Philadelphia CIO Executive Summit

Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Dr. Daren Martin returns to share his latest insights with Philadelphia CIOs! Business leaders are always hunting for ways to squash culture killers, cultivate a fun business climate and boost employee relationships and engagement. Dr. Martin provides a blueprint for business leaders to architect a thriving culture and maximize employee engagement.

Join this opening keynote presentation and:

• Increase your companies’ net profitability by as much as 756%
• Significantly improve employee engagement and retain top talent
• The ABCs of architecting your very own Company of Owners

An efficient and functional organization design is critical for the enterprise to evolve and maintain a competitive edge in the market. A successful structure should not only focus on internal team alignment but also on innovative technologies, like automation, that will allow the organization to reach new heights.

Join this session as CIOs explore ways to:

• Compellingly communicate a vision for the future to gain buy in from stakeholders
• Analyze market trends to identify and adopt competitive technologies
• Break down silos in the enterprise to innovate collaboratively

Equipped with a structured, well-governed strategy, CIOs and CISOs can simplify and refine their company’s IT and security landscape, control costs and reap more benefits from doing business in the digital age.

In this session, you will explore:

• Creating a culture of awareness
• Measuring and communicating risk
• Implementing actionable intelligence

Heightened cybersecurity risks of the last two years have proven security initiatives and business continuity planning must be ingrained in every enterprise’s corporate culture. CIOs must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps. 

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Building robust cybersecurity strategies that align with new business objectives and hybrid workforce models
• Reconceptualizing cyber roadmaps to enable digital business rather than inhibit innovation
• Tackle growing security threats against infrastructure through security awareness and threat intelligence

Cloud services have grown exponentially over the last few years and have proven to be the way of the future when it comes to boosting business resiliency and transitioning to ecommerce models. Because CIOs no longer face the initial reluctance to adopt cloud strategies, now is the time for leaders to evaluate how those strategies enable innovation and accelerate business outcomes across the enterprise.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Pairing a business-driven cloud strategy with a pragmatic adoption/migration plan
• Maximizing the value of hybrid cloud while managing sprawl and cloud costs
• Ensuring that a focus on strategy isn’t lost in the move to implementation

 Critical talent-people with the skills and competencies essential to business performance-seem to always be in short supply and security needs and skills are evolving faster than many organizations feel they can attract or train new talent. To combat this, the prepared executive not only keeps an eye to recruitment of external talent but also to potential within the existing workforce.

In this session you’ll discuss:

• Training the talent that you need
• Identifying and increasing talent from your existing workforce
• Partnering with training programs to create a talent pipeline

With people working remotely and most user traffic destined for SaaS and cloud, network security requires transformation. It’s no longer efficient or cost-effective to route traffic through the corporate network to apply security controls. Adopting a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Architecture while focusing on Zero-Trust principles ensures that your employees can be productive and secure working from anywhere.

In this session, we will discuss:

• The economics and business case for a SASE journey
• Best practices for implementing Zero Trust within a SASE architecture
• The importance of granular Cloud and SaaS visibility in a SASE architecture