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CyberDefenseCon 2026 Event Schedule

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Day 1: Tuesday, October 20, 2026

8:00 – 9:00 am  Conference Breakfast
Sponsored by Cyber Defense Ventures

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

9:00 am – 4:00 pm  InfoSec Innovators Solutions Showcase Open

9:00 – 9:30 am  AI Keynote: The Myth of Mythos
Ira Winkler, CEO, CruiseCon
Sponsored by UnknownCyber

9:40 – 10:10 am  Zero Trust Keynote: Strategies for Implementing Microsegmentation within existing Production Environments
Michael Hoehl, CISO, Carpenter Technology

10:15 – 10:25 am  Coffee & Networking Break

10:30 – 11:00 am  Live “Whale Tank” Innovator Pitches to All CISOs – voting live
    10:30 am – BreachRx
    10:35 am – Bolster AI
    10:40 am – Honeycake
    10:45 am – PKWARE
    10:50 am – Quilr

11:05 – 11:20 am  Guest Speaker: Manisha Arora, Co-founder & CEO, WoolyAI

11:25 – 11:55 am  Sponsored Keynote by Arcova

12:00 – 1:00 pm  Lunch
Sponsored by Cyber Defense Ventures

1:00 – 2:30 pm  InfoSec Innovators Showcase

2:45 – 3:55 pm  CISO Roundtables / Coffee Break + Showcase

4:00 – 4:45 pm  CISO Expert Panel

  • Michael Prakhye, CISO & Director of Information Security, Adventist HealthCare
  • Matt Morton, Assistant Vice President & CISO, University of Chicago
  • Sam Masiello, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, The Anschutz Corporation
  • Priya Mouli, CISO, University of Alberta

4:50 – 5:05 pm  Kurt Olson, Chief Strategy Officer, Cyber Defense Ventures

5:10 – 5:30 pm  Guest Speaker: Amir Ofek, AIZome

5:30 – 6:30 pm  Cocktail Reception / Showcase

6:30 – 8:30 pm  Conference Dinner
Sponsored by AIZome

 

Day 2: Wednesday, October 21, 2026

8:00 – 9:00 am  Conference Breakfast
Sponsored by Cyber Defense Ventures

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

9:00 am – 4:00 pm  InfoSec Innovators Solutions Showcase Open

9:00 – 9:30 am  OT Keynote: The Silent Killers in Your Supply Chain: Surviving the Third-Party Risk Apocalypse
Mark Dunkerley, CISO, Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services

9:40 – 10:10 am  AI Keynote: The Future of AI Security
Vivek Kumar, Global CISO, Alter Domus

10:15 – 10:45 am  GRC Keynote: Continuous Control Assurance & X-ROC: From Static Assessments to Living Risk Intelligence
Lalit Ahluwalia, CEO & Global Cybersecurity Head, DigitalXForce

10:45 – 11:10 am  Coffee & Networking Break

11:15 – 11:45 am  Live “Whale Tank” Innovator Pitches to All CISOs – voting live
    11:15 am – DigitalXForce
    11:20 am – Ridge Security Technology
    11:25 am – Sevii
    11:30 am – ThreatLocker
    11:35 am – Unknown Cyber Inc.

12:00 – 1:00 pm  Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm  InfoSec Innovators Showcase

2:30 – 3:30 pm  CISO Roundtables / Coffee Break + Showcase

3:40 – 3:55 pm  QUANTUM EXPERT: Guest Speaker Dr. Garfield Jones, SVP Global Strategy & Research, QuSecure

4:00 – 4:45 pm  CISO Expert Panel

  • Anthony Siravo, CISO, Brown University Health
  • Andy Neller, CISO, GreatAmerica Financial Services
  • Teri Green, Vice President of Technology, Elevate
  • Dan Carbonnell, Vice President & CISO, InteLogix

5:00 – 6:00 pm  Cocktail Reception / Showcase

 

Schedule subject to change.

Roundtables

CISOs talking around banquet tables in a ballroom during a CyberDefenseCon roundtable session

CISO roundtables run during the afternoon on both days. Topics are hosted by award-winning infosec innovator experts.

AI, Automation & Future Tech

  1. Autonomous SOCs & AI-Driven Threat Response
    How CISOs are preparing for fully automated detection, triage, and containment.
  2. AI Safety, Model Security & Emerging Regulations
    Preparing for global AI governance frameworks, “AI Bills of Materials,” and model-risk audits.
  3. Securing AI Supply Chains: Training Data, Models & Inferencing Risks
    The new attack surface: poisoning, model theft, LLM jailbreaks, and malicious model updates.
  4. Quantum Readiness & Post-Quantum Cryptography Roadmaps
    What boards expect by 2030 and how to actually make a migration plan.
  5. Synthetic Identity & AI-Augmented Fraud Prevention
    How criminals are weaponizing generative identities and voice cloning.

Cloud, Infrastructure & Architecture

  1. Multi-Cloud Resilience: Failure Modes, Backups & Interoperability
    Avoiding a catastrophic cloud provider outage or regional cloud collapse.
  2. Container, Kubernetes & Microservices Security at Scale
    Emerging attack patterns in ephemeral and serverless environments.
  3. Edge Computing, 5G, and Distributed Enterprise Security
    Managing risk when compute moves out of the data center and closer to the user.
  4. Secure Digital Transformation & Technical Debt Eradication
    How CISOs reduce inherited risks while modernizing legacy infrastructure.
  5. Identity Fabric & Unified Access Control for Distributed Workforces
    Moving beyond IAM silos toward a single enterprise identity strategy.

Threat Landscape & Defensive Evolution

  1. Deepfakes, Voice Cloning & Social Engineering 3.0
    Protecting executive teams, PR, and brand reputation in an era of perfect AI mimicry.
  2. Advanced Persistent Manipulation (APM): The New Hybrid Attack Pattern
    Attacks that combine cyber, misinformation, extortion, and psychological operations.
  3. AI-Accelerated Malware & Autonomous Offensive Threats
    Preparing for malware that learns, adapts, and updates itself faster than human defenders.
  4. Cross-Border Cyber Warfare & Global Cyber Sanctions
    How geopolitics and national security pressures affect enterprise risk.

Governance, Leadership & Organizational Maturity

  1. CISO Liability, Insurance Shifts & Personal Risk Mitigation
    Navigating increasing laws that hold CISOs personally accountable.
  2. Security Budget Optimization in an AI-Economized Future
    Where budgets shift as AI replaces human-heavy processes.
  3. Cybersecurity Workforce 2030: Upskilling, Automation & Talent Strategy
    How AI, automation and new roles reshape staffing strategies.
  4. Board-Level Cyber Resilience: Communicating Risk in the Age of AI
    What directors expect from CISOs in 2026 and beyond.

Risk, Resilience & Enterprise Protection

  1. Fourth-Party & Nth-Party Risk: Mapping the Hidden Supply Chain
    Moving past vendor management into the ecosystem you don’t control.
  2. Digital Resilience & Crisis Simulations for AI-Enhanced Incidents
    Preparing for fast-moving crises with playbooks that adapt in real time.

Topics subject to change.

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CISOs in discussion at a lettered roundtable during CyberDefenseCon

Call for CISO speakers, panelists and roundtable leaders for 2027

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