Networking & IT Innovation
IDC Dinner Series, San Francisco CA
Mister Jiu's
Sponsored by
CIO Exchange: Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices to help you thrive in 2022
2020 was a bear, 2021 has been a beast – 2022 is the year of the tiger. Are you ready?
Join us as executive Research Adjunct Advisor, Cora Carmody, shares market observations and guidance to help you enhance your organization’s resiliency, improve agility, and accelerate innovation as digital-first business strategies become the norm. Then over dinner discuss, debate, and exchange perspectives with your fellow CIOs about 2022 challenges and opportunities. Discussion topics include:
- How design thinking accelerates innovation
- Setting your cloud optimization strategy
- What the board needs to know about ransomware
Enjoy a luxurious Three-Course Dinner while you listen to presentations from some of the greatest minds in technology, headed by Research Adjunct Advisor, Cora Carmody. The dinner will take place at Mister Jiu's, a Michelin Star rated, high-end Chinese restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Chef/owner Brandon Jew makes San Francisco's iconic Chinatown a destination-worthy enclave with his long-loved and consistently impressive dining hall.
Mister Jiu’s is bright, airy, and fitted out with dramatic brass lotus chandeliers that hang overhead. Food is served family style, thereby making it ideal for groups, but solo diners can rest easy as they will certainly enjoy the sleek bar up front, pouring a litany of enticing cocktails with such virtuous names as "Tranquility" and "Happiness." Chef Jew's cooking at his flagship restaurant focuses on Cantonese cuisine spiced by the occasional Sichuan specialty bearing hyper-seasonal local produce and a liberating dash of creativity.
Revelers may head to the ultra-cool and retro Moongate Lounge for fun bites and divine drinks.
Speaker: Cora Carmody | Research Adjunct Advisor
Cora Carmody is a globally recognized CIO, having been appointed as the first CIO of Litton PRC (now part of Northrop-Grumman Information Technology) and most recently as the CIO of Jacobs Engineering. Prior to becoming a CIO, Cora held various positions (programmer, systems engineer, program manager, and others) in projects benefiting the U.S. intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and other customers. In 2002, Cora founded the "Technology GoddessesTM" program to mentor girls (K-12) in all aspects of technology – which led Jacobs to receive the Inaugural “Engaging Youth in IT” Award from Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council, June 2013.
Cora has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University and B.A. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. Her work is cited in The Leadership Challenge, 5th edition, by James Kouzes and Barry Posner; The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, by Gary Beach; and numerous articles and interviews. She is a frequent speaker on many IT topics such as leadership, IT strategy, STEM, and enterprise architecture.
Our partners at IDC are constantly working to bring current, relevant data that CIOs need to companies like yours. Join the conversation to ensure that the insights we bring you are useful & applicable in your work scenarios. Complete the survey and receive a split of Moët & Chandon champagne.*
*In areas that Moët & Chandon Champagne is not available, a comparable brand will be sent.
Mister Jiu's, 28 Waverly Pl San Francisco CA 94108
Agenda
Time | Title | Description |
5:30 pm | Event begins | Cocktails served. Meal courses will be dropped bet...ween presentations. |
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm | CIO Strategies with IDC Adjunct Research Advisor Cora Carmody | Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices to help yo...u thrive in 2022 |
6:15 pm - 6:30 pm | RingCentral | RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provide...r of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone ™ (MVP ™ ) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral MVP ™ , a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system; RingCentral Video ™ , the company's video meetings solution with team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings ™ ; and RingCentral cloud Contact Center solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading third-party business applications and enables customers to easily customize business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world |
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Couchbase | At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of t...he enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their most mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com. |
6:45 pm - 7:00 pm | Freshworks | Freshworks provides intelligent customer engagemen...t software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to win customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products are ready to go, easy to use and offer quick return on investment. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a dedicated team operating from 13 global locations to serve customers throughout the world. For more information visit www.freshworks.com. |
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Aryaka | |
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Avatier | Avatier develops identity management software and ...identity management platform that enables information technology operations through workflow automation and self-service.Avatier Identity Anywhere™ provides private, secure, scalable, easy-to-maintain, containerized Identity Management and SSO that runs cloud-hosted or non-hosted, and across your favorite apps and devices. Avatier’s solution deploys in 14 days or less. |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dessert, raffles & networking |