CIO Leadership Summit: Fostering Culture of Innovation and Transformation on Path to Genius

In today's fast-changing business landscape, it's not your competitors that threaten your company's success. It's your organization's willingness and capacity to embrace change and disrupt its existing business model.

Because the CIO sits at the center of the business, she or he is uniquely positioned to partner with the C-suite and the board to identify and execute the changes that are needed to propel the business forward. The fearless leadership required by the CIO to drive these changes will be the focus of the discussion at the upcoming 2018 San Francisco CIO Executive Leadership Summit, produced by HMG Strategy, to be held on April 26, 2018 at the JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, CA.

The San Francisco CIO Summit has been cited by HPE as a 'must-attend' CIO conference this year.

"Successful CIOs are seizing the opportunity to act as the CEO of Technology," said Hunter Muller, HMG Strategy's president and CEO. "CIOs who lead courageously position themselves to reimagine and reinvent the enterprise in lockstep with the CEO and the board of directors."

The San Francisco CIO Executive Leadership Summit will kick-off with a compelling executive panel discussion that will explore how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and data analytics are enabling companies to identify and act on new business opportunities, automate key aspects of their operations, and boost productivity.

Other captivating sessions will include an HMG Tech Talk given by Delphix Founder and Chairman Jedidiah Yueh on why the classics on innovation such as The Innovator's Dilemma and The Lean Startup are failing businesses worldwide; an executive panel that will probe effective applications for putting AI, machine learning, blockchain and analytics to work; an executive panel that will examine the CIO's role in leading digital transformation strategies; a panel of leading search executives who will weigh in on the key attributes that make technology executives successful.

Other sessions include an executive keynote by a Google executive; a set of executive roundtable discussions that enable summit attendees to brainstorm on the top opportunities for applying technologies such as AI and cloud applications along with the top challenges that must be overcome to succeed; followed by an executive panel that will share experiences of how courageous leadership can generate new waves of business growth.

Eminent speakers at the summit will include:

Beth Devin, Head, Innovation Network, Citi Ventures
Sven Gerjets, EVP, CTO, Mattel, Inc.
Prakash Kota, CIO, Autodesk
Eric Wilson, EVP & CIO, Security and Facilities, SAFE Credit Union.