Executive Summit

As browser-based and unapproved applications reshape the future of work, CISOs face growing security and compliance risks, including data leakage and policy gaps. Proactively addressing these threats with effective safeguards protects enterprise data, supports innovation, and ensures resilience in an evolving workplace.

Join this session to discuss:

• Risks from unmanaged and shadow tools
• Policies to safeguard sensitive data
• Maintaining compliance and robust security controls

State-sponsored impersonation, account takeover, and AI-driven identity fraud expose the limits of “verify once at hire.” Leading organizations are shifting from implicit to explicit trust through continuous verification, balancing security, speed, and scale. Achieving rapid global workforce re-verification without disrupting operations is possible with the right approach.

Join this session to discover:

· Principles for establishing explicit workforce trust
· Approaches to rapid re-verification without disruption
· Strategies for exception handling at scale

Modern IAM strategies demand navigating a growing web of vendors, access lifecycles, and role structures—all while maintaining security and efficiency. Zero Trust further raises the bar, requiring organizations to adopt end‑to‑end identity governance that spans the workplace, workforce, and application workloads.

Join this session to:

• Break down practical methods for deploying IAM aligned to Zero Trust principles
• Improve role architecture, entitlement controls, and automated lifecycle workflows
• Tackle entitlement quality and drift in constantly shifting operational environments

AI is driving rapid business innovation while equally empowering threat actors, creating a dual mandate for today’s CISOs: securely enabling AI adoption and leveraging AI to enhance their own defensive capabilities. Securing this expanding AI attack surface requires strong visibility, holistic governance, and continuous policy enforcement. At the same time, effective defense at AI speed relies on GenAI for sharper insights and agentic AI to automate operations and outpace adversaries.

Join your peers to tackle critical questions on how:

• AI adoption must be both empowered and governed to prevent new business and security risks
• Visibility, governance, and continuous policy enforcement form the foundation of AI risk management
• Combining GenAI insights with agentic AI automation is essential to operate—and defend—at machine speed

Adversaries aren't just faster; they are more cunning and utilize AI to craft evasive payloads and automate discovery, bypassing traditional signature-based defenses. The challenge is operationalizing AI more effectively by utilizing the latest advances in defensive automation to remain competitive.

Join this session to explore:

• Where today’s risks truly live and how attack techniques are rapidly evolving
• How AI is being operationalized on the defensive side, from AI-assisted detection to response
• What is working, where the gaps are, and how organizations stay competitive in an AI-driven threat environment

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.

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, security leaders are often left holding the “hot potato” of risk—expected to manage, mitigate, and own risks that truly belong to the broader business. This imbalance often strains both resources and relationships, requiring infosec leaders to navigate organizational silos, misaligned incentives and communication gaps between business units to ensure ownership of risk remains in the right hands.

Through real-world scenarios, collaborative exercises, and candid discussion, this interactive workshop is an opportunity for security leaders to work share strategies for:

• Translating technical risks into business language that resonates with non-security stakeholders
• Establishing clear frameworks and processes for assigning and tracking risk accountability across business functions.
• Navigating resistance and overcoming common obstacles to change

Security and compliance leaders are under mounting pressure to deliver defensible, audit-ready decisions in real time—across expanding attack surfaces, tightening regulatory mandates, and increasingly complex control environments. With AI on the scene, it is now more critical for boards to understand not just the threats, but their potential business impact. Using context-aware AI to strengthen AI governance, improve threat detection, and generate defensible documentation for regulatory compliance helps teams stay compliant and measure security posture accurately.

In this session, you will learn: 

• Practical steps for implementing better data strategies for continuous risk
• What it means to strengthen AI governance with explainable, traceable decision logic & accelerate root cause analysis
• Ways to improve risk management by translating technical terms into simple KPIs and dashboards the board can understand

Despite greater investment in third-party risk management, executives still lack confidence in vendor decisions. Fragmented and inconsistent risk signals hinder clear, defensible choices. Moving from compliance-driven models to decision-focused insights is critical for building trust and resilience in the third-party ecosystem.

Join this session to discuss:

• Standardize risk signals to give CISOs clear, comparable inputs
• Prioritize decision focused insights over checklist compliance
• Provide concise, decision grade reporting to strengthen confidence and resilience

As CISOs face mounting cyber threats to critical operations, the unique realities of securing operational technology (OT) environments are more apparent than ever. Unlike IT, OT security is complicated by legacy systems, strict uptime requirements, and the overriding goal of physical safety. Not to mention the fact that many OT leaders are skeptical of IT-driven solutions, knowing that industrial sites often have specialized configurations that can make standardization difficult and ineffective.

This roundtable brings CISOs together to tackle:

• Overcoming cultural resistance and building trust with OT teams
• Tailoring security practices to specialized, high-stakes OT environments
• Making a strong case for consistent OT security investment amid tight budgets

In high-achieving environments, the drive to succeed often comes at a quiet cost: exhaustion, disconnection, and a sense that no matter how much we accomplish, it’s never quite enough. When productivity becomes the only measure of worth, rest feels impossible—and burnout starts to look like the norm. But it doesn’t have to be.

In this keynote we will explore why our current approach to performance is backfiring—and what we can do instead. Through research, relatable stories, and practical tools, we’ll unpack:

• How common ideas about time, efficiency, and productivity are quietly harming individual and collective well-being
• Why mental health isn’t the reward for high performance—it’s the foundation
• What leaders can do (for themselves and their teams) to build a healthier, more sustainable relationship with work