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CIO Summit Italy 2026

The IDC CIO Summit Italy 2026 is the leading event for senior technology and business executives shaping enterprise strategy and digital leadership in one of Europe’s most ambitious and transformation-driven economies. Designed for CIOs, CTOs, and transformation leaders, this one-day summit delivers actionable insights on Italy’s top priorities for 2026: mod…

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32Speakers
12Sponsors
27Sessions
31Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at CIO, in alphabetical order.

Alaa Moussawi
Chief Data Scientist · New York City Council
Alessandro Perilli
Vice President, Enterprise AI Strategies · IDC
Andrea Siviero
Senior Research Director, AI-fueled Business Strategies · IDC
Ann Culver
Principle Technology Partnerships · AWS
Annu Warikoo
Former SVP, Operational Risk · Comerica Bank
Ashish Nadkarni
Group Vice President and General Manager, Global Domain Lead, Enterprise Infrastructure · IDC
Inna Bosenko
VP of Marketing · dotCMS
Jeramy Kopacko
Field CISO · Sophos
Jeremy Chen
BTP Solution Advisor and Strategic advisor · SAP
John Licata
Innovation Officer · ServiceNow
Jonathan Goldberg
Director, Product Strategy · Syncari
Lauren O’Connor
VP of Product Marketing, Strategy
Marika Lilla
Country Manager · Snowflake Italy
Matt Sitelman
Chief Marketing Officer · MagicOrange
Meredith Whalen
Chief Product, Research & Delivery Officer · IDC
Michelle Chiantera
CRO · Parallels
Nick Bonfiglio
CEO and Co-Founder · Syncari
Nijil Kuruvilla
Lead Product Marketing Manager · Merge
Patrick Conroy
CTO · Convene Hospitality Group
Patrick Donohoe
API Solutions, Product Engineering Lead · You.com
Phil Goodwin
Research Vice President, Infrastructure Software · IDC
Rafail Portnoy
Chief Technology Officer · MTA

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AIPSI
Digital Realty
ESET Italy
Fastly
ImpresaCity
Infor
Insight
MongoDB
Parallels
Reportec
Sangfor
Snowflake

Agenda

Selected from 27 sessions.

  • 10:00AM

    Trust is the New Currency

    Agentic AI is advancing faster than enterprise governance can keep up. ServiceNow and AWS are closing the gap - combining identity, workflows, and guardrails into a unified approac…

  • 10:25AM

    Your AI Is Only as Trusted as Your Data

    Most enterprise AI initiatives stall. Not because the models are wrong, but because the data underneath them is fragmented, ungoverned, and inconsistent. In this session, we share …

  • 10:40AM

    Lightning Insights: Powering applications, data, and AI to move your business forward

    A unified technology platform enables organizations to extend existing systems, integrate applications and business processes, and build AI-supported solutions across the enterpris…

  • 10:45AM

    Networking Break

  • 11:00AM

    Hosted Discussions: Architecting the Future Enterprise

    Engage with leaders shaping the next generation of enterprise technology. These discussions focus on the strategic decisions around platforms, cloud, AI, and operating models that …

  • 11:40AM

    AI for the CIO Agenda – From Experimentation to Enterprise Value

    AI is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the CIO agenda, evolving from isolated experiments to a driver of enterprise-wide transformation and measurable business value. IDC research…

  • 11:55AM

    Agentic MDM: The Next Frontier for Enterprise Data Strategy

    Siloed data is a strategic liability in the age of AI. Traditional MDM can’t keep pace. Agentic MDM is emerging as the next evolution: autonomous platforms that deliver continuous …

  • 12:10PM

    From Vision to Value: A Practical Guide to Realizing an AI-Ready Data Center

    The unprecedented pace of innovation is forcing enterprises to rethink business workflows, data management practices, and core infrastructure strategies. Based on our own real worl…

  • 12:30PM

    Networking Lunch & Exhibits

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 31 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

31 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
19Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

ESET Italy·Parallels·Sangfor

Speakers by seniority

72% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1134%
  • VP-level928%
  • Director / Head of39%
  • Manager / Lead413%
  • Marketing / Brand13%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles39%

Of 32 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1IDC9
2ESET ItalySponsor1
3ParallelsSponsor1
4SangforSponsor1
5AIPSISponsor-
6Digital RealtySponsor-
7FastlySponsor-
8ImpresaCitySponsor-
9InforSponsor-
10InsightSponsor-
11MongoDBSponsor-
12ReportecSponsor-
13SnowflakeSponsor-
14Syncari2
Sponsors by tier
unspecified12
100% of 12
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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