
Florida CISO Community
Executive Summit
May 20, 2025 | Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center
May 20, 2025
Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Florida'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:
Strategic Growth While Improving Customer Experience
Leveraging Data to Enhance Business Performance
Building a Foundation for Cyber Resilience
Florida 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

Victor Campos
JM Family Enterprises
Chief Information Security Officer

Gary Eppinger
CSX Corporation
VP, Technology & CISO

Juan Gomez-Sanchez
Whirlpool Corporation
VP & Global CISO

Stacey Halota
Graham Holdings
VP, IS & Privacy

Rich Latayan
AAA, Inc.
CISO

Marcos Marrero
H.I.G. Capital
CISO

Eduardo Ortiz-Romeu
Techtronic Industries
VP, Global Head of Cybersecurity

Justin Zimmerman
Giant Eagle
VP, CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Forging Harmony — The Future of Leadership in a Dynamic Workforce

Mohan Sivaloganathan
Batman of Social Impact
Guest Speaker
Leaders need to be both effective and healthy – and cannot sacrifice one for the other. By shifting mindsets into a reimagined form of leadership, leaders can build vibrant, high impact cultures that lean into trust, relationships, and ingenuity. Mohan Sivaloganathan earned the nickname of the “Batman of Social Impact” through his work as an executive leader by day – and a keynote speaker and hip-hop artist by night.
Join his keynote that infuses storytelling, hip-hop, and actionable insights to illustrate:
- Key leadership elements like agency, curiosity, and purpose
- Ways to think about mindsets that propel or hinder change
- Tools to create and sustain culture shifts
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
The Art and Science of Using AI to Make Data Security Easy
Hosted by Cyera

Kayla Williams
Field CISO
Cyera
As leaders, you’re asked to find ways to securely enable your business and use data to drive innovation. But this takes a fundamental understanding of what data exists within your environment, where it's running, its risk level, who has access to it, and how it's being used. This interactive discussion will cover the challenges and solutions CISOs and CIOs use to discover their data attack surface, monitor, detect and respond to data threats and ensure data compliance.
Join this session to explore:
- Gaining data visibility as a foundation for data governance
- Managing data security’s landscape of laws, regulations, and industry standards
- Aligning tools and teams across a shared responsibility model to ensure compliance
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Addressing Enterprise Risks with Automation
Hosted by Grip Security and Nagomi Security

Lior Yaari
CEO and Co-Founder
Grip Security

Chris Zamora
VP of Global Executive Engagement
Nagomi Security

Gary Eppinger
VP, Technology & CISO
CSX Corporation

Ryan Hay
Sr. Director, Global IT Security and Compliance
SBA Communications
Assessing risks across the enterprise is even harder with shadow SaaS sprawl and data fragmentation from tool sprawl. Proactive security requires automation and security assessments to scale operationally.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- Strategies for proactive security versus reactive security
- What data silos can be leveraged for real-time, actionable insights
- Methods to prioritize and remediate gaps based on real business impact
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Strategies for Simplifying IT Complexity Through Consolidation
Hosted by Cloudflare

Andrew McAllister
Director, IT
Cloudflare

Eric Firer
Chief Information Officer, North America
Kellanova

Stacey Halota
VP, IS & Privacy
Graham Holdings
Platform consolidation is a strategic priority for security and IT leaders, driven by increasing tech stack complexity and economic challenges. Unfortunately many consolidation projects struggle to meet expectations due to gaps between what platforms can do and what it should do.
Join this session to discuss:
- Simplifying the IT stack for cost savings, less complexity, and enhanced performance and reliability
- Overcoming organizational inertia and other common obstacles to platform consolidation
- Proving the ROI of a consolidated IT stack that fosters innovation and can better adapt to changing business needs
10:25am - 11:10am Networking Break
10:35am - 11:00am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings.
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Modern Infrastructure Foundation — Unlocking Value in AI
Hosted by Google Cloud

Timothy Ramsay
Global Strategic Security Leader - vCISO
Mandiant, A Google Cloud Company
Delivering AI and GenAI value at scale is top of mind with many CIOs and CISOs while juggling the needs to maintain a secure scalable technology foundation, but how can CIOs and CISOs accomplish this? Prioritizing a high-quality data, security and infrastructure foundation provides all the necessary ingredients that will unlock the greatest value in AI.
Join this session to discuss:
- Building a value driven AI strategy
- Delivering high-quality, well-structured data to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of AI-driven initiatives
- Driving a modern secure AI ready infrastructure roadmap for scale, efficiency and ease of use
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Connecting the Dots to Generate Business Value with GenAI
Hosted by Nutanix

Luke Congdon
Sr. Dir., Product Management
Nutanix

Juan Gomez-Sanchez
VP & Global CISO
Whirlpool Corporation

Namita Jindal
Chief Information & AI Officer
CentralSquare Technologies
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, businesses are grappling with complex infrastructure challenges while seeking to harness the power of generative AI to drive innovation and operational efficiency. CIOs must spearhead strategy at the critical intersection of infrastructure and GenAI.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- Integrating GenAI into your existing infrastructure
- Addressing business challenges such as optimizing resource allocation, enhancing security and improving scalability
- Using GenAI to streamline operations and accelerate digital transformation
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Cyber Resiliency – Fortifying Now for a Faster Recovery Later

Rich Latayan
CISO
AAA, Inc.
Leaders must protect their organizations from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks by preparing now to limit the impact and allow for as quick a recovery as possible. This requires a great defensive strategy that is practiced, communicated and understood throughout the organization well before any incident occurs. Balancing that preparation with what actually unfolds during an event is what fosters true resilience.
Join this boardroom to explore with peers:
- Stories of detection and recovery – what strategies worked and which fell short
- Mutual threat defense – the critical role of collaboration in the cybersecurity community
- Best practices for organizational communication – before, during and after an incident
11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
11:55am - 12:30pm Networking
Rising Together — Women Leaders in Security/Technology Networking Session
Join us for an informal networking break for women in information security/technology leadership and their allies to connect and build relationships with like-minded leaders in Florida who are making an impact in their organizations and communities. Come prepared to share ideas, inspire and be inspired, and forge new connections that can help empower each other to achieve your goals and broaden your perspectives.
This session is intended for women in the Florida CIO and CISO community leading the information security/technology function(s) at their organizations (CISO/CIO/equivalent) and women reporting directly to the CISO/CIO/equivalent. Priority access will be reserved for these groups, with allies welcome as space permits.
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Florida CISO Community Executive Summit.
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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
Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention CenterParking & Transportation
Free parking onsite. Overnight guest parking $6 per night.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 800-311-8018.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $131 USD (plus tax) is April 28, 2025.
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