Philadelphia CIO Executive Summit

The Governing Body of Philadelphia CIOs and invited guests are welcome to join us for a fun, casual, interactive spin on the annual Governing Body Dinner. Tonight will feature magic and mind-reading, food and drinks as we celebrate the start of another “By CIOs, For CIOs” executive gathering.

How do you make large organizations more agile, customer-centric and flexible? There are myriad answers, and GSK is using their science-focused approach to guide the way. Matt Lasmanis, VP of Pharma US Tech, is leading the transformation of the GSK tech culture, empowering his teams to achieve outcomes with clarity over certainty.

In the presentation, Matt will discuss:

• Leading experiment-driven, data and product-oriented teams and avoiding non-failure driven culture
• Empowering teams to make decisions closer to the ground
• Shifting mindset of teams to be more agile and business-minded

What if, every time you had a business problem, you had a room full of CIOs to bounce ideas off of, get advice from and hone solutions with? Welcome to that moment. Bring your trickiest, most troublesome dilemma to the table and get ready for an organic, revelatory experience. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to candidly discuss their biggest challenges, exchange ideas and uncover peer-tested answers in this moderated workshop session. The results promise to be nothing short of powerful.

Hailed as the most transformative force in IT since the dawn of the digital age, cloud-based operating models promise to optimize costs and increase agility. But it falls to the CIO to fulfil this promise. Learn from your peers to uncover:

• How to proactively manage your cloud shift
• Ways to optimize existing infrastructure with a hybrid-cloud
• Where to leverage a multi-cloud model

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). To reserve your seat, please contact: Dawn Meyer at 971-978-5032 or dawn.meyer@evanta.com

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, technology and ways of doing business are essential. Behind the mantra of “disrupt or be disrupted,” CIOs must embrace experimentation and leverage innovation. This interactive conversation examines surefire ways to embed innovation into your organization, including:

• Evaluating new and emerging technologies, and building sound business cases for their implementation
• Exploring methodologies and strategies for defining new business opportunities 
• Promoting an inclusive culture of innovation rooted in practical, measurable outcomes

 Most digital business model transformations are failing. What distinguishes effective enterprises is a commitment to a more distributed IT delivery model—where IT leads the necessary changes in governance models and digital talent incubation, to support distributed and multidisciplinary digital business teams who lead an increasing amount of the technology delivery.

Join this session to learn:

• Key pitfalls and how to avoid them
• How companies are embracing the ethos of central orchestration
• Ways to accelerate a successful business transformation

As more enterprises test-and-commit to AI and machine learning-based solutions, many CIOs sit poised to wade into the emerging waters — often weighed down by questions. Who is successfully deploying AI? What progress and what challenges have they seen so far? Join this session for a peer-to-peer exchange of perspectives, including:

• Finding opportunities to use AI and ML in the modern enterprise
• Sorting out AI hype versus reality when searching for valid solutions 
• Building a business case for AI and ML implementations

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). To reserve your seat, please contact: Dawn Meyer at 971-978-5032 or dawn.meyer@evanta.com

Any digital strategy cannot be absent of a plan for IT talent. Whether it’s retooling the skillsets of existing staff or attracting new talent with the right stuff, IT is at the heart of any organization’s ability to keep pace in a fast-moving digital era. 

This interactive session explores: 

• Human capital strategies for finding the specialized talent required of innovation
• Fresh approaches to talent attraction, development and retention
• The impacts from new ways of working – think flexible scheduling or at-home work arrangements – and managing multi-generational teams

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). To reserve your seat, please contact: Dawn Meyer at 971-978-5032 or dawn.meyer@evanta.com

In an increasingly competitive landscape, with lower barriers to entry, digitization can play a critical role in enabling established companies to be successful. As the chief information and technology officer at Campbell Soup Company, Francisco Fraga confirmed that delivering on the promise of digital transformation to support the company strategy requires much more than technology. In his keynote, he shares the digitization journey to date of the 150-year-old iconic company, including

• What’s digital transformation at Campbell
• The role of the IT organization
• The critical elements necessary to succeed in digitization