Middle East CISO Community
Inner Circle
26 October 2026 | Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai
26 October 2026
Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai
Collaborate with your peers
Join Middle East's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Lead Strategic Technology Alignment to Establish an AI Operating Model
Manage Costs Strategically to Maximize Business Value
Elevate Cybersecurity as a Core Driver of Business Value, Resilience and Growth
Middle East CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Nick Charnley
TAQA
CISO
Alex Constantinidis
QNB
Group CISO
Shafiullah Ismail
Mubadala Capital
Senior Vice President & Head of Information Security and Risk
Agenda
26 October 2026
17:30 - 18:30 Executive Networking Reception
18:30 - 19:30 Discussion Topics
Operational Trust in the Age of Agentic AI
Hosted by Rubrik
Agentic AI is scaling faster than most organizations can govern. Shadow AI and autonomous workflows are proliferating across enterprise environments. Rubrik Zero Labs research shows only 37% of organizations maintain a current inventory of their agents. What cannot be seen cannot be governed.
Security and IT Leaders must establish operational trust as the foundation for AI at scale: enforcing data boundaries, validating AI behavior under real-world conditions and maintaining the ability to recover to a clean and trusted state when agentic systems fail. Security leaders who build that infrastructure are the ones who make confident, compliant AI adoption possible at speed.
19:30 - 20:00 Networking Break
20:00 - 21:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
21:30 - 22:30 Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
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