Executive Summit

Technical debt is no longer just an IT hurdle — it’s a strategic challenge impacting agility, cost, and a CIO's ability to deliver a competitive advantage to the business.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Assessing the current state of technical debt
• Prioritizing technical debt to deliver on business objectives
• Navigating speed vs. quality to maintain a competitive advantage

AI is transforming not just the tools employees use, but the flow of work itself, prompting CIOs to rethink workflows, operating models and how value is created across the organization. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying workflow bottlenecks that limit AI integration, scalability and value creation
• Examining operating model changes needed to support AI-enabled ways of working
• Defining how work, accountability and decision-making are distributed across

AI can accelerate innovation, but unchecked experimentation risks critical data exposure. CIOs must champion secure, responsible AI adoption while also driving business growth through ingenuity.

Join this session to discuss:

• Defining non-negotiable data security controls for AI pilots
• Empowering teams to build cyber judgment and AI literacy
• Adapting policies based on lessons learned from AI experiments

Technology initiatives succeed when people embrace new ways of working. As organizations accelerate AI, modernization and enterprise transformation efforts, CIOs must do more than execute technology strategies. They must build trust, influence mindsets and drive the behavioral shifts needed to achieve sustainable adoption and business value.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Aligning stakeholders around a shared vision for transformation and change
• Empowering employees to adopt new technologies with confidence and purpose
• Building a culture of continuous adaptation

CIOs striving for more data-driven decisions often face resource constraints and lack of organizational alignment. Success requires a strategic, business-focused approach that prioritizes data and analytics investments and engages stakeholders across the enterprise.

Join this boardroom session to explore:

• Actionable strategies for prioritizing D&A investments that deliver measurable business impact
• Engaging stakeholders organization-wide to build a resilient, outcome-focused D&A strategy
• Evolving data governance to power accuracy in reporting and analytics

Every CIO has an AI project that didn’t go as planned — but those stories rarely get told. Let’s swap real-world experiences and uncover the lessons that turn setbacks into future success.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Identifying root causes of AI project failures
• Sharing practical recovery strategies and pivots
• Building a culture of transparency and peer support

As the enterprise faces a growing range of business risks, cybersecurity can no longer be managed in isolation. Strategic CIOs must seamlessly embed cybersecurity into enterprise risk frameworks to improve visibility, strengthen resilience and inform business decisions.

Join this session to discuss:

• Integrating cyber risk into enterprise risk management and governance
• Measuring cybersecurity through business impact and resilience outcomes
• Aligning IT, security and business leaders around shared risk priorities

Artificial intelligence, generative AI and agentic automation are reshaping how organizations create value, compete and execute strategy. For CIOs, the challenge is not adopting another technology platform, but leading enterprise-wide transformation across the interconnected dimensions of people, partners, processes, products/services, and programs/technology. Drawing on the 5Ps Framework, this session explores how leaders can influence lasting change while preparing their organizations for continuous disruption.

Join this session to learn about:

• Assessing organizational readiness through the interconnected 5Ps framework
• Shaping transformation strategy by aligning innovation, investment and influence
• Anticipating emerging disruptions and evolving capabilities beyond today's AI

Organizations can't afford to leave talent and leadership potential on the table. As AI transforms IT operations, leaders face new challenges: finding the right talent, keeping teams engaged, and redefining what it means to build a future-ready bench. Join this interactive panel discussion to talk candidly about what’s working, what isn’t, and how we can help our people thrive in this new era.

In this breakout, you’ll discuss how to:

• Develop future-ready technology leaders and succession pipelines
• Unlock overlooked talent and expand leadership opportunities
• Balance AI transformation with workforce growth and retention

The future workforce will not be humans or AI. It will be humans working alongside AI agents that can reason, decide, and act. How can executive leaders can safely integrate AI agents into critical workflows while maintaining accountability, oversight and trust? The organizations that realize the greatest value from AI will be those that establish the oversight, accountability and resilience required to scale human and AI collaboration with confidence.

Join this session to discuss:

• Defining clear roles between human workers and autonomous agents
• Establishing governance for agent permissions and decision-making
• Implementing controls that balance productivity, security and accountability

Leaders are under intense pressure to modernize technology operating models as CEOs drive faster strategic pivots in response to geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and rapid AI disruption. Boards are increasing investment in technology and innovation, while AI lowers the barrier to building and deploying solutions and pushes more decisions into the business. As technology work becomes more distributed, coordination and integration become harder — and more critical — yet many operating models remain optimized for centralized control and cost efficiency rather than speed and adaptability.

In this keynote, attendees will learn how to:

• Align operating models to strategy and external business demands
• Scale AI and digital platforms with built-in standards and guardrails
• Integrate multidisciplinary teams and AI agents to accelerate outcomes

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.