Italy CISO Executive Summit

 Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

AI agents are bringing about a significant revolution in IT strategy by enabling new levels of automation, adaptability, and intelligence. Leveraging their capabilities transfers the value generation responsibility to business units, demanding an automation support to achieve their business goals. CIOs need to ensure seamless integration and cost-effectiveness, while maintaining modularity, flexibility, scalability and robustness.Join Christian Stephan, Sr. Director Analyst at Gartner as he shares key pillars for CIO to focus on when managing internal and external expectations for agentic AI. In this session, we will discuss strategies to:

• Adapt to new orchestration and integration needs
• Focus on value-driven adoption instead of chasing the next hype
• Set up an AI delivery organization to enable agent automation at scale

Cyberattackers are increasingly leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to execute more advanced and sophisticated attacks, amplifying the scale and impact of the threat. As a result, the perception among many organisations is that the scales are tipping in favour of the attackers. To change this perception, CIOs must adopt a proactive AI-drive defence strategy. To meet this moment, how can CIOs cut down on complexities within AI-driven platforms and gain visibility and control across security systems to better protect the enterprise? Join this session to discuss:

• The strategies CIOs are deploying to combat the evolving threat landscape
• Defending in the AI era through mixing conventional and new approaches
• Leveraging AI to empower your defence teams and scale up security across the organisation

The cyber threat landscape continues to grow, and CISOs need to make faster, more confident decisions about which exposures to fix and which to safely ignore. With 82% of security leaders reporting an increasing gap between vulnerabilities/exposures and their ability to address them, what are the strategies CISOs should employ to continually improve their security posture? Join this session to discuss how continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) strategies can greatly enhance security posture.

Specifically, you’ll discuss:

• Challenges with the historic vulnerability management approach 
• How to reduce risk and increase efficiency with a comprehensive exposure management strategy (whilst not breaking the bank)
• How to measure and report security posture gains to the board

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT and security leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs and CISOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

• Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

*The case study in this session will take place in Italian. The workshop will take place in English*

Experience the transformative power of cybersecurity awareness with Valerio Visconti, Group CISO, Autostrade per l'Italia and Eduardo Mastranza, VP, EMEA Lead for CISO Executive Programs at Gartner. This workshop offers a unique perspective by immersing you in the cybercriminal world. Discover how this innovative approach has already helped prevent a cyberattack by providing "sticky" awareness to business leaders. First, hear a case study showcasing the workshop's success in thwarting cyber threats. Then, experience the gamified workshop itself, where you'll:

• Experience how to supercharge your organization's cybersecurity awareness and arm yourself against cyberattacks
• Crack the code of a cybercriminal's mindset and logic to build impenetrable defenses
• Champion the cause that cybersecurity isn't just an IT issue—it's everyone's responsibility

With sustainability and safety at its core, and climate change evolving before our very eyes, JLL recognised an opportunity to utilise advanced analytics and AI to its advantage. Join Barbara Cominelli, CEO at JLL Italia and previously COO, Microsoft Italy and Chief Digital and Operations, Vodafone Italy as she shares the journey from rebuilding business processes to incorporate genAI to creating an ecosystem to scale and encourage innovation. 

In this keynote, Barbara will share insights into a CEO’s view on: 

•  Interlinking your genAI and data strategy with business objectives to differentiate your organisation’s vision 
• Reshaping your corporate DNA to adopt an ‘AI at scale’ mindset to deliver sustained change
• Balancing associated AI risks with the desire to innovate