UK & Ireland CISO Community
Inner Circle
1 December 2026 | 113 Chancery Lane
1 December 2026
113 Chancery Lane
Collaborate with your peers
Join UK & Ireland'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:
Accelerate Exposure Management To Defend At Machine Speed
Unify AI Risk Into Existing Cyber Governance Practices
Optimize Cybersecurity Portfolios Through Outcome-Driven Investment Strategies
UK & Ireland 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
Agenda
1 December 2026
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:30 Discussion Topics
Leading Security in an AI-Driven World
Artificial intelligence is accelerating both sides of cybersecurity, reshaping how vulnerabilities are discovered, exploited, and remediated. Frontier LLMs now enable rapid identification and weaponisation of weaknesses, challenging long-standing assumptions around patching, prioritisation, and risk management. At the same time, enterprises are embedding AI into their own environments, introducing new dependencies on automation, new classes of identity, and new operational risks.
This shift is forcing security leaders to rethink how protection actually works. Traditional security models built on human-led processes are struggling to keep pace. Organisations are moving toward automated remediation, reevaluating identity as a primary control layer, and redefining acceptable risk in exchange for speed and scale. Security is increasingly defined by who and what is allowed to act, how quickly decisions are made, and how much authority is delegated to machines.
Discussion Questions:
- How are you redefining control in an environment where both attackers and defenders can operate at machine speed?
- What decisions in your security program are you willing to delegate to automation, and which remain firmly under human authority?
- Where is your organisation most constrained today in keeping pace with AI-driven change: technology, process, or leadership alignment? Why?
- What does resilience look like in your organisation when prevention and remediation can no longer keep up with the rate of exposure?
18:30 - 19:00 Networking Break
19:00 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the UK & Ireland 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
113 Chancery LaneCommunity Programme Manager
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
Chloe Stevenson
Senior Community Programme Manager, Territory Specialist
+44 (0)7701 308 236
chloe.stevenson@gartner.com

