San Francisco CISO Community
Executive Summit
November 5, 2026 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 5, 2026
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:
Driving AI Innovation with Secure, Scalable Enterprise Solutions
Aligning Investments With Strategic Business Outcomes, Using Data-Driven Insights for Growth
Elevating leadership influence to shape vision and position technology as a business driver
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
VP & CISO
Bryan Green
MGM Resorts International
CISO
Mandy Huth
Ultra Clean Technology
SVP, CISO
Jeremiah Kung
AppLovin
Global Head of Information Security
Leda Muller
Stanford University, Residential and Dining Enterprises
Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer
David Tugwell
Agilent Technologies
AVP & CISO
Atticus Tysen
Intuit
CIO & 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
Keynote Session
Empowering People Leaders in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the leadership landscape, pushing people leaders to move beyond conventional models and embrace a new set of competencies. In today’s rapidly evolving environment, success hinges on blending AI-driven insights with emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Developing leaders who are both digitally fluent and deeply attuned to themselves is essential for driving sustainable, long-term growth.
Join Alvaro Mello, VP, Advisory at Gartner, to explore:
- Cultivating self-awareness for authentic, high-impact leadership
- Adapting leadership strategies to thrive amid technological disruption
- Embedding AI fluency into leadership development for future readiness
Executive Boardroom Session
Zero Trust is Building Trust
Is Zero Trust really about eliminating trust, or is it about building it? For today’s CISO, success depends less on technology and risk frameworks and more on creating the confidence, alignment, and accountability that enable people, teams, and businesses to move faster and more securely. Zero Trust is ultimately a leadership model that puts the trust in trustworthy by creating the conditions that earn trust at scale across employees, partners, customers, and the boardroom.
Join this session to discuss:
- Leading Zero Trust as a business transformation, not a technology initiative
- Building cultures of accountability that strengthen trust and security
- Positioning Zero Trust as a driver of resilience, growth, and executive confidence
Breakout Session
Build, Buy, or Extend?
As AI and agentic capabilities rapidly become embedded across the enterprise, security leaders face a critical decision: build custom capabilities, buy purpose-built platforms, or extend the tools already in place? The stakes go beyond technology selection—impacting speed, control, talent strategy, risk management, and long-term resilience. Organizations that get this decision right can accelerate innovation and security outcomes; those that get it wrong risk creating new complexity, cost, and operational blind spots.
Join this session to discuss:
- Build vs. buy as a competitive advantage decision, not a technology decision
- The tradeoffs between control, speed, and operational complexity
- Where agentic capabilities belong in the security stack, and who should own them
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
Grand Hyatt at SFOYour Community Sponsors
Global Thought Leader
CISO Thought Leader
Key Sponsor
Program Sponsors
Community Program Manager
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