Southern California CIO Executive Summit

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

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

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How CIOs can support or lead 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

Today’s CIO balances a substantial number of applications across the enterprise. Providing visibility, control, and automation to efficiently manage the growing number of applications requires a robust observability solution to gain full visibility into modern workloads.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Free your DevOps teams from the burden of manual observability and application monitoring.
• Get full context across applications and infrastructure
• Drive intelligent actions to minimize troubleshooting and optimize performance

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 CxOs).

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Today's CIO has a unique opportunity to act as a change agent for an entire organization. According to Gartner, almost 70% of organizations have accelerated their digital business initiatives in the wake of the pandemic disruption, thereby increasing the volume, frequency and complexity of change. Traditional change management is no longer sufficient for organizations to foster growth in a post-pandemic era in which change is a constant.

Join this session to discuss: 

• Fostering an organization of change minded individuals
• Enabling change to achieve digital transformation
• Communicating strategically and effectively

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

Data and Analytics are used in many different ways to inform many different decisions throughout the business. How are you storing data? What data governance activities are you practicing? There are so many questions to ask, but one thing becomes clearer and clearer: Data is everything. There’s just not a one stop shop for the CIO and organizations approach to Data.. 

Join this interactive session with CIOs to dive into the many different Data & Analytics scenarios you might face, including:

• Improving business decisions using Data & Analytics
• Creating a strategy for when (knock on wood) a Data breach happens
• Applying AI and automation to improve Data practices

As enterprises are integrating technology with all aspects of the business, their need increases for higher levels of integration between key business support functions and greater data availability to ensure that the business is ready to withstand any challenge. Combining the best practices from IT security, business continuity, disaster recovery and other disciplines creates a cyber-resilience strategy more in line with the needs and goals of the digital business.

Join this session to learn about:

• The five components of the cyber-resilience framework
• Cyber-resilience practices that help enterprises defend against risks and enable efficient and effective recovery from breach or failure
• Strategies to modify data protection and recovery practices to better align with current targeted and malicious attack

In 2021 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "It's Time to Get Rid of the IT Department". In the article the author states that "No man is an island, and the department shouldn't be one, either". To avoid traditional, antiquated IT approaches, it's time for CIOs to embrace new operating models to meet the speed, flexibility and innovation demands of overall business. With a structure in place, a culture of collaboration can create incredible outcomes.

Join this session to discuss:

• Getting IT buy-in and trust from key business stakeholders - a matter of trust
• How the City of Burbank leverages Scaled Agile Framework
• Transforming approaches across the business incorporating fusion teams
• Evolving to a Product mindset

The world is changing. Employees, clients and companies are evolving as we enter the next phase of the pandemic. What are they thinking, where are they going?

Join this session to discuss:

• Defining the new “normal” that works for your company
• Providing a modern, flexible experience for employees and customers
• Brainstorming creative ways to keep employees engaged

Rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure has set in motion new concerns for the CIO. Cloud sometimes fails to deliver on promised cost savings leaving some organizations exposed to unwelcome risk. CIOs must lead the charge to find the skillset necessary to plan, build, and operate in a way that delivers on the cloud’s promise of business agility.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Recalibrating when necessary for scale and price
• Navigating unwelcome risk
• Refocusing on the right observability and operational processes

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

Implementing new digital technologies has the potential to improve IT Service quality, organizational effectiveness, and increase customer and internal stakeholder satisfaction.  An effective technology adoption strategy is needed to ensure new capabilities are deployed with the least amount of disruption and maximum benefit to stakeholders.

In this boardroom session we’ll discuss 

• Hidden challenges and costs of achieving full adoption 
• Successful strategies that address those challenges head on
• Surprises discovered during technology deployment

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Lauren Hursley 

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.

There’s a revolution underway in customer engagement.   This presents new risks and opportunities.  The race is on to win customers' minds and hearts by building richer, more personalized experiences. How can CIOs drive innovation and earn customer loyalty via better engagement?

Join this discussion to discuss:

• Managing shifts in customer expectations
• Earning customer loyalty in a changing landscape
• Navigating challenges as technology evolves

Sometimes a limit is all we need to realize our full potential. Whether constrained through pandemic shutdowns and political unrest or by time and budget requirements, these limits focus CIOs to deliver a clear vision, determination, and support. Innovation is an unlikely outcome if we keep doing things the same way that has worked in the past. But by embracing constraints rather than fighting them, we can create conditions that improve efficiency, create resilient in the face of uncertainty, and invent new ways of working to transform our business.

In this session, we’ll discuss strategic utilization of constraints to:

• Incentivize our organization to focus on the things that really matter
• Become truly agile to prepare for the future
• Move faster while decreasing risk with guardrails for governance and control

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Lauren Hursley at Lauren.hursley@evanta.com 

Today's rapidly evolving enterprise requires a governance model balanced with agility and conformance performance. According to Gartner, traditional IT governance cannot meet the needs of today's digital business. Organizations will need to deliver adaptive decision-making capabilities in pursuit of achieving the right governance outcomes to ensure a focus on strategic direction, effective execution, adaptability and composability.

 In this session, CIO's will discuss:

• Introducing adaptability amongst ongoing market uncertainty
• Prioritizing risk-adjusted execution flexibility
• Motivating teams with desired business goal attainment

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Lauren Hursley at Lauren.Hursley@evanta.com

It seems every week there is news about tech layoffs or financial market volatility. As CIOs plan ahead for 2023, what is the sentiment of corporate boards that may impact their innovation and people agenda? Should CIOs scale product delivery and new solutions using products from tech companies that went public via SPAC—or is this a risky bet. 

Join this keynote session with Janet Wong, Independent Board Director with Lucid Motors and Enviva, Bonnie Hyun, Head of U.S. Markets for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and Thomas Phelps, Innovate@UCLA Executive Chair and Laserfiche CIO. Bonnie is responsible for advising private technology companies on their IPO listing, including Spotify—the first direct listing, Snowflake—the largest software IPO, and Sentinel One—the highest-valued cybersecurity IPO at its debut. 

The keynote will provide insights on:

• Current market conditions and recession headwinds that are impacting corporate board sentiment
• Balancing board expectations on fiscal conservatism with IT’s planned technology roadmap
• How CIOs can be better positioned to join public company boards