CIO Summits

Visionary Leadership: Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and a 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 and to draw upon authentic and inclusive leadership skills to inspire their teams.

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.

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


 

 

 

 

 

2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit

Visionary Leadership: Driving a Modern AI Enterprise and a 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 and to draw upon authentic and inclusive leadership skills to inspire their teams.

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.

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

 


  • Saqib Awan
    Founder & Managing Director
    GTM Capital

    Saqib E. Awan is the Founder & Managing Director of GTM Capital, an innovative venture capital fund focused on Enterprise IT. Prior to launching GTM Capital, Saqib spent 7 years as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms. At Lightspeed, Saqib was responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, business development, and helping close key deals for the firm. He led the firm’s Business Development activities and built the best-in-class Executive network in Venture Capital with over 1,200 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and IT Executives from around the world in Global 2000 companies.

    Saqib received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Saqib is a first-generation immigrant, has nine siblings, and has lived in three countries. He currently lives in Miami, Florida with his wife and two daughters: Aleesa, 5, and Emilia 14 months.

  • Andrew Ballema
    Vice President, Tangoe Advisory Services
    Tangoe

    Andrew Ballema, the Vice President of Tangoe Advisory Services, is a highly accomplished executive leader in Technology Sales and Cloud. With a proven track record of managing high-growth sales teams and implementing effective partner strategies, he has consistently driven sustained revenue growth. As a sought-after speaker, Ballema shares his expertise and insights on sales strategies and achieving success in the evolving technology landscape.

  • David Bruskin
    SVP, Cyber Operations Leader
    Synchrony Financial

    David Bruskin, SVP, Cyber Operations Leader who principals Synchrony’s Intelligence, SecDevOps, SOC, Hunt, Insider Risk, eDiscovery, Sector Coordination and Simulations teams. He utilizes his knowledge from consulting over 13 years at companies RSA Security, Dell, and Mandiant. David maintains his technical acumen to translate risk controls to business enablement, while operating in highly regulated environments.

  • Wayne Bulmahn
    Chief Information Officer/Security Officer
    UNITE HERE HEALTH

    Wayne is an IT business doctor.  For over 30 years, he has helped heal IT organizations, transforming them from reactive firefighters to proactive teams that help solve business challenges and enable growth.  Wayne is currently the CIO and Security Officer for UNITE HERE HEALTH, a $1.3B national labor management trust fund focused on providing high-quality, affordable health care to participants.  He is also the President-Elect and a Board Member for SIM-Chicago, the leading CIO professional organization in Chicago.

  • Liav Caspi
    Co-Founder & CTO
    Legit Security

    Liav spent a decade doing cybersecurity in the Israeli unit of 8200 in various engineering and leadership roles.

    In previous roles, Liav worked at Argus Cyber Security, building security into automotive software, and then joined an early-stage startup that was acquired by Checkmarx, where he led the architecture and product management of the SCA and later AST platform. Today Liav is the Co-Founder and CTO of Legit Security.

  • Manish Chawla
    Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
    IAT Insurance Group

  • Michael Cornwell
    Field CTO of the Americas
    Pure Storage

    Michael Cornwell serves as the Field CTO of the Americas at Pure Storage. He is a Founding Engineer of the company and has served in key management roles in the company's growth. Previously at Microsoft as the general manager of storage technologies for Azure Infrastructure and led the innovation and adoption of new memory and storage technologies across the Azure platform and services. He also led pioneering storage product development at Sun Microsystems and Apple, where he was instrumental in adopting new technologies in Apple products. Michael holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has been awarded 68 U.S. patents.

  • Shai Gabay
    Founder and CEO
    Trustmi

    A visionary entrepreneur, Shai Gabay has always had a deep passion for cyber-security and fintech, and he developed his expertise in both areas over the course of his career. Currently he is a co-founder and the CEO of Trustmi, a leading end-to-end payment security platform founded in Israel in 2021. Prior to Trustmi he held the role of General Manager at Opera, and previously, VP Product and Services at Cynet. He has also served as the CIO at Cyberbit and the CISO at Discount Bank, among other roles in cyber-security and risk management. Shai holds a Bachelor's Degree from Shenkar College in software engineering, and also a Master's degree in Business Administration and Management from Tel Aviv University.  Additionally, Shai was selected for the prestigious 1-year full scholarship executive excellence program at the Hoffman Kofman Foundation, a program tailored to outstanding alumni of IDF’s Elite Units. Through this program he had the opportunity to study with prominent co-founders and leaders at renowned global tech companies and professors at elite universities.

  • Tom Gerdes
    EVP & CIO
    The Heico Companies LLC.

  • Rocco Grillo
    Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation
    Alvarez & Marsal

    Cybersecurity Executive Leader with extensive experience leading teams and providing clients with cybersecurity advisory services, incident response investigations, and other technical services, as well as guidance to C-Suite and Board level clients. I serve as a trusted advisor and partner to clients, law enforcement and government agencies, law firms, and industry organizations to address cybersecurity matters including incident response & forensics investigations, as well as vulnerability and threat management matters. He is a Ponemon Institute Fellow and affiliate board advisor to industry organizations including FS-ISAC, Retail-CISC, NH-ISAC as well as other ISACS, and member of the Shared Assessments Steering Committee Board. He has also served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY ISSA, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i-4) Research Committee and he has been Interviewed / quoted in CNNMoney, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, Thomson Reuters, and other industry publications.

  • Guy Guzner
    Co-Founder and CEO
    Savvy Security

    Guy Guzner is a co-founder & the chief executive officer at Savvy. He has over 25 years of experience with network security products, and began his career managing large product teams in engineering and security with Check Point Software Technologies. While working at Check Point Software Technologies, Guy built security product strategies and led the development life cycle of a successful product portfolio with over $1.5B in annual revenues. In 2014, he co-founded Fireglass, a browser-isolation startup acquired by Symantec in 2017. Guy completed the Executive Program in Leadership from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

  • Corey Harrison
    C-Founder & CEO
    Flip AI

    Corey Harrison is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flip AI, an observability intelligence platform revolutionizing enterprise tech incident resolution. With over 20 years of experience in tech, strategy, and operations, including roles at the NFL, KKR, and service in government, Corey earned a medal from the Secretary of Defense. He holds an MBA from Yale, a Master's from Duquesne, and a Bachelor's from Lehigh, and actively contributes as a Member of the Lehigh University Board of Trustees. Corey's journey is a testament to his visionary leadership and dedication to innovation in the tech industry.

  • Anjana Harve
    EVP & CIO
    BJ's Wholesale Club

    Anjana was the CIO at Hillrom, a leading global medical technology company, where she was driving a large business transformation through digital solutions. Prior to that she held several leadership positions at Novartis as the Americas CIO for Alcon, Global Head of Commercial IT Operations and Global Head of Compliance Services & Information Management. She has more than 20 years of experience across the Life Sciences industry as well as in consulting.  Anjana has had the opportunity to take on some tough challenges and successfully drive large scale transformations throughout her career journey.  She is known for being a change catalyst with a penchant for inspiring, motivating and coaching teams to achieve uncommon results.

    Anjana strongly believes that information is a strategic asset that should be leveraged as a competitive differentiator. She has presented her ideas at various conferences and written articles about it.

    Anjana has an MBA from the Wharton School and a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University, India.

  • Emily Heath
    General Partner
    Cyberstarts

    Emily most recently served as Senior Vice President, Chief Trust and Security Officer at DocuSign.  Prior to that she served as Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at United Airlines and Vice President and Global CISO at AECOM. Emily currently serves on the Board of Directors of Norton LifeLock (NASDAQ: NLOK), Cloud Security Company Wiz and Governance Risk & Compliance company, LogicGate.

     Originally from Manchester, England, Emily is a former Police Detective from the UK Financial Crimes Unit where she led investigations into international investment fraud, money laundering and large scale identity theft cases, running joint investigations with the FBI, SEC and London’s Serious Fraud Office.

  • Art Hopkins
    Global Co-Leader of the Technology Officers Practice
    Russell Reynolds Associates

    Art Hopkins is an Executive Director in Russell Reynolds’ Information Officer Search Practice. In this capacity he advises clients within the Technology Sector, as well as conducting searches for executives across Russell Reynolds’ clientele. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Art was with Macquarium, an experience design and strategy firm, most recently as CEO and earlier as President.  Prior to joining Macquarium, Art was the managing director and vice president of consulting for Blackwell Consulting Services, a Chicago-based IT Strategy Consultancy. He has held leadership roles at William James and Associates and began his career with the National Bank of Detroit, now Chase Bank. Art is a frequent speaker at CIO events and was featured in the premier issue of Black I.T. Professional Magazine in an article on “The New IT Professional”. He has co- authored pieces for CIO magazine’s Consultant Briefing on subjects including “CIO’s, Mentoring is a Way to Increase Your Success”, “Managing Your Identity Crisis”, and “Becoming the Business-Centric CIO”. Most recently he served as guest editor for the Cutter IT Journal’s June / July 2014 double issue on Empathy–Based System Design. Art is very active in the community and has a personal interest in matters related to education. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), and as the chair of the ITSMF Networking Committee, he has served on the Executive Committee for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Georgia’s Commission for School Board Excellence, Junior Achievement of Georgia, and as the Board Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Society. He has also served on the advisory boards for Vignette Software (acquired by OpenText in 2009) and Diversified Information Technologies (acquired by EDM Group in 2013) through their acquisitions. Having earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and a certificate in eBusiness Strategy from the University of Chicago, he has been recognized by Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry as one of Chicago's top technology innovators. 

  • Mahmood Khan
    Global Chief Security Officer
    CNA Financial

    Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the financial, airlines and aviation industry. Skilled in Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Assessment, IT Audit, and Information Security Management. Strong Information Technology Executive with a Masters in Cyber Security and a Bachelor of Science focused in Computer Science from DePaul University.

    Specialties: Cyber Threat and Threat Intelligence • Cloud Security • Vulnerability Management • Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) • Insider Threat (Data Loss Prevention / Behavioral Analysis) • Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) • Cyber Analytics • Innovation • Information Security Planning/Strategy • Payment Card Industry (PCI) assessment • Technology Compliance • Application Security SDLC and DevSecOps • Mobile Application Security • FFIEC Assessments • Process Automation/Standardization • Merger/Acquisitions • Divestitures • Third Party Security • Red/Blue/Black Teaming

  • Ricardo Lafosse
    CISO
    The Kraft Heinz Company

  • Tony Leng
    Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head
    H.I.E.C

    Tony Leng was formerly Managing Director of Diversified Search and led the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO practice from its San Francisco office.  Previously, Tony was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Tony has conducted many “C” level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming/building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies.  He has conducted “C” level searches conducted for organizations such as Aurora Healthcare, Axalta, Catholic Health Initiatives, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, PG&E, Polycom, Sutter Health, Symmetricom, TE Connectivity, and Wellmark. 

    Prior to his executive search experience, Tony was a Board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million Public Company. Before that, Tony ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and Chairman of its ISP and a board member of its 2 million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary. 

    Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, ‘Resources for the Modern CIO” (www.tonyleng.com).

    The core of Tony’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.

    Tony has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum for the past 12 years.  The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO’s and CTO’s to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis.  Participating companies have included: Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma among others. 

    Tony received a Bachelor of Commerce (with honors), University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant and CPA.

  • Talvis Love
    SVP & CIO
    Baxter International

    Talvis Love is senior vice president and chief information officer.

    Love joined Baxter in 2020 from Cardinal Health's Pharmaceuticals Segment, where he was responsible for overall IT service delivery, including strategic planning, applications maintenance and support, and new project implementations. 

    Previously, Love held the positions of senior vice president, eCommerce, Governance Execution, Enterprise Architecture & Chief Information Security Officer of Cardinal Health. His career has also included several executive and management positions within TD Bank Group, Ford Motor Company, Oracle Corporation and Quaker Oats Company, a division of PepsiCo.

    He serves as executive sponsor of Early Career Professionals, a business resource group focused on helping early career professionals at Baxter achieve their professional development aspirations and maximize their contributions to Baxter’s business objectives. Love also serves as a member of Baxter's Global Inclusion Council.

    He currently serves as a director on the board of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit and the Tricentis Growth Advisory Board. 

    Love earned degrees in Technology Management and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland. He has a master's degree in business administration from Michigan State University and completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago.

  • Jean Luber
    VP IT
    MYR Group

    Successful technology leader with a proven track record of creatively solving business problems. I have strengths in teaming with business leadership, leading startups, actively identifying and pursuing business opportunities for value creation through cost reduction and strong project management skills.

    As former CIO of Laidlaw Education Services, a premier yellow school bus transportation company, my experience included developing and managing systems that supported the financials, human resources, operations and infrastructure for 550 locations with 45,000 employees.

    My target goal is to be a CIO reporting to a CEO/COO

    Specialties: Large scale/successful ERP project management, Data Center management, Information Technology Strategic planning, Leading startups

  • Susan Malisch
    SVP & CIO
    American Medical Association

    Susan Malisch formerly served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Loyola University Chicago. In this capacity, Susan led the development and implementation of the University’s information technology (IT) strategic direction, and delivers IT services that support student learning, faculty research and teaching, administrative processes, and public service. Prior to joining Loyola, she held technology leadership roles at Novell, Cambridge Technology Partners, UCLA, and ATT (formerly Southwestern Bell Communications). Ms. Malisch was the recipient of the 2010 CIO of the Year award from the Executives Club of Chicago and the Association of IT Professionals. Ms. Malisch is the current President for the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Information Management and volunteers with a number of educational and professional organizations. Ms. Malisch earned a B.S.B.A. degree in Computer Information Systems from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.

  • Dan Manley
    Managing Director & CISO
    CME Group

    Dan Manley serves as Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer at CME Group. He is responsible for establishing an information security strategy, directing the development of architecture and ensuring effective incident response, compliance, and reporting.   Prior to joining CME Group, Dan gained more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, information technology, audit and risk management through leadership positions in Information Security at Allstate Insurance Corporation, KPMG LLP, Bank of America, and Diebold.  Dan began his professional career as a Project and Program Manager for the United States Air Force. 

  • Hunter Muller
    Founder and CEO
    HMG Strategy

    Hunter Muller is a charismatic industry pioneer and a modern-day Renaissance Man. As a global C-suite advisor and coach for the past 30 years, Hunter’s insights and concepts have been successfully applied by Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide to accelerate executive performance, propel the career ascent of C-level executives, and to drive transformative innovation and create new waves of value.

    Hunter is the President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, the largest independent, objective, transparent and collaborative executive network in the world. HMG focuses on innovation and breakthrough strategies for core, parallel and new markets while studying the most successful organizations ecosystems and platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft.

    HMG Strategy is the provider of thought leadership and networking events for CIOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives. HMG Strategy offers a unique, integrated model for enabling C-level executives and their companies to draw upon courageous leadership to reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild their business models to attain the genius-level thinking required in today’s dynamic business landscape to achieve competitive advantage in the digital frontier.

    Hunter's passion for the role of the technology executive in transforming the business is reflected in the 7 Pillars of Trust which embody HMG Strategy's unique business model.

    Complementing HMG Strategy’s world-renowned events is HMG Next Ventures, a venture capital accelerator aimed at helping connect CIOs with the most innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Strategy also partners with the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. HMG Strategy connects CEOs, CIOs, and other C-level executives with startup technologies backed by the leading VCs to identify opportunities for innovation and business transformation.

    Meanwhile, HMG Strategy’s award-winning Research Team advises the world’s technology companies such as Adobe, Nutanix, and Workday on branding, messaging, and Voice of the Customer strategies.

    Hunter has published five that draw from his extensive business experience: The Transformational CIO (Wiley, March 2011), On Top of the Cloud (Wiley, January 2012), Leading the Epic Revolution (Wiley, September 2013) and The Big Shift in IT Leadership (Wiley, July 2015) and The CEO of Technology (Wiley, January 2018). Hunter is now working on his sixth book: 'Enterprise 2025', which is slated to be published in January 2020. As a result, Hunter’s unique position of knowing the thoughts, challenges, and opportunities of the IT Leader, he is asked to speak at a variety of venues such as IBM’s Cloud Expo and on TheStreet.com.

    Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society, Save the Children, and Year Up, and Hunter personally gives back his time and ideas as a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

    An intrepid international athlete, Hunter is an ardent yacht racer, a world-class skier, and an extreme fitness guru. Hunter is passionate about ocean and mountain adventures and spending time with his sons, Chase and Brice.

    Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in the Babson College School of Management.

  • Murali Nemani
    CMO
    Aisera

    As Chief Marketing Officer, Murali is responsible for helping enterprises understand and apply the power of Generative AI into their most critical business applications. At Aisera, his mission is to educate and inform industries to achieve a self-service model, where customers and employees are able to find answers and fulfill their wishes with minimal human intervention. Murali’s extensive background working with disruptive technologies and high-growth startups has offered him a window into scaling businesses and driving mass market adoption of innovative platforms. Prior to Aisera, Murali helped develop the AIOps market at ScienceLogic, leading the company to a 5x ARR growth during his tenure and being recognized as a 2x Forrester WAVE leader. Murali is a Cisco-alum leading global marketing efforts for their multi-billion-dollar video and mobility portfolios. Murali also served as a recurring guest lecturer at Stanford Business School sharing case studies from his personal work experience to 2nd year MBA students on the adoption of disruptive technologies.

  • Venugopal Pai
    Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Officer
    Nutanix

    Chief Evangelist and VP Customer ExperienceIn his role as Chief Evangelist, ‘Pai’ is focused on the largest global customers to ensure the best customer experience while ensuring that they have the broadest depth and knowledge of what Nutanix can do help them drive business transformation. Pai previously launched and led Alliances and Business Development to scale up their OEM, technology and vertical partner ecosystems to transform Nutanix into a platform company. In addition to bringing a wealth of tribal knowledge within Nutanix as well as the broader market and global customer install base, he is an accomplished executive speaker able to seamlessly weave a vision around Nutanix’s products, technology, and strategy with customers. Through his tenure at Nutanix, Pai has built strong executive relationships with key customers and leading conversations and discussions in Customer and Executive Advisory Boards to address the needs of critical and high potential accounts while working closely with field and product teams to influence and drive product and engineering strategy. He brings over 35 years of experience across varied disciplines from his time at many startups and tenure at Riverbed, Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems.

  • August Pelliccio
    Associate Editor
    HMG Strategy

     

  • Sriya Potham
    Field CTO
    Wiz

    Sriya Potham is a cloud security thought leader and strategist currently working as a Field CTO at Wiz. With almost a decade of cloud security experience she helps customers transform their cloud security programs and operationalize using Wiz in large and complex environments. Prior to Wizshe served as a principal cloud security architect at United Airlines, growing the cloud security program to provide better support and partnership to development teams by heavily leveraging automation gaining better governance and efficiency.

  • Atif Rafiq
    Director of Information Security
    BRYTER

    Atif has held C Suite positions at some of the world's leading brands.  He was the first CDO in the Fortune 500 when he joined the Executive Committee of McDonald's in 2013 and later took on expanded roles as CIO and CDO of Volvo, and President at MGM Resorts.  He previously held roles at major tech companies including Amazon and Yahoo! over 15+ years.

    In addition to serving on the Board of public companies, he is an influencer with over 500,000 followers and 100,000 followers to his LinkedIn newsletter.  Atif's new book "Decision Sprints" is being published by McGraw Hill. 

  • Raanan Raz
    CEO and co-Founder
    Avalor

    Raanan Raz is the co-founder and CEO of Avalor. He has more than 20 years of experience in big data solutions, with a focus on making complex data easy to use. 

    He holds multiple patents in the field of big data platforms and analytics.
    Prior to founding Avalor, Raanan was VP of R&D at Salesforce, where he led the company's big data initiatives. 

  • Madhu Reddy
    EVP & CIO
    Republic Bank of Chicago

  • Yotam Segev
    Co-Founder & CEO
    Cyera

  • Brian Slepko
    EVP, Corporate Development
    Rimini Street

    Brian Slepko serves as EVP, Corporate Development. In this role, he is responsible for the vision, strategy, and execution of Rimini Street’s continued expansion through mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.

    Mr. Slepko is a skilled executive leader with 30 years of experience in enterprise software and expertise in global sales operations, support delivery, business operations, project management, and quality systems.

    Mr. Slepko served the previous 15 years at Rimini Street as the EVP Global Service Delivery where he built and led the global service delivery team consisting of hundreds of engineers around the world supporting thousands of Clients.

    Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Slepko was with Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), which he joined as part of Oracle’s acquisition of Agile Software. Mr. Slepko served as vice president, global maintenance revenue and sales operations for Agile Software and was responsible for developing the company’s US$56 million global maintenance revenue business, including all operational aspects of the Agile Software global sales organization.

    Previously, Mr. Slepko held various management positions with PeopleSoft, Inc. Most recently, he served as director of operations for the customer sales division responsible for more than US$1 billion in global annual maintenance revenue. Other positions included director of product support and corporate director of problem resolution, where Mr. Slepko led the redesign and improvement of the global infrastructure used to resolve customer-reported product issues and implemented consistent, measurable quality processes.

    Earlier, Mr. Slepko was director, sales operations for Ocular Sciences and began his career as a manager with Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture [NYSE: ACN]), where he was responsible for managing large information systems projects for Fortune 500 customers in Andersen’s rapidly expanding telecommunications practice.

    Mr. Slepko holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Loyola University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Business Administration in management and management information systems from the University of Oklahoma.

     

  • Edward Wagoner
    CIO, Digital
    JILL

  • Andy Watson
    Senior Product Marketing Manage
    RingCentral

    Andy Watson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for the RingCentral CX portfolio. Prior to joining RingCentral, he held UCaaS and CCaaS Product Marketing roles at Broadvoice and Mavenir. Additionally, he has extensive telecom experience with Nortel Networks, Ericsson, and GENBAND (now Ribbon Communications), serving in various roles in Technical Documentation, Program Management, and New Product Introduction.

  • Michael Zachman
    VP & Chief Security Officer
    Zebra Technologies Corporation

    Mike Zachman is currently the Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Zebra Technologies, the market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility.  He has global responsibility for its enterprise-wide product security, information security, corporate security, and business continuity programs.  Zachman is a globally experienced leader with extensive information security, risk management and information technology expertise.  Prior to Zebra, Zachman was the first Chief information Security Officer (CISO) at Caterpillar as well as Ecolab.   Zachman holds an undergraduate degree in management information systems from Millikin University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Bradley University. He is a Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Internal Auditor and is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT. He is an active volunteer with Junior Achievement and serves on the National Board for Easter Seals.

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September 19, 2023, 8 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

Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago

9:20 - 9:35 AM

 

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE:  Communicating AI to the C-Suite and Board

Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Generative AI isn't just top-of-mind for CIOs and business technology executives. CEOs and board members also want to know how the company is using GenAI and how it's expected to benefit the business. In this Fireside Chat with Talvis Love, SVP & CIO at Baxter International, Talvis will share how AI and GenAI can be viewed both as positive and negative and how to position these differences to the board and the C-suite. He'll also share how to gauge whether your organization is ahead of or behind the pack regarding the use of AI as well as recommendations for investing in AI along with approaches to governance that can be applied to successfully leverage GenAI.

9:35 – 10:00 AM                                                                                          

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

MODERATOR: Tony Leng, Managing Partner, H.I.E.C.

Thomas Gerdes, EVP & Chief Information Officer, The Heico Companies

Manish Chawla, EVP, CIO, IAT Insurance Group

Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International

Mahmood Khan, SVP, Global Chief Security Officer, CNA

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.

10:00 - 10:05 AM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation

Talvis Love, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Baxter International

10:05 – 10:25 AM                                                                              

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

10:25 – 10:50 AM                                                                               

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

MODERATOR: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Brian Slepko, EVP, Corporate Development, Rimini Street

Andrew Ballema, Vice President, Tangoe Advisory Services

Jean Luber, VP, IT, MYR Group

Susan Malisch, SVP, Chief Information Officer, American Medical Association (AMA)

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.

10:50 - 11:10 AM

FIRESIDE CHAT: Navigating the new world of AI 

Michael Cornwell, Field CTO of the Americas, Pure Storage interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

A monumental surge in AI-driven creativity is unfolding, and at its forefront is the innovative application Chat-GPT by Generate AI. This platform is paving the way by producing synthetic data that, while bearing statistical resemblance to the original dataset, is inherently unique. This technology permeates every facet of our lives, from academic essays and visual arts to musical and voice with deep fakes.

Join Michael Cornwell, Field CTO Americas for Pure Storage, as he delves deep into the challenges AI poses to businesses, offering guidance on navigating the intricate terrains of security, intellectual property, and ethics when crafting an AI strategy. Understand the pivotal role your company's data strategy plays and learn to harness it effectively.

11:10 - 11:25 AM                                                                                 

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

11:25 - 11:40 AM

INNOVATION ACCELERATOR PANEL:  VC Viewpoint:  Top Technology Startups

Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director of GTM Capital, invites CEOs of top innovative technology companies to share the challenges they solve for clients, the innovation they deliver to companies, and how their solutions are differentiated in the market. They will also provide insights into the current state of the startup landscape, and how CIOs can leverage startups to accelerate their businesses’ success. The panelists will be available to answer questions and provide feedback on how their respective solutions can help CIOs succeed.

MODERATOR: Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director of GTM Capital

Yotam Segev, Co-Founder & CEO, Cyera

Liav Caspi, Co-Founder & CTO, Legit Security

Corey Harrison, Co-Founder & CEO, Flip AI

11:40 AM – 12:00 PM                                                                                

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Accelerating Value Realization from Cloud Investments 

Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Manager, 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 Chicago Update

Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation and Photo

Presented by:  Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and August Pelliccio, Managing Editor - Digital, HMG Strategy

Mike Zachman, VP & CSO, Zebra Technologies

Wayne Bulmahn, CIO & Security Officer, UNITE HERE HEALTH

Mahmood Kahn, SVP, Global Chief Security Officer, CNA

1:00 – 1:20 PM    

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT:  Addressing the Human Experience in the Customer Journey

Andy Watson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, RingCentral interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Developing an elegant customer experience involves creating an experience that is intuitive and simple for customers. As part of this, it's also important to address the human element of the customer experience.

In this Executive Fireside Chat, Andy Watson, Senior Product Manager, Ring Central interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy, will share how this logic should be applied to the use of chatbots in the customer experience, along with recommendations for designing a chatbot experience that resonates with customers and naturally extends to their interactions with human agents.

1:20 - 1:45 PM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

1:45 - 2:10

INNOVATION ACCELERATOR: Cyber Innovation from Start-Ups

MODERATOR: Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

One of the benefits of working with start-up technology companies is that they are designed to tackle the top challenges being faced by existing and prospective clients. In this highly informative discussion with the CEOs of innovative cybersecurity companies, Emily Heath, General Partner at Cyberstarts, will moderate a dialogue on the top cyber threats facing companies today along with how each of the cyber startups represented on the panel are uniquely tackling these challenges.

Raanan Raz, Co-Founder and CEO, Avalor

Sriya Potham, Field CTO, Wiz

Shai Gabay, Co-Founder and CEO, Trustmi

Guy Guzner, CEO and Co-Founder, Savvy

2:10 - 2:20 PM

FIRESIDE CHAT: Creating Magical Customer and Employee Experiences with Generative AI

Murali Nemani, CMO, Aisera interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

As organizations seek to harness the potential of ChatGPT and Generative AI, they face a critical question: is it possible to leverage Generative AI in the enterprise safely without worrying about AI hallucinations or data leaks?  How can trust and confidence be achieved in the responses offered, especially within mission-critical and regulated industries? 

This session will address these questions and discuss how to drive a modern AI enterprise securely using enterprise LLMs, which are grounded in your organization’s data, domains and industries. Through examining various deployments, you’ll learn how to leverage these enterprise LLMs to improve employee experience and deliver delightful customer experiences while reducing operational costs.

2:20 - 2:25 PM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation

Anjana Harve, SVP & CIO, BJ's Wholesale Club

2:25 - 2:45 PM

 

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

2:45 - 3:15 PM      

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

Moderator:  Rocco Grillo, Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Investigation Services, Alvarez & Marsal

Michael Zachman, VP & Chief Security Officer, Zebra Technologies Corporation

Ricardo Lafosse, Chief Information Security Officer, The Kraft Heinz Company

David Bruskin, SVP Cyber Operations Leader, Synchrony Financial

Dan Manley, Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer, CME Group

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.

3:15 - 3:25

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Blueprint for CIOs to Lead Innovation

Atif Rafiq, Author, Board Member interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

In this discussion, Atif Rafiq will introduce breakthrough methods to enable teams to innovate faster and smarter.  Based on his WSJ bestseller, Decision Sprint, he will provide a model that address the hardest part of innovation — embracing unknowns and ambiguity.  Learn how Decision Sprint can help your organization take on unknowns, make them actionable and move from ideas to action.  Get ready for a more  purposeful, inclusive and AI-ready approach to innovation and solving meaningful problems. 

3:25 - 3:55 PM

 

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Leading as The CEO of Technology – Preparing for What’s Next

MODERATOR:  Paul Koziel, Former VP, US Digital Delivery & Group Technology Services, Argo Group

Madhu Reddy, EVP & CIO, Republic Bank

Anjane Harve, EVP & CIO, BJ's Wholesale Club

Atif Rafiq, Author, Board Member

Art Hopkins, Global Co-Leader of Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

The world and the business community has experienced more turbulence in the past 3 years than we’ve seen in a century – a global pandemic, massive supply-chain disruptions, the War in Ukraine, an international recession and other geo-political shockwaves. As the CEO of Technology, CIOs need the ability to peer around the corner and to anticipate what might be coming next to enable the business to succeed. In this compelling Executive Panel discussion, world-class CIOs and industry experts share the type of leadership acumen that’s needed to succeed in today’s uncertain environment, to lead through the C-suite and the Board and to guide employees to a brighter future. 

3:55 - 4:00 PM                                                                                   

Closing Remarks & Raffle Prizes

                                                                              


Presenting Partners

  • 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
  • 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/
  • Pure Storage

    Pure Storage helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. With Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B companies, Pure has an ever-expanding range of customers who are some of the happiest in the world.

    https://www.purestorage.com
  • Aisera

    Aisera is the industry’s first proactive, personalized, and predictive AI Service Management (AISM) solution that is purpose-built to automate tasks and actions for IT, HR, Facilities, and Customer Service. Aisera's next-generation AI Service Desk works with existing service desk solutions to deliver an end-to-end AI Service Experience for employees and customers. The AI Service Desk automates and resolves more than 50 percent of tasks, requests, and workflows to deliver self-service to users.

    https://www.aisera.com/

Platinum Partners

  • Rimini Street

    Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software and a Salesforce and AWS partner. The Company has operations globally and offers a comprehensive family of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database, and technology software, and enables clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources for innovation. To date, over 5,200 Fortune 500, Fortune Global 100, midmarket, public sector, and other organizations from a broad range of industries have relied on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software solutions provider. To learn more, please visit riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. (IR-RMNI)

    https://www.riministreet.com/
  • Tangoe

    Tangoe is the leading technology expense and asset management solution. Tangoe seamlessly integrates with hundreds of providers globally to deliver the reporting and insights needed by enterprises of all sizes and scales. Fueled by an innovative automation framework and unified customer experience, Tangoe optimizes spend and resources across telecom, mobile, cloud, and IoT. For more information on the power of Tangoe and how it can transform your business, visit www.tangoe.com or connect with the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.

    https://www.tangoe.com/

Gold Partners

  • 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/
  • Lakeside Software

    The future of workforce productivity will rely on digital employee experience and elimination of digital blindspots. Lakeside addresses this need with a modern cloud platform that uniquely combines complete real-time and historical experience data with intelligent edge-based analytics needed for IT to proactively improve digital employee experience at scale. ​

    https://www.lakesidesoftware.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/
  • Glean

    Glean searches across all your company’s apps to help you find exactly what you need and discover the things you should know. Powered by next-generation AI, Glean delivers highly personalized results based on who you are, what you’re working on, and who you’re working with. With Glean, employees quickly find the answers they need— or the people who can help. Setup is quick and doesn’t require professional services or manual fine-tuning. Led by Arvind Jain (Google, Rubrik Co-founder), Glean has funding from Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and The Slack Fund. www.glean.com

    www.glean.com

Supporting Partners

  • Bluewave Technology Group

    Bluewave is an advisory and sourcing partner transforming how companies acquire and manage technology solutions. Our team of technology experts and analysts, leveraging our proven approach, guides businesses of all sizes to make well-informed technology decisions. Specializing in modernizing the IT and telecom infrastructure, Bluewave partners with proven cloud, colocation, network, mobility, security, and CX providers to develop the best solution while maximizing technology investments and ensuring long-term success. Learn more at bluewave.net

    https://bluewave.net
  • Apptio

    Apptio is the leading software to fuel digital transformation. We help technology and finance leaders make smart decisions as they plan, analyze, and optimize technology investments in pursuit of digital transformation.  Apptio’s software uses machine learning to translate technology costs and utilization across on-premises systems, vendors, projects, agile and cloud systems into a holistic, business-centric view. With Apptio, IT leaders make smarter digital transformation investments.

    http://www.apptio.com
  • Proofpoint Inc.

    Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur.

    https://www.proofpoint.com/us
  • 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

Trailblazer Partners

  • GTM Capital

    GTM Capital is singularly focused on helping our portfolio companies gain a massive competitive advantage by rapidly accelerating customer traction.

    https://gtm-capital.com
  • Cyberstarts

    We have spent years building industry leading companies. We bring this trove of experience and relationships to every venture we invest in. Cyberstarts was the brainchild of many deep conversations with our most successful cyber peers to distill the holy grail that enabled us to build important companies. It soon became clear that the trajectory to success is determined at a venture’s earliest start. That our deep inside perspective and highly engaged network during this critical earliest stage were unique ingredients in our successes. By aggregating these close relationships for entrepreneurs who we believe in, we knew that we can create incredible value for our tight network of CISOs who enjoy the earliest access to solutions that they help to define. These peers became investors and Cyberstarts became the only VC primarily funded by the industry’s most successful cybersecurity founders.

    https://cyberstarts.com/about
  • Avalor

    Avalor is the data fabric for security teams, providing quick access and analysis of disparate data pipelines overlayed with business critical context. Avalor's open data platform takes a modern, source-agnostic approach to security – dynamically ingesting, normalizing, and enriching data from any source (legacy systems, data lakes, data warehouses, sql databases, applications, etc.) to build a complete picture of all weaknesses or adversaries (CVE, code flaw, misconfigurations, app security findings, external attack surface risk, third party risk, user behavior risk, etc.). With Avalor, organizations can embed business context and KPIs into prioritization workflows and achieve full cycle risk assessment, remediation, and reporting while expanding into additional use cases with full transparency of their data.

    https://www.avalor.io/about
  • Wiz

    We’re reinventing cloud security from the inside out. Led by an experienced and visionary team, we are on a mission to help organizations create secure cloud environments that accelerate their businesses. By creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments, our platform enables organizations to rapidly identify and remove critical risks.

    https://www.wiz.io/about
  • Trustmi

    Trustmi is the only end-to-end payment security solution that helps businesses protect their bottom line by eliminating losses from cyberattacks, internal collusion and human error. Trustmi’s flexible and modular solution offers businesses full control to use only the tools they need for securing their payment processes and managing their vendors. Founded in 2021 by Shai Gabay and Eli Ben Nun, Trustmi is headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in New York City. For more information, visit https://www.trustmi.ai/.

    https://www.trustmi.ai/

Marketplace Partners

  • 8x8, Inc.

    8x8 is transforming the future of business communications with XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™). 8x8 XCaaS is the only integrated platform for contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat, and CPaaS embeddable APIs. Unlike multi-vendor environments, 8x8 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 8x8 to collaborate quicker, work smarter, and serve customers better with real-time analytics across every interaction. For organizations relying on Microsoft Teams for collaboration, 8x8 offers its 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams direct routing solution and 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams which is certified by Microsoft. 8x8 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 8x8 for advanced communications for Teams. 8x8 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.8x8.com/
  • Akamai

    Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multicloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics, and 24/7/365 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/
  • 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/
  • 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/
  • 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
  • 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/
  • 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/
  • 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/
  • Ping Identity

    Ping Identity provides secure and seamless digital experiences for your employees, partners and customers. We do it by securely connecting users to cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications and APIs while managing identity and profile data at scale.

    https://www.pingidentity.com/en/solutions/business-priority/innovate-digital-experiences.html
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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/
  • 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
  • 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

Strategic Partners

  • Egon Zehnder

    Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.

    http://www.egonzehnder.com
  • Heidrick & Struggles

    Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

    http://www.heidrick.com
  • Korn Ferry

    At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.

    https://www.kornferry.com
  • Spencer Stuart

    Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world's leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world's largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.

    https://www.spencerstuart.com
  • Intuitive Cloud

    Intuitive is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas (recognized by CRN & INC 5000) focused on IT solutions, and services supporting 100+ Fortune 1000 & ISV customers on a global scale. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & a Trusted Partner, Intuitive’s solution-centric SMEs across its core Superpowers (Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, AppDev, AppSecOps/DevSecOps, SRE, Data, AI/ML, Network and Digital Workspace) help solve most complex challenges and initiatives for Enterprises. Intuitive is also one of the very few recognized ProServe partners AWS (ProServe), Azure (ECIF), GCP (PSF), VMware (PSO/PCT), PANW, and Zscaler delivering engineering excellence.

    https://www.intuitive.cloud

Alliance Partners

  • Greylock Partners

    Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).

    http://www.greylock.com
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Lightspeed Ventures is a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in India, Israel, and China. With over $7 billion under management, Lightspeed invests in both enterprise and consumer tech startups from early-stage to late-stage. With over 300 active startups in the portfolio, Lightspeed has invested in companies like Brocade, Informatica, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft, zScaler, etc. Lightspeed has also created a CIO Innovation Advisory Network to connect forward-thinking IT leaders with Silicon Valley.

    http://lsvp.com
  • Sequoia Capital

    Sequoia is a venture firm with a 40+ year track record of partnering with daring entrepreneurs. Founded in 1972, we’ve been early business partners with many of technology’s biggest companies (Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, and more) along with many emerging leaders (WhatsApp, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, FireEye, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Airbnb, etc).

    https://www.sequoiacap.com
  • Cyberstarts

    We have spent years building industry leading companies. We bring this trove of experience and relationships to every venture we invest in. Cyberstarts was the brainchild of many deep conversations with our most successful cyber peers to distill the holy grail that enabled us to build important companies. It soon became clear that the trajectory to success is determined at a venture’s earliest start. That our deep inside perspective and highly engaged network during this critical earliest stage were unique ingredients in our successes. By aggregating these close relationships for entrepreneurs who we believe in, we knew that we can create incredible value for our tight network of CISOs who enjoy the earliest access to solutions that they help to define. These peers became investors and Cyberstarts became the only VC primarily funded by the industry’s most successful cybersecurity founders.

    https://cyberstarts.com/about
  • Menlo Ventures

    Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses including Betterment, Carta, Roku, Poshmark, Uber, and Warby Parker that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 43 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 70 public companies, over 100 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.5 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re all in.

    https://www.menlovc.com/
  • GTM Capital

    GTM Capital is singularly focused on helping our portfolio companies gain a massive competitive advantage by rapidly accelerating customer traction.

    https://gtm-capital.com

Association Partners

  • SIM Chicago

    The Society for Information Management (SIM) is the premier network for IT leaders, comprised of over 3600 members, including CIOs, prominent academicians, consultants, other senior-level IT leaders, and vendors. SIM is a community of thought leaders who share experiences and rich intellectual capital that is applied for the future direction of IT. The Chicago SIM Chapter is one of the largest chapters in the association with more than 200 members. Chicago SIM provides a unique opportunity to interact with thought leaders throughout the technology field and to join peers in giving back to the industry and community. Chicago SIM serves the Northern Illinois area.

University Club of Chicago 

76 East Monroe Street | Chicago, IL 60603

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.

Special Needs - We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 243-1674 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.



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