The North America CACS 2019 conference took place 13-15 May 2019 in Anaheim, California, USA. This conference, which is held for IS audit, assurance, control, governance and security professionals, highlighted the need to face disruptive technology. In his closing general session presentation, 2019-2020 ISACA board chair Brennan P. Baybeck, vice president of security risk management for global customer support services at Oracle Corporation, said, “Brick by brick, we need to understand and utilize the technology that is driving change and fueling our enterprises’ digital transformation activities, and we need to learn and train in areas in which we may not have realized we would need to understand when we entered the field.” His words reiterated the overall theme of this year’s event, which offered more than 100 sessions focused on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, DevSecOps, cloud, robotic process automation (RPA), big data, and the security trends and threats of 2019 and beyond. Attendees were also able participate in sessions dedicated to developing soft skills, pre- and postconference hands-on workshops, and listen to panel discussions.
Panels highlighted ISACA’s 50th anniversary and disruptive technology. In “A Spectrum of Professions: The ISACA Global Community, Past, Present, Future,” Paul Regopoulos, senior manager, information security audit, with The Walt Disney Company, stressed the importance of fundamentals from the beginning of ISACA until today. The “From Disruptive to Daily Dependence: ISACA Pros Look Back and Look Forward to the Future in Technology,” session explored the evolution of workplace and personal technology, the need to secure AI, retail disruption, blockchain, quantum computing, and enterprises’ need to shift to being datacentric. The conference also featured keynote speeches by Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley-based author, speaker, entrepreneur and evangelist, and Sekou Andrews, a prominent poetic voice performer who blends inspirational speaking and spoken word poetry.
Interested in attending North America CACS 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 12-14 May 2020? Please visit the North America CACS page of the ISACA website to register and download the Quick Takes From the 2019 North America CACS report to learn more about this year’s event.