Join Us | Hybrid NYC Assembly

Apex Assembly is excited to be bringing together 60+ CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs and other Divisional Leaders from F500 and Global 2000 Enterprise organizations for our Hybrid Assembly using Bizzabo as the event success software to create a more immersive, successful experience. We will unite the New York-based executives for a day of panels, thought leadership discussions, a networking lunch and more. Apex will be using the Virtual Platform to bring together a more national audience through live streams to engage and join in the discussion.?

In collaboration with industry-leading speakers and our sponsors Logicworks, Okta | Auth0, WalkMe, Sysdig, Slalom, Infoblox, Denodo, Skybox Security, Insight, Axonius and Digital Realty we will examine the challenges of 2022 and concentrate on the most pressing issues that lie ahead in 2023.

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Panels & Sessions

We will kick off the day with our Opening Keynote Panel on, "Top Trends & Challenges for CIOs, CISOs, CDOs going into 2023" Moderating will be Hena Venugopal, Innovation Strategy Director of DTCC. Joining the panel we have Rome Siquijor, IT Head - North America of Cemex, Vijay Venkatesan, Chief Analytics Officer with Horizon BCBSNJ,? Inderpal Kohli, VP & Chief Information on Englewood Health and Gary Eppinger, VP of Technology & CISO at CSX Technology.?

Next, Logicworks will give a presentation on "Maximizing your Cloud ROI: How to Grow Your Business by Optimizing Your Cloud Strategy" by Donovan Brady, Director of Solutions Architect with Logicworks. The Cloud is not another datacenter to host your IT estate - it’s a platform to transform and grow your business. However, if you aren’t utilizing its capabilities to the fullest, you may never realize your business’ true potential. Join Logicworks’ Director of Solutions Architecture, Donovan Brady, and learn how to do cloud the right way.

Following that, Okta | Auth0, will give a presentation on “The move towards Consumer-Centric Identity in a post-pandemic world" given by Tom Malta, Okta Financial Services Strategic Advisor with Okta | Auth0. This session will focus on what is driving the move towards consumer-centric identity and what best practices financial services organizations are using to ensure they can remain competitive in a post-pandemic world.?

Next up, WalkMe, will give a presentation on "The ROI for Change Management" given by Scott Montigelli, Director, US East Strategic for WalkMe. Effective organizational change management drives successful digital transformations. In WalkMe’s session, we will explore best practices and challenges of promoting a culture of change. Learn how adoption empowers end users through change and how to equip the workforce as change agents while navigating silos across the enterprise with a flexible Center of Excellence.

Sysdig, will follow with a presentation on "Managing Cloud Risk without Slowing Application Delivery” given by Gizem Arslanbas, Enterprise Account Director and Anup Hegde with Sysdig. As organizations move workloads to the cloud they realize their software development approach needs to radically change. Securing the cloud requires a total re-think as well. Although security teams still need to manage access rights, fix vulnerabilities, and detect runtime threats, the techniques have evolved. Learn how the largest financial services, media and software companies address cloud security. You will gain insight into the top security challenges and pragmatic techniques to manage cloud risk without slowing down application delivery. Gizem Arslanbas and Anup Hedge, Account Directors with Sysdig will share our customers’ best practices for securing containers, Kubernetes and cloud services.

Slalom will then present on "Intelligent Products: A competitive necessity for ensuring a more dynamic future" given by Nutan Keen, Managing Director with Slalom. Intelligent products create an ecosystem of integrated capabilities to solve your most pressing business challenges. One example is helping global medical technology companies realize their goal of eradicating cervical cancer.

Next Infoblox will give a presentation on "Threat and Attack Surface Management Using DNS" given by Tom Grimes Director of Cyber Security Sales with Infoblox. During this session on threat, vulnerability, and attack surface management, attendees will learn how to effectively connect their threat and vulnerability management programs with their actual attack surface. Participants will learn what metrics and KPIs they can use to show that their threat and vulnerability management efforts have effectively lowered their risk profile.

Following that Denodo will host a Panel on "Future Proofing Analytics Modernization: How to Mitigate Business Disruption while Modernizing the Analytics Technology Stack" moderated by? Inessa Gerber, Director of Project Management with Denodo. Joining the panel we have Samba Bulusu, Head of Data Architecture with Lending Tree, Bryan Swann, Global Head of Data Management with PayPal, Wendy Zhang, Global Head of Data Analytics with CSL Behring and Kenneth Viciana, VP-Global Data & Analytics Products with TSYS/Global Payments. Companies that have had legacy data warehouses, data marts, and reporting technologies for the last 10 to 20 years are looking to modernize them, especially to a cloud equivalent. For e.g., many firms are migrating from on-premises data warehouses like Teradata to its cloud data warehouses equivalents like Snowflake. However, such transition is sure to impact the business users in many ways: applications not being available due to downtime during the migration, training on the new analytics technologies, and new ways to search, find, and use the data in the new system. Such disruption can cause lost revenue, degradation in employee productivity, and decreased customer satisfaction. Is it possible to minimize or eliminate the business disruption? There might be impact to the marketing/sales reports that need to be run weekly, regulatory compliance statements that need to be filed quarterly, and customer assistance that need to be provided in real-time by call center representatives. So, how can these critical business operations continue unimpeded while the IT is switching to the new technologies?

?Kicking off the afternoon sessions, Skybox Security will host the CISO/BISO Panel on “Show me the money: A hitchhiker’s guide to quantifying cyber risk" Terry Olaes, Sr. Technical Director with Skybox Security will moderate. Joining the panel we have Paul Johnson, BISO of Allstate, Vlad Brodsky, CISO of OTC Markets Group, Ahmeed Ahmeed, Cyber and Information Security Director of Inteva Products and Reid Wisa, Head of Information Security with Tailored Brands Inc. A dynamic threat landscape. Cybercriminals with increasingly sophisticated TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) at their fingertips. Now, more than ever, cybersecurity is subjected to minute scrutiny at the board level. Security practitioners must increasingly find ways to express risk using the financial vernacular of the boardroom. Better business decision-making happens when cyber risk and exposure are translated into financial terms that every business stakeholder can understand. Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) is a disciplined, data-driven approach to cyber and operational risk measurement that uses value-at-risk models to express risk and facilitates objective decision-making around cyber investments.?

?Following that is the CXO Panel on "Moving the Needle - Closing the Diversity & Talent Gap" Joining the panel is Hena Venugopal, Innovation Strategy Director of DTCC, Janice Maxwell, Head of CIO/Director of IT at Georgia State University, Daniella Grayson, Global VP Technology and Digital Enablement with Thomson Reuters and Gary Flowers, CIO of Year Up.

?Next is a CISO & BISO Panel on "Bridging the gap between the Business and Information Security" Moderated by Tom Malta, Financial Services Strategic Advisor of Okta. Joining the panel is Nikolai Zlatarev, CISO of Castleton Commodities International and Persio Reyes, Director and Senior Cybersecurity Risk Officer of Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking.

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We will end the day with our Closing Keynote Presentation on "Responsible Innovation: Security and Green Energy" Given by Hena Venugopal, Innovation Strategy Director with DTCC.

You can also find our partners Axonius and Digital Realty located in our Networking Hub throughout the course of the day.

Following the Assembly, Insight will host a post assembly dinner where Beth Wolfset, Data AI Service Manager with Insight will speak on “Data Lakes and Security Seepage” Organizations live in a very large, complex world of data and typically prioritize ensuring data IS NOT used inappropriately. What if you apply the same level of rigor to ensure that data IS used appropriately? Join Insight for dinner and brief conversation around your organization’s data governance and why it is a key component of a Zero Trust Architecture.

Through these thought leadership sessions, panels and live chats we will bring to the forefront today's top successes, challenges and focus areas for CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs and other Divisional Leaders in the enterprise.?

Apex Assembly specializes in bringing together technology leaders from the world’s largest companies to discuss technology trends and focus on solving their biggest technology challenges. By uniting exclusive C-level communities, Apex offers unparalleled opportunities to mindshare in a secure environment and collaborate on industry trends, challenges and successes. Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, Apex Assembly hosts regional and national events focused on open discussion and education to assist technology leaders in building lasting business relationships. Learn more at https://apexassembly.com