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San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

June 24, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO

June 24, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO

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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:

Leveraging Emerging Technology for Competitive Advantage and Growth

Navigating Transformation, Culture, and Organizational Change

Harnessing Data and Analytics to Drive Strategic Business Outcomes

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

World Market
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


Breakout Sessions

Unlocking Revenue and Controlling Costs with Observability

The need for observability is increasingly important to protect and drive business revenue. However, IT leaders often face challenges in enabling total stack visibility: uncontrolled cloud expenses, complex software architectures, rapid innovation, emerging security threats, ever-increasing customer experience expectations, and more.

Join this session to discuss:

  • The top trends driving the need for observability
  • How to overcome challenges and deliver increased business value
  • How generative AI is driving the next generation of intelligent observability

Building a Strategy for an AI-First Business

The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.

Join this interactive session to explore:

  • Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
  • Robust content workflows and use cases for AI-first businesses
  • Tips for optimizing while balancing your AI and security strategies


Executive Boardroom Sessions

The CFO-CIO Alliance for Advancing IT Impact

As digital business priorities touch every part of the enterprise, the collaboration between CFOs and CIOs is indispensable for optimizing technology investments and spurring innovation. Effective partnership is key to synchronizing financial strategies with technological progress and maximum business impact.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Fortifying the CFO-CIO alliance to facilitate data-driven IT ROI decisions
  • Align IT investments with financial strategies and implementing projects with measurable business outcomes
  • Bridging business and technology priorities to support, optimize, and transform for enterprise-wide success

The CIO Impact on Talent

CIOs are navigating a dramatic shift in workplace dynamics, driven by factors such as the emergence of a multigenerational workforce and an increased demand for upskilling and reskilling. What role does the CIO play to ensure a motivated, well-resourced technology workforce?

 Join this peer-led session to discuss:

  • Shifting workforce dynamics impacting peers across industries
  • Proven best practices for hiring, upskilling, and retaining top talent
  • Shaping a resilient, adaptable workforce that enables business objectives


Keynote Sessions

Disruption Proof — High-Performing Teams that Conquer Change

In today’s fast-moving tech and security landscapes, disruption is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy, 30-minute keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to get stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

  • Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it
  • The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results
  • How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable, and willing to learn from failure

Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out

As high volumes of sensitive data flow through web browsers, three in five organizations believe their current IT and security infrastructure makes the risk of data leakage likely or highly likely. This reflects the growing complexities of keeping data secure while dealing with legacy systems, inefficient application delivery methods, and outdated security controls. What is a modern approach to enterprise operations that simplifies IT while strengthening security?

Attendees will discover:

  • Why disparate IT and security solutions accumulate technical debt and bog down operations
  • How to articulate the business impacts of technology operations and security challenges beyond IT
  • New approaches to enterprise application delivery that enhance end-user productivity

Getting Out in Front of Change — Leading the C-Suite

In today's rapidly changing technology and business landscape, transformative CIOs are agents for change. By engaging stakeholders across the organization early, CIOs can scale and lead change to realize the full value of technology investments.

Join this session to learn how to:

  • Align and engage your C-Suite peers in sponsoring change
  • Prioritize formal change management earlier in the strategy execution life cycle
  • Increase adoption, utilization, innovation, and speed-to-value of transformative efforts


We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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Location


Venue & Accommodation

Grand Hyatt at SFO

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Grand Hyatt at SFO at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-650-502-6117 . Please mention G-VANT to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $299 USD (plus tax) is June 2, 2025.

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Community Program Manager


For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Samantha White

Community Program Manager

623-221-4103

samantha.white@gartner.com