CIO Perspectives 2017 - Houston | IDG Enterprise | 14 November 2017 | Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA

We have entered the "age of the customer." The customer experience – once the sole province of marketing and sales – nowadays belongs to IT leaders as well. In the race to digitize business for increased innovation, those companies with the most strongly aligned, collaborative senior executives will be the ones outpacing their rivals.

CIO Perspectives returns to Houston, TX in November, 2017! As always, it will bring together the expertise of the CIO brand and an extensive network of your IT leadership peers. Our agenda will be created with direct guidance from an advisory board of CIOs from across the Houston region, and will feature expert presentations, panels, workshops and lively peer discussions on leadership, business strategy and IT innovation.

Houston CIO Perspectives: Who Attends?
Senior IT Executives from:

•Applied Materials
•Ascension Healthcare
•BHP Billiton
•CenterPoint Energy
•CITI
•City of Houston
•Direct Energy
•GE Oil & Gas
•Halliburton
•Hess
•Houston Methodist Hospital
•JCPenney Co.
•MD Anderson Cancer Center
•NASA
•Prosperity Bank
•Sabre
•Schlumberger
•Spectra Energy
•Texas Childrens Health Plan
•University of Houston
•UT Health Science Center
•Weatherford
•Mary Kay
•RadioShack
•Smith & Wesson
•Marathon Oil
•ConocoPhillips
•Kinder Morgan

2017 Speakers, Moderators & Panelists

SPEAKERS:
Meredith Whalen
SVP, IT Executive, Industry and Financial Research, IDC

Paul Lynch
CEO, Assembla

Lee Johnson
SVP and CIO, GulfMark Offshore

MODERATORS:
Maryfran Johnson
Editor in Chief, CIO Events

Ken Piddington
CIO & Executive Advisor, MRE Consulting, Ltd.

Adam Dennison
Publisher, CIO; SVP/General Manager, IDG Enterprise

Maryfran Johnson
Editor in Chief, CIO Events

PANELISTS:
Jesse Carrillo
SVP & CIO, Hines

Paul Krueger
CIO, Stewart & Stevenson

Gautam Roy
VP of IT , Waste Management

Stuart Ainsworth
Senior IT Operations Strategist, Splunk

Erik Giesa
VP, Products, Tempered Networks

David Proestos
SVP, Operations, Vega Solutions

Andrew Saxe
VP, Product, Smartling

Catharina Dd Budiharto
Director, Information Security, Chicago, Bridge and Iron (CB&I)

Klara Jelinkova
CIO and VP of IT, Rice University

Mark W. Johnson
CISO (Retired), Huntsman Corporation

Sameer Purao
CIO, Austin Industries

Bob Bragdon
Publisher and Senior Vice President, CSO

2017 Sponsors & Media Partner

UNDERWRITER:
• Assembla

EXECUTIVE CONNECTION:
• Dropbox’s
• RingCentral
• Smartling
• Splunk Inc.
• Tempered Networks
• Vega Solutions

PARTNER SPONSOR:
• Darktrace
• Extreme Networks
• Flux7
• Forcepoint
• Infoblox
• Striim
• Whitlock

ANALYST PARTNER:
IDC