Southern California CIO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

For many organizations, the rapid shift to remote work accelerated their adoption of zero trust for employee access to corporate applications. But zero trust is most effective when approached as a holistic strategy applied not only to users, but across the entire organization, including public cloud workloads.

Join your peers for a session focused on:

• Incorporating zero trust into your cloud transformation strategy
• Developing new skills and embracing a new cultural mindset at all levels of the enterprise
• Defining the right tools to empower your adoption of Zero Trust

Customers are demanding more convenient digital experiences, but security threats are growing and a complex, ever-changing web of regulations extends across the globe. How can businesses digitally transform with the cloud – ensuring they have a secure environment where customers’ data is not compromised –while dealing with application sprawl and siloed data? The answer is clear - a secure and open hybrid cloud architecture, but the path to getting there is murky.

In this discussion, we will explore:

• Strategies to unify existing cloud and on-premise environments and create a bridge to tomorrow’s infrastructure
• The untapped value across complex hybrid infrastructure
• How to take control of decentralization and manage, maintain and optimize enterprise systems

As more than a decade's worth of digital transformation has been compressed into an intense 18 months, organizations are now hard-pressed to meet the accelerated pace of changing customer preferences. Companies that can listen to customers across an increasing range of channels, rapidly and accurately capture holistic insights, and respond with context, personalization and consistency — across all customer-facing teams — are the ones positioned to thrive.

Join this conversation to:

• Explore the most business-critical trends in customer experience
• Spotlight key lessons for implementing new strategies
• Share success stories with your peers

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.

 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

CIOs recognize the potential of Artificial Intelligence. However, it's often unclear what specific methods of AI will emerge as front-runners to bring real change to the business. 

Join Former CEO of speech recognition start-up TalkIQ (acquired by Dialpad in 2018) and current Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer of Dialpad in this interactive boardroom to discuss: 

• Game-changing elements of different advanced technologies 
• How voice communication for AI can help automate workflows and enhance conversation
• Unlocking voice as a dataset and the untapped potential that has for your business

 Allen Fazio will discuss his integration journey setting up an ERP program over a fully virtual workspace.

Successful cloud transformations require highly-skilled people, but cloud skills are in high demand and the market for these skills is competitive. What strategies for recruiting and retaining top talent are working, and how do CIOs motivate and re-skill existing employees so they can be as successful as possible as quickly as possible?

Join AWS Enterprise Strategist Jake Burns to learn how to:

• Turn nay-sayers and doubters into allies
• Quickly up-skill existing employees with what they need to succeed 
• Build momentum in your transformation through small wins that deliver big results

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory missions have always been fully supported by the Information and Technology Solutions Directorate (ITSD) from start to finish. That said, in the face of a global public health crisis and the astronomical goal of reaching Mars, ITSD demonstrated critical mission-saving innovation and adaptability when we implemented new technologies so that projects and missions remained uninterrupted and on schedule.

In this keynote address, Randi Levin and Chris Mattman will discuss:

• The landing of Perseverance, a highly sophisticated rover that launched to Mars while 90% of NASA JPL employees were working remotely, along with Ingenuity, a helicopter that tagged along and will attempt powered, controlled flight on another planet for the very first time.
• Protospace, a collaborative tool that saves time and money while reducing risk by making it easier for engineers to resolve problems using augmented reality.
• Our repository of custom applications that foster collaboration while streamlining new cybersecurity protocols, for the protection of NASA JPL’s data in a post-COVID environment.