Philadelphia CIO Community
Executive Summit
October 28, 2026 | Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
October 28, 2026
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Philadelphia'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:
Leveraging AI to Drive Innovation While Ensuring Security and Compliance
Cultivating Resilient Leadership to Navigate Disruption and Drive Growth
Aligning Technology and Cybersecurity Investments With Strategic Business Outcomes
Philadelphia 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

Joshua Beeman
University of Pennsylvania
Interim VP of IT & CIO

Vishi Viswanathan
Day & Zimmermann Group
SVP & CIO
What to Expect
Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Gartner Keynote
Breaking the AI Productivity Trap — Outcome-Driven Transformation
Kyle Owen
Sr. Principal Analyst
Gartner
AI budgets are soaring, but most organizations are stuck chasing faster tasks instead of meaningful results. The gap between investment and impact is widening — because the focus is on productivity rather than outcomes. How leaders can shift from incremental gains to real business value by anchoring AI efforts to what matters most?
In this keynote, you’ll learn:
- Choosing a business outcome before deploying AI
- Building cross-functional teams to drive process redesign
- Anchoring transformation with shared, outcome-focused OKRs
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents
Hosted by Cyera
Agents are becoming the biggest opportunity in the enterprise, and the biggest adversary. They read your data and act under borrowed identities, at a speed no human review process was built to match. The old question in security was how to keep bad actors out. The new one is more complex: how do you create and manage the biggest risk in your own enterprise, the agents you deployed on purpose?
Join this keynote to hear about:
- Establishing a framework where data, identity, and agent security operate as one system
- Shifting from asking whether you can trust your agents to determining what access they can be trusted with
- Balancing innovation and risk by creating visibility needed to understand agent activity
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Guiding Teams Through AI Transformation
Samantha Davis
CIO, Americas
Arkema Inc.
AI is reshaping what it means to lead. As automation accelerates, how do you build trust, inspire cultural change, and empower your teams to thrive? Join IT & security leaders for a candid conversation on the leadership mindset and practical actions needed to guide your organization through AI-driven transformation.
In this session, we’ll discuss:
- Building trust and buy-in for AI adoption
- Shaping culture to embrace new ways of working
- Empowering talent through upskilling
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Traditional ERP is Dead — What's Next?
Hosted by Rimini Street
Eric Helmer
EVP & Global CTO
Rimini Street
Helane Stein
EVP & CIO
Brixmor Property Group
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
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
Is Your Enterprise Ready for AI?
Hosted by Island
Kevin Reardon
VP, Advisory & Architecture
Island
As generative AI and enterprise platforms reshape the workplace, organizations must balance innovation and productivity with protecting sensitive data and ensuring compliance. CIOs and CISOs face challenges from the rapid adoption of GenAI applications—often outside IT or security oversight—which can introduce risks like data leakage, policy gaps, and new vulnerabilities.
Join this session to discover:
- How to align AI adoption with enterprise goals and effective governance
- Strategies to identify and mitigate risks from shadow tools and unmanaged AI
- Designing policies for safe, scalable AI integration and ongoing compliance
11:10am - 11:55am Breakout Session
Activating Unstructured Data and Agents in the Enterprise
Hosted by Box
Ravi Malick
SVP & Global CIO
Box
The shift from basic AI assistants to autonomous agents is reshaping the enterprise, turning passive tools into scalable workflows. Real advantage emerges when intelligence is grounded in an organization’s unique, proprietary content. As leaders move beyond early experiments, the priority becomes breaking down silos and establishing governance that ensures agents operate on a reliable foundation.
Join this interactive session to learn how to:
- Prioritize measurable growth beyond LLM hype
- Connect content to unlock meaningful AI performance
- Understand the monetary and labor opportunity costs of AI transformation
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Rethinking Governance for Rapid Tech Shifts
Hosted by Cloudflare
Madeline Gregory
Director, Information Security GRC
Cloudflare
Greg Driscoll
CIO
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
AI’s rapid evolution has exposed gaps in traditional governance frameworks, challenging CIOs and CISOs to embed adaptable, resilient structures that can withstand future technological disruptions. Proactive governance enables organizations to stay ahead of compliance and risk while maintaining operational agility.
Join this session to discuss:
- Assessing and updating governance frameworks to address AI-driven changes
- Aligning zero trust principles to ensure adaptive controls for continuous risk management
- Preparing teams and processes for the next wave of disruptive technologies
11:10am - 11:55am Executive Boardroom
Recovery as a Compensating Control: Defending the Undefendable
Hosted by Veeam
Chase Hudson
CISO
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
When legacy systems can’t be patched, recovery becomes a key compensating control. CISOs rely on recovery documentation as evidence to protect themselves and their organizations. This session covers how immutable backups and traceable recovery records withstand regulatory and legal scrutiny after incidents and how forensic and threat intelligence data can turn reactive recovery into a documented, risk-based decision.
Join this session to learn:
- How recovery and immutable backups protect unpatched legacy systems
- Building recovery records for regulatory and legal review
- Using forensic and threat intelligence to justify response decisions
11:55am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Philadelphia Marriott DowntownThe hotel is valet only, first come first served. Pricing is $71.66 daily, $85.44 overnight.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 800-320-5744. Please mention Gartner Philadelphia Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $280 USD (plus tax) is October 5, 2026.
Community Program Manager
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