Collaborating Boston CIO
Community
July 17th, 2025
Collaborating Detroit's CIO community
November 14th, 2024
CONNECT . ENGAGE . INNOVATE
Scott Shuster
Former NPR Producer and ABC Foreign Correnspondent
Successful CIOs empower themselves with the knowledge and experience of their community. Moderated by ABC Foreign Correspondent; Scott Shuster, CIOMeet Boston collaborate Boston area IT leaders with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and industries to connect the dots between innovation, efficiency, and collaboration.
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Join us over an epicurean lunch as we discuss, debate, and challenge the current directions within the Office of the CIO.
The CIO ThrivePoint
A peer group of Leaders, Visionaries, and Game Changers who have shaped this collaboration.
AGENDA
8.00 am - 9.15 am
Registration & Open Networking
Grab coffee and breakfast with peers and fuel yourself for a day of thought leading discussions
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9.25 am - 10.10 am
CIO Panel
What is the Future of the Office of the CIO? Looking through their crystal ball our panelists will predict the challenges ahead and forecast strategies that incubate inclusive creativity, bring innovation, and shape the Future of the Enterprise.
10.50 am - 11.10 am
CIO Insights
An opportunity to reflect and relate​
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12.30 pm - 1.30 pm
Leaders Lunch
Let's collaborate with peers and partners over an epicurean lunch as we discuss, debate, and explore strategies to future-proof networks, mitigate SaaS threats, enforce governance, and ensure endpoint compliance.​
2.10 pm - 2.55 pm
CIO Lounge
More than a cocktail reception these are the connections that add light to daily decisions made. Conversations with peers and visionaries behind latest technologies
9.15 am - 9.25 am
Setting the Tone
Moderator will introduce the visionaries and game changers that have helped shaped today's collaboration.​
10.10 am - 10.50 am
CIO Collaborate
Collaboration drives growth. Join your peers in a thought leading discussion as we examine the current state of the Office of the CIO and share strategies for scalable infrastructure, shadow-IT governance, proactive capacity planning, cost optimization, streamlined endpoint management, and unified automation.
11.10 am - 12.30 pm
CIO Engage
A successful leader is one that empowers themselves with lesson, knowledge, experience of a community. Engage with peers and partners in our Lounge and expand your community
1.30 pm - 2.10 pm
David & Goliath Panel
Best-learned lessons come from experience. Leading CIOs from diverse backgrounds and industries will compare and contrast their challenges and share their best learned lessons of successes and failures stories
2.55 pm - 3.00 pm
Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks
​We will conclude the event with our Award Ceremony honoring leadership: The FuturistCIO honor crowns the panelist whose bold prediction on the CIO’s evolving role captured the most attendee votes, while the Socialite Award salutes the CIO who energized every session through engaging, dynamic audience-first interaction.
