· INVITATION ONLY · THE VANGUARD CIRCLE

The conversation your peers aren't having anywhere else.

An intimate, city-by-city gathering for CISOs, CIOs, and CTOs who are done with vendor pitches, and ready for an honest reckoning with where security is actually going.

Featured City Series Stop

New York

When

June 23, 2026

Where

Skytop Lounge

15 Hudson Yards, NYC

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CISOs are drowning in vendor pitches and tool sprawl. What they are starving for is unfiltered peer conversation, a safe space to question what is working, and a bold reframe of what the job actually demands in 2026 and beyond.

— The Core Insight Behind The Vanguard Circle

A NOTE FROM OUR CEO

Raju Chekuri

Founder & CEO · Netenrich

I have been in this industry long enough to watch it make the same expensive mistake on a five-year loop: buy the next platform, integrate it into the stack, build a team to run it, and wonder why we are still reacting instead of leading.

We are bringing together a small group of CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs who we believe are ready for a different conversation. Not a panel. Not a vendor briefing. A genuine peer discussion about what it actually takes to get ahead of this problem, and stay there.

We will have dinner, talk honestly, and leave with something we didn't have before.

The room is small by design. I hope you will join us.

— Raju

WHAT THIS IS

Not a conference.

Not a vendor briefing.

A convening.

The Vanguard Circle is a city-by-city series of invitation-only evenings for 8–12 senior security and technology leaders. The format is deliberate: no slides, no sales decks, no sponsored breakout sessions. Just peer executives and a question worth sitting with.

Netenrich serves as host, provocateur, and thought partner — not presenter. We believe the most valuable thing we can offer the executives we want to work with isn't another product demo. It's a room where they can think out loud, challenge each other, and leave with something they didn't have before..

The Provocateur Session

An opening framing talk designed to unsettle comfortable assumptions, followed by 60 minutes of peer discussion that no panel has ever had.

The Roundtable

Small-group tracks creating productive tension: CISOs and CTOs exploring where security engineering ends, and confronting who actually owns cyber risk.

The Dinner

Long table. Assigned seating designed to mix industries and roles. Conversation cards that ask the questions executives rarely say out loud. This is where trust forms.

The Evening

An unhurried evening.

Relationship capital builds in the margins, not on the clock. Every element of the evening is engineered to create the conditions for genuine candor.

5:30 PM

Arrival & Cocktail Hour

No badges. No lanyards. Private venue — a restaurant with a Michelin nod, a members club, or a rooftop with a view. Our host, Ryan Weise, circulates and makes personal introductions. Let the room find itself.

6:00 PM

The Provocateur Session

Ryan opens with a 15-minute framing talk. Not a product pitch — a challenge. Followed by a peer discussion designed to surface what executives are thinking but rarely say.

6:30 PM

The Roundtable

Two tracks depending on room composition. Track A with CTOs: Where does security engineering end and platform engineering begin? Track B with CIOs: Who actually owns cyber risk? Optional external voice serves as spark, not presenter.

7:00 PM

Dinner

Long table. Assigned seating that deliberately mixes companies and roles. Conversation cards at each place setting — real questions, not icebreakers. This is where the evening's intellectual work lands in relationship.

9:00 PM

Nightcap & Closing

The informal close, where deals and relationships actually form. The evening ends on your terms.

The room is small by design..

Each dinner seats a carefully vetted group of security leaders. If you believe you belong in this conversation — or want to nominate a peer — we would like to hear from you.

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