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.
Includes interviews with: Annie Baymiller, EVP & Global CIO, Owens Corning; Chris Nardecchia, CIDO, Rockwell Automation; Sastry Durvasula, Chief Operating, Information & Digital Officer, TIAA; Bob McCowan, Former CIO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Deborah Youmans, VP & CIO, MITRE
You’ll remember less than one percent of this year. But that fraction will define how your team sees you, whether your best people stay, and whether your biggest initiatives gain traction or quietly stall. The difference between leaders people forget and leaders people follow comes down to a handful of moments most executives never see coming. Drawing on two decades of building award-winning cultures and research into how people actually form lasting memories, Chris Dyer introduces the See, Shape, Scale framework and seven universal moment types that determine trust, alignment, and follow-through. For technology leaders navigating transformation at speed, this is the session that reframes how you show up when it counts.
AI is redefining IT, but many organizations are still working to move beyond pilots and deliver measurable outcomes at scale. This panel will focus on how leading organizations are turning early experimentation into enterprise-wide impact through agentic transformation.
The discussion will highlight practical strategies across organization and talent, technology and architecture and change management with a particular focus on the engineering and architecture foundations required to scale AI in a secure, governed and repeatable way.
At its core, this shift is about becoming an intelligent enterprise where AI is embedded into how work gets done. Organizations that align talent, operating model and engineering will be best positioned to scale and sustain real business outcomes.
Coffee, vendor conversations, and the hallway discussions that can be just as engaging as the sessions. Take the time. These unplanned moments often become the ones you remember most.
Join our keynote speaker Chris Dyer for an exclusive book signing of Moments That Matter. Don’t miss the chance to meet the author, get your copy signed, and continue the conversation beyond the keynote.
Every device refresh discussion in 2026 has the same question underneath it: Are we buying hardware or buying capability? But those refresh conversations also need to touch on security, ROI, and outsourcing. his session cuts through the noise on AI-powered endpoints – powered by Windows 11 – and explores how to build a refresh strategy that doesn’t age out in 18 months. In this session we’ll dig into framing the investment for a CFO who wants ROI, not roadmaps.
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
System of Context in Action: How CIOs Are Building Data Architecture for AI-Driven Operations hosted by Zoho
Why You’re Not Ready for AI: How to Build a Foundation on All Enterprise Data hosted by Starburst Data
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. Come with questions!
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. Four 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.
