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Our theme this year is The Goldilocks Paradox: Navigating Extremes in Your Digital Strategy.

The 2024 theme captures the essence of the challenges CIOs face in the current digital landscape, emphasizing the need for strategic navigation through the extremes of technological innovation and management. The concept of the Goldilocks paradox is used metaphorically to describe the optimal balance businesses must find in their digital transformation strategies — not too minor to be ineffective (too cold), not so aggressive that it causes disruption (too hot), but just right to be impactful and sustainable. Paradoxes to be explored could include Security vs. User Experience, Risk-Taking vs. Risk Aversion, or Cost Reduction vs. Growth.

The 2024 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium (May 14) will be an in-person event at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA. For the first time-ever, on May 13, the day before the CIO Symposium, will be packed with new opportunities to engage with the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium community. The afternoon agenda includes lunch, an inspirational talk, roundtable discussions on unresolved technology topics, and an Oxford style debate. After a break, you’ll return to a reception with the Innovation Showcase finalists followed by the CIO Leadership Award dinner. We hope you will join us.

Our attendees are senior level IT decision makers. In 2022, 73% were involved in purchasing decisions for IT projects, products, and platforms; 68% were Senior Executives; 38% came from companies with revenue over $500M; and 21% came from 29 countries outside of the United States. Also, 88% were satisfied or very satisfied with the event resulting in a net promoter score (NPS) of 63, the highest for the past 6 years.

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The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is more than a conference, it is a community, an evolution and an adventure. Join us on our journey to create the premier online community for business leaders. 

Unlike other conferences, you won't invest time to suddenly see your efforts and contacts evaporate once the conference ends. Instead, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium happens within a community space that will nurture long-lasting and valuable collaborations that will help you build your enterprise to meet tomorrow's challenges.

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The MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award honors executives who lead their organizations to deliver exemplary levels of business value through innovative use of IT. The Award, established in 2008, draws applicants from a wide diversity of industries, countries, and backgrounds. Recipients, and their organizations, receive broad recognition for their accomplishments.

Learn more and request a 2024 application: https://mitcio.info/award

If you want a special opportunity to meet with the world’s best, brightest, and most successful technology executives and companies, we want to hear from you! The Innovation Showcase highlights 10 outstanding early-stage companies with cutting-edge solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT. 

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The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is a premier global conference that brings together a unique community of MIT academic leaders, CIOs, digital technology executives, and industry experts, enabling CIOs to be more effective leaders. Join us for panel and peer discussions, networking, along with in-depth exploration of topics, where the best in-the-trenches business practices, technology innovations, actionable insights, and new ideas can be shared and debated. 

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