
Dallas CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 6, 2025 | The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
November 6, 2025
The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas'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:
Streamlining User Access Through Intelligent Technologies
Safeguarding Business Continuity Through Cyber Resilience
Revolutionizing Security Workflows with AI Threat Detection
Dallas 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

Sara Andrews
Experian
Global CISO

David Bell
CBRE
SVP, CISO

Mustapha Kebbeh
Ultimate Kronos Group
Chief Security Officer

Scot Miller
Mr. Cooper
SVP, CISO

Scott Moser
Sabre Corporation
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer

Becky Palmer
National Life Group
Chief Information Security Officer

Shamoun Siddiqui
The Upbound Group
VP, CISO

Sonya Wickel
Triumph Group
VP, Information Technology & CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Maximizing Board Influence — The CISO’s Blueprint for Strategic Engagement

Jorge Lopez
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
CISOs have a unique opportunity to elevate their leadership presence by translating technical expertise into clear, compelling business language and directly linking cybersecurity investments to revenue growth and organizational priorities. Gartner research highlights how CISOs can maximize their influence at the board level, driving strategic value and executive engagement.
Join this Gartner-led keynote to learn:
- Proven strategies for communicating cybersecurity’s business value to the board
- Techniques for mapping security investments to enterprise priorities and initiatives
- Best practices for building trusted, influential relationships with board members
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Adaptive Cybersecurity Resilience for the Extended Enterprise
Hosted by Wipro and AWS

Angshuman Chattopadhyay
Global Practice Head - Cloud, Infrastructure & Zero Trust Security
Wipro
Changes are now the norm in cybersecurity and emerging threats and/or business-led technology adoption bring new kind of risks. Securing a dynamic hybrid cloud environment requires an adaptive resilience strategy spanning an integrated architecture with ecosystem of tools, rationalized to optimize costs and efficiencies to change enablement process more quickly. This enables secure incorporation of AI and Agentic AI within context of your organization, to move towards a fully compliant multi-cloud environment.
Join this session to learn:
- Enhancing hybrid cloud cybersecurity resilience using adaptive approach of zero trust security
- Responding to dynamic threats using insights and connected controls
- Maturing architecture with constant identification of risks while ensuring seamless user experience
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Breakout session
Hosted by Splunk
Details coming soon!
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Be Ready! Preparing Your People for a Cyber Crisis
Hosted by Immersive

Jamie Knobles
Director, Cyber Resilience & Readiness
Immersive

Dewakar Garg
CISO
FleetPride
Security leaders face unprecedented challenges as evolving threats, including those posed by GenAI, rapidly increase enterprise risk. While new technologies offer defenses, they also introduce vulnerabilities. A cyber-ready workforce is crucial for organizational resilience, but how do you equip your organization to face the future of threats with confidence?
Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:
- Acting decisively under pressure to manage and mitigate threats
- Maintaining stakeholder confidence and protecting reputation during disruptions
- Sharing threat intelligence and preparing for long-term attack consequences
9:40am - 10:45am Executive Boardroom
Securing Data in the AI Era
Hosted by Varonis

Brian Vecci
Field CTO
Varonis Systems

Mustapha Kebbeh
Chief Security Officer
Ultimate Kronos Group

Jimi Mills
VP, CISO
Texas Instruments
AI-powered threats are accelerating, exposing enterprises to new risks as sensitive data is accessed and manipulated by both human and AI actors. CISOs face the challenge of maintaining visibility, control, and compliance across complex environments as AI adoption grows.
Join this interactive conversation to:
- Examine AI risk defense strategies to proactively identify and mitigate threats
- Explore best practices for securing Microsoft Copilot and AI-powered collaboration tools
- Share methods for detecting abnormal AI usage, managing permissions, and quantifying risk reduction
10:25am - 11:10am Networking Break
10:35am - 11:00am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Over the Horizon — CISOs to Chief Cyber Resilience Officers
Hosted by Rubrik

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
The CISO remit increasingly includes GenAI governance, securing cyber-physical systems, and a range of value-driving services — yet its core charge remains safeguarding operations. As breaches become inevitable and board risk appetites shift, cyber resilience will demand even greater focus. CISOs must define recovery goals, guarantee reliable backups, and restore critical services with speed — focusing on measurable resilience to earn their future role as Chief Cyber Resilience Officers.
Join this session to learn about:
- Defining and measuring resilience for real business outcomes
- Orchestrating reliable backup and rapid recovery strategies
- Embedding resilience across teams as a cultural and leadership priority
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out
Hosted by Island

Jason Trunk
Chief Enterprise Architect
Island
With high volumes of sensitive data now flowing through web browsers, three in five organizations say data leakage is likely given current IT and security infrastructures. Stop playing catch-up. Discover new approaches to enterprise operations to reduce risk while simplifying operations.
Join this session to discover:
- How disparate IT and security solutions create technical debt
- What challenges impact internal and end user stakeholders
- How simplifying IT can strengthen security, and boost productivity
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Resilience at Scale – Addressing Five Critical Fault Lines
Hosted by Cloudflare

Khalid Kark
Field CIO
Cloudflare
Resilience is the defining test of modern leadership. In an era of escalating cyber threats and geopolitical volatility, organizations compete not on speed alone but on their ability to withstand disruption and emerge stronger. How can leaders can embed resilience into the core of business strategy, technology, and operations?
Join this session to discuss:
- Exploring the five critical fault lines where resilience must be built in, not bolted on
- Moving from reactive defenses to proactive, intelligence-driven, scalable environments
- Making resilience a shared strategic mandate with cross-functional ownership
11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Dallas CISO Community Executive Summit.
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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
The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las ColinasA block of rooms has been reserved at the The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-877-619-2539. Please mention GCC Dallas Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $369 USD (plus tax) is October 13, 2025.
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