In-Person

San Francisco CIO Community

Executive Summit

June 10, 2026 | Grand Hyatt at SFO

June 10, 2026
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:

Optimizing Resources To Deliver Sustainable Business Value

Leveraging Technology Innovation To Drive Competitive Advantage

Demonstrating Business‑Driven Leadership To Maximize IT Impact

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

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

June 10, 2026

8:30am - 9:15am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Networking

Executive Networking Hour

Join CIO peers for casual networking to kick start the day, brew new connections and exchange goals for the Executive Summit ahead.

9:15am - 10:15am  Gartner Keynote

Futurist Leadership — 5 Principles to Lead Your Organization into a Better Future

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Frank Buytendijk

Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief of Research Gartner Futures Lab

Gartner

In large parts of the world, there is a negative sentiment toward the future. And after the demise of globalization, there is little perspective of what a better world would look like. This calls for futurist leadership, introducing 5 crucial principles on how to become a futurist leader. A must attend for every leader interested in the day after tomorrow.

Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Fellow and Chief of Research Gartner Futures Lab, pulls back the curtain on 5 principles to uncover:

  • How the next generation of leaders will be futurist leaders
  • How futurist leaders can be both realist and idealist at the same time
  • How Silicon Valley will be driving the next shared societal narrative, through the ideas of hypermachinity and hyperhumanity

10:15am - 10:40am  Networking Break

10:40am - 11:25am  Breakout Session

Empowering Innovation While Ensuring Governance and Control

As AI tools reshape the future of work, CIOs must balance innovation with governance and compliance. Responsible enablement means addressing risks from “Shadow AI” and supporting end users with safe, effective strategies. Strengthen oversight while empowering your workforce for tomorrow.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Risks from unmanaged tools and end-user practices
  • Safe adoption policies
  • Maintaining governance and visibility

10:40am - 11:25am  Executive Boardroom

Meeting the Agentic Moment — Orchestrating at Scale

Unlocking competitive advantage with agentic AI hinges on effective agentic orchestration across teams, systems, and vendors — a core CIO capability that can determine whether agentic AI accelerates growth or becomes an operational drag.

Join this peer-led discussion to tackle:

  • Identifying opportunities and challenges in effective agentic orchestration
  • Fostering a culture of shared ownership of agentic outcomes
  • Overcoming legacy structures to drive value and efficiency

11:25am - 12:10pm  Networking Break

11:35am - 12:00pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

12:10pm - 12:55pm  Breakout Session

Breakout Session Hosted by Palo Alto Networks

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Rich Campagna

SVP, Product Management, Network Security

Palo Alto Networks

 More details coming soon.

12:10pm - 12:55pm  Breakout Session

From Enablement to Top-Down Value

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Nishit Sahay

CIO

Marvell Technology

As CIOs push beyond early AI experimentation, many face the challenge of converting distributed enablement efforts into measurable business value. Leaders must align across the executive suite, simplify processes for the workforce, and prepare the organization for AI‑driven ways of working.

Join Nishit Sahay, CIO, Marvell Technology, as he shares practical strategies to:

  • Gain and sustain executive buy‑in for technology‑led strategy
  • Identify and prioritize AI-native workflows with the highest impact
  • Define and measure value beyond productivity gains
  • Drive accountability and ownership of technology

12:10pm - 12:55pm  Executive Boardroom

Scaling Agentic AI — The CIO’s Context Advantage

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Sriraj Rajaram

Director, Product Management

Reltio

Agentic AI is driving operational efficiency, innovation, and business growth, but CIOs can only scale these benefits as fast as they deliver trusted, real-time context. Context intelligence—where unified data, relationships, and business meaning come together—accelerates transformation, reduces risk, and drives better business outcomes.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

  • Building a scalable data platform for efficiency and agility
  • Structuring your AI roadmap to balance rapid innovation with strong governance
  • Tracking metrics to ensure your data is AI-ready

12:55pm - 1:30pm  Lunch Service

1:30pm - 2:05pm  Keynote

AI Authority Drift — Closing the Governance Gap

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Krishna Narayanaswamy

Founder & CTO

Netskope

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 AI at enterprise scale

2:05pm - 2:30pm  Break

2:30pm - 3:15pm  Breakout Session

Integrating Enterprise Agents — Practical Playbook for CIOs

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Brenton House

Principal Evangelist for IBM Integration

IBM

AI agent adoption cannot happen in isolation from existing applications, APIs, MCPs, and governance models. To move from experimentation to execution, CIOs require a practical playbook to separate the signal from the noise.

Join this session to explore how to:

  • Evaluate where agents add meaningful value versus introducing risk
  • Address practical adoption tradeoffs across real operating environments
  • Gain a concrete framework for evaluating enterprise fit

2:30pm - 3:15pm  Gartner Boardroom

Navigating Risk in a Noisy Vendor Ecosystem

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Ash Ahuja

VP, Global Role Lead & Executive Partner, Security & Risk Management

Gartner

What was once considered routine compliance has evolved into a strategic priority for CIOs in today’s AI-driven world. Managing a hyper-connected vendor ecosystem is now a key lever for CIOs to ensure strong security posture and operational resilience.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Navigating an expanded, AI-driven risk landscape
  • Evaluating vendor risk to inform strategy
  • Demonstrating cyber risk as enterprise risk

3:15pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

3:25pm - 3:50pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

4:00pm - 4:45pm  Breakout Session

Building Board-Level Influence

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Jamil Farshchi

UKG Board Member, EVP & CTO

Equifax

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Prakash Kota

CIO

UKG

As technology and digital business become inseparable from organizational strategy, boards are looking to CIOs for more than traditional status updates. Expectations are rising, and engaging effectively now requires a different approach. CIOs must operate as ongoing strategic partners, building influence that shapes board-level thinking and decisions.

Join this CIO-Board Member fireside chat to explore:

  • Strengthening board presence and executive-level credibility
  • Fostering ongoing dialogue with the board beyond the boardroom
  • Informing strategic decisions that support long-term organizational success

4:45pm - 5:00pm  Networking Break

5:35pm - 5:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

June 10, 2026

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

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

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 650-452-1234 . Please mention San Francisco Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $309 USD (plus tax) is May 18, 2026.

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Jacob Inman

Community Program Manager

+1 972 342 1368

jacob.inman@gartner.com