Executive Summit

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Though they're regularly cast as the C-Suite's resident reactionary, CISOs are capable of rising to the level of enterprise contributor. The journey starts with becoming familiar with the business's top objectives and intentionally communicating the relationship between those goals and security.

Join Andy Kirkland, CISO at The Walt Disney Company and learn:

• The long-term benefits of identifying and simplifying your business's offerings
• To openly and regularly demonstrate security's importance to other business functions
• How security can inform and influence business priorities through clarity and context

From 30,000 feet up, your succession plan probably looks fine. Perspectives from that high on the org chart, however, are sometimes obscured. One plan certain to reveal first-class talent and benefit the business - Talk to your team and build to their needs.

Join your Global CISO peers and their invited team members to candidly tackle:

• Why today's cyber leaders so often miss the connection between succession and success
• How investing in the next generation upgrades culture, engagement and retention
• What those in their ascent to the role still need from leadership

CISOs navigate a high-stakes paradox - driving innovation at speed while defending against AI-powered threats. From deepfakes to synthetic fraud, adversaries are faster and more adaptive than ever and expose the limits of fragmented, reactive security strategies. Resilience at scale isn’t a security issue alone, it’s a C-suite imperative. Building the capability to adapt, recover, and grow in the face of disruption requires coordinated leadership across technology, risk, compliance, and business functions.

Join this session to learn:

• Using AI, Zero Trust, and compliance automation to secure innovation without slowing growth
• Detecting insider misuse and AI-enabled fraud using behavioral analytics
• Coordinating resilience as a C-suite strategy with shared accountability and unified metrics

As organizations worldwide grow more interconnected and digital threats become more advanced, traditional defenses fall short. Security leaders must act now to address the rapid growth of AI—embedding adaptive, intelligence-driven protections while building trust across borders. In an era of rising AI risks, people remain essential; AI cannot replace the need for human response to handle exceptions, especially against zero-day threats.

Explore what you can do now to mitigate evolving threats and reinforce trust globally:

• AI-aware defenses for LLMs, APIs, and data to counter emerging risks
• Adaptive security that evolves with rapid AI growth and changing priorities
• Integrated controls with human assurance for fast, effective response

Third-party access has become the leading attack vector, with most breaches ironically stemming from those very third parties and business partners we rely on for solutions. How can identity security strategies be leveraged to reduce supply chain risks while still enabling secure collaboration?

Discover how to:

• Apply least-privilege access for third parties to ensure productivity
• Detect real-time anomalous access in hybrid environments
• Quantify risk reduction to engage business leaders

Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Spotlight Presenters from: 

• Geordie
• Fleet
• Twine

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.

AI offers transformative potential for businesses—but reaping its benefits requires that IT and security leaders navigate complex transformation challenges. This means adopting a robust zero trust architecture to protect users and data, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based security strategy empowers CISOs to lead a secure, scalable transformation.

Join this session to:

• Explore how combining zero trust with AI creates a more resilient defense posture, which–unlike firewalls–blocks lateral movement
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how zero trust significantly simplifies environments while cutting network and security expenditure by eliminating costly legacy hardware

Especially at the global level, the scope of a modern cyber leader's role requires at least some awareness of broader threats – be they physical, political, or otherwise. They can be difficult to address but ignoring these issues could hinder the organization's development of comprehensive security.

Join your peers for a discussion on:

• How business-wide threat identification is being handled across multiple industries
• The CISO's role in eliminating non-cyber security issues
• Common difficulties and remedies among those tasked with protecting the organization

In today’s enterprise, data lives everywhere — across clouds, applications, and teams. Innovation demands speed, but security demands control. To lead securely, CISOs need more than policies and firewalls. They need real-time visibility, actionable intelligence, and AI that powers business growth. Join seasoned CISOs as they share how AI is transforming the way they protect, govern, and leverage data to drive growth, including how to:

• Unify governance across fragmented, multi-cloud environments
• Anticipate and adapt to shifting regulations with scalable, AI-supported compliance
• Foster shared accountability across teams with smarter, proactive security

Traditional security practices are struggling worldwide against modern threats and the rapid pace of software development. The solution lies in leveraging production data, which enables effective Application Detection and Response (ADR) by integrating real-time insights into code behavior, vulnerabilities, and attacks. This approach empowers development and operations teams across borders to collaboratively enhance security.

Join this roundtable discuss:

• Enhancing vulnerability scanning with real production insights
• Improving risk management through dynamic telemetry
• Strengthening attack protection with contextual awareness

Organizations must proactively secure their data, especially as AI tools reshape the landscape of data risk. With CISOs prioritizing data protection amid tightening regulations, strategies must evolve to effectively address insider threats and inadvertent exposures.

Join this session to explore:

• Leveraging AI to strengthen data loss prevention strategies
• Effective insider risk management through shadow data identification and exposure mitigation
• Building a culture of security awareness to prevent insider threats

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.

In response to a sudden rise in click rates, Ricardo Lafosse (CISO, Kraft Heinz) overhauled his security awareness policies. New practices and consequences challenged both the security function and the enterprise at large - earning Lafosse the title of "most hated executive leader of 2024"…and undeniable results.

Gather with your Global CISO peers and hear:

• How discipline led to a dramatic reduction in phishing fails
• Where you can expect organizational challenges while playing offense
• The story of a leadership-launched campaign for cultural security and organizational resilience

AI has forever changed the way enterprises operate, including how they must approach cybersecurity. For every opportunity AI brings, there lies a risk that must be properly secured. Saviynt CEO Sachin Nayyar will be joined by a customer to unlock intelligent identity security and what it means for your business.

Join this session to:

• Understand how identity security can secure organizations' new ways of working for humans, non-humans, and AI agents
• Explore how AI-native identity security helps organizations address today’s cybersecurity challenges
• Gain a blueprint for tackling future identity threats and opportunities

Navigating the demands of a diverse regulatory landscape, expert threat actors, and complex technology environments requires not only a thorough understanding of global tech stacks but also the ability to build resilient security processes that can adapt to regional differences.

Join this exclusive, closed-door discussion with your C-level peers to:

• Examine the strengths and vulnerabilities of your current cloud security posture in the context of operating across different regions
• Evaluate the legitimacy and impact of emerging, newsworthy, or trending threats in various global markets
• Collaborate to address what is and isn’t working for modern application security, and share strategies tailored to the complexities of international business

Vulnerabilities remediation doesn't need to take months. Equipped with advanced AI tools and the right developer's time-tested security expertise, it could only take minutes. 

Join your C-level peers in discussing: 

• Realistic and ideal remediation timelines (and why they're different) 
• Where artificial intelligence succeeds and fails in subbing out human wisdom 
• What kind of AI-focused training or upskilling developers might need in 2025

Across the globe, organizations are grappling with the challenge of securing sensitive data as it traverses web browsers. Many acknowledge that their current IT and security frameworks increase the likelihood of data breaches. This highlights the intricate task of protecting data while managing outdated systems, inefficient application delivery, and obsolete security measures. What innovative strategies can streamline enterprise operations, enhance security, and adapt to a global landscape?

Attendees will discover:

• Identifying and addressing technical debt caused by fragmented IT and security solutions
• Communicating the broader business impacts of technology and security challenges
• Adopting new methods for enterprise application delivery to improve productivity worldwide

We’re told to do the “basics” right to mitigate the majority of our risks and are harshly criticized when they prove impossible to implement at enterprise scale. But some of those orthodoxies no longer make sense, or perhaps never did. 

Join this session as we question some of the assumptions that we’ve lived with for decades:

• Patching/alerting - hamster wheels or key controls?
• Data - why classify when no one has succeeded at scale?
• People - are humans destined to remain the weakest link or will AI replace us there too?

As cyberspace becomes the new arena for geopolitical and economic rivalry, security leaders are no longer just defending data, they’re navigating a fractured digital world where national interests, regulatory divergence, and tech bifurcation collide. Whether your organization operates globally or is U.S.-centric, shifting alliances are already reshaping your threat landscape and the environment in which your business operates.

Join John Ellis, Global Head of Security Trust & Influence, QBE Insurance Group Ltd., as he explores:

• How CISOs can lead through these new, ever-complex global environments
• The ripple effects of digital sovereignty and cross-border data tensions
• What it means to protect business value in a world where cyberspace is no longer neutral ground

AI is reshaping enterprise security, exposing organizations to a surge in Non-Human Identities from tokens and API keys to autonomous AI agents. Most remain unmanaged. With regulators and threat actors moving fast, executives face mounting risks and compliance gaps.

Join Danny Brickman, CEO & Co-Founder, Oasis Security to uncover:

• Where your environment is most exposed to AI-related identity risk
• How to continuously discover and govern NHIs at scale
• How leading enterprises unify human and non-human identity security

The global threat landscape is ever-changing, especially in light of AI advancements and an unprecedented geopolitical climate. CISOs must keep pace with threats and understand how these factors directly affect their equities, or their security programs will simply become obsolete.

Join this boardroom with moderator John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, to discuss:

• The latest state and criminal threats
• The technical, geopolitical and other forces driving these threats
• Forecasting future risks using this insight

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Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Spotlight Presenters from: 

• Mitiga
• SquareX
• Tuskira

While it's rarely easy, reaching a certain level of legitimate organizational resilience doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, the entire resilience journey could be summarized in just a few steps. Those steps might be difficult to take, but at least they're straightforward.

Join Chris Lugo, VP, CISO at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association for:

• A guided walk through the stages of cyber resilience development
• Practical advice for overcoming the common obstacles of each step
• A look at process-altering industry demands and organizational needs

With the risk landscape changing at an ever-increasing rate, it is more critical than ever for boards to understand not just the threats, but their potential business impact. Staying compliant and accurately measuring your security posture in a consistent, continuous, and flexible manner requires more than just implementing traditional security controls and standards.

In this session, you and your peers will gather:

• Practical steps for implementing better data pipelining strategies for continuous risk measurement and compliance that are adaptable enough to evolving risks
• Best practices on translating technical terms into simple KPIs and dashboards the board can understand
• How to make compliance a team sport to ensure enterprise risk is showing tangible results and not just transferred within the enterprise

CISOs face growing blind spots in cloud environments—especially in east-west traffic, egress paths, and within Kubernetes environments. Many enterprises rely on CSP or legacy firewalls that provide important but limited security. Research shows only 8% of U.S. organizations secure inter-cloud traffic with zero trust—a foundational requirement of CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Framework 2.0. 

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Unseen cloud network exposures
• Changes in the "shared responsibility model"
• Communicating risk and securing budget support

Agentic AI—autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and act on behalf of humans—are quickly becoming vital to business operations. As their use and numbers increase, so do the risks. These non-human identities need to be treated as first-class-citizens—meaning that they are verified, authenticated, authorized, and governed with the same rigor as human users. Attempting to manage AI agents without a modern identity foundation can result in over-permissioning, undetected hijackings, and other security blind spots.

Join this roundtable discussion and tackle questions like:

• Are common IAM systems prepared to govern thousands of non-human identities operating autonomously or on behalf of users?
• How can we accurately privilege AI agents without creating excessive operational friction?
• What specific capabilities do we need to implement or enhance within our digital identity infrastructure to detect, monitor, and audit AI agent activity effectively?

The time-sucking grind of allowing as-needed user access, onboarding and offboarding users, auditing for inactive accounts, and responding to every suspicious activity has CISOs under immense pressure to modernize IAM. But two major progress bottlenecks leave teams barely keeping up — talent gaps and  disconnected security stacks. What if you could overcome both and transform your IAM posture all at once?

This moderated discussion will hone in on how IAM hyperautomation can enable CISOs to:

• Mitigate identity-related risk by automating access provisioning, deprovisioning, and response
• Offset skill gaps and legacy limitations with no-code/low-code and AI-driven workflows
• Reduce friction and administrative burden for users and analysts while meeting the strictest compliance standards

As AI adoption accelerates across every industry, CISOs face a critical inflection point: evolve from gatekeepers to game-changers. Security can't be bolted on later—it must be architected into the DNA of AI systems from day one to avoid missteps in ethics, compliance, risk, and resilience.

Join this boardroom with your peers and come ready to discuss:

• AI impacts on zero trust, network security, the SOC of the future, audit, and governance
• Practical strategies you’re implementing today (or plan to)
• How the security community moves forward in an AI-driven world

Experience the magic of New Orleans at our Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala Dinner. Enjoy an evening filled with jazz music and let the vibrant spirit of Mardi Gras enchant you in a night of celebration. 

Daymond John, Founder/CEO of FUBU and star of ABC’s Shark Tank, has been a phenomenally successful business person for over 25 years. Along his entrepreneurial journey, through his many successes as well as failures, he has learned a few things about getting the best out of business and life. The keys to success include learning how to establish the right mindset and following a few fundamental principles Daymond calls his "S.H.A.R.K Points”.

Members of the Global CIO and CISO communities will receive exclusive access to:

• Live and unrecorded insights on developing your unique brand of executive leadership
• Guidance on identifying, cultivating and managing powerful business partnerships
• Post-keynote meet and greet opportunities