Benelux CIO Community
Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Learn about the zero trust evolution and how zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, and IoT/OT devices by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture. This session covers key steps in a phased zero trust transformation journey, as well as advanced techniques like “negative trust” deception technology. Active defence on top of zero trust architecture can help organisations become more resilient against advanced attacks and human-led ransomware or supply chain threats.

Join this session and learn to:

• Identify initial steps and key phases of zero trust transformation
• Mitigate advanced attacks with zero trust and negative trust (active defence)
• Demystify zero trust architecture for business leaders

In recent years, the Sygnia Incident Response Team has handled numerous nation-state attacks that employed unique attack techniques and posed new challenges to security leaders and incident responders.

In this talk, we will guide you through the anatomy of a real-world attack we recently responded to, including attacker TTPs and effective response procedures. This case study will highlight the common pitfalls and key opportunities when defending against even the most sophisticated attacks.

You will come away with:

• A deeper understanding of current attack trends
• Actionable insights into the risks and vulnerabilities exploited by attackers targeting highly complex environments
• Effective defence strategies employed by leading organisations worldwide

Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive efficiency and technological innovation. Yet taking advantage of this opportunity in the wrong way can have serious security consequences for the organisation. IT and Security leaders need to anticipate and prepare to mitigate potential risks as data is increasingly accessed and analysed in increasingly different ways. For business stakeholders to secure investment, how can CIOs and CISOs demonstrate the benefits of these technologies? Join this session to learn about:

• How AI plays a role in sophisticated attacks today and how to prepare
• Examples of how to leverage AI to process and analyse large volumes of data quickly...and safely
• How leaders can use AI capabilities to enhance cybersecurity and demonstrate value to the business

As business cycles shorten and the velocity of data increases, CIOs are at the forefront of developing strategies to harness data assets in support of growth strategies. However, the highly dynamic, increasingly complex nature of data is creating headwinds that hold organisations back from fully delivering on its impact.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Data as a strategic capability to enhance customer experiences and drive growth
• Empowering teams across your organisation with trusted and connected data for real-time engagement and business decision-making
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to design an enterprise-wide data strategy that’s highly responsive to changing business needs

As businesses attempt to reinvent themselves through IT, many CIOs need to transform their current delivery from a project model into a product-centric model, building cross-functional product-aligned teams that are faster, more iterative and more responsive to business demands However, as a CIO, this presents operational challenges that sit squarely with you, and other business leaders, to ensure that new delivery and operating models are structured to maximise business impact and efficiency. Driving transformation requires an alignment between business and IT across value chains to develop shared priorities. Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Identifying and prioritising technology development in alignment with business objectives
• Aligning funding with the organisation's priorities
• Emphasizing outcomes rather than focus on projects and tasks

Enterprises are under pressure to address multiple challenges impacting the planet, their people and profitability. This is all happening while a recession is looming, quiet quitting is real and climate change is a top concern. Now is the time to position technology leaders as key partners in tackling these issues to maximise sustainable value across the business.

Join this session to explore sustainable strategies for:

• Reducing efforts in the negative impact your company and products have on the planet (environmental sustainability)
• How to best champion and manage the impact on your people (social sustainability)
• Managing the business' fiscal health and future profitability (financial sustainability)

Many cybersecurity incidents result from well-known vulnerabilities that went unpatched. Delays in remediation can lead to a cascade effect of higher security risks, breaches and attacks. What strategies and tools are CISOs and CIOs using to identify, prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities across every computing device?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Significantly compressing the time between discovery and remediation
• Better leveraging threat intel to more aggressively reduce vectors of attack
• Efficiently managing the ever-expanding number and types of devices needing protection

**Exclusively for Gartner EXP Clients**

In order to stay current and competitive in the digital world, CIOs need to ensure primary business goals are aligned with organisational digital priorities. Those forging this path are constantly revaluating their strategy of doing more with less by increasing operational efficiencies to ensure ROI.

In this session, CIOs will discuss:

• Creating a strategic vision to drive financial company growth through digital initiatives
• Ensure your digital strategy aligns with business goals to keep you on track in a changing environment
• Develop executive leadership and transformation through culture and talent

As IT and Security leaders within your organisation, making the optimal decisions based on the data and metrics available is imperative to accelerate digital initiatives and ensure the ongoing security of the business. However, the impact our unconscious biases have in the decisions we make may well affect the overall outcome, as well as the performance of your teams. Join Marcia Goddard as she shares how to address your internal biases to make better decisions in your role.

Specifically, Marcia will cover:

• How to overcome unconscious bias within your teams to make better-informed, data-driven decisions
• Addressing biases in recruitment to ensure diverse, effective IT and Security teams
• Building a sustainable high-performance culture to enable digital business