MASTERCLASS x SOCIAL
Wed Nov 4, 2026 | 1:30 p - 6:00 p | Orange County, CA
From Value Protection to Value Creation
The Tech Leader’s Playbook for the AI Age
If you’re still measuring security by what didn’t happen, you’re already losing the boardroom conversation.
Boards fund growth, speed, resilience, and strategic advantage. Right now, most of that funding is chasing one thing: AI. Yet technology and security leaders are often asked to justify their own investments through a different language entirely : risk, controls, and what didn't happen. As AI reshapes what gets funded and what gets cut, that gap has never been more expensive.
Join us to tackle a defining catch-22 facing CIOs, CTOs and CISOs: the skills that earned the seat at the table aren’t always the skills that will keep you there - especially as the table's priorities shift toward AI faster than most budget cycles can track.
Learn the moves that break that cycle in this interactive masterclass. Pressure test real-world approaches across different verticals - from finance to healthcare - in a facilitated setting built for actual exchange.
Hosted at the Marconi Automotive Museum - among a $100M car collection home to icons such as the Batmobile - the conversations are sure to keep going long after the slides stop.
Your Speaker
MyAble | Managing Partner
David Lin
With 25+ years of experience in the C-suite and technology trenches, David Lin’s career spans F500 enterprises and multiple verticals from finance to media as an executive. From rebuilding Sony Pictures’ environment after the 2014 cyberattack, David now leads security transformation in private equity.
The Venue
We’re at the iconic Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, CA. With a $100M car collection that includes some you'll recognize from the movies, you'll do more than trade business cards.
Agenda
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Welcome Reception
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Debrief + Closing Remarks
Opening + Keynote
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Networking
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Masterclass Lab
2:45 - 4:00 pm
Happy Hour Social
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Our Values
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Our Values 〰️
Peer-first
The conversation is built around the people in the room, not the logos.
Facilitated, not freeform
Architecture matters. Every gathering has a real thesis and a real structure: not just open bar and business cards.
Built to compound
This isn't a one-off. It's the start of a standing community for executives a new way to connect & elevate.