San Francisco CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 5, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 5, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with San Francisco'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:
Maximizing Emerging Technologies for Strategic Advantage
Building Cyber Resilience to Withstand and Quickly Recover from Attacks
Recalculating Risk Appetites Across the C-Suite and Strengthening Relationships Accordingly
San Francisco 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
Krishnan Chellakarai
Gilead Sciences
CISO, Head of Information Security & Data Privacy
Bryan Green
Andreessen Horowitz
CISO
Leda Muller
Stanford University
Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer
Kannan Perumal
Applied Materials
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Jeff Trudeau
Chime
VP, CIO & CSO
David Tugwell
Agilent Technologies
AVP/CISO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your San Francisco CISO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.
Agenda
Breakout Session
AI on the Fly — CISO Wins in Real Time
AI is transforming cybersecurity, and CISOs are leading the charge with fast, impactful wins. This session highlights how top security leaders are leveraging AI to outpace threats, streamline operations, and deliver measurable results—without the hype. Discover real-world success stories and practical tactics to drive immediate value with AI in your security program.
Join this session to:
- Hear case studies of AI-driven security wins from CISO peers
- Learn how to quickly deploy AI for threat detection and response
- Get tips for measuring and communicating AI’s impact to your board
Executive Boardroom Session
Wired & Inspired — Securing IT/OT in a Connected World
As IT and OT systems converge, CISOs must address new security risks and complexities. For CISOs, ensuring the security of both IT and OT is essential to safeguarding organizational resilience, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting sensitive data and physical assets. Addressing the unique challenges of IT/OT integration requires practical strategies to protect critical infrastructure in an interconnected world, empowering CISOs to proactively manage risks and enable secure digital transformation.
Join this session to:
- Review key IT/OT cyber threats and real-world incidents
- Learn governance and collaboration best practices
- Get actionable steps to improve visibility and response
Keynote Session
Cyber is a Community Sport
CISOs face the formidable challenge of safeguarding their organizations' assets against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The Cyber 2.0 strategy emerges as a pivotal framework that empowers CISOs to enhance their security posture while steering their teams towards strategic resilience and innovation. Embracing cyber as a community sport is essential, as collective defense and information sharing across organizations strengthen the entire ecosystem against evolving threats.
Join your peers to:
- Equip yourself with knowledge of Cyber 2.0 principles to enhance organizational security strategies
- Align cybersecurity with business goals to integrate security into strategic organizational direction
- Leverage AI, ML, and automation to proactively detect and mitigate cyber threats
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the San Francisco CISO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
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.
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