A Chillisoft event

CybersecCon 2026 Programme

The CybersecCon programme kicks off with workshops, before moving into keynote talks from industry experts and panel discussions.

Vendor workshops can be found below the planery!

Full programme

TimeActivityDetails
9:00 AMRegistrations
9:30 AMWorkshopsWatchGuard | Exabeam | Saviynt | ARMIS | ESET| Mimecast
11:00 AMLunch & Networking
12:00 PMMAIN EVENT START
12:00 PMWelcomeAlex Teh (Chillisoft, Group CEO)
12:30 PMKeynote OneThe Maturity Fallacy - Alastair Miller - GM Network & Security - Genesis Energy
1:00 PMKeynote TwoConverging Threats: The Perfect Storm Shaping Cyber Beyond 2028 - Tony Allwood - Head of Security - Silver Fern Farms
1:30 PMPanel OneHow has Claude Mythos changed the cyber security industry? Alex Teh - Moderator
2:15 PMBreakShort coffee & bathroom break
2:45 PMKeynote ThreeAttack surface management starts with visibility - Darren Beattie - CISO - Tower Insurance
3:15 PMPanel TwoWhy A.I Guardrails matter for CISO\'s Panellists to be confirmed. Moderator - Eli Hirschauge
4:30 PMPanel ThreeIdentity Security, should be by design. Moderator - Alex Teh
4:00 PMKeynote FourBeyond Awareness: Building the Human Firewall of the Future - Ronnie Rahman - CISO - Hamilton City Council
4:30pmKeynote Five*Topic TBC* - Sarah Penman - Director of Enterprise Information Security and CISO - GCSB
5:00 PMMAIN EVENT END
5:05PMHappy Hours - Sponsor TBCDrinks, snacks, games and networking!
7:00 PMGALA DINNER OPENSponsor and Presenter TBC
7:01 PMGala OpeningDavid Gadnyx
7:10 PMWelcome NotePresenter TBC
7:30 PMBuffet DinnerDinner served Live band background jazz (RP3 Jazz Trio)
8:30 PMCyber Excellence AwardsOpening by Richard Harrison (CISO - Foodstuffs South Island)- 2025 CISO of the Year Winner)
8:40 PMCISO of the Year AwardPresented by Richard Harrison - 2025 CISO of the Year Winner
8:50 PMCyberSec Woman of the YearPresented by Renu Sharma (Tait Communications) - 2025 CyberSec Woman of the Year Winner
9:00 PMSOC Analyst of the Year awardPresented by JP Van Nieuwholtz - Defend - 2025 SOC analyst of the Year Winner
9:05 PMCybersecurity Team of the Year awardPresented by TBC
9:10 PMProject of the Year awardPresented by TBC
9:15 PMPartner AwardsARMIS | Mimecast | WatchGuard | Saviynt | ESET
9:55 PMClosing NoteGavin Lawless - Chillisoft Australia CEO
10:00 PMAfter-Party RP3 Jazz Trio
11:00 PMEvent End

Workshops

Kick off your CybersecCon 2026 Workshop experience with a powerhouse morning of hands-on learning, hot-topic discussions, and practical takeaways. Our workshop sessions begin at 9:30am sharp, so we recommend arriving by 9:00am to breeze through registration, grab a coffee, and settle in.

Each 90-minute workshop delivers deep dives into today’s most urgent security challenges.

The morning workshops are brought to you by ESET, ExaBeam, Saviynt Mimecast, ARMIS and WatchGuard. 

ESET

Respond smarter, and stay ahead of today’s threats

Whether you’re an MSP, IT manager, or security specialist, this workshop will equip you with practical knowledge and tools to better protect your organisation in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am

Welcome and introduction.

9:40 – 10:00am

Kiwi Treat Intelligence
ft. Peter Stančík, Senior Security Research and Awareness Manager

10:00 – 10:20am

ESET feature updates and performance
Ft. Scott Leman, ESET New Zealand Country Manager

10:20 – 10:40am

ESET Live Demos
Ft. Lukesh Sad – Senior Security Consultant

10:40 – 11:00am

Fireside Chat

Kiwi Threat Intelligence Overview

The session will begin with Peter Stančík, Senior Security Research and Awareness Manager at ESET who will be discussing the latest in Threat Trends, with a special New Zealand focus. Peter will cover both the most prevalent current threats along with the emerging threat types we are seeing locally. We’ll be showcasing the telemetry ESET gets from its 110+ million endpoints around the globe with focuses on state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threats and the unique attack types we are discovering.

ESET Feature Updates & Performance

Peter’s Kiwi Threat Data presentation will be followed with an ESET update, showcasing what’s new and giving you an inside look at what’s coming next. 

This session will fire through: 

• ESET MDR
See ESET’s new 24/7 Managed Detection and Response solution identify and stop malicious activity in record time, with a 6-minute Mean Time to Respond – the fastest in the industry.
• ESET ITDR

Discover how ESET’s new integration with Microsoft Entra now enables identity protection.

• ESET Mobile Threat Defence

Learn how you can automate and protect your users’ mobile devices from malware, phishing attacks and more

• Cloud Workload Protection

See how ESET can now help automate the securing of cloud workloads on Azure and AWS

• AI Advisor 
Get a look at ESET’s AI-powered security advisor, designed to assist security teams in interpret threats and take the right actions faster.

• Integrations & Ecosystem Expansion
Understand how ESET is expanding its integrations with third-party tools including Palo Alto.

 

Fireside Chat

Hear real life stories about how ESET has made a difference in a client’s environment.

Presenters

Peter Stančík - WEB

Peter Stančík

ESET
Security Research and Awareness Manager

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Scott Leman

Chillisoft
ESET Country Manager

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Lukesh Sadh

Chillisoft
Senior Security Consultant

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Exabeam

Beyond the Human Element: Architecting Defence with Exabeam Agent Behaviour Analytics (ABA)

The insider threat landscape has evolved—the newest threats are entirely digital. In this workshop, Exabeam brings you to the forefront of defence with a deep dive into Agent Behaviour Analytics (ABA). Learn how to effectively monitor, baseline, and investigate the actions of autonomous AI agents operating within your network. We will showcase real-world threat scenarios, demonstrating how Exabeam’s behavioural analytics engine can isolate and neutralize non-human threats before they execute their objectives.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am

Welcome & Introduction to the Evolving Insider Threat Landscape

9:40 AM – 9:55 AM

The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents in Enterprise Environments

9:55 AM – 10:15 AM

Understanding Exabeam Agent Behaviour Analytics (ABA)

10:15 AM – 10:35 AM

Live Demonstration: Detecting & Investigating Non-Human Threat Activity

10:35 AM – 10:50 AM

Building Resilient SOC Strategies for the AI-Augmented Enterprise

10:50 AM – 11:00 AM

Interactive Q&A and Closing Discussion

Understanding Agent Behaviour Analytics (ABA)

Dive into the foundations of Exabeam’s ABA approach and discover how behavioural analytics can establish baselines for both human and non-human identities. Learn how security teams can detect anomalies, identify suspicious agent activity, and reduce alert fatigue through contextual intelligence.

Detecting Autonomous Threat Activity in Real Time

Through practical demonstrations and simulated attack scenarios, attendees will see how malicious or compromised AI agents can move laterally, escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, or abuse automation. Exabeam experts will demonstrate how advanced analytics can rapidly detect and contain these behaviours before damage occurs.

 

Presenters

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Steve Moore

Exabeam
Vice President and Chief Security Strategist

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Paul Prokop

Exabeam
Senior Solutions Architect

Andrew Balestrieri

Exabeam
Regional Sales Manager

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Mimecast

Understanding agentic risk isn't optional anymore - it's the difference between running your AI and your AI running you

As AI rapidly evolves from simple automation into autonomous decision-making agents, organisations are facing a new category of cyber risk – agentic risk. From unmanaged GenAI usage and prompt injection attacks to AI-enabled insider threats and data governance failures, security leaders now need visibility and control over how AI behaves across the enterprise.

Join Scott Jenner and the Mimecast team for an exclusive CybersecCon 2026 workshop exploring how organisations can securely embrace AI while protecting people, data, and business operations.

This fast-paced workshop will unpack the newest innovations across the Mimecast platform, including AI-powered threat detection, Human Risk Management, collaboration security, insider risk visibility, and emerging protections designed for the age of agentic AI.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am
Welcome & The Rise of Agentic Risk

ft. Scott Jenner – Senior Channel Sales Engineer, Mimecast

  • Introduction & workshop overview
  • Why AI governance is now a cybersecurity priority
  • The evolution from human risk to agentic risk
  • Understanding how autonomous AI changes the threat landscape
9:40 – 10:00am
Securing the AI-Driven Workplace

ft. Scott Jenner

Explore how organisations are adapting security strategies to safely enable GenAI and autonomous AI tools across modern workplaces.

Key topics include:

  • GenAI data leakage and shadow AI usage
  • AI-assisted phishing and impersonation attacks
  • Prompt injection and AI manipulation threats
  • Governance challenges in Microsoft 365 and collaboration platforms
  • Building AI usage policies that actually work
10:00 – 10:20am
Human Risk Management 2.0: Real-Time Visibility Across Users, Data & AI

Discover the latest advancements in Mimecast’s Human Risk Management platform and how security teams can identify risky behaviour before it becomes a breach.

Key topics include:

  • Behaviour-based insider risk analytics
  • AI-powered user risk scoring
  • Monitoring risky GenAI interactions
  • Data exposure and exfiltration indicators
  • Security awareness driven by adaptive intelligence
  • Real-time visibility across email, collaboration and cloud environments
10:20 – 10:35am
Mimecast Product Innovation Spotlight

A walkthrough of the newest Mimecast capabilities and platform updates helping organisations strengthen resilience in 2026.

Featured innovations include:

  • AI-driven threat detection and response enhancements
  • Advanced email and collaboration security protections
  • Integrated insider risk management capabilities
  • Expanded cloud archive and cyber resilience features
  • Threat intelligence and automated investigation workflows
  • Security integrations designed for modern SOC teams
10:35 – 10:50am
AI-Powered Incident Investigation & Response

Learn how security teams are reducing response times and improving operational efficiency using AI-assisted investigation workflows.

Key topics include:

  • Accelerating threat triage with AI assistance
  • Automated threat correlation across environments
  • Reducing analyst fatigue and alert overload
  • Faster remediation and response orchestration
  • Practical use-cases from real-world security operations
10:50 – 11:00am
Closing Session & Audience Q&A
  • Key takeaways for 2026 security leaders
  • Preparing your organisation for agentic AI risks
  • Final audience Q&A and discussion
  • Closing remarks

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a clear, practical understanding of how to secure AI-driven environments and manage emerging agentic risks across your organisation. Specifically, you’ll learn how to:

  • Identify and respond to agentic AI risk patterns, including autonomous decision-making and tool-using AI systems
  • Detect and mitigate shadow AI and GenAI data leakage across email, collaboration, and cloud platforms
  • Apply modern Human Risk Management techniques to measure and reduce user-driven and AI-augmented risk
  • Use behavioural and contextual signals to uncover insider threats and compromised accounts earlier
  • Understand how Mimecast’s latest platform capabilities support real-time threat detection, investigation, and response
  • Leverage AI-assisted workflows to streamline security operations, incident triage, and response decision-making
  • Build practical governance frameworks that align AI usage, compliance, and security controls across the business

Why You Should Attend

AI is no longer just a tool in the workplace – it’s becoming an active participant in decision-making, communication, and data handling. That shift is creating new risks that traditional security models weren’t designed to handle.

This session with Scott Jenner gives you direct insight into how leading organisations are adapting in real time, and what practical steps security teams can take right now.

You should attend if you want to:

  • Stay ahead of rapidly evolving AI-driven cyber threats rather than reacting to them
  • Understand how to secure environments where humans and AI systems are both acting as users
  • See how modern security teams are operationalising agentic risk visibility and control
  • Learn directly from real-world implementations and product innovation within Mimecast
  • Leave with actionable strategies you can apply immediately to improve resilience and reduce organisational risk

This is not a theoretical discussion, it’s a practical briefing on how security needs to evolve for the AI-native era.

Presenters

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Scott Jenner

Mimecast
Senior Channel Sales Engineer

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Garikai Jani

Mimecast
Enterprise Account manager

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Lizelle Hughes

Mimecast
Director of ANZ Channel

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ARMIS

Left of Boom: Defending Against AI-Driven Exploit Chains with Armis Cyber Exposure Management

Workshop Overview

The emergence of frontier AI systems has fundamentally changed the speed and scale of cyberattacks. Autonomous models are now capable of identifying vulnerabilities, generating exploit chains, and weaponising attacks faster than traditional security operations can respond. In this workshop, Armis explores how organisations can adapt to this new era of machine-scale cyber threats by moving beyond reactive vulnerability management and embracing context-driven exposure management.

Attendees will gain practical insights into how Armis helps security teams prioritise the exposures that truly matter through asset intelligence, SBOM visibility, reachability analysis, and automated remediation workflows. The session will demonstrate how organisations can reduce alert fatigue, accelerate response times, and stay ahead of rapidly evolving AI-powered threats.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am
Welcome & The New Era of Autonomous Cyber Threats

An introduction to the rise of AI-driven attack capabilities and how frontier AI models are reshaping the threat landscape.

9:40am – 9:55am
Understanding Machine-Scale Exploit Lifecycles

A technical breakdown of how autonomous systems discover vulnerabilities, chain exploits together, and accelerate weaponisation timelines.

9:55am – 10:10am
Why Traditional Vulnerability Management Is Falling Behind

Exploring the operational challenges security teams face when overwhelmed by thousands of vulnerabilities, alerts, and compressed remediation windows.

10:10am – 10:30am
Gaining Critical Context with Armis Cyber Exposure Management

A deep dive into how Armis provides complete asset intelligence, SBOM mapping, exposure analysis, and vulnerability reachability insights.

10:30am – 10:45am
From Noise to Actionable Risk

Learn how to prioritise the vulnerabilities that represent genuine business risk, reduce alert fatigue, and focus remediation efforts where they matter most.

10:45am – 10:55am
Automating Response & Staying “Left of Boom”

Practical strategies for accelerating remediation workflows and enabling proactive cyber defence against AI-powered attacks.

10:55am – 11:00am
Closing Q&A and Key Takeaways

Final discussion, audience questions, and actionable next steps for modernising exposure management strategies.

Why Attend & What You’ll Take Away

As AI-driven attackers dramatically compress the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, security teams are no longer fighting individual threats—they’re fighting speed and scale itself. This workshop is designed to move beyond theory and show how modern enterprises can realistically regain control in an environment where traditional vulnerability management is no longer enough.

By attending, you’ll learn how to shift from reactive patching to proactive exposure management using Armis Cyber Exposure Management. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how to identify which vulnerabilities actually matter in your environment, how to map real-world asset exposure and exploit paths, and how to reduce overwhelming vulnerability noise into a prioritised set of actionable risks.

Most importantly, you’ll gain practical insight into how to stay “left of boom”—shortening response time, improving decision-making under pressure, and building a defence strategy that can keep pace with autonomous, AI-enabled threats.

 
 

Presenters

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Zak Menegazi

ARMIS
APJ Sales Director

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Evan Thomas

ARMIS
Partner Business Manager APJ at Armis

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Matt Gambold

ARMIS
Senior Solutions Consultant 

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WatchGuard

The Border Has Moved - Securing the Modern Workforce with Zero Trust and Managed Detection & Response

In today’s borderless enterprise, the concept of a fixed perimeter has effectively disappeared. Users, devices, and applications now operate far beyond traditional network boundaries, creating a security environment where visibility gaps and delayed response have become the primary risk, not just prevention failures. This workshop, explores how organisations can adapt to this reality using a unified security approach. Led by Kurt Brandon, Regional Sales Manager for NZ and the Pacific Islands at WatchGuard, and featuring insights from WatchGuard’s product experts, the session will unpack how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud Detection & Response, and Managed Detection & Response (MDR) work together to deliver continuous visibility, faster threat detection, and scalable 24/7 protection in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am

Opening – The Reality of Security in 2026. Most organisations don’t have a prevention problem anymore — they have a visibility and response problem.

  • Hybrid workforce everywhere
  • Users accessing apps from anywhere
  • AI-powered attacks increasing
  • IT teams expected to do more with less
9:40am - 9:45am

Why Traditional Security Models Are Failing. The question is no longer ‘Did someone get in?’ – it’s ‘How quickly can you detect and respond?’

  • VPN limitations
  • Flat network access
  • Alert fatigue
  • Too many disconnected tools
  • Lack of internal SOC resources
9:45am - 9:50am

Zero Trust in the Real World (ZTNA)

  • Verify users and devices before access
  • Least privilege access
  • Replacing or reducing VPN reliance
  • Securing remote staff and third parties
  • Better user experience + stronger security
  • Simple secure access workflow / Conditional access example
9:50am - 9:55am

Cloud Detection & Response: Closing the Visibility Gap

  • Threats moving across cloud, endpoints, and identities
  • Why logs alone aren’t enough
  • Detecting suspicious behaviour earlier
  • Correlating signals across environments
  • Reducing noise for IT teams
9:55am - 10:05am

MDR: Extending Your Security Team 24/7. 

MDR isn’t about replacing IT teams – it’s about giving them time back to focus on the business.

  • Security skills shortage
  • 24/7 monitoring realities
  • Faster investigation and containment
  • Reducing operational burden
  • Helping MSPs scale security services (for MSP audience)
10:05am - 10:05am

Bringing It Together: A Unified Security Approach

  • ZTNA controls access
  • Cloud Detection & Response improves visibility
  • MDR accelerates response

Outcome:

  • Faster detection
  • Reduced complexity
  • Better protection without adding headcount

Why you should attend:

If you’re responsible for securing hybrid environments, managing limited security resources, or struggling with fragmented tools and alert fatigue, this session will give you a practical framework for simplifying and strengthening your security posture. You’ll gain a clear understanding of how modern attackers bypass traditional controls—and how to close those gaps without adding headcount or complexity.

What you’ll learn:

Attendees will walk away with a real-world view of how Zero Trust can replace legacy VPN reliance, how Cloud Detection & Response improves visibility across endpoints, cloud, and identity, and how MDR extends your team with 24/7 expert monitoring and response. Most importantly, you’ll see how these capabilities come together within the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform to reduce risk, accelerate detection and response, and give overwhelmed IT and security teams back control.

Presenters

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Andrew Younger

WatchGuard
Senior Sales Engineer

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Adam Winston

WatchGaurd
Field CTO

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Saviynt

Identity Without Boundaries: Securing Human, Machine & AI Access in the Modern Enterprise

Join Saviynt for an interactive workshop exploring how modern enterprises are transforming identity security in the AI era. As organisations accelerate cloud adoption, embrace AI-driven innovation, and operate across increasingly complex hybrid environments, identity has become the foundation of cyber resilience. This session will provide practical insights into cloud-first identity governance, privileged access management, and securing human, non-human, and AI identities across applications, platforms, and infrastructures. Attendees will discover how intelligent automation and AI-driven workflows can simplify compliance, strengthen Zero Trust strategies, reduce operational complexity, and enable secure innovation at scale. Through expert-led discussions and real-world use cases, participants will learn how forward-thinking organisations are reducing risk, accelerating digital transformation, and confidently managing access across modern enterprise ecosystems.

Workshop agenda
9:30am - 9:40am
The Identity Security Challenge in the AI Era
  • The rise of AI-driven enterprises
  • Why identity is now the new security perimeter
  • The growing complexity of human and machine identities
9:40am – 10:00am
Modern Identity Governance for Cloud-First Organisations
  • Moving beyond traditional IAM approaches
  • Securing access across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
  • Streamlining governance while improving user experience
9:45am - 9:50am

Zero Trust in the Real World (ZTNA)

  • Verify users and devices before access
  • Least privilege access
  • Replacing or reducing VPN reliance
  • Securing remote staff and third parties
  • Better user experience + stronger security
  • Simple secure access workflow / Conditional access example
10:00am – 10:20am
Privileged Access & Zero Trust in Action
  • Protecting critical systems and privileged accounts
  • Reducing lateral movement and insider risk
  • Applying Zero Trust principles to modern identity security
10:20am – 10:40am
AI-Driven Automation & Intelligent Workflows
  • Using automation to simplify compliance and audits
  • Accelerating onboarding, provisioning, and access reviews
  • Improving operational efficiency with intelligent identity workflows
10:40am – 10:55am
Real-World Use Cases & Expert Discussion
  • Lessons from enterprise identity transformation projects
  • Strategies for reducing risk while enabling innovation
  • Interactive discussion and audience Q&A

Why you should attend:

Identity security is rapidly evolving as organisations adopt AI, cloud platforms, and increasingly distributed workforces. This workshop will help attendees understand how modern identity governance and privileged access strategies can support secure digital transformation while reducing operational burden and cyber risk. Whether you are focused on compliance, Zero Trust, automation, or improving visibility across your environment, this session will provide practical guidance and real-world strategies that can be applied immediately within your organisation.

What you’ll learn:

  • How identity security is evolving in the AI era
  • Best practices for securing human, non-human, and AI identities
  • How to modernise identity governance in cloud-first environments
  • Ways to strengthen Zero Trust and privileged access strategies
  • How AI-driven automation can simplify compliance and operations
  • Real-world approaches to reducing risk while enabling innovation at scale

Presenters

Leigh Doddy

Leigh Doddy

SAVIYNT
Principal Solutions Strategist, Saviynt

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Panels

Navigating the Evolving Threat Landscape: Strategies for Staying Ahead

This fireside chat brings together a seasoned cybersecurity expert and a CISO from a leading organization to discuss the rapidly changing nature of cyber threats in 2025.

From AI-driven attacks to supply chain vulnerabilities, they’ll explore emerging risks, share insights on proactive defense strategies, and discuss how organizations can leverage threat intelligence and automation to stay resilient. Expect practical takeaways on balancing innovation with security in an increasingly complex digital world.

The Human Element and Securing Identity: Building a Cyber-Aware Culture

Join cybersecurity strategists and evangelists for an engaging conversation on why the human factor remains a critical vulnerability in cybersecurity.

They’ll dive into real-world examples of social engineering, insider threats, and the psychology behind phishing susceptibility. The discussion will highlight effective training programs, cultural shifts, and leadership strategies to foster a security-first mindset across organizations, with actionable tips for engaging non-technical employees.

We will also explore what organizations are doing about securing the identities within their environment by securing their privileges by using modern techniques to secure their keys

The Role of AI in Cybersecurity: The Rise of Agentic AI

This panel won’t hold back as it digs into how agentic systems are changing the game: autonomous detection, self-directed incident response, and proactive defense that acts without waiting for human input.

But these same capabilities are now in the hands of attackers, powering adaptive malware, real-time deepfake campaigns, and automated social engineering that learns on the fly. With insights from security leaders and frontline practitioners, you’ll get a clear-eyed view of both the promise and the peril.

Whether you’re adopting Agentic AI or bracing for its use against you, this session will show you what’s coming next.

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