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August 19, 2025 | China Live
August 19, 2025
China Live
Join San Francisco'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:
Aligning cybersecurity with business goals to encourage strategic growth
Expanding CISO roles to drive organizational impact and security innovation
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Krishnan Chellakarai
Gilead Sciences
CISO, Head of Information Security & Data Privacy
Bryan Green
Andreessen Horowitz
CISO
Leda Muller
Stanford University
Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer
Kannan Perumal
Applied Materials
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Jeff Trudeau
Chime
VP, CIO & CSO
David Tugwell
Agilent Technologies
AVP/CISO
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
The rapid evolution of cyber threats and technological advancements over the past year has introduced both unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organizations worldwide. Now more than ever, cybersecurity leaders must drive organizational success by integrating security initiatives with business objectives.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, nearly half of CISOs will expand their remit beyond cybersecurity, due to increasing regulatory pressure and attack surface expansion. To meet this moment, security leaders must adopt strategic leadership approaches that leverage collaboration and innovation to optimize cybersecurity investments, enhance resilience, and drive organizational growth -- all while navigating and defending against increasingly more sophisticated and high-frequency attacks.
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
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