
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

Valéria Fernandes
Vallourec
Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

François Gauthier
Veolia
Global Chief Digital Business & Technology Officer
What to Expect
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
Apply to Participate
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