DACH CISO Community
Inner Circle
14 September 2026 | JW Marriott Hotel Frankfurt
14 September 2026
JW Marriott Hotel Frankfurt
Collaborate with your peers
Join DACH's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Governing Shadow AI And Autonomous Workflows At Scale
Building Operational Trust Through AI Security And Recovery
Enabling Confident And Compliant Agentic AI Adoption
DACH CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Sascha Brock
Deutsche Post
SVP CISO, DHL
Julia Dudenko
Hapag-Lloyd AG
Group CISO
Nikk Gilbert
RWE
CISO
John Petersen
Nestlé
CISO
Aleksandar Radosavljevic
Global Fashion Group
CISO
Lukas Ruf
MIGROS
Group CISO
Judith Wunschik
Siemens Energy
Global Chief Cybersecurity Officer
Agenda
14 September 2026
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:30 Discussion Topics
Operational Trust in the Age of Agentic AI
Benedikt Heintel
Director, Protection & Resilience
Viega
Oliver Buergel
Senior Vice President - IT Strategy & Architecture
Bertelsmann
Thorsten Hallermeier
Chief Digital Officer
MHK Group AG
Paul Sester
CISO
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG
Wolfgang Standhaft
CIO
Fraport
Michelle Mangiapane
CIO
Palm Gruppe
Agentic AI is scaling faster than most organizations can govern. Shadow AI and autonomous workflows are proliferating across enterprise environments. Rubrik Zero Labs research shows only 37% of organizations maintain a current inventory of their agents. What cannot be seen cannot be governed.
Security and IT Leaders must establish operational trust as the foundation for AI at scale: enforcing data boundaries, validating AI behavior under real-world conditions and maintaining the ability to recover to a clean and trusted state when agentic systems fail. Security leaders who build that infrastructure are the ones who make confident, compliant AI adoption possible at speed.
Discussion Questions:
- What practical strategies are you using to accurately inventory and govern the rapid proliferation of shadow AI and autonomous workflows?
- How are you proactively enforcing data boundaries to ensure agentic systems do not inadvertently expose sensitive enterprise information?
- What methods are you employing to validate AI behavior and ensure operational trust under unpredictable, real-world conditions?
- When autonomous systems inevitably drift or fail, what mechanisms allow you to quickly contain the impact and recover to a trusted state?
- How are you partnering with business leaders to build the security infrastructure needed to enable confident, compliant AI adoption at scale?
18:30 - 19:00 Networking Break
19:00 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour
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Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
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