Denver CISO Executive Summit
June 28, 2022 | Denver Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center
June 28, 2022
Denver Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Denver's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Developing a High-Level Plan for Securing Business Assets
Accelerating High Growth and a Data-First Mindset
Integrating Security Automation to Promote More Efficient Infrastructure
Denver CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Chris Ard
Newmont Corporation
Chief Information Security Officer
Ken Athanasiou
VF Corp
Chief Information Security Officer
Alan Cullop
DaVita
CIO
Veena Dandapani
Western Union
Global Head Product Strategy & Management
Stephen Katsirubas
Hunter Douglas
Chief Information Officer
Trent Krause
Graebel
CIO
Sam Masiello
The Anschutz Corporation
Chief Information Security Officer
Chris McLaughlin
Johns Manville
Chief Information Security Officer
Jeff Miller
Quantinuum
Chief Information Officer
Steve Oberg
DaVita
CISO
Ram Ramadoss
CommonSpirit Health
System Senior Vice President - Privacy, Information Security
Craig Richardville
Intermountain Healthcare
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Alex Wood
Uplight
CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
June 28, 2022
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
Coaching Resilient Leaders Through Challenges and Change
Hosted by CyberArk
Dr. Kiki Ramsey
CEO, The Positive Psychology Coaching and Diversity Institute
Guest Speaker
Challenges arise every day in the workplace whether it’s dealing with disgruntled staff, diversity, budget cuts, changes in management, shortage of good staff, or even managing personal issues. With all these challenges arising there is a need for leaders to understand and employ resilience. In this highly engaging keynote, Dr. Kiki, Executive Coach, and Positive Psychologist will teach leaders how to use coaching as an effective tool to resolve conflict and challenging issues and employ resilience, all while still setting and meeting meaningful company goals and remaining competent leaders.
Dr. Kiki Shares:
- The Research On What Makes Resilient Leaders
- How To Overcome The Tough Issues and Remain Relevant
- How To Use Coaching As A Tool To Resolve Conflict and Develop Resilience
9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break
9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session
Accelerating Business Outcomes Without Accelerating Burnout
Hosted by Citrix Systems, Inc.
Vasee Sivasegaran
CTO, Americas
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Dolores Mears
CIO
Hensel Phelps Construction
The remote work experiment succeeded and hybrid work is here to stay. As companies continue to refine their digital workplace strategy, IT plays a pivotal role in the employee experience, work-life balance and recruiting/retention strategies.
Join this session to discuss:
- Balancing a hybrid workplace that empowers employees without exhausting them
- Leveraging advanced technology to attract, retain and upskill talent
- Remediating gaps in the employee experience with digital tools
9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session
Pen Test Your Board Pitch – An Interactive Exercise
Hosted by Rapid7
Craig Poley
Chief Information Officer
City of Arvada
Pitching to the board is a skill that must be mastered. CISOs & CIOs are tasked to communicate business value and synthesize complex information in a way that makes sense. Craig Poley leads this interactive session where you will identify the holes in your board pitch – and improve it for the next time you’re in the hot seat.
In this collaborative session, you will work in a group to:
- Create and deliver a board pitch
- Receive real-time feedback on your pitch
- Learn best practices and strategies for communicating with your board
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Creating a Human Experience for the Customer Journey
Hosted by RingCentral
Ash Mahajan
Chief Information & Technology Officer
Adams 12 Five Star Schools
Jeff Cann
Chief Information Officer
Encore Electric Inc
Two major priorities for CIOs are enabling employees to work more productively and improving the customer experience. Creating a holistic communications system around delivering positive experiences can achieve gains for both priorities. How can these changes support the kind of hyper-personalization and knowledge accumulation that delivers customer satisfaction at every step of the journey?
This session will address:
- Developing a strategic communications system with the customer journey in mind
- Creating customer experience synergies by blending capabilities like unified communications and contact centers
- Real-world challenges and strategies to overcome them
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: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
The Art of Communicating Risk to the Business
Hosted by ReliaQuest
Alex Wood
CISO
Uplight
Sara Griffith
CISO
Euronet Worldwide
Jason Pfeiffer
Chief Strategy Officer
ReliaQuest
To quantify how they are reducing risk for the business and where to strategically invest, security leaders need effective, actionable metrics. These measures are essential to communicating effectively with the Board and other executive stakeholders.
Join this roundtable discussion to gain insight into how your peers are:
- Making informed investment decisions
- Communicating risk to the business at large
- Using data to tell a story to non-technical audiences
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: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com
10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break
10:20am - 10:45am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Accounting for Third-Party Risk in Strategic Planning
Hosted by RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company
Kelly White
CEO
RiskRecon
Third parties expose businesses to strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. Moreover, leaders have less visibility into third parties than into their own businesses. For many organizations, the pandemic exposed the fragility of the organization’s third-party network and impressed the need to flex quickly to new third and fourth parties in the extended enterprise to meet demand without increasing risk exposure.
Join this session to discuss:
- Standardizing third-party risk management assessments to be used by business units
- Maintaining visibility of all ongoing third-party relationships
- Identifying and mitigating the risks of the third-party network
10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Real Talk – They Can’t All Be Winners
Hosted by AppOmni
Trent Krause
CIO
Graebel
It’s all well and good to say: “fail fast and fail often,” but truly owning and embracing failure in the business world can result in reputational, material and professional loss. Yet tech leaders are innovators at the vanguard of the new and unknown, and the freedom to fail is essential.
Come to this session prepared to:
- Share with candor the true stories of your biggest gaffes, SNAFUs and outright train wrecks
- Learn from the pitfalls and growth of others
- Get real about failure and all the possibilities it can entail
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Scaling Automation for Cross-Enterprise Digital Transformation
Hosted by IBM
Benjamin Partout
CIO
Federal White Cement
Eileen Lowry
VP, Product Management, IBM Automation - Integration
IBM
Edgar Acosta
Director, Cybersecurity
DCP Midstream
Ten years’ worth of digitization occurred in less than a year as companies realized the pressing need to automate their operations to stay relevant and competitive. But while digitizing workloads is a critical way to address skills gaps and labor shortages, it also creates complexity and volumes of data that are difficult to manage.
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:
- Creating an end-to end strategy to scale automation past bots and RPA
- Driving operational efficiencies while delivering excellent customer service
- Manage IT resources to optimize performance and cost, increase observability, and manage incidents
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Merging Zero Trust And SASE
Hosted by Cloudflare
Susan Chiang
Deputy CISO
Cloudflare
Steven Lovaas
CISO
Colorado State University
David Whitaker
SVP & CIO
Sierra Space
Organizations are feeling a shift in the world of networking and security as they rapidly adopt and embrace the cloud. Enterprises need efficiency, visibility and security without compromise. The secure access service edge, better known as SASE, and zero trust implementations can provide a more comprehensive security capability to truly support digital transformation.
In this session, you will discuss:
- Problems SASE can address in the modern enterprise
- Benefits of planning both SASE and zero trust implementations
- How to best position your organization for this transition
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: Caroline Wharton at caroline.wharton@evanta.com
11:30am - 11:40am Break
June 28, 2022
Location
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Health and Safety Local Guidelines
To ensure the well-being of participants, partners, and associates, we will continue to monitor and adhere to government, venue, and health agency guidelines.
As a part of our commitment to create the safest possible environment, we are requiring all participants, partners, and associates to be fully vaccinated to participate in in-person programs, in addition to confirming adherence to our program attendance requirements before their arrival. Please refer to our COVID-19 Health and Safety Policy for up-to-date local guidelines.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Denver Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-800-233-1234. Please mention G-CXOE to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $259 USD (plus tax) is June 6, 2022.
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