Executive Summit

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

The next breakthrough in cybersecurity may not come from an industry giant. Join us as rising innovators take the stage to present fresh approaches to today's most pressing security challenges. Discover new ideas, emerging technologies, and bold perspectives that could influence your organization's security strategy in the years ahead.

Featuring:

• Tika
• Klyro
• Balance Theory
  

Frontier AI is reshaping cybersecurity from both sides of the battlefield, accelerating innovation for defenders while creating new advantages for attackers. As organizations race to adopt AI across security operations, leaders face a dual challenge: governing the use of AI within their own teams while preparing for threats that move at machine speed. The organizations best positioned for success will be those that balance innovation, accountability, and resilience before the next wave of disruption arrives.

Join this session to discuss:

• Governing AI as a tool within the security function
• The growing gap between AI-powered attacks and remediation timelines
• Balancing AI innovation with security, risk, and accountability

As economic pressure, AI investment, regulatory demands, and evolving threats compete for the same finite dollars, CISOs are being asked to do more than defend the business—they're being asked to justify every investment. The most effective leaders are rethinking how security budgets are built, shifting focus from technology acquisition to measurable outcomes, business priorities, and risk reduction. As planning cycles move toward 2027 and beyond, the question is no longer how much to spend, but where spending creates the greatest impact.

Join this session to discuss:

• Where security investments are increasing—and where they are being cut
• Aligning security spending to business and risk outcomes
• Defending investment priorities in an era of competing demands

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.

As AI and agentic capabilities rapidly become embedded across the enterprise, security leaders face a critical decision: build custom capabilities, buy purpose-built platforms, or extend the tools already in place? The stakes go beyond technology selection—impacting speed, control, talent strategy, risk management, and long-term resilience. Organizations that get this decision right can accelerate innovation and security outcomes; those that get it wrong risk creating new complexity, cost, and operational blind spots.

Join this session to discuss:

• Build vs. buy as a competitive advantage decision, not a technology decision
• The tradeoffs between control, speed, and operational complexity
• Where agentic capabilities belong in the security stack, and who should own them

As AI and agentic capabilities rapidly become embedded across the enterprise, security leaders face a critical decision: build custom capabilities, buy purpose-built platforms, or extend the tools already in place? The stakes go beyond technology selection—impacting speed, control, talent strategy, risk management, and long-term resilience. Organizations that get this decision right can accelerate innovation and security outcomes; those that get it wrong risk creating new complexity, cost, and operational blind spots.

Join this session to discuss:

• Build vs. buy as a competitive advantage decision, not a technology decision
• The tradeoffs between control, speed, and operational complexity
• Where agentic capabilities belong in the security stack—and who should own them

Is Zero Trust really about eliminating trust, or is it about building it? For today’s CISO, success depends less on technology and risk frameworks and more on creating the confidence, alignment, and accountability that enable people, teams, and businesses to move faster and more securely. Zero Trust is ultimately a leadership model that puts the trust in trustworthy by creating the conditions that earn trust at scale across employees, partners, customers, and the boardroom.

Join this session to discuss:

• Leading Zero Trust as a business transformation, not a technology initiative
• Building cultures of accountability that strengthen trust and security
• Positioning Zero Trust as a driver of resilience, growth, and executive confidence

The CISO role is being redefined. Cyber risk now sits at the center of operational resilience, technology strategy, customer trust, and business transformation—yet no security leader can deliver durable resilience alone. The next generation of CISOs will create impact by expanding influence beyond the security organization: shaping culture, aligning controls to business outcomes, building AI-enabled operating models, and making secure execution part of how the enterprise works. What are the practical “plays” CISOs can use to move from protecting the business to orchestrating resilience across it?

Join this session to discuss:

• Designing durable customer-centric security strategies that build 2-way trust
• Elevating the CISOs mission from securing the organization today to enabling tomorrow’s vision
• Investing your leadership time with intentionality to cause the greatest impact

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.