The golden age of the CIO is upon us. As business leaders adopt a data-driven and technology enhanced strategies to achieve business goals, it is up to visionary CIOs to lead the way.

Join us in this discussion to learn how IT leaders can embrace change and navigate through the unchartered territory of digital disruption.

Attend this session to learn:

• How the role of the CIO is changing in 2021 – how can you succeed?
• The ways to prepare IT teams with the endurance required to keep up with constantly advancing technology
• How to leverage AI and machine learning technology to improve the efficiency of teams across multiple lines of business

The role of the CIO has been on a steady rise for the past several years. As the way people work continues to change, the demands from today’s global, mobile, and distributed workforce are also rapidly evolving. We’re at a point in time where the CIO is now front and center to defining the digital culture of an organization with a mega-trend at play that Trevor Schulze, CIO, RingCentral, likes to call, ‘Systems of Experience.’

In this session, Trevor will reveal the major components of an optimal Systems of Experience™  that can result in lasting impact for your organization.

You’ll Learn:

• How the Experience Economy is evolving and why companies need to get on board to survive and thrive
• Why CIOs and technology executives are at the nexus of this shift and how they can enable their organizations to accelerate into the future
• Why the rules for customer engagement have changed along with recommendations for decision-makers to adopt
• Advice on how companies can strengthen their experience strategies now and into the economic future

Automate or fall behind — AI is driving business transformation at an accelerated pace. CIOs nationwide are prioritizing an AI-first approach to propel their companies into industry 4.0.

An increase in AI investments has presented IT leaders with a challenge to regulate AI deployment and governance throughout their organization. How can CIOs position their teams to operationalize AI within their company and to deliver maximum value of this technology?

You’ll Learn:

• Strategies to position your organization to leverage AI to drive business transformation
• How to craft a governance structure that prepares organizations to assess and manage risk of AI technology
• What resources and talent are needed to effectively rollout AI to create a lasting impact

Utilizing real-world (not honeypot) data pulled from our global array of sensors, Unit 42 elite cloud threat researchers analyzed the cloud security impact and opportunity forged by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The correlation between the increased cloud spend due to COVID-19 and security incidents led to the conclusion that rapid cloud scale and complexity without automated security controls embedded across the entire development pipeline are a toxic combination.

Join Matt Chiodi, CSO, Public Cloud at Palo Alto Networks to discuss the findings of the research, what the impact might be to your business, and our key recommendations about what actionable steps you can take to reduce the security risks associated with your cloud workloads.

You’ll Learn:

• What types of security threats are most common, and how different industries can be affected
• How to prepare your organization to respond to various security threats
• Why it is vital to grow your cloud security strategy to keep workloads secure as organizations scale up their cloud environments

Over the next five to ten years, there will be seismic changes across every industry sector as people, technologies, data, devices, and ever-expanding networks converge to transform every aspect of work and life. The resulting shifts are spawning new industries and reinventing existing industries, forcing organizations to adapt and evolve.

Technology will drive the business versus being the utility it has traditionally been. This session will discuss how successful companies will share core operating model characteristics, enabled by key technology tenets that will allow them to navigate change, continue to grow and thrive.

Over the last few years, organizations have gone through unprecedented change. CIOs have a mission to lead their business through massive transformation efforts in Agile, DevOps, and ITSM to meet the shifting demands of their markets. These efforts have only been exacerbated by the era of virtual work, prompting IT executives to develop new road maps to manage organizational transformation.

Tune in to hear expert insights from Sean Mack, CIO & CISO, Wiley, and learn how IT executives can manage simultaneous transformation while continuing to deliver value to their customers.

You’ll Learn:

• Insights from concrete examples about how IT leaders can drive DevOps, Agile, and ITSM transformation
• How to measure the value and impacts of innovation
• Leadership and development skills to build a strong, agile team that can endure transformation overtime

Echoes to CCPA consumer data privacy legislation are popping up everywhere. Following in California’s footsteps, New York, Virginia, Washington, and several other states are ramping up efforts to pass consumer data protection legislation of their own.

It is imperative that IT leaders act quickly to ensure that their organizations are prepared to obey new data privacy laws. In this timely session, legal experts in consumer data protection weigh in to discuss how you can revise your governance structure to comply with new regulations.

You’ll Discover:

• How new consumer data privacy laws could impact your organization
• Peering into CCPA at the federal level – how could nationwide legislation change the way CIOs do business?
• Data governance measures to understand your organization’s data collection and usage in relation to consumer privacy