Roundtable

IT Modernization Without Disruption: Building Resilient, AI Ready Operations

14 July 2026 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST
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Data-driven.
People first.
Executive Engagement.

Modernizing IT Operations for resilience, simplicity & AI readiness

Legacy IT continues to power critical business operations, but aging infrastructure can slow innovation, increase security risk, and make it harder to support AI initiatives. CIOs are challenged with modernizing their environments while maintaining business continuity, improving user experiences, and doing more with limited resources.

Leading organizations are simplifying modernization through greater visibility, automation, and operational resilience. By strengthening security, streamlining endpoint and infrastructure management, and reducing complexity, they are building IT environments that are ready for AI and future growth.

Join NinjaOne and a select group of your peers as we discuss practical strategies for modernizing legacy IT without disrupting the business. Together, we'll explore how to minimize risk while improving security, simplify IT operations through automation and unified management, and build resilient foundations that support long-term innovation and AI adoption.

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Speakers

Tom Molden

CIO, Global Executive Engagement
Tom Molden is the CIO of Global Executive Engagement at NinjaOne. He has over 30 years of technology and find out more

Discussion Topics

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Modernizing Legacy IT Without Business Disruption How organizations can transform aging infrastructure while maintaining operational stability, minimizing risk, and improving the end-user experience

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Simplifying IT Through Visibility and Automation How IT leaders are reducing complexity with unified endpoint management, automation, and greater visibility across their environments

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Building a Resilient Foundation for AI Why investments in security, infrastructure, and operational resilience are preparing organizations to successfully support AI-driven workloads and future innovation

About NinjaOne

Enterprises face rising cost, complexity, and risk managing distributed IT. Remote sites, hybrid workforces, and diverse endpoints stretch teams thin while disconnected tools, time-consuming and often repetitive manual effort, and compliance demands slow transformation and drive spend higher.

The result: IT that’s harder to govern, less secure, and misaligned with business priorities. NinjaOne, trusted by 35,000+ organizations worldwide, unifies endpoint operations into a single, automated platform. IT gains real-time visibility and control across every device, location, and user. Intelligent automation eliminates repetitive work, accelerates patching, remediation, and recovery, and reduces the risk of human error.

Built-in multitenancy provides flexibility to manage distributed environments at scale while preserving governance and oversight. The business outcomes are tangible: lower operational cost, simplified
compliance, faster time to value, and stronger resilience across the enterprise. Executives gain predictable ROI, tighter financial control, and confidence that IT everywhere is secure, efficient, and aligned with growth priorities.

With NinjaOne, IT is no longer fragmented overhead. It becomes a strategic capability that helps
enterprises run leaner, respond faster, and turn complexity into a source of competitive advantage.

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