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2023 Charlotte IT Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with SIM Charlotte

North Carolina – Thu, 11-09-2023 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Visionary Leadership:  Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and Secure Digital Agenda

Inflationary pressures and other macro-economic challenges are creating headwinds for technology executives and fellow members of the C-suite to execute on and achieve strategic goals through 2023. The fast-changing socio-economic landscape is prompting technology executives to become more creative than ever in a cost-conscious environment and to draw upon authentic and inclusive leadership skills to inspire their teams. Meanwhile, tech leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures.
Here are the four prevailing leadership and technology trends that HMG Strategy will be focusing on throughout its 2023 Executive Leadership Summit Series:

  • Innovation & Invention to Spur Revenue Growth
  • Fostering World-Class Collaboration and Teaming
  • Harnessing Advanced Technology to Drive Cost Reduction
  • Securing a Global Digital Agenda

Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for business technology executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and cyber technologies to securely move the needle for the business and win in tumultuous times.

November 9, 2023

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET


8:00 – 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Networking


9:00 – 9:20 AM                                                                         

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and Chris Long, Former Director of Software Development, Centene Corporation and President, SIM Charlotte Chapter


9:20 – 9:35 AM

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT:  From Add-On to Value-Add:  How Tech is the Missing Link to All You Do

Angela Yochem, Multi-industry CXO and Board Member, interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Many industries have seen dramatic impacts and transformation over the last two years, and healthcare is no exception. Supply chain issues, staffing shortages and talent issues, and an intensified shift to digital channels are among those at the top of the list.

In this captivating executive interview, Angela Yochem, former EVP and Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, will share how her role evolved and will describe the steps taken over time to drive expanded business goals and strategy.


9:35 – 10:00 AM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners


10:00 – 10:35 AM                                                                                          

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Visionary Leadership: Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and a Secure Digital Agenda

Moderator:  Michael LaVallee, Managing Partner, Jobplex

Rama Kandala, CIO – Optical Communications, Life Science, Corning International

David Lindsey, VP IT and CIO, EPRI

Amish Patel, CTO, Elevance, Inc.

Angela Yochem, Multi-industry CXO and Board Member

Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for business technology executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and cyber technologies to securely move the needle for the business and win in tumultuous times. At the same time, tech leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures.

In this powerful Executive Panel discussion, world-class CIOs and technology executives will share the steps they’ve taken to cultivate a collaborative culture and embrace innovative approaches to position their companies to succeed in a challenging environment while securing the hybrid workplace.


10:35 – 10:40 AM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to Subra Goparaju, CIO, HANES Brands Inc and Scott Richardson, CIO Enterprise Data and Analytics, Ally Financial, Inc.


10:40 – 11:05 AM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners       


11:05 – 11:40 AM                                                                               

EXECUTIVE PANEL:   Tapping Innovative Technologies and Partnerships to Drive Cost Containment and Power Business Growth

Moderator:  Sam Phillips, Executive Cybersecurity Advisor, Incovate Solutions

Subra Goparaju, SVP & Global CIO, HANES Brands Inc

Rikin Patel, Senior Managing Partner / Chief Technologist, DXC Technology

Scott Richardson, CIO Enterprise Data and Analytics, Ally Financial, Inc.

Brian Williams, Sr. Director, SAP AMS Practice, Rimini Street

Many technology executives find themselves between a rock and a hard place. CEOs and CFOs are leaning on CIOs and technology leaders to find ways to reduce costs in a tight economy. On the other hand, technology executives are being counted upon to utilize hot technologies that can spark new business innovation and to support digital business models. This panel of executives will share use cases for advanced technologies and partnerships that can lower costs and drive new business value.


11:40 AM – 12:00 NOON                                                                              

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Accelerating Value Realization from Cloud Investments 

Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & VP Customer Experience, Nutanix interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy 

There’s a paradox in the cloud. Public cloud infrastructure has set the standard for increased agility and flexibility — but the cost and refactoring effort is under scrutiny and challenging business’ ability to take advantage of it. In addition, cost management initiatives result in businesses leveraging multiple clouds driving increased complexity.

Hear from Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Officer at Nutanix as he discusses best practices to continue to innovate in a digital world, while making the most of your on-prem, managed and public cloud investments.


12:00 – 1:00 PM                                                                            

Lunch and Networking

     SIM Charlotte Update – Chris Long, Former Director of Software Development, Centene Corporation and President, SIM Charlotte Chapter

    HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Photo

    Frank DePaola, VP & CISO, EnPro Industries, Inc.

    Subra Goparaju, CIO, HANES Brands Inc

    Scott Richardson, CIO Enterprise Data and Analytics, Ally Financial, Inc.

    Patrick Thompson, Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer, Albemarle Corporation

    Angela Yochem, Multi-industry CXO and Board Member (GLIA Alum)


1:00 – 1:30 PM                                                                                   

START-UP SHOWCASE: The HMG Innovation Accelerator

Moderator:  Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Brian Kenyon, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Island

Sanaz Yashar, Co-Founder and CEO, Zafran Security

Ryan Kazanciyan, CISO, Wiz

Research conducted by HMG Strategy reveals that one of the top focus areas for technology executive leaders is working with the CEO and the executive team to enable innovation and grow the business. In this exclusive session, we will ask the CEOs and leaders of innovative technology companies about the challenges they solve for clients, the innovation they deliver to companies, and how their solutions are differentiated in the market.


1:30 – 1:55 PM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners 


1:55 – 2:30 PM      

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security Innovation:  Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage

Moderator:  John Opala, VP & Global CISO, Hanesbrands Inc.

Rob Cummings, Former Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer, Falfurrias Capital Partners

Frank Price, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Risk Officer, Labcorp

Carla Sweeney, SVP Information Security, Red Ventures

Marc Varner, Corporate VP & Global CISO, Lowes Companies, Inc.

Cybersecurity strategies are often developed with a defensive mindset. But for companies that have strong safeguards in place, this can provide them with a competitive advantage over industry rivals – especially if they are using AI to help strengthen their posture.

In this timely and compelling executive panel discussion, CISOs and security leaders will share how cybersecurity can provide organizations with a competitive edge along with the steps that can be taken to do so and the role that AI can play in these efforts.


2:30- 2:35 PM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation to Frank DePaola, VP & CISO, EnPro Industries, Inc. and Patrick Thompson, Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer, Albemarle Corporation


2:35 – 3:00 PM                                                                            

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners


3:00 – 3:35 PM

BREAKTHROUGH INSIGHTS PANEL:  Generative AI:  Will it Revolutionize the Customer Experience?

Moderator:  Jim Marascio, Principal & Chief Executive Officer, Equals 11

Rishi Bhatnager, Co-Founder and CEO, Quaeris

Frank DePaola, VP & CISO, EnPro Industries, Inc.

Jaimee Robles, SVP Enterprise Business Platforms, Centene Corporation

Patrick Thompson, Former Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer, Albemarle Corporation

A looming recession and softening business conditions have prompted many senior leadership teams to focus on cost cutting. Nevertheless, business technology leaders are still being counted upon to help drive innovation and to create new revenue opportunities. One way to do that is by leveraging artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Generative AI to unearth fresh insights into customer preferences and shifting behaviors that can then spur new business opportunities ahead of the market. 

In this executive panel discussion, world-class CIOs, technology leaders and industry executives share their recommendations for utilizing customer data and AI tools to mine new business opportunities and to monetize data more effectively.


3:35 – 4:00 PM                                                                                   

Closing Remarks & Raffle Prizes

Chairs

Shoukat Ali Bhamani

Board Member
RKTech Corp.

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Todd Buelow

Principal
Dualboot Partners

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Angelic Gibson

CIO
AvidXchange

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Subra Goparaju

CIO
HANES Brands Inc

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Sheila Jordan

Chief Digital Technology Officer
Honeywell

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Rama Kandala

CIO – Optical Communications, Life Science
Corning International

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Chris Long

Former Director Of Software Development
Centene Corporation

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Jim Marascio

Principal & Chief Executive Officer
Equals 11

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Hunter Muller

Founder & CEO
HMG Strategy

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Melissa Sawyer

Client Engagement & Technology Solutions Leader
Hylaine

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Ken Spangler

(Retired) FedEx EVP IT Global Operating Technologies/Co-Founder AdaptiveION Inc.

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Kimberly Stevenson

Member Board Of Directors
Verisk Analytics

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Patrick Thompson

Global Enterprise Digital Transformation Leader

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Angela Yochem

Global CIO
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Advisory Board

Zahid Afzal

Member of the Board of Directors
Premier Bank

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Scott Anderson

VP, Digital Transformation Advisory
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Jassi Arora

VP Customer Connect Delivery
Duke Energy

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Lekha Banerjee

Technology Executive
Truist

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Kamesh Baratam

Global SAP Leader
The Hershey Company

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Andy Basinger

CTO
Monarch

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Rohini Belavadi

SVP, Head of IT
Arch Mortgage Insurance Company

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Greg Berkin

Chief Information Officer & Head of Cybersecurity
Lisata Therapeutics

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Ben De Bont

CISO
ServiceNow

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Andrea Caldini

Vice President of Global Business and Consumer Product Engineering and Development
Verizon

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Matthew Clark

Vice President, CISO
IAT Insurance Group

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Beatriz Copelli

SVP, CIO North America
Danone

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Debbrata Das

Head of Enterprise & Information Architecture
Voya Financial

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Sheron Dinnoo

HVAC, Director of IT
NSI Industries

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Eric Ellis

Chief Technology Officer and Associate VP of IT
University of North Carolina System

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Daidre Fanis

Sr. Vice President and Board Member, SIM Charlotte Chapter and SIM Women in Tech
M&S Consulting

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Becky Fox

Chief Clinical Information Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

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Sean Gallagher

Vice President, Global Information Technology
Hayward Holdings, Inc.

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Mike Galloway

CIO
AIG

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Misha Ghosh

SVP, Contact Center Analytics & Reporting/Workforce Planning
Wells Fargo

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Angelic Gibson

CIO
AvidXchange

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Karl Hightower

Advisory Board Member
TFX Capital

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Aaron Higley

Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy
Performance Improvement Partners, LLC

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Mike Hillhouse

CIO
Discover Claims, LLC

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Ron Horn

Vice President Information Technology
YMCA of Greater Charlotte

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Curtis Hughes

CIO
Midrex Technologies, Inc.

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Saleem Hussaini

Head of Global Commercial & Medical Technology Solutions Operations
Biogen

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Todd Inskeep

Founder & Executive Cybersecurity Advisor
Incovate Solutions

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John Jalovec

Chief Information Officer
Fortium Partners, LP

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Rama Kandala

CIO – Optical Communications, Life Science
Corning International

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Douglas Krieger

Regional Head of Procurement North America/ Corporate
Herbalife

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Shauna Latshaw

Group Chief Information Officer for Energy & Transportation
Caterpillar Inc.

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Michael LaVallee

Managing Partner
Jobplex

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Stephan LeMoine

CIO
Welch’s

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David Lindsey

VP IT and CIO
EPRI

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Chris Long

Former Director Of Software Development
Centene Corporation

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Chris Maritato

Sr. Principle, Advisory CIO
Insight Solutions

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Coleen McCray

ertified Executive, Leadership & Career Coach
Paragon Coaching Group

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Steven Michaels

VP, Technology/Chief Technology Officer
Baylor Scott & White Health

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Ted Mueller

SVP IT & Operations
Northwood Office, LLC

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John Murdock

Senior Partner
Executive Search Partners LLC

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Raja Musunuru

Chief Product Officer
TIFIN Wealth

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Lety Nettles

SVP Chief Product Officer
Novant Health

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Amy Nichols

EVP, CTO Chief Governance Office
Wells Fargo

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Nicholas Nwasike

SVP / Engineering Sr. Manager
Wells Fargo

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John Opala

VP& Global CISO
HANES Brands Inc

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Amish Patel

Chief Technology Officer
Elevance, Inc.

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Eric Pearson

CIO-Mortgage Insurance
Arch Capital Group

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Sushma Punuru

Vice President, Head of Technology & Digital (CIO) US Group Product
MetLife

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Christina Quaine

CISO, SVP Technology Operations
AvidXchange

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Dede Ramoneda

EVP & CIO
First Citizens Bank

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Kay Read

Interim Executive Director Business Partner Program
UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics

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Scott Richardson

CIO Enterprise Data and Analytics
Ally Financial, Inc.

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Dan Roselli

Co-Founder & Managing Director
RevTech LabsRevTech

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Cynthia Scarborough

VP IT, CIO Global
Kautex Textron

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Brian Schultz

Guest Faculty Member / Lecturer
University of Washington

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Jikin Shah

RBC Global CTO & Head of City National Bank Technology
RBC Bank US

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Vince Simonowicz

CIO
City of Rock Hill

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Swamy Sriperumbudur

Managing Partner – Technology & Management Advisory Services
PCG Global

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Nelson Still

Vice President, Information Technology
Form Technologies

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Chris Terhune

SVP, Technology Business Management
LPL Financial

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Lalit Thakur

Senior Vice President & Chief Data Officer
American Tire Distributors

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Joe Topinka

CEO
Advanity Technologies

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Sandeep Uthra

Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Capital Bank, N.A

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Marykay Wells

CIO
Pearson

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Anthony Williams

Vice President of Technology Strategic Solutions/CIO
MR2 Solutions

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    https://www.rmsource.com
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    https://chapter.simnet.org/charlotte/home
  • 8x8, Inc.

    8×8 is transforming the future of business communications with XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™). 8×8 XCaaS is the only integrated platform for contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat, and CPaaS embeddable APIs. Unlike multi-vendor environments, 8×8 XCaaS provides platform-wide reliability, lowers costs, boosts employee productivity and customer engagement, and delivers intelligence through AI-powered experiences and insights. More than 2.5 million people around the world rely on 8×8 to collaborate quicker, work smarter, and serve customers better with real-time analytics across every interaction. For organizations relying on Microsoft Teams for collaboration, 8×8 offers its 8×8 Voice for Microsoft Teams direct routing solution and 8×8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams which is certified by Microsoft. 8×8 Voice for Microsoft Teams provides advanced telephony and contact center capabilities to further empower Microsoft Teams users. Today, more than 150,000 users rely on 8×8 for advanced communications for Teams. 8×8 is a ten-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide and seven-time Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).

    https://www.8×8.com/
  • Akamai

    As the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai’s massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai’s portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring.

    https://www.akamai.com
  • BetterCloud

    BetterCloud is the leading SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. With an expanding ecosystem of SaaS integrations, thousands of forward thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations. The company launched the first-ever annual SaasOps-focused conference, Altitude, and publishes annually the definitive market research report, State of SaaSOps, on the market and category. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. The company’s total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners.

    https://www.bettercloud.com/
  • Box

    Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.

    https://www.box.com
  • Darktrace

    Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. The company has over 1,500 employees and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.

    https://www.darktrace.com/
  • Delphix

    Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management. Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multi-cloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster. Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management. Visit us at www.delphix.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

    www.delphix.com
  • Fortinet

    Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

    https://www.fortinet.com/
  • LastPass

    LastPass is an award-winning password manager which helps more than 33 million registered users organize and protect their online lives. For more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use. From enterprise password management and single sign-on to adaptive multi-factor authentication, LastPass for Business gives superior control to IT and frictionless access to users.

    https://www.lastpass.com/
  • Netskope

    Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and zero trust security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers, including more than 25 of the Fortune 100, trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey.

    https://www.netskope.com/
  • Nutanix

    Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.

    https://www.nutanix.com
  • Palo Alto Networks

    Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world’s greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

    www.paloaltonetworks.com
  • RingCentral

    RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™,  the company’s video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.

    https://www.ringcentral.com/
  • SafeGuard Cyber

    SafeGuard Cyber protects the human connections businesses need to thrive in a digital world. Our award-winning platform utilizes a unique mix of direct API integration, Natural Language Understanding, advanced policy engines, and deep relationships with cloud-based digital platforms to give you unmatched, real-time monitoring and mitigation on over 50 cloud communication channels. With SafeGuard installed your team can use whatever tools they wish to do what they do best: create value and drive growth.

    https://www.safeguardcyber.com/
  • SAP

    As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run better by redefining ERP and creating networks of intelligent enterprises that provide transparency, resiliency, and sustainability across supply chains. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables our customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference worldwide.

    https://www.sap.com/index.html
  • Tonkean

    Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, empowering operations teams to rapidly improve efficiency with an enterprise-grade, composable automation platform. By allowing ops teams to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes with no-code, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. The Tonkean platform makes automating complex business processes simple and accessible to non-developers, such as business operations teams and process owners, by abstracting the high technical barrier and coding expertise needed to deliver robust, enterprise-grade process solutions via composability. Ops teams compose custom process solutions using building blocks called “enterprise components” or ECs. ECs are modular, interchangeable, and reusable capabilities that perform actions or complete steps in a business process. ECs are fully governed and curated, typically by IT. They can be adopted from vendors or custom built, or they can simply be extensions of existing tools and systems. This allows ops and process experts to rapidly build holistic process solutions that can work with different systems, easily adapt to changing needs, and measure cross-functional KPIs–all with no-code and no change management. Enterprises like Google, EVERSANA, Instacart, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more rely on Tonkean to optimize and align their operations across functions—including sales, marketing, customer support, legal, finance, and more. With Tonkean, enterprises can expand the pie of who can deliver software to make a world of Makers.

    https://tonkean.com/
  • Upwork

    Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $3.8 billion on Upwork in 2022 across more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.

    https://www.upwork.com/enterprise/
  • Zoom

    Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

    https://zoom.us
  • Zscaler

    Zscaler, the only zero trust platform that securely connects any user, any device, and any app over any network. Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant. Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside. By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.

    https://www.zscaler.com/

Venue

Embassy Suites-Ayrsley

1917 Ayrsley Town Blvd.
Charlotte

Registration

The CIO Executive Leadership Summit is created for CIOs/IT leaders. It also has strong appeal to leaders interested in better positioning their organizations and themselves for what’s ahead in business and to achieve the greatest benefits through the use of information technology. 

To ensure a high quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:

  • Employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professional in an organization with $200M or greater revenue, or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size

– OR – 

  • Full time academicians

If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.

All registration requests will be reviewed and approved based upon above stated criteria.

* Sales/marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations are not permitted.

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