CIO 100 Leadership Live New York: Event Agenda & Key Sessions
All times listed on the agenda are for the Eastern Time Zone. 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 with IT leadership, and valuable networking opportunities focused on enterprise innovation with enterprise technology innovators. Register now to save your seat!
Thursday, July 16
For most organizations, the real barrier to AI impact isn’t the model, it’s everything required to scale it.The cause is rarely the technology. It’s fragmentation: disconnected tools, conflicting governance models, and strategies that drift from real business goals. At the same time, the cost of running cloud-based AI at scale is climbing fast, and leaders are asking whether on-premises or hybrid infrastructure can deliver the same results for a fraction of the spend.
Enterprise language models can solve both challenges, but only with an integrated foundation spanning data centers, private clouds, and protected cloud environments. Join the editors of CIO Online, experts from Unisys and Dell, and technology leaders from across the New York metro area for an interactive executive roundtable on what it takes to move past stalled pilots and turn AI into measurable progress.
This interactive roundtable will allow participants to leave with a clearer view of the strategic, operational, financial, and technological decisions that separate organizations experimenting with AI from those competing with it.
Pre-registration required.
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
The role of the CIO has fundamentally shifted from operator to business leader. Today’s CIO must balance AI investment, cost discipline, and measurable business outcomes. This opening sessions sets the tone for the day, exploring how leading CIOs are redefining value creation, influencing the board, and turning technology into a true growth engine.
AI is reshaping how enterprises operate, but for many organizations, the value isn’t scaling.
Despite significant investment in technology, engineering, and transformation, outcomes often remain fragmented.Insights don’t carry across the business. Workflows don’t connect. And operations struggle to keep pace with the speed of change. The challenge isn’t technology, it’s designing how everything works together. In this session, PwC Technology leaders explore how CIOs are redefining the role of IT to design and enable the Intelligent Enterprise, where technology, engineering, and operations are unified and continuously evolving.
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.
Transformation rarely goes according to plan. CIOs break down the real costs behind major initiatives, including budget overruns, organizational friction, and failed bets. This session focuses on what leaders learned the hard way and how they course-corrected to deliver results that stuck.
The biggest mistake enterprises make with AI isn’t choosing the wrong model, it’s building on the wrong foundation. In this session, we’ll challenge the assumption that more powerful AI automatically delivers better business outcomes, and make the case that constrained, context-rich, deterministic architectures consistently outperform expensive models bolted onto fragmented systems. You’ll leave with a practical framework to rethinking your AI stack- one that prioritizes the context layer your organization needs to build before any model can deliver results worth measuring.
Join a conversation of your choice to listen, learn and share experiences around the table.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Token Usage & Charge Models for Agentic Development & SDLC hosted by Insight
Unlock AI ROI with FinOps-Driven Cost Visibility hosted by Apptio
How Will AI, Cloud, and Quantum Computing Redefine Data Protection by 2030? hosted by Thales
The VMware Crisis – A Blessing in Disguise hosted by Platform9
Transitioning From Ticket Queues to Autonomous IT hosted by Console
Enterprise AI Readiness: Why the Network Becomes the Platform hosted by Spectrum
Enjoy lunch with fellow leaders, and connect with our sponsors to explore solutions that can support your most pressing challenges.
The next generation of leaders are invited to this curated career development and networking luncheon designed specifically for high-potential technology leaders who are not yet in the C-suite, but well on their way.
Pre-registration required.
AI agent adoption has moved from experimentation to productization at scale, which introduces both innovation and risks stemming from AI. This session examines the threats at play and how CISOs can unlock business growth while securing their organizations at machine speed and ultimately maintain trust with customers. Learn how organizations are balancing speed, innovation, and security in high stakes environments. Come with questions.
Many organizations have moved beyond pilots, but few have achieved scaled impact. This session goes inside real enterprise AI deployments, unpacking what worked, what failed, and what it actually takes to operationalize AI across the business. Expect honest lessons on governance, cost, talent, and how to move from hype to measurable outcomes. Come with questions!
Top investors share where they are placing bets, which technologies are overhyped, and what signals CIOs should pay attention to. This session helps technology leaders separate real innovation from noise and align their roadmaps with where the market is heading. Come with questions!
Don’t miss these five-minute market insights geared to solving your biggest challenges.
Ellora Sarkar will discuss why most enterprise AI investment is failing to produce measurable value, and what separates the firms capturing real ROI from the 95% stuck in pilots. Drawing on Keystone’s field work and recent research, she will examine the operating model changes, in task design, telemetry, and governance, that turn agentic systems into measurable economic value, and the specific mistakes CIOs are making as they try to operationalize AI.
The pace of change is accelerating. In this closing conversation, CIOs reflect on what’s coming next, from AI economics to organizational redesign. Attendees will leave with a clear sense of priorities and the decisions that will define success in the near future. Come with questions!
The day’s conversations don’t have to end here. Drinks, connections, and chat with attendees and speakers. Get a new headshot taken in the studio.
