Florida CIO Community
Executive Summit
November 4, 2025 | Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
November 4, 2025
Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Florida'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:
Drive Strategic Growth by Leveraging Data, AI, and Advanced Analytics
Strengthen Cyber Resilience and Risk Management
Optimize Costs and Enable Business Agility
Florida CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Carrie Busbee
Core & Main
CIO
Prashant Cherukuri
Qualfon
CIO
Elvis Clemetson
SBA Communications
SVP & Global CIO
Otto Contreras
Miami-Dade County
Division Director, IT
Chad Couch
JM Family Enterprises
CIO
Christina Shannon
KIK Consumer Products
CIO
Luis Suarez
H.I.G. Capital
CIO
Christine Vanderpool
Florida Crystals Corporation
VP & CTO
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 Florida 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
Breakout Sessions
Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out
With high volumes of sensitive data now flowing through web browsers, three in five organizations say data leakage is likely given current IT and security infrastructures. Stop playing catch-up. Discover new approaches to enterprise operations to reduce risk while simplifying operations.
Join this session to discover:
- How disparate IT and security solutions create technical debt
- What challenges impact internal and end user stakeholders
- How simplifying IT can strengthen security, and boost productivity
10-Minute Wins
Why learn from one peer when you can learn from three? In this unorthodox, but effective, breakout session you’ll hear from multiple members of your community — each taking the floor for 10 minutes to share what they’ve gleaned from their time in leadership.
Executive Boardroom Sessions
From Static Data to Intelligent Automation
Agentic AI is revolutionizing data strategy, empowering leaders to automate decision making and optimize operations with minimal human intervention. However, success depends on more than just adoption — it requires strategic implementation, governance and risk mitigation to drive real business impact. The question isn’t if, but how you will harness agentic AI to gain a competitive edge.
Join this roundtable discussion as peers explore how to:
- Unlock autonomous AI for smarter, faster data-driven decisions
- Mitigate risks by mastering AI governance and bias control
- Drive real business impact with scalable agentic AI strategies
Unified Security—Physical and Cyber Convergence
In today’s evolving threat landscape, the line between physical and cybersecurity is increasingly blurred. As organizations face sophisticated attacks that target both digital infrastructure and physical assets, a siloed approach to security is no longer sufficient.
Join this roundtable session to discuss:
- Integrating physical and cybersecurity strategies
- Breaking down barriers between security teams
- Strengthening overall security posture
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Florida CIO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale AirportParking
Complimentary self-parking onsite. Valet parking will be $45 per car per day.
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