Seattle CIO Community
Executive Summit
December 1, 2026 | Grand Hyatt Seattle
December 1, 2026
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:
Lead Strategic Technology Alignment to Establish an AI Operating Model
Manage Costs Strategically to Maximize Business Value
Elevate Cybersecurity as a Core Driver of Business Value, Resilience and Growth
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
Restoring Transparency and Trust in AI‑Driven Systems
As enterprises shift from human‑driven to human‑supervised operations, AI has introduced new forms of complexity that traditional monitoring can’t explain. The challenge is no longer whether systems are up, but whether leaders can clearly understand how decisions are made, where risk accumulates and why performance or cost changes in unexpected ways.
Join this session to discuss:
- Where visibility breaks down in AI‑driven, hybrid and multi‑cloud environments
- Why “nothing is down” no longer means systems are operating as intended
- How CIOs re-establish transparency and trust as autonomous actions scale
Rethinking Governance for Rapid Tech Shifts
AI’s rapid evolution has exposed gaps in traditional governance frameworks, challenging CISOs to embed adaptable, resilient structures that can withstand future technological disruptions. Proactive governance enables organizations to stay ahead of compliance and risk while maintaining operational agility.
Join this session to discuss:
- Assessing and updating governance frameworks to address AI-driven changes
- Aligning zero trust principles to ensure adaptive controls for continuous risk management
- Preparing teams and processes for the next wave of disruptive technologies
Keynote Sessions
Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents
Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is more complex: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?
Join this keynote to hear about:
- Establishing a framework where data, identity, and agent security operate as one system
- Shifting from asking whether you can trust your agents to determining what access they can be trusted with
- Balancing innovation and risk by creating visibility needed to understand agent activity
Leading Through Uncertainty — Strategies That Work
Disruption is constant, but resilient organizations turn uncertainty into opportunity. Today’s CIOs and CISOs are redefining leadership — moving beyond technical silos to shape cultures that adapt, recover, and grow. This panel brings together peer perspectives on building operational resilience, communicating risk, and aligning vision across the enterprise.
In this panel, you’ll hear:
- Ways to align executive teams around risk, value, and business priorities
- Approaches for defining vision and operating models that drive enterprise resilience
- Tactics for fostering adaptive, learning-driven cultures across leadership
Breakout Sessions
GenAI— A Generational Paradigm Shift
Generative AI has rapidly evolved from a curiosity into a core driver of enterprise productivity. But as employees embrace its ability to generate content, code, and insights on demand, a new reality is emerging: data security is now the defining challenge of AI adoption. Organizations that recognize this shift early and proactively adapt their data security strategies will be best positioned to innovate with confidence.
Join this session to discover:
What makes GenAI fundamentally different and its impact on business operations and risk
Where unintended data exposure and downstream consequences can arise
How to adopt AI responsibly without slowing innovation
Breakout Session
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Grand Hyatt SeattleCommunity Program Manager
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