The 23rd Annual IT Summit 2026
Speaker Presentations
Session Presentations
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Keynote
Rick Howard
Beyond the CIA Triad: Finding the Atomic Essence of Security
Keynote
Kyriakos “Rock” Lambros
A Secure Path to Adopting (Agentic) AI
Keynote
Mel Reyes
From Zero to IPO: How to Build a Cyber Program Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Hair)
Keynote
Kurtis Minder
The Digital Butterfly Effect
Keynote
Camille Stewart Gloster
Velocity Without Governance Is Just Speed: Leading AI Agents at Scale
Keynote
Adam Hogan
Faster, Not Easier: AI, Adversaries, and the Future of the Security Workforce
Keynote
Vinny Carpenter
The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack: What AI Made Impossible to Hide
Keynote
Brian Bernsee
Digital Safety in a Quantum World: Overview, Challenges, and Opportunities
Session Presentations
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SynerComm
Aaron Howell
AI Beyond the Hype: Turning Curiosity Into Secure Business Capability
SynerComm
Jeffrey Lemmermann
CMMC Status Update: What the pause means, and what it does not mean
SynerComm
Bill Kiley
Buying the Right Controls Is the Easy Part. Tuning Them to Actually Stop Attacks Is the Hard Part
SynerComm
Jason Cain
Beyond Availability: Lessons from High-Reliability IT Environments
SynerComm
Jeffrey Lemmermann
What AI does to your Identity Management Program, and tools you can use to improve it
SynerComm
Jon Giza
Radar Report – What you should have on your IT radar for 2027
SynerComm
Chad Finkenbiner
The Annual Physical
SynerComm
Nate Ressell
Zero Trust Beyond the Buzz: Practical Strategies for Secure Access Without Slowing the Business
SynerComm
Andy Piche
Beyond Deployment: Ensuring IT Solutions Deliver Their Intended Outcomes
SynerComm
Brian Judd
Is AI the Future of Penetration Testing??
SynerComm
Chad Finkenbiner
Software Defined Radio
Session Presentations
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InfoBlox
Tim Davidson
Stopping Threats Before Patient Zero
Sublime Security
Chris LaBleu
Trust, then Autonomy: A new framework for evaluating security AI
Torq
Casey Howard
How deep should your AI SOC Investigate?
Lumifi
Grant Leonard
UEBA Evolved – Insider Threat in the world of Agentic AI
Zafran
Brad Liggett
Your Vuln Program Is Working Perfectly. (For The Attackers)
Rapid7
Andrew Schmidt
Ahead of the Attack
Exabeam
Pete White
It’s 11 O’clock. Do You Know Where Your Agents Are?
Palo Alto Networks
Grant Jones
The New Identity Battleground: Securing AI, Machines & Humans
Delinea
Brance Spradlin
Zero Standing Privilege for Machines: A Runtime Framework for Agentic AI
Corelight
Shad Gunderson
The turn of the Agentic AI
HPE
Jay Killion
The Self-Driving Network