AITP Chicago
The CISO of the Year Committee and the Chicago Chapters of AITP, ChicagoFIRST, InfraGard, ISSA, ISACA, PAABC, WiCyS and SIM are excited to welcome you to our 1st In-Person Mixer of 2025.
The purpose of the CISO of the Year program is to recognize the top CISOs in the greater Chicago area and provide a higher level of awareness and recognition to the CISO (or equivalent in authority) position.
Join us for the first of four events leading up to the Awards Breakfast of October 14th. The four events are Private, intended to support CISO’s and their direct reports, 2024 CISO Nominees, the Program Judges, our CISO Program Sponsors and delegates from esteemed industry partners-AITP, ChicagoFIRST. Infragard, ISSA, ISACA, PAABC, WiCyS and SIM (limit of up to 2 Board Members from each Industry Partner per event without special approval).
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This is a great opportunity to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the Chicago Region, to network with security professionals and to meet the candidates and judges for the 2025 CISO of the Year Program. Great Food and Drink Too.
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Prior CISO of the Year Award Winners:
2024 - CISO of the Year, ENTERPRISE, Dan Manley, CISO, CME Group 2024 - CISO of the Year, MID-CAP, Angela Williams, CISO, UL
2023 - CISO of the Year, ENTERPRISE, Darin Hurd, CISO, Guaranteed Rate 2023 - CISO of the Year, MID-CAP, Neil Witek, CISO, Oak Street Health
2022 - CISO of the Year, ENTERPRISE, Mahmood Khan, SVP and CISO, CNA 2022 - CISO of the Year, MIDCAP, Walter Lefmann, Director of Security, Chicago Trading Corporation
2021 - CISO of the Year, Ricardo LaFosse, CISO, The Kraft Heinz Company
2020 - CISO of the Year, Paige Adams, Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
2019 - CISO of the Year, Jill Rhodes, CISO, Option Care Health
2018 - CISO of the Year, Bradley Schaufenbuel, VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Paylocity
2017 - CISO of the Year, Erik Decker, Chief Security & Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine
2016 - CISO of the Year, Todd Fitzgerald, CISO, Grant Thornton International Ltd
2015 - CISO of the Year, Kevin Novak, CISO and Technology Risk Officer for Northern Trust Bank
2014 - CISO of the Year, Arian McMillan, CISO, Deparartment of Innovation and Technology, City of Chicago
2013 - CISO of the Year, Jason Witty, SVP & CISO, US Bank.
Please Thank Our 2025 Program Sponsors:
Your Invited to an Informational Dinner Meeting!
A great opportunity to network with your peers!
Event Location: RSM US, 30 S. Wacker Drive. Chicago, #3300
Refreshments: Lots of Pizza, Soft Drinks, Water, etc.
Your Host: Alden Hutchison , Principal, Security Privacy & Risk, RSM US LLP
The year started with an optimistic comment by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, that AI Agents will take off in 2025. Six months down the road, indeed the prophecy has now become a reality. Several agentic systems are now available to exploit the trend and automate processes. Join the session to learn about AI agents, competing agentic platforms and their strengths and the emergence of standards around agents. Learn why AI Agents will play a critical role in augmenting decision making in the future. Investigate how applications may be build with these agentic interactions.
AITP or WiCyS Member: $15 Non-Member: $20
Presenter: Arunava (Ron) Majumdar
Arunava (Ron) Majumdar is the Founder, CEO of Open Development Platform, providing an Open Source environment catered to Academics, Researchers and Professionals for co-development and free exchange of ideas. He is also the Founder, CEO of Research Net.AI Inc. where confidential products may be developed using the automation and agentic platform in a hyper-accelerated timeline.
He is the former Head of IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) US and the coordinator for CAS India, CAS Australia and CAS Africa. He was the Principal Solution Architect with more than 28 years of software design, architecture and development leading the IBM Application Modernization portfolio for Signature Telecommunication Accounts.
Ron spearheaded numerous Academic Research initiatives with top universities (NC State, Northwestern, University of Chicago, etc.) across multiple industries. He has led teams and provided Architecture Solutions, Design, Development and Deployment of 50+ Projects with 40+ Fortune 500. His focus areas are Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Engineering and holds several patents in these fields. He is involved with automated deployment strategies to the Cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Ron is in the leadership board for IBM Open Innovation Community (OIC) Chicago Chapter, Chicago Chapter Leader for AI Camp, Host of Future Tech SIG at AITP Chicago and the Leader for the Developer Advocacy program in Chicago with AI Alliance and a mentor at the Polsky Center. He is the Founder of IBM Services Asset Community and Chicago Panthers (sports).
The CISO of the Year Committee and the Chicago Chapters of AITP, ChicagoFIRST, InfraGard, ISSA, ISACA, ISSA, PAABC, WiCyS and SIM are excited to welcome you to our 2nd In-Person Mixer of 2025.
Join us for the 2nd of four events leading up to the Awards Breakfast of October 14th. The four events are Private, intended to support CISO’s and their direct reports, 2024 CISO Nominees, the Program Judges, our CISO Program Sponsors and delegates from esteemed industry partners-AITP, ChicagoFIRST, Infragard, ISSA, ISACA, PAABC, WiCyS and SIM (limit of up to 2 Board Members from each Industry Partner per event without special approval).
This is a great opportunity to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the Chicago Region, to network with security professionals and to meet the candidates and judges for the 2024 CISO of the Year Program. Great Food and Drink Too.
2023 - CISO of the Year, ENTERPRISE, Darin Hurd, CISO, Guaranteed Rate 2023 - CISO of the Year MID-CAP, Neil Witek, CISO, Oak Street Health
2022 - CISO of the Year, ENTERPRISE, Mahmood Khan, CISO, SVP& CISO, CNA 2022 - CISO of the Year MID-CAP, Walter Lefmann, Director of Security, Chicago Trading Corporation
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