CIO SEA Live Series - May Edition 2022

Overview

The CIO can be seen as the ultimate cheerleader for all in-house technology and digital processes. IT traditionally has a nebulous reputation with other business units – so it is the role of the CIO to improve the image and reputation of IT services within the company.

But it's about much more than that and with the current climate it's more important than ever for CIOs to harness the power of the cloud.

And we're about to find out why...as rhetorical as that question may be, we still get together with a few leaders over a half day period of yet another CIO edition to find out more about what it is that keeps them up at night these days and how they go about it every day.

Join this edition of the CIO Series as we explore:

Discovering Ways to Implement an Infrastructure for Anywhere Operations

Employee Experience : Harnessing the Power of Digital Employee Experience

Exploring Automation: Demonstrating Automation Values and why it can be your key to success

A Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy: Create a Path to Deliver Data Services Anywhere

What to expect

• Attendees 150
• Practitioner:Vendor 20:1
• Speakers 10+
• Sessions 10+
• Intimate and content driven 1:1 Interactions

What we will cover

• Anytime anywhere Discovering ways to implement an Infrastructure for Anywhere Operations
• Employee Experience Harnessing the Power of Digital Employee Experience
• Automation Exploring Automation: Demonstrating Automation Values and why it can be your key to success
• EX - Reimagining The World of Work Preparing for tomorrow and creating a path to Deliver Data Services Anywhere

Agenda

• 11:00 am Developing your Cyber Strategy and Roadmap to Implementing a Zero Trust Approach to Security(Plenary) The cloud and remote work have removed traditional security boundaries. As a CISO, the responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders to prevent compromise, lateral movement of attacks, and data loss. A zero trust approach to your overall security provides the right strategic architecture in place to minimise risk and provide business agility. This session will cover: The need for organisations to shift to zero trust Aligning a zero trust strategy to business objectives Solution building blocks of zero trust Deployment roadmap to achieve zero trust
• 11:28 am Keynote: Lessons Learnt From A Successful Cloud Transformation Journey(Plenary) Join this session to discover the ways to implement an Infrastructure for ' Anywhere Operations', the term was coined to describe the new era of work as the “everywhere enterprise” which “describes an organisation that: Uses technology, team structures, processes, skills, and tools to empower a dispersed workforce, Harness a distributed infrastructure and serve a ubiquitous customer base
• 11:47 am Cloud Fitness and the Benefits: Practices for lasting performance, endurance, and health in the Cloud(Plenary) Cloud adoption accelerated rapidly during the pandemic and will accelerate still further in the years to come. “Cloud Fitness” let smart business leaders respond quickly to opportunities — or threats. Businesses that successfully exploit the cloud, will have a competitive advantage, and it might even determine whether they survive. Join Glen Kerr from Snow Software to learn why being Cloud fit is an imperative for success. Design cloud strategies for speed and business value Get control of your cloud spend Utilising a strong ITAM strategy to reduce security and compliance risk
• 0:07 pm Keynote: Path To Digital Leadership With Disruptive Innovation(Plenary) A digital employee experience is not just how employees experience the technology itself (the applications and devices to which people have access) but also how the IT department works with the business and individual employees to address issues and service requests, deploy new technologies, train employees, and collaborate with employees to understand and deliver on requirements. Join this session as we look at specific elements of the digital employee experience, such as: Performance of devices and programs : How fast are they? Are they well configured to enable employees to do their work? Reliability of devices and programs: Do applications crash? Do computers slow to a crawl to the point where they need to be restarted frequently? Do work-issued mobile devices connect seamlessly to the company VPN? Mobility : Do work-related tools enable employees to effectively work anywhere? Collaboration: Do programs enable employees to effectively collaborate with their team members? Do they boost productivity? Do they help with business success?
• 0:30 pm Transforming The Leadership Vision In 2022: Lessons From The Past 2 Years(Plenary) Despite on-going uncertainty, businesses can definitely reposition their digital transformation journey for performance, growth, and scalability in 2022. This session shows how leaders can build on the rush to cope with Covid in 2020 and the more strategic business stance on digital transformation in 2021 to ready themselves for success this year. By re-evaluating their strategies, processes, technologies and skillsets, leaders will be able to unlock more value in existing resources; protect their business, and reinvent themselves for the future.
• 0:50 pm Fireside Chat: Utilising Technology To Accelerate Business Growth(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into Wunderman Thompson's transformational journey and understand how to: Focus on business led initiatives versus technology driven transformations Build incrementally and iteratively. Ensure data governance is business led
• 1:09 pm Why Forward Thinking Technology Executives see Data as their own Gold Rush(Plenary) Customers, employees, all business stakeholders are demanding more from their IT departments, with Covid being merely an accelerant of decades long change. The importance of data has therefore become pertinent to organisational survival; however the levels of difficulty of not only data stewardship but the entire application stack is growing exponentially. This is primarily due to the clash of legacy applications (and the data silos held within) with emerging SaaS technologies; however a host of issues are combining with this complexity causing most cloud modernisation projects to fail. Key learnings from the topic include: - Why modernisation projects fail - How to overcome falling victim to another failed project statistic - The potential to utilise tools to capitalise on data, in order to create never before realised revenue streams
• 1:30 pm Keynote: Driving Value Through Data Insights(Plenary) In this session we will learn how to maximise the data you collect: Tailoring your customer services for a stronger relationship by turning raw data into information. Data driven decisions that focus on ROI to not only reduce costs but also improve acquisitions. Putting together the building blocks for a structured system.
• 1:48 pm Demonstrating Automation Values and why it can be Your Key to Success(Plenary) Automation, leveraging process Management and other technologies, has opened up new possibilities. The pace of adoption has been rapid. Institutions of all sizes globally are leveraging automation to drive value. When done right, automation has proven to deliver real benefits, join this session to explore the power of automation and why it could be your key to success: · Distinctive insights · Faster service · Increased flexibility and scalability · Ability to operate 24/7 and scale up or down with demand · Improved quality · Increased savings and productivity
• 2:11 pm Keynote: IT Roadmap for Digital Transformation(Plenary) Here we will cover all aspects of an IT Roadmap from on-ground operations, project delivery to IT strategy formulation: Top-down approach for combining the corporate strategy with portfolio management resulting in perfect execution. Aligning the IT structure to your organisation and the importance of building the right team. The benefits of AI and how to enable it for a more flexible, adaptive and innovative organisation.
• 2:31 pm A Peek Into the Future of IAM in Hybrid IT(Plenary) Hybrid IT is not going away — if anything it’s expanding and becoming more complex as companies adapt to modern challenges. This session will cover how Okta helps address Hybrid IT needs by securing on-prem applications, replacing aging legacy tech, and building a bridge between cloud and on-prem.

Speakers

• Liem Nguyen · Chief Information Security Officer, GBST Holdings Cyber Security Executive
• Kirk Downey · Head of IT, CHG-MERIDIAN Group Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience in Management Consulting and Leadership roles. Strategically focused particularly in turnaround and transformational environments. Proven track record of results across industries at scale.
• Mike Tan · Advisory Solution Consultant, ServiceNow Mike Tan is an Advisory Solution Consultant from ServiceNow, and have supported multiple organisations to embark on their digital transformation journey for the past decade. He enjoys speaking to people from various levels and backgrounds to gain insights on the big problems that we are tackling today and he is passionate about leveraging technology for a better quality of life.
• Chris Ellis · Director, Pre-Sales, Nintex Chris Ellis, Pre-Sales Director at Nintex, gained invaluable experience in SharePoint, Office 365 and the Nintex Platform as a pre-sales solution specialist within the partner network. Hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, his work with the Nintex Platform exposed him to the full lifecycle from analysis and requirement gathering to delivery, support and training, contributing across a spectrum of projects in various industries and in some interesting places
• Harrison Bass · Cloud Application Integration Specialist, Informatica Harrison is a multi-faceted IT professional at Informatica, with a specialist focus on Cloud Application Integration fitting within the Informatica IDMC unified platform offering. He resides in Sydney, Australia; and his focuses have predominately revolved around the sectors of Government, Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Not-for-Profits. Harrison is driven by looking at the wider outcomes achievable by a technology enhanced organisational strategy, whether that be operational efficiency or enabling innovation. This has seen him achieve outcomes for organisations including migration off legacy systems, cloud modernisation projects, and provision of new IT focused revenue channels.
• Glen Kerr · Director - Cloud Service Providers, Snow Software An experienced Sales leader, technologist and disrupter with a proven track record of enabling growth and change in technology and culture.

Partners

• ServiceNow ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is the fastest-growing enterprise cloud software company in the world above $1 billion. Founded in 2004 with the goal of making work easier for people, ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for more than 6,200 enterprise customers worldwide, including approximately 80% of the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.
• Zscaler Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across more than 150 data centers globally, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest inline cloud security platform. Learn more at zscaler.com or follow us on Twitter @zscaler
• Snow Software Snow Software is changing the way organizations understand and manage their technology consumption. Our technology intelligence platform provides comprehensive visibility and contextual insight across software, SaaS, hardware and cloud. With Snow, IT leaders can effectively optimize resources, enhance performance and enable operational agility in a hybrid world.
• Informatica At Informatica (NYSE: INFA), we believe data is the soul of business transformation. That’s why we help you transform it from simply binary information to extraordinary innovation with our Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™️. Powered by AI, it’s the only cloud dedicated to managing data of any type, pattern, complexity, or workload across any location — all on a single platform. Whether you’re driving next-gen analytics, delivering perfectly timed customer experiences, or ensuring governance and privacy, you can always know your data is accurate, your insights are actionable, and your possibilities are limitless. Informatica. Cloud First. Data Always™️.
• Okta Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, and the Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to both secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers’ experiences. With over 5,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely adopt the technologies they need to fulfill their missions. Over 5,600 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to securely connect their people and technology.
• Nintex Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 10,000 public and private sector organisations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimising business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).

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