Executive Summit

The dual nature of AI is here - extraordinary innovation paired with complex risks. According to recent reports, more than 29% of employees have turned to unsanctioned AI agents for work tasks and these unsecured agents lack clear visibility into what they can do, what they access, or the blast radius they introduce. CISOs must secure AI agents with the same rigor as human users, ensuring visibility, governance, and robust controls amid rapid change and resource constraints.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Enforcing Zero Trust principles for both human and AI identities
• Establishing continuous observability and monitoring of AI agent activity
• Implementing governance frameworks to manage access, actions, and compliance

CISOs are challenged by fragmented data landscapes, shadow IT, and the need for real-time visibility into sensitive information across different data estates including SaaS, cloud, and modern virtualization platforms. Manual discovery and governance processes can’t keep pace with today’s data sprawl, increasing risk and compliance exposure. Leveraging AI-driven data intelligence empowers CISOs to unify visibility, automate governance, and strengthen security posture.

Join this session to explore:

• Automating sensitive data discovery across environments
• Enabling continuous governance with AI insights
• Reducing risk through unified data intelligence

According to the International Data Corporation, the number of AI identities is expected to reach 1.3 billion in just two years. Yet many organizations don’t secure AI identities effectively, granting excessive access and relying on outdated, slow processes.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Identify gaps in agent access visibility, ownership, and governance
• Address the unique challenges of identity security in AI environments
• Build scalable identity foundations to enable innovation and efficiency

As identity compromise becomes the fastest path to operational disruption, CISOs must shift from blocking every attack to limiting its impact. Compromised users, machines, and services now dictate incident severity. Building identity aware resilience requires coordinated action across security, identity, IT operations, and recovery teams to contain incident spread, restore trusted state, and maintain continuity.

In this session to explore how to:

• Detect and contain identity driven incidents
• Prioritize accounts, systems, and data for rapid recovery
• Strengthen cross functional collaboration with continuity metrics

Security Operations Centers face mounting pressure from talent shortages and escalating threats, but agentic AI offers a transformative solution by amplifying human capabilities and automating critical tasks. By embedding intelligent agents into SOC workflows, organizations can rapidly upskill teams, accelerate response, and bridge the talent gap. Join this session to explore actionable strategies for leveraging AI-driven agents to future-proof your SOC.

Join this boardroom to explore:

• How agentic AI fills the talent gap in SOCs
• Strategies for upskilling teams alongside agent-driven automation
• Preparing your SOC for the coming AI transformation

Adversaries aren't just faster; they are more cunning and utilize AI to craft evasive payloads and automate discovery, bypassing traditional signature-based defenses. The challenge is operationalizing AI more effectively by utilizing the latest advances in defensive automation to remain competitive.

Join this session to explore:

• Where today’s risks truly live and how attack techniques are rapidly evolving
• How AI is being operationalized on the defensive side, from AI-assisted detection to response
• What is working, where the gaps are, and how organizations stay competitive in an AI-driven threat environment

AI‑generated content, models, and autonomous agents are scaling faster than traditional workloads, driving the need for a trust infrastructure built for AI and authenticity. At the same time, shrinking certificate lifecycles and the looming impact of quantum computing are increasing operational strain and making quantum‑safe strategies imperative.

Join this session to discuss:

• Strategies for PKI modernization that govern machine and AI identities at scale
• Preparing for post-quantum cryptography
• Prioritizing investments based on risk, severity, and timeframe

AI is no longer experimental. It is embedded across development pipelines, cloud services, SaaS platforms, and operational workflows. Yet most AI security conversations remain narrowly focused on model risk or prompt injection. For CISOs, the challenge is broader: how to establish control over AI across the enterprise lifecycle - from code to cloud to runtime execution - without slowing innovation. Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Managing non-human identities, AI agents and blast radius expansion
• Aligning DevOps, Cloud Security, AppSec and Governance under a unified AI risk framework
• Measuring and reporting AI exposure at the board level

AI-driven attacks are now operating at machine speed, exposing the structural limits of human‑paced security models. As traditional detection and validation methods fail against autonomous threats, adopting persistent, self-sustaining security practices is now critical for resilience.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying which defenses break down first against machine-speed attacks
• Adopting nonstop, automated security testing at scale
• Scaling security to meet the new magnitude and speed of AI‑generated software

As AI agents start acting across business environments, data becomes the true control surface. These agents require broad access to data, identities, and business processes, creating new risk patterns as sensitive data and outbound actions converge at machine speed. This is a control shift. CISOs must modernize their data approach to adopt agentic AI confidently while maintaining oversight.

Join this session to explore how to:

• Detect emerging risk behaviors in autonomous AI
• Build a data-centric and intent-aware security model
• Establish the CISO as the orchestrator of scalable AI and business growth enabler

As browser-based and unapproved applications reshape the future of work, CISOs face growing security and compliance risks, including data leakage and policy gaps. Proactively addressing these threats with effective safeguards protects enterprise data, supports innovation, and ensures resilience in an evolving workplace.

Join this session to discuss:

• Risks from unmanaged and shadow tools
• Policies to safeguard sensitive data
• Maintaining compliance and robust security controls

Stepping into a new CISO role can feel like a game of Tetris— the pieces keep coming and every decision shapes the bigger picture. Success in the first year depends on fitting new strategies into existing structures while figuring out what to shift or remove. 

Join Kevin McCarty, 1 year into the job as CISO at Gartner, to learn about:

• Having a no-limits mindset with a clear and adaptable vision from day one
• Communicating clear, quantified risk to secure investment
• Developing trust and partnership across the business to create influence and speed execution

Ask ten CISOs what their job is and you’ll get ten different answers—because effective cyber leadership depends on context, culture, and people. As AI continues to transform security operations, CISOs are challenged to build sustainable teams and culture without losing the human element of leadership.

Join this session to hear about and discuss:

• Sustaining effective cyber teams amid shifting organizational and security cultures
• Leading diverse and distributed teams at scale
• Managing change while developing future cyber leaders

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 90% of successful cybersecurity AI will center on tactical automation and process augmentation rather than role replacement. As leaders balance innovation with risk, giving teams the right tools and guardrails become essential to driving impact and business value.

Join this interactive session to hear how your peers are navigating:

• Establishing a digital “driver’s license” for agentic AI development
• Adopting a project‑management‑first approach
• Expanding development frameworks to ensure trust and resilience

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer limited to generating insights, modern AI systems are beginning to act — initiating workflows, interacting with applications, and making decisions at machine speed. As agentic AI systems become operational participants inside enterprise environments, this session explores how enterprises can safely scale AI by establishing governance across identity, authority, behavior, and data, while enabling innovation without introducing unmanaged risk.

Attendees will learn:

• How to control the authority, behavior, and data access of autonomous systems operating across complex digital ecosystems
• The emerging governance model, enacted through a real-time control plane, to address authority drift, misconfigured permissions, and unintended AI behavior
• A practical framework and architecture for governing AI at enterprise scale

The World Economic Forum named creativity one of the top must-have skills for success in all industries. It is the key to thriving in this era of rapid innovation and change. But very few organizations have truly invested in the development of this essential capability. Why? Because creativity is considered too intangible to measure, too messy to fit into a strategic plan or simply something that is only for a few specially talented people.  In this engaging presentation, Artist/Author Noah Scalin pulls back the curtain on his own creative practice to explain the real ROI of creativity.

In this session, we will learn:

• Why creativity is a crucial skill for fostering innovation at your organization
• How to use creativity strategically for long-term impact
• Simple strategies that anyone can use to innovate, grow and inspire others