AI-Powered Secure Networking: Making Your Network the Catalyst for Business Growth and AI

EXECUTIVE DINNER

Thursday, October 23, 2025

SPONSORED BY

TIME: 6:00PM (CT) Venue: Lyra Restaurant
Address: 905 W Fulton Market, Chicago

CONVERSE.
DINE.
CONNECT.

Join a select group of IT leaders in your city for an exclusive dinner discussion on today’s most pressing technology and business issues.

AI is revolutionizing networking across industries offering unprecedented opportunities for growth, insights and efficiency. By leveraging AI-driven monitoring, automated configuration, anomaly detection, and self-healing capabilities, organizations can enhance network resiliency and responsiveness, driving tangible business, technology, and operational benefits.

The data center network infrastructure is also critical for the successful deployment of internal AI training and inferencing models, which require a specialized high-performing, high-bandwidth network with low-latency and lossless capabilities to ensure successful outcomes from AI investments.

This engaging dinner, hosted by Leslie Rosenberg, Research Vice President, IDC, alongside experts Richard Garratt from NTT DATA and Marcus Moffett from Cisco, offers valuable insights from industry leaders.

Discussion topics include:

Latest trends in networking technology to provide the right foundation for AI

Best practice for networking for AI

Understand how to start, and learn how to extract maximum value from your investments in AI-ready for network

WHAT TO EXPECT

An executive dinner led by a skilled host/moderator

An intimate gathering of senior IT leaders from diverse industries, grappling with similar issues

A secure, private conversation open only to a carefully vetted group (no recording, no playback)

Agenda at a Glance

Here’s an overview of what’s happening at the dinner!

Thursday, October 23, 2025

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Reception & Networking

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Dinner & Discussion

8:30 PM

Event Concludes

Host

Take a look at our host scheduled for this event

Leslie Rosenberg

Research Vice President
IDC

Contact

Have questions about the event? Contact our events team.

IDC Events
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IT executives worldwide rely on IDG’s technology events to discover new ideas, trends, and solutions. Leveraging 60 years of IDC’s market intelligence and Foundry’s media brands (CIO, CSO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World), these events offer powerful learning and networking experiences.

Held in more than 30 countries, they foster networking, collaboration, engagement, and knowledge sharing among industry leaders and professionals. Each event is meticulously curated to provide valuable insights and meaningful connections through analysts and editor-led content, global perspectives, case studies presented by the world’s leading tech companies and a range of interactive formats including expert panels, live demos, roundtables, 1:1 meetings and workshops.