Executive Summit

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Experience an exclusive fireside chat with legendary athlete, entrepreneur and advocate Venus Williams at the Global CIO & CISO Gala. A Grand Slam champion, four-time Olympic gold medalist and visionary business leader, Venus will focus on: 

• Driving innovation and unlocking proven strategies to fuel business growth
• Building resilience, mental toughness and a winning mindset
• Leading with purpose, authenticity and individuality to shape your leadership legacy

When it comes to realizing business value from AI, the real constraint for many global CIOs is not ambition or investment, but modernizing the technology workforce. At UnitedHealthcare, Jenn Zmuda, Chief Information Officer, is reimagining talent strategy to overcome cognitive entrenchment around transformation.

Join this keynote session to explore:

• Modernizing workforce strategy to address legacy processes and talent capabilities
• Developing and executing on a talent strategy that delivers faster, scalable outcomes
• Overcoming the inherent constraints of a global organization to enable AI ambitions

Downtime is no longer just an IT problem — it's a brand event. When disruption hits, your response time, your recovery architecture and your communication strategy are all under scrutiny from customers, regulators and the board simultaneously. The focus must now shift to what actually matters — how to restore a minimum viable business fast, stay compliant across conflicting global regulations and demonstrate readiness before you're forced to prove it under pressure.

Join this session to walk away with:

• A measurable framework for minimum viable business recovery that speaks the board's language
• Tactics for maintaining continuity across jurisdictions with divergent sovereignty and compliance demands
• An executive communication playbook for before, during and after an incident

Traditional ERP is a stable system of record, but not a driver of speed, intelligence or innovation. As agentic AI transforms the technology landscape, global CIOs are facing pressure to innovate in complex and fragmented environments with constrained budgets.

Join this session to learn about:

• Orchestrating innovation across fragmented environments
• Delivering outcomes without disruption
• Leveraging existing ERP investment as a data foundation for Agentic AI innovation

Frontier AI models are redefining the risk landscape, enabling adversaries to weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed. There is a shift toward autonomous exploitation and new strategies for protecting the modern enterprise, including data protection for high-reasoning agents.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Balancing data access and control to counter autonomous exploit chaining
• Implementing data protection for high-reasoning agents
• Defending against AI-enabled social engineering as data access expands

Capturing scalable ROI from AI requires shifting from basic AI literacy to true organizational AI fluency. Global CIOs must orchestrate a holistic workforce transformation, empowering employees to confidently partner with AI agents.

• Redesign roles and workflows for a hybrid "Human + Agent" workforce
• Provide vetted, safe tools directly where daily work gets done
• Nurture psychological safety and continuous experimentation modeled by leadership

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.

Effective AI governance today is about enabling confident innovation, not just control. Global CIOs must navigate the growing complexity of scaling AI while protecting data, managing risk and achieving business goals across diverse regions.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• Designing AI governance that balances innovation and risk
• Scaling AI beyond IT for cross-functional results
• Strengthening data, governance and operating models for AI

AI identities are rapidly multiplying and reshaping organizational risk. A clear, actionable identity security strategy — with governance at machine speed — is essential for cyber resiliency.

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Enable AI-powered innovation without opening the organization up to risk
• Build a scalable identity foundation that emphasizes productivity and security
• Centralize and streamline processes across the organization

AI investments are outpacing workforce readiness. Skills gaps stall adoption and stifle collaboration between humans and agents. Global CIOs must collaborate across the organization to align workforce, technology and business strategy to maximize impact. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Scaling AI responsibly — balancing adoption, data governance and workforce readiness to drive real business value.
• Best practices for aligning business units around a unified AI and workforce strategy
• Approaches to redesigning operating models, roles and structures for human-AI collaboration

As AI is embedded in core workflows, CIOs are accountable for performance, reliability and user experience — not just access. High latency and poor visibility into the end-to-end AI experience can overwhelm help desks, slow incident resolution and reduce confidence when making infrastructure or policy changes. CIOs need proactive telemetry and a consistent access model that keeps AI fast, measurable and supportable at scale. A Zero Trust approach across internet access, AI applications, SaaS and private applications can improve the AI user experience while enabling secure adoption through continuous validation and production guardrails.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Reduce latency and performance degradation by modernizing access paths and eliminating unnecessary network complexity
• Establish proactive experience monitoring and telemetry to detect degradation early and mitigate help-desk impact
• Accelerate troubleshooting with end-to-end visibility, improving confidence and speed when implementing infrastructure and policy changes

Agentic AI is approaching an inflection point for Global CIOs as organizations move swiftly from experimentation to operationalization. As agents shift quietly from “assist” to “execute,” often outside formal governance and executive review, a new, inherently scalable category of insider risk emerges.

Join this session to explore:

• Institutionalizing governance at the pace of experimentation
• Addressing agentic supply chain risk and unintended enterprise exposure
• Enabling a global organization to innovate and move quickly with confidence

When AI can exploit vulnerabilities within minutes, traditional patching cycles are obsolete. Gartner reports 93% of boards see cybersecurity as a threat to shareholder value. Global CIOs must elevate autonomous protection from an IT function to a global business strategy.

Join this session to explore:

• Unified intelligence for next-gen cyber threats
• Autonomous patch management for autonomous threats
• Impacts of changing threat dynamics on enterprise value

Agentic AI is reshaping organizations worldwide, fueling efficiency, breakthrough innovation and sustainable growth. However, the true global impact of these advancements depends on a CIO’s ability to deliver trusted, real-time context at scale. By uniting high-quality data, relationships, and business meaning, context intelligence enables enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, reduce risk, and drive measurable outcomes across diverse markets.

Join this roundtable to explore:

• Building globally scalable data platforms
• Balancing AI innovation with governance
• Setting global metrics for AI-ready data

Restoring trust and transparency at global scale is vital as autonomous systems reshape enterprise decision-making. CIOs must harness technology to deliver clear oversight, ensuring consistent, trusted business outcomes and proactive risk management across complex, distributed environments.

Join this session to discuss:

• Navigating the CIO’s evolving role in driving transparency and trust at scale
• Defining what trusted autonomy looks like in large-scale, global enterprise environments
• Aligning investments, metrics and outcomes to ensure top-down confidence in automation

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.

CIOs face pressure to realize generative AI’s benefits while maintaining governance, compliance, and visibility across the enterprise. As employees globally use browser-based AI tools to boost productivity, organizations encounter challenges from unapproved applications that may cause data leakage, security threats and regulatory risks. Responsible AI adoption requires balancing innovation and control. Operational, security and compliance implications of shadow AI demand strategies for implementing policies that safely unlock AI’s potential in a global context. By proactively strengthening governance and security measures, organizations can drive effective AI adoption and maximize business value.

Join this session to discover:

• Identifying risks from unauthorized AI tools
• Establishing internationally compliant governance policies
• Empowering productivity with secure AI adoption

Connect with fellow attendees in an intimate, elegant setting at the Waldorf Astoria, featuring 100-year-old French flooring, stone walls, and a 10,000-bottle wine collection. Enjoy a Sommelier-led wine experience from the Reserve List, followed by a gourmet three-course dinner and hosted bar, providing the perfect opportunity for mingling and networking.

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Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of IT investments will fail to deliver meaningful business value without a clear, actionable investment model. Explore how a modern IT investment approach applies proven Silicon Valley–inspired practices at enterprise scale, supported by strong business partnership, shared accountability, and outcomes-focused decision-making to transform value delivery, governance and speed to impact.

Join this session to understand:

• How Silicon Valley–inspired, portfolio-based investment models translate to large enterprises
• What role AI plays in prioritizing investments, measuring outcomes and optimizing spend
• How strong business–IT partnership and shared ownership drive measurable business outcomes, cultural change and sustained value realization

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Gartner reports that most CIOs expect the bar for success to shift in 2026. As global organizations accelerate off-cycle strategic pivots, CIOs must embrace agile budgeting and planning to keep pace with continuous business change.

Join this session to explore:

• Delivering enterprise impact in rapidly evolving environments
• Moving from calendar-based planning to dynamic reprioritization amid disruption
• Transitioning from geographically agnostic approaches to geostrategically aligned strategies

In today’s hyper-connected vendor ecosystem, global CIOs must define a clear organizational approach to vendor portfolio management to ensure optimized spending, strong security and operational resilience.

Join this session to discuss:

• Navigating an expanding and evolving vendor landscape
• Evaluating and managing vendor portfolio risk
• Insulating the organization and vendor strategy from disruption

Governance, control and trust take center-stage as agentic AI reshapes risk and introduces new challenges for global organizations including authority drift, misconfiguration and behavioral deviation. How can CIOs optimize global frameworks to manage and govern a new class of autonomous digital actors?

Join this keynote to uncover: 

• How agentic AI changes enterprise risk and governance models
• The core pillars for governing users, AI systems and data
• Key architectural components to enforce real-time AI control and accountability