The World’s #1 digital platform for enabling technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world and recognized as a Top 10 Producer of Tech Events by Business Chief, HMG Strategy has identified the Top 10 events designed for business technology leaders to attend in 2023. HMG Strategy’s highly interactive events bring together the world’s most distinguished and innovative business technology and security leaders to discuss the most pressing leadership, innovation, strategic, cultural, technology and career challenges and opportunities that they face today – and into the future.

Top Ten Events 2022

These world-class business technology leadership events bring together the industry’s top minds to explore the intersection of business and technology to help enable global CIOs, CISOs and technology leaders to lead, reimagine, reinvent and inspire trust in the modern enterprise while safeguarding the company in extremely turbulent times.

“Technology executives have an incredible opportunity to be visionary leaders thanks to their ability to drive transformational change across the organization,” said President and CEO of HMG Strategy, Hunter Muller. “HMG Strategy’s CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Summits and other events provide forward-thinking business technology executives with a global media platform to share their thought leadership on the visionary leadership that’s needed to identify new ways to contain costs, foster new digital go-to-market business models, drive new waves of innovation and enable the kind of collaborative and trusting culture needed to attract, retain, grow and motivate the technology professionals needed to fuel the 21st century enterprise and win in the market.”

The Top 10 Business Technology Leadership Events to Attend in 2023 as cited by HMG Strategy include:

1. HMG Strategy’s 2023 CIO Executive Summit Series. HMG Strategy’s CIO Executive Leadership Summits are peer-focused, curated and guided by the insights and commitment of the thousands of advisory board members and global technology executives across 30+ regions where it deliver world-class thought leadership on the most critical macro-economic trends that are impacting global technology leaders and fellow members of the senior leadership team to help them to lead boldly and authentically, to inspire employees and foster a culture of trust across the C-suite, with the Board of Directors and with line-of-business leaders.

HMG Strategy’s next two CIO summits are the 2023 Florida CIO Executive Leadership Summit on May 11 and the 2023 New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit on May 18.

2. HMG Strategy’s 2023 New York and Silicon Valley Global Innovation Summits. These events are custom designed for corporate innovation and business technology leaders, aimed at exploring the top business and operational challenges and opportunities in the global enterprise where innovation can be delivered. World-class speakers and attendees at these events candidly share the top organizational and cultural challenges that must be overcome and fresh approaches that are needed for innovation to succeed.

3. HMG Strategy’s 2023 CISO Executive Leadership Summit Series. These CISO-focused events bring together the world’s leading CISOs, security executives and industry experts where they explore the top cybersecurity, business, staffing, funding and communication challenges facing organizational security leaders and their teams. Timely topics explored at these events include recommendations for communicating cybersecurity threats and risks with the CEO, the Board of Directors and line-of-business leaders as well as opportunities for positioning security as a competitive advantage.

4. HMG Strategy’s 2023 Global Women in Technology Summit. This unique, annual event is developed by and geared towards global female business technology executives. Critical topics explored at these events include the top challenges and opportunities facing female business technology leaders as well as insightful best practices for accelerating their career ascent, leading effectively in a male-dominated C-suite, addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) from a female leadership perspective and successful strategies for retaining up-and-coming female leaders.

5. 2023 RSA Conference. The RSA Conference is one of the industry’s top cybersecurity events that brings many of the world’s cybersecurity professionals together. The 2022 RSA Conference included more than two hundred sessions which ranged from keynote presentations to interactive panels and seminars.

6. 2023 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Although in-person attendance was limited due to space restrictions, this annual event has been produced for nearly 20 years and continues to focus on critical themes impacting CIOs in their roles. For instance, the theme for the 2022 symposium focused on ‘Digital Ecosystems: Reshaping the Future of Business?,’ including the social, political and technological forces that continue to impact businesses “in often unpredictable ways.”

7. Black Hat USA 2023. Now entering its 26th year, Black Hat has created a unique hybrid event experience that’s designed to enable cybersecurity professionals to have a choice in how they participate and to discover the latest cutting-edge research, developments and trends. The 2022 event opened with four days of training sessions, followed by a two-day conference.

8. AWS re:Invent 2023. This event, which is focused on cloud innovation and leadership has quickly become one of the most-attended events in the industry. Keynote presentations and sessions range on topics from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to AI/ML, analytics and architecture as well as industry trends and opportunities.

9. 2023 Gartner IT Symposium|Xpo. This long-running event is focused on technology, strategy and leadership insights. Topic areas to be covered in the 2023 Gartner Symposium include accelerating the digital business; technology investments and value; data, analytics and AI; the future of work; cybersecurity; culture and DEI; and leadership and talent. Gartner analysts and distinguished executives typically address keynotes and sessions.

10. The 2023 US CIO 100 Symposium & Awards. This recognition program, now in its 35th year, acknowledges one hundred organizations and their technology leaders for achievements in technology innovation. Winning projects are determined by a panel of external judges (including former CIOs) that have achieved demonstrable business value through the innovative use of technology, created a competitive advantage, improved business processes, enabled growth and enhanced customer relationships.