Detroit CISO Community
Executive Summit

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT and security leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs & CISOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

• Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

Ford is undergoing a bold digital transformation to become an automotive technology leader. This journey involves integrating innovative software and services across Ford Blue, Model e, and Pro, enhancing customer value and business efficiency. By reimagining business processes and workforce development, Ford is overcoming the challenges of rapid technological advancements.

Join David Kepczynski, Ford's Global Chief Digital Transformation Officer, to explore:

• Overcoming technology and communication challenges
• Leveraging modernization to facilitate transformation
• Enabling digital capabilities to deliver outcomes

At a time when new threats emerge daily, cybersecurity leaders understand they must be one thing above all others: enablers of business. And what's the foundation of business enablement? Culture.

Join this session to hear how your peers are successfully leveling up the security culture at their organizations and share your own insights about:

• Separating awareness and training from conversations about culture
• Leveraging culture to drive business impact through cybersecurity
• Tailoring approaches to security culture for different levels/groups

According to Gartner, by 2028, data ecosystems enabled by data fabric and generative AI will reduce technology complexity and integration costs. Discover how this scalable architecture can overcome integration challenges and accelerate business outcomes.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• Key components for enhanced data integration
• Strategies to leverage data fabrics for AI success
• Techniques to align data outcomes with business goals

Organizations must prioritize building dynamic innovation teams and bridging the skills gap through diverse talent development strategies. This interactive session, featuring insights from multiple industries and organizations, will explore how nurturing young talent and establishing innovation hubs can drive organizational growth and adaptability.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Methods to expand internship programs for skill development
• Techniques to integrate fresh perspectives into organizational culture
• Ways to cultivate a workforce ready to tackle future challenges

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings.

Navigating current disruptions and social and economic trends is hard. However, IT & security leaders must take the time to look to the future to lead their organizations to success in five years and beyond. Gartner’s top strategic technology trends are the star map you can use to keep your organization heading safely into the future. This session will highlight 10 technologies CIOs must know about to prepare for an uncertain future.

An enterprise’s AI strategy must align with business priorities and be supported by quality data, proper governance and guardrails to deliver value.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying goals aligned with AI capabilities
• Overcoming common challenges in AI implementation
• Measuring success and ensuring ROI

Third-party relationships are closest and may prove to be the most tangible risks to your business, yet the whole supply chain of your business partners still poses a substantial threat. Most organizations’ vendor relationships extend to the 8th party. CISOs need to understand this web of connectedness in order to better manage and communicate enterprise risk. Explore strategies for identifying and mitigating these multi-layered risks, leveraging technology for risk identification and impact analysis, and ensuring resilience across various industries.

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining visibility into risk across the whole supply chain
• Strategies for effective risk management and monitoring business partners
• Overcoming resource challenges to prioritize third-party and extended supply chain risk

Get a special one-on-one with futurist and TEDx speaker Josh Allan Dykstra for an exclusive, free advisory session! Sessions are 20-minutes and pre-registration is required.

In this unique, private session, you’ll receive:

• One-on-one consultation with a workplace futurist
• Customized advice around a real business challenge
• Personalized suggestions for tangible action steps

In the face of unrelenting transformation, staying innovative and productive can feel daunting, especially with emerging generations' evolving work expectations, the permanence of hybrid teams and the pervasive influence of AI. The key to thriving in this chaotic environment lies in leveraging and organizing work around intrinsic motivators, such as yourself and the people within your organization.

Join this session to learn:

• The keys for navigating constant change with more energy and resilience
• How to create astonishing psychological safety within your team
• A practical framework to access more productivity across your entire organization

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.