The topics ranged from “Creating a culture of ownership” to “Accelerating IT transformation,” but for for at least IT leader attending Evanta’s CIO Executive Summit in Vancouver last week, an indirect theme might have been, “Bald guys rule!”
Hosted at the Four Seasons Hotel on June 5, the CIO Executive Summit was organized by a governing body that included chief information officers from BC Hydro, Husky Energy and many others. This was one of our favourite tweets:
https://twitter.com/spruce28/status/474681762036334592
On a more serious note, the event reinforced some thinking that’s been pervasive in IT leadership circles for quite some time.
#EvantaCIO Summit, Customer Centricity session: IT is part of "the business", there is no separation. Send IT staff to the front lines.
— Oliver Grüter-Andrew (@OGruterAndrew) June 5, 2014
As might be expected, privacy and security came up several times over the course of the day, based on feedback from attendees via Twitter.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Bill Trott quoting Churchill on privacy breach issues faced at UVic. #EvantaCIO in Vancouver
— Rajesh Nambiar (@rajeshnambiar) June 5, 2014
Probably the best social media response of the day was about a presentation from EMC CTO Patricia Fossi, who discussed the increasingly complex role of data in delivering value in the enterprise.
The New Data Driven Ecosystem #EvantaCIO Summit @pflorissi pic.twitter.com/UD6F1Y53Dh
— Lori Braget (@loribraget) June 5, 2014
"Big Data is data that breaks legacy IT infrastructures" EMC CTO Patricia Florissi #EvantaCIO
— Rajesh Nambiar (@rajeshnambiar) June 5, 2014
How did god build the earth in 6 days and rest on the 7th?
1-he's god.
2-he had no legacy apps.
-Patricia Florissi #EvantaCIO #EMC— Eric Tourigny (@big_radius) June 5, 2014