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2023 Silicon Valley CISO & Technology Executive Leadership Summit

Visionary Leadership: Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage

Inflationary pressures and other macro-economic challenges are creating headwinds for technology executives and fellow members of the C-suite to execute on and achieve strategic goals through 2023. One of the impacts for CISOs and security leaders are potential budget cutbacks on cybersecurity software, staff and services.

The fast-changing socio-economic landscape is prompting technology executives to become more creative than ever in a cost-conscious environment and to draw upon visionary leadership skills to inspire their teams. Meanwhile, security leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures.

Here are the prevailing leadership and technology trends that HMG Strategy will be focusing on throughout its 2023 CISO & Technology Executive Leadership Summit Series:

  • Security Innovation - Understanding the Risk Profile of the C-Suite
  • How Upcoming SEC Regulations Impact CXOs and the Board
  • The Partner Puzzle - How Many is Too Many?
  • Trends in Security Talent Search
  • Combatting the Nation-State Axis of Evil

Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for security executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and other cyber technologies to help safeguard the business and enable the company to win in tumultuous times.

 


  • Selim Aissi
    Global CISO
    Blackhawk Network

  • Merav Bahat
    Co-Founder and CEO
    Dazz

    Merav Bahat is the CEO and co-founder of Dazz. She has spent her career creating category-leading technology products and building high-impact teams.  

    Previously, Merav served as General Manager for the multibillion-dollar cloud security global business at Microsoft, and was also Deputy CEO of Microsoft Israel R&D, overseeing more than 2,500 employees. Prior, she was Product Strategy Group Director for the Microsoft Cloud & AI Security business unit, and before that, Chief of Products and Business Development of Flash Networks, where she was a core member of the management team that led the company’s triple-digit annual growth and domain leadership.  

    Merav has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and served as a fellow in the joint Harvard Business School-Kennedy School of Government program. As one of only a handful of female CEO-founders in cybersecurity, Merav is focused on mentoring and empowering women and young leaders 

  • Tamar Bar-Ilan
    Co-Founder and CTO
    Cyera

  • Eddie Borrero
    VP & CISO
    Blue Shield of CA

    Eddie Borrero is Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit health plan with $21 billion in annual revenue serving 4.6 million members in the state's commercial, individual, and government markets. Borrero drives Blue Shield’s IT security strategy to protect member, provider, and employee data and ensure all lines of business adhere with company policies. He leads the organization in proactively identifying and mitigating threats to strengthen Blue Shield’s security position and promotes safe information management practices.

    With more than 20 years of information security management experience, Borrero has extensive expertise in aligning cross-functional security strategies that protect organizations’ technology environments and business processes. Previously, Borrero served as Chief Information Security Officer at Robert Half International, Inc., a global human resource consulting firm, where he was instrumental in developing and implementing a security strategy to support business growth and accelerating a secure shift to a digital business model. Prior to that role, Borrero led the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer at Amgen.

    Borrero is a core leader in Blue Shield’s corporate executive Diversity Council as well as the internal Hispanic and Veterans Groups. In his community, Borrero is committed to being a role model by supporting Hispanics and veterans in pursuing careers in technology. He also volunteers with organizations that support homeless people and survivors of domestic violence.

    Borrero holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. He is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program in Leadership. Borrero is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

  • Rafi Brenner
    VP, Information Security
    Fortinet

  • Krishnan Chellakarai
    VP, CISO
    Gilead Sciences

    Krishnan Chellakarai is the Chief Information Security Officer at Gilead Sciences located in Foster City, California.  He has over 28 years of experience in Information Security across various industries and close to 15 years in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry. Mr. Chellakarai has been the CISO at Gilead for 6 years and he is responsible for Cyber Security strategies, architecture, engineering and cyber security operations.

    Prior to Gilead, Krishnan has worked as the Chief Security Architect at Roche/Genentech for 9 years and had a similar role in various organizations including Stanford Hospital, CNA Trust, Reuters America, and ABN Amro.

  • Cassie Crossley
    Vice President, Deputy Product Security Officer
    Schneider Electric

    Cassie Crossley, Vice President, Deputy Product Security Officer in the global Product & Systems Security Office at Schneider Electric, is an experienced cybersecurity technology executive in Information Technology and Product Development. She has many years of business and technical leadership experience in secure software supply chain, cybersecurity, product/application security, software/firmware development, program management, and data privacy. Ms. Crossley has held previous positions at Ceridian, Hewlett-Packard, McAfee, Lotus, and IBM. She has an M.B.A. from California State University, Fresno, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Technical and Professional Communication with a specialization in Computer Science.

  • Sangram Dash
    Head of Cyber Security
    CDK Global

    Sangram Dash is a specialist in designing, developing, and executing Cyber Security, and Product Risk Programs with 10+ years of experience in the FinTech industry. Mr. Dash is passionate about building secure and compliant software products. Presently he leads the Cyber Security function at CDK Global, an automobile ERP Software as Service (SAS) and solution provider. CDK enables the movement of >2% of US GDP on its systems. Prior to CDK, Mr. Dash led the Cyber Security and Privacy function at Fast.Co, a consumer identity platform backed by Stripe. Before Fast.Co, he led the Cyber Security and Technology Risk function at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Square. He spent six years at PayPal, leading the Product Risk Assurance function focusing on Venmo and Braintree. Mr. Dash has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His professional certifications include CISSP, CDPSE, and CISM.


  • Al Ghous
    CISO
    Snapdocs

    Al Ghous is the Sr Director of Cyber Security for GE Digital. In this capacity Al is responsible for GE Digital’s Cloud Platform and Product Cyber Security where he is focused on building secure and resilient Cloud for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) known as Predix – first of its kind. Al’s Cyber Security organization includes Product Security, Infrastructure and Platform Security, Identity and Access Management, Encryption, Product Assurance and Response Services. Al’s organization takes pride in their approach to secure software development practices while maintaining a state of preparedness to detect anomalous activities and take necessary action to protect Predix and GE’s Customers.

    Al has been in the Cyber Security industry for over 18 years contributing in different capacities from Risk Management to Solution Consulting and Security Architecture. Al is active in the Cyber Security industry and part of several consortiums. He has held leadership roles in organizations such as Ernst and Young, Oracle, Kaiser Permanente and Informatica to name a few.

  • Nikhil Gupta
    Co-Founder & CEO
    ArmorCode Inc.

    Nikhil Gupta is a successful serial entrepreneur. Nikhil is Co-Founder & CEO of ArmorCode Inc, a stealth-mode startup. Prior to founding ArmorCode, Nikhil was VP of Strategy, Cloud Security at Sophos. Nikhil joined Sophos through the acquisition of Avid Secure, where he was the Founder and CEO. Avid Secure built a market-leading AI-powered multi-cloud security analytics and compliance platform. Prior to Avid Secure, Nikhil held several leadership positions for 20+ years in organizations such as VMware, Cisco, ForeScout, Ericsson (Joined through the acquisition of Entrisphere, where he was the founding engineer), Alcatel, and Bell Labs. Nikhil holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS and MS in Computer Science.

  • Patty Hatter
    Tech Investor/Advisory, Public Company Board Member, former Chief Customer Officer

    Patty Hatter has more than 20 years of experience leading operations and technology organizations at several Fortune 500 companies. Patty is a strategic adviser, working on product and go-to-market strategies for technology startups ranging from cybersecurity to IT service management to blockchain applications. From 2015 to 2017, Patty was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Services for Intel/McAfee, where she spearheaded the transformation of McAfee's support for enterprise customers. From 2015 to 2016, she was General Manager of Security and Software IT and Chief Information Officer at Intel Security Group, and from 2010 to 2015, she served as Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Information Officer at McAfee, Inc. Prior to her employment with McAfee, Patty held executive positions with Cisco and AT&T.

    Patty was chosen by the National Diversity Council as a "Most Powerful and Influential Woman" in 2015, and was named both "Women of Influence" and "Power Executive" by Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2016. Patty earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

    Patty is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) and a Board member of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

     

  • Emily Heath
    General Partner
    Cyberstarts

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

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

  • Teza Mukkavilli
    CISO
    Chargepoint

    I specialize in building Information Security, Privacy, GRC and Enterprise Risk and Compliance programs. Leader who attracts top talent and influences key leadership and Board to communicate the risk-based value prop, overall roadmap, and optimal budget requirements.

    Passionate about leading strategies, plans, and programs that drive organizational change, operational excellence, enterprise transformations, and sustainable improvements worldwide.

    Skills: GRC, SOC2, PCI, GDPR, CCPA, Privacy, Security Engineering, Enterprise Risk Management, Third-party risk, and Compliance controls frameworks.

  • 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.

  • Matthew Rosenquist
    CISO
    Eclipz.io, Inc.

    Matthew Rosenquist joined Intel Corp in 1996 and benefits from 28 diverse years in the fields of cyber, physical, and information security. Mr. Rosenquist specializes in security strategy, measuring value, developing best-practices for cost effective capabilities, and establishing organizations which deliver optimal levels of cybersecurity. As a cybersecurity strategist for the Intel, he identifies risks and opportunities to build organizations that balance risks, costs, and usability factors across hardware, firmware, software, artificial intelligence, and services. Mr. Rosenquist is active in the industry and consults on best-practices and emerging risks to academic, business, and government audiences around the globe. Mr. Rosenquist built and managed Intel’s first global 24x7 Security Operations Center, oversaw several internal platform security products and services, deployed the enterprise intrusion detection program, and was Intel’s first Incident Commander for worldwide IT emergency responses. He has conducted investigations and risk assessments in defense of corporate assets and managed the security playbook for Intel security features landing in the PC architecture. Mr. Rosenquist ran security for Intel’s multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions activities and quantitatively justified the improvement strategy protecting Intel’s global manufacturing capability. His development of the Threat Agent Risk Assessment (TARA) methodology to optimize security, has influenced how organizations view and prioritize risks. Currently, he is leading cybersecurity for Intel’s Artificial Intelligence group, with a focus on how AI will transform security, privacy, and safety. Mr. Rosenquist is very active in the industry, speaks at conferences, consults with industry partners, member of multiple advisory boards, and has published acclaimed white papers, blogs, and videos on a wide range of cybersecurity topics. In 2018, he was named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for technology. He is very passionate about cybersecurity and strives to blend practical risk mitigation practices, business processes, and technology capabilities to achieve an optimal level of security.

  • Piyoush Sharma
    Co-Author, The Purple Book of Software Security
    Head of Enterprise Security & Technology Operations
    Zuora

  • David Tsao
    Global Information Security Officer
    Instacart

  • Maarten Van Horenbeeck
    SVP, Chief Security Officer
    Adobe

  • Morgan Wright
    Chief Security Advisor
    SentinelOne

    Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, national security and intelligence. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at The Center for Digital Government, Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne, and is the chief technology analyst for Fox News and Fox Business. Morgan's landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. Previously Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program, the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention, taught behavioral analysis at the National Security Agency and spent a year teaching the FBI how to conduct internet investigations. In addition to 18 years in state and local law enforcement as a highly decorated state trooper and detective, Morgan has developed solutions in defense, justice and intelligence for the largest technology companies in the world including Cisco, SAIC, Unisys and Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs. 

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JUNE 1, 2022, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PT

2023 Silicon Valley CISO & Technology Executive Leadership Agenda

 

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Registration and Networking Breakfast

9:00 - 9:20 AM

Welcome and Introduction

Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy

Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

9:20 - 10:00 AM

 

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

MODERATOR: Matthew Rosenquist, CISO, Eclipz.io

Al Ghous, CISO, Snapdocs

Morgan Wright, Chief Security Advisor, SentinelOne

Piyoush Sharma, Head of Enterprise Security, Platform & Web, Zuora

Janet Ge, Head of Security, Grail


It’s challenging to stay a step ahead of nation-state actors and other cyber criminals. But security can be positioned as a competitive advantage if it enables your company to be better prepared than your organization’s rivals. 

In this thought-provoking executive panel discussion, top-tier CISOs and security leaders will share best practices for moving beyond securing the organization along with examples of leading companies that have achieved a competitive edge. 

10:00 - 10:05 AM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation 

Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

10:05 - 10:30 AM

 

Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners

10:30 - 11:05 AM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security in the Spotlight: How Will Upcoming SEC Regulations Impact the Roles of CXOs and the Board

 

MODERATOR: Niharika Srivastav, Senior Vice President - Cybersecurity and Executive Programs, Women in Technology International

Rafi Brenner, VP, Information Security, Fortinet

Selim Aissi, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Blackhawk Network

Krishnan Chellakarai, CISO, Gilead Sciences

The evolving threat landscape is forcing CISOs and information security leaders to re-think their approaches to safeguarding the enterprise. This includes applying new skill sets, new technologies and new ways of thinking to keep a step ahead of cyber-criminals and threat actors. These strategic changes require buy-in from the C-suite, line-of-business leaders and the Board of Directors – including the ability to communicate the rationale for these changes to obtain the support and investments that are needed.

In this Executive Panel discussion, world-class security leaders will share the steps they are taking to lead effectively at the executive level, along with fresh approaches they are taking to safeguard the enterprise in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

11:05 - 11:30

 

Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners

11:30 AM - 11:50 PM

 

EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Unleashing the Power of Cyber Security in the C-Suite and the Boardroom

Patty Hatter, Tech Investor/Advisory, Public Company Board Member, former Chief Customer Officer

Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Cyber security has transcended its backroom origins to become a critical boardroom concern. The role of CISO has transformed, demanding technical expertise and effective business leadership skills to engage board members with diverse backgrounds. Patty Hatter, Tech Investor/Advisory, Public Company Board Member and former Chief Customer Officer and Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy will share valuable insights on fostering productive relationships with board directors to drive business objectives forward. Discover strategic approaches to secure buy-in, not just within the C-Suite, but at the highest levels of governance as well. .

11:50 - 1:00 PM

 

Networking Lunch and HMG Global Leadership Institute Awards Program

NPower Update: Chris Starling, Executive Director, NPower

HMG Global Leadership Institute Awards Program

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

Krishnan Chellakarai, CISO, Gilead Sciences

Parul Saini, Global Head of Business and Enterprise Apps, Uber

1:00 - 1:20 PM

HMG EXCLUSIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Start Up Showcase

Tamar Bar-Ilan, Co-Founder and CTO, Cyera interviewed by Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts


Research conducted by HMG Strategy reveals that one of the top focus areas for technology executive leaders is how to continue to innovate in a demanding business and how to stay ahead of the curve with new emerging technologies. In this exclusive session, Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts asks the CEOs of some of the most innovative Cyber security startups what drives their mission to create meaningful companies, deliver lasting value and how their solutions are differentiated in the market. Joining Emily in this session are CEO’s from two companies who are re-defining the security industry in how you protect a modern cloud enabled enterprise.

1:20 - 1:40 PM

Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners

1:40 - 2:10 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Securing Applications in the Age of Cyber Threats

MODERATOR: Nikhil Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Armorcode

Cassie Crossley, VP Supply Chain Security, Schneider Electric

Sangram Dash, Head of Cyber Security, CDK Global

Teza Mukkavilli, CISO, Chargepoint

"Every company is a software company" making application security more critical than ever before. Cyber threats such as data breaches, malware attacks, and hacking attempts can severely damage an organization’s reputation, finances, and customers’ trust.
 
In this session, we will discuss leading-edge technology solutions and best practices to assist security teams how to balance the demand for software production vs. building secure code.
  • Correlating and prioritizing critical vulnerabilities found from standalone AppSec, Cloud, and Infrastructure security tools protecting your holistic attack surface
  • Utilizing workflow automation to improve triaging of vulnerabilities and MTTR
  • How do we improve the collaboration and coordination of our AppSec and DevOps teams?
  • What key metrics does a CISO need to be monitoring - Risk vs. Vulnerability?

2:10 - 2:15 PM

HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation 

Cassie Crossley, VP Supply Chain Security, Schneider Electric

2:15 - 2:30 PM

Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners

2:30 - 3:00 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL:  Innovating At The Speed of Change

MODERATOR: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy

Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts

David Tsao, Chief Information Security Officer, Instacart

Eddie Borrero, Chief Information Security Officer, Blue Shield CA

Maarten Van Horenbeeck, Chief Information Security Officer, Adobe

As technology continues to evolve to support rapidly going business demands, keeping up with security is challenging enough, so how do CISOs and security executives continue to think strategically to stay ahead of the curve? Continuous innovation must be part of any modern security program, the alternative, not innovating cannot be the answer.  In this expert panel learn from some leading enterprise CISOs on their approaches to innovation and learn how they stay ahead of the change while balancing day to day operations.

3:00 PM

 

Raffle Prizes & Closing Remarks

Platinum Partners

  • SentinelOne

    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/

Gold Partners

  • Illumio

    Illumio enables organizations to realize a future without high-profile breaches by preventing the lateral movement of attackers across any organization. Founded on the principle of least privilege in 2013, Illumio provides visibility and segmentation for endpoints, data centers or clouds. The world’s leading organizations, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Salesforce, and Oracle NetSuite, trust Illumio to reduce cyber risk.

    www.illumio.com
  • Palo Alto Networks

    Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

    www.paloaltonetworks.com

Supporting Partners

  • ArmorCode Inc.

    ArmorCode is charting the future of application security. The ArmorCode AppSecOps platform unifies application security and infrastructure vulnerability management to address the biggest problems in AppSec today. It integrates with your security ecosystem to de-duplicate, correlate, and orchestrate findings in a single platform so security and development teams can realize holistic visibility, flexible agility, and cross-team collaboration.

Trailblazer Partners

  • Upwind

    Upwind was founded by the team who built Spot.io, the market leader for cloud infrastructure automation and optimization (acquired by NetApp). We are continuing our mission to empower organizations to run cloud environments and accelerate their businesses by focusing on what is next — helping make cloud-native security simple, effective, and easy to consume.

    https://www.upwind.io
  • Cyera

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

    https://www.cyera.io

Marketplace Partners

  • Akamai

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

    https://www.akamai.com
  • BetterCloud

    BetterCloud is the leading SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. With an expanding ecosystem of SaaS integrations, thousands of forward thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations. The company launched the first-ever annual SaasOps-focused conference, Altitude, and publishes annually the definitive market research report, State of SaaSOps, on the market and category. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. The company's total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners.

    https://www.bettercloud.com/
  • Darktrace

    Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. The company has over 1,500 employees and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.

    https://www.darktrace.com/
  • Fortinet

    Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 565,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

    https://www.fortinet.com/
  • Globant

    We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design and engineering meet scale. • We have more than 25,500 employees and we are present in 21 countries working for companies like Google, Rockwell Automation, Electronic Arts and Santander, among others. • We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services by IDC MarketScape report. • We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford

    https://www.globant.com/
  • Nutanix

    Nutanix offers a single platform to run all your apps and data across multiple clouds while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Trusted by companies worldwide, Nutanix powers hybrid multicloud environments efficiently and cost effectively. This enables companies to focus on successful business outcomes and new innovations.

    https://www.nutanix.com
  • Palo Alto Networks

    Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

    www.paloaltonetworks.com
  • RingCentral

    RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video™,  the company's video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.

    https://www.ringcentral.com/
  • SafeGuard Cyber

    SafeGuard Cyber protects the human connections businesses need to thrive in a digital world. Our award-winning platform utilizes a unique mix of direct API integration, Natural Language Understanding, advanced policy engines, and deep relationships with cloud-based digital platforms to give you unmatched, real-time monitoring and mitigation on over 50 cloud communication channels. With SafeGuard installed your team can use whatever tools they wish to do what they do best: create value and drive growth.

    https://www.safeguardcyber.com/
  • Strata

    Strata is pioneering the concept of Identity Orchestration for distributed, multi-cloud identity. Strata’s Maverics Platform enables enterprises to seamlessly unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for consistent identity management in multi-cloud environments. Strata’s distributed approach to identity enables organizations to break decades-old vendor lock-in, preventing a broader transition of enterprise workloads to the public cloud. The company’s founders co-authored the SAML open standard for identity interoperability, created the first cloud identity services, delivered the first open-source identity products, and are now building the first distributed identity platform. For more information, visit us on the Web and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

  • Tonkean

    Tonkean is the OS for Business Operations, empowering operations teams to rapidly improve efficiency with an enterprise-grade, composable automation platform. By allowing ops teams to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes with no-code, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkean enables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. The Tonkean platform makes automating complex business processes simple and accessible to non-developers, such as business operations teams and process owners, by abstracting the high technical barrier and coding expertise needed to deliver robust, enterprise-grade process solutions via composability. Ops teams compose custom process solutions using building blocks called “enterprise components” or ECs. ECs are modular, interchangeable, and reusable capabilities that perform actions or complete steps in a business process. ECs are fully governed and curated, typically by IT. They can be adopted from vendors or custom built, or they can simply be extensions of existing tools and systems. This allows ops and process experts to rapidly build holistic process solutions that can work with different systems, easily adapt to changing needs, and measure cross-functional KPIs–all with no-code and no change management. Enterprises like Google, EVERSANA, Instacart, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more rely on Tonkean to optimize and align their operations across functions—including sales, marketing, customer support, legal, finance, and more. With Tonkean, enterprises can expand the pie of who can deliver software to make a world of Makers.

    https://tonkean.com/
  • Upwork

    Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $3.8 billion on Upwork in 2022 across more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.

    https://www.upwork.com/enterprise/
  • Zoom

    Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

    https://zoom.us
  • Zscaler

    Zscaler, the only zero trust platform that securely connects any user, any device, and any app over any network. Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant. Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside. By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.

    https://www.zscaler.com/

Strategic Partners

  • Egon Zehnder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    https://www.spencerstuart.com

Alliance Partners

  • Amplify Partners

    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
  • Glynn Capital

    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/
  • Greylock Partners

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

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

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

    http://lsvp.com
  • Sequoia Capital

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

    https://www.sequoiacap.com

Association Partners

  • SIM San Francisco Bay Area

    Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SIM! The Chapter strives to strengthen professional communications among members who direct the application of information technology in private and public organizations. Chapter activities include: Meeting to share innovative ideas and real world experiences which address enterprise information needs. We have excellent speakers both from our membership, and bring in industry executives and subject matter experts from many sources. Providing presentations by leading national information-management professionals and executives who benefit from management-information systems. Challenging our comfort levels by exchanging ideas with peers and business counterparts. Being a resource for each other, and personal networking.

    https://chapter.simnet.org/sanfranciscobayarea/home
  • Purple Book Community

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara

5101 GREAT AMERICA PARKWAY SANTA CLARA, CA, 95054-, US T: (408) 510-6410 F: (408) 510-6449 

Rate: $399++

Cutoff Date: May 26, 2023 – please send this information out to attendees & sponsors asap as the cutoff date is next Friday.


The CIO Executive Leadership Summit is created for CIOs/IT leaders. It also has a strong appeal to leaders interested in better positioning their organizations and themselves for what's ahead in business and to achieve the greatest benefits through the use of information technology. 

To ensure a high-quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:

  • Employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professional in an organization with $200M or greater revenue, or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size

- OR - 

  • Full-time academicians

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

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

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

* 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.



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