“CIO Initiative Summits provide a unique opportunity to network with other IT executives and learn from their experiences. The Summits are small enough to promote direct personal interaction with other IT leaders and yet broad enough to encompass a wide variety of views and opinions. Unlike many other meetings, I’ve obtained information and advice at past Summits that is substantive, actionable and directly applicable to the challenges facing my IT team.”
Mark Settle
Author and CIO
“The CIO Summit provides an intimate platform to share successes and failures as well as current initiatives with a peer group that covered many industries outside of the Silicon Valley bubble. The format was a great way for the attendees to both present and participate in the discussions around each of the poignant areas of focus. CXO attendees were honest and open, we forged friendships outside of our common role related challenges.”
Aaron Gette
CIO, EoS Fitness
“Unlike a typical conference, this was an intimate gathering of technology executives whose primary objective was to advance the role of the CIO as a business leader. Everyone in attendance was there to share insights with one another in what could be best described as a servant leadership think-tank.”
John Doherty
CIO, Columbia Forest Products
“Out of all the opportunities to plug in and discuss IT industry trends, I have made it a priority to attend this event for past few years. The Executive Initiative has done a great job gathering CIOs, authors, and industry leaders to share knowledge and insights. Logistics have always been first class and served as a great opportunity to informally network and build meaningful relationships.”
Steve Holt
Former CIO, Materion Corporation
“I find the CIO Initiative Summit to be a great, engaging forum for being able to interact with true experts and leaders in the industry and both learn and share ideas, experiences and improvement opportunities. The focused, more intimate setting and gathering enables tremendous interaction and synergies that is hard to get from other forums.”
Walter Yosafat
Global CIO
“The business value is huge. It’s more than just information technology. Every person in the room is a significant business leader operating at a very high level, and hearing their challenges and perspectives is really eye-opening.”
Ian Hyatt
ITS Director, City of Cape Coral
“The network is absolutely invaluable. When you hear other people’s stories, they’re solving a lot of the same problems, or they’ve already solved them.”
Sherry Jordan
CIO, Hudson Automotive
“I was very impressed with the quality of the dialogue, and how candid it was. People come with working ideas, and honestly, we learn just as much from the ideas that didn’t work.”
Santhosh Keshavan
CIO, Voya Financial
“The value was absolutely amazing. You get to share and actually learn from your peers, and there’s nothing guarded. It doesn’t just save you time, it saves you headache, and it lets you build and support your community.”
Michael Pompey
Chief AI Strategist, Arrow Electronics
“This is my seventh summit. The value is the interaction with peers, comparing the challenges I face with how they’re approaching them. A little time out of the office with people I trust, where I can let my hair down, is a significant value.”
Jesse Hillman
CIO, DC Water
“What I really enjoyed was the candid, comfortable, authentic environment, coupled with the caliber of the people in attendance. A wide variety of experiences, great dialogue, and great content.”
Dwayne Allen
Global CTO, Unisys
“The thing I really liked about this event is the networking opportunity. I met a lot of new people, and the last panel gave me something I can take right back to my organization.”
Parag Pujari
CIO, Jurgensen Companies
“My favorite part is the intimate nature of it, being able to network with peers and learn from them.”
Ken Knapton
CIO, Win Brands
“It was very different than what I was expecting. A much more intimate and authentic conference. An opportunity like this to join with other CIOs is both cathartic and reassuring, and a great chance to share challenges and, importantly, solutions.”
“It’s a room full of CIOs and technology leaders learning from each other’s experiences across industries. I keep coming back for the knowledge and the personal and professional growth.”
Toby Buckalew
President, Association for Business Technology Professionals
“The topics we covered were meaty, much more than what you’d see at a normal convention or conference. I took copious notes and left with a lot of action items. Really a great conference.”
“This is my third time here. What I really like is the networking: like-minded people talking strategy and making long-lasting connections. I always learn something new, and I can’t wait to come back.”
Marc Mulzer
VP, Enterprise Architecture, GuideWell
“What an amazing experience. The diverse set of topics and the free exchange of ideas made it interesting, thought-provoking, and never cumbersome. More than anything, it’s getting to meet so many new people and continue the conversation well beyond the event.”
Nora Osman
CEO & Founder, Norvana
“It was a collegiate, collaborative event where we could just chat about the real issues and problems we’re experiencing. It was fantastic.”
Mary-Beth Hoskings
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