Upcoming Summits

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  Vladimir Aleksiev
  VP Cloud Managed Services
  Sev1Tech

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  Michael Archuleta
  CIO
  Mt. San Rafael Hospital

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  JP Batra
  Business/Technology Executive - CTO/CIO/Product & Program Management
  Blue River International, Inc.

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  David Bessen
  Director and CIO
  Arapahoe County Government

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  Scott Blumenreich
  Chief Innovation & Technology Officer
  City of Centennial

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  Jackie Bower
  Data Privacy Specialist
  Jeppesen, a Boeing Company

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  Margaret Brocklander
  Director of IT
  City of Englewood

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  Curtis A. Carver Jr.
  Vice President & CIO
  University of Alabama at Birmingham

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  Mike Casullo
  CIO
  TwentyEighty

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  William Chumley
  Chief Customer Officer
  State of Colorado

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  Kelvin Coleman
  CEO and Executive Director
  National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)

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  Martin Coover
  Partner & Executive Search Consultant
  Jobplex

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  Howard Cribbs
  CIO
  SANS Institute

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  Jamie Cutler
  SVP & CIO
  Air Methods

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  Glenn Dally
  CISO
  Molson Coors Brewing Company

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  Stuart Davie
  Former President & CEO
  Goodwill Industries of Denver

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  Rob Dravenstott
  CTO
  Cooler Screens Inc.

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  Jeff Fithian
  CIO
  DMC Global

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  Amy Fowler Stadler
  Client Executive
  NTT DATA Americas

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  Dan Fox-Gliessman
  Principal
  Catalyte

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  Ravi Gaddam
  Director, DevOps/ProdOps
  Jeppesen, a Boeing Company

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  James Gaulke
  VP IT
  PDC Energy

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  Chandy Ghosh
  COO & General Manager
  Inteliquent, Inc.

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  Mark Hellbusch MBA, CISSP
  Principal
  Nuspire Networks

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  Mark Hoekstra
  Founder, CTO
  ProcessMetric

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  Brenda Horn
  VP of IT & Global CIO, Enterprise Computing Solutions and Arrow Intelligent Systems
  Arrow Electronics, Inc.

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  Audrey Kiszla
  VP Finance
  OppenheimerFunds

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  Blair Linville
  Chairman & CEO
  Tectonic

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  Jason L'Odense
  VP, IT Infrastructure and Operations
  Global Medical Response

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  Jim Lubinski
  Senior Executive
  TEG-Global

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  Christopher Mandelaris
  Former CISO
  Elevations Credit Union

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  Mark Martinet
  VP - Platinum Client Partner
  Cognizant Technology Solutions

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  Aref Matin
  EVP & CTO
  John Wiley and Sons

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  Jim McClanahan
  Business Operations, IT Strategy, Sourcing, Process & Performance
  Ultimate Success

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  Matt Mehlbrech
  Vice President IT
  CoorsTek, Inc.

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  Suma Nallapati
  CDO
  DISH Network

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  Helmut Oehring
  EVP
  Asteelflash

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  Bill Pham
  Senior Business Leader - Head of Cloud Architecture & Development
  Visa Inc.

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  Molly Rauzi
  CTO & Managing Director
  Gagen MacDonald

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  Jose Ruiz
  Transformation Consultant
  

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  Cindy Schumacher
  Former SVP & CIO
  TriZetto

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  Matthew Schwartz
  Chief Technology Officer
  Sage Hospitality

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  Gautam Sethi
  CTO
  Douglas County School District

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  Michael Spandau
  SVP Global IT & CIO
  Fender Musical Instruments

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  Greg Sparks
  CIO
  SomaLogic

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  John Swieringa
  COO
  DISH Network

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  Neville Teagarden
  Managing Partner
  Al Capital

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  Sujan Turlapaty
  Vice President Digital Transformation
  Summit Materials

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  Mark Ward
  Managing Partner
  WardCapital, LLC

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  Bart Waress
  Vice President, IT
  Discovery Natural Resources

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  Sue Wierenga
  President/Consultant
  WaveSet Group

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  Jeff Wysocki
  Business Unit CIO
  Medtronic

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  Jamie Yancy
  EVP, COO
  Native American Bank

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  Denis Zerr
  CIO
  Radiology Partners

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  Michael Archuleta
  CIO
  Mt. San Rafael Hospital

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  Recognized as a Top Hospital and Health System CIO to know and named a Rising Star in Healthcare, Michael is a cutting edge, innovative, visionary leader who possesses strong leadership skills with extensive experience and a proven track record of driving increased levels of productivity, profits, high integrity customer relationship skills and expert problem-solving approaches. Michael currently serves on the board of directors for The Neural Network, a CXO advisory board facilitated by NetApp, and a Healthcare Ambassador for Fujitsu of America. He is also an active member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, a cybersecurity advisor to several healthcare startups and an active Speaker within the field of Health Information Technology.

  The results of this close collaboration between the hospital and Information Technology department can be astonishing: In his current role, Michael oversees all aspects of Information Technology and has led major organizational transformations. During Michael’s time serving as CIO, he led and designed the first data center while then adding virtualization efforts that reduced costs fifty six percent and improved uptime from fifty nine percent to ninety nine percent which increased business productivity, operating efficiencies and enhanced services while reducing operating expenses. This direct collaboration allows the Information Technology Team to innovate pragmatically and remain a leader and disruptor in Health Information Technology.

  Under Michael’s guidance and leadership, Mt San Rafael Hospital became one of the leading hospitals in the State of Colorado for leveraging advanced technology to enhance the patient and provider experience. With Michael’s innovative, driven approach, the hospital met HIMSS Analytics Stage Six recognition on the eight-stage HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model in 2017, a feat only reached by thirty percent of U.S. hospitals. Leveraging advanced Information Technology to improve performance for value-based health care in the areas of infrastructure, business, administrative management, quality, safety, and clinical integration the Information Technology Department has also been presented the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Healthcare’s Most Wired Award which is given annually to the top hospitals in the country making the most progress in the adoption of Health Information Technology. Through Michael’s leadership, Mt. San Rafael achieved recognition as a top scoring hospital from the 2018 Most Wired survey.

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  Tony Leng
  Managing Director, Digital Transformation and CIO Practice Lead
  Diversified Search

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Hunter Muller
  President & 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 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.

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  Sujan Turlapaty
  Vice President Digital Transformation
  Summit Materials

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  Technology is designed to be simple; leaders should simplify complex business processes and enable the digital technology to build best-in-class customer, employee and partner experiences. Enterprise transformation starts with leaders that can influence their people and nurture the organization culture and mindset for success. Strategy is what you will do and as important what you won’t do. Sujan is a trusted business partner and accomplished IT global leader who can tie all things digital with strategy, simplification & execution and establish a strong sense of purpose for the teams in support of a larger organizational context and deliver outstanding customer-centric business value.  

  • Focus Areas: IT & Digital Strategy, 3-yr Product Roadmaps, Boardroom Presentations, Business Partnership, Business Processes Optimization, Business Relationship Management, Change Management, Cloud-first & Mobile-first, Data-driven Digital Transformation, Innovation with Emerging Technologies, Bimodal Teams, Continuous Improvement, Reduce Waste, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agile Methodology, Pace-layered Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Advanced BI & Analytics, Cyber & Data Security, Modern Digital Architecture, Connected & Intelligent Post-Modern ERP
  • Industry Experiences: FinTech, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Education, Consulting
  • Social Causes: Preparing kids for the game of life - focus on mindfulness exercises, develop athleticism at a young age, and make them believe in themselves 

  • Professional Affiliations: Colorado CDO Governing Body, CIO 100 Elite, Denver CIO Executive Leadership Advisory Board
  • Awards: CIO 100, Center Stage Awards for Excellence in Delivery (First Data), LPO Leadership (Accenture & Microsoft)

Presenting Partners

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  UiPath is leading the “automation first” era – championing one robot for every person, delivering free and open training and collaboration, and enabling robots to learn new skills through AI and machine learning. The company’s enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform has already automated millions of repetitive, mind-numbing tasks for business and government organizations all over the world, improving productivity, customer experience, and employee job satisfaction. Recently named by Comparably as the 6th happiest place to work and the 11th best company culture among large businesses, UiPath is one of the fastest growing and highest-valued AI enterprise software companies worldwide.

  https://www.uipath.com/
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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

Platinum Partners

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  Appian provides a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business applications. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance.

  http://www.appian.com/

Preferred Research Partners

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  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.

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

Alliance Partners

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  Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm committed to redefining IT infrastructure, invests in technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar Infrastructure 2.0 disruption. Amplify helps talented founders build valuable businesses by investing the right amount of early-stage capital and providing active company-building assistance. Amplify offers the unique combination of deep domain expertise, early-stage focus and a network of Venture AmplifiersTM to improve outcomes for infrastructure entrepreneurs.

  http://www.amplifypartners.com
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  Glynn Capital is focused on investments in leading private and public technology growth companies. We seek to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with world-class management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

  http://www.glynncapital.com/
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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

Association Partners

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  The Society for Information Management (SIM) is a not-for-profit organization of information technology experts, including CIO’s, CTO’s and emerging IT leaders, as well as key professionals within the IT community, such as academicians and consultants. SIM’s mission is to support IT leaders in the greater Colorado area by increasing the knowledge base of members, giving back to local communities, increasing awareness on issues of importance to our local community, developing the next generation of effective IT leaders and establishing a forum to bring together IT professionals across industries.

  https://sim-colorado.org/

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Denver, CO

 

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

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• Full time academicians

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

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

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

Special Needs - We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 221-2702 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.