The forum agenda moves from understanding uncertainty to acting within it. SEE explores what is changing and what may be coming. LEAD examines how intelligence becomes judgment and decisions. EXECUTE focuses on the systems, tools, and practices that turn those decisions into resilience.

8:30 am | Briefing Center 

Registration + Networking Breakfast 

9:00 am | Great Hall

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10 am | Great Hall

Keynote Address 

9:30 am | Great Hall

Panel | Thinking Clearly about the Future in a Fragmented World

This conversation goes beyond intelligence as a narrow function to ask a broader leadership question: How do we think more effectively about what may be coming when the environment is noisy, fast-moving, and increasingly difficult to interpret? Chief intelligence officers will explore how organizations can cut through the noise, challenge assumptions, recognize meaningful signals, and prepare for multiple plausible futures before uncertainty becomes disruption.

10:35 am | Great Hall

Fireside Chat | Corporations in Conflict Zones: Leadership & Decision-Making Under Fire 

What does effective leadership look like when conditions change in real time and every decision carries operational, ethical, and human consequences? Drawing on lessons from companies operating in fragile and conflict-affected environments, this conversation explores how leaders decide whether to stay, adapt, or exit, protect people while sustaining operations, and make consequential decisions without the benefit of certainty.

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11:15 am | Great Hall

Panel | A World in Flux: What Global Business Is Seeing Across Regions

U.S. Chamber of Commerce experts from across the globe offer an on-the-ground view of the geopolitical, regulatory, and economic shifts reshaping how companies operate and make decisions in key markets. The conversation will highlight emerging risks and opportunities across regions, and the signals global business leaders should be watching as they plan for what’s ahead.

12:00 pm | The Briefing Center 

Networking Lunch 

1:00 pm | The Great Hall 

Panel | Under Pressure: Intelligence, AI, and the Executive Decision  

When a crisis hits, a market shifts overnight, or a geopolitical shock spreads through operations and the supply chain, executives have to make major calls quickly, often with incomplete information. What actually reaches them in those moments, and do they trust it? This panel brings together CEOs and The Conference Board’s head of Human Capital for a candid discussion of how leaders make high-stakes calls and where intelligence fits in. Drawing on new findings from the ERI and Conference Board survey Decision Advantage: Closing the Gap between Intelligence and Executive Decision-Making, the panelists will consider how insight actually moves from risk and intelligence teams to the C-suite and board, where it stalls, and how AI is changing what executives expect from the people and systems that inform them. 

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1:40 pm | Great Hall

Workshop | The Uncertainty Advantage: A War-Gaming Simulation

Uncertainty cannot always be predicted, but it can be practiced. Elton Parker, who leads War Gaming & Strategic Risk at BCG, will guide participants through a fast-moving scenario that requires consequential decisions before all the facts are known. The exercise will demonstrate how war-gaming can challenge assumptions, expose blind spots, and strengthen an organization’s ability to navigate disruption.

2:50 pm | The Briefing Center

Networking Break

3:20 pm | Great Hall

Panel | Asymmetric by Design: Converged Threats and the Modern Executive

Today’s threats rarely stay in one lane. An action targeting a single executive can move quickly from the digital world into physical security, reputation, legal exposure, business operations, and the boardroom. This conversation explores how organizations can recognize those connections earlier, break down traditional silos, and build a coordinated response when threats converge faster than the teams responsible for managing them.

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4:00 pm | Great Hall

Panel | Critical Infrastructure Behind the Enterprise: Securing Data Centers in an Age of Converging Risk

As AI, cloud computing, and always-on operations deepen companies’ dependence on data centers, the consequences of disruption extend far beyond the facilities themselves. This conversation explores what happens when physical security, cyber threats, utilities, supply chains, and business continuity converge around the same critical asset, and asks: Who owns the risk when responsibility is spread across security, technology, operations, and executive leadership?

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4:40 pm | Great Hall

Closing Address

4:45 PM | Briefing Center 

Networking Happy Hour