CIO Leadership: HMG Strategy Shatters Registration Record for its 2023 Southern California CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California SIM

WESTPORT, Conn., Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HMG Strategy, the World’s #1 platform for enabling technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is ecstatic to announce that 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 has eclipsed previous registration records.

“Now in our 14^th year in Southern California, the power of the HMG platform, an incredible roster of All-Star speakers and timely topics, the strength of our partnership with Southern California SIM and the magnificent support of our strategic partners has made this summit a must-attend event,” says Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO of HMG Strategy.

Looking ahead, HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit on October 17 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. Key topics to be explored at the summit include the CIO as the CEO of technology in preparing the organization for what’s coming next.

World-class speakers at the 2023 Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

• Lutz Beck, CIO, Daimler Trucks North America
• Chris Bedi, CDIO, ServiceNow
• Brad Bell, SVP, CITO/CISO, Infoblox
• Nabil Bukhari, Chief Technology & Product Officer, Extreme Networks
• Max Chan, CIO, Avnet
• Cassie Crossley, VP Deputy Product Security Officer, Schneider Electric
• Christopher Desautel, SVP & Chief Digital Officer, Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
• Dr. Gail Ferreira, CEO, Prima Leader, Inc.
• Al Ghous, CISO, Snapdocs
• Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
• Jeff McKibben, CIO, Ultra Clean Technology
• Deb Muro, CIO, El Camino Health
• Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Officer, Nutanix
• Michael Piacente, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hitch Partners
• Florin Rotar, Chief AI Officer, Avanade
• Parul Saini, Global Head of Business and Enterprise Applications, Uber
• Trevor Schulze, CIO, Alteryx
• Ishpreet Singh, CIO, Qualys
• Ken Spangler, EVP, Global Operating Technologies, FedEx Services
• Niharika Srivastav, President and Principal Advisor, CyberEdx
• Cynthia Stoddard, SVP & CIO, Adobe
• Srini Tanikella, VP IT, SMART Global Holdings
• Reena Tiwari, CIO, LexisNexis
• Dan Turchin, CEO, PeopleReign

Distinguished CIOs and business technology executives being recognized for HMG Strategy 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the 2023 Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

• Chris Bedi, CDIO, ServiceNow
• Nabil Bukhari, Chief Technology & Product Officer, Extreme Networks
• Jeff McKibben, Chief Information Officer, Ultra Clean Technology
• Deb Muro, CIO, El Camino Health
• Michael Piacente, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hitch Partners
• Trevor Schulze, CIO, Alteryx
• Cynthia Stoddard, SVP & CIO, Adobe
  

Valued Partners for the 2023 Silicon Valley CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8x8, Akamai, Apptio, ArmorCode, BetterCloud, Box, Cyberstarts, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, Genesys Works, GTM Capital, Lakeside, LastPass, Legit Security, Netskope, Nexthink, NPower, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, Savvy, SIM San Francisco Bay Area, SHE Informationtechnologie AG, Tata Communications, Tonkean, Zoom, and Zscaler.

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

Next week, HMG Strategy will be hosting its 2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 19 at the University Club of Chicago.

Topics to be explored at the 2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include effective techniques for communicating the impact of AI to the C-suite and the Board.

Pre-eminent CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

• Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director, GTM Capital
• Andrew Ballema, CIO, Tangoe
• Tamar Bar-Ilan, Co-Founder and CTO, Cyera
• Jesse Bociek, CISO, Tenneco
• David Bruskin, SVP, Cyber Operations Leader, Synchrony
• Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago
• Liav Caspi, Co-Founder & CTO, Legit Security
• Manish Chawla, EVP, CTO, IAT Insurance Group
• Michael Cornwell, Field CTO of the Americas, Pure Storage
• Shai Gabay, Founder and CEO, Trustmi
• Kostas Georgakopoulos, Global CTO & CISO, Mondelez International
• Tom Gerdes, EVP & CIO, The Heico Companies LLC
• Rocco Grillo, Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation, Alvarez & Marsal
• Guy Guzner, Co-Founder and CEO, Savvy Security
• Anjana Harve, EVP & CIO, BJ’s Wholesale Club
• Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
• Geoff Hooper, Director, N.A. Enterprise Solutions Engineering, RingCentral
• Art Hopkins, Global Co-Leader of the Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates
• Mahmood Kahn, EVP, Global CISO, CNA Insurance
• Paul Koziel, VP, U.S. Digital Delivery & Group Technology Services, Argo Group
• Ricardo Lafosse, CISO, The Kraft Heinz Company
• Kristy Lapidus, Director of Digital Strategy, Gagen MacDonald
• Tony Leng, Managing Partner, CIO & CTO Global Functional Head, H.I.E.C.
• Talvis Love, SVP & CIO, Baxter International
• Jean Luber, VP IT, MYR Group
• Susan Malisch, SVP & CIO, American Medical Association
• Rick Merrick, President, SIM Chicago; CIO, TCS Education System
• Murali Nemani, CMO, Aisera
• Venugopal Pai, Chief Evangelist & Customer Experience Officer, Nutanix
• Rusty Patel, Former SVP & CIO, Tenneco
• Syria Potham, Field CTO, Wiz
• Atif Rafiq, Author, Board Member
• Raanan Raz, CEO & Co-Founder, Avalor
• Madhu Reddy, EVP & CIO, Republic Bank of Chicago
• Yotam Segev, Co-Founder and CEO, Cyera
• Brian Slepko, EVP, Corporate Development, Rimini Street
• Edward Wagoner, CIO – Digital, JLL
• Andy Watson, Senior Product Marketing Manager, RingCentral
• Frank Yanan, SVP GIS Business Information Security Officer (BISO, Bank of America
• Michael Zachman, VP & CSO, Zebra Technologies Corp.

Esteemed CIOs and business technology executives being recognized for 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the 2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit include:

• Wayne Bulmahn, President, SIM Chicago
• Anjana Harve, Seasoned Chief Global Digital & Technology Officer
• Mahmood Khan, EVP, Global CISO, CNA
• Rick Merrick, Chairman, SIM Chicago
• Talvis Love, SVP & CIO, Baxter International
• Rusty Patel, Former SVP & CIO, Tenneco
• Mike Zachman, VP & CSO, Zebra Technologies Corp.
  

Valued Partners for the 2023 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8x8, Aisera, Akamai, Apptio, Avalor, BetterCloud, Bluewave Technology Group, Box, Cyberstarts, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, Glean, GTM Capital, Lakeside, LastPass, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, Proofpoint, Pure Storage, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM Chicago, Tangoe, Tonkean, Trustmi, Upwork, Wiz, Zoom, and Zscaler.

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

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 2023 Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit on September 26 at The Mayflower Hotel. Key topics to be explored at the summit will include the role of the CIO as the CEO of Technology to help anticipate the trends expected to impact the business and to help the C-suite to prepare for these.

Top-tier CIOs and business technology executives speaking at the 2023 Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

• Edward Amoroso, Founder & CEO, TAG InfoSphere
• Judith Apshago, VP, Chief Digital Officer, Amtrak
• Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Fellow, The Stimson Center
• Gary Brown, Chief Privacy Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company
• Michael Cannon, Former CTO, Stafford County, VA
• Lee Caswell, SVP, Product & Solutions Marketing, Nutanix
• Matt Conner, CISO, Westinghouse Electric Company
• Ann Dunkin, CIO, U.S. Department of Energy
• Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
• Dr. Wanda Jones-Heath, Principal Cyber Advisor, United States Air Force
• Lauren Heyndrickx, VP, Chief Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, Ralph Lauren
• Stuart Kippelman, CIO & Commercial Cybersecurity Business Leader, Parsons Corporation
• Joel Klein, SVP, CIO, University of Maryland Medical System
• Kevin McCarty, CISO, Cigna
• Wayne McGurk, CIO and SVP, IT, NRECA; Chapter President, SIM Capital Area
• Andre Mendes, CIO, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Shamla Naidoo, Head of Cloud Strategy, Netskope; Board Member, QBE, SAC and Reference Point
• Murali Nemani, CMO, Aisera
• Tunde Oni-Daniel, Head of Technology Operations and Engineering, OneMain Financial
• Pavan Pidugu, Chief Technology Officer, FMCSA, Department of Transportation
• Lisa Roger, CIO, Dewberry
• Boyden Rohner, Associate Director for Vulnerability Management, U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Hanan Szwarcbord, VP, Chief Security Officer, Micron Technology
• Melissa Vice, Director of the Vulnerability Disclosure Program at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center
• Myles Weber, CIO, Appian
• Jesse Whaley, VP & CISO, Amtrak
• Swathi Young, Chief Technology Officer, SustainChain
  

Distinguished CIOs and business technology executives being recognized for HMG Strategy 2023 Global Leadership Institute Awards at the 2023 Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit will include:

• Ed Amoroso, Founder & CEO, TAG InfoSphere
• Judith Apshago, VP, Chief Digital Officer, Amtrak
• Stuart Kippelman, CIO & Commercial Cybersecurity Business Leader, Parsons Corporation
• Andre Mendes, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce

Valued Partners for the 2023 Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit include 8x8, Akamai, Aisera, Barco, BetterCloud, Box, Cyberstarts, Darktrace, Delphix, Denodo, Fortinet, GTM Capital, Island, Lakeside, LastPass, Legit Security, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Ping Identity, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM Capital Area, Tonkean, Upwork, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 2023 Washington, D.C. 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.

To learn more about the 7 Pillars of Trust for HMG Strategy's unique business model, click here. 

Contact: Tom Hoffman, VP, Research, HMG Strategy: 203-221-2702 or at [email protected]

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