Southern California CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 18, 2026 | The Waterfront Beach Resort
November 18, 2026
The Waterfront Beach Resort
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Southern California'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:
Elevating Security Leadership Through Business Influence in the Resilience Era
Positioning AI Governance as a Foundation for Trusted Innovation
Modernizing Exposure Management for an Autonomous Future
Southern California 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
Matt Crouse
Solar Turbines
CISO
Trina Ford
iHeartMedia
SVP, CISO
Nemi George
Pacific Dental Services
VP, Information Security Officer
Arthur Lessard
Universal Music Group
SVP & CISO
Diana Lovati
AEG
CISO
David Tyburski
Wynn Resorts
VP, 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 Southern California 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
Gartner Keynote Session
Prepare Your Organization to Adapt Safely — Whatever Comes Next
CEOs and boards increasingly see digital technologies as critical to growth despite ongoing market and geopolitical disruption. By intentionally embedding security into digital delivery, CISOs can lead efforts to prepare the enterprise to respond to change faster, build resilience and recover more effectively from disruption.
Join this keynote to explore:
- Maturing the security operating model to better enable business strategy
- Building governance that enables secure, scalable digital delivery
- Elevating the CISO as a strategic business leader and growth enabler
Executive Boardroom Session
AI in the Security Stack — Build, Buy or Extend?
As AI and agentic capabilities rapidly become embedded across the enterprise, security leaders face a critical decision: build custom capabilities, buy purpose-built platforms, or extend the tools already in place? The stakes go beyond technology selection—impacting speed, control, talent strategy, risk management, and long-term resilience. Organizations that get this decision right can accelerate innovation and security outcomes; those that get it wrong risk creating new complexity, cost, and operational blind spots.
Join this session to discuss:
- Build vs. buy as a competitive advantage decision, not a technology decision
- The tradeoffs between control, speed and operational complexity
- Where agentic capabilities belong in the security stack, and who should own them
Keynote Session
The Heart of Resilience — Leadership in a Dynamic World
Today’s cyber landscape demands a new rhythm for leadership. More than just tactical expertise, CISOs must elevate into true business partners who prepare their organizations not just for the threats of today but for the threats of tomorrow. Effective security leaders influence change, foster resilient teams, and, at the heart of it all, put people first even as technology evolves like never before.
Join Elliott Jones, CISO of Kaiser Permanente, as he shares his perspectives and stories on:
- Navigating the evolution to the modern day CISO
- Championing resilience with insights on the changing threat landscape and a focus on business continuity
- Cultivating adaptable teams and future‑ready talent to advance the security mission
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.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
The Waterfront Beach ResortValet Parking ONLY - $17 per day / $38 overnight.
*Valet Parking is COMPLIMENTARY if you pick up a validation sticker at the registration desk.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Waterfront Beach Resort at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling (714) 845-8000. Please mention So Cal Executive Summit 2026 to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $329 USD (plus tax) is October 26, 2026.
Your Community Sponsors
Global Thought Leaders
CISO Thought Leaders
Key Sponsors
Program Sponsor
Community Program Manager
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