Executive Summit

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

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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

Past Zero Trust investments strengthened organizational resilience, but the rise of AI demands additional enhancements that few CISOs were prepared for. CISOs must clearly communicate the sustained value of Zero Trust while framing new investments as essential for adapting to evolving threats. How can CISOs advance these conversations without diminishing prior achievements?

Join this session to discuss:

• Showcasing risk reduction and business alignment from prior Zero Trust initiatives
• Positioning new investments as necessary adaptations to AI-driven risks
• Engaging the board with a forward-looking security narrative

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 driving rapid business innovation while equally empowering threat actors, creating a dual mandate for today’s CISOs: securely enabling AI adoption and leveraging AI to enhance their own defensive capabilities. Securing this expanding AI attack surface requires strong visibility, holistic governance, and continuous policy enforcement. At the same time, effective defense at AI speed relies on GenAI for sharper insights and agentic AI to automate operations and outpace adversaries.

Join your peers to tackle critical questions on how:

• AI adoption must be both empowered and governed to prevent new business and security risks
• Visibility, governance, and continuous policy enforcement form the foundation of AI risk management
• Combining GenAI insights with agentic AI automation is essential to operate—and defend—at machine speed

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

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

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

Today's identity ecosystem spans people, partners, machines, APIs, and autonomous AI agents—often without centralized governance. For CISOs, this sprawl creates blind spots, identity debt, and a growing attack surface. With identity now the leading breach vector and agentic AI accelerating non-human access, new models are urgently needed.

Join this session to discuss hard-won lessons on how you are:

• Assessing visibility gaps
• Overcoming governance barriers
• Identifying the highest-leverage moves to regain meaningful control

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

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