Florida CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 10, 2026 | Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
November 10, 2026
Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport
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:
Lead Strategic Technology Alignment to Establish an AI Operating Model
Manage Costs Strategically to Maximize Business Value
Elevate Cybersecurity as a Core Driver of Business Value, Resilience and Growth
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
CISO

Juan Gomez-Sanchez
McLane Company
VP, Cyber Resilience

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
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Securing AI Agents to Accelerate Innovation
AI agents and automation are transforming how work gets done, but they also introduce new identity and security risks. Traditional IAM approaches weren’t designed for this shift. AI is moving fast and your identity strategy needs to keep up by building a secure foundation for agentic systems.
Join this session to discuss:
- AI agents in the changing the identity landscape, and why it matters now
- Strategies and trends around infrastructure access that accelerates innovation with guardrails
- The competitive business advantage of shifting to a modernized IAM approach that supports AI initiatives
Privilege, Integrity, Recovery — The New Rules of Enterprise Data Protection
As AI accelerates the creation and utilization of data, organizations face unprecedented challenges in securing their most valuable asset. Shadow AI, dark data, and the proliferation of distributed applications have rendered traditional data protection methods insufficient. In this evolving threat landscape, security leaders must adopt risk-based, adaptive strategies to safeguard innovation, ensure compliance, and maintain operational resilience.
Join this boardroom session to hear more about:
- Unifying data protection and compliance across workloads
- Ensuring regulatory compliance and business continuity through robust, future-ready solutions
- Accelerating cyber recovery with AI-driven tools
What Leaders Wish Their Boards Knew
Misalignment between boards and technology leaders can leave organizations exposed to unseen risks and missed opportunities. Too often, critical decisions are made without a full understanding of IT and cybersecurity complexities—or the unique perspectives of board members. Bridging this gap requires clear communication, shared priorities and a tailored approach to stakeholder engagement.
In this session, executives will explore how to:
- Identify the most common obstacles that hinder effective board oversight
- Understand and adapt to the personas and priorities of their board members
- Communicate technology and security issues in ways that drive alignment and action
Breakout Sessions
Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents
Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is more complex: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?
Join this session to hear about:
- Establishing a framework where data, identity, and agent security operate as one system
- Shifting from asking whether you can trust your agents to determining what access they can be trusted with
- Balancing innovation and risk by creating visibility needed to understand agent activity
Leading Through Complexity — The New CIO and CISO Mandate
CIOs and CISOs are facing expanding responsibilities as organizations adopt AI, address cyber threats and modernize operations. Today’s leaders must not only manage a rapidly shifting risk landscape but also deliver meaningful strategic business value.
Join this interactive session to explore:
- Balancing growth, innovation, risk, and resilience in a complex environment
- Strengthening the CIO/CISO partnership to drive enterprise-wide impact
- Making faster, more informed decisions amid uncertainty and continuous change
Securing the Future of AI Work
AI is redefining how work gets done — across people, applications and autonomous agents. Securing this new enterprise requires a fundamentally different approach. Organizations must use AI to strengthen protection, secure AI adoption and transform security operations with AI. These efforts should be built on unified data, robust runtime security, and a resilient, always-on architecture.
Join this session to learn about:
• Protecting with AI to anticipate threats and bring protection closer to the user
• Securing AI across GenAI, agentic applications and emerging AI workflows
• Operating with AI to simplify operations, accelerate outcomes and reduce complexity
The Agentic Security Workforce — Upskilling Teams for the AI Era
As AI transforms the enterprise, the future of cybersecurity is not about replacing people, but elevating them. Security roles are shifting from routine task execution to focus on orchestration, governance and outcome management. Brian Fricke, CISO at Auto Nation, envisions the next generation of security professionals acting as "agentic managers," directing AI agents that execute routine work.
Join this breakout session to explore:
- Transforming cybersecurity careers for the AI era
- Developing an agentic workforce
- Designing a future-focused security operating model
Frontier AI Models — When Attack Speed Outpaces Operations
AI can now find and exploit a vulnerability in minutes — faster than any patch cycle or IT team can respond. For CIOs, this is a business risk, not just a security issue: the gap between attack speed and response speed can now disrupt operations. This is where autonomous remediation comes into play.
Join this session to learn:
- Why the gap between attack speed and IT response is now a business risk
- How automatic remediation cuts risk without more headcount or work
- What this shift means for how you prioritize risk, budget and technology
Keynote Session
Governed Enablement — Translating AI Risk into Board-Level Confidence
AI is now a board-level priority - and a board-level risk - placing CIOs and CISOs in the spotlight to demonstrate active, measurable management of AI exposure. Organizations are translating governance into enforceable controls and transparent reporting, replacing stopgap blocking with runtime guardrails. What are strategies that CIOs and CISOs can take back to their own organizations to establish clear decision rights, provide actionable risk metrics, and foster confidence among executive sponsors and boards, all while enabling safe and scalable AI adoption?
Join this session to learn:
- Establishing clear decision rights for accountable AI adoption
- Replacing stopgap blocking with enforceable, runtime guardrails
- Providing boards with transparent, actionable risk metrics
Gartner Keynote Session
Harnessing Agentic AI for Organizational Impact
As organizations dive deeper into AI, agentic technologies are already disrupting industries and redefining what’s possible. The challenge now is learning how to harness agentic AI to drive transformation, spark innovation, and achieve measurable ROI. Competing in an AI-driven ecosystem requires more than simply deploying new capabilities—it demands strategic integration and forward-thinking leadership.
Join this keynote session to explore:
- Strategies for integrating agentic AI into your organizational design
- How to navigate the buy-versus-build decision
- What top AI companies are doing differently to achieve success
Apply to Participate
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.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale AirportDiscounted daily & overnight Parking of $20+. No valet parking is offered.
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