A Peer Driven Experience. Built By CISOs, for CISOs.
Curated by the Raleigh Leadership Board, a community of local cybersecurity leaders who help shape the event experience.
Community-led knowledge sharing
Relevant speakers and discussion topics
Leadership and community development
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Dinner Topic
Governing AI Risk: Balancing Innovation, Security, and Accountability
As AI adoption accelerates and threat actors leverage increasingly sophisticated capabilities, CISOs must rethink how their organizations govern risk and maintain effective defenses. While established security principles remain relevant, AI introduces new challenges around third-party assurance, risk acceptance, and accountability that test existing governance frameworks and controls.
Join the Raleigh CISO Dinner for a peer-driven discussion on how security leaders are adapting to these challenges. The conversation will explore defensive readiness against AI-enabled threats, risks embedded in third-party technologies, and the balance between innovation and security oversight. CISOs will also examine how responsibility for AI risk is being defined across the enterprise and where security leadership's role should begin and end.
Discussion Themes
- AI Governance and Defensive Readiness: Adapting existing security frameworks and controls to address emerging AI risks and the growing speed and sophistication of AI-enabled threats.
- Third-Party Risk and Assurance: Evaluating AI capabilities embedded in third-party products and services, understanding the limitations of existing certifications, and identifying gaps in vendor accountability.
- Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Accountability: Navigating business pressure for AI adoption, establishing appropriate risk acceptance processes, and clarifying ownership and responsibility across the enterprise.
Discussion Leader
Agenda
Join us for an exclusive reception celebrating the CyberRisk Collaborative CISO community, where security leaders come together for an evening of networking, knowledge-sharing, and camaraderie. Connect with fellow CISOs, security executives, and industry experts in a relaxed atmosphere while discussing the latest challenges and innovations in cybersecurity. Enjoy refreshments, engage in thought-provoking conversations, and strengthen relationships with peers who understand the complexities of protecting today’s digital landscape.
Each dinner begins with opening remarks and a briefing from a featured CISO or cybersecurity leader. This short session sets the stage for the evening, offering timely insights or a leadership perspective to spark thought and guide discussion. Whether focused on emerging threats, organizational change, or strategic priorities, this briefing is designed to frame the conversation and invite deeper peer engagement throughout the night.
Engage directly with your peers during dinner to share strategies, exchange lessons learned, and explore innovative approaches to safeguarding the business in an ever-changing threat landscape. This is your opportunity to step beyond formal presentations and build meaningful connections through candid conversations in a collaborative setting.
As the dinner concludes, we’ll gather final insights and reflections from our discussions. We will highlight the most impactful ideas shared around the tables, and you will leave with peer-tested strategies and fresh perspectives to take back to your teams, along with new connections to support your ongoing leadership journey.
We will wrap up the evening with continued networking and conversations. Don't miss this additional opportunity to strengthen professional relationships and build new partnerships that will expand your leadership and cybersecurity priorities.
Technology Partners
Thank you to all of our Technology Partners for your support of our community.
Featured Tech Partner
Sponsorship Opportunities
Partners First. Vendors Second. Solution providers are important members of every local cybersecurity community. The Raleigh Leadership Board and their peers across the country nominate their most trusted partners to participate in boardroom discussions, case-studies, and technology demonstrations. The result is an environment rich with compelling content, strategic discussions, and trusted relationship building.
- IAM
- Zero Trust
- Cloud
- Automation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Risk Management
- Security Metrics Reporting
For more information, email [email protected].
Our Partners
The CyberRisk Collaborative is proud to be in partnership with some of the industry’s leading organizations in technology, information security, and business leadership If your association is interested in becoming a strategic industry partner with CyberRisk Collaborative, lets talk!
Frequently Asked Questions
- CISO developed curriculum focused on best practice sharing
- Expand your personal network with your community's cybersecurity elite
- Chatham House Rules applies
- Earn CPE accreditation
This is a complimentary event.
CISOS, Emerging Executives, and Risk Management Leaders.
As an intimate, executive-level event, attendance is reserved for an organization's most senior cybersecurity executive (CISO or CISO equivalent). To enhance multi-disciplinary problem solving throughout the curriculum, we encourage participation from:
- CIOs
- CTOs
- CPOs
- Risk, Legal, and Operational Executives
- Technology, privacy and business executives who are risk-focused and cyber conscious
The event will follow the Chatham House Rule and will not be recorded.
Please notify us of your late arrival so we can prepare ahead of time.
Please contact us with the name, title and email of the person you would like to attend and we will notify you if your substitution request can be accommodated.
This event will comply with all federal, state and local healthcare requirements.
All attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and staff at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. CyberRisk Alliance will enforce this code throughout the conference. CyberRisk Alliance is dedicated to creating a safe, harassment-free environment where participants can comfortably learn and network with their peers as well our speakers, sponsors and staff, therefore, harassment at the 2026 CyberRisk CISO Dinner: Raleigh is absolutely prohibited. Harassment includes any behavior that a fellow participant would find intimidating, hostile or offensive. This includes, but is not limited to, verbal comments regarding gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion or political beliefs. Sexual or objectifying language, clothing/outfits and/or imagery will also not be tolerated during any part of the conference. Participants who violate these rules may be asked to leave the conference without refund at the discretion of CyberRisk Alliance.
Have Additional Questions?
Please reach out to [email protected] or to your community cultivator, Jennifer Cox at [email protected].