Join us online
June 18, 2021
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Meet the 2021 ORBIE Winners!
The CIO of the Year ORBIE Award recognizes CIOs who have shown excellence in technology leadership in New England. Congratulations to this year’s award recipients!
2021 Awards Season
CIO of the Year nominees & finalists are honored at a series of executive events, beginning with the Nominee Event and ending with the CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards.
2021 Keynote
Brian Stevens
Brian is Executive Chairman of Neural Magic, a venture backed startup founded by a team of professors, research scientists, and former graduate students from MIT, setting out to create a gpu-class, high performance machine learning execution environment on industry standard multicore processors. Previously, Brian was VP and CTO of Google Cloud, and at Red Hat, where he was CTO and EVP of Worldwide Engineering.
Sponsorship
Boston CIO of the Year Awards sponsors are highly valued partners invited by local CIOs to experience the unique opportunity of recognizing the senior technology leadership of top organizations in New England through a series of year-long events.
2021 Boston CIO of the Year Awards Agenda
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Pre-Event Networking |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | VIP Reception* |
| 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | CIO of the Year® Awards |
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Post-Reception |
*Access limited to CIOs and select sponsor representatives.
**Access limited to CIOs, their direct reports, and select sponsor representatives.
Leadership Award Recipient
Elizabeth Hackenson, CIO, Schneider Electric
Elizabeth Hackenson is Chief Information Officer at Schneider Electric. She has over 30 years of experience leading technology operations and initiatives across large-scale complex organizations. Prior to joining Schneider Electric in 2017, Elizabeth had held three major CIO roles. From 2008-2017, she was CIO at AES where she was responsible for multiple transformational teams. Prior to that, she was CIO and Senior Vice President, Alcatel-Lucent (2006-2008) and CIO and Executive Vice President for MCI (2004-2006). Elizabeth is based in Boston, Mass.
