Trust Icons Council

Confidently moving toward the future of cybersecurity, risk, and governance


About the Trust Icons Council

As organizations rapidly adopt AI, digital platforms and emerging technologies, leaders face a common challenge: overcoming barriers at speed and scale cannot be done in isolation. Cybersecurity, governance, compliance, ethics, transparency and explainability must work in harmony.

For chief risk officers (CROs) and chief information security officers (CISOs), this convergence has elevated trust to a critical enterprise risk factor — one that directly impacts resilience, regulatory confidence, reputation and value creation. Trust now serves as the foundation for scaling innovation safely and sustainably.

The Trust Icons Council unites senior risk leaders and senior cybersecurity leaders to explore how trust is established, governed and maintained as organizations accelerate their transformation journeys.

The Trust Icons Council offers attendees:

  • Networking and benchmarking with fellow members to crowdsource solutions across industries
  • Access to inspiring council luminaries navigating the future of security and data protection
  • Insights into real-world business cases and trends — and how to translate the learnings into action

How the Trust Icons Council operates

Council members help shape the agenda and participate in:

  • Closed door peer discussions focused on real trade offs and operating decisions
  • Facilitated sessions exploring how trust is engineered into platforms, products and workflows
  • One on one executive exchanges and select public forums
  • Private, members only discussion groups for real time issue sharing

Membership profile

The Trust Icons Council is limited to senior executives from public and private organizations, including CROs, CISOs, chief audit executives and equivalent leaders. Membership is individual based and invitation only to support open, noncommercial dialogue. Members are selected based on their responsibility for enterprise trust, risk and resilience — and their role in guiding organizations to operate at the speed of trust.



Application

Council members will consist of risk and cybersecurity leaders from all industries and will be selected based on qualifying company and career benchmarks. Light the way for the future of trust and apply today.

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