Executive Summit

Transformations rarely fail because of technology -- they fail when leaders allow competing priorities and dysfunctional behaviors to derail decision-making. If it feels like you've seen this movie before, it's because you have; these are the same patterns that have plagued transformations for decades. But as AI demands deeper collaboration across functions than any previous wave of innovation, unresolved leadership dynamics, organizational politics, and misaligned incentives become harder to ignore. The key to creating lasting change is recognizing and breaking these patterns before they become barriers to progress. That is what transforms a technology leader into an influential business leader.
 
Join this keynote to explore:

• Building executive influence by creating alignment around outcomes, not activities
• Navigating tradeoffs, competing priorities, and uncertainty with greater credibility and confidence
• Moving beyond functional expertise to become a catalyst for business decisions

The cybersecurity community spent years preparing for AI by creating policies and governance frameworks. Now, AI agents moved from theory to practice, executing workflows and reshaping enterprise security.

Join this session to learn about:

• Exploring dual-track strategies needed to succeed
• Protecting the enterprise from risks of autonomous "Shadow AI"
• Leveraging agentic capabilities to scale InfoSec operations to machine speed

Quantum computing may still be a future threat, but the window to prepare is already shrinking. As standards evolve and organizations seek to better understand long-term cryptographic risk, this session explores how security leaders are approaching post-quantum readiness as an enterprise change initiative, not a quantum project.

In this CISO-led session, you'll hear how peers are:

• Building executive urgency by translating post-quantum risk into business impact
• Assessing cryptographic dependencies and organizational readiness for change
• Prioritizing quick wins that deliver value today while supporting long-term resilience

As AI accelerates the creation and utilization of data, organizations face unprecedented challenges in securing their most valuable asset. Shadow AI, dark data, and the proliferation of distributed applications have rendered traditional data protection methods insufficient. In this evolving threat landscape, security leaders must adopt risk-based, adaptive strategies to safeguard innovation, ensure compliance, and maintain operational resilience. 

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• Unifying data protection and compliance across workloads
• Ensuring regulatory compliance and business continuity through robust, future-ready solutions
• Accelerating cyber recovery with AI-driven tools

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, security leaders are being asked to support innovation while maintaining control over sensitive data. Many AI initiatives are revealing longstanding challenges around data visibility, access governance, oversharing, and policy enforcement. The organizations that successfully scale AI will be those that establish trust in the data, controls, and governance frameworks that underpin it. 

Join this roundtable to discuss: 

• Assessing confidence in AI data visibility and identifying barriers to secure adoption 

• Bridging the gap between AI policy and employee behavior, including shadow AI 

• Enabling AI innovation while maintaining security without being restrictive 

Connect with like-minded peers in a 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.

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

 Join this session to explore one of the community's top priorities this year: Managing Risk Across Human and AI Identities. Gain insights into key challenges, emerging approaches, and practical applications to help you navigate what's next.

CISOs have moved beyond AI experimentation. Now, executives ask: Are 2025’s investments actually reducing risk? The challenge is how to operationalize AI against evolving threats — and prove its value.

Join this session to discuss:

• Strategies for reducing high-risk incidents and fraud
• Embedding AI into core security operations to reduce risk
• Demonstrating risk reduction with actionable metrics

As organizations accelerate digital transformation, hyper-connectivity is reshaping the risk landscape. The proliferation of interconnected devices, platforms, and partners expands the attack surface and challenges traditional models of trust, identity, and access.

Join this session to discuss:

• Rethinking trust frameworks for a borderless, interconnected enterprise
• Managing third-party and supply chain risks in a hyper-connected world
• Leveraging emerging technologies to build adaptive, resilient trust models