San Francisco CIO Community
Executive Summit
June 10, 2026 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
June 10, 2026
Grand Hyatt at SFO
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with San Francisco'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:
Optimizing Resources To Deliver Sustainable Business Value
Leveraging Technology Innovation To Drive Competitive Advantage
Demonstrating Business‑Driven Leadership To Maximize IT Impact
San Francisco 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
Avi Sokol
KLA
SVP & CIO
Evan Wayne
Marcus & Millichap
CIO
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 San Francisco 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
Keynote Session
Futurist Leadership — 5 Principles to Lead Your Organization into a Better Future
In large parts of the world, there is a negative sentiment toward the future. And after the demise of globalization, there is little perspective of what a better world would look like. This calls for futurist leadership, introducing 5 crucial principles on how to become a futurist leader. A must attend for every leader interested in the day after tomorrow.
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Fellow and Chief of Research Gartner Futures Lab, pulls back the curtain on 5 principles to uncover:
- How the next generation of leaders will be futurist leaders
- How futurist leaders can be both realist and idealist at the same time
- How Silicon Valley will be driving the next shared societal narrative, through the ideas of hypermachinity and hyperhumanity
Breakout Sessions
Empowering Innovation While Ensuring Governance and Control
As AI tools reshape the future of work, CIOs must balance innovation with governance and compliance. Responsible enablement means addressing risks from “Shadow AI” and supporting end users with safe, effective strategies. Strengthen oversight while empowering your workforce for tomorrow.
Join this session to discuss:
- Risks from unmanaged tools and end-user practices
- Safe adoption policies
- Maintaining governance and visibility
From Enablement to Top-Down Value
As CIOs push beyond early AI experimentation, many face the challenge of converting distributed enablement efforts into measurable business value. Leaders must align across the executive suite, simplify processes for the workforce, and prepare the organization for AI‑driven ways of working.
Join Nishit Sahay, CIO, Marvell Technology, as he shares practical strategies to:
- Gain and sustain executive buy‑in for technology‑led strategy
- Identify and prioritize AI-native workflows with the highest impact
- Define and measure value beyond productivity gains
- Drive accountability and ownership of technology
Executive Boardroom Session
Meeting the Agentic Moment — Orchestrating at Scale
Unlocking competitive advantage with agentic AI hinges on effective agentic orchestration across teams, systems, and vendors — a core CIO capability that can determine whether agentic AI accelerates growth or becomes an operational drag.
Join this peer-led discussion to tackle:
- Identifying opportunities and challenges in effective agentic orchestration
- Fostering a culture of shared ownership of agentic outcomes
- Overcoming legacy structures to drive value and efficiency
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the San Francisco CIO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
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