2025 Dallas CIO Community Executive Summit

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Get together with Dallas's top CIOs 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 CIOs today:

Driving Business Value Through Technology & Leadership Collaboration

Harnessing the Power of AI for Strategic Advantage

Leading the Enterprise Through Disruption and Uncertainty

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Sumit Anand

Academy Sports + Outdoors
CIO

Mike Anderson

Netskope
Chief Digital & Information Officer

Sandeep Dave

CBRE
Chief Digital & Technology Officer

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO 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 Dallas CIO 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

November 5, 2025

morning afternoon

8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am Keynote

Opening Keynote Presentation

Tommy Alsbrooks

SVP & CIO

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Additional details coming soon

9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session

The Business Has Complex Questions — Does Your Data and AI Have Trusted Answers?

Ivy Grant

Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Operations

Twilio

AI-powered data and analytics are transforming how CIOs answer complex, business-critical questions with precision and speed. What are some of the best practices of IT leaders who effectively leverage AI for continuous learning, deeper insights, and actionable decision-making?

Join this session to examine:

Unlocking comprehensive answers to evolving business questions
Enabling continuous learning for impactful AI usage
Harnessing new opportunities with agentic AI and preparing for the next AI leap

10:25am - 11:10am Networking Break

10:35am - 11:00am Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom

Future-Proofing Data for Digital Transformation

Mike Frasca

Field CTO

Reltio

As AI and digital transformation accelerate, CIOs must deliver agile, trusted data ecosystems that drive innovation and business value. Yet, legacy systems, data silos, and governance challenges persist.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

Building a scalable, modern data foundation
Balancing speed, performance, and trust
Enabling innovation through unified data platforms

11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom

Beyond Tech — Evolving Organizations for AI Success

Paul Chapman

Vice President Business Strategy

Cisco Systems

You can’t unlock AI’s full value without rethinking your people strategy. The gap is widening between those riding the AI wave and those struggling to stay afloat. We’re pouring investment into platforms, models, and copilots, but what about our people? Without inclusive upskilling, AI won’t feel like empowerment; it will feel like exclusion.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

The fundamental architectural necessities that AI is driving in technology and operations
Aligning workforce AI proficiency as a core pillar of AI ROI
Evolving talent strategy, org design, and change management in parallel with AI investments
Building cross-functional partnerships to drive AI adoption and success

11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Zero Trust & AI — Strengthening Security, Reducing Complexity, and Driving Innovation

Jay Chaudhry

CEO, Chairman & Founder

Zscaler

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

1:05pm - 1:30pm Break

2:15pm - 3:00pm Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

3:00pm - 3:45pm Breakout Session

AI Laws in the Digital Wild West

Russ Pearlman

CIO

Dallas College

As AI technologies outpace the laws meant to govern them, Texas is forging its own path in regulation and compliance. Join Russ Pearlman, CIO and licensed hi-tech attorney, for an insider’s look at the legislative developments shaping the AI landscape in Texas —and what they mean for your IT strategy.

Join this session to discuss:

How evolving AI laws and ethics shape enterprise adoption and governance
Compliance frameworks for managing risk and supporting responsible innovation
Strategies for effective data sharing, breaking down silos, and fostering collaboration

3:45pm - 4:00pm Networking Break

4:35pm - 4:45pm Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

November 5, 2025

morning afternoon

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The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas

A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-877-619-2539. Please mention Gartner Dallas CIO CISO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $369 USD (plus tax) is October 13, 2025.

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