In-Person

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

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

16 June 2026

17 June 2026

19:00 - 22:00  Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body Welcome Reception

 

08:00 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Gartner Keynote

Understand AI's Ripple Effect to Shape Tomorrow's Workforce

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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

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Julien Azam

CIO, France

Mars

 Details to follow!

10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

Using Data to Drive Real Decisions in IT

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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

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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

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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

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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

12:35 - 13:20  Lunch Service

14:00 - 14:15  Break

14:15 - 15:00  Breakout Session

Securing the Agentic Workforce — The Rise of Shadow AI

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Raj Chopra

Chief Product Officer

Cisco Security

As AI agents become part of the workforce, organisations face new risks that require an operational approach to security. With the rapid rise of “shadow AI”—internal tools created by digital innovation teams without proper security or data management review show the importance of adapting defenses and how it will the impact of existing controls. The good news is, you don’t have to start over, it’s possible to build on what’s already in place.

Join this session to learn:

  • How to find and manage shadow agents and how to bring them under control
  • How to protect agents from harmful or misleading information
  • What you need to know about data protection when business teams use their own AI agents

14:15 - 15:00  Executive Boardroom

Transform Your Cybersecurity Operating Model to Enhance Risk Oversight

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Alain Kallas

Executive Partner, Security & Risk Management

Gartner

According to Gartner, 55% of CISOs highlight outdated organisational structures as the biggest challenge to improving their cybersecurity posture. Siloed teams and reactive approaches leave critical gaps in cyber risk oversight. How can CISOs shift to a model which puts business needs first and creates clear accountability?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:

  • Rethink your operating model to predict change and risks rather than react
  • Customise cybersecurity frameworks to respond to business needs to ensure resilience
  • Implement RASCI frameworks to clarify accountability and enhance efficiency

15:00 - 15:20  Networking Break

15:20 - 16:05  Breakout Session

VINCIs Approach to Achieving Cyber Resilience in a Decentralised Group

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Benoît Herment

Group CISO

VINCI

Faced with a budget constrains and complex, sprawling systems, Benoît Herment and his Cybersecurity teams knew they needed a different approach to unify cybersecurity at VINCI. With seven autonomous business lines, serving 120+ countries, all with their unique cyber risks, where do you begin?

In this session, Benoît Herment, Group CISO at VINCI will share how a decentralised approach transformed scattered cybersecurity efforts into a collaborative, support to business driven ecosystem.

  • Driving group-wide visibility into cyber risk exposure
  • Harmonising standards and practices across autonomous business units
  • Empowering strategic, data-driven cybersecurity decisions at business unit level

15:20 - 16:05  Executive Boardroom

Streamline Security Tools to Drive Efficiency

As organisations’ technology sprawl goes, CISOs must optimise siloed security tools to mitigate vulnerabilities and close security gaps. Easier said than done when rationalising tools requires investment and buy-in from Lines of Business. How can CISOs reposition security tools to better align with business objectives to drive organisational efficiency?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:

  • Rationalise security tools to reduce complexity and improve vulnerability coverage
  • Foster cross-team collaboration to eliminate operational silos
  • Align security investments to directly support business objectives

15:20 - 16:05  Executive Boardroom

Generative AI — Guardrails, Growth, and Governance

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Edouard d'Achon

CISO

L'Oréal

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Guilhem Senegas

CIO & Head of Digital Transformation

Electrolux Professional

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Christophe Alie

CIO

Kiabi

As the Generative AI lifecycle continues to unfold, CIOs and CISOs must delicately leverage AI's potential for efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage with the associated risks.

Join this peer-led boardroom to discuss:

  • Establishing and evaluating informed boundaries for Generative AI usage and adoption
  • Enabling responsible AI adoption that drives business growth across business units
  • Ensuring compliance, regulation, and ethical considerations throughout adoption

17:05 - 17:50  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

16 June 2026

17 June 2026

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

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