Executive Summit

As attackers leverage AI to move faster than ever, traditional security strategies are falling behind. CIOs are now tasked with defending their organizations at machine speed, requiring a shift from reactive patching to proactive, autonomous protection. Leading enterprises are adopting continuous risk governance and measurable guardrails to ensure accountable AI adoption. CIOs are tasked with aligning business strategy with security outcomes and deliver board-level visibility into risk and remediation, all while enabling innovation.

Join this session to learn:

• Aligning business strategy with real-time risk governance
• Implementing measurable guardrails for accountable AI adoption
• Delivering board-ready visibility into AI risk and remediation progress

Every CIO faces a unique mix of business, technology and operational constraints, yet many of the most effective solutions have relevance far beyond a single organization or industry. Hear how CIOs overcame challenges unique to their environments and the strategies that helped drive meaningful business outcomes.

Join this session to explore:

• Solving complex organizational and technology challenges
• Turning constraints into opportunities for growth
• Applying leadership lessons across industries

AI is enabling employees across the business to build apps, agents, and automation at an unprecedented speed. While this unlocks significant productivity and innovation, the result is a wave of, "wild code": AI-generated solutions developed outside traditional IT governance. As organizations struggle to balance speed with security and control, conventional approaches are proving insufficient. This session will explore how teams can build, run, and monitor AI-created work with governance embedded throughout.

Join this session to:

• Understand the risks, cost, and overall business impact of "wild code"
• Recognize why traditional governance models fall short in the AI era
• Learn how to scale AI-driven innovation without sacrificing security or control

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.

AI success is not measured only by what the technology can do, but by what people and organizations become because of it. Sesh Tirumala, CIO, and Katie Watson, CHRO, of Western Digital bring together the technology and people perspectives required to lead AI-enabled transformation, examining critical questions: What must remain human, and how can organizations build the technology, capabilities, and confidence needed to guide cultural change?

Join this CIO-CHRO fireside chat to explore:

• How HR and IT can partner to lead AI as both a people and technology transformation
• Why resilience, adaptability, and AI fluency matter more than any single technical skill
• How to shift AI conversations from tools and automation to business outcomes and human judgment

AI is transforming not just the tools employees use, but the flow of work itself, prompting CIOs to rethink workflows, operating models and how value is created across the organization.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying workflow bottlenecks that limit AI integration, scalability and value creation
• Examining operating model changes needed to support AI-enabled ways of working
• Defining how work, accountability and decision-making are distributed across

Unlike traditional IT investments, AI introduces highly variable, usage-driven costs that challenge conventional budgeting and governance approaches. How are CIOs adapting to connect cost, value and accountability across the enterprise while enabling AI adoption at scale?

Join this session to discuss:

• Measuring your AI token spend: Ensuring tokens are best spent where you’ll find the most value
• Connecting AI initiatives to real-world results: Finding your most valuable use cases and business outcomes
• Sharing the responsibility for AI across the enterprise: Success relies on IT and your stakeholder’s leadership

In the race to translate AI potential into business value, the greatest barrier is not technical. It's human. Under the leadership of CTO Sven Gerjets, Gap Inc. is exploring how empowering employees to engage AI as a thought partner, not just a tool, accelerates adoption and drives lasting behavior change.

Join this keynote session to explore:

• Driving a mindset shift to avoid "AI hangover"
• Reducing friction that undermines adoption and trust
• Eliminating rigid workflows to scale adoption and meaningful work