San Francisco CIO Community
Executive Summit
November 4, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 4, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with San Francisco'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:
Driving Business Growth Through IT Strategy
Leading the Enterprise Through Disruption and Uncertainty
Defining and Delivering Value Amidst Rapid Technology Innovation
San Francisco 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
Anantha Ganga
Coherent
CIO
Pallavi Gupta
IMPOSSIBLE
Global Head of Information and Technology/ CIO
Monica Khurana
Dodge & Cox
CTO, CIO
Geeta Pyne
TIAA
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Architect
Avi Sokol
KLA
SVP & CIO
Evan Wayne
Marcus & Millichap
CIO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your San Francisco CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.
Agenda
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Future-Proofing Data for Digital Transformation
As AI and digital transformation accelerate, CIOs must deliver agile, trusted data ecosystems that drive innovation and business value. Yet, legacy systems, data silos, and governance challenges persist.
Join this roundtable to discuss:
- Building a scalable, modern data foundation
- Balancing speed, performance, and trust
- Enabling innovation through unified data platforms
Leading People and Change in an AI-Driven World
In an AI-driven world, talent is a strategic advantage and a catalyst for change — not just in IT, but across the enterprise. CIOs must take the lead in providing the workforce with the tools and confidence needed to be effective users and champions of innovation.
Join this session to discuss:
- Upskilling and reskilling employees at the pace of AI
- Partnering cross-functionally to develop a future-ready workforce
- Equipping the workforce with the tools and confidence needed to champion AI
The CIO as a Strategic Business Partner
By embracing the role of strategic business partner, CIOs can ensure IT initiatives are purposefully aligned with business strategy, fostering a trusted and collaborative partnership between IT and its stakeholders.
Join this session to discuss:
- Collaborating with stakeholders to define objectives, goals and metrics
- Demonstrating IT's strategic contribution in terms of business value and outcomes
- Building trust, partnership and influence across the business
Beyond Hype ― Realizing Value from Emerging Tech
CIOs are uniquely positioned to unlock competitive advantage and drive transformative value for their organizations by identifying and leveraging relevant emerging technologies. The challenge lies in sifting through hype to determine potential for real impact.
Join this session to discuss:
- Evaluating emerging technology and identifying use cases
- Measuring risk and determining resources required to generate value
- Fostering a forward-thinking mindset to navigate disruption effectively
Keynote Session
Zero Trust & AI — Strengthening Security, Reducing Complexity, and Driving Innovation
Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.
Join this session to:
- Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
- Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
- Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the San Francisco CIO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
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Venue & Accommodation
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