainable business mandate for long-term success.

Join your peers for an interactive discussion focused on:

• The transformation of strategy, operations, portfolio and business models to drive to Net Zero
• Technology that can assist with monitoring and measuring waste elimination, support re-use and remanufacturing, and close the loop in the supply chain
• “Sustainable by Design” principles to improve end-to-end sustainability and minimize impact

The challenge for many CIOs today is to instill a culture of data-driven decision making for digital business. Those who want to exploit the potential of new data and advanced analytics capabilities at scale typically face numerous challenges. As a CIO, it's critical to develop a strong, clear strategy connecting business, technology, and data and analytics to maintain your competitive advantage and mitigate these challenges. In this Keynote, Teemu Salmi, CIO, Stora Enso will share insights into their journey on becoming a data driven organisation, as well as the benefits and pitfalls along the way.

Specifically, Teemu will share:

• How the ‘Data Driven Stora Enso’ initiative has enabled new business possibilities
• Increasing efficiency and productivity adopting a data-driven approach
• Bringing innovation to new levels through engaging the business in the journey

The cloud is often the vehicle for new technology — digital business models, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. However, how do you keep the same level of governance and operational management during a cloud migration? Interact with your peers on: 

• How architectures and techniques evolve to get maximum value from the cloud
• Balancing IT-lead and business-lead operations 
• Vendor management, risk assessments and security reviews