Pittsburgh CIO Executive Summit

Join us for a special evening at the Grand Concourse to kick off the Executive Summit with dinner, spectacular views and networking hosted by Governing Body members.  In the spirit of community and giving back, you'll have the opportunity to assemble bags for local children preparing to enter foster care through the non-profit organization, Foster Love.

Every business wants to get the most out of its resources. Apart from making more profit, companies constantly strive towards reducing overall costs. Surviving in today’s competitive world requires businesses make strategic decisions that lead to better efficiencies. AIOps seeks to do just that – ensure the delivery of highly performant digital applications and services. 

Join this session to learn about:

• Gathering and harnessing the data available to provide full stack and enterprise observability 
• Automating cloud resource allocation and management to optimize cost  
• Using AI in IT operations and management solutions

Despite economic slowdown, worldwide IT spending remains strong as enterprises increase spending on digital business initiatives to drive revenue. How do you accelerate time-to-value for technology investments? How can CIOs and CISOs sharpen focus on the factors in their control, while addressing the macroeconomic pressures of inflation, slower customer buying, supply chain disruptions and global uncertainty?

Join this session to discuss:

• Technology economic optimization
• Strategies for enhanced operational effectiveness
• Creative ways to increase employee productivity

Learn how zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, and IoT/OT devices by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture. This session covers key steps in a phased zero trust transformation journey as well as advice for winning the support of organizational leadership.

Join this session and learn to:

• Recognize issues inherent to routable networks
• Identify initial steps and key phases of zero trust transformation
• Demystify zero trust architecture for business leaders

Talent and skills shortages, hiring and retention dilemmas, etc. have many at their wit's end. But what happens when you create a culture that keeps them so engaged, they don't want to leave? Listen in and learn how CIOs and CISOs are leveraging employee satisfaction and engagement to drive growth, increase operational efficiencies and boost productivity.

Join this session to discuss and ask questions about:

• Attuning yourself to the needs of employees, teams, and the enterprise- big or small.
• Having FUN by efficiency and innovation
• Keeping the right people – thinking beyond retention

Applications can make or break an organization’s growth. Too many and you create an opportunity for redundancies and inefficiencies; too few and you risk getting left in the past. In today’s digital-first workspaces, how can leaders evolve their strategy to maximize the value of their applications, advance key digital initiatives and remain agile in the face of constant change?

Join your peers to discuss:

• Discontinuing legacy systems, modernizing, and shifting to agile solutions
• Building a business case for application and technology rationalization
• Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements

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.

Customer experience is a mission-critical priority for organizations to maintain a sustainable and competitive advantage. Technology and security leaders have an opportunity to play an outsized role in advancing customer experience strategy by leading with business and IT acumen. Yet, false starts, roadblocks and complexity impede progress on these goals.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How CIOs & CISOs can lead or support customer experience initiatives
• How technologies can play a pivotal role in capturing and acting on key customer data
• What strategies lead to more efficient and effective customer interactions

As cloud infrastructure strategies become more complex, a game plan is more important than ever to execute the blueprints. CIOs must lead the charge to improve efficiencies, buy smartly and improve resiliency. As the journey progresses, what are the lessons learned that will make for smoother transitions in the future?

Join this session to discuss:

• Improving processes and efficiencies to create speed of accessibility
• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating risk by embedding a strong cybersecurity strategy

As business leaders are tasked with producing strategies that drive enterprise growth, they turn to data and analytics that expands business value and create a more data-driven organization. This means nothing less than rethinking the organization’s decision-making processes, and allow leaders to make decisions more confidently and quickly across a complex enterprise. How can data-driven decisions lead to increased business value?

Join Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Research Fellow and co-lead of Gartner Futures Lab as he discusses:

• Leveraging the value of data-driven decisions to the business
• Exploring decision making as a competitive differentiator
• Challenging decision makers across the enterprise to embrace new ways of making the right decisions