In-Person

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

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO 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 Minneapolis CISO 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

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


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

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

Location

Venue & Accommodation

Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

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Community Program Manager

For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Taylor Jeske

Community Program Manager

taylor.jeske@gartner.com