- Senior Vice President and CIO
- Southern Company
CIO Program
CIO leadership is being challenged in historic new ways, requiring a fresh approach to IT concepts, strategies. Based on direct input from more than 2,000 CIOs, the CIO Program at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo offers the most timely, relevant content available to CIOs — all captured in a comprehensive agenda of interactive workshops, CIO-exclusive sessions, guest speaker luncheons and other formats appropriate to a C-level audience. Attendees must apply to this program based on the qualification criteria (listed below).
Program objectives
- Provide qualified attendees an exclusive CIO experience
- Stimulate entrepreneurial and creative thinking
- Create unlimited opportunities for CIO to benefit from the collective wisdom of their peers
- Investigate methodologies, frameworks and approaches for professional and personal growth
- Prepare CIOs for the technology developments causing a profound shift in the enterprise
- Arm CIOs with leadership strategies and techniques to develop and sustain talent in an ever-changing employment landscape
CIO Luncheon Speakers
2012 CIO Program luncheon speakers included:
- Kenneth Daly
- President and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors
- Seth Godin
- Best-Selling Author and Entrepreneur
- A. G. Lafley
- Former Chairman, CEO and President of Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Please check back in the upcoming months for our 2013 line-up of CIO Program luncheon speakers.
Criteria
CIOs or equivalent-level IT executives who have ultimate responsibility for enterprise-wide (or business-division) IT decisions and budgets:
- CIOs or equivalent-level IT executives who have ultimate responsibility for enterprisewide (or business division) IT decisions and budgets
- CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) and business unit/regional CIOs from organizations with revenue of $1 billion+ (CIO surrogates and business division/regional CIO equivalents may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
- CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) from organizations with revenue of $200M to $999M (applicants may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
- CIOs, CTOs (or equivalent) from not-for-profit and public sector organizations or agencies with 1,000 employees or more (applicants may be additionally qualified on their individual IT budget responsibility/control)
- CIO members of Gartner Executive Programs
- CIOs, from technology vendors and consultants, who are involved exclusively in their organization's internal IT/IS operation
Top 10 Reasons
to Attend Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo 2013
As a CIO, you must create value, revenue and results.




