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SIM Memphis Strategy Series

The Memphis Strategy Series is the largest gathering of IT leaders in the Memphis region each year. The event offers IT leaders the opportunity to educate one another in an environment where ideas are exchanged by attendees as well as our outstanding speakers throughout the day's agenda.

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17Speakers
0Sponsors
27On the bill · sessions
13Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at SIM, in alphabetical order.
Anil Karuhatty
Chief Information Officer · Allegiance by Cigna Healthcare
Arnie Matson
Chief Information Officer · Ducks Unlimited
Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar
Technical Lead for Enterprise Platform Integrations · Wisdom Infotech
Clyde Jarvis
Managing Vice President, Global Digital Technology · Marriott International
Damon West
Best Selling Author and Speaker
Doug Vondera
Field CISO · SentinelOne
Jay Gokhale
Digital Product Manager · FedEx
Jeff Wilhelmy
Chief Digital Transformation Officer · Sylvamo
Mallory Sword Glenn
Director, AI Agents Product Marketing · Okta
Marcus Hobgood
Vice President, Technology Services · St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Michael Carducci
Holistic Software Architect · Carducci Inc
Mike Salzgeber
IT Director, Enterprise Technical Services · Sylvamo
Nathan Mueller
Ethics and Fraud Speaker
Reid Wallace
Director of Information Security · Varsity Brands
Scott Balentine
Disaster Recovery Program Manager · Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Selvaganesh Selvaraj
Enterprise & Cloud Architect and Technical IT Manager · AutoZone, Inc.
Wes Griffin
IT Director – Enterprise Application Services · Sylvamo
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Agenda

Selected from 27 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Your local time(45 min)

    AI at Scale: Lessons from Senior Technology Leaders in Large, Multibillion-Dollar Organizations

    What does AI transformation really look like inside large enterprises? Senior technology executives from large, multibillion-dollar organizations who are leading AI initiatives sha…

  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Your local time(45 min)

    Building a Resilience Culture: From Compliance to Enterprise Capability

    Most organizations can demonstrate compliance with business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience requirements. Far fewer can demonstrate the ability to sustain…

  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Your local time(45 min)

    Digital Transformation

  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Your local time(45 min)

    Rogue by Default: Why AI Agents Need an Identity Layer, Not Just Guardrails

    Security teams are stacking guardrails around AI agents: prompt filters, output monitors, and content classifiers. None of them govern identity, which means none of them govern wha…

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CST / 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Your local time(45 min)

    From Enablement to Agentic: How St. Jude Is Building an AI-Ready Workforce and Putting Agents into Production

    Every organization is being told to "adopt AI," but the distance between a pilot and a workforce that actually works differently is where most programs stall. This session shares h…

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CST / 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Your local time(45 min)

    Reality Check: Five Years Into Sylvamo's Azure Journey

    When Sylvamo separated from International Paper, the migration direction was clear: if it's Intel-based, it runs in Azure. Five years later, Sylvamo IT leaders Mike Salzgeber and W…

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CST / 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Your local time(45 min)

    The AI-Assisted Developer: Transforming How Applications Are Built

    AI is no longer a bolt-on feature - it's becoming a core part of how software gets designed, built, and maintained. This session explores the practical shift underway in enterprise…

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CST / 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Your local time(45 min)

    The Evolving Role of CISOs in the age of AI

    CISOs roles continue to evolve along side of businesses.  Evolving from an oft earned "Department of NO!" to a business focused advisor and enabler.  The acceleration of AI is tugg…

  • 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM CST / 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Your local time(15 min)

    Networking Break

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
13Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

59% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite424%
  • VP-level212%
  • Director / Head of424%
  • Manager / Lead318%
  • Product16%
  • Engineer · IC16%
  • Other roles212%

Of 17 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Sylvamo3V
  2. 02Allegiance by Cigna Healthcare1V
  3. 03AutoZone1V
  4. 04Carducci Inc1V
  5. 05Ducks Unlimited1V
  6. 06FedEx1V
  7. 07Marriott International1V
  8. 08Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare1V
  9. 09Okta1V
  10. 10SentinelOne1V
  11. 11St. Jude Children's Research Hospital1V
  12. 12Varsity Brands1V
  13. 13Wisdom Infotech1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.