
Sydney CISO Community
Executive Summit
19 November 2025 | Hilton Sydney
19 November 2025
Hilton Sydney
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Sydney'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:
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for Sustainable Growth and an Evolving Risk Landscape
Scaling AI and Establishing Value
Connecting Digital Investments to Business Outcomes Through Strategic Alignment
Sydney 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

Venkat Balakrishnan
TAL Life
CISO

Susie Costa
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SVP & Head of Security Management
What to Expect
Agenda
Coming Soon
The CIO & CISO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted By CIOs & CISOs, For CIOs & CISOs®, and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for Sustainable Growth and an Evolving Risk Landscape
The complex and dynamic nature of today’s risk landscape demands a responsive ecosystem of robust security measures, incident response capabilities, and a culture of awareness, whilst supporting sustainable business growth. By integrating cybersecurity into business strategies, cybersecurity measures become scalable and adaptable to future business needs and organisations are able to maintain robust security postures amidst a rapidly changing threat landscape.
Scaling AI and Establishing Value
CIOs and CISOs are shifting their focus from small-scale AI use cases to implementing solutions that deliver value across the entire enterprise without compromising security posture. Firstly, trust and reliability in data are fundamental to the success of AI and D&A initiatives. By strategically aligning secure AI solutions with strategic business objectives, CIOs and CISOs can establish ROI, improve operational efficiencies, foster innovation, and achieve measurable results.
Connecting Digital Investments to Business Outcomes Through Strategic Alignment
Economic uncertainty and the drive for cost optimisation in the name of transformation are pushing CFOs to challenge IT budgets. In response, CIOs & CISOs must engage with business leaders comprehensively on everything from outcome-driven metrics to stakeholder engagement strategies.
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Sydney 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.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
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Guests can also book by calling our central reservations by providing the group code 90T.
Community Program Manager
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