Midmarket IT & Security Leaders Forum 2022

Full Breakfast and lots of coffee available!

A Thank You from SINC- setting the tone for a great day!

• What ideas does an established and experienced CIO bring with them when entering a Midmarket organization?
• What are the priorities?
• How do you obtain company buy-in from the get-go?
• How about attempting all of this during a global pandemic?

Speaker: Jeff Baker, CIO, Valle del Sol

Last year’s Tech Trends report focused on the capabilities organizations would need to compete in a digital economy. We are continuing that theme this year with four trends that are focused on helping the organization deliver value faster and better. At the same time, we’re considering the volatility of a world dealing with several major crises simultaneously. Organizations need to protect themselves from that volatility to thrive. So, we have three trends focused on the risks all organizations will face in the year ahead.

Speaker: Shawn Evenson, Regional Director, Info-Tech Research Group

Presented by: Info-Tech Research Group

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To stay ahead of threat actors, your IT operations must be proactive, deploying new efforts and methods for enterprise security. But no single approach alone can break the complex chain of attack, which is why a multi-dimensional, network-centric approach is critical to maintaining your security posture.  

Just as you would protect your home with a range of edge and internal security solutions, defending your network and data from invasion requires a complementary, layered approach. Monitoring the environment from multiple vantage points, identifying patterns that could be early indicators of attack, and implementing a proactive response model are all keys to success.  

Join the workshop and learn how to: 

• Protect your application data environments through a multi-dimensional security approach
• Close the security gap between perimeter & endpoints through network visibility
• Set policies that establish and maintain your security posture 

Andy Redman, Director of Solution Engineering, Progress Software

Presented by: Progress Software

Mid-Market IT departments are so overburdened with managing the day-to-day that strategic thinking is often afterthought. All IT departments are limited by their capacity, but Mid-Market Organizations feel this constraint more than their counterparts and necessary strategic initiatives are neglected if their value and risk doesn’t translate to business terms.

Moderator: Helen Knight, Transformation Consultant, Helen Knight Consulting

Panelists:

Carl Gordon, CIO, Malco Products

Brian Benn, CIO, Atlanta Housing Authority

Sachin Vaidya, CISO, Heritage Bank of Commerce

Open seating, Buffet-style lunch. Serving food for all tastes, pallets and preferences. Vegan, vegetarian, halal options available

As companies grow from startups to global enterprise, their information security organizations often need to undergo rapid transformations to meet the needs and scale of the business and its customers. It can be challenging for information security teams to clearly define and communicate those needs, and obtain necessary executive support, funding, and resources for the program. To address these challenges, establishing a framework can help these teams communicate and gain executive support and buy-in of information security objectives, prioritizing the objectives based on risks and capabilities, and measuring the ongoing effectiveness of the program on a regular cadence.

Join Heather Ceylan, Head of Security Standards, Compliance, and Customer Assurance at Zoom as they discuss “The Zoom Effect”, provide a general framework that can be adapted to rapidly transform, scale, or improve your security program, and share the outcomes, lessons learned and key factors to consider.

Speaker: Heather Ceylan, Head of Security Standards, Compliance, and Customer Assurance, Zoom

Presented by: Zoom

Building a compelling business case for digital transformation is a challenge faced by many technology leaders. It becomes even more complicated when the change beneficiaries are not the funders, and the choice to invest in technology feels like it is taking services from our most vulnerable citizens. Helen Knight, an award-winning leader of non-profit digital transformations will share how she modernized emergency shelters and food banks, and how she uses technology to optimize services for people struggling with poverty. Helen will also share ways technology leaders can use their skills to help people today, and invite you to help solve the challenges ahead.

Speaker: Helen Knight, Transformation Consultant, Helen Knight Consulting

With so many external threats out there, how does your organization prioritize which ones to focus on? Organizations should strive to take an intelligence based approach to security, and the key to any successful intelligence program is to have clear, well defined intelligence requirements. This presentation will introduce methods organizations can use to help define their intelligence requirements and drive a successful intelligence program.

Speaker: Jason Hage, Principal Consultant, Recorded Future

Presented by: Recorded Future

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Following the success of Isaac Sacolick’s first book, Driving Digital, in this keynote, Isaac will share stories and insights from his new book publishing this summer, Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership.

Your business needs more transformation leaders – what Isaac calls Digital Trailblazers—who can lead teams, evolve sustainable ways of working, develop technologies as competitive differentiators, and deliver business outcomes. This keynote highlights who are Digital Trailblazers, how to empower them, and what practices they will need to drive digital transformation.

Speaker: Isaac Sacolick, Bestselling Author, Top Social CIO/CDO, Digital Transformation Influencer, Star CIO

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Panelists:

Faisal Akkawi, Executive Director of Information Systems Programs, Northwestern

Tim Tominna, VP IT Operations, Spear Education

Isaac Sacolick, Bestselling Author, Top Social CIO/CDO, Digital Transformation Influencer, Star CIO

Engage your Peers over canapes and cocktails

Open seating buffett meal serving 5 star food and great Peer engagement before Day 1 kick’s off