In-Person

New York CIO Community

Executive Summit

June 23, 2026 | Pier Sixty

June 23, 2026
Pier Sixty

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with New York'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:

Scale AI Value While Strengthening Data Quality and Governance

Modernize Core Platforms and Processes Under Rising Cost Pressures

Build Adaptable Teams and Operating Models For AI‑Driven Change

New York 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

Warren Kudman

Turner Construction
SVP & CIO

Anna Ransley

Quaker Houghton
Global Chief Digital Information Officer & SVP

Eswar Veluri

Equinox
EVP, CTO

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 New York 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

Breakout Sessions

Identity Resilience — The New Imperative for Business Continuity

As organizations shift from prevention to limiting harm, identity resilience is becoming essential to business continuity. For CIOs, it bridges cybersecurity, risk management, and recovery operations. Because identity compromise accelerates disruption, IT and security must break down silos and integrate identity into disaster recovery to ensure rapid restoration.

Join this session to explore how to:

  • Make identity resilience central to risk management
  • Unify IT, security, and recovery teams
  • Prioritize assets for identity-focused recovery

Activating Unstructured Data and Agents in the Enterprise

The shift from basic AI assistants to autonomous agents is reshaping the enterprise, turning passive tools into scalable workflows. Real advantage emerges when intelligence is grounded in an organization’s unique, proprietary content. As leaders move beyond early experiments, the priority becomes breaking down silos and establishing governance that ensures agents operate on a reliable foundation.

Join this interactive session to learn how to:

  • Prioritize measurable growth beyond LLM hype
  • Connect content to unlock meaningful AI performance
  • Understand the monetary and labor opportunity costs of AI transformation

Insights on Tap — Brewing Better Decisions with Data

As expectations for speed, transparency, and measurable outcomes continue to escalate, CIOs must harness data to drive strategic, forward-thinking decisions. Effective collaboration between CIOs and CDAOs accelerates the shift from passive insights to proactive, data-driven action, fueling organizational growth, strengthening operational resilience, and elevating enterprise performance.

Join this session to hear about:

  • Strengthening CIO–CDAO alignment
  • Driving insight to impact decision making
  • Guiding the enterprise through continual change


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Architecting the Future — Operationalizing AI for the New Customer Experience

AI and automation are no longer just tools for efficiency; they’re central to shaping enterprise strategy. By embedding AI into core processes, organizations can transform customer engagement, empower employees, and drive measurable business outcomes.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

  • Accelerating enterprise operations with AI-driven automation
  • Elevating customer experience by responding to changing business needs
  • Scaling transformation securely with compliant, AI-enabled solutions

Redefining Workflows — Unlocking Automation and Agility

As organizations accelerate analytics and AI adoption, reliable data and automated workflows are essential for agility and risk control. Leading teams are moving beyond reactive monitoring to achieve proactive, end-to-end visibility and embed governance-driven automation.

Join this session to:

  • Build trusted, scalable data workflows
  • Achieve visibility across modern data ecosystems
  • Embed automation for secure, decision-ready operations

Reliability as an Enterprise Risk Strategy

Many organizations still rely on outdated continuity plans while operating fragile, multi cloud environments where a single outage can cascade across the business. With reliability increasingly becoming a board-level business risk rather than just an IT metric, how CIOs can lead a culture of resilience and frame reliability as a core component of enterprise risk governance?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Defining, measuring and reporting reliability metrics across organizational and leadership levels
  • Evolving resilience models for multi cloud, interconnected systems
  • Building culture of resilience amid rising architectural complexity


Gartner Keynote Session

The Human Edge in an Agentic World — Gartner’s 2026 Strategic Predictions

Rapid AI advancement is fundamentally altering human behavior, economic models, and global power dynamics. This keynote explores Gartner's top strategic predictions for 2026, revealing how CIOs must balance radical technological innovation with deeply human challenges.

Join this session to learn more about:

  • Mitigating workforce critical thinking atrophy while simultaneously accelerating necessary AI fluency
  • Preparing for multiagent AI and programmable money to autonomously dominate B2B transactions and customer processes
  • Navigating fragmented regional AI sovereignty and building necessary guardrails against catastrophic decision automation risks


Keynote Session

AI Authority Drift — Closing the Governance Gap

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer limited to generating insights, modern AI systems are beginning to act — initiating workflows, interacting with applications, and making decisions at machine speed. As agentic AI systems become operational participants inside enterprise environments, this session explores how enterprises can safely scale AI by establishing governance across identity, authority, behavior, and data, while enabling innovation without introducing unmanaged risk.

Attendees will learn:

  • How to control the authority, behavior, and data access of autonomous systems operating across complex digital ecosystems
  • The emerging governance model, enacted through a real-time control plane, to address authority drift, misconfigured permissions, and unintended AI behavior
  • A practical framework and architecture for governing AI at enterprise scale


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

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

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Pier Sixty

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Brittany Dalke

Community Program Manager

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