Executive Summit

On behalf of the Washington DC Governing Body, we invite you to come enjoy an evening of peer networking followed by trivia games! Test your world knowledge against your peers as you dine together ahead of a full day of learning from one another. Also take part in an activity to support our service members.

 “No risk, no reward” is an adage applicable to today’s modern enterprise. Cyber and business risk conversations weave together to form a strategy that propels innovation as the key to creating business value. As CIOs and CISOs grapple with increasingly complex risk decisions and ever-changing digital transformation roadmaps, how can leaders position cybersecurity as a pillar for supporting innovation?

Join this panel to learn:

• Collaborating across the C-suite on a wide-ranging business and cyber risk strategy
• Identifying initial steps and key phases of zero trust implementation within a broader risk strategy
• Demystifying zero trust architecture for other leaders and recruit business champions for transformation

The CISO’s mission is to keep their organization ready to handle rising threats and build a strong security culture, but staying ahead of threat actors and reducing the risk to your organization can be a challenge.

Understanding the current threat landscape and your attack surface is crucial to preparing for today’s most significant risks. Learn what’s happening in cybersecurity today, based on Unit 42’s first-hand incident response case experience and threat intelligence that provide valuable insights every CISO needs to know, including:

• Ransomware and other prevalent attack trends, methods, and techniques that allow attackers to damage and exploit your organization.

• An overview of cybersecurity governance, like the new SEC cybersecurity rule, and its significance to CISOs and cybersecurity leaders. 

• Actionable recommendations to reduce risk and how to effectively communicate with leadership, the board and regulators. 

With ever-evolving cyber threats, IT and security leaders must adopt a risk-driven approach. Rather than chasing compliance, they should focus on metrics that communicate business risk trajectory, like patching cadence and incident closure times. In light of the new SEC rules mandating breach disclosure based on impact, metrics and board communication need to evolve beyond maturity or compliance checkboxes.

Join this panel to discuss:

• Advantages of prioritizing risk reduction over compliance
• Benchmarks that demonstrate cybersecurity's business value by lowering risk
• Transparency between security leaders and their organizations

By recognizing and acknowledging the potential of generative AI and machine learning models, businesses can elevate the customer experience and leverage technology as a catalyst for digital innovation. The present moment offers an opportunity to unlock AI's transformative power by setting up the necessary business readiness, objectives, and guidelines.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Using generative AI to drive innovation
• Incorporating company values, principles of fairness and governance to ensure responsible and ethical practices
• Implementing data engineering to build efficient and sustainable AI systems

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.

CIO’s and CISO's opportunities and responsibilities are expanding, with a greater focus on delivering business outcomes. They need to focus and align peers, partners and the IT organization to contribute to achieving business objectives. ODL is about adopting new leadership mindsets, principles and practices to become the outcome-driven leader the organization needs.

Join this interactive session with Interactive Session with Gartner VP Analyst, Christie Struckman to discuss:

• Defining outcomes in terms the enterprise will understand
• Aligning IT to business value
• Developing systems to manage work

Cybersecurity is no longer an objective reserved only for IT, it’s mission critical for senior executives and all board members. As a leader in a quickly-changing landscape, you must balance following new regulations and educating company leaders about cybersecurity.

Join this session to discuss:

• How to prepare your board
• What impacts the new SEC ruling is already having
• How to protect yourself from liability

The relationship between the CIO and CISO is critical to an effective enterprise information security program. In some cases, the objectives of the two executives do not align on priorities and business objectives. Without a well-disciplined, integrated and communicative strategy, the likelihood of failed program delivery and greater vulnerabilities to not only system operations, but also the business as a whole, only increases. 

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to push business initiatives forward
• Align potential risk and threats with a comprehensive IT strategy
• Address combined goals into a single reporting package for board level discussions

This will be an intimate, informal space for women in leadership roles and their allies to freely discuss best practices, key challenges, and mission-critical priorities. Come to network, share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and communities.

This session is aimed at, but not limited to, women who are head of function at their organizations (CIO/CISO or equivalent) and those reporting directly to the CIO/CISO/equivalent. Priority access will be reserved for these groups.

Your local Post Office, Postal vehicles on your street, and your local carrier – all hallmarks of the beloved United States Postal Service. But Pritha Mehra, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, is re-envisioning and transforming the organization to add innovation leader to its brand. Under her dynamic leadership, USPS technology teams are modernizing the ecosystems, platforms, and network to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace. Just recently, her team supported the White House’s COVID pandemic responsive initiative that led to the delivery more than 750 million free test kits to U.S. households—and they only had three weeks to deploy an intuitive website that could handle millions of orders per hour.

Join this keynote as she shares how to:

• Inspire a team to maintain a modernization-focused approach
• Be a leader the effort for innovation
• Use technology to create an exceptional customer experience