MENLO PARK, Calif.,
July 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Digital disruption is causing a sea change in how business
is being executed. Because the CIO is situated at the intersection
of business and technology, s/he is uniquely positioned to deliver
bold, game-changing transformational leadership, drive
transformational innovation, and cultivate a culture of genius.
These will be among the prime discussion points at the upcoming
2017 Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit, produced by
HMG Strategy, to be held on August 24,
2017 at the Rosewood Sand Hill.
"CIOs have a distinctive view of how different parts of the
business operate and interact with one another," said
Hunter Muller, HMG Strategy's
President & CEO. "CIOs must demonstrate courageous leadership
to enable the business to disrupt itself and engender the
transformative innovation needed to vault past competitors."
The Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit will open
with a gripping executive panel discussion on the leadership,
innovation, and transformation strategies being applied by
prominent technology executives to reinvent the enterprise in the
next era of the digital age.
Other captivating sessions will include an executive briefing by
John Rossman, Managing
Director, Alvarez & Marsal and former Amazon executive on
effective ways for building a culture of innovation; an executive
keynote by a ServiceNow executive; an executive panel discussion of
leading technology executives at the forefront of innovation who
will explore emerging technologies that are generating disruption
and creating value for enterprise companies; presentation of the
HMG Strategy 2017 Transformational CIO Award to
Ralph Loura, CTO at Rodan +
Fields, as well as the presentation of the HMG Strategy 2017
Regional Champion Awards; an executive panel discussion that
will probe the criticality and implications of becoming
customer-focused from a CMO's perspective; an executive panel
discussion that will examine best practices for strengthening
communications and relationships with the board of directors; an
executive panel that will delve into successful approaches for
achieving agility and driving innovation while securing
intellectual capital; and an executive panel of top technology
executives who will share advice for leading courageously as the
CEO of Technology.
Prominent speakers at the summit will include Shobhana Ahluwalia, Head of Information
Technology, Uber; Ashwin Ballal,
Ph.D., CIO, Medallia; Timothy
Campos, Former CIO, Facebook; Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA;
Anil Earla, Head of Information and Data Analytics, Global
IS, VISA Inc.; Mark Egan,
Partner, StrataFusion; Jeff
Fochtman, VP of Global Marketing, Seagate Technology;
Arif Janmohamed, Partner,
Lightspeed Venture Partners; Jeffrey L.
Javits, CIO, Fremont Bank; Steve Kendrick, President, KER Partners; Ankur
Laroia, Leader – Solutions Strategy, Alfresco;
Tony Leng, Managing Director and
CIO Practice Leader, Diversified Search; Brian Lillie, Chief Customer Officer, EVP
Technology Services, Equinix; Bob
Lord, CISO, Yahoo! Inc.; Ralph Loura, CTO, Rodan + Fields;
Hunter Muller, President
& CEO, HMG Strategy; Jonathan
Reichental, Chief Information Officer, City of Palo Alto; John Rossman, Managing Director, Alvarez
& Marsal; Brandon Salmon,
Principal, Office of the CTO, Tintri; Rama Sekhar, Partner,
Norwest Venture Partners; Pranab
Sinha, VP, IT, Seagate Technology; Michael Steep, Adjunct Professor and
Executive Director, Digital Cities Program, Stanford University; Cynthia Stoddard, SVP & CIO, Adobe; and
Muddu Sudhakar, Senior VP
& GM, ServiceNow.
Presenting Partners include ServiceNow. Platinum Partners
include Alfresco, Magenic, Pure Storage, and Tintri. Gold Partners
include Adobe, Workday, and Zendesk. Research Partners include
Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Strategic Partners include Egon Zehnder, Heidrick & Struggles,
Korn Ferry, Russell Reynolds
Associates and Spencer Stuart.
Alliance Partners include Amplify Partners, Greylock Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Association
Partners include Year Up.
To visit the Silicon Valley summit website and register for the
event, click here.
About HMG Strategy
HMG Strategy is the world's largest independent and most trusted
provider of executive networking events and thought leadership to
support the 360-degree needs of technology leaders. Our
regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, newsletters,
authored books, and online Resource Center deliver proprietary
research on leadership, innovation, transformation, and career
ascent. The HMG Strategy global network consists of over 300,000
senior IT executives, industry experts and world-class thought
leaders. Additionally, our partnerships with the world's leading
search firms provide vital insights into the evolving roles of the
CIO and CISO.
The HMG Strategy CIO Executive Leadership
Series offers a completely unique experience for IT
executives to gain the latest insights and best practices for
driving increased business value through the use of IT, and build
invaluable relationships with peers and industry experts. The HMG
Strategy CISO Executive Leadership Series is
designed to provide information security leaders with the insights
and best practices they need to tackle the most pressing cyber
security challenges facing the enterprise today and going
forward.
For more information on joining the strongest executive
leadership network and exploring our independent, forward-thinking
thought leadership platform, please visit www.hmgstrategy.com.
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