
Southern California CISO Community
Inner Circle
October 26, 2021 | Il Cielo
October 26, 2021
Il Cielo
Collaborate with your peers
Join Southern California's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Strategies for a risk-aligned, resilient organization
Developing and investing in the security workforce of tomorrow
Creating business value and supporting agile business operations
Southern California CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Matt Crouse
Taco Bell
CISO

Lara Divi
Dine Brands Global
VP, CISO

Gary Hayslip
SoftBank Corporation
VP, Director of Information Security (CISO)

Arthur Lessard
Universal Music Group
SVP & CISO

Dan Meacham
Legendary
VP, Global Security and Corporate Operations, CISO

David Tyburski
Wynn Resorts
Chief Information Security Officer

Terrence Weekes
Jack in the Box
CISO

Steven Young
Advantage Solutions
VP Information Security & Compliance, CISO
Agenda
October 26, 2021
4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Manage Risk — Build Resiliency

Awwab Arif
SVP & CISO
East West Bank

Alex Bermudez
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Panasonic

Brian Fricke
Chief Information Security Officer
City National Bank

Dylan Hack
Vice President, Security
Smile Brands Group

Eddie Galang
Chief Information Security Officer
Port of Long Beach

Raj Gupta
BISO
Pacific Life Insurance

Greg Nelson
Director, Compliance and Cybersecurity
Smart & Final Stores

Marty Simmons
Director, IT Security & Compliance
Iovance Biotherapeutics

Anand Raghavan
Co-Founder and CPO
Armorblox
In today's shifting and complex risk landscape, and the need for faster strategic decision making, CISOs are supporting evolving information risk decisions more than ever while facing increased visibility from regulators, executive teams, and boards of directors. To enable risk decisions and deliver value while protecting the business from security threats and data breaches, security leaders must develop processes, build relationships, and strengthen risk culture to continue to embed risk management into the organization.
In this interactive conversation among peers, CISOs will discuss their role in proactively balancing organizational risk.
Topic 1: Enabling risk decisions to prompt business agility
How are you setting the risk management strategy and enabling risk decisions in your organization?
What areas of risk do you own in your role, and what would you change or enhance in the future?
What metrics do you use that effectively quantify and describe risk within, and outside of, security?
Topic 2: Fostering a risk-ownership mindset
What communication strategies around risk have been most persuasive as you discuss information security with other business units?
How do you feel the conversation around information risk is evolving, and what does that mean for the sorts of skills you will need in your teams going forward?
How would you describe the perspective of your board of directors when it comes to risk appetite? Is this constructive for your goals?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Southern California CISO Community Inner Circle.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue
Il CieloMore Information
Parking & Transportation
Hosted valet parking provided by Evanta, a Gartner Company.
Health & Safety Local Guidelines
At this time our host venue, Il Cielo, requires all guests to wear a mask in all public spaces. Masks will be provided for your convenience.
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