CISO Pacific Northwest Summit | March 18, 2021 | Virtual Summit - Real-time Online Conversations
↓ Agenda Key
Keynote Presentation
Visionary speaker presents to entire audience on key issues, challenges and business opportunities
Keynote Presentations give attending delegates the opportunity to hear from leading voices in the industry. These presentations feature relevant topics and issues aligned with the speaker's experience and expertise, selected by the speaker in concert with the summit's Content Committee." title="Keynote Presentations give attending delegates the opportunity to hear from leading voices in the industry. These presentations feature relevant topics and issues aligned with the speaker's experience and expertise, selected by the speaker in concert with the summit's Content Committee.
Executive Visions
Panel moderated by Master of Ceremonies and headed by four executives discussing critical business topics
Executive Visions sessions are panel discussions that enable in-depth exchanges on critical business topics. Led by a moderator, these sessions encourage attending executives to address industry challenges and gain insight through interaction with expert panel members." title="Executive Visions sessions are panel discussions that enable in-depth exchanges on critical business topics. Led by a moderator, these sessions encourage attending executives to address industry challenges and gain insight through interaction with expert panel members.
Thought Leadership
Solution provider-led session giving high-level overview of opportunities
Led by an executive from the vendor community, Thought Leadership sessions provide comprehensive overviews of current business concerns, offering strategies and solutions for success. This is a unique opportunity to access the perspective of a leading member of the vendor community." title="Led by an executive from the vendor community, Thought Leadership sessions provide comprehensive overviews of current business concerns, offering strategies and solutions for success. This is a unique opportunity to access the perspective of a leading member of the vendor community.
Think Tank
End user-led session in boardroom style, focusing on best practices
Think Tanks are interactive sessions that place delegates in lively discussion and debate. Sessions admit only 15-20 participants at a time to ensure an intimate environment in which delegates can engage each other and have their voices heard." title="Think Tanks are interactive sessions that place delegates in lively discussion and debate. Sessions admit only 15-20 participants at a time to ensure an intimate environment in which delegates can engage each other and have their voices heard.
Roundtable
Interactive session led by a moderator, focused on industry issue
Led by an industry analyst, expert or a member of the vendor community, Roundtables are open-forum sessions with strategic guidance. Attending delegates gather to collaborate on common issues and challenges within a format that allows them to get things done." title="Led by an industry analyst, expert or a member of the vendor community, Roundtables are open-forum sessions with strategic guidance. Attending delegates gather to collaborate on common issues and challenges within a format that allows them to get things done.
Case Study
Overview of recent project successes and failures
Case Studies allow attending executives to hear compelling stories about implementations and projects, emphasizing best practices and lessons learned. Presentations are immediately followed by Q&A sessions." title="Case Studies allow attending executives to hear compelling stories about implementations and projects, emphasizing best practices and lessons learned. Presentations are immediately followed by Q&A sessions.
Focus Group
Discussion of business drivers within a particular industry area
Focus Groups allow executives to discuss business drivers within particular industry areas. These sessions allow attendees to isolate specific issues and work through them. Presentations last 15-20 minutes and are followed by Q&A sessions." title="Focus Groups allow executives to discuss business drivers within particular industry areas. These sessions allow attendees to isolate specific issues and work through them. Presentations last 15-20 minutes and are followed by Q&A sessions.
Analyst Q&A Session
Moderator-led coverage of the latest industry research
Q&A sessions cover the latest industry research, allowing attendees to gain insight on topics of interest through questions directed to a leading industry analyst." title="Q&A sessions cover the latest industry research, allowing attendees to gain insight on topics of interest through questions directed to a leading industry analyst.
Vendor Showcase
Several brief, pointed overviews of the newest solutions and services
Taking the form of three 10-minute elevator pitches by attending vendors, these sessions provide a concise and pointed overview of the latest solutions and services aligned with attendee needs and preferences." title="Taking the form of three 10-minute elevator pitches by attending vendors, these sessions provide a concise and pointed overview of the latest solutions and services aligned with attendee needs and preferences.
Executive Exchange
Pre-determined, one-on-one interaction revolving around solutions of interest
Executive Exchanges offer one-on-one interaction between executives and vendors. This is an opportunity for both parties to make key business contacts, ask direct questions and get the answers they need. Session content is prearranged and based on mutual interest." title="Executive Exchanges offer one-on-one interaction between executives and vendors. This is an opportunity for both parties to make key business contacts, ask direct questions and get the answers they need. Session content is prearranged and based on mutual interest.
Open Forum Luncheon
Informal discussions on pre-determined topics
Led by a moderator, Open Forum Luncheons offer attendees informal, yet focused discussions on current industry topics and trends over lunch." title="Led by a moderator, Open Forum Luncheons offer attendees informal, yet focused discussions on current industry topics and trends over lunch.
Networking Session
Unique activities at once relaxing, enjoyable and productive
Networking opportunities take various unique forms, merging enjoyable and relaxing activities with an environment conducive to in-depth conversation. These gatherings allow attendees to wind down between sessions and one-on-one meetings, while still furthering discussions and being productive." title="Networking opportunities take various unique forms, merging enjoyable and relaxing activities with an environment conducive to in-depth conversation. These gatherings allow attendees to wind down between sessions and one-on-one meetings, while still furthering discussions and being productive.
9:15 am - 9:30 am
9:30 am - 10:10 am
Many technologists have had their departments shift from being cost centers to revenue generators for their organizations. That isn't the only shift that is coming for tech executives. Margins are reduced and expectations are high. Innovation has to move faster. Leadership has to evolve. Risk has a whole new meaning in 2021. Business continuity is just one of many complex business challenges creating unanticipated market turbulence. Join us to gain insight into how tech leaders are turning complexity and chaos into real strategy execution initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Moderated by:
Neil Kurtz, Managing Director/Senior Advisor, Guggenheim Partners
Panelists:
Steven Zalewski, CISO, Levi Strauss & Co.
Jeremy Smith, Global Head Information Security (CISO), Avery Dennison
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Sponsored by:
IBM
Presented by:
Carolina Howland, Security Field Marketing Manager, IBM
10:40 am - 11:00 am
The office dynamic continues to evolve. Working from home, office, or even hybrid brings unique and complicated challenges for every organization. In this session we examine what it takes to build the optimal customer journey in 2021 and beyond. With the internal experience being more important than ever before, hear what is working and what to avoid all the while scaling your business for the future.
Key Takeaways:
Presented by:
Reza Rassool, Chief Technology Officer, RealNetworks
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Cybercrime is on the rise, costing the global economy trillions per year. With cybercrime-as-a-service and hacking tools readily available, critical data assets and company reputations are at risk. As threat campaigns evolve, understanding how your adversaries are working and what they are targeting can help you ensure a better cyber defence. Join Mark Sangster as he discusses how cybercrime has become an industry and shares insight into how phishing and ransomware campaigns work.
Key takeaways
Sponsored by:
eSentire
11:20 am - 11:40 am
Often overlooked or misunderstood, the security of external collaborators is a manageable risk. This presentation will leverage tools you may all ready have and apply core practices to help you elevate your external collaborator visibility through innovative approach. Ask yourself â?" ?What do I need to know about external collaborators?
Presented by:
Dan Meacham, CISO, CSO & VP of Global Security, Legendary Entertainment
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Year after year, security teams struggle to defend against the same threats that continuously grow more complex. Additionally, digital transformation has expanded the attack surface, further complicating the process of identifying, mitigating, and reporting on risk. The stakes are high for security teams every day, but when there are newsworthy threats, the board knocks on their door. For executives, it will become increasingly important to understand the evolving threat landscape, the impact this has on their organization, and how to answer questions from the board quickly, or even better, proactively before they ask.
Takeaways:
Sponsored by:
ReliaQuest
Presented by:
Joe Partlow, CTO, ReliaQuest
We've all heard the terms DevOps and cloud-native become industry standard buzzwords. But why is it so hard to wrangle in cloud cost and security? If DevOps and cloud-native are only about devs, ops, and public cloud, what is the relevance and value of IT and the massive existing investments? We know the traditional capabilities and operations of IT are lagging leading to shadow IT. But we see the challenges and risks avoiding IT creates â?" uncontrolled costs, gaps in security and safety, lacking performance and resilience, and others. Insight has created a framework of Modern IT Operations to help bridge this gap, extend devops operating models throughout IT, and enable IT to become service-oriented and create an exceptional developer experience leveraging on-prem and public platforms.
TAKEAWAYS
Sponsored by:
HCL BigFix
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
One of the oldest industry in the world, logistics, is the biggest beneficiary of Digital Transformation. Before the Pandemic organizations were exploring digital technologies. Fast forward to today to see that a host of technologies were implemented in short span of time. With the pandemic continuing to manifest itself the demand for newer technologies has increased. What technology has now become the defacto standard and what is next?
Key Takeaways.
Presented by:
Deepak Sharma, Global Director, IT Business Solutions & Support, Agility
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
Sponsored by:
Sonatype
Sponsored by:
Insight Cloud + Data Center Transformation
Presented by:
Jeff Bozic, Principal Architect, Insight Cloud + Data Center Transformation
12:40 pm - 1:00 pm
Sponsored by:
Sitecore
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Hyperautomation is a key strategic component of the digitally enabled organizations and the top trend in emerging technologies. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the core technology that enables the Hyperautomation. RPA software robots automate manual, repetitive and mundane human tasks and brings processing speed, cost savings and quality. RPA technology can be extended by artificial intelligence and analytics capabilities to offer smarter and more advanced intelligent automation solutions.
Key Takeaways:
Presented by:
Darren Pulsipher, Chief Solutions Architect, Intel
1:20 pm - 1:30 pm