Inside
Southwest Airlines
DallasCISO • September 3
• Wings Building
Inside
Davey Tree
NEOhioCIO • September 15
• SEED Campus - Davey Tree Expert Company
Inside
United Way of Central Alabama
AlabamaCIO • September 15
• United Way of Central Alabama
Inside
Cloudflare
CentralTexasCIO • September 16
• Cloudfare Headquaters
Inside
Sunlighten
KansasCityCIO • September 16
• Sunlighten
Inside
Messer Construction
CentralOhioCIO • September 16
• Messer Construction Co
Inside
St. Louis Cardinals
St.LouisCIO • September 24
• Busch Stadium
Inside
University of Chicago: Post-Quantum Cryptography
ChicagoCISO • September 24
• Hyde Park Labs
Inside
Vanguard
PhillyCIO • October 6
• Vanguard - Quarry Ridge
Inside
Textron
DallasCISO • October 6
• Bell Flight Research Center (FRC)
Inside
Denver International Airport
ColoradoCIO • October 7
• The Center of Equity and Excellence in Aviation
Inside
Best Buy
MinnesotaCISO • October 8
• Best Buy Headquarters
Super Global Finalists
Kunal Das
Advance Auto Parts
Keri Henderson
PPD
Rama Kandala
Corning Inc.
Ken Meyer
Wells Fargo
Prashant Nema
Arch Capital Group
Global Finalists
Colin Boatwright
fmr.MARKEN
Sean Gallagher
Hayward Holdings
Jeff Gill
AFL
Rachel Hayden
ScanSource
Mike Montello
Syneos Health
Vamsi Tirnati
Armstrong Transport Group
Large Enterprise Finalists
Richard Donaldson
Duke Energy
Steve Hagerman
Truist Financial Corporation
Eban Scanlan
Deutsche Bank
Robert Taylor
Hendrick Automotive Group
Enterprise Finalists
John Armbrecht
Pike Enterprises
Gaurav Sharda
Beacon Mobility
Christopher Smith
Enact Mortgage Insurance
Richard Spencer
Belk Inc.
Jessica Waters
Choate Construction
Large Corporate Finalists
Priya Almelkar
Wolfspeed, Inc.
Jon Brady
Speedway Motorsports
Markus Hill
Rodgers Builders, Inc.
Eric Hodgins
Precision Medicine Group
Ben Schwering
fmr.Premier, Inc.
Corporate Finalists
John Brittain
Biscuitville
Ronnie Bryant
Hornets Sports & Entertainment
Albert Manoim
Diamonds Direct
John Rouda
INSP Network
Nate Thompson
Allucent
Nonprofit/Public Sector Finalists
Andy Basinger
Monarch
Dave Brown
Alliance Health
Shelley Chandler
North Carolina Rate Bureau
Jonathan Feldman
Wake County
Lonnie Snyder
2026 Special Olympics USA Games
Super Global Finalists
Michael Adams
Docusign
Henry Capello
Dentsply Sirona
Chase Carpenter
Honeywell International
Gavin Guttersen
NetApp
Jeffrey Roman
fmr.Skanska USA
Global Finalists
Frank DePaola
Enpro Industries
Jerry Fowler
Krispy Kreme Donut Corporation
Rick Scot
Elevate Textiles
Philip Swain
Extreme Networks
Brian Wilson
SAS
Large Enterprise Finalists
Stephen Davis
Hubbell Incorporated
Amy Geiger
Truist Financial Corporation
Coy Hollingsworth
ScanSource
Jeff Slone
Six Flags
Martin Strasburger
Duke Energy
Enterprise Finalists
Ed Brown
CaroMont Health
John Hoyt
Clemson University
Michael Irwin
Odyssey Logistics
Arun Sankaran
LendingTree
Sophie Street
State Employees' Credit Union
Large Corporate Finalists
Dustin Baptiste
Civic Federal Credit Union
Chris Johnson
3D Systems Corporation
Chuck Kesler
Pendo.io
Bernice Russell-Bond
North Carolina Department of Information Technology
Tom Watson
iSolved HCM
Corporate Finalists
Steve Cobb
fmr.SecurityScorecard
Joe Evangelisto
NetSpi
Chris Morris
Town of Chapel Hill
Crystal Pitts
North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security
Sterling Yancy
First Bancorp
Eric Zach
North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University
Global Finalists
Shannon Bell
OpenText
Martin Jepil
Avison Young
Nishat Jessa
Oxford Properties
Alfredo C. M. Tan
Canada Goose Inc.
Irene Zaguskin
PwC Canada
Large Enterprise Finalists
Donna Kidwell
University of Toronto
Kin Lee-Yow
CAA Club Group of Companies
Alexis Ricordi
HSS Enterprises
Sarah Shortreed
Metrie
Peter Singh
Toronto District School Board
Sarah Willock
Coca-Cola Canada
Enterprise Finalists
Andrew Cree
Canada Cartage
Janet Lin
EQ Bank
Ali Razavi
407 ETR
Alicia Samuel
Holt Renfrew
Dhaksayan Shanmuganayagam
Toronto Transit Commission
Brad Strom
York University
Corporate Finalists
Scott Briggs
Humber Polytechnic
Kalyan Chakravarthy
Electrical Safety Authority
Alistair Forsyth
VHA Home HealthCare
Geoff Hogan
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Venky Rajaraman
Equifax Canada
Eric Westerby
Arterra Wines Canada
CISO Global Finalists
Omar Al Assaf
American Express
Carey Frey
TELUS
Manas Giri
HPE
Felipe Mafra
Hitachi Rail
Bobby Singh
Manulife
CISO Enterprise Finalists
Maneesh Agnihotri
City of Toronto
Brent Fowles
Western University
Nadeem Hussain
Doane Grant Thornton LLP - Canada
Austin Smith
Siemens
Derek Sutton
Toronto Transit Commission
CISO Corporate Finalists
Arif Hameed
C&R Software
David Hosey
Teranet
Amar Singh
St. Clair College
Nabeel Yousif
Momentum Financial Services Group
Super Global Finalists
Vipin Arora
GE Healthcare
Anna Berg Asberg
Gilead Sciences
Nate Herz
TD Synnex
Madhu Narasimhan
DaVita, Inc.
John Wrenn
Flex
Global Finalists
Sankar Chinnathambi
Driscoll's, Inc.
Shweta Gummidipudi
Twilio
Awinash Sinha
Zoom
Sriram Sitaraman
fmr.Synopsys, Inc.
Kevin Smith
Lyft
Large Enterprise Finalists
Neil Cowles
Kaiser Permanente
Ger Dwyer
Rivian
Kumar Mishra
Grocery Outlet
Ravi Thota
Stack Infrastructure
Tanya Townsend
Stanford Children's Health, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Ajay Waghray
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Enterprise Finalists
Shamyo Chatterjee
fmr.Corsair
Abbas Faiq
Thales Cloud Security
Deepa Gopinath
MongoDB
Kris Krishan
Waymo
Brian Spanswick
Cohesity
Large Corporate Finalists
Linh Lam
fmr.JAMF
Chet Mandair
Guidewire Software
Jonathan Russell
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Ajay Sabhlok
Rubrik
Anisha Vaswani
Extreme Networks
Kapil Vyas
Automation Anywhere
Corporate Finalists
David Burden
Forcepoint
Karthik Chakkarapani
Zuora
Tope Iluyomade
BetterUp
Costa Kladianos
San Francisco 49er's
Kumud Kokal
fmr.Kiteworks
Siroui Mushegian
Barracuda Networks
Super Global Finalists
Hilik Kotler
Expedia Group
Huy Ly
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
Hemanta Swain
HP
Hanan Szwarcbord
Micron
Friedrich Wetschnig
fmr.Flex
Global Finalists
Sebastian Goodwin
Autodesk
Jim Higgins
CoreWeave
Sreeni Kancharla
Cadence Design Systems Inc
Wagner Nascimento
Synopsys, Inc.
David Tugwell
fmr.Agilent Technologies
Large Enterprise Finalists
John Byun
Sephora
Rick Orloff
Everpure
Amy Steagall
Stanford University
Timothy Torres
TriNet
Enterprise Finalists
Colin Anderson
Dayforce
Alok Malik
GlobalLogic
Ben McLaughlin
Proofpoint
Sunny Nain
fmr.Credit Karma
Sandeep Poonen
Nutanix
Large Corporate Finalists
Richard Chang
California Water Services
Nghia Duong
QuinStreet
Prakash Kalaiah
Enphase Energy
Erwin Lopez
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Corporate Finalists
Kayode Diji
Patelco Credit Union
Devin Ertel
Moloco
Tas Jalali
AC Transit
Azeem Nizam
ABC Fitness Solutions
Atit Shah
DialPad
Global Finalists
Kimberly Basile
Kyndryl
Andi Le
FMC Corporation
Linda Montella-Carter
PTC Therapeutics
Siobhan O'Hara
The Chemours Company
Large Enterprise Finalists
Mike Conley
East Penn Manufacturing
Melanie Harris
The School District of Philadelphia
Jennifer Peterson-Gutleber
Exelon Corporation
Andrew Santacroce
Tokio Marine North America Services
Enterprise Finalists
Jason McKay
Riggs Distler
Jordan Ruch
AtlantiCare Health Network
Shayn Spingler
BrightView
Sankara Viswanathan
Day & Zimmermann
Corporate Finalists
Madhu Annagiri
Clean Earth Inc.
Brett Don
Stradley Ronon
Kathy Junod
Greene Tweed
Brian Schaeffer
Ocean First Bank
CISO Global Finalists
Noopur Davis
Comcast Business
Lauren Heyndrickx
Qnity
Michael Hoehl
Carpenter Technology
Tammy Klotz
Trinseo
Nari Narayanan
Incyte Corp
Kim Sassaman
Universal Health Services
CISO Large Enterprise Finalists
Tracey Brand-Sanders
UGI Corporation
Charles Crabtree
Independence Blue Cross
Michael DaGrossa
Genesis HealthCare
Zack Gable
Geisinger Health System
David Lingenfelter
PENN Entertainment
Monique St. John
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
CISO Enterprise Finalists
Jamie Clark
South Jersey Industries
Hugo Lai
Temple Health
Donna Ross
Radian Group, Inc.
Anahi Santiago
ChristianaCare
David Topelberg
PennEngineering
Aaron Weismann
Main Line Health
Super Global Finalists
Scott Davis
WD
Jessica Jensen
Suzanne Kounkel
Deloitte
Tracy Ward
Prologis
Global Finalists
Gabie Boko
NetApp
Carrie Palin
Cisco
Sanjai Parthasarathi
Coherent, Inc.
Eric Schwartz
The Clorox Company
Large Enterprise Finalists
Jean English
CoreWeave
Kristy LoRusso
Kaiser Permanente
David McCulloch
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Denise Persson
Snowflake
Kimberly Storin
Zoom
Ginny Ziegler
Pearson
Enterprise Finalists
Laura Heisman
Dynatrace
Lynn Lucas
Everpure
Natasha Madan
Credit Karma
Vineet Mehra
Chime
Large Corporate Finalists
John Brown
Wilson Sonsini
Carol Carpenter
Cohesity
Tricia Gellman
Box
Mark Klein
El Camino Health
Amber Minson
Sleep Number
Corporate Finalists
Nicole Baer
fmr.Carta
Gleb Brichko
Harness
Connie Chan Wang
Headspace
Elizabeth Maxson
Contentful
Vidhya Srinivasan
Prophix
Dave Steer
Webflow
Large Enterprise Finalists
Maryann Byrdak
Leslie's Inc
Gabe Gabaldon
W. L. Gore & Associates
Dan Howard
Sundt Construction
Bipin Jayaraj
Benchmark Electronics
Troy Philbert
Amkor Technology, Inc.
Enterprise Finalists
Whitney Chavez
Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment
Stephanie Hines
Valleywise Health
Charles Ingram
Pathward
Beth McCormick
CAVA
Frank Sweeney
Arizona Department of Child Safety
Large Corporate Finalists
Justin Millar
Mount Graham Regional Medical Center
Derek Neighbors
Vixxo
Eric Rosenfeld
ServRx, Inc.
Bill Serva
Moon Valley Nurseries
Nathaniel Unruh
NOX Group
Corporate Finalists
Isaac Abbs
Pima Community College
Dana Kline
Cordia
Benito Ralph
Arrivia
Kevin Rhode
District Medical Group
Ken Roberts
Unitek Learning
Carla Way
Charter One
Global Finalists
Chatty Bialeschki
Caterpillar Inc.
Syed Samiullah
United HealthGroup/Optum
Scott Skellenger
Amgen
Atilla Tinic
Qualcomm
Large Enterprise Finalists
Grant Anderson
Living Spaces
Lucy Avetisyan
University of California, Los Angeles
Norma Grubb
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Danny Rodriguez
CoolSys
Abhishek Uppal
Callaway Golf Company
Enterprise Finalists
Sandeep Chawla
Monarch Landscape Companies
Paula Crowell
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
Marc Mendez
TraPac LLC
Shawn Michael
See's Candies
Lorenzo Obregon
LSMA Management, Inc
Corporate Finalists
Todd Britton
University of La Verne
Dr. Denise "NeeCee" Cornish
Western University of Health Sciences
Henry Ho
Allen Matkins
Neil Jadhav
GIA
Janette Smrcka
SoFi Stadium - Hollywood Park
Jeffrey Sullivan
eFax®, by Consensus Cloud Solutions
Healthcare Finalists
Conrad Band
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Terri Couts
Sharp HealthCare
Craig Kwiatkowski
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Simon Nazarian
City of Hope
Ganesh Persad
Cottage Heath
CISO Global Finalists
Sunil Agarwal
OSI Systems, Inc.
Kevin Ford
Esri
Diana Lovati
AEG
Michael Mongold
Deckers Brands
Nada Noaman
Estee Lauder Company
Steve Tran
Iyuno
CISO Large Enterprise Finalists
Andrew Bereczky
The Automobile Club of Southern California
Sahan Fernando
Rady Children's Health
Renana Friedlich
LPL Financial
Sudhakar Gummadi
HMSA Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii
Paul Miller
Public Storage
Robert Pittman
San Bernardino County
CISO Enterprise Finalists
Jeffrey Aguilar
Hoag Health
Quincey Collins
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Nemi George
PDS Health
Rosalia Hajek
Callaway Golf Company
Jill Knesek
BlackLine
Jacob Margolis
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Super Global Finalists
Marina F. Bellini
Mars, Inc.
Sarah Berwick
Wells Fargo
James Cambareri
Omnicom Media Group
Shekar Pannala
The Hartford
Leigh-Ann Russell
BNY
Saket Sharma
Barclays
Global Finalists
Krishna Bhagavathula
National Basketball Association
Dan Bosman
TD Securities
Brian Carlson
Sodexo
Ashish Parmar
Standard Industries Inc
Keith Sarbaugh
Zoetis
John Stecher
Blackstone
Large Enterprise Finalists
Reju George
HARMAN International
Alex Gutman
Gilbane
Warren Kudman
Turner Construction Company
Steve Rullo
Guardian Life Insurance
Linda Tai
M&T Bank
Kamran Ziaee
Consolidated Edison of NY
Enterprise Finalists
Lawrence Baxter
Gibson Dunn
Rishi Gulati
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies
Sri Manda
Peloton Interactive
Vikram Nair
Amneal
Meraz Nasir
Atlantic Health System
Carlo Pochintesta
Barnes & Noble
Large Corporate Finalists
Damodaram Bashyam
Berkadia
Ekta Chopra
Elf Beauty
Ken Feyder
Hermès
Cathy Lilli
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
Arvind Sahu
Crayola
Lowell Simpson
OUTFRONT
Corporate Finalists
Amit Basu
International Seaways
Phillip Dundas
AlTi Tiedemann Global
John Georgatos
VaynerX / VaynerMedia
Merve Ozkus
BioReference Laboratories
Rodrigo Parrode
Wedbush Securities
John Sullivan
Major League Soccer
Super Global Finalists
Adam Fletcher
Blackstone
Steve Grossman
National Basketball Association
Sydney Klein
Bristol Myers Squibb
Edmond Mack
Cencora
Alexander Schuchman
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Mike Wagner
Kenvue
Global Finalists
Lavnish Chatrath
Ascot Group
Chris Holden
Crum & Forster
Raymond Lipps
Citrix
Paul Milkman
MUFG
David Ortiz
Church & Dwight
Large Enterprise Finalists
Arvin Bansal
C&S Family of Companies
Kurt John
Con Edison
Alan Rosa
CVS Health
David Sheidlower
Turner Construction Company
Rishi Tripathi
Mount Sinai Health System
Nick Vigier
Oscar Health
Enterprise Finalists
Keith Duemling
Catholic Health Long Island
Dave Munroe
National Hockey League
Daniel Nuñez
New York City Employees' Retirement System
Ben Smith
Optimum
Hussein Syed
RWJBarnabas Health
Peter Tse
Natixis Corporate Investment Bank Americas
Large Corporate Finalists
Denis Andreyev
Focus Financial Partners
Golan Ben-Oni
IDT
Andre Elder
ZS Associates
Frank Parato
J.Crew
Ely Pinto
Simpson Thacher
Vivin Varghese
Provident Bank
Corporate Finalists
Christopher Callahan
Weichert Companies
Brenan Duffy
ACLU
Christina Morillo
The New York Football Giants
Anthony Scarola
Apple Bank
Alex Shulman
Kraken Technologies
Josh Stabiner
Vista Equity Partners
Global Finalists
Sarah Fordyce
Hexagon
Shonodeep Modak
Schneider Electric
Trish Nettleship
Toshiba Global Business Solutions
Nicole O'Rourke
ZS
Anna Waldron
Interface, Inc.
Large Enterprise Finalists
Erica Breazeale
Mohawk Industries
Laura Knebusch
Georgia Pacific
Ken Kraft
Cox Automotive
Mary Beth Sharp
Pratt Industries
Manish Shrivastava
PulteGroup
Enterprise Finalists
Dave Faupel
Priority Commerce
Jo Ann Herold
Georgia State University
Angela Johnson
Edible Brands
Ryan Mucatel
AMB Sports and Entertainment
Jill Thomas
Chicken Salad Chick
Large Corporate Finalists
Elaine Armstrong
Goodwill of North Georgia
Amanda Darley
Construction Resources
Allison Fouché
City of Atlanta
Jennifer Johnson
ConstructConnect
Laura Sterling
Georgia's Own Credit Union
Corporate Finalists
Jenn Edwards
Euna Solutions
Alexandra Gobbi
Unanet Technologies Inc
Joanna Irwin
HB Wealth
Diana Léon Brown
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Super Global Finalists
Elise Bockman
Sherwin-Williams
April Lake
Novelis
Nikhil Narvekar
Graphic Packaging International, LLC
Khwaja Shaik
IBM
Global Finalists
Yasir Anwar
Inspire Brands
Matt Ausman
Zebra Technologies Corporation
Vishal Bedi
JAS Worldwide Management Inc
Heather Miller
Randstad
Large Enterprise Finalists
Sai Adivi
HCA Healthcare
Angie Brown
The Home Depot
Vinod Pallat
Elevance Health
Suresh Rangarajan
CRH Americas Materials
Ameet Shetty
RaceTrac, Inc.
Braxton Washington
The Coca-Cola Company
Enterprise Finalists
John Adamson
Floor & Decor
Anil Bhatt
Norfolk Southern Railway
Mark Lawson
Cox Communications, Inc.
Renee Pearson
Rollins
Matt Ringer
Kloeckner Metals Corp
Tim Silva
Insight Global
Large Corporate Finalists
Yogs Jayaprakasam
Deluxe Corporation
Rajeev Kapur
Mativ Holdings, Inc.
Kevin Kerrigan
Fulton County Government
Mike Nettles
Zaxby's Franchising LLC
Rob Suba
Aramark Correctional Services
Cory Voglesonger
Aaron's Inc.
Corporate Finalists
Alok Gupta
Ardurra Group, Inc.
Susan Ibanez
Southeast Georgia Health System
Ricky Koch
American Cancer Society
Gerry Lewis
PT Solutions Physical Therapy
Prakash Muthukrishnan
Purchasing Power
Melanie Sandlin
Lazer Logistics
Global Finalists
Andy Abercrombie
Novelis
Daniel Dubowski
Hertz
David Nagel
Genuine Parts Company
David Nesom
Capgemini
Kemper Seay
Carter's
Large Enterprise Finalists
Jeremy Bargainnier
Zaxby's Franchising LLC
Brad Boucher
Cox Automotive
Ivana Cojbasic
Regions Bank
Curley Henry
Southern Company
Jonathan Kennedy
InComm Payments
Enterprise Finalists
James Azar
Artera
Andrew Clinton
Aveanna Healthcare
Robert Goolsby
fmr.Conduent
Michael Marsilio
Paradies Lagardère
Pete Statia
Saia LTL Freight
Large Corporate Finalists
Shilpi Ganguly
The Weather Channel
John Hall
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
Lock Langdon
Aprio
Al Leach
Alston & Bird, LLP
Jorge Perez
Ameris Bank
Corporate Finalists
Nick Bettes
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kevin Heineman
Lyric
Jim Miles
Construction Resources
Tim Mullen
OneTrust
Carl Scaffidi
VyStar Credit Union
Public Sector Finalists
Joe Lewis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Eric Logan
Dekalb County School District
Heather Roszkowski
Augusta University
Bob Scalise
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
