CIO Leadership: Opportunities to Revolutionize the Customer and Employee Experience with Generative AI Will Fuel the Discussion at the 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 14

Hot topics to be explored at this event include the visionary leadership needed to apply Generative AI across the business


WESTPORT, Conn., July 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HMG Strategy, the World’s #1 platform for enabling technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is excited to be hosting its 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM on September 14 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa.

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Hot topics to be explored at the summit will include successful use cases for applying Generative AI to the business as well as leading as the CEO of technology to prepare for what’s next.

“CIOs and business technology executives are ideally suited to identify how Generative AI can be applied to help develop new business models and fresh Go-to-Market strategies,” said Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO of HMG Strategy.

World-class CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM include:

  • Jim Boyle, VP, Managed Services Operations, Hoag Health System
  • Carmella Cassetta, VP & CIO, Hoag Health System
  • Lee Caswell, SVP Product & Solutions Marketing, Nutanix
  • Lea Eriksen, Director of Technology & Innovation and CIO, City of Long Beach, CA
  • Jeff Farinich, SVP Technology Services and CISO, New American Funding
  • Gary Gooden, VP IT, Relativity Space
  • Michael Keithley, CIO, United Talent Agency
  • Joel Manfredo, Chief Information, Innovation and Digital Officer, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans
  • Patrick Maroney, High Tech Industry Executive Advisor, SAP
  • Theresa Miller, CIO and EVP, Lionsgate Entertainment
  • Helen Norris, VP & CIO, Chapman University
  • Thomas Phelps, SVP of Corporate Strategy & CIO, Laserfiche
  • Michael Rich, Director of IT Security, Infrastructure and Operations, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans
  • Sanjib Sahoo, EVP and Global Digital Officer, Ingram Micro
  • Bhavin Shah, Founder and CEO, Moveworks
  • George Sheth, MBA FHIMSS, Managing Partner, Diligent Partners, LLC
  • Jenn Stringer, Chief Digital Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust
  • Dan Turchin, CEO, PeopleReign

Top-tier CIOs and business technology executives who will be recognized under HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards program at the 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM will include:

  • Michael Keithley, CIO, United Talent Agency
  • Joel Manfredo, Chief Information, Innovation and Digital Officer, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans
  • Helen Norris, VP & CIO, Chapman University
  • Thomas Phelps, SVP of Corporate Strategy & CIO, Laserfiche
  • Sanjib Sahoo, EVP and Global Digital Officer, Ingram Micro
  • Wael Younan, CIO/CISO, CalOptima Health

Valued Partners for the 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM include 8x8, Akamai, Appian, Apptio, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, Illumio, LastPass, Meriplex, Moveworks, Netskope, Nth Generation, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Persistent, Ping Identity, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SentinelOne, Southern California SIM, Tangoe, Tanium, Twilio, Upwork, Varonis, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 6 at The Harvard Club of Boston. Timely topics to be discussed at the summit will include successful use cases for applying Generative AI to the business.

Prominent CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2023 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

  • Vic Bhagat, Global Advisor & Senior Partner, Kyndryl
  • Monica Caldas, EVP Global CIO, Liberty Mutual Insurance
  • Lee Caswell, SVP, Product & Solutions Marketing, Nutanix
  • Jim Chilton, EVP & CIO, Cengage Group
  • Brook Colangelo, CIO, Waters Corporation
  • Jason Cooper, CTO, Technology, Data & Analytics Group, Paradigm
  • Martin Davis, CIO, Managing Partner, DUNELM Associates, Ltd.
  • Patrick Ford, CISO, Americas Region, Schneider Electric
  • Shannon Gath, CIO, Teradyne
  • David Gerstle, Chief Digital Officer, MBTA
  • Danielle Goulet, VP & CISO, The Hanover Insurance Group
  • Ken Grady, SVP & CIO, IDEXX Laboratories
  • Rocco Grillo, Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation, Alvarez & Marsal
  • Elizabeth Hackenson, CIO, Schneider Electric
  • Anjana Harve, SVP & CIO, Fresenius Medical Care
  • Jamie Head, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Ocean Spray
  • Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
  • Eric Helmer, SVP & CTO, Rimini Street
  • Michael Israel, CIO, The Kraft Group
  • Todd Mazza, CTO, FM Global
  • Kevin Powers, J.D., Director, MS in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Business Law and Society Department, Boston College
  • Ramesh Razdan, Global CIO, Bain & Company
  • Brian Shield, SVP/CTO, The Boston Red Sox
  • Ken Spangler, EVP IT – CIO Global OpCo Technologies: Express, Ground, Freight, Logistics, FedEx Services
  • Mike Towers, Chief Digital Trust Officer, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
  • Mark Troller, CIO, Tangoe

Luminary CIOs and business technology executives who will be recognized under HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards program at the 2023 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

  • Vic Bhagat, Global Advisor & Senior Partner, Kyndryl
  • Brook Colangelo, VP & CIO, Waters Corporation
  • Shannon Gath, CIO, Teradyne
  • Ken Grady, SVP & CIO, IDEXX Laboratories
  • Anjana Harve, SVP & CIO, Fresenius Medical Care
  • Elizabeth Hackenson, CIO, Schneider Electric
  • Jamie Head, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Ocean Spray
  • Patty Patria, CIO, Babson College

Valued Partners for the 2023 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8x8, Akamai, Apptio, Aryaka, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, Illumio, Intuitive.Cloud, Lakeside, LastPass, Nasuni, Netskope, Nutanix, OutSystems, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SentinelOne, Tangoe, Tanium, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 2023 Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 Atlanta CIO Executive Leadership Summit on August 18 at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta. Timely topics to be explored at the summit will include opportunities to leverage innovative technologies such as Generative AI to drive cost containment and power business growth.

Top tier CIOs and business technology leaders speaking at the 2023 Atlanta CIO Executive Leadership Summit on August 18 will include:

  • Leslie Anderson, Executive Director, Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Digital Transformation, NCR Corp.
  • Jennifer Baker, CTO, Synovus
  • Brian Benn, CIO, Atlanta Housing Authority
  • Shoukat Ali Bhamani, Former EVP & CTO, Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
  • Curtis A. Carver, Jr., VP & CIO, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Anil Cheriyan, EVP, CTO Strategy & Technology, Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Jay Ferro, EVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Clario
  • Kenneth Foster, VP of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance, FLEETCOR
  • Kevin Gowen, CISO, Synovus
  • Jimmy Guest, VP, IT, Sutherland Global Services
  • Monique Hart, CISO/Executive Director of Information Security, Piedmont Healthcare
  • Eric Helmer, SVP & CTO, Rimini Street
  • Art Hopkins, Global Co-Leader of the Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates
  • Shaun Hunt, CIO, McKenney’s, Inc.
  • Kateau James, COO, Deloitte
  • Tony Leng, Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head, H.I.E.C.
  • Ryan Loy, Partner, McKinsey
  • Brent McDaniel, Chief Digital Officer, Aprio
  • Steven McWilliams, VP, CIO, Georgia Hospital Association
  • Chris Ortbals, Chief Product Officer, Tangoe
  • Chintan Patel, CIO, National DCP
  • Tarak Patel, CIO – Consumer Packaging and Machinery Division, Westrock
  • Renee Pearson, GVP & CTO, Rollins, Inc.
  • James Pierre, EVP, CIO Americas, TK Elevator
  • Molly Rauzi, CTO & Managing Director, Gagen MacDonald
  • AJ Rodrigues, Head of IT Delivery and The Delta Tech Hub, Delta Air Lines
  • Dr. Kenneth Russell, Chief Information & Innovation Officer, New College Institute, Commonwealth of Virginia
  • Serena Sacks-Mandel, Global Chief Technology/Transformation Officer – Education, Microsoft
  • Bhavin Shah, Founder and CEO, Moveworks
  • Grant Shih, CTO, Aramark Uniform Services
  • Sulabh Sood, VP, Morgan Stanley
  • William VanCuren, Former EVP & CIO, NCR Corp.
  • Angela Yochem, Former EVP, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Novant Health
  • Steven Zachok, Director, Enterprise Solution Engineering, RingCentral

Prominent CIOs and business technology executives who will be recognized under HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards program at the 2023 Atlanta CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

  • Anil Cheriyan, CTO/EVP Strategy & Technology, Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Jay Ferro, EVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Clario
  • Kevin Gowen, CISO, Synovus
  • Art Hopkins, Global Co-Leader of the Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates
  • Tony Leng, Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head, H.I.E.C.
  • William VanCuren, Former EVP & CIO, NCR Corp.

Valued Partners for the 2023 Atlanta CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8x8, Akamai, ArmorCode, AWS, BetterCloud, Box, Darktrace, Delphix, Denodo, Fortinet, GTM Capital, Intuitive.Cloud, LastPass, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, Pure Storage, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM Atlanta, Tangoe, Tanium, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 2023 Atlanta CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

To learn more about HMG Strategy’s upcoming schedule of CIO & CISO summits, click here.

About HMG Strategy 

HMG Strategy is the world's leading digital platform for technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 500,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.

HMG Strategy’s global media model generates more than one million impressions per week, providing vast opportunities for business technology leaders and sponsor partners to promote themselves and their brands. 

HMG Strategy was founded in 2008 by Hunter Muller, a leadership expert who has worked side-by-side with Fortune 2000 executives with strategic planning and career ascent for the past 30+ years.

HMG Strategy’s regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, authored books and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven guidance from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation and career ascent.

HMG Strategy offers a range of peer-led advisory services such as its Global CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) service which bring together the world’s top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives to brainstorm on the top opportunities and challenges facing them in their roles.

HMG Strategy’s Global Advisory Services are a unique set of peer-driven research services that are designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest leadership, business, technology and global macro-economic trends that are impacting businesses and industries.

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Contact: Tom Hoffman, VP, Research, HMG Strategy: 203-221-2702 or at tomhoffman@hmgstrategy.com 

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