Please join us for our first ever, exclusive panel discussion. We have brought together three C-level, Cybersecurity experts to discuss on-going risks in the industry. Our panelists will exchange views on ways to optimize your security plan and give their insight on current trends.

How do you overcome a culture of incremental innovation in a highly competitive, risk limiting, environment to transform into an innovation powerhouse in the areas where you need to win the most? You need a few Pioneers. Join this insightful discussion on how to be a pace setter for the next decade of game changing innovation and how to cultivate a culture that will drive innovation, cross cutting collaboration, and an outside in mentality towards positive change making.

Is your IT department driving business agility for your company from the cloud, or have you only done the barest minimum and still not taken full advantage of all the cloud has to offer? There are tremendous benefits you can gain by going beyond just “lifting and shifting” your infrastructure to the cloud, and there are also best practices for doing it. In this panel discussion, we will address the different methodologies of cloud migration, and describe how you can migrate to the cloud in a way that not only minimizes your costs, but also achieves new capabilities for your business.

Please Join the CEO of Virsec, Dave Furneaux in this Executive Interview where he will discuss cyberattacks, the biggest challenges for CISO’s and CIO’s and how to start the shift to changing the dynamic.

The explosion of SaaS applications in business will continue its momentum. To ensure you stay competitive, it’s important to embrace a “best of breed” IT strategy that includes SaaSOps. In this session, we’ll explore the top 3 trends in SaaS and the related challenges that IT and Security teams face. Come learn how to automate management and policies enforcement across your cloud applications, while cutting costs and mitigating risk.

Whether you are Migrating (like a lift and shift) or Modernizing (utilizing newer technologies) to build your Cloud-Based Analytics solution, you will face difficult decisions on a growing number of choices available. Most platforms are competitive and offer a wide range of capabilities. Should you go with a single platform vendor or pursue a best-of-breed approach to solve your Analytics needs? We will discuss these options while presenting a customer’s journey as they move to Cloud-Based Analytics

Please Join the CIO of Pure Storage, Cathy Southwick in this Executive Interview where she will discuss how the role of the conventional CIO has changed over the last decade. She will also advise which technology initiatives are most significant in the next year.

Please Join the ISO, Director of Information Security of Credit Union of Colorado, Prabodh Telang in this Executive Interview where he will discuss how to take a risk based approach to identify required Cyber Security controls.

Join us for an Executive Interview with Vinay Indraganti the Vice President of Global Digital Transformation and Strategy at Ingredion. In this interview, Vinay will dive into the digital transformation journey at Ingredion including factors to create a successful transformation and how to empower employees to work with next-generation technologies.

Please join the Former Director Network & Security Solutions for SAIC, Barbara Shurtleff, as she does a deep dive on systemic risk. She will discuss how it thrives in the digital business system and what you need to know about it. She will also explain how systemic failure leads to change.

In a data role, one of our main objectives is to build efficient models and ensure that the recommendations from modeling efforts are as accurate or interpretable as possible. In my talk, I’ll introduce a framework that every leader/data contributor can follow and discuss a modeling approach and critical junctions in the modeling process to ensure models are less biased and performant. I’ll talk about what has made me and my data teams most effective based on all of my experience as an analyst, decision scientist and data leader. It all comes down to adding the human element.

This presentation will discuss current and innovative methods for Executives to identify and report on significant risks to senior leadership and boards of directors. We examine a framework of a risk resilient organization to identify and discuss current emerging risks. We will review examples of effective reporting as well as examine approaches to have effective risk conversations with your executive team and board.

When we left our office back in March 2020 we left a stable, comfortable IT Support environment. We had desktops and mini-computers that were stable and easy to keep secure. During the pandemic we migrated to laptops and mobile computing which was more difficult to support and less secure. What will IT support look like when we return to the office? Will we have to continue to support the laptops and mobile devices or will we return to the stable days of desktop computing.

Please Join the SVP, Enterprise Innovation, 5G Solutions of Verizon, Toby Redshaw in this Executive Interview where he will discuss the future of omni channel and why 5G matters.

Automation, we all hear about it all the time. but when you hear it what are people really talking about? The majority of the time, people are wanting to answer four or five general questions. Why Automate? Why invest in automation? What is the impact of automation?
What is the importance of automation? Where do you start? This presentation will give a high overview of the questions and offer answers that i have found over my 35 years of Information Technology Career.

If you have Operational Technology (shop-floor systems); or want to deploy or connect OT devices (PLC, Robots, gateways, AGV, AMR, IIoT devices) and software applications: You should join this presentation to learn how to plan for infrastructure, network and cyber security concerns, and how to support systems ongoing to keep your company safe.

Please Join the MD, Head of Technology Risk & Compliance of TIAA, Vaughn Alliton in this Executive Interview where he will discuss Data Management and the risks that organizations face.

The application of AI is probably the hottest topic within the finance industry lately. With the increased risk of fraud and a greater demand for hyper-digitization due to the pandemic, fintech has exploded across several areas of opportunity. CFOs are now tasked with evaluating massive amounts of data, directing that data towards action, and making sure it’s the right direction for the company’s bottom line. Implementing the most appropriate model based on the needs of the user can be overwhelming. Today we have Michael Peckham, Executive Officer and acting CFO of the Program Support Center from the US Department of Health and Human Services to explore which AI model should be reserved for various courses of action.

Please Join the SVP & CTO of Extra Space Storage, Bron McCall in this Executive Interview where he will discuss the digital transformation journey within his organization. He will also advise how to get started and some lessons learned along the way.

Please Join the Head of Technologies for Sales, Marketing, Finance, Data Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, and IT Sourcing Strategies of Daimler Trucks North America, Tomika Russell in this Executive Interview where she will discuss the ideal balance between leadership engagement and autonomy within an IT team. She will also share a few of the best leadership practices that have proven to be effective in her organization.