Southern California CIO Community
Executive Summit
December 9, 2025 | Marriott Long Beach Downtown
December 9, 2025
Marriott Long Beach Downtown
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Southern California'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:
Modernizing The IT Operating Model to Enable Business Agility
Connecting IT Investments to Business Outcomes Through Strategic Alignment
Enhancing Leadership Capabilities to Build a Culture Rooted in Trust and Accountability
Southern California 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
Allen Fazio
Houlihan Lokey
Chief Information Officer
Kelly Hamilton
Sony Pictures Entertainment
CIO
Chad Hamilton
Fremantle
VP, Technology
Greg Moore
KB Home
VP & CIO
Thomas Phelps
Laserfiche
Executive Chair and Laserfiche CIO
Anand Radhakrishnan
KIND
Chief Information Officer
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 Southern California 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
Data & Analytics Strategies to Improve Organizational Outcomes
In the quest to leverage data and analytics for business growth, IT leaders face both cultural and technical challenges. To succeed, they must collaborate closely with business leaders to develop a powerful, long-term analytics strategy that drives data-driven decision making across the organization.
Join this session to explore:
- Ensuring data quality standards and ownership
- Utilizing analytics to allow for better decision making across the business and measurable outcomes
- Building a foundation for successful innovation including AI
The CIO’s AI Dilemma — Risk or ROI?
AI can accelerate innovation, but unchecked experimentation risks critical data exposure. CIOs must champion secure, responsible AI adoption while also driving business growth through ingenuity.
Join this session to discuss:
- Defining non-negotiable data security controls for AI pilots
- Empowering teams to build cyber judgment and AI literacy
- Adapting policies based on lessons learned from AI experiments
Breakout Session
Blueprint for a Future-Ready IT
Legacy IT operating models are no longer sufficient to meet the speed and complexity of today’s business demands. KARL STORZ recently embarked on a comprehensive transformation, redefining IT’s role as a strategic partner to the business.
Join this session to learn how they:
- Overhauled their IT operating model to drive business alignment, agility, and efficiency
- Implemented leadership strategies for empowering teams and managing large-scale change
- Built a future-ready IT organization for sustained innovation and adaptability
Keynote Session
Redefining Leadership for the AI Era
AI is rapidly transforming the workforce, demanding new leadership approaches and talent strategies. This keynote case study highlights how UCLA’s CIO and Chief Data & AI Officer are partnering to drive campus-wide change through AI-powered roles, programs, and governance models.
Join this session to learn how UCLA is:
- Building a resilient digital organization through internal transformation
- Developing AI literacy, launching pilots and aligning strategy
- Leading the charge in workforce evolution to deliver lasting institutional value
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Southern California 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
Marriott Long Beach DowntownParking
- $25 discounted parking validation available at Hotel Front Desk.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott Long Beach Downtown at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-236-2427.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $250 USD (plus tax) is November 10, 2025.
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