All 2026 Conference Tracks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The CISO Circle Program curates Gartner 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. An application is required.

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 and access management (IAM) is crucial for securing a world where traditional corporate network boundaries have vanished. This track gives security leaders insights into the latest IAM strategies, trends and technologies.

Government agencies face the difficult balancing act of safeguarding their organizations against heightened threats and justifying their cybersecurity budgets and workforce. This track explores the unique skills and technical capabilities required by public-sector cybersecurity leaders.

We are operating in an environment characterized by an increasingly complex threat landscape, AI hype, geopolitical uncertainty, tariffs, executive orders and cost pressures. Learn how to navigate these challenges and enhance cyber resilience.

CISOs transitioning to a new role must get up to speed and start delivering quickly. Sessions in this track will help you to meet expectations, establish key relationships, build an executive brand, and deliver on both short-term quick wins and long-term organizational value.

As technologies evolve, the complexity of identifying, selecting and negotiating with technology providers expands. With a blend of Gartner Magic Quadrant™ sessions and Contract Negotiation Clinics, this track provides insights to help you identify suitable providers while managing costs and minimizing risk.

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.