Boston CISO Community
Executive Summit
December 3, 2026 | Renaissance Boston Seaport District
December 3, 2026
Renaissance Boston Seaport District
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Boston'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:
Accelerate Exposure Management To Defend At Machine Speed
Unify AI Risk Into Existing Cyber Governance Practices
Optimize Cybersecurity Portfolios Through Outcome-Driven Investment Strategies
Boston 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

Julie Fitton
Analog Devices
CISO

Javed Ikbal
Bright Horizons
VP/CISO

Jasvinder Khera
John Hancock
AVP & CISO

Brian McGowan
SharkNinja
CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
Coming Soon
The CISO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted By CISOs, For CISOs®, and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.
Accelerate Exposure Management To Defend At Machine Speed
Attacker timelines have eclipsed human-centered vulnerability management models. CISOs must redesign exposure management to move past reactive, static scoring. By enforcing shorter remediation SLAs, automating response actions, and correlating exposures, organizations can eliminate bottlenecks and neutralize AI-driven exploitation before attackers act.
Unify AI Risk Into Existing Cyber Governance Practices
As AI adoption accelerates, creating isolated AI security policies fragments risk management and slows decision-making. CISOs must establish formal ownership over AI cybersecurity risks by evolving existing cyber GRC practices. Integrating threat-informed assessments and AI literacy into unified registers ensures secure innovation while maintaining comprehensive board-level visibility.
Optimize Cybersecurity Portfolios Through Outcome-Driven Investment Strategies
Facing economic headwinds and growing technological complexity, CISOs must transition from traditional rollover budgeting to strategic cost optimization. By eliminating overlapping vendor capabilities and utilizing outcome-driven metrics, cybersecurity leaders can negotiate protection level agreements with executives, ensuring investments directly advance organizational resilience and deliver measurable enterprise value.
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Boston CISO 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
Renaissance Boston Seaport DistrictCommunity Program Manager
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
