2022
January 25, 2022 – Tuesday – Online
DATA GOVERNANCE – HOW TO EXTRACT VALUE FROM YOUR DATA IN THE CLOUD
Nitin Bothe, Senior Manager, Technical Architecture; Accenture AI
Gregg Saksefski, Director, IT Applications, Brookdale Senior Living
Michael Baraz, Head of Finance Data Office, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Rich Olejniczak, SVP, Data Programs & Business Analytics, Wintrust Financial Corporation
Bob Rehak, Data Architect, Kiewit Technology Group
Michelle Hill, Assistant Director – Data Governance and Stewardship / Core Data & Analytics, Northwestern Mutual
Nick Hansgen, Lead Analytic Architect, Enterprise Data Capabilities, General Mills
January 27, 2022 – Thursday – Online
CISO LEADERSHIP IN 2022: ESTABLISHING YOUR PHISHING DETECTION & RESPONSE GAME PLAN
Aaron Higbee, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Cofense
Cecil Pineda, SVP/CISO, R1 RCM
Leon Ravenna, Chief Information Security Officer, KAR Global
Liz Ogunti, Chief Information Security Officer, JBT Corp.
Bill Alfveby, VP and Chief Information Security Officer, Deluxe
Frank Pingaro, CISSP, GCFE, Regional Information Security Officer – Americas, Corporate Security, ZEISS Group
Lanita Collette, Chief Information Security Officer, Deputy CIO, University of Arizona
March 9, 2022 – Wednesday – Online
METRICS THAT MATTER: CONFIDENCE AND RESILIENCE IN YOUR SECURITY PROGRAM – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
COL (Retired) John Burger, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Infrastructure, ReliaQuest
March 16, 2022 – Wednesday – Online
DEV, OPS + BUSINESS: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE THINKING – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Bob Kantner, Vice President of Business Services, Moser IT
John Meier, Senior Solutions Engineer, Atlassian
April 7, 2022 – Thursday – Online
Jack W. Mansfield, Vice President of Digital Workplace Strategy, Bell Techlogix
Elliott Patrick, CIO, Information Services Agency, City of Indianapolis & Marion County
George Wang, Vice President of Global Information Services, The United States Pharmacopeial Convention
Danny Mastre, Information Technology Consultant
Laurie McDonald, Director of Integrations and Automation, Bell Techlogix
May 10, 2022 – Tuesday – Online – 1:00pm
SECURITY AND USER EXPERIENCE: THE BALANCE OF TRUST
Larry Gasparro, Senior Area Director – Greater Chicago Region, Okta, Inc.
Manvendra Kumar, Senior Manager, GIA – Access Management, McDonalds Corporation
Jigar Shah, Head of Security – Identity and Access Management, R1 RCM
Alex Dickson, CISO, GCM Grosvenor
May 25, 2022 – Wednesday – Online – 1:00pm
WHY MICROSOFT 365 BACKUP IS ESSENTIAL
Edward Watson, Sr. Global Product Manager, Veeam
Karinne Bassette, Technologist, Veeam
July 12, 2022 – Tuesday – Online – 3:00pm
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, AUTOMATION AND GOVERNANCE – KEYS TO BUSINESS EXECUTION
Umberto Caselli, Senior Manager of Engineering HCL, Workload Automation
Emanuela Zaccone, Senior Product Manager, HCL Workload Automation
August 23, 2022 – Tuesday – Online
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION + BUSINESS-AS-A-SERVICE: KEYS TO TRANSFORMATION
Francesca Curzi, Global Leader, Workload Automation – Mainframe Solutions and Data Platform, HCL Software
Jon Langhoff, Manager & Global Lead – Application Infrastructure Services – TAM, Batch Management & Middleware Services, NNIT
Alexandra Thurel, Sr. Dir. of Product Mgmt., IPP Software & Solutions – Automation | Mainframe | Data | Innovation, HCL Software
2021
January 19, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
THE HACKER MINDSET IN INCIDENT RESPONSE – WEBINAR
Nate Drier – Managing Principal Consultant, Secureworks
Tony Kirtley – Director of Incident Command, Secureworks
January 28, 2021 – Thursday – Online
Snehal Contractor, Vice President, Worldwide Systems Engineering and Technical Services, Stellar Cyber
Paul S. Raines, CISO, United Nations Development Programme
Shahir Shah, Sr. Director, Business Security Officer, ADP
Troy Wilkinson, Head of Cyber Security Data Analytics & Research, Interpublic Group
Jim Desmond, Chief Security Officer, Asurion
February 11, 2021 – Thursday – Online
PRIORITIZING VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION USING RISK SCORING – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer, Contrast Security
February 23, 2021 – Thursday – Online
SECURING THE EDGE: BEST PRACTICES FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Ryan Seaburg, CEO, Qubit Networks
March 16, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
BUILDING A TEAM VS. BUILDING A FEATURE – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Adam Zimman, VP of Platform, LaunchDarkly
March 17, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
PREVENT THE SPREAD OF BREACHES – REDUCING YOUR ATTACK SURFACE – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Nathanael Iversen, Chief Evangelist, Illumio
April 6, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF OT SECURITY FROM AN IT PERSPECTIVE – WEBINAR
John Livingston, CEO, Verve
April 20, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
PREPARING FOR YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION- ENSURING OPTIMAL EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCES – WEBINAR
Jon Hodgson, Vice President of Product, Aternity
April 21, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
PPM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT! – WEBINAR
Ben Chamberlain, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, UMT360
April 27, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
HOW TO TRANSFORM LEGACY APPLICATIONS – WEBINAR
Leon Thomas, CTO/CEO, Jelecos
April 28, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
CYBER SECURITY & BC/DR – MITIGATING DOWNTIME – WEBINAR
Keith Parkes, President/CEO, iMS
Keith Conlee, Chief Security Officer, College of DuPage
Steve Bloom, Director, Technology & Infrastructure, LTD Commodities
Dmitry Shub, CISO, City of Evanston, Illinois
Victor Hsiang, CISO, GATX
James Mountain, CISO, Palmer College
Chuck Provenzano, DR Program Manager for North America, Zurich
May 4, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
UNLEASH THE FORCE OF AIOps – LEARN STRATEGIES FOR PREDICTING/PREVENTING IT INCIDENTS – WEBINAR
Jim Martin, VP of Technology, INOC
Anirban Chatterjee, Director of Product Marketing, BigPanda
May 5, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
GRANTING TRUST IN AN ERA OF “ZERO TRUST” – WEBINAR
Bret Lenmark, Director of Product Marketing, HCL BigFix
May 11, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
COVID 19 & RTW – UNFORESEEN SECURITY CHALLENGES WITH RETURNING TO WORK – MODERATED PANEL WEBINAR
Chris Scheels, VP, Product Marketing, Appgate
Greg Bee, CISO, Pekin Insurance
Arun DeSouza, CISO & CPO, Nexteer Automotive
Stefan Wahe, Chief Information Officer/IT Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS)
Keith Conlee, CSO, College of DuPage
Angela Johnson, CISO and VP of Supply Chain, Children’s Wisconsin
May 26, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
Chip Hughes, Global Lead – Autonomous Identity, ForgeRock
June 22, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
Justin Maynard, VP, Solutions Architecture, Ascend Technologies
Mark Houpt, CISO, Databank
Michael Fillios, CEO, IT Ally
Michael Manske, Director, West Monroe Partners
Dr. Fred Kwong, CISO, Delta Dental of Illinois
June 23, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
REDUCING MTTR: MAKING ENDPOINT MALWARE ERADICATION in 60 MINS or LESS A REALITY – IT EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Sherri Leach, Cyber Security Engineer, Trane Technologies
Joey Zwahlen, Lead Cyber Forensics, Trane Technologies
Bill Reed, Product Marketing, Malwarebytes
June 29, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
Steve Sarsfield, Product Marketing Leader, Micro Focus
Jeremy Halek, Sr. Director, Data Operations and Strategy, Cleveland Cavaliers
Dave Rogers, Sr. Director of Business Intelligence, Fry Cook & Cashier, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
Aureo Zanon, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Data Science, Inventory Forecasting, Business Technology, and Reporting
Technical Operations, United Airlines
and other enterprise data executives sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned
June 30, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
HOW TO LEVERAGE CLOUD FOR INNOVATION AND DRIVE BUSINESS VALUE – MODERATED PANEL WEBINAR
Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing, Morpheus Data
Ninos Gabriel, Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture | Cloud Transformation Leader, Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, NM, TX
Mary Stevens, Technology Architect, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
Brian Sherman, IT Resilience and DR Specialist, Data Center Foundation Services, Zurich Insurance
Kaushik Dutta, Enterprise Architect, Motorola Solutions
July 15, 2021 – Thursday – Online
CLAIMING THE IT LEADER’S SEAT AT THE BUSINESS TABLE – WEBINAR
Joe Chung, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist, AWS
Matt Mead, CTO, SPR
August 24, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
MATURING DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION – WEBINAR
Conor Jensen, VP Data Science, Dataiku
Amarrtya Jana, Senior Manager, Data Science, India Operations, Cerner Corporation
Josh Edwards, Global Director of Data Science & Operations, Black & Veatch
Tyler Peterson, Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Interoperability, Center for Advanced Analytics, Vizient, Inc.
Jessica Leong, Head of Data & Analytics (Interim) Lead Data Scientist, Zurich North America
Karthik Kandamuri, Enterprise Architecture, Business Technology Solutions, Abbvie
September 16, 2021 – Thursday – Online
HOW TO LEVERAGE RPA TO DRIVE EFFICIENCIES AND IMPROVE DATA INTEGRITY – WEBINAR
Bill McGarry, Consultant, Weidenhammer
Chris Smith, Director, Analytics & Cloud, Weidenhammer
September 22, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
HYBRID WORK STRATEGIES – HOW IT EXECUTIVES ARE EMPOWERING AND SECURING REMOTE WORKERS – WEBINAR
Mark Nolan, Vice President, Customer Advisory, Citrix
Rose Lally, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President, Governance and Controls, Altisource
Micah Czigan, Chief Information Security Officer, Georgetown University
Shahir Shah, Sr. Director, Business Security Officer, ADP
And other IT Executives sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned
October 6, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
BALANCING SECURITY & COMPLIANCE WITH RAPID INNOVATION – WEBINAR
Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO, Puppet
Brad Strock, Former CIO, PayPal
October 13, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
WHAT SECURITY TEAMS SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IN 2022? – WEBINAR
Bret Lenmark, Director of Product Marketing, HCL BigFix
October 13, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION- STRATEGY & RESULTS – WEBINAR
Rochelle Clark, Director Corporate Marketing, Pipefy
Jeffrey Manhardt PMP®, SAFe, ITIL, CSM®, SFC™, Chief Project Officer, Kalieda Health
Dr. Alyce Reopelle, SVP, User Experience and Governance, Financial Institution
October 20, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
DEFYING (DATA) GRAVITY | HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ENTERPRISE HYBRID IT SECURITY POSTURE – WEBINAR
Joe Neumann, Business Information Security Officer, Digital Realty
Greg Bee, Chief Risk Officer and Information Security Officer, Pekin Insurance
Victor Hsiang, Chief Information Security Officer, GATX
October 26, 2021 – Tuesday – Online
LEVERAGE YOUR DATA SPRAWL TO CREATE TRUSTED, HIGH-VALUE INSIGHTS – WEBINAR
Derek Wilson, Global Director, Lumada Software Solution Engineering, Hitachi Vantara
Atif Usman, Global Data, Analytics, and Data Science Director | Certified Chief Data Officer, Zimmer Biomet
Deanna Jacob, Enterprise Data Management Director, Alight Solutions
Richard Olejniczak, SVP – Data Programs and Business Analytics and Reporting, Wintrust Financial
David Robledo, Director of Data Analytics and Information, Purdue University
October 27, 2021 – Wednesday – Online
IT IN THE AGE OF AUTOMATION: DRIVING OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH NO CODE – WEBINAR
Kristen Davis, Industry Evangelist, Pipefy
October 28, 2021 – Thursday – Online
Paige Roberts, Open Source Relations Manager, Vertica
Mike Walters, Director – Data, IoT and Analytics, Benchmark Corp.
November 4, 2021 – Thursday – Online – 1:00pm
MODERN APPLICATION API CONTROLS: IDENTITY, AUTHORIZATION, PRIVACY – WEBINAR
Nathanael Coffing, Co-Founder, CSO, Cloudentity
Edward Delaporte, Manager, Cybersecurity Software Development & Assurance, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thomas Liakos, Sr. Principal Architect, Google
2020
March 26, 2020 – Thursday – 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
BAD ACTORS ARE NOW TARGETING WORKING FROM HOME, BEST PRACTICES FOR ENABLING AND PROTECTING YOUR TEAMS
Laszlo S. Gonc, Founder and CEO, Next Era Transformation Group, LLC
First Senior Fellow, DivIHN Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
May 14, 2020 – Thursday – Online
PWNING ADMIN RIGHTS TO SPREAD RANSOMWARE: STORIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD
Shane Shook, PhD – Advisor & Venture Consultant, Forgepoint Capital
Tim Keeler, Founder & CEO, Remediant
May 28, 2020 – Thursday – Online
CYBER DASHBOARDS – ARE YOUR METRICS HARMFUL OR HELPFUL?
Curt Barnard, Principal Security Researcher, Rapid7
June 2, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – SOLUTIONS TO BUSINESS RESTRICTIONS AND RISKS
Bhavik Modi, Director of Software Development, Wheels
Bhavin Patel, Sr. Solutions Architect, OutSystems
June 4, 2020 – Thursday – Online
RANSOMWARE – REDUCING THE THREAT THROUGH ZERO TRUST & RESILIENCY PLANNING
Matt Johnson, Regional Systems Engineer, Illumio
June 9, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
IS YOUR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE READY FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES?
Arun Samuga, Chief Technology Officer, Elemica
June 11, 2020 – Thursday – Online
BIG DATA PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS- INVASION OF PRIVACY VS. SAVING LIVES
Steve Shelton, Vertica
And Leading C-Level Executives Sharing Experiences and Lessons Learned
June 25, 2020 – Thursday – Online
LEARN HOW SUCCESSFUL IT LEADERS ENCOURAGE FAILURE
Dawn Parzych, Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly
August, 25, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
IT PRIORITIES / COVID 19 HANGOVER
Chase Cabanillas, CIO, Flex Technology Group
Jeff Foydl, CIO – North America, Lincoln International LLC
Mike Ouska, CIO, Lutheran Social Services
Michael Chahino, EdD, CIO, Elgin Community College
Kelly Coomer, CIO, Sammons Financial
September 22, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
BEST PRACTICES FOR PROTECTING YOUR ENTERPRISE IN A WORK FROM HOME WORLD
Dan Wolff, Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, HCL BigFix
September 29, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
HOW TO SUCCEED WITH CLOUD BI
David Fields, Principal, Solve
October 13, 2020 – Tuesday – Online
VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE- THE FUTURE OF REMOTE ACCESS– MOVING BEYOND MICROSOFT DIRECT ACCESS
Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting
October 29, 2020 – Thursday – Online
HEALTHCARE DATA / ANALYTICS – VIRTUAL BOARDROOM
Jim Anfield, Principal, Aptitive
November 12, 2020 – Thursday – Online
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE: BEST PRACTICES FOR SECURING APPLICATIONS, CONTAINERS & PLATFORMS
Dennis Hurst, Founder, Saltworks Security, an Orasi Company
December 2, 2020 – Wednesday – Online
AUTOMATION TO INCREASE SPEED AND PRODUCTIVITY IN TODAY’S BUSINESS CLIMATE
Brian Rogan, SVP North America, Emergn
Nageswaran Vaidyanathan, EVP, Chief Technology Officer, OneMain Financial
Frank Sottosanti, Chief Marketing Officer, Transamerica
Mark Etwaru, Digital & Transformation Expert
Dany De Grave, R&D Digital Transformation, Sanofi Pasteur
Erich Kellow, Global Head of Information Technology and Digital Operations, BAT