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Securing Innovation: Enabling Growth Without Increasing Risk

Join Blend and Comcast Business for an executive dinner exploring how security leaders can enable innovation and growth without increasing risk. Discover how AI, predictive security, and cyber resilience are reshaping cybersecurity strategy.
Event Location
Prosecco Ristorante
Event Date
October 6, 2026
to October 6, 2026
Event Time
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
About this event

For years, cybersecurity has largely been framed as a defensive discipline: protect systems, mitigate threats, and reduce organizational risk. But as digital transformation accelerates and AI reshapes both enterprise operations and the threat landscape, security leaders are being asked to play a much more strategic role.

Today’s organizations must innovate quickly without creating vulnerabilities faster than they can manage them. That means security can no longer function solely as a checkpoint at the end of transformation. Increasingly, it must become an enabler from the beginning, helping organizations protect revenue, strengthen customer trust, build operational resilience, and confidently pursue new technologies and business models.

Join Blend and Comcast Business for an executive dinner exploring how organizations are rethinking the relationship between security, innovation, and growth. Through candid peer discussion, we’ll examine how leaders are evolving from reactive defense toward more predictive and resilient security models, how AI is changing both sides of the cybersecurity equation, and what it takes to build security strategies that allow the business to move faster – not slower.

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Our speakers
Nelly Pitocco
VP, Field Engineering | Comcast Business
Coming soon.
Key themes & discussion topics

Security as a Growth Enabler
How cybersecurity can evolve from a cost centre and control function into a strategic enabler of innovation, revenue, customer trust and competitive advantage.

AI Is Changing the Cybersecurity Equation
How AI is reshaping both the threat landscape and defensive capabilities, and what its rapid adoption means for enterprise cybersecurity strategy.

From Reactive to Predictive Security
How threat intelligence, automation and AI can help organisations anticipate and mitigate risk earlier rather than simply responding after threats emerge.

Building for Cyber Resilience
How organisations can prepare for inevitable disruption, maintain critical operations and recover quickly when prevention alone isn’t enough.

Event agenda
01
Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

02
Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

03
Dinner & guided discussion

 7:15 – 8:45 PM

04
Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00 PM

Why should you attend?

Discover how leading organisations are connecting cybersecurity investment to growth, innovation, resilience and competitive advantage.

Explore how AI is changing the capabilities of both attackers and defenders—and how security strategies need to evolve in response.

Learn how leaders are using intelligence, automation and predictive approaches to identify and address risks earlier.

Join senior technology and security executives for candid discussion around the challenges of enabling faster innovation without increasing organisational risk.

Who should attend
This event is designed for senior technology and security executives responsible for cybersecurity strategy, digital transformation, infrastructure, enterprise resilience, and technology risk. The conversation will be particularly relevant for leaders within large enterprises across financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing organizations.
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Venue
Event Location Light
Prosecco Ristorante
710 N Wells St #12
Chicago
IL
IL 60654
United States
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