2026 Southern California CIO Community Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Southern California'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:

Operationalizing Enterprise AI and Governance

Modernizing Core Architecture and Data Foundations

Bolstering Cyber Resilience and Global Risk Management

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Allen Fazio

Houlihan Lokey
CIO

Chad Hamilton

Fremantle
VP, Technology

Kelly Hamilton

Sony Pictures Entertainment
CIO

Greg Moore

KB Home
VP & CIO

Thomas Phelps

Laserfiche
CIO & Innovate@UCLA Past Executive Chair

Anand Radhakrishnan

KIND
Chief Information Officer

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 Southern California 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

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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.

Community Member Criteria

To ensure peer connections and conversations at the highest level, members must meet the following criteria:

- C-level or senior most executive for respective function

- Organization revenue of $500M+

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Venue & Accommodation

The Waterfront Beach Resort

A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Waterfront Beach Resort at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 714-845-8000. Please mention SCES26 to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $429 USD (plus tax) is June 1, 2026.

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