2026 Philadelphia CISO Community Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Philadelphia'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:

Leveraging AI to Drive Innovation While Ensuring Security and Compliance

Cultivating Resilient Leadership to Navigate Disruption and Drive Growth

Aligning Technology and Cybersecurity Investments With Strategic Business Outcomes

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Todd Bearman

TE Connectivity
VP, CISO

Mark Eggleston

CSC
CISO

Anahi Santiago

Christiana Care
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 Philadelphia 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

Traditional ERP is Dead — What's Next?

Agentic AI is transforming work and prompting leaders to rethink traditional suites and modernization strategies. This boardroom will examine how agentic AI is unbundling ERP responsibilities, reshaping process orchestration and enabling smarter service layers.

Join fellow CIOs to explore:

The rise of service layers, workflow engines and AI agents
What’s replacing monolithic ERP models
Key assumptions to challenge when evaluating vendor roadmaps

Trust-Driven Leadership

How do you make cybersecurity risks real for a board with little IT background? Join this session to discuss how to transform board conversations by focusing on context, clarity, trust, and business impact — not just metrics. Learn how building trust, along with innovation, automation, and storytelling, can empower leaders to make smarter decisions and drive meaningful change, even in a lean environment.

In this interactive session, we’ll discuss:

Translating technical risk into board-level language
Innovating with AI to automate and optimize security
Building trust and framing “why” and “why now” for leadership buy-in

Keynote Session

Leading Through Uncertainty — Strategies That Work

Disruption is constant, but resilient organizations turn uncertainty into opportunity. Today’s CIOs and CISOs are redefining leadership — moving beyond technical silos to shape cultures that adapt, recover, and grow. This panel brings together peer perspectives on building operational resilience, communicating risk, and aligning vision across the enterprise.

In this panel, you’ll hear:

Ways to align executive teams around risk, value, and business priorities
Approaches for defining vision and operating models that drive enterprise resilience
Tactics for fostering adaptive, learning-driven cultures across leadership

Breakout Session

Guiding Teams Through AI Transformation

AI is reshaping what it means to lead. As automation accelerates, how do you build trust, inspire cultural change, and empower your teams to thrive? Join IT & security leaders for a candid conversation on the leadership mindset and practical actions needed to guide your organization through AI-driven transformation.

In this session, we’ll discuss:

Building trust and buy-in for AI adoption
Shaping culture to embrace new ways of working
Empowering talent through upskilling

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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.