Detroit CISO Community
Executive Summit
June 17, 2026 | The Henry, Autograph Collection
June 17, 2026
The Henry, Autograph Collection
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Detroit'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:
Proactively Managing Cyber Risk and Identity to Build Resilient, Secure Organizations
Accelerating Digital Innovation and AI Adoption with Security at the Core
Cultivating a Secure, Innovative Culture and Leadership for Sustainable Growth
Detroit 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

Janette Barretto
Yazaki North America
Head of Cybersecurity

Brent Cieszynski
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
VP & CISO

Steve Herrin
DTE
Director, Information Protection & Security and CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Gartner Keynote
Leading Through Change — AI’s Role in Developing Technology and Talent
Tori Paulman
VP Analyst
Gartner
AI is transforming leadership development by automating routine tasks, but this shift can limit hands-on experience for emerging talent — a challenge known as “experience starvation.” This trend poses risks to the leadership pipeline, especially for CIOs and CISOs. GenAI simulators offer scalable, immersive mentoring that enhances decision-making and crisis management, accelerating talent development and improving preparedness for future business and security challenges.
Join this keynote to learn:
- How AI-driven mentoring closes experience gaps and builds leadership strength
- Where to deploy GenAI simulators for maximum impact in IT, security, and operations
- Steps CIOs and CISOs can take to balance efficiency, talent, and resilience
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Driving Innovation with Unified Governance and Security
Hosted by Island
As browser-based and unapproved tools reshape the future of work, CIOs and CISOs must enable innovation while maintaining governance, security, and compliance. The rise of “Shadow AI” demands unified strategies and collaboration to ensure visibility, control, and agility, keeping organizations resilient and adaptable.
Join this session to discuss:
- Operational, risk, and compliance impacts
- Unified policies for responsible enablement
- Collaboration for visibility, control, and agility
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Right-Sizing the Operating Model to Power Business Outcomes
Matt Logar
VP & CIO
PHINIA
Achieving sustainable innovation requires more than vision and leadership — it demands an operating model that is streamlined and closely aligned with business needs. Join Matt Logar, VP & CIO at PHINIA, as he shares how he is simplifying the IT operating model to deliver ongoing business value and drive organizational alignment.
Join this session to hear more on:
- Aligning the operating model to evolving business needs
- Reinvesting savings to enable new capabilities and innovation
- Addressing legacy systems for future readiness
10:25am - 11:10am Networking Break
10:35am - 11:00am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Operational Trust for AI — Building Confidence for Scaling
Hosted by Rubrik
Jason Cook
Field CTO Americas
Rubrik
As organizations adopt GenAI at scale, technology and security leaders must ensure it operates predictably and delivers measurable value. Initiatives often stall due to unpredictable costs, opaque performance, and limited visibility. AI observability provides the foundation for responsible expansion — strengthening security, improving governance, and giving leaders the insight needed to validate ROI before scaling.
Join this session to explore how to:
- Establishing visibility and early risk management for AI
- Improving cost predictability to validate ROI
- Scaling AI safely and confidently
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Rethinking Security for Agentic AI — From Control to Orchestration
Hosted by Cyera
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
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Traditional ERP is Dead — What's Next?
Hosted by Rimini Street
Eric Helmer
EVP & Global CTO
Rimini Street
Carlos Silva Santos
Head of IT, North America
Astemo
Jeff Small
CIO
Great Lakes Water Authority
Agentic AI is transforming work and prompting leaders to rethink traditional suites and modernization strategies. This boardroom will examine how agentic AI is unbundling ERP responsibilities, reshaping process orchestration and enabling smarter service layers.
Join fellow CIOs to explore:
• The rise of service layers, workflow engines and AI agents
• What’s replacing monolithic ERP models
• Key assumptions to challenge when evaluating vendor roadmaps
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Commanding Data and Trust — The New CISO Imperative in the Age of AI
Hosted by Veeam
Ahmeed Ahmeed
Cyber & Information Security Director
Inteva Products
Gregory Wilson
Global CISO
Whirlpool Corporation
As organizations embrace AI and data-driven innovation, CISOs are tasked with not only protecting sensitive information but also ensuring the trustworthiness and responsible use of data. The modern CISO must go beyond traditional security, championing unified data command, privacy assurance, and automated governance at enterprise scale. Building trusted AI ecosystems demands real-time data intelligence, granular control, and automated risk mitigation to meet regulatory and ethical expectations.
Join this session to explore:
- Unified data command with AI insights
- Enterprise-wide privacy and ethical stewardship
- Automated policy enforcement and risk reduction
11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Detroit CISO Community Executive Summit.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
The Henry, Autograph CollectionA block of rooms has been reserved at the The Henry, Autograph Collection at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 313-441-2000. Please mention Gartner CIO & CISO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $239 USD (plus tax) is May 25, 2026.
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