CISO Executive Summit 2024 - Boston (A) | Evanta, a Gartner Company | 30 May 2024 | Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Get together with Boston's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
• Establish security's critical role in protecting and advancing the business through AI adoption
• Advance business growth and modernization through solid budgeting and prioritization
• Improve and Achieve Operational Resilience

What to Expect:
• Interactive Sessions
Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
• Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Boston CISO community.
• Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Improve and Achieve Operational Resilience
In the wake of mounting geopolitical crises and a constantly changing landscape, organizations are reassessing their operational resilience. Cybersecurity strategy plays a key role in achieving true resilience and CISOs are using this opportunity to help strengthen business capabilities.

Enable AI’s Potential through Trust, Risk and Security Management
Ensuring AI is deployed securely, managed effectively and embedded into the product lifecycle requires an effective framework and organizational buy-in. Organizations that initiate and sustain AI trust, risk and security will see better accuracy, outcomes and performance.

Create Alignment with the Enterprise to Unlock True Value
CISOs understand the need to enable the enterprise while also protecting it. While misalignments between cybersecurity and the organization persist, CISOs are shifting mindsets to a minimum effective approach to unlock value.

2024 Speakers

CO-CHAIRS:

Kevin Brown
SVP, CISO, SAIC

Julie Fitton
CISO, Analog Devices

Javed Ikbal
VP/CISO, Bright Horizons

Lorna Koppel
Director of Information Security/CISO, Tufts University

Tony Parrillo
VP, Enterprise IT Global Head of Security, Schneider Electric North America

Bobby Rao
Global CISO, Fresenius Medical Care

Holly Ridgeway
Chief Security Officer, Citizens Financial Group

Ravi Thatavarthy
Chief Information Security Officer, Rite Aid

Michael Woodson
Director of Information Security and Privacy, Sonesta

2024 Partners

GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADERS:
• Island
• Zscaler

CISO THOUGHT LEADERS:
• Akamai
• Qualys

KEY PARTNERS:
• AppOmni
• Expel
• Fastly
• Illumio
• Wiz

PROGRAM PARTNERS:
• CybSafe
• HashiCorp
• Sysdig
• Veza