In-Person

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

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 France 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

1 December 2025

2 December 2025

18:30 - 21:30  Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body Welcome Reception

  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.

08:00 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Keynote

Making Security Central to your Organisational Brand

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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

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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

 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

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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

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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

12:35 - 13:20  Lunch Service

13:20 - 14:00  Keynote

Securing Data Flow in the AI-Quantum Era

Sensitive data movement can be risky but restricting it outright can create operational and security challenges. In an era of agentic AI, generative AI, and emerging quantum computing, organisations need security frameworks that protect data while ensuring agility. This session explores how modern security platforms enable secure data flow, adapt to diverse use cases and prepare for the post-quantum encryption (PQE) shift.

Join this keynote to learn:

  • How to choose the right secure access method for each use case
  • Why security must be adaptive to risk, user behavior and AI-driven interactions
  • How to prepare for post-quantum encryption and its enterprise security impact

14:00 - 14:15  Break

14:15 - 15:00  Executive Boardroom

Future-Proof Your Business with AI-powered Operational Resilience

For IT Leaders, it’s clear that AI is now an imperative that all organisations are facing and building a robust strategy is key to success. Top-performing organisations are prioritising initiatives that keep developers focused on innovation using AI and automation across the incident lifecycle. Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • How to make operational resilience the standard in this new era
  • How to chart a path towards AI-powered, automation led operations
  • Reinforcing your AI Ecosystem to optimise business resources and support teams in decision making 

14:15 - 15:00  Executive Boardroom

Beyond the Human — Securing Every Identity in the Modern Enterprise

As organisations accelerate digital transformation, identity has emerged as the new cybersecurity perimeter. Yet in today’s landscape, not all identities are human. Machine identities, service accounts, workloads, and AI agents now far outnumber users and managing their access and privileges is often overlooked or may seem impossible. With attackers increasingly targeting identity-based gaps, the need for a unified, identity-first security model has never been more urgent.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

  • How the definition of “identity” is evolving and what it means for your strategy
  • Best practices for securing human, machine, and AI identities across hybrid environments
  • The role of least privilege and automation in reducing risk without slowing down the business

15:00 - 15:30  Networking Break

15:30 - 16:15  Executive Boardroom

Driving IT Business Value Through Innovation

Whilst adapting operating models and optimising data are perennial focus areas for CIOs, showcasing how IT propels innovation at scale is key. By understanding what innovation looks like for you and your teams, you can adjust your IT architecture and processes accordingly.  IT leaders can then command more influence by demonstrating how technology investments translate into tangible business outcomes.

In this Executive Boardroom, you will discuss how to:

  • Define and measure what innovation looks like for you and your team
  • Communicate the innovation behind certain operating model or IT architecture decisions
  • Position the CIO as strategic partner to enable business growth

16:15 - 16:30  Break

16:30 - 17:15  Keynote

Closing Keynote

More details coming soon!

17:15 - 18:00  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

1 December 2025

2 December 2025

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

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