Where New York City
When June 25 2026
Annual CIO Summit in New York City
The CIO was first introduced to lead the Data Processing and Information Systems departments of the past. Today, the job is a much different role. The skillset and responsibilities are worlds apart from what they were a decade or two ago. And the role continues to adapt to the changing face of the modern business enterprise.
Discussing key topics such as the Cloud, Digital Transformation, Data & Analytics and the use of AI and IoT, the CIO Summit gives you the opportunity to meet leading decision-makers under one roof at one time, to be part of the discussions that are shaping the future of security and to network and develop contacts that will strengthen your business.
The program is driven by our senior-level Advisory Board including representatives from TNT, Henley Business School, Fox Networks Group, US Department of Defense and Wyndham Group.
The CIO Summit brings together leaders from across the public, large enterprises & mid-market sectors to provide you with a strategic and practical toolkit to help drive transformation including:
- A full day of leading CIO’s discussing the latest industry trends
- Workshops, panel discussions & round table sessions led by visionaries within technology
- First-hand case studies on the challenges facing IT
- Fantastic networking opportunities with peers throughout the day
- Over 150 Senior Level IT Directors
- Keynotes, Interactive Round-tables, and Lively Panel Discussions
- Industry-leading topics around IoT, AI, Cloud, etc.
- Dedicated space and time for peer-to-peer networking with fellow industry leaders
What to Expect
Networking
Meet and interact with verified solution providers and local IT leaders in an exclusive environment. Get to know your local community and share knowledge.
Trusted Meetings
Connect with trusted solutions and learn about avenues to overcome obstacles. You will hear from a variety of solution providers in a casual setting with dedicated time frames.
Peer to Peer Exclusivity
Network and problem solve over a private three course dinner. Debrief after the meetings, learn from your local peers, and share priorities.
Event Schedule
7:30 AM
Registration Opens / Breakfast / Welcome Remarks
8:30 AM
Keynote
From Experimentation to Execution: Building AI‑Ready Operations That Scale
AI pilots are easy to launch but scaling them across the enterprise is not. In this keynote, Hyland Chief Product Officer, Mike Campbell, explores why AI initiatives stall when content is fragmented, governance is inconsistent, and automation lacks context. Drawing on his experience leading product strategy for complex enterprises, Mike outlines what it takes to build AI‑ready operations that balance speed with control. Attendees will learn how aligning content, workflows, and governance enables responsible automation, supports supervised decision‑making, and turns AI from isolated experiments into a scalable, repeatable operational capability.
Keynote
AI Colleagues—Transforming the Back Office with Enterprise-wide Agentic AI
See why companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Sony, and MongoDB trust AI Colleagues to transform IT, HR, Finance/Procurement. In this session, watch AI Colleagues in action—employees talk with them just like human teammates to get answers, complete tasks, and execute backoffice workflows across ServiceNow, SAP, Workday, Oracle, UKG and more.
What are AI colleagues? See them in action
What back office functions (IT, HR, Finance, Procurement) are best performed by AI colleagues?
What savings companies can expect from deploying AI colleagues?
What are the common challenges companies face when implementing AI colleagues for the back office?
Why not develop these in-house, using “free tools”?
Why not just commission the AI agents on offer from the various system-of-record providers?
9:30 AM
Panel Discussion
Death of the data pipeline: How AI agents are killing traditional analytics
Your data is trapped. Millions of rows in databases, critical information buried in PDFs, insights scattered across disconnected systems. Your finance teams spend weeks each quarter doing what should take minutes: reconciling transactions, hunting for discrepancies, manually copying data between systems.
Traditional data pipelines can't keep up. They're rigid, expensive to maintain, and require data engineers just to answer one business question. LLM-based tools hallucinate numbers and hit context limits with real enterprise datasets.
Join Paul Codding, co-founder and SVP Product Management, for a live look at why finance and business teams still spend weeks each quarter reconciling transactions and chasing discrepancies. Discover how leading enterprises are transforming with AI agents.
10:20 AM
Keynote
How do you fix the code that no one wrote? Resilience in the "vibe coding" era
AI-generated applications are already running in your production environments. Across modern cloud ecosystems like Microsoft Azure, developers are rapidly deploying code they may not fully understand, leaving SREs to untangle incidents without a clear human author.
As you scale AI tools across your IT organization, you need to confront an uncomfortable question: how do you observe, secure, and govern software that was created using conversational, distributed, and machine-assisted tools?
In this keynote, we will explore the realities of the "vibe coding" era and discuss why preserving contextual intelligence, from the initial prompt through to production, must evolve from an afterthought into a core architectural requirement to ensure resilience.
10:50 AM
Keynote
Modernizing IT Operations to Power a More Profitable Enterprise
Enterprises face growing pressure to modernize IT as distributed environments increase cost, complexity, and risk. At the same time, CIOs are increasingly being expected to deliver greater business outcomes—not just keep the lights on.
In this session, Tom Molden, CIO of Global Executive Engagement at NinjaOne, will explore how modern organizations are unifying IT operations to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and simplify complexity while staying ahead of rising risk. The result? IT teams that are free to focus on higher-value work that drives business forward, and CIOs that are able to be more strategic in their roles. All at a critical time: As AI defines the next era of business growth, it’s IT that holds the keys to AI.
11:20 AM
Mingle Break
11:45 AM
Panel Discussion
Beyond Hype: Operationalizing AI Across the Enterprise
Executives are looking for successful ways to run their digital ecosystems with AI as cloud and AI adoption reach unprecedented complexity. Organizations are increasingly recognizing that agentic AI on its own can’t deliver the consistent, trustworthy outcomes they expect. With 65% of enterprises investing in AI‑driven monitoring and automation, leaders now need trustworthy AI‑powered observability to shift from human‑driven operations to human‑supervised, autonomous digital ecosystems.
12:35 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM
Keynote
Make Every Developer an AI Developer: The jQuery Moment for AI
Query transformed web development by abstracting browser chaos into elegant simplicity. AI development needs the same revolution. Today, building AI apps requires specialized knowledge of embeddings, vector math, and pipeline management—skills that sideline your best developers. Learn how modern platforms are flattening the AI learning curve, enabling any developer to build production AI without ML expertise.
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