Executive Summit

CEOs and Boards see digital and AI technologies as the antidote to driving growth despite ongoing market and geopolitical disruptions. CIOs can step up by intentionally advancing democratized digital delivery throughout the enterprise. This shift makes the operating model more adaptable and prepared for whatever comes next.

Join this keynote to explore:

• Maturing the IT functional operating model
• Democratizing digital delivery intentionally
• Elevating the impact of the CIO as an executive leader

Join Lewis Choi of Neurocrine Biosciences as he shares perspectives, experiences, and lessons learned from leading business and technology initiatives within a complex organization. Attendees will gain insights into leadership approaches, key challenges, and practical takeaways relevant to today's executive priorities. More session details to follow.

AI is enabling employees across the business to build apps, agents, and automation at an unprecedented speed. While this unlocks significant productivity and innovation, the result is a wave of, "wild code": AI-generated solutions developed outside traditional IT governance. As organizations struggle to balance speed with security and control, conventional approaches are proving insufficient. This session will explore how teams can build, run, and monitor AI-created work with governance embedded throughout.

Join this session to:

• Understand the risks, cost, and overall business impact of "wild code"
• Recognize why traditional governance models fall short in the AI era
• Learn how to scale AI-driven innovation without sacrificing security or control

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.

AI agent adoption cannot happen in isolation from existing applications, APIs, MCPs, and governance models. To move from experimentation to execution, CIOs require a practical playbook to separate the signal from the noise.

Join this session to explore how to:

• Evaluate where agents add meaningful value versus introducing risk
• Address practical adoption tradeoffs across real operating environments
• Gain a concrete framework for evaluating enterprise fit

Technology is only one piece of the data transformation equation. Building a modern, AI-ready data foundation requires the right architecture, governance, business engagement, and adoption strategy. Join The Hain Celestial Group as they share lessons from their Microsoft Fabric journey, including early missteps, course corrections, and the guiding principles that helped create a scalable foundation for analytics and AI.

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Build a modern data foundation that supports analytics and AI

• Create alignment across technology, governance, and business stakeholders

• Drive adoption while transitioning from legacy tools and processes

As enterprises shift from human‑driven to human‑supervised operations, AI has introduced new forms of complexity that traditional monitoring can’t explain. The challenge is no longer whether systems are up, but whether leaders can clearly understand how decisions are made, where risk accumulates and why performance or cost changes in unexpected ways.

Join this session to discuss:

• Where visibility breaks down in AI‑driven, hybrid and multi‑cloud environments
• Why “nothing is down” no longer means systems are operating as intended
• How CIOs re-establish transparency and trust as autonomous actions scale

Agentic AI is transforming work and prompting leaders to rethink traditional suites and modernization strategies. This boardroom will examine how agentic AI is unbundling ERP responsibilities, reshaping process orchestration and enabling smarter service layers.

Join fellow CIOs to explore:

• The rise of service layers, workflow engines and AI agents
• What’s replacing monolithic ERP models
• Key assumptions to challenge when evaluating vendor roadmaps