Executive Summit

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

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

Many organizations still rely on outdated continuity plans while operating fragile, multi cloud environments where a single outage can cascade across the business.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

As AI becomes abundant, the real challenge for IT leaders is not selecting tools, but enabling employees to use them with confidence and purpose. To drive lasting change, organizations must focus on human transformation, engineering everyday “aha” moments that reduce fear and build cultural momentum.

In this boardroom, we will discuss how to:

• Design AI adoption playbooks rooted in psychology rather than just policy
• Communicate about AI to reduce fear and increase employee agency
• Create small, high-leverage wins that build buy-in and cultural momentum

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.

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

Gartner research underscores that closing the gender gap in technology is now a business imperative, but progress remains slow despite widespread discussion. Meaningful change requires elevating the conversation beyond the tech community by engaging CEOs, senior leaders, and male allies as active partners in creating environments where women can grow and stay in tech careers.

Join this interactive conversation to discuss:

• Creating an equitable talent pipeline
• Actionable strategies for career advancement and mutual support
• Addressing the systemic barriers and real reasons women exit the field

Fragmented systems, legacy platforms, and inconsistent data quality slow progress for CIOs looking to operationalize AI. Achieving scale requires a unified integration and automation backbone that connects data, applications, and processes across hybrid environments while strengthening governance, security, and cost efficiency.

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Develop a unified integration strategy to fortify API and data governance
• Create the operational foundation needed for agentic AI
• Modernize integration across environments to drive measurable business impact

Moments of enterprise disruption — mergers, restructures, platform shifts — are often necessary but can be painful. As AI reshapes organizational strategy, they can become catalysts for lasting transformation. Drawing on decades of leading large scale integrations and change, this keynote explores how CIOs can turn complexity into momentum.

Join this keynote to hear Philip Wiser, Global Technology Leader, Serial Entrepreneur, and CTO of Paramount speak about:

• Reframing enterprise disruption as opportunity for AI driven transformation
• Applying AI to unify systems, teams and operating models at scale
• Using today’s AI capabilities to redefine how enterprises evolve

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