Executive Summit

Quantum computing, a paradigm shift in computational power and problem solving, is rapidly emerging as a transformative force. Yet, many organizations remain unprepared for the implications and opportunities it presents. CIOs must keep informed about the potential and strategic considerations of this emerging technology.

Join this future-focused breakout session to:

• Gain high-level insight into quantum computing principles
• Explore quantum’s impact on cybersecurity, optimization and business resilience
• Assess risks and opportunities to guide organizational strategy

As emerging technology continues to dominate headlines and the pressure to innovate intensifies, CIOs are entering a new era of navigating expectations. From C-Suite peers to the board, the expectations placed on the CIO to deliver are accelerating.

Join this peer‑led session to discuss:

• Managing heightened executive and board expectations
• Bridging technical complexity with shared business priorities
• Strengthening cross‑functional alignment amid accelerating change

CIOs face challenges in pinpointing high-impact AI use cases and aligning them with industry benchmarks to drive measurable outcomes. Prioritizing business pain points, sharing proven examples, and focusing on value creation ensures successful AI adoption and avoids common pitfalls.

Join this session to discuss:

• Exploring inside-out and outside-in approaches to evaluating AI use cases
• Benchmarking outcomes against KPIs as the AI industry is exploring outcome-based business models
• Educating stakeholders on achievable AI goals, implementation considerations, and limitations

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.

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

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

AI is reshaping how quickly organizations must deliver insights and where data and workloads need to live to support that demand. CIOs are finding that cloud centric strategies can drive new pressures around cost, latency, resilience, and sovereignty. Rethinking data and workload placement is becoming an essential lever in enabling better business outcomes.

Join this session to discuss:

• How data locality influences performance, resilience, and operational efficiency
• Where distributed or hybrid placements outperform single cloud approaches
• Ways to reduce technical debt while strengthening enterprise wide value delivery

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