The 2026 agenda delivered the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, addressing the challenges most critical to CISOs and their leadership teams.
The 2026 agenda delivered the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, addressing the challenges most critical to CISOs and their leadership teams.
Track A: Cybersecurity Leadership and Innovation
Cybersecurity leaders face relentless change from AI, regulation and business demands. Learn how to shape business-aligned cybersecurity strategies, optimize resources, improve your leadership effectiveness and drive innovation, resilience, and executive confidence.
Track B: Cyber Risk & Regulations
Cyber risk management is an operational imperative driven by global regulations. This track delivers insights to help you strengthen cyber resilience and effectively manage risks. Key topics include cyber resilience, third-party risk, privacy, AI, operational technology and organizational resilience
Track C: Infrastructure and Cloud Security
Evolving workforces and infrastructure require comprehensive strategies for infrastructure security. This track provides the latest insights and guidance on zero trust, optimizing cybersecurity tool portfolios, secure access service edge, and network, workspace, cloud and endpoint security.
Track D: Application and Data Security
Applications and the data they support are critical security components, an importance that is growing with the use of Generative AI. This track covers key technologies, best practices, and innovations for protecting your data and securely building, implementing and interconnecting your applications.
Track E: Cybersecurity Operations and Response
Security operations are critical to an effective security program. This track offers pragmatic advice on how to measure and manage security operations, improve threat detection, investigation and response, use AI to optimize operations, and develop effective threat exposure management programs.
Track F: The CISO Circle Program
The CISO Circle program curates Gartner’s most executive-relevant insights and guidance in highly interactive, peer-based sessions. Learn how to build your personal brand, strengthen relationships with C-level leaders, and drive cyber resilience in a disruptive environment. Application is required.
Artificial Intelligence
AI and cybersecurity have long intersected, and generative AI is only accelerating the pace of change. Learn how to use AI innovations to enhance cybersecurity programs, defend against AI-generated attacks and more effectively support AI initiatives with strong security guidance and governance.
Identity & Access Management
Identity and access management (IAM) is crucial for securing a world where traditional corporate network boundaries have vanished. This track gives security leaders insight into the latest IAM strategies, trends and technologies.
Evaluating and Negotiating with Technology Providers
As technologies evolve, the complexity of identifying, selecting and negotiating with technology providers expands. With a blend of Gartner Magic Quadrant and Contract Negotiation Clinics, this track provides insights to help you identify suitable providers while managing costs and minimizing risk.
Privacy & Regulations
The principles behind modern privacy regulations serve as one of the building blocks for AI guardrails, and inform the controls needed to protect data. This track explores diverging regulatory approaches to privacy, privacy implications of AI, data breach response and privacy tools.
Technical Insights for Security Practitioners
This track delivers actionable advice for technical security practitioners on security architecture, application and data security, endpoint security, network security and cloud and infrastructure security.