Innovating the Future of IT Leadership in Boston
The CxO Institute Boston brings together over 100 C-Suite and senior IT executives for a day of collaboration, strategic networking, and expert-led discussions. This exclusive event provides leaders with the insights and strategies needed to enhance productivity and drive innovation.
The agenda covers key topics such as digital transformation, cybersecurity, and leveraging data for business impact. Through a format of Keynotes, Panel Discussions, and Interactive Boardrooms, you'll gain practical takeaways and high-value connections to help shape the future of IT leadership.
Agenda
08:00 - 08:45
Registration & Networking Breakfast
08:45 - 09:35
Opening Panel
CxO
Leading Enterprise Transformation: From Vision to Impact
- Aligning digital initiatives with business strategy to ensure every investment directly supports enterprise priorities and delivers measurable, outcome-driven impact
- Building and sustaining a culture of agility and innovation across the organisation that empowers teams to experiment, adapt quickly and continuously improve
- Managing change in a way that balances new technologies with the people and processes required to adopt them successfully and maintain operational stability
Louie Celiberti
Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
Chris O'Day
VP, Data and Analytics Solutions
Syneos Health
Jay A Fusco
CIO
City of Cambridge
Trang Nguyen
Data Science Vice President, Corporate Functions
Prudential Financial
09:40 - 10:20
Strategy
Shaping the Future of Business with Trusted AI
In a world where AI’s promise often outpaces its reality, the latest C-level research reveals a profound shift in how leaders perceive and trust these emerging technologies, and how they can be deployed for effective return on investment. As AI agents become integral part of enterprise software, explore how we can shape a future, together, where technology is built to serve as a trusted advisor.
Jim Ryan
Principal Architect, AI & Innovation
SAP
10:25 - 11:05
Security
Advancing Digital Resilience for the Agentic Era
As agentic applications reshape digital ecosystems, data volume and complexity are skyrocketing. This shift is fueling cross-domain threats that exploit fragmentation and make it harder than ever to stay ahead. To address the challenges posed by AI, organizations need to think about digital resilience in new ways – supercharging security and observability with AI, ensuring security and observability for AI, and protecting themselves from new threats posed by AI.
Andy Thurai
CTO
Splunk
Chris Pringle
CISO
Harvard Business School
Data
Analytics at the Speed of Business: Turning Data Silos into Strategic Advantage
- Making your enterprise data AI ready to unify silos accelerate insights and drive smarter decision making
- Leveraging real time predictive analytics and intelligent overlays to deliver analytics and business intelligence at the speed of business
- Translating integrated data and AI insights into measurable business outcomes fostering cross functional collaboration and enterprise value
Erik Bovee
VP Business Development
MindsDB
11:10 - 11:50
Security
The Next Billion Users Will NOT Be Human: How Browser Security Secures Humans and Agents
AI agents are rapidly becoming autonomous digital workers inside the enterprise—planning tasks, accessing data, and executing actions across SaaS apps, APIs, and browsers. While adoption is accelerating, most organizations lack the security controls to manage agents as privileged non-human identities. This keynote examines the drivers and growth of enterprise AI agents, the new attack surface they create—especially through browser and web-based interactions—and real-world risks and offers a practical approach to security ai agents today and into the future to maintain productivity and automation, safely.
Pejman Roshan
CMO
Menlo Security
Strategy
Driving Enterprise Velocity: Low-Code Platforms Powered by Agentic AI
- Understand how agentic AI elevates low-code from faster delivery to autonomous, outcome-driven enterprise execution
- Learn how to modernise core systems with embedded AI while maintaining enterprise security, resilience and control
- Gain a practical perspective on achieving measurable productivity, innovation and ROI with governed AI platform
Amit Bhutani
Corporate Vice President - Intelligent Automation & Agentic AI
Persistent Systems & Outsystems
11:55 - 12:35
Strategy
Reimagining Your Business: Leveraging AI to Drive Real Transformation
What You’ll Learn:
- Where is the value in AI?
- What does a reimagined, AI-enabled business look like?
- How do we verify and validate feasibility using interactive design?
- How do we execute extremely quickly — from feasibility to production?
Donna Bauer
VP, AI & Data
Rackspace
Data
Trusted Data. Delivered Anywhere: An Operating Model for Modern Enterprises
Innovation demands speed—but rapid DevOps and AI initiatives often collide with data security, privacy, and compliance risks. As non-production environments become a growing attack surface, IT and security leaders must rethink how data is delivered across development, testing, and analytics workflows. This session explores how forward-thinking organizations are embracing secure data automation to eliminate friction, reduce exposure, and accelerate innovation. We’ll examine how policy-driven data delivery—integrated into DevOps and AI pipelines—can drive agility without sacrificing control.
Corey Brune
Advisor Solutions Engineer
Delphix
12:35 - 13:25
Networking Lunch
13:25 - 14:05
CxO
Transforming IT into a Strategic Engine for the Enterprise
- Redefining IT leadership to deliver measurable business impact
- Building agile teams and modern operating models for continuous reinvention
- Aligning technology, talent and processes to enable resilient, adaptive enterprises
Saadia Khilji
Global Chief Information Officer
Coverys
14:10 - 14:50
Security
Responsible AI Enablement: Balancing Innovation, Governance, and Control in the Age of Agentic Systems
CIOs face increasing pressure to deliver on the promise of enterprise AI—spanning generative, analytical, and emerging agentic systems—while maintaining strong governance, visibility, and compliance. As browser-based and autonomous AI tools proliferate across the workforce, the challenge has shifted from adoption to responsible enablement. Employees are integrating AI into workflows to achieve new efficiencies, frequently through unapproved or unmanaged applications that expose organizations to data leakage and compliance risks. In this session, CIOs and IT decision-makers will learn how to strike the right balance between productivity and control. The discussion will explore the operational, security, and compliance implications of “Shadow AI,” including autonomous and agentic capabilities that act on behalf of users, revealing how sensitive data can move beyond enterprise boundaries. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for establishing governance frameworks that unlock AI’s full business potential—safely and responsibly—across both current and next-generation AI models.
Bradon Rogers
Chief Customer Officer, Island
Island
14:55 - 15:35
Security
Securing AI Innovation: Governance and Compliance at Enterprise Scale
- Managing AI risk while enabling innovation, including data privacy, ethical AI and industry-specific regulations
- Building transparent, auditable, and explainable AI systems to strengthen trust with boards, regulators and customers
- Embedding continuous compliance, bias monitoring, and risk controls into AI delivery without slowing transformation
Esmond Kane
CISO
Advarra
Strategy
Data
From Digital Strategy to Intelligent Operating Model
- Turning AI strategy into repeatable operating capabilities across products, platforms and functions
- Designing workflows and decision architectures that enable scale, speed and control
- Making portfolio prioritisation and governance enablers of impact rather than bottlenecks
Sudhir Shandilya
Director - Digital Strategy, Transformation & Operations
Sanofi
15:40 - 16:20
Closing Session
CxO
From Strategy to System: Making AI, Data and Cyber Work at Enterprise Scale
- Why most AI programmes stall after pilots and the structural changes organisations must make to achieve real scale
- How to align data readiness, security, operating models and talent into a single, execution-ready enterprise system
- Redefining ownership, governance and decision rights when AI, data and cyber converge
Louie Celiberti
Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
Arpita Bhowmick
Head of Commercial IT, US
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
John Pomposello
Senior Vice President
CBRE
Yuri Quintana
Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
16:20 - 17:30
Closing Drinks Reception
Event Chair
Louie Celiberti
Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
Louie Celiberti, a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, is a Transformative Leader specializing in architecting data-driven solutions and driving organizational change. He focuses on building scalable teams and implementing secure, innovative technology ecosystems, combining strategic vision with hands-on expertise to create lasting business value.
Louie is highly focused on Operational Excellence and Fiscal Responsibility, achieving multi-million dollar annual savings and tripling project capacity through Agile-driven resourcing and strategic partnerships. His expertise includes digital transformation that reduced fixed costs by 40%, with a deep technical specialization in FinOps, Zero Trust, DevOps, and Enterprise Architecture (including ServiceNow and Snowflake).
Event Speakers
Louie Celiberti
Managing Director
Guggenheim Partners
Chris O'Day
VP, Data and Analytics Solutions
Syneos Health
As VP of Data and AI Solutions at Syneos Health, Chris leads the go-to-market strategy for the Kinetic platform, helping life sciences organisations close the gap between vision and measurable commercial impact. With two decades across analytics, digital solutions, and business architecture, he brings a practical, outcomes-focused view on what actually drives transformation forward.
Jay A Fusco
CIO
City of Cambridge
As CIO for the City of Cambridge, Jay leads technology strategy across a complex environment where speed, alignment, and public impact all matter. With deep experience across cloud, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and large-scale programme delivery, he’s spent his career helping organisations connect their goals to the systems, teams, and decisions that make real progress possible.
Trang Nguyen
Data Science Vice President, Corporate Functions
Prudential Financial
Trang Nguyen is Vice President of Data Science at Prudential Financial, where she leads AI strategy across risk, compliance, audit, law, and HR — turning advanced analytics and LLM-driven solutions into production-ready capabilities at enterprise scale. With nearly 20 years across financial services and healthcare, Trang brings deep expertise in fraud detection, process optimisation, and operational AI deployment.
Andy Thurai
CTO
Splunk
Andy Thurai is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor and evangelist with 25+ years of experience in executive, technical and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Intel, BMC, Nortel and Oracle; he advises many start-ups; and he is a Steering Committee Member for AIOps Exchange. He has been a keynote speaker in many major conferences, as well as host of many webcasts, podcasts and video chats. He is a regular Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor, and has written 100+ articles on emerging technology topics for publications such as Forbes, AI World, VentureBeat and Wired.
Chris Pringle
CISO
Harvard Business School
With nearly three decades in the IT industry and 15+ years in senior leadership, Chris brings deep, hands-on experience securing large-scale, enterprise environments across infrastructure, operations, and engineering. His career spans storage, Unix/Linux, Wintel, and mission-critical systems, with a reputation for leading complex initiatives from strategy through to fully operational delivery.
Erik Bovee
VP Business Development
MindsDB
With a rich background spanning venture capital, business development, and multiple successful tech exits, Erik brings a sharp, entrepreneurial perspective to the AI conversation. At MindsDB, he helps organisations move beyond experimentation and into practical, scalable AI solutions that deliver real business value—faster.
Pejman Roshan
CMO
Menlo Security
Pejman (Pej) Roshan leads Menlo Security’s Marketing organization. Pej has more than 25 years of product and marketing experience, successfully leading to-to-market teams for pioneering companies of all sizes, including Agito Networks, ShoreTel, Teridion, Cisco Systems, Aruba Networks, Xilinx and VMware. Throughout his career, Pej has had roles in IT operations, IT planning, marketing, product management and executive roles.
Amit Bhutani
Corporate Vice President - Intelligent Automation & Agentic AI
Persistent Systems & Outsystems
With over two decades of experience, Amit combines strategic acumen with technical fluency to deliver high-impact results. His career spans prominent organizations like Unilever and Workato, showcasing his deep expertise in automation technologies and business development. He specializes in helping leaders understand how to move from vision to reality, driving business growth and innovation with intelligent automation.
Donna Bauer
VP, AI & Data
Rackspace
With end-to-end P&L responsibility and a career spanning large-scale AI, digital transformation, Industry 4.0/5.0, and complex M&A integrations, Donna brings deep, practical insight into turning advanced technologies into operating advantage. Her experience includes leading $200M+ portfolios, scaling global teams, and originating transformational, next-generation deals across energy, OT/IT convergence, and connected digital solutions.
Corey Brune
Advisor Solutions Engineer
Delphix
An enterprise technology expert who helps organizations implement complex technology platforms. A seasoned systems architect, Corey has over 18 years of experience with positions ranging from Director of Engineering and Software Engineer to Lead Architect and Pre-Sales Engineer. In the early 1990s, he worked on high-end HP and Sun systems and developed applications for Fortune 100 financial and healthcare businesses. He works as a practitioner developing automation tools, designing distributed data strategies and architecting solutions for clients.
Saadia Khilji
Global Chief Information Officer
Coverys
Saadia Khilji is a Global CIO with a track record of delivering hundreds of millions in business impact through technology modernisation, GenAI initiatives, and large-scale operating transformation. Her work spans infrastructure, applications, data, and IT operations — with a consistent focus on resilience, reliability, and customer outcomes.
Bradon Rogers
Chief Customer Officer, Island
Island
Bradon Rogers is the Chief Customer Officer at Island, where he directs the technical aspects of all customer interactions, leveraging his vast experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and cloud technology. Bradon's career in cybersecurity spans over 25 years, during which he has played an executive leadership role for some of the largest firms in the industry.
Esmond Kane
CISO
Advarra
With over two decades of experience leading IT and security programs across various industries, Esmond has been instrumental in transforming organizations' approaches to information security, threat, and risk management. Before joining Advarra, he held prominent positions at Steward Health Care, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard University, where he provided invaluable insights into cybersecurity and business practices.
Sudhir Shandilya
Director - Digital Strategy, Transformation & Operations
Sanofi
As Director of Digital Strategy, Transformation & Operations at Sanofi, Sudhir works across R&D, commercial, and core business functions to move AI from concept to production. His focus is not experimentation, but building systems, governance, and operating models that deliver sustained enterprise value. He has led large-scale transformations, built and scaled teams, supported M&A integrations, and defined AI strategies that function in high-stakes environments where compliance, safety, and execution discipline are non-negotiable. He is also the creator of PRAXIGOV™, a patent-pending governance framework enabling agentic AI in regulated settings with human-in-the-loop oversight.
Arpita Bhowmick
Head of Commercial IT, US
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
As Head of Commercial IT at Alexion Pharmaceuticals (AstraZeneca), Arpita leads AI-driven commercial technology strategy across the US, shaping patient and HCP experiences through large-scale data, cloud and AI platforms. With more than 20 years across healthcare, life sciences and enterprise technology, she is known for building and operationalising technology centres of excellence, managing complex P&L portfolios, and translating AI ambition into measurable business outcomes.
John Pomposello
Senior Vice President
CBRE
As Senior Vice President at CBRE, John leads Network Advisory Services, helping organisations translate technology strategy into measurable outcomes — from cost optimisation and network design to cloud readiness and user experience. With more than 20 years advising Fortune 500 enterprises across healthcare, finance, hospitality, industrial and technology sectors, he brings a practitioner’s view of what actually works at scale.
Yuri Quintana
Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
As Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Yuri is internationally recognised for advancing AI-enabled, patient-centred health systems. His work spans learning health systems, AI-driven collaboration platforms, and digital tools that improve care coordination, medication management, and clinical decision-making. Yuri leads the development of Alicanto, a global cloud platform for professional learning and virtual collaboration, and InfoSAGE, a family-centred system supporting home-based care coordination. He also directs the DCI Network, a global consortium focused on AI governance, interoperability, and trust — ensuring innovation advances safely and responsibly.
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