In-Person

Detroit CIO Community

Executive Summit

June 17, 2026 | The Henry, Autograph Collection

June 17, 2026
The Henry, Autograph Collection

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Detroit'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:

Proactively Managing Cyber Risk and Identity to Build Resilient, Secure Organizations

Accelerating Digital Innovation and AI Adoption with Security at the Core

Cultivating a Secure, Innovative Culture and Leadership for Sustainable Growth

Detroit 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

Rich Hook

Penske
EVP & CIO

Rachelle Putnam

General Dynamics Land Systems
CIO

Jeff Small

Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO

Ryan Talbott

Amway
Chief Technology Officer

Erik Wille

Cabinetworks Group
CTO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Detroit CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda

June 17, 2026

8:00am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Gartner Keynote

Leading Through Change — AI’s Role in Developing Technology and Talent

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Tori Paulman

VP Analyst

Gartner

AI is transforming leadership development by automating routine tasks, but this shift can limit hands-on experience for emerging talent — a challenge known as “experience starvation.” This trend poses risks to the leadership pipeline, especially for CIOs and CISOs. GenAI simulators offer scalable, immersive mentoring that enhances decision-making and crisis management, accelerating talent development and improving preparedness for future business and security challenges.

 Join this keynote to learn:

  •  How AI-driven mentoring closes experience gaps and builds leadership strength
  •  Where to deploy GenAI simulators for maximum impact in IT, security, and operations
  •  Steps CIOs and CISOs can take to balance efficiency, talent, and resilience

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Driving Innovation with Unified Governance and Security

 As browser-based and unapproved tools reshape the future of work, CIOs and CISOs must enable innovation while maintaining governance, security, and compliance. The rise of “Shadow AI” demands unified strategies and collaboration to ensure visibility, control, and agility, keeping organizations resilient and adaptable.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Operational, risk, and compliance impacts
  • Unified policies for responsible enablement
  • Collaboration for visibility, control, and agility

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Right-Sizing the Operating Model to Power Business Outcomes

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Matt Logar

VP & CIO

PHINIA

Achieving sustainable innovation requires more than vision and leadership — it demands an operating model that is streamlined and closely aligned with business needs. Join Matt Logar, VP & CIO at PHINIA, as he shares how he is simplifying the IT operating model to deliver ongoing business value and drive organizational alignment. 

Join this session to hear more on: 

  • Aligning the operating model to evolving business needs
  • Reinvesting savings to enable new capabilities and innovation
  • Addressing legacy systems for future readiness

10:25am - 11:10am  Networking Break

10:35am - 11:00am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

Operational Trust for AI — Building Confidence for Scaling

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Jason Cook

Field CTO Americas

Rubrik

As organizations adopt GenAI at scale, technology and security leaders must ensure it operates predictably and delivers measurable value. Initiatives often stall due to unpredictable costs, opaque performance, and limited visibility. AI observability provides the foundation for responsible expansion — strengthening security, improving governance, and giving leaders the insight needed to validate ROI before scaling.

Join this session to explore how to:

  • Establishing visibility and early risk management for AI
  • Improving cost predictability to validate ROI
  • Scaling AI safely and confidently

11:10am - 11:55am  Breakout Session

Rethinking Security for Agentic AI — From Control to Orchestration

As AI agents start acting across business environments, data becomes the true control surface. These agents require broad access to data, identities, and business processes, creating new risk patterns as sensitive data and outbound actions converge at machine speed. This is a control shift. CISOs must modernize their data approach to adopt agentic AI confidently while maintaining oversight.

Join this session to explore how to:

  • Detect emerging risk behaviors in autonomous AI
  • Build a data-centric and intent-aware security model
  • Establish the CISO as the orchestrator of scalable AI and business growth enabler

11:10am - 11:55am  Executive Boardroom

Traditional ERP is Dead — What's Next?

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Eric Helmer

EVP & Global CTO

Rimini Street

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Carlos Silva Santos

Head of IT, North America

Astemo

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Jeff Small

CIO

Great Lakes Water Authority

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

11:10am - 11:55am  Executive Boardroom

Commanding Data and Trust — The New CISO Imperative in the Age of AI

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Ahmeed Ahmeed

Cyber & Information Security Director

Inteva Products

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Gregory Wilson

Global CISO

Whirlpool Corporation

As organizations embrace AI and data-driven innovation, CISOs are tasked with not only protecting sensitive information but also ensuring the trustworthiness and responsible use of data. The modern CISO must go beyond traditional security, championing unified data command, privacy assurance, and automated governance at enterprise scale. Building trusted AI ecosystems demands real-time data intelligence, granular control, and automated risk mitigation to meet regulatory and ethical expectations.

Join this session to explore:

  • Unified data command with AI insights
  • Enterprise-wide privacy and ethical stewardship
  • Automated policy enforcement and risk reduction

11:55am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

AI Authority Drift — Closing the Governance Gap

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Steve Riley

VP & Field CTO

Netskope

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer limited to generating insights, modern AI systems are beginning to act — initiating workflows, interacting with applications, and making decisions at machine speed. As agentic AI systems become operational participants inside enterprise environments, this session explores how enterprises can safely scale AI by establishing governance across identity, authority, behavior, and data, while enabling innovation without introducing unmanaged risk.

Attendees will learn:

  • How to control the authority, behavior, and data access of autonomous systems operating across complex digital ecosystems
  • The emerging governance model, enacted through a real-time control plane, to address authority drift, misconfigured permissions, and unintended AI behavior
  • A practical framework and architecture for governing

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Decoding Tomorrow’s Threats — Trends & Insights Unveiled

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Tim Gallo

Head of Global Solutions Architects - Google Threat Intelligence

Google Cloud

CISOs today are pulled in multiple directions, facing a relentless onslaught of evolving threats while balancing competing priorities and limited resources. As adversaries leverage new technologies—especially AI—organizations must rethink how they utilize threat intelligence and set security priorities. Yet, with historical knowledge and ongoing engagement in adversary tracking, there is hope: we can anticipate and outmaneuver tomorrow’s threats.

Join this session to explore:

  • Key findings and use cases from 2025
  • Predictions for 2026’s threat landscape and adversary tactics
  • Actionable strategies for prioritizing and mitigating emerging threats

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Shaping Tomorrow’s Enterprise Leadership

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Scott Bennett

CIO

Lear Corporation

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Maria Haight

Global Information Security Officer

Joyson Safety Systems

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Michael Hicks

SVP & CIO

Jackson

Technology leaders drive growth and resilience. This panel reveals how evolving roles, collaboration, and shared accountability between CIOs and CISOs enable organizations to thrive in today’s unpredictable climate. 

Join this panel discussion to hear from executives on: 

  • Deepening business engagement and shared accountability
  • Navigating reporting structures and succession planning
  • Expanding influence beyond traditional IT boundaries

2:15pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Breakout Session

Dow’s Approach — AI Security for Resilience

Discover how AI and automation can help you tackle evolving cyber threats and build a stronger organization. Mario Ferket, CISO at Dow, shares real-world strategies for defending complex environments, upskilling teams, and fostering a secure culture — along with lessons from industry partnerships and responsible AI adoption.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Accelerate threat detection with automation
  • Establish frameworks for secure AI Adoption
  • Strengthen resilience through upskilling and collaboration

3:45pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Driving Success Together — How CIO and CISO Collaboration Fuels Business Growth

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Anita Klopfenstein

CIO

Little Caesars

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Afia Phillips

CISO

Little Caesars

The partnership between CIOs and CISOs is increasingly critical as organizations face rapid change, evolving cyber threats, and the imperative for ongoing innovation. At Little Caesars, Anita Klopfenstein and Afia Phillips have demonstrated how breaking down silos and fostering collaboration can accelerate technology adoption, enhance risk management and deliver measurable business value.

Join this keynote to discover how to:

  • Build a collaborative IT-security partnership that advances key business initiatives
  • Align risk management and technology strategy to maximize organizational impact
  • Present unified goals and outcomes to the board and executive leadership

4:35pm - 4:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

June 17, 2026

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

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Location

Venue & Accommodation

The Henry, Autograph Collection

A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Henry, Autograph Collection at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 313-441-2000. Please mention Gartner CIO & CISO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $239 USD (plus tax) is May 25, 2026.

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