
Seattle CIO Community
Executive Summit
December 9, 2025 | Grand Hyatt Seattle
December 9, 2025
Grand Hyatt Seattle
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Seattle'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:
Maximizing Business Value with Secure AI Integration
Building Resilient Digital Ecosystems with Cloud Governance and Cyber Recovery
Leading Through Disruption by Aligning IT and Security for Business Success
Seattle 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

Lutz Beck
Daimler Truck North America
CIO

Charu Jain
Alaska Airlines
SVP Merchandising & Innovation

Laurent Rotival
Cambia Health Solutions
EVP & CIO
What to Expect
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
Rethinking Technical Debt — Turning Legacy into Strategic Advantage
What if your technical debt could be a blueprint for innovation? This session explores how to modernize ERP by re-architecting around what you already own.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- Decoupling workflows, embedding AI, and extending value without disruption
- Discovering how to turn legacy systems into a composable, intelligent mesh
- Using debt to guide transformation
Cyber Savvy — Navigating Risks with Strategic Awareness
In today’s dynamic landscape of escalating business complexity, evolving threats, and global regulatory demands, real-time situational awareness is critical for mitigating material risks. What strategies can organizations employ to effectively integrate people, processes, and technology for proactive threat assessment and management?
Join this session to explore:
- Understanding the link between situational awareness and material risk mitigation
- Adapting to emerging threats while maintaining compliance with shifting global regulations
- Building resilient programs that combine tactical readiness with strategic risk assessment
Generative to Agentic — Is The Risk Worth The Evolution?
GenAI is changing rapidly, and the next major step is agentic AI — systems that are capable of taking actions without human oversight. This brings a new level of complexity, but there are benefits for security teams as well. Security leaders are now exploring the value and risk of agentic AI to determine how to advance safely.
Join Elastic’s security leadership to explore:
- The use of GenAI in security and how it's advanced to meet different team needs
- How AI adoption changes your attack surface
- The different ways AI augments security teams and workflows
Keynote Session
Body Language Secrets for Enhanced Executive Presence
Uncovering the mysteries of body language — how people communicate their thoughts and feelings without saying a word — is a decisive first step toward mastering any business and social situation. Top executives know that detecting split-second signals from your team and leadership then taking immediate action is crucial to being a persuasive communicator and problem-solver especially during tricky internal matters or high-level negotiations.
During this session you will learn how to:
- Move beyond the vacuum of artificial body language to a behavioral approach based on YOU
- Strengthen interpersonal relationships, be a more decisive leader and manage your nerves better
- Uncover the less obvious needs of others and improve your team’s confidence and competence
Gartner Keynote Session
Gartner Expert Keynote Session
Gain expert guidance from Gartner on the latest tech insights and the unfolding of the future through predictions, trends and evolving digital business cycles. Gartner Experts give you the clarity you need to move your priorities forward.
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Seattle 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.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Grand Hyatt SeattleValet Parking
Overnight Guests: $68
Hourly Guests:
0 – 1 Hours = $18
1 – 2 Hours = $22
2 – 3 Hours = $25
3 – 4 Hours = $30
4 – 5 Hours = $35
5 – 6 Hours = $40
6 – 8 Hours = $58
8+ Hours = $68
Parking Spaces Available to Public: 7th and Pike Garage under Grand Hyatt. This is a public garage, not owned or operated by Hyatt
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Grand Hyatt Seattle at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 206-774-1234. Please mention Seattle Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $199 USD (plus tax) is November 17, 2025.
Community Program Manager
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