In-Person

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

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 Seattle 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

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.


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 Seattle
More Information

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.

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Community Program Manager

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

Monica Mickelson

Senior Community Program Manager

+17577054864

monica.podolsky@gartner.com