Executive Summit

As digital threats evolve, CIOs are uniquely positioned to champion cybersecurity as both a business enabler and strategic imperative. Join Paul Proctor, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, as he shares how CIOs can align security with IT operations, drive board-level engagement and make smart investments that support growth. Gain new perspectives on balancing risk, leadership and innovation in today’s complex threat landscape. 

Join this keynote to learn about:

• The key elements for CIOs and CISOs to coordinate on
• Using benchmarked protection-levels to transform cyber board reporting
• Treating cybersecurity as a business decision

As AI assistants proliferate across enterprise platforms, CIOs face mounting challenges: fragmented intelligence, siloed data, and inconsistent governance that threaten innovation and measurable business outcomes. The answer isn't just integration—it's transformation. By deploying AI colleagues across back-office operations, CIOs can operationalize AI to modernize the application portfolio, strengthen cybersecurity, and drive enterprise-wide innovation. With the right architecture, AI colleagues don't just augment work—they automate it at scale, turning disruption into opportunity even amid competing priorities and resource constraints.

Join this session to explore:

• Architecting a seamless, enterprise-wide agentic AI layer for operations
• Breaking down silos to unlock cross-functional innovation and measurable value
• Ensuring robust governance, security, and risk management with enterprise AI

Scaling a brand, rebuilding a tech stack, protecting culture, and guiding a small team through hypergrowth: this is the reality Danyel Bischof‑Forsyth, Chief Technology & Information Officer navigated at 7 Brew. Join this session as she shares her experience blending rapid expansion, radical simplification, and people‑first leadership, illustrating what it takes to lead boldly when everything is evolving at once. 

Join this session to learn strategies for:

• Enabling growth with decisive leadership
• Simplifying technology to fuel scale
• Protecting people and culture through transformation

There has never been a megatrend as transformative as AI. 2023 unlocked new possibilities, 2024 brought new proof of concepts and 2025 was the year to prove the ROI and business value generation of AI. 2026 is the year of the AI reality check and organizations that successfully operationalize AI to drive concrete efficiency and measurable impact will be the ultimate winners.

Join this session to discuss:

• Adopting lean approaches to AI transformation that scale quickly to value
• Balancing market, organizational, and stakeholder pressures in the roadmap to business outcomes
• Shaping the new agentic enterprise as you move from experimentation to operationalization

As organizations accelerate analytics and AI adoption, reliable data and automated workflows are essential for agility and risk control. Leading teams are moving beyond reactive monitoring to achieve proactive, end-to-end visibility and embed governance-driven automation.

Join this session to:

• Build trusted, scalable data workflows
• Achieve visibility across modern data ecosystems
• Embed automation for secure, decision-ready operations

As technology becomes inseparable from business performance, CIOs are evolving from traditional IT leaders into enterprise‑wide business drivers. Operating models, leadership behaviors, and communication must adapt as CIOs align strategy, influence outcomes, and bridge technical and business priorities, shifting the focus from systems delivery to value creation.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Redefining IT as a driver of business strategy
• Bridging delivery models, language, and expectations as IT and business converge
• Positioning the CIO as a producer of measurable business value

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

The shift from basic AI assistants to autonomous agents is reshaping the enterprise, turning passive tools into scalable workflows. Real advantage emerges when intelligence is grounded in an organization’s unique, proprietary content. As leaders move beyond early experiments, the priority becomes breaking down silos and establishing governance that ensures agents operate on a reliable foundation.

Join this interactive session to learn how to:

• Prioritize measurable growth beyond LLM hype
• Connect content to unlock meaningful AI performance
• Understand the monetary and labor opportunity costs of AI transformation

For CIOs managing the complexity of hybrid IT environments, moving from fragmented observability toward operational intelligence can simplify operations, improve resilience, and delivers reliable services. Governed AI-driven insights help connect system behavior across environments and translate operational signals into action with business impact.

Join this session to learn about:

• Unifying observability, optimization,  and risk into shared operational intelligence
• Using AI agents to investigate, remediate and strengthen operational resilience
• Demonstrating measurable operational and business impact

As AI tools reshape the future of work, CIOs must balance innovation with governance and compliance. Responsible enablement means addressing risks from “Shadow AI” and supporting end users with safe, effective strategies. Strengthen oversight while empowering your workforce for tomorrow.

Join this session to discuss:

• Risks from unmanaged tools and end-user practices
• Safe adoption policies
• Maintaining governance and visibility

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer limited to generating insights, modern AI systems are beginning to act — initiating workflows, interacting with applications, and making decisions at machine speed. As agentic AI systems become operational participants inside enterprise environments, this session explores how enterprises can safely scale AI by establishing governance across identity, authority, behavior, and data, while enabling innovation without introducing unmanaged risk.

Attendees will learn:

• How to control the authority, behavior, and data access of autonomous systems operating across complex digital ecosystems
• The emerging governance model, enacted through a real-time control plane, to address authority drift, misconfigured permissions, and unintended AI behavior
• A practical framework and architecture for governing AI at enterprise scale