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  Srilekha Akula
  Vice President | Software, Network, and DataVice President | Software, Network, and Data
  Optum

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  Paul Calatayud
  Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
  Onda AI

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  Ed Clark
  Chief Information Officer
  California State University, Office of the Chancellor

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  Tim Dokken
  Vice President- Infrastructure & Information Security
  Johnson Brothers

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  Jennifer Hartsock
  Chief Information and Digital Officer
  Cargill

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  Janet Hribar
  Director, Enterprise Project Management Office
  Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

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  Zachary Hughes
  VP IT Development & Operations
  CHS Inc.

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  Steven John
  Faculty Member IANS Research
  IANS

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  Tammylynne Jonas
  Global CIO
  Donaldson

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  Doug Koch
  Chief Information Officer
  Edina Realty

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  Kevin Kraft
  Director of Business Development
  Programs Director at SIM Minnesota Chapter
  HTC Global Services

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  Mike Larson
  VP, Technology Enablement
  Agiliti

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  Heather Manley
  CEO
  President, SIM Minnesota
  On-Demand Group

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  Andrea Markstrom
  CIO
  Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

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  Aimee Martin
  CISO
  Data Recognition Corporation

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  Kristin McKenzie
  Senior Director, IT
  Digi-Key

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  Anudeep Parhar
  Chief Operating Officer/ Digital
  Entrust Datacard

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  Allen Pofahl
  Chief Information Officer
  Dessert Holdings

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  Christine Pouliot
  CEO, Founder, Executive & Leadership Development Coach
  Evocent Executive Leadership

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  Cris Ross
  Chief Information Officer
  Mayo Clinic

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  William Scandrett
  VP, Chief Information Security Officer
  Allina Health

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  Melissa Scheppele
  SVP & CIO
  A. O. Smith Corporation

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  Carey Smith
  SVP, Chief Operating Officer | COO
  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

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  Tyrone Spratt
  CIO
  MNIT Services @ Agriculture, Board of Animal Health and Labor and Industry

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  Hillary Spreizer
  President
  The Latitude Group

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  Tony Taylor
  CISO
  Land O'Lakes

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  Greg Thayer
  Director, Information Security
  Jacks Link's

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  Dee Thibodeau
  CEO
  Charter Solutions

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  Joe Topinka
  CEO
  Advanity Technologies

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  Duc Trinh
  Head of Architecture and Engineering
  Mode Eleven Inc.

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  Matthew Werder
  Regional Technology Officer
  Ascension

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  Paul Zyla
  Senior Vice President / Chief Information Officer
  SPIRE Credit Union

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  Dan Abdul
  SVP and Chief Technology Officer
  Medica

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  Dan Abdul is a visionary leader in digital products development, analytics, and technology delivery.  He has led global teams in Technology Services, and Health Care industries, through growth and transformations.

  He currently is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Medica, a health insurance company operating across the Midwest. In his role at Medica, Abdul ensures the organization makes sound technology decisions and benefits from its investments in Information Technology (IT) systems. His responsibilities include advancing technologies, establishing a robust enterprise architecture model, and overseeing all IT-related infrastructure, security, development, and delivery.

  Dan currently serves on the boards of directors at CentraCare, a health system with six hospitals and over 30 clinics and Ecumen, a national leader in senior housing and long-term care.

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  Kelly Aronson
  Chief Digital Officer
  Andersen Corporation

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  I am a transformational technology leader passionate about driving digital strategy through all areas (sales, marketing, manufacturing, etc.) of the organization. I do this by building high-performance teams who have a strong bias for action.
  
  My signature strengths include:
  
  Leadership: setting a vision for where we want to go and building the team that can get us there; aligning individuals and groups with significant organizational changes, gaining commitment to change
  
  Digital Transformation: leveraging technology and business acumen to create a cohesive IT strategy that catapults the organization into the future; building strong cross-company relationships to deliver results
  
  Maximizing Relationships: establishing respect and building trust quickly; understanding & anticipating needs of stakeholders; creating a collaborative work environment and facilitating participation from diverse groups
  
  Skills: Relationship Building, IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Software Licensing, Data Security, Network Design, Technology Implementation, Technology Management, Compliance, Strategic Communication, Budgeting, Vendor Relationship Management

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  John Avenson
  Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
  Minnesota Twins

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  John Avenson oversees and manages the purposes of technology for all disciplines of the Minnesota Twins organization. John and his team develop and deliver baseball, business, and broadcast solutions that elevate the fan experience and team performance. His group creates, implements, and operates innovative technology at Target Field, the Lee County Sports Complex, and the Twins' Dominican Republic Development Academy.
  
  Avenson was named a Chief Information Officer of the Year by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Orbie Awards in 2013 and 2018. In 2021, John's collaboration with the Large Venue Tech Collective was recognized with a Minnesota Technology Association Tekne award in the Vibrant Tech Ecosystem/Partnership category. He currently serves as Board Chair on the Advisory Board of the MinnesotaCIO Leadership Association.
  
  A veteran of the Persian Gulf War, Avenson served with the United States Marine Corps where he maintained aircraft information for squadrons in the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
  
  A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Computer Science, Avenson and his family reside in Minnetonka, MN.

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  Saqib Awan
  Founder & Managing Director
  GTM Capital

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  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.

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  Teddy Bekele
  SVP & CTO
  Land O'Lakes

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  Teddy serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Land O’Lakes leading the company’s digital transformation by leveraging existing and emerging technologies, to discover, implement and deliver solutions and ecosystems. Prior to his current role, Bekele served as Vice President of Ag Technology for WinField United. Bekele holds an MBA from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University. His community leadership includes serving as Chair of the Minnesota Broadband Task Force, Chair of the Federal Task Force on Precision Ag Connectivity, Director on the Board of Stella Health, Director on the Board of Genesys Works Twin Cities, and MnTech.

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  Scott Brown
  Senior Executive Director Healthcare Technology M&A
  Cherry Tree Investment Banking

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  Author Scott Brown is a Senior Executive Director with a focus on sell-side M&A. He brings a unique skill set as a former CISO, Founder, Inventor, Executive, and Board Member. Scott’s experience spans over 25 years at Public and Private companies and includes building, scaling and transforming VC and PE backed companies. Cherry Tree & Associates is a Minneapolis-based private investment banking firm with more than four decades of transaction experience.

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  Mike Calvo
  Chief Technology Officer
  Shipt

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  Mike Calvo is the Chief Technology Officer at Shipt where he leads teams of engineers delivering experiences, capabilities and platforms that power our business and delight our customers.  Mike has held numerous technology leadership positions at companies like Target, Microsoft and Macromedia. He co-founded and served as CTO for an educational travel start up company. In his free time, Mike enjoys running, music, food and spending time with family and friends.

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  Andy Dulka
  Chief Information Officer
  Restaurant Technologies

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  As Chief Information Officer, I am responsible for identifying and executing technology simplification, business enablement and transformative efforts to achieve market and revenue growth. I hold over 20 years of experience and knowledge of applying technology to enable business success, drive operational efficiency and develop teams.

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  Sarah Engstrom
  CISO and VP IT Security, Productivity & Privacy
  CHS Inc.

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  Sarah Engstrom is Chief Information Security Officer at CHS, Inc. Located in Inver Grove Heights, MN, CHS, Inc. is a farmer-owned cooperative in energy, agriculture and financial services - serving a diverse set of domestic and international customers. Sarah joined CHS in December 2015 and is responsible for building an information security program that spans governance, compliance, architecture and incident management. In addition to security, Sarah leads data privacy and employee productivity for the organization.

  Sarah spent the last 13 years of her career with Target in a senior leadership role for both Information Technology and Information Security organizations. She has experienced and navigated significant challenges as well as multiple organizational changes in the security industry. She is excited to bring her expertise to a new organization and establish a program that supports culture, builds trust and fosters open collaboration and problem-solving.

  Sarah's passions extend beyond the corporate realm. She is very active in fitness, health and well-being, yoga and travel. These passions enable her to provide an open, supportive and nurturing environment to her co-workers and team - a means to differentiate herself in an otherwise stressful and tumultuous field.

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  Zachary Hughes
  VP IT Development & Operations
  CHS Inc.

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  I am the VP of IT Development & Operations at CHS and a technology leadership blogger. I have 20 years of experience in enterprise technology in a variety of disciplines including DevOps, cloud computing, mobile computing, cyber security, and IT leadership. I am passionate about leading innovative technical teams that create a competitive advantage for business. Prior to CHS, I held various IT leadership positions at Wells Fargo and GMAC Financial Services. I earned my MA in Organizational Leadership from Bethel University.

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  Steven John
  Faculty Member IANS Research
  IANS

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  Steven John is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of AmeriPride Services, a leading textile services and supply company in North America.  As a part of AmeriPride’s executive leadership team, Steven is responsible for the overall leadership of the Information Systems Team, enhancing the customer experience and accelerating the company’s growth strategy through digital innovation and technology. John most recently served as CIO of Workday Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise applications for human resource management, payroll and finance, where he worked closely with IT leaders and their teams to realize the full benefits of cloud computing. He was an integral part of Workday’s senior leadership team and played a key role in the company achieving and maintaining the highest IT standards and processes. John was previously the CIO at H. B. Fuller Company and Agriliance and also held leadership positions with the Society for Information Management (SIM), First Health, CIGNA, Unisource Network Services and Transora. For ten years, he has also served as a facilitator for SIM’s Leadership Forum and he is a founding member of the CIO Executive Council. He is also a mentor in the CIO Executive Council’s Pathways program and a contributing writer to CIO magazine. John was selected as a ‘Premier 100 IT Leader’ by Computerworld Magazine in 2006 and was presented the CIO Executive Council’s Leadership Award in 2008. Under his leadership, H.B. Fuller was ranked among the ‘Top 500’ leaders in business technology by Information Week in 2009 and he was also recognized by Information Week in 2010 as an industry innovator for his work implementing cloud solutions. John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah and completed graduate work at Temple University.

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  Tammylynne Jonas
  Global CIO
  Donaldson

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  Tammylynne Jonas is a digital and technology executive with almost 20 years of experience in publicly traded, customer-facing environments. She is skilled at designing technology strategies that solve real-world business problems and increase shareholder value.

  Tammylynne is CIO for Holiday Stationstores in MN. Holiday Stationstores is a $4B petroleum and c-store business with 520 locations. Holiday was acquired by Couche Tard in December 2017. Tammylynne is a Senior Director on the Global IT team with responsibilities for: Vendor Management, Strategy and Business Partner Alignment.

  Prior to Holiday, Tammylynne spent 15 years at Kohl’s Department Stores. Tammylynne was responsible for the strategy and planning efforts for Kohl’s digital and omnichannel roadmaps. In addition, she had responsibilities for building the company’s loyalty, customer service and digital payment programs.

  Prior to Kohl’s, Tammylynne was a consultant for Accenture. At Accenture, she had various technology and change management roles across the United States.

  Tammylynne serves on the Board of Directors for the Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, and on the Board of Directors for the MN Better Business Bureau. Tammylynne holds an Executive MBA in International Business from Marquette University, and she has undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, English and Spanish

  In 2015, Tammylynne was named a “40 Under 40” award winner by the Milwaukee Business Journal. In 2017, she was named “Young Alumna of the Year” by Marquette University. In 2019, she was selected as a finalist for “Orbie CIO of the Year” in Minneapolis/ St. Paul. Tammylynne is married with 3 children, aged 10, 6 and 4 and resides in Medina, MN with her family.

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  Patrick Joyce
  VP - Global IT & CISO
  Medtronic

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  Patrick Joyce is Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Medtronic. In this role, he is responsible for global functions, strategies, operations and execution related to security and privacy across the company, including IT/cybersecurity, physical/facility and travel security, identity & access management (IAM), product/device security programs and data privacy. Within Global IT, he is also responsible for several global functions supporting Master Data Management, IT Quality Management and Legal/Compliance.
  Patrick joined Medtronic in 2005 to initially build the Corporate IT Audit function, providing audit and consulting services across Medtronic’s global business units, corporate functions and IT organizations. In subsequent roles, he has had responsibility for leading Medtronic’s Global IT Program & Portfolio Management Office, as well as many of the IT Core Process and Applications Teams. Prior to joining Medtronic, Patrick has held roles in both the public and private sector, serving in IT leadership positions at Carlson Companies, United Healthcare, Methodist Hospital/Park Nicollet Medical Center and several IT consulting and managed services firms. Earlier in his career, Patrick served as a U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer with assignments both domestically and overseas. Patrick obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and graduate degree from Troy University. He is active in community and international service through Rotary International and also serves on several local non-profit and professional association boards, including the Minnesota High Tech Association, and the North Star Youth Exchange Foundation.

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  Dennis Keane
  Chief Information Officer
  Red Wing Shoe Company

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  Dennis Keane serves as the Chief Information Officer at Red Wing Shoe Company. In that role, he is accountable for the planning, development and operation of IT systems, business applications, and services supporting the global business including retail, wholesale, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and eCommerce.  The IT team encompasses PMO, Enterprise Data, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Support, and Cybersecurity. Prior to joining Red Wing Shoe Company in 2015, Mr. Keane worked for Bosch as Global Head of Engineering responsible for worldwide diagnostic software. Mr. Keane holds a Computer Engineering Degree from the University of Central Florida, and a Mini MBA from the University of St Thomas.

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  Induprakas Keri
  SVP, Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platform
  Nutanix

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  Induprakas (Indu) Keri is currently SVP Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2). At over $1B+ in annual revenue, NCI is the industry-leading Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) offering that brings scale-out and elastic web-scale architecture to the enterprise. NC2 extends NCI to hybrid, multi-cloud environments to enable seamless application workload migration and data management across public clouds, on-prem deployments, and service providers. Indu previously served as the Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) at Nutanix where he led Nutanix’s company-wide product security efforts. As a long-time C-level executive, Indu has served as Chief Operating Officer at Limelight Networks, CTO at SunGard and CISO at Intuit. Currently, he is also a visiting scholar at MIT where he works on FinTech and Space.

  Indu started off his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he implemented his dissertation work into the high-end parallelizing compiler delivered by SGI.  His other work experience includes stints at McKinsey & Company, BEA Systems and Oracle. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.

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  Harold Knutson
  Strategic IT Consultant & Digital Thought Partner
  Bayside Associates, LLC

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  Mr. Knutson has a passion for ensuring that technology works for his clients - strategically, tactically, and operationally. He brings over 25 years of business/ technology leadership experience helping firms such as American Express Financial Advisors, BestBuy, Federated Department Stores, and Thomson Reuters successfully transform their businesses through the appropriate application of technology. He holds a Masters in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota and has held Sr IT Leadership and Advisory positions since the 90’s. His forte is making technology an integral part of business strategy – particularly where it improves the customer experience and deepens the understanding of client’s needs. Based on his experiences, he developed his personal tag line: “Strategically Aligned, Operationally Excellent ITsm” His domain experiences run the full spectrum from Strategic Business Planning, Application Development/Deployment and Project/Program Management to Risk Management and Compliance. He realized early on that Leadership and organizational agility is what distinguished the great firms from the good ones. Mr. Knutson shares his knowledge through hosting and facilitation of small groups of forward thinking CIO’s interested in exploring current Technology Leadership challenges through dialogue and experience sharing. He also volunteers assisting technology leaders in transition and serves on the Board of the Minnesota chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM).

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  Heather Manley
  CEO
  President, SIM Minnesota
  On-Demand Group

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  Heather purchased On-Demand Group (ODG), a technology consulting company and family business, in 2008 with her brother, Sean Manley. They have since led the organization through significant growth and expanded ODG’s business clientele to reach global markets by offering offshore solutions in Southeast Asia. Under their leadership, ODG has grown over 30x in the last decade. She attributes their growth to ODG’s outstanding team and adhering to their mission of partnering with clients who align with their morals and ethics and appreciate transparency, honestly and partnership. ODG provides technology resources for individual and project consulting, contract to hire/direct hire needs and offshore services. WBENC certified since 2008.  www.ondemandgroup.com

  In 2013, Heather founded Crooked Water Spirits, an award-winning national spirits line that produces unique bourbons, gins, rye, brandy and ready-to-pour cocktails like the Old Fashioned, Boulevardier & Negroni. As a certified Whiskey Sommelier, all recipes are made in-house by Heather. Found in over 7 states and over 500+ liquor stores, restaurants and airlines, gathering over 70 awards nationally. CWS looks to scale with integrity and high value, while remaining 100% owned and self-funded by Heather. CWS’s heavy philanthropic focus has helped non-profits raise over $150k since 2019. WBENC certified since 2014. www.crookedwaterspirits.com

  Heather owns Heather’s Dirty Goodness, a boutique spice company with products sold in Kowalski stores, I Like You and online. HDG is focused on low salt and high flavor with integrity, in alignment with her father’s diet restrictions. He was a passionate food connoisseur that had heart disease and needed healthy options. www.dirtygoodness.com

  Heather currently serves on the Board of Directors for SIM-MN (Society of Information Management). Heather also served as the Board President for the National Association of Women Business Owners MN, from 2011-2014, where she helped establish the MN Women Business Owners Hall of Fame and as President of the Burnsville Rotary Club from 2020-2021.

  Passion include the following: continuous personal improvement & exploration, landscaping, dogs, entertaining, and all things food and wine.
  

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  Hunter Muller
  Founder & CEO
  HMG Strategy

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  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 Founder 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 eco-systems 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 HMGNextVentures, 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.

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  Tony Peleska
  CIO
  Kraus-Anderson

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  Tony Peleska is Vice President of Information Technology for Kraus-Anderson.  He oversees the construction company’s IT strategic planning and development, solution implementation and project management, and also will work closely with the entire family of Kraus-Anderson companies.

  Peleska has deep experience as a chief information officer.  Most recently, he served as CIO for Minnesota Housing Finance Agency in St. Paul, where he improved and increased the effectiveness of the IT organization and aligned the agency’s strategic goals with its business initiatives.

  He is currently the chair of the board for the Association of Intelligent Information Management (AIIM), the community that provides education, research and best practices to help organizations find, control and optimize their data.  He also serves as a board member of the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Software Engineering; and is a member of the National Council of State Housing Agencies CIO Council and Evanta CIO Governing Body.

  Peleska earned his B.A. from Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., and his Executive MBA from the University of Buffalo, New York.  He is a volunteer president of Consulting for Causes; board chair of Nu-Vision Foundation; serves on the steering committee of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce; and is the board chair of the Karth Lake Improvement District in Arden Hills.

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  August Pelliccio
  Associate Editor
  HMG Strategy

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  Michelle Roemer
  Chief Information Officer
  Apogee Enterprises, Inc.

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  GLOBAL IT LEADER AND TRUSTED BUSINESS PARTNER
  For 20+ years I’ve been building technology organizations that spur and support enterprise growth. From setting the IT vision and roadmap to building high-performance cross-functional teams, I’ve been able to add significant value to the entire company by:
  
  ** Aligning the IT organization with business units and goals.
  
  ** Transforming technology from cost center to strategic business partner and growth enabler.
  
  ** Building the infrastructure, teams, and cloud / shared services solutions to drive down operational costs while enhancing delivery performance.
  
  Over the span of my career I’ve built a reputation for leveraging IT to drive business results and ultimately transforming IT organizations into trusted strategic business partners. In addition, I’ve been recognized for exceptional interpersonal management and proven ability to partner with fellow executives. I bring strong experience in financial management, project management, vendor management, and continuous process improvement and am experienced developing/managing scalable capital and expense budgets.
  
  I’ve been called a visionary, collaborative, and adaptive leader who builds strong teams that consistently deliver against expectations.
  
  PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
  * Certified Public Accountant exam
  * ITIL Foundations v3 Service Management
  
  Specialties:
  Leveraging technology with a business investment focus
  Developing and executing IT strategies
  Building the results-oriented, cross-functional teams that drive transformational change

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  Carissa Rollins
  SVP & CIO, GIS
  Illumina

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  Carissa Rollins is Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN). Illumina is the leading developer and manufacturer of sequencing and array technologies and offers life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. 

  As CIO, Carissa is responsible for leading all Global Information Systems strategy, operations, risk and compliance, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, employee and business-facing applications. Carissa utilizes her strong technical skills and experience to continue to build upon our high-performance teams – challenging them to lead, innovate and deliver continually – ensuring that key stakeholders have a continually improved experience with IT services and support.  She focuses and leverages relationships and networking along with technology and business leadership development and mentoring both internally and in the community. 

  Before joining Illumina, Carissa was CIO at UnitedHealthcare. There she was responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and technology investments in support of the commercial, Medicare and retirement, and government programs technology business portfolios at UnitedHealthcare. Prior to UnitedHealthcare, Carissa held executive and senior roles at Gander Mountain, Kohl’s Corporation, Manpower Global, and Miller-Coors. 

  Carissa has served on the Board of Directors for the YWCA Minneapolis, and is currently the Board Chair. She also serves on the Grand Canyon Conservancy board. She holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an MBA from Marquette University. 

  When not working, Carissa can be found enjoying the scenery of Minnesota with her spouse and two children. 

   

   

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  Shikhar Singh
  Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
  Choice Bank

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  Shikhar Singh is Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Choice Financial Group, a financial services organization recognized as one of the fastest-growing banks in the U.S. In his role, Shikhar leads all aspects of Technology, Business Operations, and Security functions. His organization is comprised of over 200 individuals driving Choice’s ability to win in the marketplace by enabling the company’s goal to provide #peoplefirst experiences to clients through innovative solutions and an end-to-end digital experience.  

  Shikhar has more than two decades of leadership experience spanning the digital, technology, product management, engineering, data, and operation areas. Prior to joining Choice in 2022, Shikhar served in several executive leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase.  He is a Digital transformation subject matter expert and represents in several industry forums and governing bodies. Shikhar has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and MBA degree from UCLA.

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  Cisco Skanson
  Chief Information Officer
  Hazelden Betty Ford

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  Cisco joined Hazelden Betty Ford as the Chief Information Officer in March of 2023.  He provides oversight and direction to our technology services function with responsibility for strategy, delivery, and support of technology and systems across the organization.  Prior to joining Hazelden Betty Ford, he served for three years as vice president of information systems at Allina Health—a nonprofit health system based in Minnesota—where he led a team responsible for the Electronic Health Record and all other clinical and non-clinical technology.  Before that, he worked at Target Corporation for 15 years providing technology and data analytics leadership for retail, supply chain, corporate functions across the company.  Cisco earned his bachelor’s degree in management and music at Hamline University in St. Paul. He later earned an MBA at the University of Minnesota with concentrations in Information Systems and eBusiness.

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  Carey Smith
  SVP, Chief Operating Officer | COO
  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

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  Carey Smith is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Constellation, Inc. where he has overall accountability for IT and the digital technology business.  Carey is currently leading a digital transformation that will enable the organization to achieve new revenue and market share growth.  Carey is a progressive IT executive that has delivered new emerging technology platforms which have enabled the delivery of innovative business solutions leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), voice enabled cognitive capabilities, machine learning, Blockchain, innovation labs, DevOps, etc.  Carey’s career includes leadership expertise in application development, architecture, IT infrastructure and operations as well as iterative solution delivery leveraging progressive technologies and practices.

  Previous to Constellation, Inc. Carey lead Enterprise Technology & Transformation at BlueCross BlueShield Minnesota.  Carey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and in Psychology.

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  Jaime Taets
  CEO/Founder
  Keystone Group

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  CEO, public speaker, author, podcast host, and thought leader Jaime Taets is uniquely qualified to address this internal culture crisis. With over 20 years in corporate culture, 13 of which were spent leading large-scale global transformations at Cargill, one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, Jaime has honed the craft of bringing leaders and their people together for a unified goal. And it is with that leadership mindset that she formed Keystone Group International in 2013.
  
  As Chief Vision Officer and Founder of Keystone Group International, Jaime and her team focus on leadership development, organizational strategy, growth, and change. What drives their work with clients is her belief that strong leadership and a change-resilient culture are the foundation for sustainable growth. Harnessing her experience leading thousands of executives and hundreds of companies on their large growth plans, she inspires real and sometimes challenging discussions about the crossroads between high-performance and healthy change.

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  Greg Thayer
  Director, Information Security
  Jacks Link's

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  Greg Thayer is an accomplished, hands-on information technology and security leader with over 25 years of expertise.  He is currently the CISO for Comm-Works, based out of Minneapolis, MN.  Greg has extensive experience in multiple information security domains.  His unique skillset of knowledge, education, and management skills along with his depth of technical expertise enables him to effectively manage all aspects of IT and Security functions.

  In his role as CISO, he has overall responsibility for the company's Information Security Program as well as the development of policies and procedures, governance, risk management, vulnerability management, incident response, organizational assessments, security training, vendor risk management, and the continuous maturity of the company's security program.  

  Prior to his current role of CISO, Greg served 16 years in various levels of IT leadership with the most recent title of CTO.  In that role, he was responsible for service desk, infrastructure, software development, business applications, telecommunications, security, and disaster recovery.

  Greg has numerous industry certifications including CISM, ITIL, CSM.  He is also a member of the following organizations:  InfraGard, ISACA, ISSA, and SIM-MN.

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  Dee Thibodeau
  CEO
  Charter Solutions

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  Dee Thibodeau is chief executive officer of Charter Solutions, a healthcare information services company consistently awarded for results in the areas of management consulting, analytics, business process, integration and application development. As CEO since 1997, Ms. Thibodeau has led the company in delivering sustained profitability with annual revenue growth and a record of outstanding customer relationships.  Her expertise and passion are focused on business process improvements that profoundly increase healthcare quality and efficiency. An experienced board member, entrepreneur, and investor in emerging companies, Thibodeau has made companies successful by creating highly productive teams focused on strategic planning, customer relationships, sound business practices, and innovative uses for new and existing technologies. Ms. Thibodeau  has served in top executive positions in the technology and financial industries since 1986, when she was vice president and later president of the largest computer training facility in the Midwest. She has been president of Milestone Investments, Inc. a national hotel investment company, and was president of Arco Transcription, Inc. one of the nation’s largest medical transcription companies. Ms. Thibodeau has since served as president of EDI Solutions, a translation software developer, and negotiated the merger of EDI with St. Paul Software where she served as executive vice president until taking the helm of Charter Solutions. Throughout her career, Thibodeau’s leadership has extended to serving on the boards of directors of more than a dozen companies including Dri-Steem, The Credit Company, Microworx, Arco Transcription, Milestone Investments, EDI Solutions, HCMC Advisory Board, as well as on boards of trade, professional and non-profit organizations.  Currently she serves on the Board of Directors of BRAAS, M Health, Women’s Health Leadership Trust, Minnesota High Tech Association, and Minnesota Visiting Nurses Agency. Ms Thibodeau also started  Minnesota Women Corporate Directors and is on the Advisory Board for Women in the Boardroom. Ms. Thibodeau has been on the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committees of many boards and well suited to serve on these committees. Ms. Thibodeau has received numerous awards for her success in leadership, her business results and her advocacy for women entrepreneurs and for women serving on boards.  She received a Lifeline Award from Upsize magazine in 2007; the Minnesota Business Owner of the Year award from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) in 2004; and recognition as one of the “Top 25 Innovative Women” by the Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal, one of 500 Top Diversity Awards in the US and the Jean Harris Award in 2012 from the Women’s Health Leadership Trust. Thibodeau is an alumna of the University of Minnesota, Mankato, and of the Executive Management Development Program at University of St. Thomas, St, Paul. She has received leadership awards and recognition from The Business Journal, Div 500, Twin Cities E-Commerce Forum and the National Association of Women Business Owners.

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  Jamie Thingelstad
  Chief Technology Officer
  SPS Commerce

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  Jamie Thingelstad is an experienced technology executive with a successful track record of product and platform innovation and technology leadership for large-scale, financial services, media, retail, and software-as-a-service technology companies. He is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of SPS Commerce (NASDAQ: SPSC), the leading provider of retail cloud services powering the largest retail business network connecting 80,000 companies in the retail industry to efficiently and quickly conduct business. A committed volunteer, Mr. Thingelstad has served on the Board of Directors for and Minnestar and CaringBridge. He lives in Edina, Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Presenting Partners

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  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/
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  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

Gold Partners

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  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/
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  Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Compliance, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. State and local governments, educational institutions, federal civilian agencies and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty.

  https://www.tanium.com/
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  Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform, purpose-built for large enterprises, that solves one, big, frustrating problem: Resolving employees’ IT support issues. Instead of tracking issues, Moveworks uses advanced AI to solve them, instantly and automatically - with no human intervention. Moveworks is pre-trained to understand IT support issues, so it delivers right away and continues to get smarter with every interaction. Moveworks enables IT teams at companies like Broadcom, Autodesk, Nutanix, Medallia and Western Digital to deliver a radically better employee experience using machine learning and AI.

  https://www.moveworks.ai/
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  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

Supporting Partners

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  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/

Trailblazer Partners

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  Cyera is the data security company that gives businesses context and control over their most valuable asset: data. As a pioneer in Data Security Posture Management, Cyera instantly provides companies visibility over all of their sensitive data, context over the risk it represents and their security exposure, and automated remediation to reduce the attack surface and ensure operational resilience. We are redefining the way companies secure their data.

  https://www.cyera.io
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  Dazz accelerates cloud remediation for security and engineering teams. The Dazz Remediation Cloud maps your code-to-cloud pipelines, reduces security alerts to their key root causes, and remediates issues right in the developer's workflow. With Dazz, you gain full pipeline visibility, cut through alert noise, increase the value of existing tools, and shrink your risk window by reducing time to remediate. Visit us at dazz.io and follow us on Twitter at @dazz_io and LinkedIn at dazz-io.

  https://www.dazz.io/
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  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

Marketplace Partners

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  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/
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  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
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  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/
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  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/
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  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/
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  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
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  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
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  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/
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  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/
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  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/
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  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/
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  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
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  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/
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  • 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/
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  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
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  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
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  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/
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  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
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  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

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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/
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  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
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  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

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  Genesys Works provides pathways to career success for emerging young professionals from historically excluded communities starting their senior year in high school through skills training, meaningful work experiences, and impactful relationships. The program consists of 8 weeks of technical and professional skills training, paid year-long internships with major companies, college and career coaching, and alumni support to and through acquiring professional credentials and/or college. Genesys Works’ goal is to build career opportunity and economic equity in every community so that all people, regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, have equitable access to career opportunities leading to sustained economic mobility. Since its founding in 2002, Genesys Works has grown to serve thousands of students annually in Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington’s National Capital Region and New York City, and is looking to rapidly expand into 100 cities in the next ten years. To learn more, visit genesysworks.org.

  www.genesysworks.org
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  SIM Minnesota Chapter: For more than 25 years, the SIM Minnesota chapter has been the organization of choice for IT executives in Minnesota. Membership includes CIOs, CTOs and IT leaders, as well as consultants and academics from top Twin Cities and outstate business and institutions. The chapter has several meetings each year that feature both business and technology experts. These meetings provide tremendous opportunities for peer networking and valuable connections to the Minnesota IT community. MN SIM Purpose: An association of senior IT executives and other IT thought leaders who come together to share and enhance their rich intellectual capital for the benefit of its members, their organizations and the profession. Key considerations for every Chapter meeting and event include the following: Focus on pertinent IT issues, raise awareness of developing industry trends Facilitate networking and knowledge sharing Serve as the voice of the IT community on critical issues

  https://chapter.simnet.org/minnesota/home

Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot

225 3rd Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 55401

 

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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