Southern California CIO Executive Summit

Get a sneak peek into Greg Economou’s “leadership scorecard” that he abides by each and every day. In advance of his presentation on summit day, this interactive session lets you see how your own leadership scorecard stacks up and garner some early insights into 10 leadership traits picked up from current and former NBA commissioners Adam Silver and David Stern, among others.

Governing Body members host this dinner to launch the event with an evening of peer networking and insights.

In this networking lunch, take the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

Developing IT leaders

• What are human capital strategies for building and developing the specialized talent required for IT and business innovation?
• How are IT leaders tackling challenges related to new ways of working and trying to manage multi-generational teams?
• How do you integrate an overall leadership strategy into the IT side of the business?

Leveraging AI

• How have you deployed AI initiatives; what has worked and what needs improvement? Share lessons learned.
• How do you measure the return on investment from AI projects?
• How do you drive employee engagement and overcome barriers to realizing AI’s true potential?

Customer-centric Strategies

• What data management strategies generate the most actionable insights into the digital needs and behaviors of your customers?
• What have been your most successful tactics for increasing the speed with which your technology organization responds to customer demand and delivers value?
• What is the role of the CIO in ensuring a seamless customer experience?

Executing While Modernizing

• How are you helping the business to articulate “value” so that effort and energy are spent on the right things?
• How can you liberate more of your human capital/talent to focus on transformative, value-added work, and less on “keeping the trains running on time?”
• What can CIOs do to increase the change appetite of their organizations and foster a culture of continual evolution?

Improving the Pace of IT

• What are the greatest “friction” areas in your organization, and what has been successful in reducing that friction?
• What frameworks or operational models (e.g. agile, DevOps, reorganization) have been most successful in creating more efficient, effective technology organization? 
• What can CIOs do to ensure that speed is a value of the entire organization, not just the technology org?

Digital transformation, business process re-engineering, motivating and keeping IT talent – the modern CIO is responsible for all of these initiatives and more. But what about the people? What about leading organizations in a world where the future of work is continuing to evolve? This keynote outlines a technology roadmap that prepares enterprises for the workforce of the future. You’ll hear:

• How to create a next-gen IT organization based on next-gen technology
• Lessons learned from ADP’s transformation into a technology company backed by service

We have all worked with one, or maybe have been one – the incredibly responsible über employee who always saves the day, jumping in at the last moment to resolve any IT emergency. The problem? “IT Heroes” are an incredible risk for any organization that tolerates them. CIO Joseph Cevetello strongly urges every organization to NOT have an IT hero, just in case a crate of Kryptonite falls on them. Join this session and hear:

• His personal experience dealing with the fallout of a fallen IT hero
• How to break out of the hero mentality and still keep critical systems working when IT villains arise
• Why having a team approach to IT heroism may not save the planet, but it will save you and your organization’s bacon

Changing your enterprise’s identity posture does not take a ton of effort, but you’d be pound foolish to not put a considerable amount of strategic planning into your approach. The LA Clippers’ Charles Sims shares:

• An overview of clouded identity and next-gen access management strategies
• Approaches to secure identity in the era of “open everything”
• How organizations can drive value using the latest digital identity architectures and standards

Enterprise 4.0 is the next evolution of enterprises that leverages technology to build digital assets co-created by business and technology teams, alike. Today, the proliferation of disruptive technologies continues to reshape businesses, industries and markets. This peer-to-peer round table session explores:

• How businesses are looking to master digital disruption by competing on experience, differentiating with data and applications
• Ways to respond instantly to opportunities and build customer loyalty
• How to win with artificial intelligence, robotics, analytics, knowledge engineering, virtual reality, blockchain and digital web innovations

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Dennis Keenan at dennis.keenan@evanta.com or 503-912-4569.

Is there life on Mars? JPL thinks so. By employing AI, ML and automation technologies, JPL makes it possible to send intelligent rovers to Mars. However, using robots does come with a set of decision-making challenges humans would not face. Dr. Hiro Ono shares:

• How, through the use of AI and ML, software-enabled rovers have overcome many barriers to space exploration and may be the first to encounter life on Mars
• Successes, challenges and lessons learned that likely are applicable to CIOs, no matter the industry
• Insight into other research that provides new evidence of life in a land far, far away

For Greg Economou, leadership is about values, emotion, unparalleled vision, and how each of his actions translates to the people around him. Using 10 leadership traits he gleaned from current and former NBA commissioners Adam Silver and David Stern, Economou provides a thought-provoking look into his “leadership scorecard” and shares:

• How leaders can check more scorecard boxes by being accessible, approachable and accountable
• How to inspire unwavering loyalty and drive an organization forward
• How great leadership leads to success in work and in life 

CIOs are looking for every advantage to keep on the cutting edge of the technology curve. Understanding ways 5G can and will impact the enterprise is one example of how CIOs are mastering their expanding roles as embedded key partners for accelerating innovation beyond IT. In this session, come ready to learn about and share:

• The definition of 5G technology, and what it means to the future of the enterprise
• Your approach to innovative excellence and inventiveness on your team and across the business
• A roadmap for the future of the fully digital global enterprise – moving past the hype cycle and into reality
•  A new vision for the role of CIO: how they work and collaborate internally, and how they connect with external customers/stakeholders to seize opportunities

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Imagine what your business could achieve if you were able to flip your IT investment curve – putting the majority of your financial and human capital toward innovating instead of operating. This keynote session explores:

• The latest thinking on using technology to drive business transformation
• Insights from recent Accenture research, Future Systems, that cracks the code on closing the innovation achievement gap – the difference between potential and realized value from technology investments
• Insights from Qualcomm’s CIO on how to align IT and business, the value of technology transformation initiatives and how to address the skills gap