In-Person

Toronto CISO Community

Executive Summit

December 2, 2026 | Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

December 2, 2026
Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Toronto'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 AI for strategic growth while empowering safe integration for users

Reframing risk reduction as minimizing business impact and improving resilience

Elevating leadership influence to shape vision and position technology as a business driver.

Toronto 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

Ragulan Sinnarajah

Empire Company Limited
VP, CISO

Olivera Zatezalo

Ontario Power Generation
CISO & VP, Cyber and IT Security

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 Toronto 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

The C-Suite's Shared Cyber Responsibility

Organizations are moving quickly to adopt AI and emerging technologies, but technology decisions rarely exist in a vacuum. From employee use and data governance to third-party risk, legal exposure, and public accountability, today's cyber challenges extend far beyond the security organization. The most effective leaders are building stronger partnerships across the C-suite, creating shared ownership for risk decisions that impact the business, workforce, customers, and stakeholders alike.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Why cyber risk can no longer be owned by security alone
  • Accountability for AI use across the enterprise
  • Creating shared ownership for business-critical risk decisions


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents

Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is more complex: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?
Join this keynote to hear about:

  • Establishing a framework where data, identity, and agent security operate as one system
  • Shifting from asking whether you can trust your agents to determining what access they can be trusted with
  • Balancing innovation and risk by creating visibility needed to understand agent activity

Metric Madness — Turning Security Noise into Executive Clarity

Are your security metrics driving better decisions, or simply fueling the next boardroom fire drill? As cyber risk, AI adoption, and regulatory pressures continue to evolve, many CISOs find themselves trapped between escalating demands for data and diminishing time to act on it. The challenge is no longer producing more metrics, it's transforming uncertainty into clarity, helping stakeholders focus on what matters most, and using data to tell a story that builds confidence instead of anxiety.

Share pain points and quick wins with your peers, and discuss:

  • Shifting from metric overload to meaningful risk storytelling that drives executive alignment and action
  • Managing board expectations while balancing constant reporting demands, emerging threats, and operational realities
  • Prioritizing team focus, reducing organizational noise, and turning security data into a catalyst for confidence and better decisions


Keynote Session

The Vulnerability Reckoning

Frontier AI is compressing the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation faster than most organizations can adapt. As boards and executive teams confront a new era of machine-speed risk, security leaders must rethink not only how exposure is managed, but also how the enterprise makes decisions, shares accountability, and responds to threats at a fundamentally different pace.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Recalibrating risk appetite when perfect remediation is no longer realistic
  • Creating enterprise-wide accountability for cyber risk decisions
  • Sustaining teams and momentum amid relentless security change


We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

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Lynn Morrow

Senior Community Program Manager

503-805-5624

lynn.morrow@gartner.com