In-Person

San Francisco CISO Community

Executive Summit

November 5, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO

November 5, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with San Francisco'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:

Maximizing Emerging Technologies for Strategic Advantage

Building Cyber Resilience to Withstand and Quickly Recover from Attacks

Recalculating Risk Appetites Across the C-Suite and Strengthening Relationships Accordingly

San Francisco 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

Krishnan Chellakarai

Gilead Sciences
CISO, Head of Information Security & Data Privacy

Bryan Green

Andreessen Horowitz
CISO

Mandy Huth

Ultra Clean Technology
SVP, CISO

Jeremiah Kung

AppLovin
CISO

Leda Muller

Stanford University
Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer

Kannan Perumal

Applied Materials
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

Jeff Trudeau

Chime
VP, CIO & CSO

David Tugwell

Agilent Technologies
AVP/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 San Francisco 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

November 5, 2025

8:00am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

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

Generative to Agentic — Is The Risk Worth The Evolution?

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Mandy Andress

CISO

Elastic

GenAI is changing rapidly, and the next major step is agentic AI — systems that are capable of taking actions without human oversight. This brings a new level of complexity, but there are benefits for security teams as well. Security leaders are now exploring the value and risk of agentic AI to determine how to advance safely.

Join Elastic’s security leadership to explore:

  • The use of GenAI in security and how it's advanced to meet different team needs
  • How AI adoption changes your attack surface
  • The different ways AI augments security teams and workflows

11:10am - 11:55am  Executive Boardroom

Executive Boardroom hosted by Abnormal AI

 Session details coming soon!

11:55am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Keynote hosted by Rubrik

Session details coming soon!

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

AI on the Fly — CISO Wins in Real Time

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Subra Kumaraswamy

SVP & CISO

Visa

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Jeff McDonald

SVP, Head of InfoSec

Vituity

AI is transforming cybersecurity, and CISOs are leading the charge with fast, impactful wins. This session highlights how top security leaders are leveraging AI to outpace threats, streamline operations, and deliver measurable results—without the hype. Discover real-world success stories and practical tactics to drive immediate value with AI in your security program.

Join this session to:

  • Hear case studies of AI-driven security wins from CISO peers
  • Learn how to quickly deploy AI for threat detection and response
  • Get tips for measuring and communicating AI’s impact to your board

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Wired & Inspired — Securing IT/OT in a Connected World

As IT and OT systems converge, CISOs must address new security risks and complexities. For CISOs, ensuring the security of both IT and OT is essential to safeguarding organizational resilience, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting sensitive data and physical assets. Addressing the unique challenges of IT/OT integration requires practical strategies to protect critical infrastructure in an interconnected world, empowering CISOs to proactively manage risks and enable secure digital transformation.

Join this session to:

  • Review key IT/OT cyber threats and real-world incidents
  • Learn governance and collaboration best practices
  • Get actionable steps to improve visibility and response

2:15pm - 3:00pm  Networking Break

2:25pm - 2:50pm  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.

3:00pm - 3:45pm  Executive Boardroom

The AI Tightrope — Security Leadership When the Rules Keep Changing

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Krishnan Chellakarai

CISO, Head of Information Security & Data Privacy

Gilead Sciences

As artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in business operations, the White House’s AI Action Plan is testing traditional governance and risk management processes like never before. How will CISOs recognize and respond to subtle warning signs and governance gaps in AI adoption? What strategies can help navigate the evolving landscape of regulatory expectations and cross-functional oversight? How can organizations ensure their security frameworks keep pace with the speed and complexity of AI-driven threats? How can CISOs detect, disrupt, and prevent emerging AI-driven threats while aligning their organizations with evolving regulatory expectations?

Join this session to learn:

  • Proven methods to identify governance, ethical, and technical warning signs in AI adoption and deployment
  • Effective cross-functional controls and incident response strategies for rapid mitigation of AI-related risks
  • Best practices for strengthening organizational resilience through board engagement, AI risk training, and robust oversight frameworks

3:45pm - 4:00pm  Networking Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Cyber is a Community Sport

Upendra Mardikar headshot

Upendra Mardikar

CISO

TIAA

CISOs face the formidable challenge of safeguarding their organizations' assets against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The Cyber 2.0 strategy emerges as a pivotal framework that empowers CISOs to enhance their security posture while steering their teams towards strategic resilience and innovation. Embracing cyber as a community sport is essential, as collective defense and information sharing across organizations strengthen the entire ecosystem against evolving threats.

Join your peers to:

  • Equip yourself with knowledge of Cyber 2.0 principles to enhance organizational security strategies
  • Align cybersecurity with business goals to integrate security into strategic organizational direction
  • Leverage AI, ML, and automation to proactively detect and mitigate cyber threats

4:35pm - 4:45pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

November 5, 2025

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

Grand Hyatt at SFO

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Chanelle Lawrence

Senior Community Program Manager

971-282-2228

chanelle.lawrence@gartner.com