We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering
Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. Please review the following recommendations prior to attending the gathering.
June 24, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
June 24, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO
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
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
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
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Apply to participate in the San Francisco CIO 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.
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.
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.