In-Person

France CIO Community

Executive Summit

2 December 2025 | Les Salons Hoche

2 December 2025
Les Salons Hoche

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with France's top CIOs 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 CIOs today:

Harnessing AI to Drive Technological Transformation

Balancing Data Privacy & Innovation in a Globalised Digital Economy

Fostering a Cyber Resilient Culture to Strengthen Security Posture

France CIO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO 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 France CIO 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

Executive Boardroom Sessions

Measuring the Unseen - Proving IT Impact and Outcomes

CIOs are increasingly focused on demonstrating their department’s value and steering organizational direction through strategic IT initiatives. By measuring IT's impact on strategic business growth and leveraging a robust digital employee experience (DEX), CIOs can ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance across international operations. A well-crafted DEX strategy not only enhances operational efficiency but also optimizes IT assets, fostering collaboration and aligning technological advancements with global business goals.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Improving operational efficiency and business outcomes
  • Measuring IT impact on strategic business growth
  • Leveraging DEX to improve optimization and visibility of global IT assets

Evolve Your SOC to a VOC to Meet Demand

Your SOC is critical in being the first line of defence between you and attackers. With more attacks, more threat actors and more devices, can your SOC keep up? CISOs must move beyond traditional monitoring to a vulnerability-first approach and think of new ways to meet security pressures.

In this Executive Boardroom, you will discuss how to:

  • Evolve your SecOps approach to put vulnerabilities at the centre
  • Understand where AI can add value at scale and speed up remediation
  • Focus on upskilling the security talent pool to meet business demands


Breakout Sessions

Preparing for Brand New Threats — Fighting AI with Precision

 Cyberattackers are increasingly leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to execute more advanced and sophisticated attacks, amplifying the scale and impact of the threat. As a result, the perception among many organisations is that it's easier now than ever for attackers. To change this perception, security leaders must adopt a proactive AI-driven defence strategy. How can CIO and CISOs cut down on complexities within AI-driven platforms and gain visibility and control across security systems to better protect the enterprise? 

Join this session to discuss:

  • The strategies security leaders are deploying to combat the evolving threat landscape
  • Defending in the AI era through mixing conventional and new approaches
  • Leveraging AI to empower your defence teams and scale up security across the organisation

Driving IT Business Value Through Innovation

Whilst adapting operating models and optimising data are perennial focus areas for CIOs, showcasing how IT propels innovation at scale is key. By understanding what innovation looks like for you and your teams, you can adjust your IT architecture and processes accordingly.  IT leaders can then command more influence by demonstrating how technology investments translate into tangible business outcomes.

In this session, you will hear more on how to:

  • Define and measure what innovation looks like for you and your team
  • Communicate the innovation behind certain operating model or IT architecture decisions
  • Positioning the CIO as strategic partner to enable business growth


Keynote Session

Embrace Change to Lead Effective Digital Teams

In a global business environment shaped by uncertainty, technology leaders must embrace an agile mindset and be ready to rethink strategy to maintain a competitive edge. By keeping people, processes and technology at the centre of every change, IT & Security leaders will deliver business value and lead effectively.

In this session, you will gain insights into:

  • Rethink digital strategy whilst maintaining stability during change
  • Adjust leadership styles to embrace diverse perspectives
  • Balance digital advancements with people-centered approach to 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.

Location

Venue & Accommodation

Les Salons Hoche

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Community Programme Manager

For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Chloe Stevenson

Senior Community Programme Manager

+44 (0)7701 308 236

chloe.stevenson@gartner.com