San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

The need for observability is increasingly important to protect and drive business revenue. However, IT leaders often face challenges in enabling total stack visibility: uncontrolled cloud expenses, complex software architectures, rapid innovation, emerging security threats, ever-increasing customer experience expectations, and more.

Join this session to discuss:

• The top trends driving the need for observability
• How to overcome challenges and deliver increased business value
• How generative AI is driving the next generation of intelligent observability

The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.

Join this interactive session to explore:

• Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
• Robust content workflows and use cases for AI-first businesses
• Tips for optimizing while balancing your AI and security strategies

As digital business priorities touch every part of the enterprise, the collaboration between CFOs and CIOs is indispensable for optimizing technology investments and spurring innovation. Effective partnership is key to synchronizing financial strategies with technological progress and maximum business impact.

Join this session to discuss:

• Fortifying the CFO-CIO alliance to facilitate data-driven IT ROI decisions
• Align IT investments with financial strategies and implementing projects with measurable business outcomes
• Bridging business and technology priorities to support, optimize, and transform for enterprise-wide success

Technology is increasingly intertwined with organizational performance, making it more important than ever for CIOs to define and demonstrate IT’s activities in terms of business outcomes.
 
Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• Aligning IT strategy with business goals and objectives
• Positioning technology as a business value driver, not a cost center
• Measuring and communicating value to stakeholders

CIOs are navigating a dramatic shift in workplace dynamics, driven by factors such as the emergence of a multigenerational workforce and an increased demand for upskilling and reskilling. What role does the CIO play to ensure a motivated, well-resourced technology workforce?

 Join this peer-led session to discuss:

• Shifting workforce dynamics impacting peers across industries
• Proven best practices for hiring, upskilling, and retaining top talent
• Shaping a resilient, adaptable workforce that enables business objectives

In today’s fast-moving tech and security landscapes, disruption is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy, 30-minute keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to get stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

• Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it
• The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results
• How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable, and willing to learn from failure

As high volumes of sensitive data flow through web browsers, three in five organizations believe their current IT and security infrastructure makes the risk of data leakage likely or highly likely. This reflects the growing complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls. What is a modern approach to enterprise operations that simplifies IT while strengthening security?

Attendees will discover:

• Why disparate IT and security solutions accumulate technical debt and bog down operations
• How to articulate the business impacts of technology operations and security challenges beyond IT
• New approaches to enterprise application delivery that enhance end-user productivity

In today's rapidly changing technology and business landscape, transformative CIOs are agents for change. By engaging stakeholders across the organization early, CIOs can scale and lead change to realize the full value of technology investments.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Align and engage your C-Suite peers in sponsoring change
• Prioritize formal change management earlier in the strategy execution life cycle
• Increase adoption, utilization, innovation, and speed-to-value of transformative efforts