Executive Summit

Effective change management is critical for maximizing technology investments and safeguarding operational integrity. When change is driven by top-down directives or lacks clear rationale, organizations often encounter confusion and resistance. Amid these challenges, it’s essential for leaders to focus on achieving the business case and delivering the intended value that drives the change. By co-creating a compelling vision with employees and leaders, CIOs and CISOs can foster ownership and adaptability, allowing their organizations to thrive amid change and evolving regulatory pressures.

Join this keynote panel to gain insights on:

• Engaging employees throughout the change journey
• Prioritizing transparent, two-way communication
• Building organizational resilience and adaptability

By analyzing and identifying patterns indicative of a potential data breach, artificial intelligence within a unified framework can dramatically improve your efforts to protect your organization's most precious data.

In this session, you and your peers will gather:

• Practical steps for better protecting data integrity
• How intelligent frameworks can augment and refine existing DLP efforts
• Ways of using these AI-supported frameworks to strengthen overall resilience

AI hype is everywhere—from the boardroom to the front lines—but IT leaders need a clear roadmap to turn ambition into enterprise value. Progressing from “Day 0” to “Day 2” means overcoming challenges in strategy, data readiness, infrastructure, talent, and operations—while keeping technology aligned with outcomes.

The session will cover how to:

• Define AI strategy, assess readiness, and align use cases with data (Day 0)
• Build, pilot, and manage infrastructure and ecosystems (Day 1)
• Scale AI, upskill teams, and drive continuous optimization (Day 2)

Reinvention isn't one thing; it's the next thing. Real business value comes from solving a real business problem, not from a mandate to simply "do AI."

Join this session to explore:

• Identifying the most valuable opportunities for reinvention
• Unlocking actionable insights with real-time, contextual intelligence
• Creating new and better business outcomes using AI

To achieve sustainable progress, CIOs and CISOs will need to go beyond simply striving to do more with less. By rigorously defining requirements, ensuring measurable outcomes, and optimizing the use of current assets, technology and security leaders can drive operational efficiency, enhance resilience, and deliver long-term value to the organization.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Maximizing productivity through incremental process enhancements and automation
• Optimizing total cost of ownership by streamlining operations and reducing reliance on external resources
• Reinvesting realized savings into initiatives that strengthen both business operations and security posture

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.

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

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Accelerating operational efficiency requires harnessing AI observability to streamline processes and enhance performance. CIOs must leverage automation and data-driven insights to optimize workflows, ensure reliability, and turn AI innovation into measurable efficiency gains.

Come together with your peers to discuss:

• Leveraging AI observability to proactively detect inefficiencies and improve enterprise operations
• Integrating automation with AI to streamline workflows, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate response times
• Aligning AI-driven insights with efficiency goals to achieve measurable improvements and sustainable performance

Cyber resilience is not a binary element; it is a dynamic and multifaceted concept that varies depending on one's security perspective. As organizations strive to increase operational efficiencies, leaders must deepen their understanding of the business side of cybersecurity. The question is not just about having resilience against current threats but also about preparing for what comes next. CISOs need to ask this critical question: Is your organization resilient enough to recover swiftly and effectively?

Join this session to discuss:

• Changing the way leaders think about cyber resiliency, it's not a simple equation
• Empowering leaders to gain a deeper understanding of cyber resiliency & business operations
• Evaluating your organizations ability to recover quickly and effectively against cyber incidents

Join us for an energizing networking break designed for women in information security and technology leadership, along with their allies, to connect, collaborate, and share experiences. This session brings together Florida’s women CIOs, CISOs, and other senior leaders who are driving meaningful change within their organizations and communities. In addition to informal networking, we’ll host a facilitated roundtable sharing, where participants can discuss challenges, successes, and strategies for advancement in a supportive, peer-driven environment. Come prepared to exchange ideas, inspire and be inspired, and forge new relationships that will empower you to achieve your goals and broaden your perspective.

This session is intended for women in the Florida CIO and CISO community leading the information security or technology functions at their organizations (CISO/CIO/equivalent), as well as women who report directly to these leaders. Priority access will be reserved for these groups, with allies welcome as space permits.