CIO Leadership: HMG Strategy Announces Upcoming Virtual CIO Summits in Dallas, Florida and Southern California After Surging to #1 in Virtual Events for CIOs, CISOs and Technology Executives

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These topical and actionable 90-to-120minute virtual CIO and CISO summits, focused on reimagining the business and the future of work, have drawn thousands of top-tier security leaders and technology executives since early March

WESTPORT, CT. โ€“ July 7, 2020 โ€“ HMG Strategy, the world’s #1 digital platform for connecting technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is excited to announce its upcoming lineup of Virtual CIO Summits in Dallas, Florida and Southern California after becoming the leading producer of Virtual CIO and CISO Summits since shifting to a digital events format in early March.

HMG Strategy produced 10 Virtual Summits, Virtual Briefings and webinars in the first 30 days of the work-at-home environment – drawing 150 to 300+ technology executives to each event – with 60+ Virtual Events scheduled through August 2020.

These 90-to-120 minute virtual summits are focused on the steps that CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and technology executives are taking to work with the CEO and the executive team to help reimagine the business and reshape the future of work as regional economies begin to open. The rock star speakers that are lined up for each of these events also explore the top challenges and opportunities facing technology executives in the work-from-home environment โ€“ including how to keep employees engaged and motivated โ€“ along with how their priorities have shifted since COVID-19.

โ€œOur proprietary research reveals that the majority of CIOs and technology executives have increased their focus on employee engagement and motivation as well as reimagining the business,โ€ said Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy. โ€œAs regional economies open, many of the 400,000+ members of the HMG community are telling us they want to hear from their peers on effective approaches that can be taken to help keep employees motivated and work with the CEO and the executive team to reimagine the business and the future of work.โ€

HMG Strategyโ€™s next virtual event is the HMG Live! 2020 Dallas CIO Virtual Summit on July 7. First-class technology executives and industry experts speaking at this event include:

ยท Brian Brockway, VP CTO, Commvault

ยท Glenn Chisholm, Co-Founder and CEO, Obsidian Security

ยท Marcus Fowler, Director of Strategic Threat, Darktrace

ยท Lev Gonick, CIO, Arizona State University

ยท John Iannarelli, Former Special Agent and Senior Executive Advisor, FBI

ยท Rashmi Jain, CIO, Careington International Corporation

ยท Rahul Kashyap, President & CEO, Awake Security

ยท Mike McCranie, EVP & CIO, Interstate Batteries

ยท Shamim Mohammad, SVP, CIO & CTO, CarMax

ยท Boyden Rohner, Deputy Director for Operations, National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center

ยท Gary Sorrentino, Global Deputy CIO, Zoom

ยท Krishna Yarlagadda, Founder and CEO, huddl.ai

Sponsors for the HMG Live! 2020 Dallas CIO Virtual Summit include Commvault, Darktrace, Nutanix, SIM Dallas Fort Worth and Zoom.

To learn more about the HMG Live! 2020 Dallas CIO Virtual Summit and to register for the event, click here.

See what some of our recent speakers have to say about HMG Strategyโ€™s virtual summits:

โ€œLeaders that lead with resolve, courage, and compassion will come out ahead in a crisis like this.โ€

– Vijaya Kaza, Chief Security Officer & Head of Trust Engineering & Data Science, Airbnb

โ€œI participated as a speaker in the recent HMG Live! Washington D.C. CIO Virtual Summit,โ€ says Ken Grady, Corporate Vice President and CIO at IDEXX Laboratories. โ€œLike previous HMG events, the virtual event provides a platform for connecting with peers and other CIOs that are focused on leadership and engagement within our organizations and across industries. There are valuable takeaways and lessons from technology executives who are leading authentically, compassionately, and strategically to help move their businesses and their customers forward in these uniquely challenging timesโ€

โ€œWith COVID, CISOs have entered the next phase of criticality in driving business value. Through leading courageously, CISO will see unprecedented growth in scope and value to their organizations.โ€

-Michael Piacente, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Hitch Partners

โ€œNow is the time to leverage having a strong personal brand. Itโ€™s not too late to get started.โ€

-Beverly Lieberman, President, Halbrecht Lieberman Associates

HMG Strategy will also be hosting the HMG Live! 2020 Florida CIO Virtual Summit on July 9. Leading technology executives speaking at this event include:

ยท Tony Ambrozie, SVP Technology & Digital, The Walt Disney Company

ยท Brian Brockway, VP CTO, Commvault

ยท Gary Erickson, Managing Partner, Executive Search Partners

ยท Justin Fier, Director of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Analysis, Darktrace

ยท Misti Fragen, VP, DPS Learning, Research and Culture, Novant Health

ยท Jennifer Wesson Greenman, CIO, Cancer Treatment Centers of America

ยท Juan Gomez-Sanchez, Chief Security Officer, Lennar Homes

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

ยท Mike Mastrole, Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Illumio

ยท Quintin McGrath, Senior Managing Director, Technology Management & Enablement, Global Technology Services, Deloitte

ยท Andrew McIntyre, SVP, Technology and Innovation, Vinik Sports Group

ยท Patrick McNabb, CISO, The Results Companies

ยท Harry Moseley, Global CIO, Zoom

ยท Cody Sanford, EVP & Chief Information and Product Officer, T-Mobile

ยท Marcus Session, President, SIM Tampa Bay and VP of IT Services, Tampa International Airport

ยท Paul Wilner, VP IT & CIO, Pall Corporation

ยท David Whitaker, CIO, General Dynamics

Sponsors for the HMG Live! 2020 Florida CIO Virtual Summit include Commvault, Darktrace, Illumio, SIM Central Florida, SIM South Florida, SIM Tampa Bay,T-Mobile for Business and Zoom.

To learn more about the HMG Live! 2020 Florida CIO Virtual Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its HMG Live! 2020 Southern California CIO Virtual Summit on July 13. Key speakers for the Southern California event will include:

ยท Nicole Eagan, Chief Strategy Officer, AI Officer, Darktrace

ยท Sean Frazier, Advisory CISO, Duo Security

ยท Michael Fung, Board Director, 99 Cents Only Stores & Former CFO, Walmart U.S.

ยท Chris Gates, CTO, Allstate

ยท Chris Hallenbeck, Americas CISO, Tanium

ยท Justin Hooper, VP, Global IT Operations, Ingram Micro

ยท Nicol Turner Lee, Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

ยท Joel Manfredo, CIO, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans

ยท Theresa Miller, CIO and EVP, Lionsgate

ยท Veronica Miller, CISO, City of Santa Monica

ยท Helen Norris, VP, CIO, Chapman University

ยท Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO, Nutanix

ยท Thomas Phelps, VP of Corporate Strategy & CIO, Laserfiche

ยท Brian Shield, VP IT, Boston Red Sox

Sponsors for the HMG Live! 2020 Southern California CIO Virtual Summit include Darktrace, Duo Security, SIM Southern California and Tanium.

To learn more about the HMG Live! 2020 Southern California CIO Virtual Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy has also received extraordinary interest in its webinars through the strength of the 400,000+ technology executives in its community. HMG Strategy has scheduled 12 30-to-60-minute webinars over the next two months with an arsenal of innovative technology companies such as Citrix, Darktrace, Ivanti, Okta, OutSystems, PagerDuty, RangeForce, RingCentral, UiPath and Zoom.

โ€œWe offer an amazing value prop by addressing the interests that the 400,000+ technology leaders in our community share with us through our unique peer-driven research model,โ€ said Muller.

HMG Strategyโ€™s next webinar with RangeForce is on July 30, entitled โ€˜The Risks of Interconnectivity in the Age of COVID19 โ€“ From Automobiles to Mobile Phones โ€“ What You Need to Be Worried Aboutโ€™. In this timely and compelling discussion, Taavi Must, the CEO of RangeForce, will interview Dr. Charlie Miller, a former computer hacker for the National Security Agency who is a four-time winner of Pwn2Own, the Super Bowl of computer hacking. In this discussion, Miller will share the current state of risks with personal and IoT devices, the status of development efforts to build security into the code of IoT devices along with best practices of SOC teams to secure personal and IoT devices in rapidly changing environments.

To learn more about this webinar and to register, click here. Click here to view HMG Strategyโ€™s upcoming calendar of webinars.

Interested in learning more about HMG Live! Virtual CIO and CISO Summits? Click here to view the list of upcoming events or contact us at info@hmgstrategy.com.

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