Dinner
Can SASE and Zero Trust Live Up to the Hype?

CIO Dinner

Date

March 9, 2023

Location

Chicago, IL

Community

CIO
Your Vision is our mission

Agenda

March 09, 2023
All times Central Time
6:30 PM-9:30 PM
Security is a Team Sport. Break Down the Silos

Building trust and reliance across technology and security teams is key to defending the enterprise.  As security stacks incorporate Security Service Edge (SSE) to sustain the SASE journey, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this dinner to learn about:

  • Best practices for IT and security collaboration
  • Communicating the importance of SSE to your CEO and Board
  • Improving internal stakeholder relationships to fuel business outcomes
Panelists
Hans Vargas Silva
Hans Vargas

Data protection.

MPCLP

Faisal Akkawi Ph.D. Northwestern University
Faisal Akkawi Ph.D.

Executive Director of Information Systems

Northwestern University

Kevin Steele National Restaurant Association
Kevin Steele

CIO

National Restaurant Association

Arindam Mukherjee
Arindam Mukherjee

Director, Data Strategy & Management

Ipsen

Kenneth Townsend Ingredion

Speaker

Kenneth Townsend

Global CISO

Ingredion

Founded in 1906, Ingredion together with its subsidiaries, refines corn and produces sweeteners and starches. The company also provides animal feed products; edible corn oil; refined corn oil to packers of cooking oil and to producers of margarine, salad dressings, shortening, mayonnaise, and other foods; and corn gluten feed used as protein feed for chickens, pet food, and aquaculture. The company is headquartered in Westchester, Illinois.
James Christiansen Netskope

Speaker

James Christiansen

VP CSO

Netskope

James Christiansen is Netskope’s vice president of cloud security transformation and leader of the Chief Strategy Office. He is focused on enhancing the sales staff reach into Netskope’s global clients and helping drive thought leadership in cloud security transformation. James brings extensive expertise as a global leader in information security. Prior to joining Netskope, he was vice president CISO at Teradata where he led the global security, physical, and information security teams. Previously, James was vice president of information risk management at Optiv, chief information risk officer for Evantix, and CISO at Experian Americas, General Motors, and Visa International. As a sought-after expert speaker on security, James has been featured at numerous prestigious events, including the Business Roundtable, Research Board, American Bar Association, American Banker, the RSA Conference, BankInfoSecurity, ISSA, ISACA, HIMSS, and MIS Training Institute. He has also been featured in The New York Times and quoted as an expert in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, United States Cybersecurity Magazine, Bloomberg, and Healthcare IT News. James is a patent inventor and has received three innovation awards in cyber security, GRC, and cloud computing. He is the author of the Internet Survival Series and contributing author of CISO Essentials, as well as numerous industry papers.
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