All 2026 Conference Sessions

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026 dives deep into key topics for cybersecurity leaders around AI, leadership, cloud security and more to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2026 Conference Theme

Smarter, Faster, Stronger … Together

In an environment characterized by tariffs, global instability, regulations, an expanding threat landscape and AI, the cybersecurity community must gain and share insight faster. Together, we are smarter and stronger. Join us to explore topics including cybersecurity strategy and vision, leadership, AI, metrics, risk, resilience, cloud security, data security, security culture, and more.

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Wednesday, 22 July, 2026

03:00 PM - 04:30 PM JST

CISO Circle: Workshop: AI Security Roadmap 2026 — What Security Leaders Must Do Now and What’s Next
Nori Yamada, Executive Partner, Gartner
AI is advancing from general-purpose generative AI to autonomous agent-based systems. As a major source of risk, security leaders face urgent questions: how to drive AI adoption while managing risks & where to begin. This workshop, informed by Gartner insights, guides leaders through short-term actions & midterm prep. Through peer discussions, participants clarify their organization’s current state & identify concrete steps they can take immediately. ... Show More Show Less
Thursday, 23 July, 2026

02:15 PM - 03:00 PM JST

CISO Circle Roundtable: Agentic AI: How Should We Think About It and How Should We Utilize It?
Akira Otsuka, Graduate School of Information Security, Institute of Information Security (IISEC) / Prof. Dr.
In this roundtable, based on research trends and examples from the lecture, we will discuss how organizations should position agentic AI and under what conditions it can be safely used. Agentic AI has powerful capabilities and it is essential to understand the potential risks, limitations of current models and countermeasures. Moving forward with utilization while correctly recognizing the risks and challenges is an important step toward realizing the value of agentic AI in the future. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM JST

CISO Circle: Roundtable: AI Era Cybersecurity Organizational Reform — Toward Autonomous Security Operations Beyond Human Dependency
Takashi Watanabe, Sr Director Consulting, Gartner
Organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and a shortage of skilled security personnel. This session explores the shift from manual, person‑dependent operations to AI‑driven autonomous security. It discusses how far tasks like alert analysis, incident response, and threat research can be automated, and how teams can focus on higher‑value work to build resilient, next‑generation security organizations. ... Show More Show Less
Friday, 24 July, 2026

02:15 PM - 03:45 PM JST

CISO Circle: Workshop: Modernizing for Organizational Resilience
Kazunori Kumakura, Sr Executive Partner, Gartner
CISOs continue to grapple with approaches to support organizational resilience. CISOs and their security teams are working with key business partners to address challenges in modernizing security practices to support business continuity and resilience. The group is identifying core principles of resilience: predict, resist, recover, adapt, assess and recover. Join this session to know more. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM JST

CISO Circle: Roundtable: Cybersecurity and resilience to support sustainable business growth
Yuki Fukasawa, Director Consulting, Gartner
Evolving cyber threats and fragmenting geopolitical risks are becoming increasingly prevalent as unpredictable challenges for digitally transforming businesses. This has forced CISOs and their security teams to consider practical countermeasures on a day-to-day basis, shifting from assuming they will be attacked to assuming they will be victimized. In this session, Gartner professionals will discuss how security teams can build business resilience, imagining a situation where cyber threats have materialized. ... Show More Show Less

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“I attended to gather the latest security trends. The sessions covered various topics from technology to human skills, which were useful for my work. I also learned that generative AI is a key topic, as it was featured in many sessions.”

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