Global CIO Community
Town Hall
February 17, 2026 | 8:00am PST
February 17, 2026
8:00am PST
Smarter. Faster. Safer. Monetizing Innovation and Delivering Value at Scale
Participate with your CIO peers in the Global community in small, breakout discussions on a mission-critical priority for IT leaders. These informal discussions allow you to share your insights and learn from the lessons, approaches and experiences of a diverse group of peers in virtual breakout rooms.
Join fellow CIOs in the Global community to discuss:
Architecting for global scale and speed while reducing concentration risk and improving resilience
Rethinking capability building and operating models in an age of autonomous systems
Elevating IT to a driver of enterprise value, monetization, and adaptability
Discussion Leaders
Members of the Global CIO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.
Khalid Kark
Cloudflare
Field CIO
Presenter
Agenda
February 17, 2026
8:00am - 9:00am PST
Smarter. Faster. Safer. Monetizing Innovation and Delivering Value at Scale
Hosted by Cloudflare
In an era of global disruption, AI-driven threats, and highly visible outages, CIOs must deliver speed, security, and reliability while proving how technology directly generates and monetizes business value. This balance requires a shift in how technology is architected, governed, and operated — moving toward platforms and operating models designed to scale, adapt, and fail gracefully. AI accelerates opportunity and risk while reshaping how value is created, how decisions are made, and how quickly failures can propagate across complex ecosystems. CIOs must treat resilience, intelligence, and scale as core architectural and operating principles to unlock new revenue, optimize cost structures, and deliver sustained competitive advantage.
Join this session to discuss:
- Architecting for global scale and speed while reducing concentration risk and improving resilience
- Rethinking capability building and operating models in an age of intelligent, real-time, and autonomous systems
- Elevating IT to a driver of enterprise value, monetization, adaptability, and long-term competitiveness
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