Executive Summit

Technology and security leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the business value of IT investments and align technology priorities with organizational outcomes. Traditional IT metrics—focused on uptime, budget, and project delivery—often fail to resonate with business leaders or drive informed investment decisions. Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs) offer a transformative approach, directly linking technology performance to business value.

Join this session to hear about:

• Moving beyond operational reporting by identifying and building metrics hierarchies that connect technology to business outcomes
• Utilizing ODMs to guide executive conversations and clarify risk, value, and cost trade-off
• Connecting investments in technology readiness to business performance, customer satisfaction, and financial results—enabling proactive risk management and business enablement

What happens when you finish cleaning up your corporate data just as the AI boom hits? For Marzetti CIO Liam Durbin, it meant turning a massive ERP overhaul into a launchpad for innovation. Discover how a unified data environment became the foundation for AI adoption, and what it takes to empower an entire organization for the next wave of technology. Learn firsthand how patience, buy-in, and a “no excuses” mindset can turn daunting projects into bold opportunities.

In this session, you’ll hear:

• Steps to build a master data foundation for AI
• Strategies to drive organization-wide AI literacy
• Lessons learned from ERP transformation and change management

What happens when two leaders turn a 15-year partnership into a powerful force for board-level success? At Great Lakes Cheese, the CIO and CISO have built trust and alignment that goes beyond IT and security, earning the board’s confidence and driving meaningful change. Their approach shows how collaboration and transparency can break down barriers and empower teams.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Building trust to strengthen board relationships
• Embedding security into everyday IT decisions
• Presenting a unified vision that inspires confidence

Digital innovation thrives when IT and business teams collaborate. How are your peers building bridges and co-creating value across functions? Bring your questions and examples for a candid exchange.

In this boardroom, we’ll discuss:

• Building effective business-IT partnerships
• Scaling innovation across departments and business units
• Overcoming barriers to cross-functional collaboration

As AI transforms the workplace, leaders face tough questions: How do we prepare our people for new roles, not just automate away old ones? What does social responsibility look like when job profiles shift? Let’s talk about what it really takes to empower talent in the age of AI.

In this boardroom, we’ll explore:

• Approaches for upskilling and reskilling teams
• Strategies to address employee resistance and fear
• Ways to embrace social responsibility as technology leaders

As AI shifts from assistive systems to autonomous agents acting across business environments, data becomes the true control surface. These agents require broad access to data, identities, and business processes, creating new risk patterns as sensitive data and outbound actions converge at machine speed. This is a control shift. CIOs and CISOs must modernize how data is governed, authorized, and protected so organizations can adopt agentic AI confidently without losing oversight.

Join this session to explore how to:

• Detect emerging risk behaviors in autonomous AI
• Build a data-centric and intent-aware security model
• Establish the CISO as the orchestrator of scalable AI and business growth enabler