HDI - Salt Lake City, CIO Panel

Join us for the CIO Panel and luncheon on January 16th, 2020 at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to discuss cloud strategy.

How is your cloud strategy set to impact your organization, support staff, and effectiveness in the year ahead? Will your initiatives identify skill gaps and stretch your hiring needs, or will you be facing tough decisions to outsource or downsize? If you’re taking your first leap into the cloud, how are you analyzing your options and what to move first? Or, if you’re a cloud veteran, are you now analyzing if a hybrid cloud/on-prem solution might be the next step after being on the cusp of the cloud frontier? Wherever you are on your cloud journey, join us to talk through the silver linings and lightning from nowhere with our panelists who have taken these steps, have the scorch marks, or are floating toward their success with high-altitude infrastructure provisioning.

Panelists

Amy Knapp - Moderator

Amy Knapp is the Vice President of Information Security and Service Delivery at O.C. Tanner, a $500+ million global recognition and workplace culture company. She has been heavily involved in the IT Service Management and Delivery arena, is a board member of the Women Tech Council, and was awarded the Bronze Stevie Award for Information Technology Executive of the Year in 2018.

Amy has a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology Management and has over two decades of experience in operational support, innovation, and leadership. She was born in South Australia, has worked in the UK, and is educated in the US and Australia.

Amy Knapp

Vice President of Information Security and Service Delivery

1930 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115

www.linkedin.com/in/amyknapp | amy.knapp@octanner.com

Dean Lythgoe - Panelist

CHG Healthcare Services is a ‘Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For’ organization for 10 years in a row. With $2B in annual revenue, CHG provides temporary physician staffing to 25M patients in communities across the nation. Dean Lythgoe, Vice President of Technology Operations & Support leads strong teams of professionals in operations, support, data warehousing, building technology, network & telecom. Dean has a MBA in technology management, 30 years of experience in software development, product management, operations & leadership.

Dean Lythgoe

VP, Technology Operations & Support Services

dean.lythgoe@chghealthcare.com

7259 S. Bingham Junction Blvd.

Midvale, UT 84047

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-lythgoe-8553371/

Cindy Sanders - Panelist

Proven track record of driving efficiency and effectiveness throughout organizations while innovating new solutions and technologies. 

With Cindy leading this balanced approach Adobe has earned a spot in the leaders quadrant for multicloud management with their Experience Cloud SaaS offering. They have built a hybrid approach with an intricate hosting strategy across Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud and their own Private Data Center with the added complexity of business partnership opportunities.  They created their own management system for this complex environment to ensure appropriate asset, utilization, usage and cost optimization. 

Cindy Sanders

Director, Strategy & Business Operations – Adobe, Inc.

Gwen Iarussi - Panelist

Gwen Iarussi is the Director of IT Quality for USANA Health Sciences Inc, a global direct sales company with the mission to create the healthiest families on the planet.

A mountain girl at heart, Gwen was born in Boulder, Colorado and has been living in Utah for close to 25 years. She earned a Masters Degree in Information Systems from the University of Utah and has over 20 years of experience leading enterprise IT initiatives with a quality mindset for companies in the Finance, Education and eCommerce sectors.

After serving on the boards for KCPW community radio and Salt Lake DevOps Days, Gwen is currently involved in launching the Utah chapter of Women Who Test in an effort to support increased diversity in IT and specifically quality related disciplines.

Director of IT Quality

USANA Health Sciences

Other Event Details

Parking

Validation for parking in the Joesph Smith Memorial Building parking lot will be provided. Please click here for additional parking details.

What is the CIO Panel Event

The CIO Panel is generally SLC HDI's biggest event of the year. This is where HDI brings in industry leaders (typically at a Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer/Executive level) to discuss trends or topics related to the IT Support industry.

What's on the menu

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building is catering a full lunch including: House Salad, Smith Chicken (pan-seared chicken breast topped with ham and swiss cheese served with mornay sauce, wild rice pilaf, and a fresh seasonal vegetable), New York Cheese Cake w/ Berry Sauce and Raspberry Lemonade. Every year they provide a very delicious lunch.