Executive Summit

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

• Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

Hear from Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, Gene Alvarez, on the top trends for 2026 to propel your business and technology goals. Learn how to transform disruption and uncertainty into opportunity and growth.

Join this session to hear about:

• Emerging technology trends shaping the future
• Understanding the impact and importance of these trends
• Leveraging insights to drive opportunity, growth, and competitive advantage

With high volumes of sensitive data now flowing through web browsers, three in five organizations say data leakage is likely given current IT and security infrastructures. Stop playing catch-up. Discover new approaches to enterprise operations to reduce risk while simplifying operations.

Join this session to discover:

• How disparate IT and security solutions create technical debt
• What challenges impact internal and end user stakeholders
• How simplifying IT can strengthen security, and boost productivity

As hybrid work evolves and AI transforms workflows, the need for seamless, intelligent and proactive digital experiences is more critical than ever. How are today’s technology leaders investing in DEX in a way that improves workplace productivity and drives business outcomes?

Join your peers to discuss:

• Advancing through the digital workplace maturity model
• Harnessing AI to optimize digital workflows
• Building a resilient, future-ready IT foundation

In an AI-driven world, talent is a strategic advantage and a catalyst for change — not just in IT, but across the enterprise. CIOs must take the lead in providing the workforce with the tools and confidence needed to be effective users and champions of innovation.

Join this session to discuss:

• Upskilling and reskilling employees at the pace of AI
• Partnering cross-functionally to develop a future-ready workforce
• Equipping the workforce with the tools and confidence needed to champion AI