
France CIO Community
Executive Summit
2 December 2025 | Les Salons Hoche
2 December 2025
Les Salons Hoche
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with France'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:
Harnessing AI to Drive Technological Transformation
Balancing Data Privacy & Innovation in a Globalised Digital Economy
Fostering a Cyber Resilient Culture to Strengthen Security Posture
France 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

Valéria Fernandes
Vallourec
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

François Gauthier
Veolia
Global Chief Digital Business & Technology Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote
Making Security Central to your Organisational Brand

Arnaud Tanguy
Group Chief Security Officer
AXA
Picture a business where cyber resilience is woven into every decision and not just seen as a box ticking exercise. Where even one word or phrase is instantly recognisable as a method of security awareness. This is the case at AXA. Join Arnaud Tanguy, Group CSO at AXA as he shares how he has built trust in AXA’s security brand to encourage behavioural change. Ultimately ensuring security as a core business function.
In this keynote, you will learn more on how to:
- Reposition security as a strategic brand that powers organisational resilience and trust
- Engage advocates for security at board level by translating security into compelling, business-centric narratives
- Encourage a holistic view of resilience so security enables rapid response, recovery, and confidence
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
Zero Trust & AI — Strengthening Security, Reducing Complexity, and Driving Innovation
Hosted by Zscaler

Olivier Daloy
CISO in Residence
Zscaler
Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT and security 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 and CISOs 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
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
A Security Leader’s Guide to Building Resilient, Secure Computing Infrastructure
Hosted by Google Chrome
Security leaders face unprecedented challenges in safeguarding their organisations’ computing infrastructure. However it's no small task to develop the right strategies and best practices to employ for resiliency and secure technology environments that can withstand all forms of cyber threat. Join this session to explore:
- Successfully navigating these challenges through a case study
- Fortifying infrastructures while balancing agility, compliance, and business continuity
- Leveraging real-world lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and proactive risk management
10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom
Measuring the Unseen - Proving IT Impact and Outcomes
Hosted by Nexthink

Samuele Gantner
Chief Product Officer
Nexthink
CIOs are increasingly focused on demonstrating their department’s value and steering organizational direction through strategic IT initiatives. By measuring IT's impact on strategic business growth and leveraging a robust digital employee experience (DEX), CIOs can ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance across international operations. A well-crafted DEX strategy not only enhances operational efficiency but also optimizes IT assets, fostering collaboration and aligning technological advancements with global business goals.
Join this session to discuss:
- Improving operational efficiency and business outcomes
- Measuring IT impact on strategic business growth
- Leveraging DEX to improve optimization and visibility of global IT assets
10:45 - 11:50 Networking Break
10:55 - 11:40 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.
11:50 - 12:35 Breakout Session
Preparing for Brand New Threats — Fighting AI with Precision
Hosted by Palo Alto Networks

Raphaël Marichez
Chief Security Officer, South Europe
Palo Alto Networks
Cyberattackers are increasingly leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to execute more advanced and sophisticated attacks, amplifying the scale and impact of the threat. As a result, the perception among many organisations is that it's easier now than ever for attackers. To change this perception, security leaders must adopt a proactive AI-driven defence strategy. How can CIO and CISOs cut down on complexities within AI-driven platforms and gain visibility and control across security systems to better protect the enterprise?
Join this session to discuss:
- The strategies security leaders are deploying to combat the evolving threat landscape
- Defending in the AI era through mixing conventional and new approaches
- Leveraging AI to empower your defence teams and scale up security across the organisation
Apply to Participate
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
Les Salons HocheParking and Public Transport
Public Transport:
Charles de Gaulle Étoile metro station (Line 1/2/6 or RER A)
Ternes or Courcelles station (Line 2)
Bus stop Hoche (Line 31) or Hoche-Saint-Honoré (Line 43/93)
Parking:
Indigo parking at 18 Av. Hoche, 75008 Paris, more info click here .
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