CIO Summit 2018 - Kansas City | CDM Media | 11 December 2018 | Kansas City, MO, USA

The Future of the CIO in the Coming Digital Economy

As more businesses undergo a digital transformation, and as those digital transformations become more ingrained into organizational culture, "Digital" becomes not something unique and different from the business, but a core component of every aspect of the business. As this shift occurs, IT itself faces the very real possibility of no longer being something unique from the business, but instead a component of every aspect of the business. In this world, what role then exists for the CIO? Two clear paths are presenting themselves - one leads to a focus on infrastructure and integration, to keeping the lights on for the digital innovators, while the other leads to information and innovation itself. Knowing which path to choose, how to choose it, and how to see it through will be one of the greatest challenges CIOs of this era will face.

Takeaways:
• Change is, if not already here, certainly coming and CIOs who don't prepare for the change may not like the results when it arrives
• Digital transformation is all about connecting enterprise systems to information technology to drive productivity and performance improvements
• Be prepared to tackle the tasks that no-one wants to do, but everyone needs done; establish relevance to cultivate importance

2017-2018 Speakers

Mark Van Holsbeck
CISO, Avery Dennison

Lou Ferrara
Chief Content Officer, Bankrate

John Whiting
CSO, DDB Worldwide (An Omnicom Co.)

Avinash Tripathi
Strategic Business Partner, Kaplan Inc.

Tim Callahan
Global CISO, Aflac

Debbie Speight
AVP, Controls and Compliance, Infrastructure Technology Solutions, TD Bank

Brian Laughlin
Director Technical Fellow, Technical Architecture/Strategic Planning, Boeing

Tim Perek
Head of Customer Experience- North America, Schneider Electric

Chris Leigh
Chief Information Security Officer, Eversource Energy

Jonathan Hale
Senior Director & CISO, Veolia North America

Wendy Cofran
Chief Information Officer, Natick Visiting Nurse Association

Nagesh Rao
Chief Technologist, US Small Business Administration

E.G. Nadhan
Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat

Jason Spencer
Sr. Director, Global Architecture/Cloud/Enterprise Services, RR Donnelley

Andrzej Kawalec
CTO, Head of Strategy and Innovation, Vodafone

Bill Podborny
CISO, Alliant Credit Union

Glenn Schneider
EVP & CIO, Discover Financial

Kathryn Churches
Director, Customer Experience, American Family Insurance

James Callaghan
Chief Technologist, WestJet Airlines

Jeff Niebuhr
Associate Director, IT, Verizon Wireless

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