Bessemer Venture Partners' Enterprise CXO Salon
Join us for Bessemer's inaugural CXO Salon. A closed-door afternoon with your peers across the Fortune 500, and a candid look at where we're investing in the technology reshaping enterprise.
Why RSVP?
You want a heads up to what will disrupt your business in the next 3-5 years. This is an intimate gathering of CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and Heads of AI leading technology strategy across the Fortune 500. The afternoon is built around the questions that teams are wrestling with right now:
How are you justifying AI spend to the Board?
How many of your pilots are reaching production - honestly?
How are you governing agentic engineering?
How are you defending an attack surface that keeps growing?
Where has buy vs. build clearly won, and where do you regret it?
Our investing partners will open up on where we're placing bets at the frontier, where we think enterprise is already transforming, and what we expect to disrupt it over the next decade.
Agenda
Opening remarks
Jeremy Levine, Partner, Bessemer
How Bessemer thinks about security in the age of AI
Amit Karp, Partner, Bessemer
CISO Panel: How Fortune 100 businesses are thinking about governance and risk
Koos Lodewijkx, CISO, IBM
Edmond Mack, CISO, Cencora
BC Bridger, Head of Enterprise AI, Verizon
Moderator: Elliott Robinson, Partner, Bessemer
What Bessemer expects to disrupt the enterprise over the next 5 years
Lauri Moore, Partner, Bessemer
Startup Perspective: How to drive transformation at large enterprises
Maxim Bar Kogan, Onyx Security
Mark Porter, Field CTO, Cognition
Moderator: Lauri Moore, Partner, Bessemer
AI Panel: Where has buy vs. build won or backfired, and justifying AI spend to the board
Joseph Inzerillo, President, Enterprise & AI Technology, Salesforce
Barak Turovsky, EVP & Head of Consumer AI, Skydance
Moderator: Jeremy Levine, Partner, Bessemer
Closing remarks
Elliott Robinson, Partner, Bessemer
Happy hour
Bessemer has been backing transformational companies, like Anthropic and Waymo, for over 100 years, founded as the family office of Henry Phipps, co-founder of Carnegie Steel, and today managing $20B in assets across more than 150 public market exits. We are one of the most active investors in AI reshaping enterprise operations.