In-Person

Indianapolis CIO Community

Executive Summit

November 12, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Indianapolis

November 12, 2026
Hyatt Regency Indianapolis

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Indianapolis'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:

Building Trusted AI Capabilities Through Governance and Accountability

Strengthening Identity and Cybersecurity Foundations for a Changing Threat Landscape

Protecting the Enterprise While Building Resilience and Accelerating Innovation

Indianapolis 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

Jay Bhat

Franciscan Health
Administrative Director, Information Security

Brett Flora

Elwood Staffing
CTO

Nirav Shah

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc
Chief Digital & Information Officer

Dustin Wilcox

S&P Global
CISO

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 Indianapolis 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

November 12, 2026

8:00am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

IT 2030 - The Journey to Democratized Technology

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Matthew Colletti

Gartner Analyst

Gartner

Technology is no longer created solely within IT, creating both new opportunities and new challenges for technology leaders. As innovation expands across the enterprise, leaders must balance speed, security, governance, and resilience while supporting business goals. This shift requires technology leaders to guide technology decisions beyond the boundaries of IT.


Join this keynote to learn how to:

  • Enable secure innovation across AI-powered teams
  • Modernize platforms and governance for agility and resilience
  • Strengthen leadership influence and accountability



9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

AI Governance That Enables Innovation

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Marquita Bowles

Head of Technology and Cyber Risk

Sallie Mae

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations need governance that enables scale without slowing innovation. Learn how cross-functional teams are building transparent governance models, operationalizing AI lifecycle and agent oversight, and aligning AI initiatives to business value, risk management, and strategic objectives.

Join this breakout session to learn more about:

  • Enabling responsible AI adoption through cross-functional governance and clear accountability
  • Balancing innovation, business value, cost, and risk at scale
  • Establishing repeatable AI lifecycle and agent governance practices that support enterprise adoption


9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Thriving Through Global Disruption

Geopolitical uncertainty is driving up technology costs while expanding cyber and AI-related risks. As tariffs, supply chain disruption and global instability reshape decision-making, CIOs and CISOs must look beyond short-term fixes and build strategies that remain resilient through continued change.

Join this session to discuss: 

  • Anticipating technology cost increases and investment impacts 
  • Mitigating cyber and AI risks in a volatile global environment 
  • Balancing near-term pressures with long-term resilience and growth 


9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Leading Forward — The CIO/CISO Evolution

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Brian Gray

VP & CIO

MedPro Group

The CIO and CISO roles have evolved from operational leaders to strategic business partners shaping growth, resilience and innovation. As responsibilities continue to expand, leaders across career stages offer a unique perspective on where these roles have been, where they are today and where they are heading next.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Reflecting on how CIO and CISO responsibilities have evolved over time
  • Navigating growing expectations from boards, executives and stakeholders
  • Envisioning the future of technology and security leadership


10:25am - 11:10am  Networking Break

10:35am - 11:00am  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.

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

Defending Against Agentic AI Threats

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Jeff Crume

Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security - Americas

IBM

As enterprises rapidly adopt AI agents to enhance automation, productivity, and security, they face a new challenge of significant security risks of misconfigured, overprivileged, or compromised. CIOs and CISOs must rethink identity, access, and trust models to account for non-human actors operating across complex environments with elevated permissions and broad reach.

Join this session to:

  • Examine real-world AI-agent-driven incidents and structural vulnerabilities they expose
  • Reevaluate identity, access, and trust frameworks at scale
  • Explore building layered defenses with governance, continuous monitoring, and human oversight

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

GenAI— A Generational Paradigm Shift

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Madhu Shashanka

Cofounder, Chief Scientist and Co-CTO

Concentric AI

Generative AI has rapidly evolved from a curiosity into a core driver of enterprise productivity. But as employees embrace its ability to generate content, code, and insights on demand, a new reality is emerging: data security is now the defining challenge of AI adoption. Organizations that recognize this shift early and proactively adapt their data security strategies will be best positioned to innovate with confidence. 

Join this session to discover: 

  • What makes GenAI fundamentally different and its impact on business operations and risk  

  • Where unintended data exposure and downstream consequences can arise  

  • How to adopt AI responsibly without slowing innovation 

11:55am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents

Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is more complex: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?
Join this keynote to hear about:

  • Establishing a framework where data, identity, and agent security operate as one system
  • Shifting from asking whether you can trust your agents to determining what access they can be trusted with
  • Balancing innovation and risk by creating visibility needed to understand agent activity

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Taming Shadow AI

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Mark Gabel

CISO

Cherokee Federal

John Macrina headshot

John Macrina

CTO

NCAA

Employees are adopting AI faster than organizations can govern it, creating blind spots around data, security, and compliance. For leaders, the challenge is balancing innovation with control, enabling teams to move quickly without introducing unnecessary risk.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Containing Shadow AI through secure, governed experimentation
  • Creating controlled AI environments that support business innovation
  • Protecting enterprise data while enabling AI adoption


1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Beyond the Deal

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Matt Belanger

CIO

Republic Airways

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Jay Stanley

VP, IT

Heartland Food Products Group

For today's CIOs and CISOs, the real challenge begins after the transaction closes. As acquisitions increase in size and complexity, technology leaders are being called on to unify systems, cultures and security strategies while helping the business capture value faster and operate at a global scale.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Accelerating integration while minimizing risk
  • Reimagining operating models for global scale
  • Refining and optimizing operating models for greater scale


2:15pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  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.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Executive Boardroom

Leading Through Complexity — The New CIO and CISO Mandate

CIOs and CISOs are facing expanding responsibilities as organizations adopt AI, address cyber threats and modernize operations. Today’s leaders must not only manage a rapidly shifting risk landscape but also deliver meaningful strategic business value.

3:45pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

AI at Scale: What We'd Redo

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Ratnakar Lavu

Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer

Elevance Health

As enterprises move from AI pilots to scaled deployment, CIOs and CISOs are rethinking early decisions around applications, data, workforce readiness and governance. Drawing on his experience leading AI transformation at Elevance Health, Ratnakar Lavu will share lessons learned, what he'd approach differently and why success now depends on enabling people as much as technology while preparing for the rise of agentic AI. 

Join this keynote to learn more about: 

  • Reimagining AI strategies beyond isolated pilots and point solutions 
  • Modernizing application portfolios and data foundations for scale 
  • Strengthening governance, identity and guardrails for autonomous agents 


4:35pm - 4:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

November 12, 2026

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Location

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Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
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Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $229 USD (plus tax) is October 20, 2026.

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