Past Summits

2017 Toronto CIO Executive Leadership Summit

The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario


  • "This is a great forum to get together with CIOs from other industries that I would not normally have the opportunity to connect with."

    Dave Revell
    EVP of Technology and CIO
    CIBC

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Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent – Driving a Culture of Genius for Success

In today’s fast-changing business landscape, it’s not your competitors that threaten your company’s survival. It’s your organization’s willingness and capacity to disrupt its existing business model or be disrupted. Because the CIO is at the center of the digital transformation journey s/he is uniquely positioned to deliver fearless leadership, fuse emerging technologies with process redesign and people skills, partner with the C-suite and board of directors, and successfully navigate the business into the future.

The courageous leadership traits needed to foster a culture of innovation and transformation on the path to genius will be the focal point of the 2017 Toronto CIO Executive Leadership Summit.


  • Maria Aiello
    Global Head of Private Market & Real Estate Technology
    Manulife Financial

  • Jenny Alfandary
    Chief Information Officer
    Metrolinx

    Jenny Alfandary is a Chief Information Officer, Professor of IT Management at Humber and a Board Director.

    Jenny began her career at a major bank and then at Comverse Network Systems. She has held numerous executive roles in IT and software development, in Telecom and financial industries, most recently serving 5 years as Head of Product Development at Siemens Canada prior to Aritel Communications. Jenny is a business leader with extensive experience in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Big Data, Cloud, DevOps and Digital Transformation. She leads large departments with over 200 employees of CTO, Product and Project Management, Development and QA teams.

    Jenny holds a Bachelor degree in Statistics & Computer Science, a Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA in Management Information Systems & Technology. A Certified Scrum Master and a Mentor at the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment & Infrastructure, she is interested in corporate development, public sector institutional strengthening and emerging technology management. 

    Recently Jenny was recognized by Deloitte’s “Diversity 50 Board of Directors” to impact Canada's corporate boards and improve global competitiveness.

  • Gale Blank
    VP IT
    Holt Renfrew

    Gale has been a technology executive for 30 years, twenty of those in the retail sector.  She has been VP/CIO for Loblaw (East), Eatons, Indigo, Walmart and Holt Renfrew.  She also was global Chief Architect for Walmart Stores Inc.  Throughout her career her focus has been on creating value for the enterprise through investment in Information Technology.  For 10 years she worked in the federal government.  She was the CIO and Director General for the department of Canadian Heritage and Public Works and Government Services respectively.  In this work she brought a set of capabilities and models to the public sector enterprises to enable the creation of high performing IT environments.  Gale enjoys her garden, good hikes and a lovely lake.  She is the proud mother of 3 adult children and a grandson.

  • Cecilia Carbonelli
    VP IT
    Genworth Financial Canada

  • Zelma Cilliers
    CIO
    Mercedes-Benz Canada

    With more than 25 years of experience working in various IT sectors, Zelma Cilliers understands the full life cycle of application management, project management and service delivery.

    As the CIO of Mercedes-Benz Canada, she is responsible for leading the organization’s IT strategy. In addition to ensuring existing infrastructure and systems are operationally stable, she identifies opportunities for IT innovation, prioritizing projects that support overall business strategy.

    Originally from South Africa, Zelma held IT leadership roles in Africa, Asia and Europe prior to her current position with Mercedes-Benz Canada. With experience working in complex political environments, she understands the importance of working collaboratively with key stakeholders in order to drive change and digital transformation. While at Mercedes-Benz Canada, Zelma spearheaded a Digital Transformation Focus Group, gathering feedback from employees from across the organization in order to inform the IT strategy, creating a roadmap to make the organization more digitally efficient and effective. 

  • John Currado
    Chief Operations Leader
    SCI MarketView

    John Currado is a passionate and innovative professional, focused on earning trust, building relationships and creating win-win situations for all his clients. His over 25 years of experience in the financial lending and leasing business, along with his knowledge of the automotive space positions John as an industry expert with a unique and intimate understanding of interdependencies of the two industries. In his role as Chief Operations Leader for SCI, John delivers on SCI’s technology and leasing strategies. Prior to SCI, John held various positions at Dealertrack from 2007 through 2013, eventually serving as the General Manager for the Canadian Operation.

    SCI Ltd. is a privately owned automotive technology and leasing company which operates as SCI MarketView and SCI Lease Corp. By “seeing the world as it’s going to be”, SCI’s core business strategy is to improve all aspects of the digital customer experience for the savvy automotive buyer.

  • Matt Davies
    Sr. Director, IT Risk Management and Cybersecurity
    Ciena

    Matt Davies is responsible for the vision, strategy and leadership of Ciena’s IT Risk Management and Cybersecurity team.  Ciena is a network strategy and technology company with expertise to deliver solutions for next-generation networks in over 80 countries.

    Matt is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and has completed Executive Education Programs at both Tuck and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He is Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), a Chartered Director (C.Dir.) and has obtained his Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University.   Matt currently serves on the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation board.

  • Rob Douglas
    Chairman and CEO
    BioConnect

  • Ed Dubrovsky
    Managing Director, Cyber Breach Response
    Cytelligence Canada

  • Dylan Horvath
    President
    Cortex Design Inc

  • Arik Kalininsky
    CEO
    Dalikoo

  • Dawood Khan
    Partner
    Founder and Board Member, TransformationWorx Inc.
    RedMobile Consulting

    Dawood Khan is a Partner at RedMobile Consulting and a Founder and on the Board of TransformationWorx Inc.

    TransformationWorx is an EdTech startup helping organizations understand and apply emerging technologies including Blockchain to address business challenges as part of their Digital Transformation.

    Dawood provides Management, Innovation and Technology consulting to executives and business leaders for over 23 years. He is an Industry expert in business and digital transformation, and use of smart and emerging technologies and business models to innovatively meet business goals. Over the last year, Dawood has been increasingly focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies and the emerging opportunities they create.

    He has worked with clients to develop innovation-focused strategies. He has helped organizations plan and execute their Digital Transformation journey through use of human-centric “Design Thinking” to rapidly prototype and iterate to get from a concept to proof-of-concept, and to commercial deployment of new services and products.

    Dawood also helps His recent work includes planning and developing strategic roadmaps for large smart city initiatives, intelligent infrastructure asset planning, customer engagement using emerging tech (FI/FinTech), retail digital customer experience design, public safety broadband network plan, funding and partnership models for DBOFM projects, proof-of-concept prototyping using IoT, Analytics, Cloud, and Mobile all as part of one application. Most recently, he has been working on Blockchain initiatives.

    He has a Master of Electrical Engineering Degree from Columbia University,  N.Y.; a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, and is a practicing CMC and Professional Engineer. 

  • Jonathan Landon
    President & Founder
    Connectiv Innovation Corporation

    Jonathan Landon‘s firm specializes in technology-infused accelerated innovation, emerging technology research, and digital strategy enablement, while also advocating to influence Canada’s commercialized innovation output and the creation of sustainable next generation organizations and middle-class jobs. 

    Prior to founding Connectiv, Jonathan spent the majority of his career at Kimberly-Clark Corporation where he held various positions with global accountability including IT Strategy, Innovation & Architecture, e-Commerce, Infrastructure, Computer Security, and Business Intelligence., Jonathan has implemented technology in over 50 countries and played key roles in a diverse range of projects ranging from starting up a business in China to divesting a $2 Billion global Health Care business and moving it onto a set of cloud-based services.

    Jonathan Serves on the Salvation Army’s Technology Advisory Council, as an expert consultant for DoGood and on the Toronto Chapter Board of Directors for the CIO Association of Canada 

     

  • Neumann Lim
    Lead IT Network and Security Architect
    Detour Gold Corporation

    Neumann Lim has been at Detour for the last year serving as the Enterprise Security Architect responsible for developing Detour's enterprise security architecture, strategies and methodologies on cyber security. Prior to this role, Neumann spent several years working with enterprises such as, Microsoft, Cognizant, and Johnson Control, specializing in incident response. Neumann has over 8 years of cyber security and networking experience. He currently holds the CISSP, CCNA and CHFI certifications and is an active member of various security organizations such as HTCIA, ISC2 and the Cloud Security Alliance. 

  • Matthew Mandich
    Vice President
    Info-Tech Research Group

    Matthew Mandich is a Vice President with Info-Tech’s Strategy & Innovation Lab with extensive experience in assisting private and public sector organizations take new approaches to managing the IT organization with a focus on data driven IT performance management.

    Matthew holds an Honors Distinction HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with a focus on financial modeling & economics.

    Mr. Mandich brings value as a business solution architect where his unique blend of consulting and operating experience helps build pragmatic solutions to complex problems.  Combined with his depth of experience in the IT application and technology space, Mr. Mandich provides companies the critical support needed to bridge the gaps between business strategy and technology enablement - projects that deliver on their promises.

  • Ted Maulucci
    President
    SmartONE Solutions Inc.

     

  • Marguerite Mcleod-Fleming
    Managing Director
    Innovation Culture Group

  • John Mealia
    Senior Client Partner
    Korn Ferry

    John Mealia is a Senior Client Partner in Korn Ferry's Toronto office and Canadian leader for the Firm’s Global Technology Market. With more than 15 years of search experience, Mr. Mealia focuses his recruiting efforts on placing high-impact, cross-functional executives within technology companies, as well as information system executives. He offers extensive experience to both client and vendor organizations serving the software, outsourcing, electronic, communications and wireless industries. Mr. Mealia is also a member of the firm’s Financial Officers Centre of Expertise and Global Financial Market, placing chief financial officers and senior executives in audit, compliance and tax. He has conducted numerous search assignments throughout Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Korn Ferry in 2000, Mr. Mealia worked for a boutique search firm, with the mandate to start a systems and technology practice. He became a partner and helped grow that practice significantly over a seven-year period. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mealia enjoyed a successful career with IBM, where he held senior sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility in both the U.S. and Canada. An avid sportsman, Mr. Mealia is a former board member of the Golf Association of Ontario and active in a number of charitable organizations. He combines his passion for sport and executive search best practices to hire leaders in the world of sports (Commissioner, CFL; Executive Director, Royal Canadian Golf Association). Mr. Mealia holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and advertising from Indiana University.

  • Hunter Muller
    President & 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 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.

  • Renee Pearson
    Director, Global IT Innovation
    Kimberly-Clark Corporation

  • Lisa Porlier
    Managing Director, Technology Sector Leader
    Russell Reynolds Associates

    Lisa Porlier leads the Technology Sector in Canada. She is based in Toronto. Lisa joined Russell Reynolds Associates in 2004 from the University of Toronto where she was the Executive Director of the Capital Markets Institute, a policy institute focused on providing rigorous research guidance to policy makers on the competitiveness of the Canadian Capital markets. Previously, Lisa worked in investment banking with Scotia Capital Inc., for nine years. As a director and relationship manager, she led the firm's technology practice, working in mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings and corporate finance advisory. Lisa is past President of Women in Capital Markets, and Chair of the Heather L. Main Memorial Scholarship, where she has played an instrumental role in developing and implementing internship programs for women graduates of business schools. Lisa received her B.B.A. (with honors) from Wilfrid Laurier University and her M.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

  • Zia Shah
    CISO and Executive Director
    KPMG

  • Bobby Singh
    CISO and Global Head of Infrastructure
    TMX Group

    Bobby Singh, CISO and Global Head of Infrastructure, is responsible for delivering secure and highly available common technology services across TMX. As a member of the executive leadership team, Bobby is defining TMX's cyber security and technology vision and strategy, to advance the organizational agenda. He is responsible for TMX's information and IT systems and services, as well as all aspects of security, governance, risk, and compliance. He represents TMX in key forums focused on critical infrastructure, network evolution, intelligence, and availability. He has broad expertise in developing and implementing security programs for public and private sector organizations. Prior to joining TMX, Bobby has held positions at TD Bank, Rogers Communications and eHealth, where he designed multi-year technology and culture transformation programs. He received his MBA from University of Pittsburgh and holds CISSP, CISM, CISA and CPA designations.

  • Valerie Spriet
    Partner
    Egon Zehnder

    Valerie Spriet is a Partner in the Toronto office of Egon Zehnder and has an extensive background in senior level search. She leads the CIO, IT Services and Technology & Communications practices in Canada and is a member of the global Technology & Communications practice.

    Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Valerie spent eight years with Cap Gemini in London, England in the global Telecom and Media practice where she provided strategic and business advice to a variety of companies across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Valerie led the Telecom and Technology Global Strategic Research Group where her work focused on defining leading-edge strategies. Prior to this, she worked for Johnson & Johnson.

    Valerie has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Prince Edward Island.

  • Bob Tapscott
    Management Consultant, the Tapscott Group
    The Blockchain Institute

    Mr. Tapscott is a recognized information technology strategist, CTO, Blockchain instructor, solution designer and speaker (for example):

    http://hmgstrategy.com/network/people/bob-tapscott, Detroit, Toronto  

    http://www.ytnforum.com/niabbs5/index.php  Seoul

    https://globalblockchainsummit.com/profile/bob-tapscott/   Denver

    with a diversified background in organizational creation and transformation. 

    He is a contributing research associate and author for the Blockchain Research Institute.    Bob, as a consultant and as an adviser to CIOs of some of the world’s largest companies has driven innovations from concept creation to market disruption, delivering millions in proven results, both above and below the line. As business moves from technology enabled to technology driven, Bob has taken innovation from inspiration to the art of the possible from London to New York to Silicon Valley.

    Bob has consulted on the intersection of strategy and emerging technologies to CEOs and CIOs for a variety of multinationals, including (most recently) VMware, DIRECTV, SAP, JPMorgan, Disney, Citi, BestBuy, and DIRECTV, on topics including security, Business Intelligence / Analytics, cloud computing, and social software.  He has advised SAP on how to deploy emerging technologies for greater market presence.  His recent efforts include creating the Social Enterprise, ITaaS / SaaS, Best Practices / Security, Analytics / BI, The Blockchain, Fintech, Cloud Computing, and Statistical Analytics.

    Bob was a critical part of the original design team for the predominate financial systems at Citi where he managed, designed, and implemented systems for services which included DDA accounts, foreign exchanges, loans and deposits, credit cards, mortgages as well as their associated derivatives and risk, all while synthesizing global requirements in Toronto, New York, Brussels and Sao Paulo.  The systems current manifestation is Oracle FLEXCUBE.  He has consulted to governments in three different countries on how to more fully engage their citizens.

    Bob’s extensive background in successfully developing and implementing disruptive strategies from concept through systems design and implementation includes the training, organizational restructuring, and workflow redesign required to deliver, measure and improve overall corporate performance and customer satisfaction.  His emphasis on metrics, cost-benefit analysis, post-implementation reviews, Software as a Service, and security are leading edge.  His strong analysis, communication, mathematical, and leadership skills and out of the box thinking have ensured his success as an agent of change for his pedigreed clients.   Bob’s background in high-risk systems from nuclear power reactor maintenance to Wall Street derivatives, to flying commercial aircraft by computer has emphasized the prudent mitigation of risk.

  • Jonathan Ward
    President
    Ward Technology Talent

    Jonathan Ward, is the founder and CEO of Ward Technology Talent (WTT), a boutique service provider specializing in helping companies grow, launch new projects, write and rewrite applications and digitize their environments by providing leading edge technology resources on a consultative and full time basis.  As an entrepreneur since he was five years old, Jonathan has a passion for technology, disruptors and the start up world.

    WTT was founded over 15 years ago and has been on the Profit 500 list for both 2014 and 2015. WTT clients include start-ups and SaaS, financial services, solutions providers, and some of Canada’s largest employers working on innovative technology including one of Canada’s five major banks and one of Canada’s top telecommunications companies.

    WTT believes in creating communities that have a positive impact and runs technology sector events including the Mobile Learning Lab (1600+ members), Women Leaders in Technology and Technical Executive Breakfast Series.

    Jonathan holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

  • Park Wong
    VP-IT
    Oxford Properties Group

    Park Wong joined Oxford Properties Group as VP-IT in October of 2014 and manages the Information Technology (IT) and Information Management Solutions (IMS) teams at Oxford as well as Enterprise Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) across OMERS. Park is responsible for the vision, strategy and leadership in driving operational excellence in IT services as well as partnering with business leaders on innovative and transformational solutions to solve increasingly scalable business needs.

    Prior to joining Oxford, Park spent 14 years at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, as VP - Infrastructure and Operations (Canada), during which time he led a transformation of their IT environment, including rationalisation and implementation of its Data Centre consolidation strategy in North America and alignment of the Canadian Infrastructure and Operations with CBRE`s global model. Previous to this, he held senior IT roles at Dundee Realty and Guardian Capital Group.

     

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November 16, 2017, 7:30 AM-5:30 PM
The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario


7:30 AM - 8:30 AM  

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM  

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy, LLC

8:50 AM - 9:30 AM  

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent – Driving a Culture of Genius for Success

Gale Blank, VP IT, Holt Renfrew

Cecilia Carbonelli, VP IT, Genworth Financial Canada

Zelma Cilliers, CIO, Mercedes-Benz Canada

Rob Douglas, Chairman & CEO, BioConnect 

Moderator: Jenny Alfandary, CIO, Survalent

The new mantra in business today is disrupt or be disrupted. Consider that just 12% of the companies that were in the Fortune 500 in 1955 are still on the list today. Savvy C-suite executives recognize the need for their companies to constantly reinvent themselves and create new products and services that can differentiate them in the market. In this session, leading technology executives will share the steps they are taking to recast the enterprise, empower innovation, and foster a culture of genius.

 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM  

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Innovation in Canada – The CIO as Change Leader

Renee Pearson, Director, Global IT Innovation, Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Dylan Horvath,  President – Cortex Design

Marguerite Mcleod-Fleming, Managing Director, Innovation Culture Group

Moderator: Jonathan Landon, President, Connectiv Innovation

Canada’s commercialized innovation is declining despite reports of increased government spending and innovation hubs. Recent research indicates that Canada is losing ground to its G20 competitors. What is the current state of innovation in Canada and what can the CIO do to positively influence the outcome for their organization?  In this discussion, we will share an illuminating and diverse set of facts and experiences that will provide thought leadership and tools that will help chart a path to increased success.  

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM    

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Beyond Leadership - What Makes a Technology Executive Successful

John Mealia, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry

Lisa Porlier, Managing Director, Technology Sector Leader, Russell Reynolds Associates

Valerie Spriet, Partner, Egon Zehnder

Jonathan Ward, President, Ward Technology Talent

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy

Today’s technology executive plays a pivotal role in helping his or her organization respond to the forces of change to become a digital enterprise, no matter what business they are in. In essence, they serve as conductors to orchestrate the three pillars of organizational success – people, processes, and technology – and to draw upon their unique view of the enterprise to bring these elements into harmony. What are the skills and steps necessary to lead a successful digital transformation, develop collaboration with the C-suite and board, and fine-tune your personal brand to empower your career ascent?

This panel of top technology search executives will share valuable advice on what key attributes and strategies, beyond leadership, are making some technology executives more successful than others.

11:30 -11:40 AM

Transition Break                                             

11:40 AM - 12:20 PM    

EXECUTIVE PANEL: New Technologies - Driving Speed to Market and a Competitive Edge

Jenny Alfandary, CIO, Survalent

Arik Kalininsky, CEO, Dalikoo

Dawood Khan, Partner, RedMobile Consulting and Founder and Board Member, TransformationWorx Inc.

Ted Maulucci, President, SmartONE Solutions, Inc.

Moderator: Maria Aiello, Vice President Real Estate Technology Advisory, PwC

As a corporate mantra, the innovative retail giant Amazon promotes a “Day 1” philosophy which means to always have a start-up mentality and be focused on the customer.This way of thinking drives innovation and technology implementations that quickly create new, positive, frictionless customer experiences that result in increased revenue. This panel of executives will discuss advancements in technologies that are driving a competitive edge and speed to market to lay the foundation for their new digital roadmap.

12:20 PM - 1:10 PM    

Luncheon

1:10 PM - 1:50 PM    

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Balancing Agility, Innovation, & Security

Matt Davies, Sr. Director, IT Risk Management and Cybersecurity, Ciena

Neumann Lim, Lead IT Network & Security Architect, Detour Gold Corporation 

Zia Shah, CISO and Executive Director, KPMG

Bobby Singh, CISO and Global Head of Infrastructure, TMX Group

Moderator:  Ed Dubrovsky, Managing Director, Cyber Breach Response, Cytelligence Canada

Competitive advantage requires agility and innovation. At the same time data, assets, intellectual capital must be protected. This panel will focus on how to foster innovation and leverage security as a competitive advantage, providing strategies that can be quickly implemented to achieve the overall goal of secure innovation.

1:50 PM - 2:20 PM    

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM    

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Moneyball for Software - 6 Secrets You Need to Know

Matthew Mandich, Vice President, Info-Tech Research Group

Each year, organizations cumulatively spend nearly 1 trillion dollars on enterprise software & services, and that number is rapidly increasing. The challenge Info-Tech has found is that over 50% of software purchasing decisions are ineffective. Worse, organizations are extremely likely to renew their software regardless of whether they are satisfied with it.

In this session we will share analytical insights from over 5000 in-depth enterprise software reviews we've collected from IT and business leaders to help you understand how you can more effectively select and manage enterprise software, and save money while doing it. Learn what processes are most and least effective, and where the risks are.

Hint: it's not where you think.

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM    

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

3:30 PM - 4:10 PM    

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Lead Courageously as the CEO of Technology 

John Currado, Chief Operations Leader, SCI MarketView 

Bob Tapscott, Management Consultant, The Tapscott Group

Park Wong, VP-IT, Oxford Properties Group

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy

The most successful CIOs are seizing the opportunity to become the “CEO of Technology.” They are developing analytical models to create validated outcomes that can be used to map strategies, transformation, and increased revenue. This executive panel will share experiences of how courageous leadership can create value and generate new waves of business growth in the modern enterprise.

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM    

Raffle Prizes and Executive Networking Reception

Presenting Partners

  • Info-Tech Research Group

    Info-Tech Research Group was established in 1997 and is currently the world’s fastest growing and most innovative information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 35,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well informed decisions. Focused on providing practical research solutions to help IT professionals implement key projects and build core processes we partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need from actionable tools to analyst guidance. Info Tech helps CIOs and their teams drive measurable results and enhanced decision making through our data driven approach evolving the value of IT to their organization.

Gold Partners

  • 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

Supporting Partners

  • HR Strategies Consulting

    Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, HR Strategies has been assisting leading companies for more than 20 years to attract and retain performance driven talent and achieve enterprise-wide efficiencies that cut costs, improve operations and increase profitability. HR Strategies’ success is proven by its expanded projects with existing customers and strong referral business by both clients and partners. Our projects are delivered efficiently and achieve a fast rate of return on investment. We are differentiated by our unique mix of HR and HR Technology products and services that deliver full-scale, comprehensive and innovative end-to-end solutions that solve business challenges.

    http://www.hrstrategiesconsulting.com/

Lunch Partners

  • Nutanix

    Nutanix makes datacenter infrastructure and clouds invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power the business. The company’s Enterprise Cloud OS software converges private, public and distributed clouds, bringing one-click simplicity to infrastructure and application management. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud solutions integrate virtualization, storage, networking and security to power any application, at any scale – and are delivered as turnkey hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances, software for popular server platforms, and innovative Xi Cloud Services.

    https://www.nutanix.com

Research Partners

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

    https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html

Strategic Partners

  • DHR International

    Established in 1989, DHR is the fifth largest retained executive search firm in the U.S. Since that time, DHR has grown significantly with more than fifty offices worldwide. We conduct search assignments at the Board Director, C-level and functional Vice President levels. Our consultants are experienced professionals who are retained by Fortune 1000 as well as prominent venture firms and early-stage companies. Since inception, DHR has been guided by its founding principles. Foremost, the consultants of DHR hold the highest of ethical standards, along with an unsurpassable level of personal service, an unmatched dedication to quality, and a unique ‘value-add’ approach. This philosophy and methodology are consistently demonstrated in DHR’s thorough and unparalleled researching capability, the full utilization of firm resources on every project, and the timeliness with which we complete our assignments. We feel it is our purpose to be a value-add search firm. We measure our own success based on the success of the leaders and talent we bring to your organization. Visit www.dhrinternational.com for more information.

    www.dhrinternational.com
  • 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
  • Russell Reynolds Associates

    Russell Reynolds Associates is a premier provider of senior-level executive search and assessment, serving clients globally for 40 years. We advise our clients on recruiting and retaining outstanding and impactful leaders, and help them mitigate the risks associated with senior level appointments. We are a private firm with 39 offices across North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, covering all major business regions including Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East and the South Pacific. We leverage our collective expertise to identify and assess leaders who can support the growth and success of our client organizations. Our 300 experienced consultants are supported by a global research network We complete more than 2,000 assignments annually, across a broad range of industries and functional roles.

    http://www.russellreynolds.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

Association Partners

  • SIM Toronto

    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 Toronto SIM Chapter is dedicated to becoming the preferred professional association for aspiring IT/IS senior leaders and the favoured locale for providing mentorship by seasoned CIO's. The Chapter seeks to bring together both experienced and aspiring technology leaders in an environment where they can develop or share their business and personal skills, through networking, mentoring others and offering their leadership experience with the broader IT community and our society as a whole. Our next event on November 18th will feature Mark A. Stone, CIO of Texas A&M University. Mark will present his views on Career Management in the IT Organization of the Future at an exclusive dinner at the National Club at 303 Bay Street. The dinner will include an open ended discussion on the evolving landscape of IT organizations and the essential tactics for navigating the IT organization of the future. Mark A. Stone is the author of “The Three C’s: A Career Enrichment Primer on Characterizing, Connecting, and Communicating”. He currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for the Texas A&M University System. Texas A&M is a statewide network of 11 universities, seven agencies, two service units, and a comprehensive health science center. It serves more than 137,000 students and 22 million other educational contacts via outreach programs. Prior to joining the A&M System, Mr. Stone held CIO/VP roles with Safety-Kleen Systems, Zale Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation.

    http://www.simnet.org/members/group.aspx?id=63423

The Westin Harbour Castle

1 Harbour Square
Toronto, Ontario

Room rate is $299/night. This rate expires on October 23, 2017.

To book a room, please click  call 1-888-627-8559 and mention the Toronto CIO Executive Leadership Summit.

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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