CIO 100 Leadership Live LA: Event Agenda & Key Sessions
All times listed on the agenda are Pacific Standard Time. This is a one-day, in-person, live CIO conference. We look forward to seeing you soon. Get ready for a full day of actionable insights, expert sessions, and valuable networking opportunities focused on enterprise innovation with IT leaders and technology innovators.
Thursday, April 16
Today’s enterprise IT leaders must manage their infrastructure in light of several simultaneous trends: the growth of AI, the ballooning costs of virtual machines, and ever present (and ever changing) security pressures. For many companies the solution lies in a hybrid cloud environment where some resources and applications reside on prem or in a private cloud, and others in the public cloud. The goal is to deliver greater agility, governance and resilience, while managing costs across the entire corporate IT estate.
Pre-registration required.
Hosted by HPE
Grab breakfast and coffee, find a seat, and meet the people you’ll be learning alongside all day.
Hear from CIOs who’ve been in the chair, the decisions that defined them, the projects that nearly broke them, and the lessons they wish someone had handed them earlier. Curated excerpts from the CIO Leadership Live interview series, selected because they’re honest and insightful.
This session sets the tone for the day: bold thinking, practical leadership, and a clear focus on what it takes to lead with confidence in a time defined by rapid transformation. Stay tuned for speaker details as we prepare to launch the event with a powerful message that moves leaders from insight to action.
AI is redefining IT, but many organizations struggle to move beyond pilots to delivering real outcomes at scale. This session shares a practical path to building the strategy and operating model required for true transformation. Starting with your most critical pain points and highest-value workflows, then scaling adoption across IT with strong stakeholder alignment, including risk and strategy leaders.
PwC’s Technology Excellence Lead, Danielle Phaneuf, will explore how clear, intentional communication prepares teams to shift to an IT function where agents execute and people lead. She’ll also show how early measurable wins create momentum towards the long-term vision. From strategy through day-to-day execution, learn how you can help your operations not just run, but continuously evolve intelligently powered by agentic AI.
Coffee, vendor conversations, and the hallway discussions that can be better than the sessions. Take the time.
Explore how organizations can leverage emerging technologies to drive meaningful business outcomes. Join our premier sponsor as they share practical insights and actionable frameworks to help leaders modernize and prepare for an AI-driven future.
Transformation looks clean in the case study. It doesn’t feel that way from inside it. Technology leaders share the metrics that mattered, the initiatives that failed, and the moves that made the difference between a project that stuck and one that got quietly killed. Come with questions!
Join a conversation of your choice to listen, learn and share experiences around the table.
Balancing Innovation Speed with Data Risk in a Modern Enterprise hosted by Perforce Delphix
Unlock AI ROI with FinOps-Driven Cost Visibility hosted by Apptio
Enjoy lunch with fellow leaders, and connect with our sponsors to explore solutions that can support your most pressing challenges.
Pre-registration required.
Four CIO 100 Award-winning teams show you what they built, what broke, and what they’d do differently. Visit the projects that match your priorities, ask the questions you can’t ask in a session, and steal the frameworks that are working.
Your CFO wants numbers. Your board wants confidence. Your team wants direction. CIOs who’ve moved past the pilot stage share frameworks for measuring AI impact that hold up to scrutiny, including how to structure the business case, where the ROI actually shows up, and what happens when it doesn’t.
Every executive believes data matters. Fewer agree on what to do about it and even fewer get it right. In this session, C-level leaders share how they are elevating data from a fragmented technical asset into a trusted, enterprise-wide advantage. The discussion focuses not only on tools or architectures, but on leadership decisions: how to set a clear data strategy, establish effective security and compliance without slowing the business, and build a culture where data is understood, trusted, and used to build business value. Drawing on real-world lessons from complex environments, the panel will explore how CIOs are aligning data strategy with business outcomes, risk, and growth; bridging executive intent with operational reality; and building data literacy as a leadership capability, not a specialist skill.
Venture capital moves 18 months ahead of the enterprise. Three investors share where they’re placing their bets right now, which technologies are getting overhyped, and how CIOs can use VC signal to sharpen their own roadmap before the trends arrive as vendor pitches.
The day’s conversations don’t have to end here. Drinks, connections, and chat with attendees and speakers.
