CIO/CISO Ireland Summit

AI is no longer just a technology issue - it has become a geopolitical and economic priority. As regulations evolve, global AI infrastructure shifts, and concerns around data sovereignty, cyber resilience, and supply chain security grow, Irish organisations face increasingly complex decisions. 

This panel explores how business leaders can navigate an uncertain global landscape while maintaining innovation, resilience, and trust.

Every AI pilot looks affordable. The sandbox costs almost nothing, the demo behaves perfectly. Then you go to production, and a different invoice arrives. Query volumes multiply, orchestration and audit trails stack up beneath the waterline, and the question shifts from "can the AI answer?" to "can we afford for it to keep answering, all day, at scale?" This session cuts through the model hype to the decisions that actually determine whether agentic AI delivers value or just cost.

As IT environments become more distributed, complex, and experience-driven, organisations are being forced to rethink how they manage digital operations at scale.

The threat landscape continues to evolve as attackers leverage new technologies and increasingly sophisticated methods.

This session examines approaches to strengthening cyber resilience, improving detection capabilities, and protecting critical business operations.

• AI, Automation & the Future of Work: Redefining the Enterprise Workforce

As AI and intelligent automation become embedded across the enterprise, organisations must rethink not only how work gets done, but how people, processes and technology work together. This roundtable will explore how business leaders can harness AI to enhance productivity, empower employees and drive innovation, while navigating workforce transformation, governance and the skills needed for the next generation of work.

Anurag Kumar, Vice President - Global Technology, Bank of America

• From Visibility to Accountability: Strengthening Compliance Through Observability

Explore how observability, performance metrics and intelligent ticketing can provide technology leaders with the visibility needed to improve compliance, strengthen operational resilience and drive more informed decision-making.

• Identity, Access & Trust in an Agentic Enterprise

As AI agents and non-human identities proliferate across enterprise systems, traditional identity and access models are reaching their limits. This session explores how organisations are redefining trust, authentication, and access control in environments where machines increasingly act on behalf of humans.

Satyanarayana Vuppala, Head of Gen AI Security, Dun & Bradstreet

As AI moves from augmentation to autonomy, enterprise systems are beginning to operate, optimise, and even self-heal in real time. This panel explores how CIOs and CISOs are preparing for a world where infrastructure, security, and operations are increasingly driven by intelligent systems rather than human intervention.

In an always-on, AI-driven enterprise, resilience is no longer about recovery after disruption - it is about continuous availability under constant change. This session explores how CIOs and CISOs are redefining resilience to include cyber readiness, operational continuity, and AI system reliability at scale.

Technology leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable business impact. This executive discussion explores how organisations are evaluating technology investments, aligning with business priorities, and communicating value to stakeholders.

The role of the CIO and CISO is expanding beyond technology delivery and risk management into enterprise-wide value creation and strategic enablement. This masterclass explores how leaders can balance innovation, security, and operational performance while becoming critical drivers of business growth in the AI era.

From Prompt to Production: Validating AI Outputs at Enterprise Scale

As organisations deploy AI agents across critical business processes, the challenge is no longer just securing access—it's ensuring AI-generated outputs are accurate, reliable and aligned with business intent. This roundtable explores how technology leaders can establish validation frameworks, human oversight and continuous monitoring to build confidence in AI-driven decisions as adoption scales.

AI in the SOC: Augmentation, Automation, or Loss of Control?

Successful AI transformation depends on people as much as technology. This discussion explores how leaders are driving adoption, developing skills, and managing organisational change.

The session will also touch on what’s changing in the age of AI. With the second edition of Team Topologies placing greater emphasis on cognitive load, platform groupings, and bounded agency, Domenico will share practical

perspectives on how organizations can design for clarity, ownership, and effective collaboration across both human teams and AI-enabled systems.

Expect practical lessons, real-world examples, and an open discussion on how engineering organizations can evolve to perform better in an increasingly complex landscape.

As AI becomes embedded across every function, the boundaries between data, technology, cybersecurity, and business transformation are rapidly evolving. This closing panel brings together CIOs, CISOs, Chief Data Officers, and Chief AI Officers to explore how executive leaders are collaborating to build intelligent, resilient, and trusted organisations ready for the next decade.