In-Person

Dallas CISO Community

Executive Summit

November 6, 2025 | The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas

November 6, 2025
The Westin Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Dallas's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:

Streamlining User Access Through Intelligent Technologies

Safeguarding Business Continuity Through Cyber Resilience

Revolutionizing Security Workflows with AI Threat Detection

Dallas CISO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Sara Andrews

Experian
Global CISO

David Bell

CBRE
SVP, CISO

Mustapha Kebbeh

Ultimate Kronos Group
Chief Security Officer

Scot Miller

Mr. Cooper
SVP, CISO

Scott Moser

Sabre Corporation
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer

Becky Palmer

National Life Group
Chief Information Security Officer

Shamoun Siddiqui

The Upbound Group
VP, CISO

Sonya Wickel

Triumph Group
VP, Information Technology & CISO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO 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 Dallas CISO 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

Security Leadership Redefined — Making Your Scars Your Superpower

CISOs face constant challenges—complex systems, evolving threats, and supply chain risks. While we can’t control the chaos, we can control our mindset and actions. Growth comes from learning through setbacks. By focusing on what we can influence, we make better decisions and become stronger leaders. You don’t need the world to change—just your perspective. The tools are here; it’s your move to become the hero of your story.

Join this session to learn:

  • How can CISOs use their setbacks and failures as opportunities for growth and stronger leadership
  • In what ways does focusing on mindset help CISOs navigate ongoing chaos and uncertainty
  • Why is shifting your perspective, rather than trying to change the world, is essential for becoming a security hero

Secure by Design — Strategies for Success

Adopting a secure by design approach ensures that security is a foundational part of product development, not an afterthought. This involves proactively addressing security at each stage, from design through implementation and beyond, to lower the risk of breaches.

Join this session to learn how to:

  • Integrate security thinking into every development decision
  • Make security a collective commitment across all teams
  • Openly discuss security protocols and vulnerabilities to strengthen accountability


Crafting a Powerful and Purposeful Executive Presence

Your career trajectory is shaped by more than just your achievements—how others perceive your executive presence can open doors or close them. Personal branding is about consciously shaping those perceptions. Are you aware of how others see you?

Join this engaging session to explore:

  • Steps to intentionally develop a genuine executive brand
  • Identifying your blind spots and leverage opportunities for influence
  • Methods for building or restoring recognition for what matters most to you


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Reducing Application Delivery Tech Debt from the Inside Out

With high volumes of sensitive data now flowing through web browsers, three in five organizations say data leakage is likely given current IT and security infrastructures. Stop playing catch-up. Discover new approaches to enterprise operations to reduce risk while simplifying operations.

Join this session to discover:

  • How disparate IT and security solutions create technical debt
  • What challenges impact internal and end user stakeholders
  • How simplifying IT can strengthen security, and boost productivity

Agentic AI — Balancing Identity and Risk

The first generation of AI agents promises cross-app automation for workers. Enterprises will design some for specific purposes, while employees will bring in consumer-grade agents. These varying models of identity handling in AI agents make managing risks more challenging than ever.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

  • Diversity of AI identity models
  • Management of enterprise-grade AI identity risks
  • Balance of productivity and security for consumer-grade AI


We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Jeff Hull

Community Program Manager

214-649-0033

jeff.hull@gartner.com