Executive Summit

As attackers leverage AI to move faster than ever, traditional security strategies are falling behind. CIOs are now tasked with defending their organizations at machine speed, requiring a shift from reactive patching to proactive, autonomous protection. Leading enterprises are adopting continuous risk governance and measurable guardrails to ensure accountable AI adoption. CIOs are tasked with aligning business strategy with security outcomes and deliver board-level visibility into risk and remediation, all while enabling innovation.

Join this session to learn:

• Aligning business strategy with real-time risk governance
• Implementing measurable guardrails for accountable AI adoption
• Delivering board-ready visibility into AI risk and remediation progress

As organizations advance from simple chatbots to persistent, agentic AI, their technology infrastructure must evolve. Traditional campus and branch architectures were not designed for the scale, complexity, variability, and security risks of emerging AI workloads, creating a widening gap between AI investment and operational readiness.

This session examines:

• Modernizing infrastructure to support agentic operations, connected intelligence, and effective collaboration
• Fusing security into the network
• Ensuring AI enhances the human experience

AI is enabling employees across the business to build apps, agents, and automation at an unprecedented speed. While this unlocks significant productivity and innovation, the result is a wave of, "wild code": AI-generated solutions developed outside traditional IT governance. As organizations struggle to balance speed with security and control, conventional approaches are proving insufficient. This session will explore how teams can build, run, and monitor AI-created work with governance embedded throughout.

Join this session to:

• Understand the risks, cost, and overall business impact of "wild code"
• Recognize why traditional governance models fall short in the AI era
• Learn how to scale AI-driven innovation without sacrificing security or control

Join this interactive discussion with fellow CIOs on building a strong foundation for AI to exchange perspectives, explore common challenges, and uncover practical ideas and strategies for improving data accessibility, enabling trusted AI outcomes, and driving greater business value from AI initiatives. More session details to follow.

Connect with like-minded peers in a 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.

 Join Jena Holtberg-Benge, Chief Digital & Information Officer at AGCO Corporation, as she shares perspectives, experiences, and lessons learned from leading digital and technology initiatives in a complex global organization. Additional session details will be provided as the agenda is finalized.

Technology, business priorities, and workforce expectations continue to evolve rapidly. While AI is adding urgency, the larger challenge is helping employees build skills and adapt to new ways of working. Leading organizations are embedding learning into everyday work.

In this boardroom, we'll discuss how to:

• Reskill and upskill talent across teams

• Support employees with varying levels of readiness

• Apply lessons from workforce development initiatives

Join this interactive discussion with fellow CIOs on AI strategy and leadership to exchange perspectives, explore common challenges, and uncover practical ideas for driving business value, managing risk, and enabling innovation across the enterprise. Moderated by Denise McCurdy, Senior Executive Partner at Gartner. More session details to follow.

As organizations navigate unprecedented technological, economic, and societal change, the role of leaders has never been more critical. Today's leaders must balance transformation with stability, helping teams adapt while continuing to deliver value. Drawing on experiences leading change across financial services, payments, and aviation, Amala Duggirala, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Delta Air Lines, will share lessons from guiding organizations through moments of significant transformation. Her perspective highlights why the most successful transformations begin not with technology, but with people.

In this keynote, you'll hear how to:

• Lead through change with empathy and trust
• Align people, culture, and technology around transformation
• Build resilience during uncertainty and disruption

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.