Florida CISO Community
Executive Summit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.