Executive Summit

Scaling a brand, rebuilding a tech stack, protecting culture, and guiding a small team through hypergrowth: this is the reality Danyel Bischof‑Forsyth, Chief Technology & Information Officer navigated at 7 Brew. Join this session as she shares her experience blending rapid expansion, radical simplification, and people‑first leadership, illustrating what it takes to lead boldly when everything is evolving at once. 

Join this session to learn strategies for:

• Enabling growth with decisive leadership
• Simplifying technology to fuel scale
• Protecting people and culture through transformation

The shift from basic AI assistants to autonomous agents is reshaping the enterprise, turning passive tools into scalable workflows. Real advantage emerges when intelligence is grounded in an organization’s unique, proprietary content. As leaders move beyond early experiments, the priority becomes breaking down silos and establishing governance that ensures agents operate on a reliable foundation.

Join this interactive session to learn how to:

• Prioritize measurable growth beyond LLM hype
• Connect content to unlock meaningful AI performance
• Understand the monetary and labor opportunity costs of AI transformation

For CIOs managing the complexity of hybrid IT environments, moving from fragmented observability toward operational intelligence can simplify operations, improve resilience, and delivers reliable services. Governed AI-driven insights help connect system behavior across environments and translate operational signals into action with business impact.

Join this session to learn about:

• Unifying observability, optimization,  and risk into shared operational intelligence
• Using AI agents to investigate, remediate and strengthen operational resilience
• Demonstrating measurable operational and business impact

The role of the Chief Information Officer has fundamentally changed. What began as stewardship of technology infrastructure has expanded into a mandate to drive enterprise value, manage systemic risk, and accelerate decision-making at scale. 

Join this session to gain and share insights on:

• How CIOs define success today and the metrics that matter most
• How leaders prioritize, communicate impact, and navigate rising expectations
• How peers benchmark progress and surface the questions shaping modern CIO effectiveness

As digital threats evolve, CIOs are uniquely positioned to champion cybersecurity as both a business enabler and strategic imperative. Join Paul Proctor, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, as he shares how CIOs can align security with IT operations, drive board-level engagement and make smart investments that support growth. Gain new perspectives on balancing risk, leadership and innovation in today’s complex threat landscape. 

Join this keynote to learn about:

• The key elements for CIOs and CISOs to coordinate on
• Using benchmarked protection-levels to transform cyber board reporting
• Treating cybersecurity as a business decision

As AI shifts from assistive systems to autonomous agents acting across business environments, data becomes the true control surface. These agents require broad access to data, identities, and business processes, creating new risk patterns as sensitive data and outbound actions converge at machine speed. This is a control shift. CIOs must modernize how data is governed, authorized, and protected so organizations can adopt agentic AI confidently without losing oversight.

Join this session to explore how to:

• Detect emerging risk behaviors in autonomous AI
• Build a data-centric and intent-aware security model
• Establish the CIO as the orchestrator of scalable AI and business growth enabler