
Vancouver, BC CISO Community
Inner Circle
April 19, 2023 | Vancouver Rowing Club
April 19, 2023
Vancouver Rowing Club
Collaborate with your peers
Join Vancouver, BC's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Hiring the right employees and encouraging collaboration for a better product-centric organization
Creating secure and flexible infrastructure to ensure better digital business outcomes
Gaining leadership buy-in for quicker decision making
Vancouver, BC CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Dave Cummings
Finning
Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer

Rob Davidson
Pacific Blue Cross
CISO

Michelle Evans
FortisBC Energy
Director, Information Systems

David Royer
Best Buy Canada
Director, Enterprise Risk and Compliance

Greg Sieg
Ledcor
SVP & CIO

Tim Swanson
FortisBC Energy
Director, Corporate Security & Business Continuity
Agenda
April 19, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Navigating the Digital Future to Accelerate Transformation

Helen Knight
Chief Information Officer & Strategic Advisor
Salvation Army Canada

Shawn Ling
CTO
BC Liquor Distribution Branch

Martin Palacios
Chief Information And Security Officer
Paper Excellence

Rachel Guinto
VP, Cybersecurity
First West Credit Union

Alex Buhler
Chief Technology Officer
INDOCHINO

Philip Swiderski
Solution Strategist
Expel

Rob Davidson
CISO
Pacific Blue Cross
As global economic and political volatility continue, organizations need to look beyond the skills shortage to grow relevant capabilities to ensure their workforce can operate efficiently and align with digital business objectives. Technology and security leaders are looking to challenge and redefine the enterprise's digital value propositions to create an avenue for high growth and quicker benefits. Organizations are moving beyond the stage of ‘transformation’ and now demanding digital execution, as they position the enterprise to weather economic storms and unpredictable setbacks in the future.
Join your peers to discuss how CIOs & CISOs are capturing the outcomes of digital execution.
Accelerating Decision Making For Timely Value Realization
- Describe your current and ideal data ecosystem?
- How have you enabled a technology platform to create secure and flexible infrastructure to capture digital business outcomes?
- Have you seen the level of adoption that you’d like from leaders to impact quicker decision making? What steps have you taken to identify value realization and measure outcomes obtained by data and analytics?
Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes
- What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? How are you prioritizing competency-based job descriptions?
- Many CIOs & CISOs have turned toward the organization of fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing? How are you changing mindsets, while supporting agile journeys?
- How do you start building your tech-environment and work environment for the future workforce?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Vancouver, BC CISO Community Inner Circle.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue
Vancouver Rowing ClubMore Information
Pay parking is in effect throughout Stanley Park. Parking is available along the street in front of the clubhouse (meter is located to the east of the clubhouse ramp) or in the large public parking lot on the north side of Stanley Park Drive (near the Stanley Park Info Center). The cost is $4.25 per hour | Maximum $15.25, in effect from 6:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Pay by EasyPark App, PaybyPhone, Honk Mobile, ZipBy or Park Mobile. Visa, MasterCard, & American Express accepted. Daily parking rates include GST & Parking Sales Tax 24%
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