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

As AI agents start acting across business environments, data becomes the true control surface. These agents require broad access to data, identities, and business processes, creating new risk patterns as sensitive data and outbound actions converge at machine speed. This is a control shift. CISOs must modernize their data approach to adopt agentic AI confidently while maintaining oversight.

Join this session to explore how to:

• Detect emerging risk behaviors in autonomous AI
• Build a data-centric and intent-aware security model
• Establish the CISO as the orchestrator of scalable AI and business growth enabler

The CIO and CISO roles demand persistent reinvention. Leaders must stay agile as expectations shift, technologies evolve and organizational pressures intensify — all while drawing from the experiences that shaped them. This session explores how modern executives adapt, influence and lead through continuous change.

This boardroom will cover:

• Navigating organizational change, evolving expectations and rapid technology disruption
• Building relationships that accelerate trust, alignment and influence
• Developing emerging leaders and fostering a resilient, adaptable culture

Global tension, shifting regulations, and rising nation‑state threats are forcing Calgary organizations to rethink how they protect data and secure operations. Leaders need practical strategies for resilience as attacks escalate, third‑party risks grow, and disruption becomes the norm.

This boardroom will discuss:

• Strengthening resilience across high‑value, distributed operations
• Prioritizing data sovereignty and third‑party exposure
• Enabling rapid decisions for conflict-driven disruption

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.

The next wave of automation and AI will rely on accurate data, resilient architecture and clear accountability across operational systems. Foundational capabilities must be in place before advanced technologies can scale safely and effectively.

Join this interactive session to learn and discuss:

• Ensuring visibility and control across connected operational environments
• Strengthening data foundations to support AI readiness
• Architecting today’s systems for tomorrow’s technology demands

Many organizations struggle to scale promising digital initiatives, often leaving them to languish in “pilot purgatory.” To overcome this challenge, CIOs must streamline technology portfolios, fortify data foundations, and drive adoption across the enterprise to realize the full potential of innovation.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Accelerating use case development for measurable business outcomes
• Transitioning from isolated experiments to enterprise-scale impact
• Managing cultural, skill, and workflow transformations for sustainable change

There's a lot of "noise" in cybersecurity every day: alerts, reports, emails, tickets, notices, checklists, meetings, etc. But all this activity doesn't automatically translate into forward progress, and CISOs know it's their job to find the meaning mixed up in all the noise to lead their teams with clarity.

Join your peers for a frank discussion about:

• Discerning the difference between true signals and noise
• Leveraging these signals to add meaningful context to security strategies
• Elevating risk conversations to move beyond checklists and frameworks

AI is reshaping organizations faster than any technology in the last three decades, moving from isolated pilots to a defining force for enterprise reinvention. As this shift accelerates, success is no longer determined by technology alone, but by how prepared, supported and confident people are to work differently with it.
In this keynote, two leaders share how they transformed early experimentation into sustained, organization-wide impact by strengthening readiness, modernizing data foundations and empowering their workforce to adopt AI safely and effectively. Through real-world examples, they will explore what they have already achieved, what they continue to scale and how navigating organizational and technical complexity sharpened their vision and execution.
This keynote will explore:

• Designing scalable, responsible AI programs built on strong governance and trusted data that empower people to adopt AI with confidence across the enterprise
• Translating AI potential into practical use cases that streamline work, reduce friction and elevate outcomes
• Accelerating adoption by simplifying experiences, reducing digital fatigue and enabling people to work differently

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