Past Events

The Rise of AI and Its Effect on the Cyber Threat Landscape 

Featured Speakers:

  • Joe Gates, Senior IT Risk Manager, Centric Consulting
  • Chris Dallton, VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Weyerhaeuser
  • Fred Hennige, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Jack in the Box
  • Lana DeMaria, Head of Data Governance and Privacy, Alaska Airlines
  • Scott Roberts, Chief Information Security Officer & Senior VP, UiPath

What it Means for Tech Engineering Organizations to 'Do More with Less'

Featured Speakers:

  • Joe Levy, CEO, Uplevel
  • Davit Totten, Databricks
  • Clare Megathlin, Alaska Airlines
  • Jim Liu, StockX
  • Keerthi Thiruvazhi, Starbucks

Beyond the hype: AI applications for real-world business

Featured Speakers:

  • Jeremy Graham, Vice President Digital Platform Engineering, Starbucks
  • Chip Suttles, Vice President of Technology, Seahawks
  • Bryan Hale, Managing Director, Allen Institute for AI
  • Trent Gillespie, CIO, Day One Innovation 

Who's Attacking You?

Featured Speakers:

  • Chuck Markarian, CISO, PACCAR
  • Trey Blalock, CISO, Cognira
  • Scott Roberts, CISO, Coinbase
  • Jake Milstein, CRO, Critical Insight
  • Michael Hamilton, Founder/CISO, Critical Insight

A Discussion on Leading Distributed Teams

Featured Speakers:

  • Judith Henderson, VP of IT,  WSECU
  • Kari Escobedo, CIO, Seattle Mariners
  • Kevin Goldsmith, CIO, Anaconda, Inc.

Increase Project Success by Using Amazon’s Working Backwards Process

Featured Speaker: 

  • Trent Gillespie, Innovation Expert

Being a Better Ally

Featured Speaker:

  • Cynthia Tee, Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Smartsheet

SIM Seattle Spring Social and Fundraiser for Year Up

Level-Up Your Career with Your Personal Brand

Featured Speaker:

  • Lucas Welch, Vice President, Corporate Marketing

COVID-19: The Drive for Healthcare Digital Transformation in 2022 and Beyond

Featured Speaker:

  • Rami A. Rafeh, Vice President, Provider Strategy & Collaboration at Premera Blue Cross

Pacific Northwest Technology Executive Leadership Digital Summit

Courageous Leadership and Fearless Reinvention—Focusing A Fresh Lens on the Future of the Organization

Presented By:

  • SIM Seattle and HMG Strategy 

The Value of Having Range in Your Career and a Unique Perspective on Emerging Technologies in IT

Featured Speaker:

  • Aseem Datar, Partner at Madrona Venture Group

AI at Scale

Featured Speaker:

  • Luis Vargas, Technical Advisor to Microsoft CTO

Building The Nordstrom Analytical Platform

Featured Speaker:

  • John Xiao, Vice President, Data & Analytical Services at Nordstrom

Women in Technology Leadership Panel: Recalibrating and Rebuilding after COVID-19

Featured Speakers:

  • Laury Miller, CIO, SeaGen
  • Tanya Hannah, CIO, King County
  • Tiffany Ash, VP, Corporate Strategy at Tableau Software
  • Margaret Hopkins, CIO, PSE

The Changing Threat Landscape and How Organizations Need to Respond

Featured Speaker:

  • Trey Blalock, Chief Information Security Officer at Coinstar

Digital Transformation and Driving Adoption 

Featured Speakers:

  • Chris Borkenhagen former CIO of Docker, Inc.
  • Dorota Szeremet, VP, Head of Tableau WW Sales Synergy & Programs
  • Sean O'Mealia Vice President, Digital Transformation Lead at BECU

Ethics of AI: The Transformation of Technology and When Ethics Can/Should Guide Its Use

Featured Speaker:

  • David Totten, Chief Technology Officer, US Partner Ecosystem at Microsoft

The Strategy of Influence in the Cybersecurity Program

Featured Speaker:

  • Kevin Morrison, Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer at Alaska Airlines

Growing Technology Leadership: A Taste of the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF)

Featured Speakers:

  • Christine Putur, REI EVP Technology and Operations
  • Tanya Hannah, King County CIO

Seattle SIM Members' Virtual Holiday Party: A Virtual event featuring a Mixology Class and Virtual Games

Featured Speaker:

  • Mixologist Robert Rowland, runner up for Bartender of the Year by Eater Magazine

Engineering Lessons Building of teams, culture, and how to operate large scale multi-tenant offerings

Featured Speaker:

  • Praerit Garg, CTO at Smartsheet

Security Leadership & Risk Management for IT Leaders: The evolving role of security in business enablement

Featured Speaker:

  • Bill Shinn, Senior Principal with AWS

Insights that apply to all - Leadership, Technology, Culture, Finance, and People

Featured Speaker:

  • David Bell, REI Platform Engineering

Leading Through the Pandemic

Featured Speaker:

  • Stephen Heard, King County CTO

Virtual Event: How to be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X Kendi

*Not a SIM sponsored event, but one that the SIM Seattle leadership team believes is important for every leader today