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Italy CISO Executive Summit

10 June 2025 | Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan

10 June 2025
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Italy'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:

Rationalise IT Security Infrastructure to Reduce Cost

Harness AI’s Ability to Scale through Leadership Buy-In and Governance

Enhance Resiliency to Mitigate Risk

Italy 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

Sergio Insalaco

Unipol Group
Group CISO

Alessandro Marzi

A2A Group
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 Italy CISO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Risk to the Nth-Party Degree

Third party relationships are closest and may prove to be the most tangible risks to your business, yet the whole supply chain of your business partners still pose a substantial threat. Most organizations’ vendor relationship extend to the 8th party. Security leaders need to understand this web of connectedness in order to better manage and communicate enterprise risk.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Gaining visibility into risk across the whole supply chain
  • Strategies for effective risk management and monitoring business partners
  • Third party risk considerations for NIS2 adoption and compliance

Preparing for Brand New Threats — Fighting AI with Precision

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

Embrace a Holistic View of Data to Improve LLM Performance

CIOs know high quality data is a prerequisite for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, inconsistent data management, varying maturity levels, and the complexity of integrating structured and unstructured data makes this difficult to achieve. What methodologies and tools can CIOs use to improve data quality and optimise LLM performance?

Join this boardroom to discuss how to:

  • Implement robust data governance frameworks to ensure consistency and accuracy across datasets
  • Leverage data integration tools to blend structured and unstructured data
  • Foster a culture of data quality improvement to enhance organisational data maturity


Keynote Session

Unlocking GenAI’s Transformative Potential — A CEO's Perspective

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


Breakout Sessions

2025 Mission Critical Priorities — A CIO's Perspective

 Join Alessandro Cugno Garrano, VP, Executive Partner Gartner as he sits down with a client to discuss their collaboration and journey towards achieving the organisation's mission critical priorities for 2025 and beyond.  

The Paradox of Agentic AI — the Challenge and the Antidote

Join Christian Stephan, Sr. Director Analyst at Gartner as he shares key pillars for the CIO to focus on when it comes to managing internal and external expectations for agentic AI. 


Gamifying Cybersecurity — A Day in the Life of a Cybercriminal 2.0

 Join Eduardo Mastranza, VP, EMEA Lead for CISO Executive Programs at Gartner, alongside Valerio Visconti, Group CISO, Autostrade per l'Italia for an interactive workshop. This “out-of-the-box” approach that will inspire you on how to engage top management on the topic of cybersecurity, regulation and risk. 


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


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Location


A block of rooms has been reserved at the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling +39 02 67851.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of €532 EUR (plus tax) is 22 April 2025.

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Michabelle Fahed

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michabelle.fahed@gartner.com