InnoTech Austin

This panel of current and former CIOs offers a glimpse into the future of collaboration and cloud architecture, highlighting key trends and practical steps to begin using cloud-based products and services for transformation efforts. Focusing on the three major forces changing how we work with information today: new devices, new ways to deliver IT, and new cloud-based products and services.

You’re on the front lines, feeling the hurricane winds of change blow and as the lines of traditional technology and shared services become more blurred in the cloud, it’s survival of the fittest organizational model. What’s the best course of action? Should IT departments persevere as a centralized hub, or should IT experts integrate throughout the business? Join this panel of CIOs discuss and debate the future of the our IT enterprise, and how its evolution might impact your people and process.

In 2018, CIOs are being challenged more than ever to achieve digital success and leverage emerging technologies to create new capabilities which drive new growth and differentiation. CIOs need to modernize their data management strategies and architectures to leverage emerging technologies such as Machine Learning, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data and Cloud. Data is at the heart of all these changes. Data ingestion, data integration, architectures, data management, data governance and data virtualization all need to be part of the enterprise data strategy. Join us to gain insight as leading CIOs share their vision and experiences in meeting their modernizing data management challenges in 2018.

EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance deadline has passed, yet the majority of companies are still scrambling to put compliance measures in place. And in many cases are facing new demands from their customers they can’t meet. What is the delay, where are the struggles coming from, and how are they overcoming the challenges? In this session, we will discuss how companies can achieve compliance despite the difficulties and share helpful insights to navigate this new compliance requirement. You’ll hear real-life stories from a leading ecommerce company -- including their experience with the good, bad and ugly side of GDPR and how it has impacted their IT strategy and business.