The CIO Initiative Summit - Philadelphia 2026
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An invitation-only community of Chief Information Officers, convening at summits, sharing insights, and advancing the practice of technology leadership.

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CIO Initiative Summit · Philadelphia

CIO Initiative Summit
Philadelphia 2026

September 23–24, 2026
The Notary Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Includes two hotel nights · $900 General Admission

1.5 days of peer-led dialogue for CIOs and senior technology leaders. No vendor pitches. No PowerPoint marathons. Just honest conversation with the people who understand what you’re navigating.

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Parliament™ by The Executive Initiative®

Participants attend one summit per year, complimentary, including hotel.

Parliament™ is the invitation-only C-level peer cohort at the heart of The Executive Initiative®. Parliament participants receive complimentary access to one CIO Initiative Summit per year, including two hotel nights, a benefit worth $900.

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Why Attend

The CIO Initiative difference

We design every summit around the needs of the executives in the room, not the agenda of a sponsor or the schedule of a conference hall.

Peer-Only Dialogue

Every session is designed for candor. The format creates space for the kind of honest conversation that only happens among peers, CIOs talking to CIOs, without an audience.

Curated Agenda

No keynote theater. Sessions are built around the questions that matter most to today’s technology leaders, shaped by the members themselves before the summit begins.

Exceptional Settings

We gather in distinctive hotels that create the right atmosphere for serious thinking and genuine connection. The setting is part of the experience.

Vetted Community

Every participant is a senior technology executive. Attendance is by invitation or application, so you always know the person across the table has earned their seat.

Select Partners

Our partners are chosen for their relevance to CIO-level concerns. They participate as thought contributors, not exhibitors, keeping the conversation quality high.

Year-Round Network

The CIO Initiative extends beyond the summit. Parliament participants stay connected throughout the year through cohort gatherings, peer introductions, and executive reflection programs.

What Attendees Say
“CIO Initiative Summits provide a unique opportunity to network with other IT executives and learn from their experiences. The Summits are small enough to promote direct personal interaction with other IT leaders and yet broad enough to encompass a wide variety of views and opinions. Unlike many other meetings, I’ve obtained information and advice at past Summits that is substantive, actionable and directly applicable to the challenges facing my IT team.”
Mark Settle
Author and CIO
“The CIO Summit provides an intimate platform to share successes and failures as well as current initiatives with a peer group that covered many industries outside of the Silicon Valley bubble. The format was a great way for the attendees to both present and participate in the discussions around each of the poignant areas of focus. CXO attendees were honest and open, we forged friendships outside of our common role related challenges.”
Aaron Gette
CIO, EoS Fitness
“Unlike a typical conference, this was an intimate gathering of technology executives whose primary objective was to advance the role of the CIO as a business leader. Everyone in attendance was there to share insights with one another in what could be best described as a servant leadership think-tank.”
John Doherty
CIO, Columbia Forest Products
“Out of all the opportunities to plug in and discuss IT industry trends, I have made it a priority to attend this event for past few years. The Executive Initiative has done a great job gathering CIOs, authors, and industry leaders to share knowledge and insights. Logistics have always been first class and served as a great opportunity to informally network and build meaningful relationships.”
Steve Holt
Former CIO, Materion Corporation
“I find the CIO Initiative Summit to be a great, engaging forum for being able to interact with true experts and leaders in the industry and both learn and share ideas, experiences and improvement opportunities. The focused, more intimate setting and gathering enables tremendous interaction and synergies that is hard to get from other forums.”
Walter Yosafat
Global CIO