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Denver CISO Executive Summit
June 18, 2025 | Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center
June 18, 2025
Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Denver'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:
Harnessing Emerging Technologies With Purpose
Aligning Innovation and Security for Business Success
Building Adaptive Organizations in an Uncertain World
Denver 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
Chris Ard
Newmont Corporation
CDAO
Ken Athanasiou
VF Corp
Global CISO
Sam Masiello
The Anschutz Corporation
CISO
Chris McLaughlin
Johns Manville
CISO
Lucia Milică Stacy
Stanley Black & Decker
Global CISO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Denver CISO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Breakout Session
Building a Strategy for an AI-First Business
The future of business is rapidly evolving — a future where AI agents are part of the workforce, almost any process or workflow can be automated, and customers expect better, more intelligent experiences across their unstructured data. Whether that means automating loans or onboarding employees faster, applying intelligence to your unstructured data can be a pathway to stay ahead of the competition.
Join this interactive session to explore:
- Practical approaches to building an unstructured data strategy
- Robust content workflows and use cases for AI-first businesses
- Tips for optimizing while balancing your AI and security strategies
Executive Boardroom Session
Aligning Technology Investments with Business Goals
According to the 2024 Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, CEOs’ top two areas for increased funding are technology-related, highlighting the growing importance of digital transformation and innovation for business success. For leaders, securing executive buy-in requires aligning technology initiatives directly with strategic business outcomes like revenue growth, operational efficiency, and improved customer experiences. Communicating the clear value of these investments helps leadership understand their impact, driving both competitive advantage and long-term resilience in today’s rapidly evolving market.
Join this round table discussion as peers discuss how to:
- Align technology with core business priorities
- Demonstrate tech’s direct impact on value
- Drive innovation for long-term strategic advantage
Keynote Sessions
Weaponize Risk Appetite to Drive Risk Decisions
Risk appetite fails when it is expressed in fuzzy, imprecise terms. Repositioning risk appetite in the context of investment and value delivery creates a measurable scale of risk that powers a new type of governance.
Join this session to learn:
- How concrete assertions of risk appetite can make executive decisions binding
- How can risk appetite drive risk decisions
- What scale can be used to measure risk appetite
Law & Order — Cross Examining AI's Legal Boundaries
As AI technologies rapidly evolve, the laws and ethical standards designed to govern them lag behind, creating a mismatch in the pace of innovation and regulation. This misalignment often leads to inadequate alignment with core principles such as trustworthiness, safety, and ethics. For AI leaders, mastering governance strategies that drive alignment with these core principles is key to ensuring the organization’s risk profile is effectively managed.
Join AI, cybersecurity, and IP law expert Eran Kahana as he offers actionable insights on:
- Navigating the Ethics of Cutting-Edge AI
- Deciphering Global AI Legislation Dynamics
- Mastering AI Governance for Risk Mitigation
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center
MORE INFORMATION
Parking:
Valet: $48/car
Self-Park: $33/car
*Recommended to park in Exhibit Hall A & B lots. Parking lot is located past the hotel self-parking lots and valet, to the right of the Exhibit Hall.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 888-840-3143. Please mention Denver Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $309 USD (plus tax) is May 27, 2025.
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