
Southern California CISO Community
Inner Circle
September 24, 2025 | Ranch Restaurant and Saloon, 6th Floor Hospitality Suite
September 24, 2025
Ranch Restaurant and Saloon, 6th Floor Hospitality Suite
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:
Aligning cybersecurity with business goals to encourage strategic growth
Expanding CISO roles to drive organizational impact and security innovation
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
Solar Turbines
CISO

Trina Ford
iHeartMedia
SVP, CISO

Todd Friedman
ResMed
CISO

Nemi George
Pacific Dental Services
Vice President, Information Security Officer

Arthur Lessard
Universal Music Group
SVP & CISO

Dan Meacham
Legendary Entertainment
VP & Global CISO

David Tyburski
Wynn Resorts
VP, CISO
Agenda
September 24, 2025
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Resilient Leadership — Optimizing Cybersecurity in a Dynamic World

Madhu Shashanka
Co-Founder and Chief of AI
Concentric AI

Sunil Agarwal
CISO, VP Information Security and Risk Management
OSI Systems

Jacob Combs
VP of Cybersecurity, CISO
Tandem Diabetes Care

Nemi George
Vice President, Information Security Officer
Pacific Dental Services

Billy Norwood
Chief Information Security Officer
FFF Enterprises

Cyrus Tibbs
CISO
PennyMac
The rapid evolution of cyber threats and technological advancements over the past year has introduced both unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organizations worldwide. Now more than ever, cybersecurity leaders must drive organizational success by integrating security initiatives with business objectives.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, nearly half of CISOs will expand their remit beyond cybersecurity, due to increasing regulatory pressure and attack surface expansion. To meet this moment, security leaders must adopt strategic leadership approaches that leverage collaboration and innovation to optimize cybersecurity investments, enhance resilience, and drive organizational growth -- all while navigating and defending against increasingly more sophisticated and high-frequency attacks.
Join this peer-led roundtable to discuss:
- How are you working to evolve your role beyond technical oversight to encompass more of a business leadership position that influences the entire organization?
- How are you building relationships with strategic internal partners to help you optimize security investments, minimize cyber risk, and stay on top of changing regulatory requirements?
- What key message can you, as a leader, bring back to your team to inspire them, considering the dynamic world of evolving threats that present both challenges and opportunities?
- What strategies, tools, and technology have you found helpful in enhancing team performance, increasing agility via responsive strategies, and improving cyber resiliency?
- What emerging threat vectors and trends are you watching that have presented challenges for your organization?
- What new opportunities have you seen arise with the changing landscape?
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
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Parking
- Complimentary Self-Parking onsite
- The Events Center/Extron entrance is located around right side of building
- Once inside guests will be greeted by a hostess and shown up to the 6th floor of the building
Community Program Manager
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