CIO SEA Series - March Edition 2023

Overview

As technology leaders take action to re-energise their people and organisations, the most forward looking see a larger opportunity—the chance to build on pandemic-related accomplishments and re-examine the organisation’s identity, how it works, and how it grows. Join this months edition to explore how to:

Define and redefine - How do we measure, and prove our success?

What changes from initial vision to the delivery - Learnings from real-world case studies

What today’s CIOs need to know and do to be Future Ready?

Tying IT strategies and business outcomes together

Key innovations, developments, and advancements across AI/ ML

What to expect

• Discovery Meetings 1:1
• 30+ Sessions Full Day Program
• Pracitioner:Vendor 20:1
• Speakers 30+

What we will cover

• What 2023 holds in bags for CIOs? What today’s CIOs need to know and do to be Future Ready?
• Gaps in vision to delivery What changes from initial vision to the delivery - Learnings from real-world case studies
• CIO at the heart of resilience Tying IT strategies and business outcomes together
• Define and redefine How do we measure, and prove our success?

Agenda

• 8:30 am Registration and Welcome Coffee(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00)
• 9:00 am Winning the game of end-user experience and endpoint security with UEMS(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Essential endpoint security strategies to counter cyberattacks
• 9:25 am Technology Leadership in a Digital-First World - The Future of Innovation(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Our panel of experienced technology leaders share their insights on IT leadership, data strategy, major trends and challenges. They reflect on lessons learned in the past 2 years and what it takes to be a successful digital leader today. This discussion will address the following key issues: How can CIOs, CDOs and CISOs collaborate to foster innovation? What emerging technologies should be on the radar of technology leaders? How can technology leaders use data to drive digital transformation? What strategies can be used to develop a diverse and inclusive technology workforce? How to ensure data protection and compliance while effectively mitigating risks and cyber threats?
• 9:55 am Achieving Agile Data Delivery Without Copying and Replicating Data(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Establishing clear and effective data governance, and promoting a data-driven culture are top of mind for most CDOs. Providing an environment where the business can make data and analytics-based decisions to drive growth, reduce costs, improve business processes, and drive efficiencies, is critical. The challenge is how can this be achieved when working with siloed operating models where data is distributed across an organization. In this session, we will explore how a logical data strategy can help to solve these challenges and provide benefits including: Minimize data movement and data replication which is time-consuming and expensive. Remove complexity to better manage, secure and govern enterprise data. Deliver faster, more meaningful, and actionable data insights for improved decision-making.
• 10:20 am Networking Morning Tea(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00)
• 10:55 am Strategic Digital Transformation - A Change Management Approach for Sustainable Success(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) All projects are prone to high rates of failure. This is prevalent across industries and is mainly due to their complex nature and change resistance from stakeholders. Join us in this session as Geetha shares her sustainable approach that leads to success digital transformation : Opportunities from digital transformation projects/ programs and how to gain their acceptance Strategic change management approach in implementing digital programs at scale Uncovering real world challenges and overcoming them Partnerships for growth, sustainability and maximizing value
• 11:20 am From Vision to Delivery: Real-World Case Study on Successful Technology Implementation(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Technology implementations require a clear vision, strong leadership, and a collaborative approach across departments and stakeholders. Through real-world case studies, we can learn best practices that lead to successful delivery. Join us in this session to gain an understanding how various factors contribute to executing the initial vision: Finding the right timing to push a vision, and the right path to execute. How to get buy-in from leadership and accept uncertainties as a leader. The importance of alignment across departments delivering the vision and how to manage conflicts of priorities across the teams. Communication and change management are critical to the success of any technology implementation: how to ensure everyone is on board from business stakeholders to tech people needing to upskill. Thinking “after” the build: thinking on how to manage the a new technology in the long run, the change of operating model from your teams to partners and suppliers, and the finops considerations.
• 11:45 am IT Service Continuity – A Matter of Life or Death(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Our IT systems have become critical enablers of our businesses. There is need to balance the risk of a prolonged outage and the investments required to build resiliency. However, IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) often ends up being an afterthought. In his role as Regional Head of IT Service Governance in the Insurance industry, Joel Chan has been striving to improve ITSCM across the entities he governs. Join us in this session as he reflects on some lessons learned from his decade-long experience supporting the Public Safety industry, where the reliability of IT systems may be the difference between life or death.
• 0:10 pm Rewriting the Digital and Business Transformation Strategy with Futuristic Technologies and Forward-looking Business Roadmap(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Despite the setbacks during pandemic, the global investments in digital transformation is projected to be over 3 trillion U.S. dollars by 2026, but what are their priorities for the technology initiatives and next years? Digital transformation is not a one-off exercise, it is the continuous transformation process and while technology is evolving very fast, how can companies make sure their digital transformation strategy responds to this change and stay agile? Join us in this session as we explore: How to evaluate your Digital Transformation Strategy Rebuilding technology road map What else can you contribute in your role as CIO/CDO?
• 0:35 pm Networking Lunch(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00)
• 1:50 pm Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Architecting an End-to-End IT Resilient Approach(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) In today's fast-paced business environment, IT leaders must prioritize speed and agility to deliver the business capabilities that organizations require to stay competitive. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts play a significant role in achieving this goal by providing a framework for building resilient and scalable software systems that can adapt quickly to changing business needs. In this presentation, Anil will discuss how IT leaders can use SRE principles to drive speed and agility in their organizations. The presentation will begin by introducing the key concepts of SRE, including reliability, scalability, and automation, and how they can be applied to achieve business agility. Join us in this session to learn: How could adopting SRE for infrastructure and operations create scalable and reliable systems? How does embedding SRE practices into part of the development lifecycle optimize operations? How can we apply the resiliency lens to enable the application to scale horizontally up or down in response to changes?
• 2:15 pm New Year's resolutions every CIO should make(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) Are you making new year's resolutions and trying to understand which data and analytics initiatives will impact your customers and business the most? Qlik, the leading independent data, analytics and automation company, has just published the Top 10 BI and data trends that will impact organizations over the coming year. In this session, learn how you can take trends like increased use of AI, greater emphasis on real-time data and more widespread cloud-based technologies and apply them in a meaningful way. We will share real-world applications of the trends and help you predict their impact to your business on the year ahead.
• 2:40 pm Why Leadership and Company Culture are Critical for a Successful Digital Transformation: Insights and Best Practices(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00) A successful digital transformation requires a leadership style that can navigate the complexity and ambiguity of technological change while fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability. Let’s explore why this is important, and what types of leadership make or break a digital transformation.
• 3:05 pm Drinks Reception(Plenary 08:30 - 16:00)

Speakers

• Nawaz Inamdar · VP, IT Operations BU Academy, TUV SUD
• Chaitanya Gorrepati · Head of Reliability Engineering and Delivery, Credit Suisse
• Bhagyesh Chaubey · APAC & EMEA Head Data Quality & Stewardship | CDO, Personal Banking & Wealth Management,, CitiBank
• Serge Christiaans · CISO & DPO, Eurocontrail
• Abhinav Gupta · Head of Partnerships | BytePlus, ByteDance
• Sheena Jacob · Partner and Head of Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, IP & Competition, CMS Holborn Asia Sheena is a leading Asian regional technology lawyer with a strong cybersecurity, media, privacy and fintech practice at CMS Singapore. Holding double international privacy certifications from the IAPP, Sheena has been active in technology in Asia for more than 25 years. She represents a significant number of industry players in the media industry including several of the leading streaming platforms and has strong experience with cybersecurity and data protection issues across Asia.

Partners

• ManageEngine As the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, ManageEngine prioritizes flexible solutions that work for all businesses, regardless of size or budget. ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 120+ award-winning products and free tools cover everything your IT needs. From network and device management to security and service desk software, we're bringing IT together for an integrated, overarching approach to optimize your IT.
• Qlik Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private SaaS company, Qlik offers an Active Intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud solutions to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik does business in more than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the world.
• Denodo Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self-service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s customers across large enterprises and mid-market companies in 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months.

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