Vancouver, BC CIO Executive Summit

Join fellow Governing Body members amd invited guests for an evening of peer networking featuring a holiday cocktail!

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:

• The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
• Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
• Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

Some of the best tech talent may be hidden in plain sight. Looking beyond key resume words or experiences takes an innovative and creative approach when thinking about hiring a diverse workforce. And as the salary competition among large tech giants continues to be a challenge, it's important to think of creative ways to attract and retain talent.

Join this interactive session to discuss: 

• Non-traditional strategies for hiring employees
• The benefits of a diversified talent roster
• Effective retention tools

An organization's ability to achieve successful digital transformation is in large part enabled by the security team. Distributed, loosely connected infrastructure and tools, coupled with the demand for almost any-to-any connectivity, complicates the mission. Regularly defined as being delivered by a single "silver bullet" point solution, the term zero trust is now often held in poor regard. It is however, a highly effective conceptual framework, and perhaps even a cultural shift, that many organizations have been working with for several years.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• The broader definition of what a zero trust framework is
• The foundational control required to build a zero trust program
• Strategies for improving the user experience and proving value to get organization wide acceptance

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Aislin Courtis at aislin.courtis@evanta.com or 503.407.4886

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, technology and business creates a cyber-resilience posture more in line with the needs and goals of the digital business.

Join this session to learn about:

• The importance of maintaining core purpose and integrity
• Cyber-resilience practices that help mitigate 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 attacks

CIOs and IT leaders need to stay abreast of key trends across new and emerging technologies, driving innovation and re-shaping the cloud. Discover in this session what advancements are being delivered to accelerate these predictions.

Together we will explore:

• What the future of automation can bring for new types of decision making
• Strategies that are needed to effectively drive digital transformation with multiple clouds
• The most important security issues of our time

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure in responding to an attack on a third-party vendor.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify and respond to threat responses
• Determine an appropriate response and communications plan
• Discuss pitfalls, best practices and remediation steps

Managing distributed risk is today’s defining cybersecurity challenge. Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers, and partners 
• Approaches to identify, prioritize, and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities 
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Aislin Courtis at 503-407-4886

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.

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 - A Security Leader's point of view.

Join this session to discuss:

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

As we’ve all learned (sometimes painfully — or worse, publicly), the open source libraries and resources developers use to build applications faster also come with vulnerabilities that can all-too-easily make it into products. Board members have learned these lessons, too, and now want more frequent updates and insight into security initiatives.

 Join this boardroom hosted by Veracode to discuss bringing the AppSec conversation into the boardroom. You'll leave with actionable tips and advice on:

• Understanding board members’ concerns and priorities
• Presenting information and metrics in a way that board members understand
• Getting board buy-in on your plans and budget to stay ahead of the threat landscape and innovation curve

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Aislin Courtis at 503-407-4886 or aislin.courtis@evanta.com

Today's rapidly evolving enterprise requires a more agile and business-focused governance model. According to Gartner, traditional IT governance cannot meet the needs of today's digital business. This session will explore whether organizations are focusing on specific innovative technologies before looking for opportunities to apply them within the business or if it's the other way around.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Strategies for business-driven digital transformation
• How to leverage business architecture practices with stakeholders as an added value
• The importance of shifting to an innovative mindset

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Aislin Courtis at aislin.courtis@evanta.com or 503-407-4886.

As organizations of all sizes are feeling the impact of increased cyberattacks, creating a flexible and scalable cybersecurity program is paramount for technology leaders. Instead of letting these circumstances overwhelm you, it’s time to lean on the people and resources around you to reenforce your own team and strategy.

Join this keynote to discuss:

• Strategies to further evolve the cybersecurity program
• The importance of aligning initiatives between CIOs & CISOs
• How to create organizational buy-in and support