Event Schedule

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Day 1:  Tuesday, October 28th, 2025


8:00 am - 9:00 am Conference Breakfast

Breakfast Sponsored by...

8:00 am - 4:00 pm Check-In/Information Desk Open

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Solutions Showcase is Open

9:00 am - 9:30 am Post-Human Defense: How LLMs Are Rewriting the Cyber Playbook
Jim Motes, CISO of Ryan

9:40 am - 10:10 am CISO Speaker

10:15 am - 10:25 am Guest Speaker
Our Breakfast Sponsor

10:30 am - 11:00 am CISO Speaker

11:15 am - 11:45 am Guest Speaker
Our Platinum Sponsor

11:50 am - 12:00 pm DropZone AI Guest Speaker

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch

Lunch Sponsored by DropZone.ai

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm InfoSec Innovators Showcase

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm CISO Roundtables/Coffee Break + Showcase

Coffee Sponsored by Eventus Security

3:55 pm - 4:00 pm Kodem Security Guest Speaker 

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm CISO Expert Panel:

CISO Expert Panelist, Rich Latayan, CISO of AAA

CISO Expert Panelist, Tammy Klotz, CISO of Trinseo

Cybersecurity Expert Panelist, Aradhna Chetal of TIAA

CISO Expert Panelist, tbd

Moderated by Kodem Security

4:50 pm - 5:05 pm Guest Speaker Ariel Zamir

Co-Founder & CEO, Ray Security

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm  Guest Speaker 

from Concentric.ai

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Cocktail Reception/Showcase

Cocktails Sponsored by Ray Security

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Conference Dinner

Dinner sponsored by Concentric.ai



Day 2: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025


8:00 am - 9:00 am Conference Breakfast

Breakfast Sponsored by....

8:00 am - 4:00 pm Check-In/Information Desk Open

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Solutions Showcase is Open

9:00 am - 9:30 am The Silent Killers in Your Supply Chain: Surviving the Third-Party Risk Apocalypse

Mark Dunkerley, CISO of Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services

9:40 am - 10:10 am InfoSec Innovators Showcase

10:15 am - 10:25 am ....Guest Speaker

10:30 am - 11:00 am *Guest Speaker

11:15 am - 11:45 am Leveraging Agentic AI for Automated Vulnerability Remediation

Rick Doten, VP, Information Security at Centene Corporation,
CISO Carolina Complete Health

11:50 am - 12:00 pm Guest Speaker Jason Kaplan, CEO, SixMap

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch

Lunch Sponsored by SixMap

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm InfoSec Innovators Showcase

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CISO Roundtables/Coffee Break + Showcase

Coffee Sponsored by Eventus Security

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Guest Speaker

Cocktail Reception Sponsor

3:35 pm - 3:40 pm Optery Guest Speaker

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm CISO Expert Panel:

CISO Expert Panelist, Sofia Herrera, CISO of Omnia Legal

CISO Expert Panelist,Jana Moore, Global CISO, Belron International

CISO Expert Panelist, Jason Stockinger – CISO, Cambium Learning Group

CISO Expert Panelist, Jake Bernardes – CISO, Anecdotes

Moderated by Optery

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception/Showcase

Cocktails Sponsored by...... 


Subject to change at any time.


Roundtables

Roundtable topics hosted by award winning infosec innovator experts:

A.I. and Machine Learning
API Security
Asset and Vulnerability Management
Board Engagement, Comms and Budgets
Business Continuity and Incident Response
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Data Security: Minimizing Attack Surface & Impact
Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Best Practices
Next Generation Ransomware and Endpoint Defenses
Fraud Prevention Tools and Techniques
A.I.-based Identity and Access Management
Modern Data Security in the Generative A.I. Era
Next Generation Email Security
Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity
Offensive Cybersecurity & Threat Hunting
Policies, Security & Compliance
Data-focused Third-party Risk Management
Securing The Cloud
Security Operations and Metrics
Zero-Trust Journey

and much more…

Subject to change at any time.

Call for CISO speakers, panelists and round table leaders for 2025

CyberDefenseCon 2025 formally announces a call for speaker proposals to present to our Top Global CISO audience for this conference, taking place October 28 - 29, 2025 in The Ritz-Carlton, Orlando, Florida, USA. Speakers should be willing to lead CISO roundtable sessions during the conference, as well as participate in CISO panel discussions, if so requested.  Click here to fill out the call for speakers form.

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