CIO Executive Summit 2024 - Dallas (B) | Evanta, a Gartner Company | 6 November 2024 | Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel, 900 E Lookout Dr, Richardson, TX 75082, USA

Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
• Utilizing AI to improve business processes and outcomes
• Strategic business alignment for value realization
• Adapting to an ever-changing landscape of digital priorities

What to Expect
• Interactive Sessions
Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
• Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Dallas CIO community.
• Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

2024 Speakers

CO-CHAIRS:

Sumit Anand
Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Information Officer, At Home

Mike Anderson
Chief Digital & Information Officer, Netskope

Sandeep Dave
Chief Digital and Technology Officer, CBRE

Todd Kackley
VP & CIO, Textron

Maria Lensing
Global CIO & CTO, Sorenson Communications

Neelu Sethi
SVP, Global Chief Information Officer, Brinks

KEYNOTES:

Val Wright
Global Leadership & Innovation Expert, Author, Guest Speaker

Jason Trunk
Chief Enterprise Architect, Island

Todd Kackley
VP & CIO, Textron

SPEAKERS:

Charles Vojtas
CTO, Cavender's

David Porter
Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisory, Google Cloud

Aamer Charania
Head of Applied Machine Learning, Best Buy

David Jones
Vice President, North America Solutions Engineering, Dynatrace

Chris Akeroyd
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Children's Health

Kala Ramachandra
Head of Technology - Service and Strategy, US Foods

Vanessa Thompson
VP, Revenue and Growth Marketing, Twilio

Russ Pearlman
CIO, VP of IT, Creighton University

Diarra Jerome
Executive Director, Chief of Staff Office of the President, Lenovo

Prashanti Aduma
Chief Information Officer, Dialpad

Sandeep Ahluwalia
Head of Technical Program Management, Data and Analytics, Citi Bank

Vince Doyle
Chief Information Officer, Medical City Healthcare

Heidi Cox
CIO, Trinity Industries

Eric Poon
CTO Portfolio Manager, PepsiCo

Jeff DeFord
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Parkland Health & Hospital System

Sailaja Kotra-Turner
CISO and VP Infrastructure and Operations, Brown-Forman

Derek Stephens
Chief Information Security Officer & Office of the CIO, LHC Group

Joe Leggio
Chief Information Officer, National Veterinary Associates

Ben Richard
CIO, Enhabit Home Health & Hospice

Sukshma Rajagopalan
Chief Information and Digital Officer, Lamb Weston

Brim Basom
Managing Director, Technology & Innovation, Goosehead Insurance

Jeff Koehn
SVP, CTO, Magellan Health

Cynthia Phillips
Sr. Director Analyst, KI Leader, Gartner

Phanii Pydimarri
Head of Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, Health Care Service Corporation

Sharmeelee Bala
CIO, JCPenney

Paul Gardiner
CTO, NCR Atleos

Jamie Lee
CIO, Ecobat

Larry Freed
CIO, Overhead Door Corporation

2024 Partners

GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER
• Island

CIO THOUGHT LEADERS PARTNERS:
• Google Cloud
• Twilio

KEY PARTNER:
• Dynatrace

PROGRAM PARTNERS:
• Dialpad
• Intel+Lenovo
• Softtek
• T-Mobile for Business