
Seattle CISO Executive Summit
December 11, 2019 | Grand Hyatt Seattle
December 11, 2019
Grand Hyatt Seattle
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Seattle CISO Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Investing in your people and the right technologies
Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models
Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes
Seattle 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

Brian Abrahamson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
CIO

Anja Canfield-Budde
University of Washington
Associate Vice President, Information Management

Dave Estlick
Starbucks Coffee Company
CISO
Agenda
December 10, 2019
December 11, 2019
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 8:25am Opening Comments
8:30am - 9:00am Keynote
Female Focus — Closing the Gender Gap in IT and Security
Hosted by Workday

Jonathan Sposato
Chairman & Co-Founder
Geekwire
What does gender equality bring to the business? Jonathan Sposato has discovered working with women leads to extraordinary products and profits. Businesses in all sectors can benefit when women are staffed on leadership teams. In this inspiring keynote session, you will learn implementable solutions that ensure women thrive within the organization.
Join Jonathan Sposato as he shares:
- Issues that affect gender equality in the workplace
- How to create gender equality and build representation for women
- How as an executive you can foster an inclusive workplace
9:00am - 9:20am Networking Break
9:20am - 10:10am CISO Featured Session
Digital Risk Explosion — Managing Risk in a Hyper-Outsourcing World
Hosted by RiskRecon

Neal Roylance
Director of Operations
RiskRecon
Digital transformation has dramatically transformed the enterprise risk surface, automating a vast array of processes while outsourcing a vast array of systems and services. Through this frenetic reshaping, few organizations truly understand the nature of their new risk reality and how to successfully manage it.
In this interactive discussion we will:
- Explore the true nature of the enterprise cyber risk surface
- Discuss threats and regulations driving organizations to better manage their extended enterprise
- Share insights on how to better manage third-party risk (hint: good data!)
9:20am - 10:10am CISO Executive Boardroom
Cyber-Risk Management — New Approaches for Reducing Your Cyber-Exposure
Hosted by Tenable

Will Longman
CISO
Blue Origin
Phillip Hayes
Manager, Cloud Security
Tenable

Jim Gibson
Director, IT Security
Weyerhaeuser
When it comes to reducing cyber exposure, overcoming vulnerability overload is critical. Find out how to improve your vulnerability management efforts so you can close your cyber exposure gap and focus on what matters most to your business.
During this peer discussion, you will explore how to:
- Translate raw vulnerability and threat intelligence data into business insights
- Benchmark your organization’s cyber exposure to guide decision making
- Use threat intelligence to move the most dangerous vulnerabilities up your priority list
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CISOs executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chanelle Lawrence at 971 978 5049 or chanelle.lawrence@evanta.com.
10:10am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:20am CIO & CISO Featured Session
CIO-CISO Collaboration — True Peers and Partners
Hosted by Silver Peak
Lily Ley
CIO & VP
PACCAR Inc

Chuck Markarian
CISO
PACCAR Inc

Dave Estlick
CISO
Starbucks Coffee Company
The CIO-CISO partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. PACCAR’s CIO Lily Ley and CISO Chuck Markarian will share how they collaborate in different business sectors, but share in their goal to move business initiatives forward.
In this session, they will share how:
- Separate but united forces play off each other’s strengths
- Security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
- Partnerships generate improved visibility for everyone
10:30am - 11:20am CISO Featured Session
AI – Marketing Hype vs. Reality
Hosted by Fortinet, Inc.

Keith Rayle
Strategist
Fortinet, Inc.
Join Keith Rayle from Fortinet for a brief history and workings of artificial intelligence (AI), to include current and future phases of AI deployment for solving problems. This discussion will examine the use of AI in security tools implementations.
Join this session to learn:
- Strategies for deploying AI-based solutions
- Cybercriminal uses of AI and what to expect from future attacks
- Management potential using AI-based architectures
10:30am - 11:20am CISO Executive Boardroom
Zero-Trust is a Journey, Not a Destination
Hosted by Duo Security
John Criddle
Director of Infrastructure & Security
Lithia Motors Inc,

Wolf Goerlich
Advisory CISO
Duo Security

Dennis Tomlin
CISO
Multnomah County Oregon
One of the inherent problems for CISOs is how too many things run way too openly with too many default connections. This significant issue has led some to adopt a Zero-Trust model to simplify security holistically. In other words, Zero-Trust centers on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.
In this interactive session, learn from your peers:
- How to use and leverage technologies that you already have as you lay down a Zero-Trust architecture
- How ‘defense in depth’ security models have become too complex for some on this journey
- Discuss cloud migration and mobile journeys as it relates to a Zero Trust
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CISO executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chanelle Lawrence at 971 978 5049 or chanelle.lawrence@evanta.com.
December 10, 2019
December 11, 2019
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