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2026 agenda
Thursday, September 17
CIO 100 Leadership Roundtable
16.00 PM - 17.00 PM
Prioritizing Budgets in Emerging Tech: What’s Next For AI ?
The DPDP Act Compliance Toolkit: Lessons learned from the first phase of enforcement.
How AI Will Reshape Cyber Attacks, Cyber Defense & Enterprise Risk
18.00 PM - 18.20 PM
Welcome Address – The AI Journey for CIO: FOMO or JOMO
18.20 PM - 18.50 PM
The Keynote: Decoding the DPDP Act – A Roadmap for 2026 and Beyond
18.50 PM - 19.00 PM
Accelerating AI with Agentic Frameworks: A blueprint for deploying autonomous agents at scale.
CIO 100 Awards
19.00 PM - 21.30 PM
CIO 100 Special Awards – Leaders in AI-Native Networking
CIO 100 Special Awards – Zero Trust Mavens by ACPL Systems
CIO 100 Special Awards – Data Security Maestros by Varonis
CIO 100 Special Awards – Cloud Security Supremos
CIO 100 Special Awards – Business Leaders in Cloud and Gen-AI
CIO 100 Awards – Game Changers
Friday, September 18
CIO 100 Leadership Roundtable
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM
Integrating Human and AI Teams to Optimize Customer and Employee Experience
Modernizing the Datacenter: Strategies for retrofitting legacy facilities for high-density AI workloads.
Data Governance 2.0: Building a unified data layer that supports both compliance and rapid AI experimentation.
09.15 AM - 09.40 AM
Editorial Keynote: 2026 State of the CIO Study
The Keynote
09.40 AM - 10.00 AM
Architecting for Infinity: Building the Intelligent Fabric of 2026
10.00 AM - 10.20 AM
The AI-Ready Datacenter: Next-gen cooling and power solutions for the 2026 compute demand.
10.20 AM - 10.40 AM
Unified Data Privacy: Automating DPDP Act compliance across multi-cloud environments.
10.40 AM - 11.00 AM
AI at Risk: CIOs face security and governance challenges
The Keynote
11.20 AM - 11.40 AM
5 metrics to drive successful AI outcomes
11.40 AM - 12.10 PM
Registration, Networking, Tea/ Coffee and Expo Zones Discovery
The Captain's Table
12.10 PM - 12.30 PM
Your Next Hire Might Be an Agent: Redefining the IT Workforce
12.30 PM - 12.50 PM
The Resilient Enterprise: Integrating Cybersecurity into the core fabric of business operations.
12.50 PM - 13.10 PM
Data Liquidity: Breaking down silos to create an AI-ready data ecosystem.
13.10 PM - 13.30 PM
Zero-Trust: Why identity is the new perimeter in the 2026 threat landscape.
The Keynote
13.30 PM - 13.50 PM
The Shift from Generative to Agentic AI – What Every CIO Needs to Know.
13.50 PM - 14.30 PM
Networking Lunch, Expo Zones
The Captain's Table
14.30 PM - 15.00 PM
The Talent War: Designing the 2026 Skillsets roadmap to compete with global tech giants.
15.00 PM - 15.20 PM
Security at the Edge: Protecting data at the source in an increasingly decentralized Networking landscape.
15.20 PM - 15.40 PM
Optimizing Cloud Spend: FinOps strategies for managing the high costs of AI-driven infrastructure.
15.40 PM - 16.00 PM
Networking Infrastructure strategy beyond AI: 3 imperatives for 2026
The Captain's Table
16.00 PM - 16.20 PM
The Evolving Role of the CIO: New Strategies for Managing Risk and Building Resilience
Editorial Session
16.20 PM - 16.40 PM
The Performance Pivot: Translating Tech Innovation into Boardroom Value
The Keynote
16.40 PM - 17.00 PM
The Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge: Overcoming the Talent Shortages
CIO 100 Leadership Roundtable
17.30 PM - 18.30 PM
Networking for a Distributed Workforce: Overcoming latency and security gaps in hybrid-cloud environments.
CIO Leadership: Moving from “Service Provider” to “Strategic Co-Founder” in the enterprise.
Closing the Expectation Gap: Aligning AI FOMO with Enterprise Technical Debt
Modernization Mandated: Balancing Innovation and Stability While Avoiding Disruption
Gala Awards Ceremony
19.00 PM - 21.00 PM
CIO100 Awards – Hall of Fame
CIO100 Awards – The Fearless 100
21.00 PM Onwards
Networking Dinner, Cocktails, Entertainment
Saturday, September 19
07.00 AM - 08.00 AM
Breakfast
CIO 100 Leadership Roundtable
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM
Predictive Networking: Using AI to manage network traffic and self-heal infrastructure before failures occur.
Shadow AI Control: Balancing developer freedom with enterprise-wide Cybersecurity standards.
The Editor's Chat
9.15 AM - 9.40 AM
CIO in 2026: Follow the North Stars on the Agentic Horizon
The Keynote
9.40 AM - 10.00 AM
Leading the C-Suite into Digital Fluency for Business Growth
10.00 AM - 10.20 AM
Infrastructure as Code: Automating the Datacenter to match the speed of digital business.
10.20 AM - 10.40 AM
The Secure Supply Chain: Extending Cybersecurity protocols to third-party partners and vendors.
10.40 AM - 11.00 AM
The Autonomous Enterprise: Scaling Agentic AI from Pilot to Production
The Captain's Table
11.00 AM - 11.20 AM
Intelligence at Scale Moving AI from Pilots to Enterprise Value
11.20 AM - 11.40 AM
Tea & Expo Zones
11.40 AM - 12.30 PM
CIO Design Thinking Workshop
12.30 PM - 13.00 PM
Celebrity Speaker
13.00 PM - 13.10 PM
Partner Fecilitation
13.10 PM - 13.20 PM
Mega Raffle & Closing Remarks
13.20 PM - 15.00 PM
Lunch & Check Out