Minneapolis CISO Community
Executive Summit
December 9, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
December 9, 2026
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Minneapolis's top CISOs 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 CISOs today:
Securing AI-Powered Transformation at Scale
Elevating Cybersecurity as a Strategic Driver of Business Growth
Building a Resilient Organization Amid Evolving Threats and Uncertainty
Minneapolis CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Vince Aimutis
Federated Insurance
VP – Director of Information Services & CISO

Michael Brewer
Securian Financial
CISO

Peter Christy
Patterson Companies
VP, CISO

Mary Faulkner
Thrivent
VP, CISO & IT Operations

Jeff Johnson
DigiKey
CISO, Director, IT Security and Privacy

Aimee Martin
Data Recognition Corporation
CISO

Mike Rogers
Hormel Foods
CISO & Director Information Security & Compliance

Param Vig
Solventum
SVP, CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
Breakout Session
Securing the Agentic Workforce
As AI agents move from passive tools to active workforce members, CISOs face new governance and security challenges. The risks of rapid, autonomous action are real—but so are the opportunities for transformation. This session offers a practical, forward-looking approach to securely unlocking the value of agents.
Join this session to explore:
- Reining in shadow agents
- Protecting agents from malicious context
- Protecting your business from rogue agents
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Making Cyber Risks Digestible—Strategies for Efficient Board and Executive Education
While cyber threats may not dominate headline news like they used to, executive leadership teams and boards are increasingly eager to stay informed about the latest incidents and risks. But, CISOs simply don't have time to prepare briefs on EVERY incident that may come across their leadership's feeds. How do security leaders strike the right balance between delivering the "just-right" level of information that won't overwhelm leadership or consume excessive time and resources?
Join this roundtable session for an engaging peer conversation around:
- Strategies for filtering and prioritizing alerts and news to keep leadership and the board engaged
- Communicating complex risks in a digestible way and setting expectations for a manageable amount of ongoing education
- What CISOs should be including—or not including—to ensure incident briefings are meaningful for boards and executives
Keeping AI in Check — Practical Governance Moves for Today's Leaders
As AI agents become more embedded in operations, compliance expectations are rising and legal teams are taking on a larger oversight role. Organizations must demonstrate transparency to third‑party monitors while strengthening governance as AI begins to manage key compliance activities.
Join this session to discuss:
- Setting AI review checkpoints to catch issues early
- Training teams regularly on AI usage, risks, and oversight responsibilities
- Limiting AI permissions to reduce compliance and operational risk
Keynote Session
Rethinking Security for the Age of Agents
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
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
Hyatt Regency MinneapolisCommunity Program Manager
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