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The 2022 CIO Agenda Jan 19, 2022

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What is on the CIO agenda for 2022 that will help enable and shape business aspirations for the best outcome? Coming out of pandemic, as we enter the new year, how are the CIOs planning to align their strategies and resources to launch digital projects faster, integrate systems quickly, and allow seamless and secure access to applications and data? Guest: Tanya Hannah, Chief Information Officer, King County

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Identifying and Enabling the Skills of the Future Jan 11, 2022

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Leaders recognize the need for employees to learn new skills to stay relevant and profitable in the future. But the inability to maintain an inventory of current skills, identify required and critical future skills, and proactively fill the gap hinders such efforts. So how are business and IT leaders collaborating to ensure proper investment in this strategic and long-term capability-building effort? Guest: Ruth Thorpe, Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Endo International

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Simplifying IT for a Scalable and Secure Hybrid Work Environment Jan 07, 2022

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Guest: Eric Hagopian, Chief Information and Data Officer, PCAOB

Small and mid-sized businesses rely on a mix of full-time, part-time, and contracted workers across personal and corporate devices. With hybrid work becoming permanent, leaders must simplify IT, strengthen security, and maintain a seamless employee experience without overwhelming their teams.

In this CTN conversation, Eric Hagopian outlines a clear and practical approach to building a secure and scalable hybrid work environment.

Key Themes • Supporting a diverse workforce across devices • Balancing flexibility with security and compliance • Simplifying IT operations and reducing friction • Ensuring consistent user experience everywhere • Protecting data in distributed work models • Modernizing without stretching small IT teams

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Steps to Outcome-Driven Security Dec 08, 2021

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Organizations want their security investments to achieve intended results and drive significant positive ROI like any business function. For such clarity, how much security organizations need and how much they should pay must be calculated based on operations and technology costs, risks mitigated, and benefits realized. Also, explicit metrics must drive security effort evaluation, performance, and the required adjustments. So how can we move to such outcome-driven security? Guest: Bharat Soni, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Group Head Information Security Group, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank)

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Transforming security programs to become digital business enablers Nov 18, 2021

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Business typically views security programs as inducing caution, restrictions, and restraints. As a security leader, how do you change perception, create alignment, engage constituents, and demonstrably catalyze innovation to transform such programs into practical digital business enablers? Guest: Dee Young, Chief Information Security Officer, UNC Health Care

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From Peanut Butter to Surgery for Better Security Oct 26, 2021

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Spreading the same controls across all business areas hasn't proven to be effective for security management. Neither has planting people, whether your own or a managed service provider, and passively waiting for the alarm to go off. How can you as a CISO be surgical in your approach to security operations to proactively safeguard the crown jewels? Guest 1: Jerich Beason, Chief Information Security Officer, Epiq

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Guest 2: Leon Ravenna, Chief Information Security Officer, KAR Global

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Guest 3: Jake Margolis, Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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Can Digital fully enable Circularity? Oct 11, 2021

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Circularity, aka circular economy, refers to a closed-loop system where we can keep reusing, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, and recycling resources, minimizing resource consumption and waste. It also can help improve resource productivity since we can keep using products, equipment, and infrastructure longer. Since we are using digital to maximize business and user outcomes, can we extend it to enable a circular economy fully? Guest 1: Aldo Noseda, Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Eastman Chemical Company

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Doing What Matters Most During Chaos Oct 08, 2021

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Amidst the current chaotic environment, we could be fighting daily fires and embrace stagnation. But, instead, organizations must focus on sustainability, cultivating talent, and operating with purpose while using technology to transform and accelerate growth to create a lasting impact and bring positive change. So, how well are the organizations doing what matters most today? Guest 1: Tressa Springmann, Chief Information Officer, LifeBridge Health

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Guest 2: Reid Stephan, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, St. Luke's Health System

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Shifting from a Principle-Dependent to a Scenario-Driven Business Sep 22, 2021

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There is a rapid change in customer expectations, business models, and how work gets done. Yet, from planning demand to building operational capability to establishing a robust partner ecosystem support, many businesses still depend on principles enshrined as best practices decades ago. How can we rethink and shift our business planning and delivery efforts to more realistic scenario-driven models that are continually refined based on actual outputs? What is holding organizations back from taking this leap? What can business and IT leaders do collaboratively to enable this shift? Guest 1: Nick Giannakakis, Group Chief Information Officer, Motor Oil

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Guest 2: Jennifer Greenman, Chief Information Officer, Cancer Treatment Centers of America

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Bringing Business and IT together to deliver Digital Sep 10, 2021

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Supporting the scaling and accelerating digitalization efforts requires rethinking and converging business and IT teams. From cross-training workers for homogenization, integrating workflows, learning and adopting emerging technologies, to navigating through uncertainties together. Where are organizations in this journey? What are the related challenges and remedies that are helping build one cohesive force to deliver Digital? Guest 1: Dennis Hodges, Chief Information Officer, Inteva Products, LLC

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Guest 2: Ronald Blahnik, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hibbett

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