

AMERICAS, St. Petersburg, Florida
April 27-29, 2026
Cyber resilience today is more than a failsafe - it's a core business strategy. Yet data, IT, and security leaders too often operate in silos when business continuity, risk management, and innovation demand shared responsibility. This gathering of accomplished women leaders creates a rare forum to break down those walls. Together, we'll workshop strategies, design cross-functional approaches, and exchange hard-won insights to ensure our organizations stay ahead of disruption - before the inevitable incident becomes a material event.
This event is women-focused, designed to address the unique challenges, opportunities, and leadership perspectives of women in data, IT, and security. We welcome attendance from all genders who support the mission of amplifying women's voices and advancing gender equity. All attendees will be expected to respect the purpose of the event, embrace allyship, and contribute to a supportive, inclusive environment.

Venus Williams
Tennis Champion, Business Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Jen Easterly
Chief Executive Officer
RSAC

Deneen DeFiore
VP & CISO
United Airlines

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik

Hema Mohan
VP, Product Management
Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

Alka Tandon
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik

Step into a space designed to elevate your voice, influence, and impact. Explore leadership strategies that resonate in boardrooms and beyond, while connecting with peers who are breaking business barriers.

Engage in authentic conversations with seasoned women peers. Share challenges, swap strategies, and build a trusted circle who understands the unique journey of leading in a rapidly evolving global landscape.

Gain forward-looking perspectives from industry trailblazers and thought leaders. From AI to cyber resilience to data-driven decision-making, immerse yourself in the trends shaping tomorrow's technology landscape.

Build a lasting legacy beyond business outcomes. Participate in initiatives that give back, inspire the next generation, and create meaningful impact within your company, community, and industry.
Venue
The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club
501 5th Ave NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

1:30 PM
Networking Experiences
Join your peers for your choice between two curated afternoon St. Petersburg experiences.

6:00 PM
Welcome Reception & Dinner at The Vinoy

8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Welcome Comments & Opening Keynote
The AI Security Reality—Recovery, Integrity, and Control
AI has moved security from protecting systems to protecting decisions and data integrity. This keynote reframes cyber resilience as an executive growth mandate. It explores how leading organizations are moving beyond static backups to identity-aware, explainable recovery—capabilities that protect SaaS estates, AI pipelines, and customer trust at the same time. Drawing on recent advances in recovery intelligence and AI operations, we’ll examine how to contain blast radius, validate clean data, and establish Time-to-Trust as a board metric—from first deployment to advanced automation. so innovation can accelerate without gambling the enterprise.

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
9:30 AM
Innovation Keynote
Charting the Roadmap for the Rubrik Platform
Modern enterprises need one operational fabric across hybrid data, SaaS, and AI workloads. This session provides a forward-looking view of platform direction: unified recovery workflows, identity-aware resilience, and automation at scale. Rather than features, we focus on architectural decisions CXOs must make today—data placement, sovereignty, performance, and integration—so that tomorrow’s innovation doesn’t become next year’s technical debt.

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik
10:00 AM
Thought Leadership Keynote
Thought Leadership Keynote

Jen Easterly
Chief Executive Officer
RSAC

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
10:30 AM
Networking Break
11:00 AM
CXO Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat: From Cyber Resilience to AI Resilience
As AI embeds itself into enterprise operations, the CISO role is evolving. Cyber resilience frameworks aren’t enough anymore. In this candid conversation, United Airlines CISO Deneen DeFiore joins Kavitha Mariappan to explore what it really takes to lead in an agentic AI era — where the stakes couldn’t be higher. From securing AI-driven flight operations and protecting safety-critical systems, to governing autonomous decision-making across one of the world’s most complex industries, aviation sets the standard for what true AI resilience demands. Deneen shares how the lessons learned at 35,000 feet translate to making AI risk a board-level conversation across every industry.

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik

Deneen DeFiore
VP & CISO
United Airlines
11:30 AM
Lunch & Networking
1:00 PM
Interactive Breakouts
The Rubrik Security Cloud: One Platform for Enhanced Cyber Resilience
The Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) is a SaaS platform that combines backup, recovery, and data security into a single solution. This helps users detect threats faster, minimize risk, and recover with confidence. Built on zero trust principles, RSC protects data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments.
Join us to learn:
- How unified visibility and control simplifies management and reduces complexity, leading to more rapid recoveries without malware reinfection
- The power of proactive threat detection with AI-powered analytics that identify anomalies and indicators of compromise before they escalate
- Security benefits of automated data security posture management that discovers, classifies, and controls access to sensitive information

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik
Key Capabilities for Rapid & Reliable Identity Restoration
When identity systems fail, business stops. Recovering Microsoft AD Forests can take days and involve manual, error-prone processes. Entra ID applications are rarely backed up, making rebuilds even more complex. Okta does not offer native tenant-level recovery, and organizations often miss critical configurations, attributes, and metadata during restoration.
Join us to learn:
- How Rubrik Identity Recovery helps secure hybrid and multi-IdP environments, dramatically reducing mean time to recovery
- Benefits of automating complex restoration workflows, validating integrity before cutover, and providing point-in-time recovery across systems
- How organizations can quickly and confidently restore identity services—minimizing downtime, protecting revenue, and safeguarding customer trust

Hema Mohan
VP, Product Management
Rubrik
1:35 PM
Transition Break
1:45 PM
Interactive Breakouts
Turning AI, Security, & Cyber Resilience into Business Impact
How do you translate RTO/RPO into revenue protection and risk reduction? This interactive breakout introduces a financial model linking downtime to customer impact, regulatory exposure, and brand value. Attendees will learn how to present resilience investments in the language of EBITDA, not infrastructure.
Join us to learn:
-Reframe AI, security and cyber resilience as value drivers, rather than cost centers for compliance and protection
-Lear to quantify and communicate the financial and operational impact of resilience investments
-Explore a structured approach to connect initiatives to organizational priorities, risk appetite, and regulatory expectations

Lauren Wise
Sr. Director, CXO Value Economics and Operations
Rubrik

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
Achieving Enterprise Data Protection Across Hybrid IT Environments
Cloud data sprawl, acquisitions of major infrastructure providers, and a concerted effort by threat actors to target backups represent significant challenges for enterprise data protection programs today. Many IT and security leaders are responsible for managing and protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments on top of on-premise data centers, stretching resources thin and introducing ample opportunity for security oversight.
Join us to learn:
- How legacy recovery technologies threaten the availability and integrity of enterprise data
- Deficiencies in cloud-native recovery capabilities and how threat actors target them
- Critical capabilities of purpose-built solutions that help teams overcome enterprise data security challenges

Gowri Rao Krishnamurthy
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik
2:20 PM
Transition Break
2:30 PM
Interactive Breakouts
From Proof of Value to Deployment: Licensing, Commercial Models, and Sizing
This session covers how to structure licensing and commercial models, navigate finance nuances (delayed invoicing, price guarantees, consumption options), and design a proof-of-value that resonates with leadership. We’ll compare hardware strategies, model loaded data-center costs, outline professional services paths, and review starter use cases such as M365 and ransomware recovery—so teams can move confidently from evaluation to production.

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik

Hema Mohan
VP, Product Management
Rubrik
Establishing End-to-End Cyber Resilience for Microsoft 365
M365 is the central nervous center for collaboration at many organizations, making it truly a Tier 0/1 app. As AI agents proliferate, the blast radius of a single identity compromise expands exponentially, with the possibility to lead to data exfiltration or ransomware.This session examines practical workflows for protecting identities, mailboxes, and collaboration data; rapid restoration during account takeover; and containment across Entra ID and M365.To become resilient, organizations must be confident in their ability to recover across their entire IT estate—and quickly.
Join us to learn:
- How the Rubrik Security Cloud unifies posture management and recovery for M365 environments
- How to move beyond bulk restores to rapid, targeted recovery to minimize business downtime
- How accurate data classification helps limit sensitive data exposure

Alka Tandon
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik
3:05 PM
Networking Break
3:30 PM
Innovation Keynote
Proof of Value to Production with Rubrik's AI Operations Platform
AI is changing how recovery is planned, executed, and validated. This session previews how intelligent operations can automate investigation, accelerate decision making, and reduce human error—while maintaining explainability and control.

Julia Lee
Chief Strategy Officer
Rubrik

Jackie Ho
Product Manager
Rubrik
4:30 PM
Afternoon Break
6:30 PM
Evening Experience at Fred's
8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
9:05 AM
Fireside Chat
Board Ready: Positioning Yourself for a Seat

Julia Lee
Chief Strategy Officer
Rubrik
9:30 AM
Thought Leadership Keynote
The Champion's Edge: Resilience & Performance in High-Stakes Moments

Venus Williams
Tennis Champion, Business Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer
Rubrik
10:30 AM
Networking Break
11:00 AM
Interactive Breakouts
Challenges & Opportunities for Cloud-Based Cyber Recovery
Cloud-native applications are critical revenue and productivity drivers, but their distributed nature makes it harder to ensure their resilience. Attackers know this, and are increasing cloud attacks in response. Organizations struggle to understand what data is exposed, how long recovery would take, and how to demonstrate resilience to stakeholders like boards and regulators.
Join us to learn:
- How Rubrik Cloud Application Resilience introduces a unified platform to protect data and configurations associated with top-tier applications
- How automated orchestration helps reduce the impact of cyber incidents
- Key resilience capabilities including continuous cloud discovery, orchestrated application recovery, and centralized monitoring and reporting

Alka Tandon
Sr. Director, Product Management
Rubrik
AI Resilience: Building Agents You Can Roll Back
Agentic systems introduce new failure modes—data drift, hallucinations, and unintended automation. WIth that, AI multiplies both opportunity and risk. This interactive working session demonstrates how training data integrity, lineage, and rapid rollback become core controls for digital trust, and what new responsibilities this creates for CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs.

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik

Jackie Ho
Product Manager
Rubrik
11:35 AM
Transition Break
11:45 AM
Resilience Ecosystem Panel
Strength in the Ecosystem: Building Modern Cyber Resilience

Anneka Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Rubrik
12:15 PM
Networking Lunch & Farewell

Join us in St. Pete for our inaugural CXO Women in AI, Security & IT Collective