Seattle CIO Executive Summit

Zero trust transformation is not a straightforward, linear process. Modern CXOs must navigate a complex balance between technological advancement and the need to simplify and secure IT environments. The explosion of AI and recent technological disruptions served as a wake-up call to many organizations to scrutinize progress towards zero trust principles – for users, devices, and workloads. How can CXOs take advantage of this momentum to accelerate their zero trust and AI-enabled transformation?

Join this session to learn:

• How a zero trust approach to IT can help secure organizations’ resources reliably and cost-effectively
• How to foster a cultural shift within the organization, ensuring employees and leadership understand and embrace zero trust principles
• How to manage the complexities of AI integration to create robust security frameworks

Enterprise information is scattered across countless apps and platforms and finding the right data quickly and securely is a constant challenge. In this interactive session, we’ll explore strategies to centralize your company’s knowledge with AI to improve accessibility, as well as security, with robust data governance and access controls.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Real-world strategies to streamline workflows
• Actionable steps to safeguard critical company content
• Enterprise data challenges and best practices to overcome them

AI risk is quietly creeping into every corner of your enterprise, and you don’t even realize it. As more employees adopt AI-powered tools, applications, and processes, it is becoming deeply embedded in your tech stack — but it’s not just your employees using AI. Attackers are also leveraging AI to enhance their own tactics and sharpen their attacks. The real question for CISOs is: Do you have visibility into the countless ways AI is spreading, and what’s the best way to use AI to protect against AI?

Join this session to discuss:

• The hidden ways AI is entering your enterprise—from third-party tools to shadow AI projects—and why it’s slipping under the radar
• How attackers are using AI to improve their attacks and making them harder to detect by both legacy security tools and humans themselves
• Actionable steps for CISOs to gain visibility and control over AI use across the organization

Business today runs on an ever-growing landscape of enterprise technology across multiple cloud environments. The average enterprise uses 1,000 applications, multiple clouds, and thousands of physical assets. As generative AI improves developer productivity by almost 40%, an explosion of new applications will be created with AI embedded in the next few years. All this complexity creates operational inefficiency and exposure to vulnerabilities.

Join this session to learn about:

• Creating visibility across disparate systems to resolve the right issues at the right time
• Simplifying ecosystems to improve efficiencies and optimize costs
• Mitigate security vulnerabilities in your applications

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Increased digitization over the past 50 years has transformed CIOs and CISOs from technical leaders to global business executives who leverage technology to achieve enterprise value. As today’s leaders promote the establishment of optimal technology responsibilities and accountabilities, they must also evolve their own roles to deal with evolving obligations and opportunities.

Join this peer chat to explore:

• What business outcomes you’re trying to drive
• How you are strategically approaching those drivers
• Ways to elevate your role for influence across the C-suite and beyond

As leaders seek to drive business value from data and analytics initiatives, they face both cultural and technical challenges. Technology and security leaders must partner with the business in creating a long-term analytics strategy that enables the organization to make data driven decisions.

Join this session to hear perspectives on:

• Evolving data governance efforts to power accuracy in reporting and analytics
• Overcoming technical obstacles and cost pressure to ensure analytics programs get prioritized
• Building a business case to create a strategy that has measurable outcomes and results

According to Gartner, by 2026, AI will augment 50% of office workers in global enterprises. When IT talent demand outweighs supply, CIOs must face skills gaps head on and create a future-proof talent strategy.

Join this session to discuss:

• Preparing your workforce for AI Implementation
• Identifying employee skills to build upon
• Prioritizing talent planning for long term success

Change is inevitable. The one constant in the midst of all the change, stress, and uncertainty we face at work and in life is us. Leaders with a strong sense of emotional intelligence (EQ), a willingness to be courageous and vulnerable, and the capacity to inspire others in a genuine way, have a distinct advantage in keeping their teams engaged and motivated in any circumstances.

In this keynote, author and thought leader Mike Robbins will share practical tips for:

• Learning to be transparent in a way that’s both liberating and inspiring
• Connecting at a deeper level with your teams and building real trust
• Dealing effectively with change and uncertainty — and thriving in the process

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.