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SUMMIT | 2025 CISO – Future-Proofing Healthcare Cybersecurity: AI, Cloud Transformation, and Capabilities for Tomorrow

May 29, 2025 - May 30, 2025

Future-Proofing Healthcare Cybersecurity: AI, Cloud Transformation, and Capabilities for Tomorrow

May 29-30, 2025

SI CISO Summit and Site Visit

Sponsored by Deloitte
Hosted by Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, CT

MAKE AN IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE SECURITY

Join us for a dynamic, high-impact session designed exclusively for healthcare CISOs and cyber executives. At this summit, we’ll dive into the latest strategies, challenges, and emerging trends in securing digital transformation and implementing AI in cybersecurity.

This is your chance to connect with industry leaders and gain valuable insights into how healthcare organizations are managing cybersecurity while navigating the complexities of digital innovation and adoption. These sessions will guide us through aligning cybersecurity efforts with IT, clinical teams, and digital initiatives, and explore how AI technologies can be integrated into your cybersecurity programs. Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare security and preparing for the challenges ahead. 

Overview

Dynamic Discussions & Expert Insights:
Engage in peer-led conversations on AI integration, cybersecurity, cloud transformation and building resilient healthcare systems. Learn practical strategies to address the most critical cybersecurity issues facing healthcare today.  

Collaborative Learning:
Exchange ideas with peers and discussion hosts who are pioneering healthcare innovation, particularly around AI and cybersecurity. Discover fresh perspective and solutions in this rapidly evolving field.  

Featured Topics:  

  • Organizing Security for Digital Transformation 
  • Developing Secure AI Programs in Healthcare Cybersecurity  
  • Application of AI in Threat Hunting and Incident Response 
  • Pragmatic & Emerging Approaches for Third-Party Risk and Resilience Management 

Exclusive Site Visit: Witness the Future of Healthcare at CESI 

On Day Two of the 2025 CISO Summit, join us for an exclusive site visit to Hartford Healthcare’s Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI). Once Connecticut’s first simulation center, CESI is now a leading regional and national training hub with cutting edge technology and hands-on learning for healthcare professionals. 

Explore advanced robotic and endovascular simulators, task trainers, ultrasound tech, and laparoscopic surgery tools in CESI’s five simulated clinical environments, including Labor & Delivery, ICU, Trauma/ED, and Operating Room. Witness firsthand how this innovative facility is transforming medical training and patient care. 

Reserve Your Spot Today! 

This event is eligible for ACHE Qualified Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Learn more ›› 

 For additional details on CISO forum and events, see our CISO Affinity Group page.  

Accommodations

Registration fees, receptions and meals are covered by your membership fees; however, participants are responsible for their own hotel and travel expenses. Please plan for your flights to depart after 1:30 PM on Friday. 

Accommodations will be available at Hartford Marriott Downtown.

Publications

Site Visit Materials

Scottsdale Institute CESI Tour

Agenda

Thursday – May 29 | Friday – May 30

Thursday, May 29

8:00 am

8:30 am

Location: Hartford HealthCare Headquarters – 100 Pearl St, Hartford, CT
Conference Room: Launch (Lobby Level- behind security desk)

Continental Breakfast

 

  

 

8:30 am

9:00 am

 Welcome – Janet Guptill, FACHE, President & CEO; Cynthia Clark, SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute

Opening Remarks – Vision of Hartford Healthcare: Jeffrey Flaks, President and CEO, Hartford Healthcare, Kevin Hamel, VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms and CISO, Hartford HealthCare and Joel Vengco, SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer

Introductions, Round Robin & Objectives of the Summit – Moderators: Raj Mehta, Deloitte

Janet Guptill, FACHE, CPHIMS

President and CEO, Scottsdale Institute

Janet Guptill is President and CEO of the Scottsdale Institute, a non-profit membership organization of leading health systems focused on transformational change leveraging information technology. In this role she brings a unique perspective of leveraging information technology to make better...
Guptill

Cynthia Clark

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute See LinkedIn

Kevin Hamel, CISM

VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms & CISO, Hartford HealthCare

Kevin has nearly 25 years of experience and proven leadership in cybersecurity and IT management in the financial and healthcare sectors.  Prior to joining Baystate Health, Kevin was the Chief Information Security Officer for COCC, a managed IT services provider...
hamel

Joel L. Vengco, MS, MA, CHCIO, CPHIMS

SVP and Chief Information & Digital Officer, Hartford Health

Joel Vengco is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Hartford HealthCare, with more than 400 locations serving 185 towns and cities, including two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and...
Vengco

Raj Mehta

Raj Mehta

Partner, Deloitte

Summary Raj is a Partner with Deloitte Advisory’s Cyber Risk Services.  Raj currently leads the Cyber Security Practice within the Healthcare Provider space across the US. Raj has over twenty-three (23) years of experience in the field of information governance,...

9:00 am

10:30 am

 Organizing Security for Digital Transformation  

Discussion Host(s): Kevin Hamel, VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms and CISO, Hartford 

Questions to consider: 

  • How should cybersecurity teams be structured as healthcare organizations undergo digital transformation? Organizational structures for cybersecurity teams  
  • How can the cybersecurity function be integrated with IT, digital innovation, and clinical teams? 
  • Talent acquisition and prioritizing resources to prepare for digital adoption? 

Kevin Hamel, CISM

VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms & CISO, Hartford HealthCare

Kevin has nearly 25 years of experience and proven leadership in cybersecurity and IT management in the financial and healthcare sectors.  Prior to joining Baystate Health, Kevin was the Chief Information Security Officer for COCC, a managed IT services provider...
hamel

10:30 am

10:45 am

 Break

10:45 am

12:15 pm

 Developing Secure AI Programs in Healthcare Cybersecurity  

Discussion Host: Chris Knackstedt, Managing Director & Cybersecurity AI Leader, Deloitte

Questions to consider: 

  • How are organizations looking at Artificial Intelligence in terms of scope, definitions, and coordination for managing risk? How can AI be integrated into existing cybersecurity programs?  
  • Secure AI pragmatic building blocks (SDLC, Security Guardrails) 
  • Balance innovation in AI and cybersecurity; Secure deployment of AI technologies while promoting innovation  
  • ROI/performance of AI in cybersecurity (including response times, detection accuracy etc.)  
  • The approach of procurement and selection of AI cybersecurity tools? 

Chris Knackstedt

Managing Director, Deloitte

Chris is a managing director with Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Cyber & Strategic Risk practice leading its Cyber AI Strategy and Engineering services portfolio.  With over 20 years of data science, machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics experience supporting both...
Knackstedt

12:15 pm

  Lunch – Launch Room

1:15 pm

  Special Activity

1:30 pm

2:45 pm

Advancement & Application of AI in Threat Hunting and Incident Response      

Discussion Host(s): FBI Cyber Squad Agent, New Haven, CT; Detective Nicholas (Nick) Trigila, Hartford Police Department and FBI Cyber Task Force Officer, New Haven, CT; and Keith Brogan, Managing Director, Deloitte

Questions to consider: 

  • What role does AI play in the evolution of threat intelligence, and how can it help identify emerging threats? How can it improve decision making during a cyberattack?  
  • Leveraging AI in security tools (AI capabilities that are intended to expedite response rate to threats; make security teams more efficient from threat hunting) AI to process threat intel and make sense of it to use it.  
  • How do we drive efficiency and responsiveness to threats?  
  • Application of Agentic AI and role of AI in shaping future of healthcare cybersecurity.

Keith Brogan

Managing Director, Deloitte

Keith, a managing director at Deloitte & Touche LLP, is the Managed Services & Products (MS&P) Portfolio Management leader for the Cyber Risk Services Infrastructure practice of Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory. He currently splits his time between growing and...
Brogan

Nicholas Trigila

Detective, Hartford Police Department (2007-present) --White collar crime investigator Task Force Officer, FBI Cyber Task Force (2017-present) --Ransomware/Business email compromises/malicious proxy hosts/malware & computer intrusion cases (these are examples of the types of cases we work in the cyber division)...
Trigila

2:45 pm

3:00 pm

 Break

3:00 pm

4:15 pm

 Pragmatic & Emerging Approaches for Third-Party Risk and Resilience Management

Open Forum – all members

Questions to consider: 

  • How to build a comprehensive strategy for managing third-party risks, ensuring operational resilience and security. How do we ensure a seamless integration of third-party risk management into a broader organizational risk management program.  
  • How do you assess the cybersecurity maturity of third-party vendors across supply chain? 
  • What emerging technologies (such as AI or blockchain) can help improve management of third-party risks, particularly in securing sensitive data etc.  
  • What steps can be taken to ensure continuous monitoring and reporting on third-party risks with EHR systems or medical devices.    
  • Balancing cost optimization with growing need for advanced cybersecurity capabilities 

4:15 pm

4:45 pm

 Day 1 Wrap-up, Best Takeaways, and Next Steps

5:00 pm

7:00 pm

 Welcome Reception & Dinner – Salute Restaurant

100 Trumbull St, Hartford, CT 06103

Friday, May 30

Location:  Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation (CESI)
22 Jefferson St. Hartford, CT 06106

Conference Room: ERC Room 221, CESI Lecture Hall

7:45 am

 Shuttle from Downtown Marriott Hotel to Education Resource Center (ERC)
560 Hudson St. Hartford, CT

8:00 am

8:30 am

Location: Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation (CESI) Room TBD

22 Jefferson St. Hartford, CT 06106

Continental Breakfast
(CESI Lecture Hall, ERC Room 221)

8:30 am

9:00 am

 Welcome – Janet Guptill, FACHE, President & CEO; Cynthia Clark, SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute

Day 1 – Brief RecapModerator: Raj Mehta, Deloitte

Janet Guptill, FACHE, CPHIMS

President and CEO, Scottsdale Institute

Janet Guptill is President and CEO of the Scottsdale Institute, a non-profit membership organization of leading health systems focused on transformational change leveraging information technology. In this role she brings a unique perspective of leveraging information technology to make better...
Guptill

Cynthia Clark

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute See LinkedIn

Raj Mehta

Raj Mehta

Partner, Deloitte

Summary Raj is a Partner with Deloitte Advisory’s Cyber Risk Services.  Raj currently leads the Cyber Security Practice within the Healthcare Provider space across the US. Raj has over twenty-three (23) years of experience in the field of information governance,...

9:00 am

11:30 am

 Site Visit Details 

Site Visit Details and Agenda

Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation (CESI – ERC Room 202)

A.    Stop the Bleed and CPR
B.    Baby Deliveries and Obstetric Virtual Reality
C.    Inside the Manikin and Operating Simulation Software

11:30 am

12:15 pm

Site Visit Q & A – CESI Lecture Hall Room 221

Kevin Hamel, VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms and CISO, Hartford HealthCare

Wrap-up and Next Steps– Cynthia Clark, SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy,
Scottsdale Institute;
Raj Mehta, MBA, CIPP, CISSP, CPA, CISA, HCISPP, Partner, Deloitte

Kevin Hamel, CISM

VP IT Ops & Technical Platforms & CISO, Hartford HealthCare

Kevin has nearly 25 years of experience and proven leadership in cybersecurity and IT management in the financial and healthcare sectors.  Prior to joining Baystate Health, Kevin was the Chief Information Security Officer for COCC, a managed IT services provider...
hamel

Joel L. Vengco, MS, MA, CHCIO, CPHIMS

SVP and Chief Information & Digital Officer, Hartford Health

Joel Vengco is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Hartford HealthCare, with more than 400 locations serving 185 towns and cities, including two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and...
Vengco

Janet Guptill, FACHE, CPHIMS

President and CEO, Scottsdale Institute

Janet Guptill is President and CEO of the Scottsdale Institute, a non-profit membership organization of leading health systems focused on transformational change leveraging information technology. In this role she brings a unique perspective of leveraging information technology to make better...
Guptill

Cynthia Clark

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute

SVP, Member Executive Engagement & Strategy, Scottsdale Institute See LinkedIn

Raj Mehta

Raj Mehta

Partner, Deloitte

Summary Raj is a Partner with Deloitte Advisory’s Cyber Risk Services.  Raj currently leads the Cyber Security Practice within the Healthcare Provider space across the US. Raj has over twenty-three (23) years of experience in the field of information governance,...

12:15 pm

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