2025 New York CISO Community Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with New York'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:

Amplifying cybersecurity as a critical influence in business decisions

Fortifying cyber resilience to ensure rapid recovery from attacks and safeguard business continuity

Optimizing opportunities and understanding threats presented by new technologies

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Reshma Budhwani

New York Life
VP, Chief Technology Security Officer

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 New York 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 Sessions

The Business Has Complex Questions – Does Your Data and AI Have Trusted Answers?

AI-powered data and analytics are transforming how CISOs answer complex, business-critical questions with precision and speed. What are some of the best practices of security leaders who effectively leverage AI for continuous learning, deeper insights, and actionable decision-making?

Join this session to examine:

Unlocking comprehensive answers to evolving business questions
Enabling continuous learning for impactful AI usage
Harnessing new opportunities with agentic AI and preparing for the next AI leap

A 360° View of Emerging Insider Threats – An Interactive Workshop

From sophisticated adversaries to well-meaning employees –insider threats are top of mind for the sharp CISO. What are your fellow security leaders doing to keep a pulse on emerging threats and outsmarting the threats within?

Join this interactive session to:

Get a 360° view of the emerging insider threats that CISOs are watching
Analyze real-world attacks, both malicious and accidental
Collaborate with peers about strategies and tools used to improve resilience

Keynote Sessions

A CIA Toolkit for Leveraging Ambiguity, Driving Excellence, and Leading with Agility

In this dynamic session, Rupal Patel will share thought-provoking insights from her CIA to CEO journey on leveraging ambiguity and uncertainty in pursuit of organizational excellence. Through case studies and stories from the field, Rupal will demystify how to put “agility” into action, and transform the concept from an overused buzzword to an actionable toolkit.

This keynote will explore:

Concrete methods for embedding agility into their organizational structure
Tools for developing personal resilience and becoming more agile decision makers
An adaptable framework for becoming change-agents and driving organizational excellence

Zero Trust & AI — Strengthening Security, Reducing Complexity, and Driving Innovation

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if security leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CISOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

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