All 2027 Conference Sessions

Gartner Cybersecurity & Risk Management Summit 2027 explores key cybersecurity and risk topics, including AI governance, strategy and innovation, risk management, and cloud and data security, to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2027 Conference Theme

Accelerate Value. Deliver Intelligently.

To lead in the digital era, organizations must accelerate value and deliver intelligently. This event is designed as a rallying call and a roadmap for future-ready IT infrastructure and operations leaders. This is your invitation to dive deep into value-centric transformation, data-driven intelligence, strategic AI enablement and human empowerment to ensure that you, your teams and your technology thrive alongside one another. Stop just managing infrastructure — accelerate value and deliver intelligently.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Monday, 15 March, 2027

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Frontier AI Models Demand a Defense-in-Depth Approach to Vulnerability and Exposure Management
Craig Lawson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Frontier AI has revolutionized vulnerability discovery. Static "patch-only" strategies are ineffective. Cybersecurity leaders must adopt a "compensate first, patch as fast as you can, but as slow as you have to" mindset, utilizing defense-in-depth controls to manage exposure and risk of breaches. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Future of AI in Cybersecurity: AI Predictions and Roadmap Guidance for 2027-2029
Craig Porter, Director Analyst, Gartner
Everyone knows what the future holds for AI and cybersecurity, except it changes every week. Planning for long term success seem impossible yet cybersecurity teams must do it. This session delves into key AI predictions and current challenges, providing CISOs with actionable insights to build effective and resilient three-year roadmaps. Learn how to optimize AI initiatives for cybersecurity and adapt security programs to align with future business uses. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trend - AI Security Platforms
Dennis Xu, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI security platforms are emerging technologies to safeguard your third-party AI usage and custom-built AI applications. Join this session to discover how AISPs address critical AI security risks; including data leakage, topic abuse, prompt injection, jailbreaks and system prompt leakage. We will also examine how startups and established vendors are building, partnering or acquiring capabilities to compete in the AI security landscape. ... Show More Show Less

02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEDT

How to Secure Enterprise AI Agents
Angela Zhao, Sr Director, Team Manager BTI, Gartner
AI agents are emerging as organizations invest in homegrown generative AI applications for enterprise automation. Cybersecurity leaders should adapt secure development and runtime security practices to address new attack surfaces and risks from enterprise AI agents. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEDT

AI Cyber Stewardship: 6 Principles for Managing AI Cyber Risk
Deepti Gopal, Director Analyst, Gartner
The accelerating integration of AI into business processes creates complex and evolving cyber risks that demand strategic, forward-thinking leadership. Embracing AI cyber stewardship principles equips organizations to not only safeguard critical assets and maintain stakeholder confidence, but also to enable secure innovation and adaptability as AI becomes a foundational element of enterprise success. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEDT

Apply Data-Centric Controls to Support Privacy and AI Governance Initiatives
Bart Willemsen, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI governance and privacy are driven by law and regulations, but common principles help savvy cybersecurity leaders apply effective data controls at the data layer. While this does not guarantee compliance, the controls create efficiencies to rightsize the investments for compliance. This session highlights the controls organizations must implement to gain and demonstrate control over their data processing activities — a key step to meeting customer and regulatory demands. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM AEDT

Ask the Analyst: How Cybersecurity Leaders are Investing in AI
Rob McMillan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As the results of AI adoption initiatives continue to draw scrutiny and "AI regret" grows, cybersecurity leaders must ensure that their AI investments are targeted, effective and well-framed. It can also be difficult to benchmark AI spending and budgeting strategies to industry means. In this session, we'll address these challenges and answer some fundamental questions around AI investment in cybersecurity. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 16 March, 2027

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEDT

Extending Existing Controls to Discover and Master Third-Party AI Usage
John Watts, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI usage control is a rapidly evolving space that includes AI-specific discovery and guardrails often lacking from traditional controls. In this session, we cover what AI-UC is, how they can be used to improve discovery and place AI-specific guardrails around usage for the organization. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM AEDT

Workshop: Build Your AI Security Strategy in 90 minutes
Dennis Xu, VP Analyst, Gartner
Participate in this workshop to develop a comprehensive AI security strategy tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether you are leveraging third-party AI services like ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot or building your own AI applications, this session will provide practical guidance and actionable steps to secure your AI initiatives. Leave with a clear strategy to safeguard your AI journey. ... Show More Show Less

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“Quality presentations with incisive and interesting topics. Would recommend to cyber and risk professionals alike.”

Craig Thompson
IT Risk Manager, Hollard

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