Toronto CIO Executive Summit

Gartner research predicts by 2028 there will be at least a 25% decline of women in IT leadership roles. How can we work to reverse this decline and create a supportive community in Toronto that equips women for senior roles, amplifies their visibility and mitigates bias?

Join this session of your peers to discuss:

• Building an equitable talent pipeline
• Addressing the real reasons women choose to leave the technology field
• Maintaining the spirit of DEI programs without official "branding"

Chaos of Connectivity ― Strategies for Agility, Productivity, and Compliance 

In today's digital landscape, enterprises manage an ever-growing array of technologies across multiple clouds, with the average organization using 1,000 applications and thousands of physical assets. Generative AI is set to boost developer productivity by nearly 40%, leading to a surge in AI-embedded applications. This complexity can cause inefficiencies and vulnerabilities.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Create visibility across disparate systems for informed decision-making
• Streamlining integrations to increase productivity and accelerate delivery
• Maintain compliance by managing integrations centrally to prevent shadow IT

Delivering AI and GenAI value at scale is top of mind with many CIOs while juggling the needs to maintain a secure scalable technology foundation, but how can CIOs accomplish this? Prioritizing a high-quality data, security and infrastructure foundation provides all the necessary ingredients that will unlock the greatest value in AI.

Join this session to discuss:

• Building a value driven AI strategy
• Delivering high-quality, well-structured data to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven initiatives
• Driving a modern secure AI ready infrastructure roadmap for scale, efficiency and ease of use

 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complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls.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