Dallas CIO Community
Executive Summit
November 3, 2026 | The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
November 3, 2026
The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Scaling AI for Real Business Outcomes
Championing Transformation Through Cross-Functional Partnership
Aligning Technology and Business to Shape the Future Enterprise
Dallas CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Sumit Anand
Academy Sports + Outdoors
CIO

Mike Anderson
Netskope
Chief Digital & Information Officer

Sandeep Dave
CBRE
Chief Digital & Technology Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
Executive Boardroom Session
Traditional ERP is Dead — What's Next?
Agentic AI is transforming work and prompting leaders to rethink traditional suites and modernization strategies. This boardroom will examine how agentic AI is unbundling ERP responsibilities, reshaping process orchestration and enabling smarter service layers.
Join fellow CIOs to explore:
- The rise of service layers, workflow engines and AI agents
- What’s replacing monolithic ERP models
- Key assumptions to challenge when evaluating vendor roadmaps
Keynote Session
Strategy Wins When Culture Works
CIOs and technology leaders are driving a majority of organizational change, but even the strongest plans can fall prey to Culture. Success depends on how rapidly both IT and the organization can embrace new directions, own the change and implement new ways of working. When leaders intentionally shape Culture, they can turn it into a strategic asset that accelerates execution and strengthens performance across the enterprise.
Join this keynote to learn about:
- Strengthening culture to support strategic change
- Engaging peers and employees in new ways of working
- Balancing planning and execution with engagement and collaboration
Breakout Sessions
When AI Moves Faster Than Trust — Control, Integrity, and Recovery
AI is scaling faster than organizations can control. As systems act autonomously across data and workflows, the real risk is loss of control, integrity, and recoverability. Establishing operational trust ensures systems are governed, impact is contained, and operations are restored when failure occurs.
Join this session to explore how to:
- Maintain control as AI systems act autonomously
- Ensure integrity of data and decisions under real-world conditions
- Recover to a clean, trusted state when AI-driven systems fail
The Agentic Era — Securing Your Enterprise
AI is transforming from a helpful tool to a true enterprise gamechanger. But with new power comes new risks. Is your AI security platform keeping up with rapid innovation?
Join this session to uncover:
- Managing risks from autonomous AI agents and “vibe coding”
- Protecting productivity in browser-based workspaces
- Building a unified control plane for AI security and governance
Frontier AI Models — When Attack Speed Outpaces Operations
AI can now find and exploit a vulnerability in minutes — faster than any patch cycle or IT team can respond. For CIOs, this is a business risk, not just a security issue: the gap between attack speed and response speed can now disrupt operations. This is where autonomous remediation comes into play.
Join this session to learn:
- Why the gap between attack speed and IT response is now a business risk
- How automatic remediation cuts risk without more headcount or work
- What this shift means for how you prioritize risk, budget and technology
Foundation First - Building the Agentic Enterprise
Agentic AI is only as powerful as the foundation beneath it. As Keller Williams advances its AI strategy, Chris Cox has demonstrated how CIOs can build the technology, data, partnership, and cultural capabilities required to capitalize on the next wave of innovation.
Join this session to explore:
- Evaluating build, buy, and partner decisions for speed and scale
- Leveraging ecosystem partnerships to unlock greater business value
- Maintaining a strong, unified culture through organizational and operating model change
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las ColinasA block of rooms has been reserved at the The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 972-505-2900. Please mention Gartner CIO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $369 USD (plus tax) is October 12, 2026.
Community Program Manager
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