Atlanta CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 19, 2026 | Atlanta Marriott Northwest at Galleria
November 19, 2026
Atlanta Marriott Northwest at Galleria
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Atlanta's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:
Operationalizing trusted AI at scale through governance, accountability, and adaptive security
Elevating security leadership from risk management to enterprise strategy
Harnessing cyber resilience to sustain growth amid uncertainty
Atlanta CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Derek Benz
The Coca-Cola Company
SVP & CISO

John Dickson
Insight Global
CISO

John Gift
PepsiCo
SVP & Global CISO

Stacy Hughes
ABM
SVP & CISO

Kemper Seay
Carter's
VP Infrastructure & Chief Information Security Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
Breakout Session
AI Value in Practice — CISO Learnings from Generative and Agentic AI
The AI opportunity is real, but so are the challenges. In this candid, peer-driven discussion, share and learn how CISOs are putting generative and agentic AI to work while balancing governance, risk, adoption, and measurable business value.Join this session to:
- Exchange practical AI use cases that are improving efficiency, strengthening security outcomes, and enabling the business
- Discuss what is working, what is creating risk, and what organizations wish they had addressed earlier
- Prepare your organization for the next wave of intelligent automation through stronger governance, visibility, and accountability
Gartner Keynote Session
Leveraging Outcome-Driven Metrics for Strategic Impact
Security leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the business value of investments and align security priorities with organizational outcomes. Traditional security metrics—focused on uptime, budget, and project delivery—often fail to resonate with business leaders or drive informed investment decisions. Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs) offer a transformative approach, directly linking performance to business value.
Join this session to hear about:
- Moving beyond operational reporting by identifying and building metrics hierarchies that connect security to business outcomes
- Utilizing ODMs to guide executive conversations and clarify risk, value, and cost trade-off
- Informing executive conversations about risk with an outcome-driven approach to cybersecurity investment called protection level agreements
Keynote Session
Modernizing the SOC for Machine-Speed Defense
Security operations centers (SOCs) are facing a new reality - attackers are leveraging AI to automate multi-step attacks, outpacing human-driven response and overwhelming traditional workflows. CISOs must reimagine their SOCs to operate at machine speed, integrating AI-driven detection, orchestration, and remediation. How should CISOs transform their SOCs with agentic workflows, closed-loop automation, and continuous red teaming that empowers security teams to contain threats faster and reduce business risk?
Join this session to learn:
- Integrating AI-driven detection and automated response workflows
- Operationalizing continuous red teaming for proactive threat hunting
- Accelerating containment and remediation to reduce business risk
Executive Boardroom Session
Protecting Customer Trust — The CISO's Role in Fraud Risk
As fraud and cyber threats become increasingly interconnected, CISOs are partnering more closely with business leaders to protect revenue, customer trust and digital experiences. As responsibilities converge, key questions remain: who owns fraud prevention, what intelligence should be shared across teams and how can organizations strengthen protection without adding customer friction?
- Operating models for aligning security, fraud and risk teams
- Balancing security, fraud prevention and customer experience
- Improving visibility and intelligence sharing across teams
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
Atlanta Marriott Northwest at GalleriaCommunity Program Manager
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