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CXO Exchange

Transform the AI Enterprise. Secure it with Zero Trust.


Santa Monica, California - October 8-9, 2026
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Why attend

Govern & Secure the
Agentic Enterprise

Learn how your peers are actively securing autonomous AI applications, from development pipelines to runtime guardrails.

The Women in IT &
Security Breakfast

Convene with fellow women leaders for an exclusive breakfast featuring AI industry expert and keynote speaker Allie Mellen.

Interactive
Breakouts

Collaborate in interactive breakout sessions tailored by both strategic focus areas and industry verticals to match your exact priorities.

Executive Peer
Roundtables

Share unscripted best practices and crowdsource proven solutions during interactive group sessions led by distinguished subject matter experts.

Savor the Endless 

Golden Hour

  • Santa Monica, California

    Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows 101 Wilshire Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90401

  • October 8-9, 2026
  • Valet parking will be provided.

Our exclusive community of featured speakers

Jay Chaudhry
CEO, Chairman & Founder
Jonathan Eastern
Global Head of Network & Security Infrastructure
Robert Stasio
Deputy CISO
Melanie Kalmar
Former CIO & Chief Digital Officer
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Michael Stevens
CIO
Christian Abou Jaoude
ACIO/CTO
Allie Mellen
Analyst & Author
Matt Calloway
Global Director Security Technology

Agenda-at-a-Glance

  • Wednesday, October 7, 2026
    6:00 - 9:00 PM
    Welcome Reception & Dinner

  • Thursday, October 8, 2026
    9:00 - 9:05 AM
    Welcome Remarks

    ...
    Sanjit Ganguli

    VP, CTO in Residence, Zscaler

    9:05 - 9:45 AM
    Zero Trust in the Age of AI

    Join Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry as he explains why architecture is the answer to today's AI-driven threats, from an agentic workforce expanding your attack surface to adversaries exploiting vulnerabilities at machine speed. Learn how Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange unifies SASE, AI and data security, and agentic security operations on one inline platform that makes applications invisible and lateral movement impossible. Gain insights into how leading enterprises are operationalizing AI safely while driving measurable reductions in cost, complexity, and risk.

    ...
    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

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    Jonathan Eastern

    Global Head of Network & Security Infrastructure,
    Marsh & McLennan

    9:45 - 10:25 AM
    From Data to AI: Securing the New Enterprise Attack Surface

    AI is transforming how enterprises create, access, and move data — introducing new risks across users, apps, agents, prompts, and APIs. In this keynote, Dhawal Sharma will explore how organizations can secure AI adoption while protecting the data that powers it. Attendees will learn how Zscaler’s inline, Zero Trust approach helps deliver visibility, control, and protection across AI workflows — enabling enterprises to embrace AI innovation with confidence while reducing the risk of data loss, misuse, and emerging AI-driven threats.

    ...
    Matt Calloway

    Global Director Security Technology, EY

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    Dhawal Sharma

    EVP, AI Security & Strategic Initiatives, Zscaler

    10:25 - 10:55 AM
    Networking Break
    11:00 - 11:20 AM
    Driving Secure Digital Transformation: A CXO Playbook

    Digital transformation moves faster when security is positioned as a business enabler, not a barrier. In this keynote, a leading cybersecurity executive will share how today’s organizations are securing modernization efforts, overcoming internal resistance, and aligning security strategy to business priorities. Attendees will gain practical insights on navigating legacy environments, responding to an increasingly complex threat landscape, and building a resilient foundation for growth, innovation, and transformation.

    ...
    Robert Stasio

    Deputy CISO, Merck

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    Melanie Kalmar

    Former CIO & Chief Digital Officer, Dow

    11:20 - 12:00 PM
    Beyond Legacy SASE: Why True Zero Trust SASE Requires Zero Network Exposure

    The AI era is expanding and exploiting the attack surface at an unprecedented rate, causing legacy SASE platforms and security point products to fail. Security for this new era requires a shift away from siloed tools and routable networks to a comprehensive Zero Trust platform that secures all entities while maintaining business agility. Discover how to securely connect users, devices, and workloads directly to applications, achieve Zero Trust Everywhere, and empower your organization to confidently harness the full potential of AI.

    ...
    Kevin McKenna

    Executive Director & Associate CISO, AdventHealth

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    Adam Geller

    Chief Product Officer, Zscaler

    12:00 - 1:00 PM
    Networking Lunch
    1:00 - 1:40 PM
    Interactive Breakouts
    Activate AI Security: A Hands-On Start with Zscaler AI Security Products

    As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, security teams need a practical way to understand where AI is being used, where risk is emerging, and how to take action quickly. In this interactive breakout, attendees will learn how to get started with Zscaler AI Security through practical scenarios using Access Graph, AI Red Teaming, and AI Endpoint Security. We’ll explore how these capabilities help teams discover AI exposure, assess weaknesses, validate defenses, and guide users toward safer AI adoption. Participants will leave with a hands-on understanding of how to begin securing AI across users, endpoints, apps, and data.

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    Michael Schofield

    Director, Field Product Specialist - AI Security, Zscaler

    Zero Trust for the Extended Enterprise: Securing Access for B2B, Contractors, and M&A

    Modern enterprises conduct M&A , hire contractors , and work with internal and external B2B partners. Traditional access methods like VPNs and legacy VDI create severe security risks and ballooning infrastructure costs. Disover how Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange for B2B securely connects external business partners, vendors, or subsidiaries to enterprise applications. Learn how to replace costly VDI deployments with Zscaler Zero Trust Browser without ever exposing your corporate network to third parties.

    ...
    Joby Menon

    SVP, Product Management, Zscaler

    Frontier AI Readiness: How Continuous Exposure Management and Deception Protect You at Scale

    As AI supercharges vulnerability discovery, security teams will be flooded with more first-party exposures than they can realistically fix—making fast, contextual exposure prioritization and automated remediation essential. At the same time, adversaries are using AI to scale and accelerate attacks, raising the bar for defense. This session explores why modern resilience requires both smarter exposure management to focus on what matters most and a pervasive layer of Deception tripwires to detect, disrupt, and stop AI-driven attacks when things slip through your defenses.

    ...
    Andy Skrei

    VP, Product Management, Zscaler

    1:40 - 1:50 PM
    Transition Break
    1:50 - 2:30 PM
    Interactive Breakouts
    Winning with DSPM: Connecting Data, AI, and Identity to Reduce Risk

    AI initiatives are only as secure as the data behind them. As organizations adopt GenAI, expand application access, and manage sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, data platforms, and AI environments, leaders need a connected view of what sensitive data exists, who and what can access it, how it is being used, and where exposure creates business risk. This session explores how Zscaler DSPM helps CxOs connect the dots across data, AI, identity, permissions, activity, flows, and exposure. You’ll see how Zscaler’s approach provides the context needed to improve AI readiness, govern access, reduce exposure, simplify compliance, and prioritize remediation – helping organizations move faster with AI while strengthening data security.

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    Mohit Tiwari

    Sr. Director, Product Management, Zscaler

    Architecture Beats AI Threats: How CxOs are securing Branches & Factories for the AI Era

    Modern campus and factory locations can no longer afford the complexity, hardware sprawl, and lateral risk of routable branch networks. Extending legacy firewalls, VLANs, and SD-WAN to remote sites simply expands your attack surface. Discover how Zero Trust Branch transforms high-risk physical locations into secure, cafe-like environments, connecting users, OT/IoT devices, and third-party contractors directly to applications without exposing the underlying network. Learn how leading CxOs are eliminating site-to-site lateral movement, slashing operational complexity, and protecting critical operations.

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    Amit Aneja

    Director, Product Management, Zscaler

    Ensure Zero Trust SASE Success: AI Visibility That Eliminates Blind Spots and Blame

    ZDX delivers the critical visibility layer for your Zero Trust SASE architecture—the one place that can see the entire path from device through Wi-Fi, ISP, and the Zero Trust Exchange to the application. Measure digital experiences continuously for every user, anywhere, and use AI to correlate cross-domain signals and surface root causes via ZDX Agent and natural language—no war rooms, no finger-pointing. Enterprises running ZDX have cut MTTR dramatically, restored cross-team accountability, and proved that robust security enhances productivity rather than compromising it.

    ...
    Patrick Chang

    VP, Product Management, Zscaler

    2:30 - 2:40 PM
    Transition Break
    2:40 - 3:20 PM
    Interactive Breakouts
    From Prompts to Actions: Securing Agentic AI Traffic

    Agentic AI introduces a new class of traffic — prompts, responses, tool calls, API actions, and data movement initiated by both users and autonomous agents. In this interactive breakout, we’ll explore how to secure agentic traffic inline with intent-based policy using Zscaler AI Gateway and AI Guard. Attendees will work through practical scenarios for identifying AI usage, understanding agent intent, protecting sensitive data, and enforcing real-time controls across users, apps, agents, and APIs — leaving with a practical approach to securing AI adoption without slowing it down.

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    David Sedgwick

    Sr. Director, Product Management, Zscaler

    Beyond the Cloud Firewall: Secure Connectivity and Workload Isolation

    Dragging legacy virtual firewalls into the cloud inflates costs and stops agility. Join this session to explore Zscaler’s firewall-free architecture. We’ll demonstrate how Zero Trust Gateway secures workload-to-internet and cloud-to-cloud traffic, while Zscaler Microsegmentation stops lateral movement at the host process level. Learn how to retire expensive NGFWs, halt cross-cloud threat propagation, and secure multi-cloud environments—without rearchitecting your network.

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    Brian Lazear

    VP, Product Management, Zscaler

    Autonomously Hide, Segment, and Shield: Private App Defense for the Frontier AI Era

    Frontier AI tools can do incredible damage in malicious hands. External and internal attack surface reduction are the most critical steps you can take to secure your organization. Learn how to use ZPA to hide your apps and infrastructure, autonomous segmentation to dramatically reduce the blast radius and AI-powered virtual patching to automatically discover and block app vulnerability explots.

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    Joby Menon

    SVP, Product Management, Zscaler

    3:20 - 3:50 PM
    Transition Break
    3:50 - 4:25 PM
    Don't Outrun AI Threats. Out-Architect Them.

    Frontier AI doesn't need zero-days. It finds small gaps, an exposed VPN, uninspected traffic, overly broad access, and chains them into a complete attack path in minutes. Most enterprises still carry exactly these exposures, and their legacy architectures make lateral movement trivial once an identity is compromised. The speed advantage belongs to the attacker. The architecture advantage belongs to you. Join George Moser and a panel of Zscaler customers who made this architectural leap and closed the gaps with zero trust before the autonomous threat arrived.

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    Michael Stevens

    CIO, Hallmark Cards

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    Ryan Larson

    Chief Security Officer, HERE Technologies

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    George Moser

    Global VP, Head of CXO in Residence, Zscaler

    4:25 - 4:30 PM
    Day One Closing Remarks

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    Sanjit Ganguli

    VP, CTO in Residence, Zscaler

    6:00 - 10:00 PM
    Evening Experience
  • Friday, October 9, 2026
    8:45 - 8:50 AM
    Welcome Back

    ...
    Sanjit Ganguli

    VP, CTO in Residence, Zscaler

    8:50 - 9:30 AM
    The New Threat Reality: Why AI-Era Attacks Demand a Unified Agentic SecOps Solution

    Hear what is happening right now on the front lines of cyberattacks and where the threat landscape is heading. You will leave with a clear understanding of how AI-driven attacks are evolving and why traditional security operations can't keep pace. And you will see exactly how Zscaler Agentic SecOps is built to meet this moment, unifying exposure management and threat detection and response into a single, intelligent defense.

    ...
    Deepen Desai

    EVP & Chief Security Officer, Zscaler

    9:30 - 10:10 AM
    The AI Race in Cybersecurity: What's Real, What's Hype

    We are at a critical inflection point in cybersecurity thanks to a rapid evolution in AI attacks and in the AI models that power them. In this keynote, we will analyze key incidents caused by AI attacks and show how to build a strong defensive foundation to effectively counter these emerging threats.

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    Allie Mellen

    Analyst & Author of Code War

    10:10 - 10:20 AM
    Transition Break
    10:20 - 11:00 AM
    Interactive Breakouts
    Data Security: The Price of Admission for AI

    Data risk no longer lives in silos. As organizations adopt AI, expand app access, and manage sensitive data across more users, devices, and applications, they need a more connected approach to reducing exposure. This session explores how DLP and DSPM work together to strengthen modern data security. You’ll see how Zscaler helps break down silos with Adaptive Data Defense, Access Graph, and AI Data Controls—giving organizations the context and control to reduce risk and enable AI with confidence.

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    Christian Abou Jaoude

    ACIO/CTO, Keck Medicine

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    Venkat Krishnamoorthi

    VP, Product Management, Zscaler

    Quantum Is Coming. Is Your Encryption Ready?

    As quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic landscape, adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data to decrypt later. This session demystifies the post-quantum threat, what “harvest-now, decrypt-later” (HNDL) means for your business, and how to build a quantum-safe posture without disrupting operations. Learn immediate steps CXOs can drive: assess cryptographic exposure, enable quantum-ready encryption and inspection, and use zero trust architecture to stop AI-accelerated attacks in flight.

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    Satish Madiraju

    VP, Product Management, Zscaler

    From Alert to Action: Agentic Defense and Expert-Backed Response

    The volume and complexity of threats today has made the traditional SOC model unsustainable, and more tools and more analysts alone won't solve it. Zscaler's Agentic SOC automates the work that slows your team down so you respond to real threats faster and with greater confidence. See how pairing agentic SOC with Zscaler's threat experts gives your team the intelligence and capacity to operate at a level that wasn't possible before.

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    Deepen Desai

    EVP & Chief Security Officer, Zscaler

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    Ashwini Almad

    Senior Director, Product Management, Zscaler

    11:00 - 11:10 AM
    Transition Break
    11:10 - 11:55 AM
    Peer Roundtables: AI Adoption, Governance, and Enterprise Strategy

    AI adoption is accelerating across the enterprise, driven by objectives such as innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. This peer roundtable session will explore what is fueling adoption, the key governance challenges organizations face, and how leaders are approaching AI strategy at scale. The discussion will also invite perspectives on Zscaler’s AI strategy and its role in enabling secure AI transformation.

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    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

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    Dhawal Sharma

    EVP, AI Security & Strategic Initiatives, Zscaler

    11:55 -12:25 PM
    CEO Insight: Q&A with Jay Chaudhry

    Join Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry for an exclusive Q&A session where he’ll share the company’s strategic vision, groundbreaking product innovations, and key partnerships. Gain insights into how Zscaler is tackling critical industry challenges and supporting customers in achieving secure digital transformation. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear directly from the leadership driving success in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

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    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

    12:25 - 12:30 PM
    Closing Remarks

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    Sanjit Ganguli

    VP, CTO in Residence, Zscaler

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Zscaler provides enterprises with the technology and expertise to guide them on their digital transformation journeys. With cloud security services that replace the traditional inbound and outbound gateways, we help organizations transform their network and security infrastructures from an appliance-based model to a modern, cloud approach, which allows them to securely take advantage of cloud agility, intelligence, and scalability.

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