In-Person

Chicago CISO Community

Inner Circle

September 16, 2025 | Chicago Winery

September 16, 2025
Chicago Winery

Collaborate with your peers

Join Chicago's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:

Aligning cybersecurity with business goals to encourage strategic growth

Expanding CISO roles to drive organizational impact and security innovation

Chicago CISO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.

Agenda

September 16, 2025

4:30pm - 5:30pm  Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:30pm  Discussion Topics

Resilient Leadership — Optimizing Cybersecurity in a Dynamic World

Chris Boehm headshot

Chris Boehm

Field CTO

Zero Networks

Shefali Mookencherry headshot

Shefali Mookencherry

Chief Information Security Officer and Privacy Officer

University of Illinois at Chicago

Steve Powell headshot

Steve Powell

Director of Cybersecurity and Compliance

Fairlife

Hussein Din headshot

Hussein Din

SVP, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Architecture, CISO

U.S. Renal Care

Julie Myerholtz headshot

Julie Myerholtz

VP & CISO

Brunswick

Celedonio Albarran headshot

Celedonio Albarran

VP Infrastructure & Security

Equity Residential

The rapid evolution of cyber threats and technological advancements over the past year has introduced both unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organizations worldwide.  Now more than ever, cybersecurity leaders must drive organizational success by integrating security initiatives with business objectives.

Gartner predicts that by 2027, nearly half of CISOs will expand their remit beyond cybersecurity, due to increasing regulatory pressure and attack surface expansion. To meet this moment, security leaders must adopt strategic leadership approaches that leverage collaboration and innovation to optimize cybersecurity investments, enhance resilience, and drive organizational growth -- all while navigating and defending against increasingly more sophisticated and high-frequency attacks.

Join this peer-led roundtable to discuss:

  • How are you working to evolve your role beyond technical oversight to encompass more of a business leadership position that influences the entire organization?
  • How are you building relationships with strategic internal partners to help you optimize security investments, minimize cyber risk, and stay on top of changing regulatory requirements?
  • What key message can you, as a leader, bring back to your team to inspire them, considering the dynamic world of evolving threats that present both challenges and opportunities?
  • What strategies, tools, and technology have you found helpful in enhancing team performance, increasing agility via responsive strategies, and improving cyber resiliency?
  • What emerging threat vectors and trends are you watching that have presented challenges for your organization?
  • What new opportunities have you seen arise with the changing landscape?

6:30pm - 7:00pm  Networking Break

7:00pm - 8:00pm  Summary Discussion & Dinner

8:00pm - 9:00pm  Social Hour

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

Location

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Self Parking at Chicago Winery

Parking accommodations for guests of Chicago Winery have been provided through a partnership with the garage located at One W. Superior. Enter the code provided to access the discounted rate.

Up to 4 hours – $19

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Nick Hall

Senior Community Program Manager

4253180488

nick.hall@gartner.com