Executive Summit

What happens when a CIO and CISO move beyond silos and truly operate as one team? Lily Ley, VP and CIO, and Chuck Markarian, CISO, share how trust and respect transformed their partnership — and the security culture at PACCAR — into a high-impact working relationship. Discover how intentional collaboration, open communication, and shared priorities can create a model for IT and security alignment that others aspire to.

In this keynote, you’ll hear:

• Building trust and respect between the CIO and CISO roles
• Embedding security into daily IT operations
• Creating open dialogue for collective problem-solving

Uncovering the mysteries of body language — how people communicate their thoughts and feelings without saying a word — is a decisive first step toward mastering any business and social situation. Top executives know that detecting split-second signals from your team and leadership then taking immediate action is crucial to being a persuasive communicator and problem-solver especially during tricky internal matters or high-level negotiations.

During this session you will learn how to:

• Move beyond the vacuum of artificial body language to a behavioral approach based on YOU
• Strengthen interpersonal relationships, be a more decisive leader and manage your nerves better
• Uncover the less obvious needs of others and improve your team’s confidence and competence

GenAI is changing rapidly, and the next major step is agentic AI — systems that are capable of taking actions without human oversight. This brings a new level of complexity, but there are benefits for security teams as well. Security leaders are now exploring the value and risk of agentic AI to determine how to advance safely.

Join Elastic’s security leadership to explore:

• The use of GenAI in security and how it's advanced to meet different team needs
• How AI adoption changes your attack surface
• The different ways AI augments security teams and workflows

As AI and digital transformation accelerate, CIOs must deliver agile, trusted data ecosystems that drive innovation and business value. Yet, legacy systems, data silos, and governance challenges persist.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

• Building a scalable, modern data foundation
• Balancing speed, performance, and trust
• Enabling innovation through unified data platforms

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 hype is everywhere—from the boardroom to the front lines—but IT leaders need a clear roadmap to turn ambition into enterprise value. Progressing from “Day 0” to “Day 2” means overcoming challenges in strategy, data readiness, infrastructure, talent, and operations—while keeping technology aligned with outcomes.

The session will cover how to:

• Define AI strategy, assess readiness, and align use cases with data (Day 0)
• Build, pilot, and manage infrastructure and ecosystems (Day 1)
• Scale AI, upskill teams, and drive continuous optimization (Day 2)

What if your technical debt could be a blueprint for innovation? This session explores how to modernize ERP by re-architecting around what you already own.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Decoupling workflows, embedding AI, and extending value without disruption
• Discovering how to turn legacy systems into a composable, intelligent mesh
• Using debt to guide transformation

CISOs must proactively address evolving threats by strengthening organizational resilience and disaster recovery capabilities. Protecting critical assets and maintaining robust, regularly tested recovery processes are key to reducing risk and business disruption. Effective collaboration between security leadership and business stakeholders drives strategic success.

Join this boardroom to discuss with your peers:

• Methods for identifying and safeguarding critical assets within the security framework
• Implementing best practices for ongoing testing, certification and hardening of recovery environments
• Enhancing collaboration between security teams and executive leadership to align resilience strategies with business objectives