Forbes CIO Summit Virtual Series To Convene Top CIOs To Focus On “The Transformational CIO: Reshaping Companies For A Radically Changed World”

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NEW YORK â€" June 26, 2020 â€" Forbes today announced its sixth annual CIO Summit, an exclusive invitation-only event convening the world’s leading Chief Information Officers, will expand this year as a four-part virtual series, starting on July 1st.  The theme of this year’s event is “The Transformational CIO: Reshaping Companies for a Radically Changed World,” spotlighting the CIO’s opportunity to help companies adapt to our new reality. The event will gather the most influential leaders in the space to explore today’s biggest technological challenges, foster deep collaboration and generate new ideas.

The world has been transformed dramatically by the global health pandemic and tech leaders are at the forefront of helping companies successfully adapt. The CIO Summit will convene the best-in-class CIOs from around the world, as well as CEOs of leading technology and venture capital companies, to offer valuable ideas and networking opportunities. Participants will uncover how top CIOs are reinforcing business resiliency, rethinking the workplace and rebooting growth by accelerating digital transformation strategies. 

Featured topics at the summit include automation of workflows, mitigating the risk of cyberattacks, developing human and AI partnerships and fostering CIO-CMO alliances.

Key speakers include:

·        Dr. Erica Muhl, Dean & Founding Director, Iovine Young Academy

·        The Honorable Dana Deasy, CIO, Pentagon

·        Jimmy Iovine, Legendary Music Executive

·        Chandra Dhandapani, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, CBRE

·        Cynthia Stoddard​, CIO, Adobe

·        Shankar Arumugavelu, Global CIO, Verizon

·        Harry Moseley, Global CIO, Zoom

·        Monika Nerger, Global CIO, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group

·        Tom Siebel, CEO, C3.ai

·        Karalee Close, Global Leader, Technology Advantage, BCG

·        Chris Bedi, CIO, ServiceNow

·        Amit Singh, President, Palo Alto Networks

·        Atif Kureishy, Global VP, Emerging Practices, Teradata

The summit will kick off with its first virtual event on July 1st, which will focus on “Future-Proofing Businesses For An Era Of Uncertainty” and the need for greater resilience in business operations. Through discussions related to this theme, leading CIOs will offer insights and advice into how they harnessed remote work technologies, agile strategies and software-driven automation to ensure their companies can adapt swiftly to future disruptions. 

The July 1st event will include discussions with CIOs around “Engineering The Resilient Enterprise;” “Turning The Crisis Into An Opportunity For Operational Reinvention;” “Automation, AI And The Blended Workforce,” a conversation with Chris Bedi​, CIO at ServiceNow and Cynthia Stoddard​, CIO at Adobe; and “Digital Innovation as the Pathway to Resiliency.”

For more information on the Forbes 2020 CIO Summit Virtual Series, visit: here. To follow the conversation on social, use: #ForbesCIO.

Presenting sponsors for the 2020 Forbes CIO Virtual Series are Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow and Teradata Corporation. The series is powered by Zoom.

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