CIO/ CISO National Fireside Chat
August 20, 2020
Building a Resilient Business
Cormac Foster
Technology Business Strategist | GitLab
Ray Griffin
Head of Information Security, Cox Media Group
Timothy Swope
CISO, Catholic Health Services
Speaker: Cormac Foster, Technology Business Strategist | GitLab
Cormac Foster is a Senior DevOps Evangelist at GitLab, a leader in the DevOps market with an innovative single application approach to the entire software development lifecycle, from planning to deployment and monitoring. Cormac collaborates around best practices for Agile transformation, project and portfolio management, and DevOps adoption.
Prior to GitLab, Cormac worked at Microsoft, managing the Data Platform MVP Community and helping launch several developer tools in the Visual Studio division. He came to Microsoft through Xamarin, where he created the company’s Analyst Relations program. Prior to Xamarin, Cormac spent 20 years as an industry analyst, systems administrator, and software tester.
Invited Members Include...
Agenda
5:00pm-5:10pm (EST)
Opening Remarks & Executive Introductions
5:10pm-5:25pm (EST)
Host Presentation
5:25pm-6:00pm (EST)
Fireside Chat
6:00pm-6:30pm (EST)
Executive Discussion
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Title Representation
Industry Breakdown
Org. Size by Revenue
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Why should I attend?
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What is the dress code?
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I plan on being in attendance, but what if something comes up and I have to cancel?
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We’ve spent decades building resilient infrastructure, only to discover that our biggest threat wasn’t a natural disaster or network latency, but a fundamental change in the way we work. What if your business could be as highly available, fault tolerant, and resilient as the systems that support it? What opportunities could that create?
In this session, leveraging GitLab’s experience as a 1300-person all-remote company, we will examine the organizational, cultural, and technical steps businesses can take to build resilience into their everyday operations. We will then open the floor to a roundtable discussion to share ideas and lessons learned from across industries.
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