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Event Details:
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Venue:
Mastro's Steakhouse Chicago

Time:
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Unify Endpoint Management for a More Secure, AI Ready Enterprise

Most organizations today are drowning in endpoints, as well as with the tools meant to manage them. The average enterprise runs a patchwork of separate products for endpoint management, threat detection, patching and secure access. Each has its own agent, its own console and its own blind spots. That’s expensive, and compels security and IT teams to spend time pivoting between screens while attackers move fast. But a new consensus is emerging: consolidation isn't the destination, it's now a prerequisite. You can’t automate what you can’t see in one place. And you can’t install autonomous, AI driven endpoint operations across disconnected tools. That’s why forward looking enterprises consolidate end point management, secure access, and detection and response onto a single platform. A unified foundation is critical for AI assisted detection, investigation and response.

Join Foundry in Chicago for an interactive dinner panel from our sponsor, ManageEngine. After a short presentation and fireside chat, you and your fellow IT and security leaders will discuss the following challenges and solutions, with a view to the role ManageEngine's Endpoint Central solution can play:

Discussion Topics

  • The hidden tax on IT: Endpoint and security tool sprawl.
  • Consolidation: A single pane of glass for one agent, console, and source of truth.
  • AI and endpoint operations across servers, desktops, and mobile devices — from alert triage to attack timeline reconstruction.
  • Uniting detection, response, and secure access into a single workflow.
  • What AI cannot do and where the human in the loop should act.

Agenda

6:00–6:30 p.m.

Attendee Arrivals & Cocktails/Networking

6:30–6:40 p.m.

Event Welcome

Charles Pelton, Contributing Editor, CIO

6:40–7:00 p.m.

Opening Keynote

7:00–8:00 p.m.

Interactive Panel Discussion

Moderated by Charles Pelton, Contributing Editor, CIO

8:00–8:30 p.m.

Dessert, Closing Reflections & Informal Networking