France CIO Community
Executive Summit
17 June 2026 | Les Salons Hoche, Paris
17 June 2026
Les Salons Hoche, Paris
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:
Operationalise AI for Tangible Business Transformation
Build Resilience Amidst Evolving Threats & Global Compliance
Secure Innovation & Data in a Digital-First Era
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

Nicolas Drapier
B&B Hotels
Group CIO

Valéria Fernandes
Vallourec
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Gartner Keynote
Understand AI's Ripple Effect to Shape Tomorrow's Workforce
Helen Poitevin
Distinguished VP Analyst, Digital Workplace
Gartner
AI is not just reshaping IT & IT Security roles - it’s rewriting the rules of workforce strategy for the entire enterprise. As CIOs and CISOs, you face urgent demands to balance innovation with human value, anticipate AI’s impact, and lead your organisation through ambiguity and change. Join Helen Poitevin Distinguished VP Analyst, Digital Workplace at Gartner as she shares how to turn technological disruption into opportunity, identify hidden risks, and create the future-ready IT workforce.
In this keynote, you'll hear more on how to:
- Envision and communicate your workforce planning destination within an AI context
- Identify blind spots and close the gap between present and future technology needs
- Inspire and mobilise Lines of Business and leadership to embrace the AI workforce journey
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
Breakout Session led by Mars Wrigley
Julien Azam
CIO, France
Mars
Details to follow!
10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom
Using Data to Drive Real Decisions in IT
Matthieu Blin
Group CIO
MOTUL
Data has always played a vital role in IT, but its strategic value is now greater than ever. As organisations depend more on data for decision making and innovation, CIOs must adapt how they manage and use data. Without clear alignment, data projects may lose relevance and fail to deliver value.
Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:
- Collaborate with business leaders to define their challenge, success criteria, and key data indicators
- Design a data framework that aligns business outcomes with organisational goals
- Enhance decision quality by using data and analytics to evaluate and inform outcomes
10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom
Cyber Resilience — Meeting Security’s New Standard
Vincent Rémon
CISO
Ministère de la Culture
CISOs are expected to ensure a higher level of resilience than ever before but with limited resources. What qualifies as a fundamental security practice must rise. Answering modern demands with anything less than enhanced visibility could be the difference between your business’s survival and its indefinite interruption.
Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:
- Create integrated resilience plans to minimise business disruption
- Engage leadership to secure buy-in for resilience initiatives
- Break down silos to unify cyber and continuity strategies
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
Security and Data Collide — Navigating AI Risk and Innovation
Hosted by Cyera
Stephane Joguet
Field CISO
Cyera
AI cannot improve poor-quality data, and good AI governance is necessary to turn unreliable information into useful insights. As AI becomes part of more business processes, the gap between information security and data management is closing. Security leaders who protect data now work closely with data leaders who use it. AI governance is central to this collaboration, balancing innovation and responsibility. CISOs now have the chance to become strategic partners and help AI grow safely in the company.
Join this session to learn how to:
- Create governance models that connect security and data strategy
- Reduce AI risks through teamwork across departments
- Build trust with consistent governance practices
11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom
From Structure to Strategy — Transforming the IT Organisation
Cyril Moynot
Executive Partner
Gartner
As the CIO role and IT organisation evolve, IT strategies and operating models must keep pace. Today’s digital demands require structures that enable agility, cross-functional collaboration and AI adoption. According to Gartner, 70% of CIOs are restructuring their teams to accelerate digital delivery and business impact.
Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:
- Leveraging the five building blocks of a modern IT organisation
- Aligning IT delivery with business capabilities and industry needs
- Embedding AI and fusion teams for future-ready operations
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the France 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
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