FAIRFIELD, Conn., Aug. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Register Now – Seats are limited! C-level executives from the Silicon Peach who want to find out how technology helps them reimagine their enterprise and reshape their businesses are encouraged to attend HMG Strategy’s 16th Annual Atlanta C-Level Technology Leadership Summit on August 21.
“It’s important for Southeastern top-tier CIOs and business technology executives to share information that will help their companies and the industry as a whole,” said Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO of HMG Strategy. “HMG Strategy is happy to provide a platform for these high-caliber leaders to pass on what they’ve learned.”
Key topics to be explored at the 16th Annual Atlanta C-Level Technology Leadership Summit will include:
- Navigating the Innovation and Invention Supercycle
- Securing the Future Against Geopolitical Cyber Risks
- Using AI and Cutting-Edge Technologies and Partnerships to Boost Business Performance
- Reskilling and Upskilling the Tech Workforce for the GenAI-enabled Enterprise
- Visionary Leaders Harnessing Tomorrow’s Technology
Most notably, Jennifer Hartsock, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Cargill and Keith Narr, SVP, Technology and Data, Cargill will open the conference with a presentation on the role of Cargill’s Digital Technology & Data Team in its global strategy.
Preliminary speakers at the 16th Annual Atlanta C-Level Technology Leadership Summit are slated to include:
Mahesh Babu, CMO, Kodem Security
Anurag Barua, Transformation Leader, SAP America
Gary Brantley, Chief Information Officer, National Football League
Anil Cheriyan, Board Member, Advisor and Investor
Jay Ferro, EVP, Chief Information, Technology & Product Officer, Clario
Dale Gawley, Head of Portfolio and Project Management, AXIS Capital
Kevin Gowen, CISO, Synovus Financial Corp
Toni Harrison-Hogan, Vice President, Business Technology Solutions, Boeing Employees Credit Union
Monique Hart, Vice President, Information Security/CISO, Piedmont
Art Hopkins, Global Head of Technology Officers Practice, Russell Reynolds
Stacy Hughes, SVP, CISO, ABM
Jason James, CIO, Aptos
Jeetendra Kumar, Vice President, Ingersoll Rand
Rohit Lal, Executive Vice President & CIO, Saia Inc.
Tamara Lopata, Client Engagement Executive, Hylaine
Melissa Maheux, Executive Search Consultant & Leadership Advisor, Russell Reynolds
Murtaza Nisar, Vice President, CISO, Clario
Jeff Petet, Certified Healthcare CIO, Senior Vice President IT, Petauri
Carolyn Pleiss, Senior Vice President & CIO, Cox Enterprises
Viren Shah, Chief Digital and Information Officer, AGCO Corp.
Khwaja Shaik, CTO, IBM
(Speaker list subject to change.)
In addition, HMG Strategy will present several Atlanta-area technology executives with its HMG Strategy’s 2025-2026 Global Leadership Institute Awards. The award recognizes the industry’s premier business technology executives who are making a difference in their organizations and their respective vertical markets.
The event will be held at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel & Convention Center, 2450 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339.
Valued Partners so far for the 16th Annual Atlanta C-Level Technology Leadership Summit include:
Platinum Partners: SAP
Gold Partners: Glean, Moveworks, T-Mobile for Business, ValueOps
Supporting Partners: Apptio, Openlayer
Innovation Accelerator Partners: Kodem
Strategic Partners: Egon Zehnder, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry, Russell Reynolds Associates, Spencer Stuart
Alliance Partners: Cyberstarts, Greylock Partners, GTM Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia
Registration for the 16th Annual Atlanta C-Level Technology Leadership Summit is still open.
In addition to this Technology Leadership Summit, HMG Strategy has opened registration for 16 other regional Summits in major cities across the United States and Canada for 2025.
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About HMG Strategy
HMG Strategy is the world’s leading digital platform for technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 500,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.
The company’s global media model generates more than one million impressions per week, providing vast opportunities for business technology leaders and sponsor partners to promote themselves and their brands.
HMG Strategy was founded in 2008 by Hunter Muller, a leadership expert who has worked side-by-side with Fortune 2000 executives with strategic planning and career ascent for the past 30+ years.
The company’s regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, publications, and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven guidance from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and other technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation and career ascent.
HMG Strategy offers a range of peer-led advisory services such as its Global CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) service, which bring together the world’s top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives to brainstorm on the top opportunities and challenges facing them in their roles.
In addition, its Global Advisory Services are a unique set of peer-driven research services designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest leadership, business, technology and global macro-economic trends that affect businesses and industries.
The company’s business model is based on its 7 Pillars of Trust.
HMG Strategy: Iconic Leadership – Where Legends Are Made.
Contact: Peggy Pedwano, Chief Operations Officer, HMG Strategy: 203-221-2702 or at [email protected]
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