Washington, DC CISO Executive Summit

When users are everywhere and digital operations span cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, achieving cyber resilience becomes paramount. The challenge lies in navigating this complexity and maintaining visibility and control to ensure continuous operation despite cyber threats.

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:

• Optimizing costs and improving security across diverse cloud environments
• Adopting Zero Trust philosophies to protect users, data, and applications
• Innovating with AI while addressing global regulatory and data privacy requirements

With the explosion of Generative AI into widespread use over the past year, there are rising indications that threat actors are exploiting AI to launch cyberattacks. Tackling the evolving threat landscape means getting ahead of the threat - cyber defenders need to be prepared, using the power of AI to defend their organizations.

Join this session to discuss:

• Analyzing how threat actors use AI offensively in their attack methods
• Turning the tables on attackers by leveraging emerging technologies to bolster cybersecurity defense
• Deploying AI for maximum impact to build capabilities and improve incident response

Gartner research shows a near split of CIOs opting to build an application in-house versus buying or partnering with a third-party. Regardless of the choice, IT executives must deliver programs that are relevant and both cost and time effective to manage.

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

• Customizing build or buy strategies that evolve with business needs
• Maximizing the value of applications while remaining agile
• Incorporating effective contract management to avoid vendor lock-in

In the quest to leverage data and analytics for business growth, IT leaders face both cultural and technical challenges. To succeed, they must collaborate closely with business leaders to develop a powerful, long-term analytics strategy that drives data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Join this session to explore:

• Ensuring data quality standards and ownership
• Utilizing analytics to allow for better decision making across the business and measurable outcomes
• Building a foundation for successful innovation including AI

The recent incidents highlight the critical importance of managing third (or even fourth)-party risk in today's interconnected business ecosystem. As CIOs and CISOs, it is crucial to understand the potential vulnerabilities that arise from third-party relationships, develop effective strategies to mitigate these risks and communicate those risks to the business.

In this session you will discuss:

• Enhancing vendor selection criteria to prioritize security and risk management capabilities
• Developing robust incident response plans specifically tailored to third-party incidents
• Implementing practical strategies to enhance your organization's approach to third parties

Navigating the roles of CIO and CISO is inherently complex, demanding, and often exhausting. Whether you've faced burnout, a security breach, or both, the pressures of being a C-level executive are at an all-time high. Amidst the immense responsibility of steering company-wide initiatives, are you taking the necessary steps to manage stress and avoid fatigue?

Join this session have a support environment to explore:

• Self-care strategies for leaders to maintain effectiveness and compassion
• Ways to keep a resilient mindset during the most challenging times of your career
• Career options available when the pressure becomes overwhelming

Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do we pretend that it is? How do we measure the true value of our time? In this mind-bending session, John K. Coyle will apply creative deconstruction to what we think we know about time, and you will learn how to slow, stop and reverse the perceived acceleration of time most adults feel and experience the endless summers of youth again.

Grab a seat and learn how to:

• Understand the forces that govern experiential time
• Discover actions you can take to manipulate your perception of time
• Design your life to create intense and memorable experiences that expand time

Delivering business critical applications safely is a delicate balancing act. The user experience is frequently compromised as application, infrastructure, and security teams negotiate the adoption of new services. Unfortunate trade-offs are sometimes necessary to address operational needs for the sake of maintaining security, but these trade-offs can make certain use cases unfeasible or diminish their value to the organization.

In this session, we will discuss:

• Revolutionizing workspaces by balancing productivity, security, availability, and user experience.
• How quickly new technologies like the enterprise browser can be adopted to provide a competitive advantage
• Strategies for reducing the effort required to deliver applications and enhance organizational operations

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.