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The digital pivot most companies have made since March 2020 has created new opportunities for CIOs, CISOs and business technology executives to play a deeper role in designing the future of the business and in the shape of the organization. Technology executives who inspire employees and foster an environment of trust can stimulate a collaborative culture that sparks innovation and drives business outcomes with the aid of impactful technologies that can enable the organization to win in the marketplace while attracting, growing, and retaining the people and skills that are needed to power the successful 21st century organization.
Sam Abbate
VP & CIO
Northrup Grumman
Paul Fipps
President, Strategic Accounts
ServiceNow
Chris Gates
CTO
Allstate
Sally Grant
Vice President
Darktrace
T.J. Graven
Head of Client Delivery & Engagement - North America
SAP
Kristie Grinnell
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
DXC Technology
Bruce Hoffmeister
SVP, CIO
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Mike Huthwaite
Chief Information Officer / Executive IT Advisor
Hartman Executive Advisors
James Lamb
CTO
StaffDNA
Joe Malfesi
Former VP, Operations
Transaction Network Services, Inc.
Shamim Mohammad
EVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer
Board Director
CarMax
Hunter Muller
Founder & CEO
HMG Strategy
Mark Polansky
Executive in Residence, HMG Strategy
Founder and CEO
Outlook Solutions
Chris Stettler
Executive CIO Advisor
Hartman Executive Advisors
Jedidiah Yueh
Founder and CEO
Delphix
Matt Aiello
Partner
Heidrick & Struggles
Aileen Alexander
CEO
Diversified Search
Bharat Amin
Former Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Judith Apshago
VP, Chief Digital Officer
Amtrak
Dennis Arndt
CTO
Zentail
Shawn Banerji
Managing Partner, Technology, Digital and Data Leaders Practice
Caldwell Partners
Steve Bergman
Managing Director
Strategy360 Group
Tom Berray
Managing Partner
DHR Global
Keith Bluestein, CISSP, PMP
Former CIO
U.S. Small Business Administration
Dr. David Bray
Distinguished Fellow
The Stimson Center
Jay Brodsky
Chief Digital Officer
American Geophysical Union
Wendy Butler Curtis
Chief Innovation Officer
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Michael Cannon
Former CTO
Stafford County, VA
Lee Congdon
Former CIO
Ellucian
Scott Daitzman
Managing Partner/CISO
SJD Cyber
Dr. Daniel Durand
Chief Clinical Officer
LifeBridge Health
Burt Edwards
Director, Mission Capabilities
AARP
Saeed Elnaj
Chief Information Technology Officer
HealthKey Technologies
Adrian Gardner
CEO
TheChainBlockCompany, LLC
Neil Green
EVP and Chief Digital Officer
Otis Elevator Co.
Rocco Grillo
Managing Director - Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation
Alvarez & Marsal
John Hanly
Head of IT Services
IFPRI
Henry “Jamie” Holcombe
Chief Information Officer
US Patent and Trademark Office
E. Jeffrey Hutchinson
Digital Consulting Practice Lead
NTT Data Services
Mohamoud Jibrell
Founder & CEO
SAMA Ventures
John Kehoe
SVP, CIO
Xylem Inc.
Yuvi Kochar
Managing Director, Cloud First - Data & AI
Accenture
Joseph Kraus
Senior Consultant, CIO Advisory Services
Wipfli LLP
John Lambeth
CIO
MAXIMUS
Dean Lane
EVP, CIO
The Institute of World Politics
Michael Lucas
CIO
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Israel Martinez
CEO and Global CTO
Axon Global
Matthew McCormack
CISO
BNY Mellon
Robert McHale
Senior Client Partner
Korn Ferry
Andre Mendes
CIO
U.S. Department of Commerce
Jason Molfetas
Chief Digital, Information and Security Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Christopher Nelson
CIO
Beacon Roofing Supply
Terry Owens
CIO
Honeywell - Federal Manufacturing and Technologies
James Parks
Director, Product Strategy & Transformation
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Bill Perlowitz
Chief Technology Lead, Defense and Intelligence Group
Leidos
Derrick Pledger
SVP & CIO
Leidos
Shawn Purvis
Corporate Vice President, President - Enterprise Services Sector
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Mike Raeder
VP and CISO
Rocket Software
Dr. Richard Schroth
Chairman & CEO
Executive Insights, Ltd.
Sovan Shatpathy
SVP/Chief Technology Officer
Navy Federal Credit Union
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer
NetImpact Strategies
David Shive
CIO
U.S. General Services Administration
Pradip Sitaram
President/Founder and Board Digital Advisor, ICmed, LLC
Galaxi Digital, LLC
Donald Spicer
Former Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO
University System of Maryland
Howard Spira
CIO
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Linda Stone
CIO
National Gallery of Art
David Tamayo
CIO
DCS Corporation
Chaim Yudkowsky
CIO
AIPAC
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO
Horizon3.ai
Snehal Antani is co-founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cyber security startup focused on AI-enabled red teaming. Prior to starting Horizon3, Snehal served as CTO for the US Department of Defense, responsible for transforming the technology capabilities of the command to include cyber security, advanced R&D, AI, and data analytics. Snehal was formerly the CTO of Splunk, and before that, a CIO at GE Capital. Snehal started his career at IBM as a software engineer, where he earned 16 patents for his work in cloud, distributed computing, and large-scale data processing. Snehal earned in BS in Computer Science from Purdue, where as a freshman he watched Tom Brady play Drew Brees. He earned is MS in Computer Science from RPI, where he never attended an RPI football game.
Judith Apshago
VP, Chief Digital Officer
Amtrak
Judith Apshago is an accomplished IT executive with extensive experience leading IT organizations through major change and partnering with business leaders to drive process improvement and digital transformation. Judith currently serves as Vice President Chief Digital Officer for Amtrak where she leads a service-oriented team that partners with the business to provide IT and process transformation solutions and support critical business applications and strategic projects and initiatives. In this role, Judith provides technology leadership for design, development and delivery of integrated enterprise-wide technology solutions.
Previously, Judith was Vice President and Chief Information Officer of U.S. Silica, a leading producer of performance materials and industrial minerals. At U.S. Silica, Judith spearheaded an IT and digital transformation to support the company’s rapid and substantial growth. She led a company-wide technology modernization, shifted IT from a utility provider to a high-performing strategic business partner, integrated multiple acquired companies, and collaborated with business leaders on strategic initiatives that enabled scalability, drove business efficiencies, and provided market differentiation.
Prior to U.S. Silica, Judith held various IT leadership roles with Sigma-Aldrich, BioReliance, and Invitrogen, and spent several years as a consultant with ePresence and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She began her career implementing process improvements within the Department of Defense.
Judith was awarded the 2018 Enterprise Capital CIO of the Year Orbie Award and the Norma Miller Passionate Philanthropist Award in 2016. She has been a featured speaker at conferences and on podcasts and author/contributor for various published articles. Judith is passionate about promoting women in technology and spearheaded Amtrak’s inaugural WIT Summit.
Judith holds a Masters in Public Administration from Troy State University, a Masters Certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University, and Bachelors degrees in Finance and Math from Hood College. She currently serves on the CapitalCIO Leadership Association Advisory Board, the Innovation Advisory Council for Vation Ventures, and the Washington DC CISO Executive Leadership Summit Advisory Board, and holds several volunteer Board roles at Hood College including the Board of Associates, Computer Science Advisory Board, and the Chair of the Career Center Advisory Council.
Toni S. Benson
Chief, Cyber Defense Eduation and Training
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Toni Benson is the Chief of the Cyber Defense Education and Training (CDET) organization at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Her roles within the organization are to provide strategic vision around training and education to assist in combating the cybersecurity workforce shortage.
Prior to joining the DHS in 2015, Ms. Benson spent most of her career serving in the United States Air Force, where she served as a Communications Officer. She also worked with other U.S. government agencies and private sector companies as a contractor, in support of various cyber initiatives. Ms. Benson is a member of the ISC2 community as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. She received her undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from Delaware State University and her Master of Science degree in Information Assurance from the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Tom Berray
Managing Partner
DHR Global
Tom Berray is a specialist in top-tier executive searches across all functional roles for technology companies and technology executives across all industries. His areas of expertise include business development, human resources, operations, sales and marketing, and technology. During his 10+ years in executive recruiting, Tom has conducted searches for early-stage, venture-backed to Fortune 100 companies in software, internet, aerospace/defense, biotechnology, energy, financial services, government and professional services, healthcare, and not-for-profit industries. Prior to joining Cabot, Tom was a Principal with the Technology practice of Heidrick & Struggles, the world's largest search firm at the time. At Heidrick, Tom's expertise was on recruiting CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other senior IT executives across all industries, as well as senior executives for high technology companies in the hardware, software, and services areas. Before joining the executive search industry, Tom was a Director with the Gartner's Executive Programs, where his primary responsibility was to act as a personal advisor to over 200 Chief Information and Chief Technology Officers. Prior to Gartner, Tom held positions in systems analysis, and sales and marketing at Computer Associates and Xerox Corporation.Tom's board roles include serving as the Secretary of the Washington CTO Roundtable, IT Industry Advisory for the American Public University System (APUS), Co-Chair of the Annual Fund for The Potomac School, and former President of the Great Falls Swim & Tennis Club. Tom is also a charter member of the Rotary Club of Great Falls. Tom earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University and is an active member of Duke's Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee.
Dr. David Bray
Distinguished Fellow
The Stimson Center
Dr. David A. Bray was named one of the top "24 Americans Who Are Changing the World" under 40 by Business Insider in 2016. He was also named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2016-2021. He also accepted a role of Co-Chair for an IEEE Committee focused on Artificial Intelligence, automated systems, and innovative policies globally for 2016-2017 and has been serving as a Visiting Executive In-Residence at Harvard University since 2015. He has been named a Marshall Memorial Fellow for 2017-2018 and will travel to Europe to discuss Trans-Atlantic issues of common concern including exponential technologies and the global future ahead. He also will start a new role as Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet coalition founded and chaired by Vint Cerf in October 2017.
David enjoys creative problem solving. He began working for the U.S. government at age 15 on computer simulations at a high-energy physics facility investigating quarks and neutrinos. In later roles, he designed new telemedicine interfaces and space-based forest fire forecasting prototypes for the Department of Defense. From 1998-2000 he volunteered as a part-time crew lead with Habitat for Humanity International in the Philippines, Honduras, Romania, and Nepal while also working as a project manager with Yahoo! and a Microsoft partner firm. Dr. Bray then joined as IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leading the program's technology response to during 9/11, anthrax in 2001, Severe Acute Respiratory System in 2003, and other international public health emergencies. He later completed a PhD from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and two post-doctoral associateships at MIT and Harvard in 2008.
David likes to be a digital diplomat and a "human flak jacket" for teams of change agents working in turbulent environments. He volunteered in 2009 to deploy to Afghanistan to help "think differently" on military and humanitarian issues and in 2010 became a Senior National Intelligence Service Executive advocating for increased information interoperability, cybersecurity, and protection of civil liberties. In 2012, he became the Executive Director for the bipartisan National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community, later receiving the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. He received both the Arthur S. Flemming Award and Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in 2013. He also was chosen to be an Eisenhower Fellow to meet with leaders in Taiwan and Australia on multisector cyber strategies for the "Internet of Everything" in 2015.
David passions include "near impossible missions" involving humans and technology in challenging circumstances. He has served as the Chief Information Officer for the Federal Communications Commission, leading FCC's IT Transformation since 2013. Through the efforts of a team of positive change agents, he led the transformation of the FCC's legacy IT with more than 207 different systems to award-winning tech. This included rolling-out new cloud-based IT that achieved results in 1/2 the time at 1/6 the cost. He was selected to be one of the "Fedscoop 50" for Leadership in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and the recipient of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association's Outstanding Achievement Award for Civilian Government in 2015. Dr. Bray also received the global CIO 100 Award twice, which usually is awarded to private sector Fortune 500 companies, both in 2015 and 2017, for his transformational leadership.
Rona Bunn
Chief Information Officer
National Association of Corporate Directors
As Chief Information Officer for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Rona Bunn facilitates digital orchestration, leading information technology, data, and digital experience. She is responsible for cybersecurity, strategic planning, effectiveness of digital capabilities and allocation of I&T resources to drive increased value to members, employees, and partners.
Before joining NACD, she served as Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
Ms. Bunn is a two-time Technology All-star award recipient from Women of Color in STEM, recognized for advocacy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and her career achievements. She holds a B.S. in Accounting from State University of New York at Old Westbury, a M.S. in Computer Science from Bowie State University and an M.B.A. from New York University, Stern School of Business. Ms. Bunn serves on the Board of Directors of IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF). She also held Executive Board positions at the National Society of Black Engineers – DC chapter.
Christine Converse Hogan
CIO Advisor
Zoom
Christine Converse Hogan is a CIO Advisor with Zoom Video Communications and a former Chief Information Officer (CIO). Christine is a dynamic and experienced global technology leader. She is a true partner to C-suite executives and an effective champion of leveraging technological, organizational and procedural changes that drive business growth and performance.
As a CIO Advisor with Zoom, Christine is a key part of the communications and customer acquisition efforts. She is a spokesperson for Zoom in the marketplace and a member of the cross-functional business development teams.
Previously, Christine was the Managing Director and CIO of Fortress Investment Group, a leading, highly diversified global investment management firm. Christine has 25+ years of experience successfully building and managing advanced technology and operational platforms for financial organizations, where she has led all aspects of technology strategy, planning and execution. Her responsibilities have spanned global technology transformation, cyber security, trading, client reporting, data analytics, financial planning, back-office operations, facilities and corporate real estate. She is well known in the industry and among peer firms and vendors as an innovative leader with extensive experience managing complex, mission-critical projects on a global scale.
In 2004, Christine joined Fortress Investment Group to establish a technology platform for the growing, innovative alternative investment manager. She was successful in building a world-class team that supported the firm’s growth from $5bn in assets under management (AUM) to $41bn AUM. To align technology strategy, structure, staffing and costs to reduce spending and increase ROI, she developed and executed a multi-year strategy to transform the Fortress technology platform to a hybrid-cloud based capability. Christine also initiated and led the Global IT Security Steering Committee, a cross-firm C-level group that governed Fortress’ cybersecurity strategy. In conjunction with her technology role, Christine was responsible for real estate and facilities for over 300,000 sq. ft. and 25 offices worldwide. She managed office buildouts, lease negotiations with internal and external counsel and implemented all technology and security onsite.
Stephen M. R. Covey
Global authority on trust, leadership and culture
The FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice
Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder of CoveyLink and of the FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, and coauthor of the #1 Amazon bestseller Smart Trust. He advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy. Stephen passionately delivers that message and is skilled in enabling leaders and organizations to experience the dividends of high trust. Audiences and organizations alike resonate with his insightful, relevant approach to real-time issues that affect their immediate and long-term performance.
He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen, with Greg Link, led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President and CEO. Under Stephen’s direction, the company grew rapidly and profitably, achieving Inc. 500 status. As President and CEO, he nearly doubled revenues to over $110 million while increasing profits by 12 times. During that period, both customer and employee trust reached new highs and the company expanded throughout the world into over 40 countries, which greatly increased the value of the brand and company. The company was valued at only $2.4 million when Stephen was named CEO, and, within three years, he grew shareholder value to $160 million in a merger he orchestrated with then Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey.
Over the years, Stephen has gained considerable respect and influence with executives and leaders of Fortune 500 companies as well as with mid- and small-sized private sector and public sector organizations he’s consulted. Clients recognize his unique perspective on real-world organizational issues based on his practical experience as a former CEO.
Stephen currently serves on the board/advisory board of several entities and is a Top Thought Leaders in Trust Lifetime Achievement Honoree from Trust Across America-Trust Around the World. Stephen resides with his wife and children in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains. You can follow Stephen on Twitter @StephenMRCovey.
Scott Daitzman
Managing Partner/CISO
SJD Cyber
Scott Daitzman is a seasoned IT Executive with 36 years of experience in leading all facets of Information Technology and Security. He is currently providing services as a vCISO for a startup company based in California. Previously, he served as the Chief Information Security Officer at NVR, Inc. NVR is one of America’s leading homebuilders providing customers with quality homes and mortgage services in thirty-two metropolitan areas covering fourteen states. Prior employment included stints at Freddie Mac and in government consulting.
Scott was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia and holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
Mark Day
Chief Scientist
Netskope
Mark applies his broad background in computer systems to technology strategy and competitive analysis, supporting the technical excellence of Netskope products and services.
Mark is a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has taught both computer systems engineering (6.033) and software engineering (6.170). He has also previously taught the graduate database class at Harvard University. He is author of the book Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works
(MIT Press, 2018). Mark likes to take unconventional approaches, often going back to first principles, in ways that may be thought-provoking, entertaining, or both.
As Chief Scientist at Riverbed Technology for 10 years, Mark supported the company as it grew from about 40 people to more than 2500 people. He has also served in technical leadership positions at Dropbox, Cisco Systems, and IBM. At Lotus, he contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime.
Mark’s first job after college was to test the NU network management system for the Arpanet, predecessor to the Internet. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, where his advisor was Barbara Liskov. He has 38 issued patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, security,and telephony.
Paul Fipps
President, Strategic Accounts
ServiceNow
Paul Fipps is an accomplished executive with over two decades of experience leading growth across B2B and B2C brands. As ServiceNow’s President, Strategic Accounts, Paul is focused on co-creating the future with ServiceNow’s largest, most strategic, and most innovative customers. Previously, Paul served as SVP, Customer and Partner Excellence and led the cross-functional effort to establish the new category of value acceleration. This included building, launching, and scaling ServiceNow Impact, a value acceleration solution that is now the fastest growing product in ServiceNow history.
Prior to joining ServiceNow, Paul spent seven-plus years at Under Armour as its Chief Experience Officer and Chief Digital Officer, where he was responsible for Under Armour’s direct-to-consumer business and led company-wide digital transformation. Paul currently serves on the board of MyFitnessPal. He is a proud U.S. Army veteran.
Luis Giraldo
RVP, Business Value Consulting
OutSystems
20+ years of success spearheading business and technology solutions that accelerate digital transformation helping grow market share and improve customer retention strategies. Proven executive leader driving double-digit revenue growth through strategic implementation of change strategies while improving operational effectiveness.
Successful global value consultant selling to C-suite executives on CX transformation, process automation and legacy modernization initiatives and best practices to increase revenue, efficiencies and risk mitigation while accelerating digital solutions to market for customers.
Expert at cultivating relationships with Fortune 100/500 companies and collaborating with key enterprise stakeholders, both internally and externally, to translate business case imperatives into technology requirements and develop strategies that drive quantifiable results.
Core Strengths and Competencies:
Strong Work Ethic & Integrity
Innovator & Trusted Customer Advisor
GTM Strategy and Operations: Enterprise and Product-led Engine Growth
Revenue Generator & Accelerator
Cross-functional E2E Enterprise Value Selling Optimization
Strategic Global Business Partner across Direct/Indirect Routes to Market
Value Messaging, Prescriptive Sales Plays and Customer Success Stories
Solution Advisory Workshop Design, Business Model Creation, Analysis & Presentation Delivery
Kristie Grinnell
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
DXC Technology
Kristie Grinnell is senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for DXC Technology. She is responsible for leading business transformation including defining IT strategy for new digital capabilities, streamlining current operations and improving overall efficiencies and performance of DXC’s IT environment – all with the goal of enabling DXC to provide excellence and innovation to its customers worldwide.
Kristie previously served as global CIO and vice president for supply chain at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). There she led the transformation enterprise IT strategic plan and IT Shared Services center for customers, along with supply chain management. Prior to that, Kristie was director of planning and governance and director of client delivery enablement for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a predecessor of DXC.
Her career in professional IT leadership spans more than 20 years. Kristie has led four major IT transformations while overseeing changes to enterprise-wide technology, cyber and risk management, culture skills and behaviors. Before joining CSC, she served as CIO, chief of staff and global IT strategy executive for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Stuart Kippelman
Chief Information Officer & Commercial Cybersecurity Business Leader
Parsons Corporation
Stuart Kippelman is the Chief Information Officer of Parsons Corporation, one of the world’s leading digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. He is responsible for the global IT function, including leading all aspects of Parsons information technology strategy and operations, including digital business transformation. He plays a crucial role in the implementation of critical capabilities to serve Parsons’ customers, leveraging his experience in global transformations, business intelligence, data mining, and cloud computing to advance commercial offerings.
Prior to joining Parsons, Stuart was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Platform Specialty Products, Covanta Energy and Biotest. For his transformational work, Stuart has received numerous prestigious industry recognitions including Top 100 CIO's in STEM 2015, Computerworld’s 2014 Premier IT Leader Award and the CIO.com Top 100 Award in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Prior to joining Covanta, Stuart held many leadership and technical roles of increasing responsibility at Johnson & Johnson. He was Corporate Director of Technology M&A and Emerging Market Growth, CIO/CTO of Health & Wellness, Vice President of Global Infrastructure Technology Engineering, and Development, as well as other roles in engineering, architecture, research, portfolio management, deployment and operations.
Stuart holds multiple patents in data mining, analytics and Business Intelligence. He is actively engaged in helping guide and develop the next generation of IT leadership and serves as a career mentor both for Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program, as well as the CIO Executive Council Pathways program.
Heather Kowalski
Chief Information Officer
INTERPOL
Heather T. Kowalski began her appointment as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central Bureau, in August 2018. INTERPOL Washington serves as the designated representative to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) on behalf of the Attorney General. INTERPOL Washington is the official U.S. point of contact in INTERPOL's worldwide, police-to-police communications and criminal intelligence network. As CIO, Ms. Kowalski leads the U.S. Government’s information technology efforts to share and exchange international criminal investigative, border security, and humanitarian assistance information within the United States and the 194 other INTERPOL member countries. She oversees systems that operate 24/7/365 and support more than 18,000 local, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement agencies in the United States as well as their foreign counterparts seeking assistance in criminal investigations that extend beyond their national borders.
Ms. Kowalski joined INTERPOL Washington from the Office of Personnel Management where she was the Director of Mainframe Infrastructure. She has held leadership positions at the Department of Homeland (DHS) Cybersecurity & Communications (CS&C) and DHS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In addition, Ms. Kowalski has extensive private sector experience. She Kowalski earned a Bachelor’s degree in Western European Studies from Wells College, an MBA from the University of Hartford, and a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management, specializing in Information Security, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dean Lane
EVP, CIO
The Institute of World Politics
Please click the link below and take a quick look at one of his articles:
“What the C-Suite Needs to Know About Cyber Intelligence”.
David Mahon
Global CISO
Deloitte
As Deloitte Global Chief Information Security Officer, Dave is responsible for building and maintaining the vision, strategy, and programs necessary to secure Deloitte’s information assets, technologies, and data. He drives the continuous evolution and deployment of an enterprise-wide information risk management program and has the privilege to lead world class cybersecurity talent.
Prior to joining Deloitte in April 2018, Dave served as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for CenturyLink, Inc. He also served as the Vice President of Corporate Security for Qwest Communications International, Inc., prior to the merger with CenturyLink where he was responsible for various corporate security programs.
As a Supervisory Special Agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dave was responsible for investigating violations of federal statutes in which the Internet, computer systems, and networks were exploited as the targets of terrorist organizations, foreign government sponsored intelligence operations or criminal activities. He managed programs related to white collar crime, crisis management, critical infrastructure protection, and violent crime.
Currently, Dave is a member of the International Security Management Association (ISMA) and Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.
Andre Mendes
CIO
U.S. Department of Commerce
David Morris
Founder & Chairman
HiPER Solutions
David has spent his career researching and empowering leaders to transform their teams, their companies and their careers. His passion is to identify High Impact Performers (HiPERs) and help them reach greater success through a hybrid of technology-driven platforms and experience-based advisory. Recent clients have included E*TRADE, DIRECTV, Subway Restaurants, Western Digital, Wendy’s, ON Semiconductor, CBRE, YPO and many others. Previously, David co-founded Seedling Group, a Boston-based retained executive search firm, serving start-ups, publicly-traded companies, and private equity firms. He also helped launched the San Francisco office as a Director at Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner). David graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Hunter Muller
Founder & 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 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.
Albert Murray
Assistant Special Agent In Charge of Washington Field Office's Cyber Branch
FBI
Albert Murray currently serves as an Assistant Special Agent In Charge of Washington Field Office's Cyber Branch. Prior to joining the Washington Field Office, Mr. Murray was at FBI Headquarters where he had oversight of all unattributed and criminal cyber investigations as well as the FBI's Cyber Task Force program.
Previously, Mr. Murray served as the program coordinator for the NY Cyber Branch. Before becoming the program coordinator, Mr. Murray supervised a squad responsible for investigations involving financially-motivated cyber intrusions and emerging cyber threats. As a field agent, Mr. Murray specialized in long-term investigations of cyber-criminal enterprises.
In 2010, while in the New York Office, Mr. Murray was awarded the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Cyber Investigation due to his work on a multi-year investigation into a criminal enterprise.
Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Murray worked as a corporate investigations consultant for a large accounting firm. While working for the consulting firm, ASC Murray designed and managed the application which adjudicated claims for the September 11th Victim's Compensation Fund. Mr. Murray is from Kansas City, Missouri, and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Duke University.
Christie Nader
SVP and Global Chief Information Officer
Jet Aviation
Bob Osborn
CTO, Global Governments
ServiceNow
Bob Osborn is CTO, Global Governments for ServiceNow. Bob is an accomplished senior executive who has held many highlevel IT leadership positions, including Director of Logistics IT for the U.S. Army G4, Deputy J6/CIO for U.S. Transportation Command, Deputy CIO at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and CIO of the National Nuclear Security Administration. He has led major IT and organizational transformations throughout his career and is a thought leader recognized across the public sector market. As a user of ServiceNow, Bob led ITIL based Enterprise Service Management standardization within the Department of Energy. Bob also served as a United States Marine Corps officer for 27 years.
Kendra Parlock
Vice President of Partnership Development
NPower
Kendra Parlock was recently named as Vice President of Partnership Development for NPower, a national non-profit dedicated to moving people from poverty to middle class through tech skills training and job placement. Kendra joined NPower in November 2019 when she was appointed as the Executive Director of NPower Maryland and also served as the Interim Executive Director of NPower Michigan, continuing her commitment to a career in public service after a corporate career helping businesses rebuild and expand.
Prior to NPower Kendra served as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainable Solutions for the City of Baltimore where she led Baltimore’s CitiStat program for issue driven performance management, data analysis and cross agency collaboration for service delivery, public safety and neighborhood revitalization. She served in this role for two years. Prior to this role over a span of two decades, Kendra worked as a global segment manager at Cabot Corporation, led innovation projects in W.R. Grace’s New Business Development Incubator and held various technical, sales and marketing roles at DuPont.
Kendra studied biology and chemistry at the University of Florida and Wright State University. She received her MBA in Integrative Management from Michigan State University.
Kendra is highly engaged with several community and philanthropic organizations. She is a member of the inaugural United Way of Central Maryland Philanthropic Women’s Leadership Development Program, a UWCM Women United Executive Councilperson and a board member of the Fort Meade Alliance. In 2021, Kendra was named one of the Top 100 Women in Maryland by The Daily Record, recognizing outstanding achievements by women in business and mentoring.
Lisa Roger
Chief Information Officer
Dewberry
Howard Spira
CIO
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Howard Spira was named the Chief Information Officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in December 2014. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in October of 2016 and is a member of the Bank’s senior leadership team reporting directly to the acting Chairman of the Bank.
Howard’s responsibilities include overseeing the complete information technology portfolio that supports the Bank's $100 billion book including infrastructure, networks and telecoms, application development, program management, information security, data and reporting, and records management. In addition, his area serves as the agency's representative for Open Data, Privacy and Records.
Howard joined the Export-Import Bank after five years of service at the United States Treasury where he led the technology team for the Office of Financial Stability – the team that orchestrated the financial rescue program in response to the financial crisis of 2008. In addition to his work at OFS, Howard was a frequent participant and advisor on high-level IT strategy work for Treasury and the Office of Domestic Finance in areas related to financial services technology.
Prior to his federal service, Howard was a senior IT executive in the financial services industry with an extensive background in international and domestic commercial finance. Howard’s previous experiences include being a managing director at Goldman Sachs Real-estate Japan where he ran technology and loan servicing. Howard also had ten years with GE Capital where he served as the technology executive for the Global Financial Restructuring group and as a CIO for the Commercial Finance Division. Howard also spent time at Smith Barney where he led taxable fixed income trading and operations technology. Howard started his career at Andersen Consulting’s Financial Service practice in New York City helping overseas financial institutions establish operations in the United States.
Howard graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s of science and holds an MBA from Cornell with a focus on finance and international business.
Chris Stettler
Executive CIO Advisor
Hartman Executive Advisors
Renee Tarun
Deputy CISO
Fortinet
Renee Tarun is Deputy CISO at Fortinet. She is focused on enterprise security, compliance and governance, and product security. She is also author to the book, Fight Fire with Fire: Proactive Cybersecurity Strategies for Today's Leaders.
Renee joined Fortinet as the Vice President, Information Security in early 2017. Immediately prior to joining Fortinet, she served as Special Assistant to the Director, National Security Agency (NSA), for Cyber and Director of NSA’s Cyber Task Force, in which she advanced NSA’s execution of its cybersecurity and cyber-related missions by acquiring, investing, and overseeing resources; defining and integrating mission capabilities; and shaping agency strategy and national level policy.
As the Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Information Assurance Directorate at NSA, her focus areas included strategy, planning, integration, and relationship management, in cybersecurity and related disciplines across NSA and the Department of Defense (DoD).
Renee also served as Senior Cyber Strategist in a joint DoD-DHS organization which orchestrated joint efforts in operational planning, policy, and strategy, for cyber issues across the US Government.
She was the Portfolio Lead for the Protect Data and Networks and Operational Resiliency Portfolios for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information and Identity Assurance. Previous assignments include computer scientist, information technologist, and a variety of policy, programs, and resource jobs.
Renee is also a board member for the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering, creating synergy between the school and the professional community by addressing workforce development demands, industry expectations, and employment trends.
Jesse Whaley
VP & CISO
Amtrak
Jesse Whaley is an accomplished thought and action leader across multiple disciplines encompassing technology, security, intelligence, and criminal investigations. He has consistently delivered award-winning cybersecurity performance and groundbreaking improvements for the U.S. Department of Defense, international governmental alliances and private companies.
As Amtrak’s current Chief Information Security Officer, Jesse leads the management of cyber risk and information security matters. He manages everything from traditional enterprise technology risks to unique challenges with operational technology that securely moves trains and safely delivers passengers to their destinations. Jesse authored and is delivering a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy to strengthen the company’s security posture while supporting the digital transformation of the business.
Previously, Jesse transformed cybersecurity operations at the Pentagon. He designed and built major programs to protect the nation’s military headquarters from cyber threats including cyber intelligence fusion, cyber hunt, and user activity monitoring in support of the DoD Insider Threat Program. Jesse held many other leadership positions throughout DoD including leading defensive cyberspace operations at a regional cyber center. He delivered unique critical technology capabilities as a Director within the military intelligence community and served as an IT Director (CIO equivalent) overseas. Jesse also provides expert advisory services through Alpha Sights and Emissary.
Jesse is especially known for leading revolutionary global initiatives. His accomplishments include successfully leading teams through resolution of over 10,000 cybersecurity incidents and over 500 criminal investigations. Jesse and his teams have received numerous awards. In 2017, Jesse was named the Pentagon IT Senior Civilian Employee of the Year. Jesse is active throughout the technology and security communities as a member of (ISC)2, ISACA, Evanta’s Washington DC CIO/CISO Governing Body, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Information Security Committee (RISC), and HMG Strategy’s Washington DC CISO Advisory Board.
Jesse also served 10 years in the U.S. Army as a CID Special Agent and a Digital Forensic Examiner. Jesse has lived and worked across the globe, developing trusted partnerships with his counterparts in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
October 13, 2022 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Breakfast and Networking
Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Judith Apshago, Vice President, Information Technology, Amtrak
DIGITAL TECH TALK INTERVIEW: The New Leadership Paradigm: Why Tech Executives Must Shift from a ‘Command-and-Control’ Model to ‘Inspire and Trust’ to Win the Global War for Talent and in the Marketplace
Stephen M. R. Covey, best-selling author interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
The world has changed dramatically since March 2020 and so, too, have organizational cultures. The shift to a work-from-home environment has empowered employees who want to dictate how, when and where they work. Moreover, in a flat screen meeting environment where all participants are viewed as equals, employees don’t want to follow orders – they want to be part of the brain-trust that helps to solve critical business and customer challenges and to influence the strategic trajectory of the company.
In this compelling Executive Interview with HMG Strategy President and CEO Hunter Muller, Stephen M.R. Covey, best-selling author of The Speed of Trust and his forthcoming book Inspire and Trust, shares why a ‘Command-and-Control’ leadership style no longer works and how an ‘Inspire and Trust’ leadership approach can encourage employees to be more collaborative and creative and to maximize their potential. Covey, who is the Co-Founder of CoveyLink and the FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust practice, also frames “the two epic imperatives of our time” to help guide leaders on creating a thriving culture that can help attract, grow, retain, engage and inspire the best people in the global war for talent and to successfully collaborate and innovate in order for companies to win in the marketplace.
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: How Total Experience is Shaping Your Digital Transformation Roadmap to Meet the Future Needs of the Business
Christine Converse Hogan, CIO Advisor of Zoom interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy
The intersection of customer, user, and employee experience is defining the way that CIOs evaluate and implement new technology. A seamless experience can lead to client growth and retention, employee satisfaction, increased cost savings, improve clearance times for bottlenecks, and drives high ROIs. Listen and discuss as Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy interviews Christine Converse Hogan, CIO Advisor of Zoom, what the video conferencing giant is doing to connect these threads and the impact it can have on your enterprise both now, and in five years. This fireside chat will include:
Ensuring client retention and growth in a post-pandemic world
Leveraging AI and Automation to positively impact business insights and promote future business growth
Generating a workplace culture that engages employees both at home and in the office
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Leading a Digital and Transformational Agenda with a High Performing Team
Kristie Grinnell, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, DXC Technology interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy.
Today more than ever all companies and businesses are technology companies. The key to winning in highly competitive market is building a world-class senior team and organization with a winning culture. Kristie Grinnell, Senior Vice President and Chief Infomation Officer, DXC Technology, will share her personal playbook on what it takes to accelerate a high performing diverse team and win! It all starts with having a strategic mindset and defining the business opportunity. Through executive presence/credibility story telling acumen and influencing skills we’ll hear how she gets it all done.
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Leading Boldly and Authentically in a Time of Extreme Turbulence
Moderator: Howard Spira, CIO, Export-Import Bank of the United States
David Morris, Chairman & CEO, HiPER Solutions
Scott Daitzman, CISO, SJD Cyber
Kristie Grinnell, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, DXC Technology
Andre Mendes, CIO, U.S. Department of Commerce
The War in Ukraine, The Great Resignation, Global Supply-Chain Challenges and Energy Constraints. These are just a few of the unprecedented disruptions that are impacting members of the senior leadership team and their strategic focus. This is a critical time for technology executives to demonstrate bold, authentic and inclusive leadership to help inspire employees and foster an environment of trust.
In this powerful Executive Panel discussion, world-class CIOs and technology executives will share how they’ve adapted their leadership styles to help galvanize the team around a shared mission and to stimulate a collaborative and inclusive culture that can spark innovation, foster a spirit of connectedness and drive successful business outcomes.
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Stretch Leadership for the Modern CISO
David Mahon, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Deloitte interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy.
As cyber-attacks and data breaches continue to become more sophisticated, CISOs are finding that they need leadership skills beyond managing technology and safeguarding the organization. They also need to develop new leadership skills to communicate the impact of a data breach from a legal, regulatory, compliance and privacy standpoint. In this Fireside Chat with HMG Strategy Founder and CEO, Hunter Muller, and Global CISO at Deloitte Global, David Mahon, discuss the 'stretch leadership' skills that today's CISO needs to work effectively with the business while continuing to safeguard the enterprise.
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Accelerating Your Winning IT Strategy with World Class Technologies and Partnerships
Moderator: Christopher Stettler, Executive IT Advisor, Hartman Executive Advisors
Renee Tarun, Deputy CISO, Fortinet
Lisa Roger, Chief Information Officer, Dewberry
Dean Lane, SVP Cyber Intelligence, The Institute of World Politics
Luis Giraldo, RVP, Business Value Consulting in Global Sales. Outsystems
Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, application development tools and modern development platforms can enable business technology leaders to identify potential use cases and make a meaningful impact on the business. These and other technologies can help better safeguard enterprises against cyber threats, create digital experiences that improve an organization's operational efficiency, increase revenue, and reduce technical debt. This panel of executives will share use cases for leveraging advanced technologies and partnerships that are enabling competitive differentiation and speed to market.
Lunch, Networking and HMG Global Leadership Institute Awards Program
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Kendra Parlock VP Partnership Development, NPower will interview Toni S. Benson, Chief, Cyber Defense Education and Training, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
SIM National Update, Mark Taylor, CEO, Society for Information Management
HMG Global Institute Award Nominees:
Judith Apshago, Vice President, Information Technology, Amtrak
Andre Mendes, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce
Previous Award Winners Include:
Judith Apshago, VP IT, Amtrak
David Bray, Inaugural Director, Global GeoTech Center & Commission, Atlantic Council
Ted Colbert, CEO, Boeing Global Services
Dana Deasy, former CIO, DoD
Paul Fipps, SVP Customer and Partner Excellence, ServiceNow
Bruce Hoffmeister, CIO, Cracker Barrell
Ben Johnson, CTO & Co-Founder, Obsidian Security
Wanda Jones-Heath, Chief Information Security Officer/DAF Principal Cyber Advisor, United States Air Force
Jason Molfetas, Chief Digital, Information and Security Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Serena Sacks-Mandel, General Manager Customer Success, US Education, Microsoft
James Turgal, Vice President, Optiv Security, Inc.
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: What do CEOs really need today? Productivity and Innovation Fueled by Creativity
Paul Fipps, President, Strategic Accounts, ServiceNow interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy
Business leaders face an environment as unsettled as any in recent memory. But within this uncertainty also exists massive opportunity. How can leaders seize it? In this fireside chat, Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and Paul Fipps, President, Strategic Accounts, ServiceNow, will discuss where CxOs should focus amidst such a disruptive environment and how they can creatively drive productivity and innovation to lay the foundation for their next phase of growth. As Winston Churchill once said, never let a good crisis go to waste.
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Safeguarding the Enterprise Against Escalating Global Cyber Threats
Moderator: Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy
Albert Murray, Assistant Special Agent, Cyber Branch, Washington Field Office, FBI
David Mahon, Global CISO, Deloitte
Jesse Whaley, VP, Chief Information Security Officer, Amtrak
Ransomware attacks are up a whopping 500% in 2021. Meanwhile, the nature of recent attacks including Log4j continue to become more widespread as these threats are impacting infrastructure, supply chains and other operations that can impact multiple organizations at once. As these and other types of threats continue to evolve and become more dangerous and complex, it’s clear that CISOs and security leaders need to reimagine their cybersecurity strategies to better safeguard the organization now and into the future.
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Defining a Modern Enterprise Security Strategy
Mark Day, Chief Scientist, Netskope, interviewed by Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
A modern security program must align with the modern business environment – focused on zero trust principles, addressing overarching enterprise risks, progressing beyond basic allow/block decisions and continuously evaluating the context surrounding each interaction – by offering and adapting the right level of access at just the right time. Service Edge (SSE) is the security stack that helps deliver the promise of cloud and digital transformation.
In this Executive Interview, we’ll explore how Security Service Edge is the next evolution of cloud security and a critical component for delivering an agile and cost effective zero trust strategy to your organization. SSE converges legacy point security capabilities into a unified cloud platform that provides secure access to applications and data everywhere, consistently for every location
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Acting as a Talent Magnet to Attract and Retain the Best and the Brightest
Moderator: Tom Berray, Managing Partner, DHR Global
David Morris, CEO, HiPER Solutions
Heather Kowalski, CIO, DOJ-Interpol
Stuart Kippelman, CIO & SVP Commercial Cyber Services, Parsons Corporation
As the global war for talent continues to escalate, savvy CIOs and technology executives position their leadership styles to help attract and retain the skills and resources needed to move the 21st-century enterprise forward. This includes demonstrating authentic and inclusive approaches to solving critical challenges together and listening and responding thoughtfully to the needs and interests of employees.
In this executive panel discussion, top-tier CIOs, technology leaders and search executives share their recommendations for tech executives to strengthen their leadership acumen and promote their personal brands to retain and attract world-class business technology talent.
EXECUTIVE TECH TALK: Shifting from a “Peacetime” to “Wartime” Security Mindset
Snehal Antani, Co-Founder and CEO, Horizon3.ai
The checkbox mindset may have worked during "peacetime", but the "Wartime" CISO mindset is about "training like you fight" and building the muscle memory required to quickly detect and stifle real attacks. This mindset shift is especially important given global events and the forthcoming era of cyber-enabled economic warfare, where we should expect to see synchronized cyber-attacks below the threshold of war, designed to create economic pain and political turmoil. Are you ready? How do you know?
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
3:35 - 4:00 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Tech Leader as Enterprise Change Agent – Fostering Cultural Change and Enabling the Digital Business Juggernaut
Moderator: Judith Apshago, Vice President, Information Technology, Amtrak
Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Fellow, Business Executives for National Security
Rona Bunn, Chief Information Officer, NACD
Bob Osborn, Chief Technology Officer, Global Governments
Christie Nader, Chief Information Officer, Jet Aviation
Technology executives have an incredible opportunity to act as enterprise change agents as they sit at the intersection of how technology can be leveraged to drive transformative change across the organization. But to pilot such dramatic changes across the organization, bold leadership is needed to execute on digital business opportunities and go-to-market strategies while guiding the cultural transformation that’s needed to succeed.
In this captivating executive panel discussion, world-class business technology executives will share how they are applying an innovative approach to help to transform their companies’ business models and to guide the cultural evolution needed for the digital enterprise to fire on all cylinders.
Raffle Prizes and Closing Remarks
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/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.usServiceNow's cloud platform delivers a faster, smarter & more automated experience. Create experiences that engage employees and drive fierce customer loyalty.
https://www.servicenow.com/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/OutSystems is a global leader in high-performance application development. We partner with visionaries to turn their big ideas into software that moves business, people, and the world forward. The OutSystems high-performance low-code platform gives technology leaders and developers the tools they need to rapidly build, deploy and manage their own business-critical applications. The company’s network spans more than 600,000 community members, 400+ partners, and active customers in 87 countries across 22 industries. OutSystems is “The #1 Low-Code Platform®” and a recognized leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world.
https://www.outsystems.com/SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors. Designed for extreme ease of use, the S1 platform saves customers time by applying AI to automatically eliminate threats in real time for both on premise and cloud environments and is the only solution to provide full visibility across networks directly from the endpoint.
https://www.sentinelone.com/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/Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self-service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s customers across large enterprises and mid-market companies in 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months. For more information, visit www.denodo.com or call +1 877 556 2531 (US) / +44 (0) 20 7869 8053 (UK) / +65 6950 7489 (Singapore).
https://www.denodo.com/enSigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence solution empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore live data independently, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning platform capitalizes on the power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet interface for data analysis – no coding required. Sigma automates workflows and balances data access with unparalleled data governance to make self-service data exploration available to everyone and safe for the first time.
https://www.sigmacomputing.com.Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 510 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of July 31, 2022, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com.
snowflake.com8x8 is transforming the future of business communications with XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™). 8x8 XCaaS is the only integrated platform for contact center, voice, video meetings, team chat, and CPaaS embeddable APIs. Unlike multi-vendor environments, 8x8 XCaaS provides platform-wide reliability, lowers costs, boosts employee productivity and customer engagement, and delivers intelligence through AI-powered experiences and insights. More than 2.5 million people around the world rely on 8x8 to collaborate quicker, work smarter, and serve customers better with real-time analytics across every interaction. For organizations relying on Microsoft Teams for collaboration, 8x8 offers its 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams direct routing solution and 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams which is certified by Microsoft. 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams provides advanced telephony and contact center capabilities to further empower Microsoft Teams users. Today, more than 150,000 users rely on 8x8 for advanced communications for Teams. 8x8 is a ten-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide and seven-time Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).
https://www.8x8.com/Akamai 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.comBetterCloud is the leading SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. With an expanding ecosystem of SaaS integrations, thousands of forward thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations. The company launched the first-ever annual SaasOps-focused conference, Altitude, and publishes annually the definitive market research report, State of SaaSOps, on the market and category. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. The company's total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners.
https://www.bettercloud.com/Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. The company has over 1,500 employees and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.
https://www.darktrace.com/Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
https://www.fortinet.com/Nutanix 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.comPalo 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.comRingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™, the company's video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.
https://www.ringcentral.com/SafeGuard Cyber protects the human connections businesses need to thrive in a digital world. Our award-winning platform utilizes a unique mix of direct API integration, Natural Language Understanding, advanced policy engines, and deep relationships with cloud-based digital platforms to give you unmatched, real-time monitoring and mitigation on over 50 cloud communication channels. With SafeGuard installed your team can use whatever tools they wish to do what they do best: create value and drive growth.
https://www.safeguardcyber.com/Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, empowering operations teams to rapidly improve efficiency with an enterprise-grade, composable automation platform. By allowing ops teams to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes with no-code, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. The Tonkean platform makes automating complex business processes simple and accessible to non-developers, such as business operations teams and process owners, by abstracting the high technical barrier and coding expertise needed to deliver robust, enterprise-grade process solutions via composability. Ops teams compose custom process solutions using building blocks called “enterprise components” or ECs. ECs are modular, interchangeable, and reusable capabilities that perform actions or complete steps in a business process. ECs are fully governed and curated, typically by IT. They can be adopted from vendors or custom built, or they can simply be extensions of existing tools and systems. This allows ops and process experts to rapidly build holistic process solutions that can work with different systems, easily adapt to changing needs, and measure cross-functional KPIs–all with no-code and no change management. Enterprises like Google, EVERSANA, Instacart, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more rely on Tonkean to optimize and align their operations across functions—including sales, marketing, customer support, legal, finance, and more. With Tonkean, enterprises can expand the pie of who can deliver software to make a world of Makers.
https://tonkean.com/Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $3.8 billion on Upwork in 2022 across more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
https://www.upwork.com/enterprise/Zoom 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.usZscaler, the only zero trust platform that securely connects any user, any device, and any app over any network. Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant. Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside. By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.
https://www.zscaler.com/• LastPass 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/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.comPing 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.htmlEgon 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.comHeidrick & 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.comAt 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.comFounded 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.comAmplify 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.comGlynn 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/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.comLightspeed 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.comSequoia 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.comThe Society for Information Management (SIM) is an exclusive association for senior IT executives, prominent academicians, consultants, and other IT thought leaders built on the foundation of local chapters. SIM’s Capital Area Chapter (SIMCAC) recognizes the Greater Washington, DC area as a powerhouse for nuanced and secure technology. SIM’s mission is to connect IT leaders and deliver vital knowledge creating business value and promoting personal development within the field through our events. For more information please contact: farafrancis.sim@gmail.com
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