FEATURED SPEAKERS

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T.J. Oshie

Stanley Cup Winner, Olympian, and business owner.

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Gary Brickhouse

CISO, GuidePoint Security

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Jonathan Villa

Practice Director, Cloud Security, GuidePoint Security

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Felix Simmons

Director, Emerging Technology, GuidePoint Security

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Jake Plant

Strategic Delivery Manager, DFIR & GRIT, GuidePoint Security

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Arrivals, Vendor Fair & Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am - Cybersecurity Leadership Panel
Moderated by Gary Brickhouse, CISO, GuidePoint Security
Featuring: Tony Masgio, Vice President & Deputy CISO, Centene Corporation
Josh Bloss, Executive Vice President & CISO, Busey Bank
Jeremy Tripp, Senior Director of Technology, STL CITY

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Vendor Fair

10:30 am - 12:15 pm - Breakout Sessions

10:30 - 11:00 am - Choose the session most aligned with your role and interest

  • Identity Leadership Panel - moderated by Mark Whitesell, IGA Leader & Customer Excellence Lead, GuidePoint Security; featuring Vishal Rohilla, Director of Technical Strategy, AI at Okta, Richie Serna, Field CISO at Delinea, and Vijay Vattikuti, VP of Identity Strategy at Astrix
  • Data Security: The Missing Context - Pedro Ferriera, Director of Channel Enablement, Concentric AI with Zach Lewis, CISO, University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy
  • Agentic SOC Transformation - Gregg Evering, Field Tech Strategist, CrowdStrike

11:10 - 11:40 am - Choose the session most aligned with your role and interest

  • Operationalizing the CSA Framework for SaaS Security and Agentic AI - Bobby Grant, Account Executive, Valence & Jonathan Villa, Senior Practice Director, Cloud Security, GuidePoint Security
  • Cloud Security Maturity Framework - Haider Abdullah, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, WIZ
  • Data Security and the Insider - Terry Cordes, Senior Security Consultant, GuidePoint Security

11:45 - 12:15 pm - Choose the session most aligned with your role and interest

  • Your Pentest Report is Already Outdated: Building Continuous Threat Exposure Management in a National Health System - Ramzi Harb, Senior Solutions Architect, Horizon3 featuring Nic Fuehne, Ascension Health
  • Weaponizing AI for Cyber Defense: Journey to the Agentic SOC - Edward Wu, CEO & Founder, Dropzone
  • Establishing AI Governance as a Competitive Advantage - Jim Packer, Practice Lead - Data Security, Data Privacy, & AI Governance, GuidePoint Security


12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch & a Fireside Chat with T.J. Oshie hosted by Bryan Orme, Principal, GuidePoint Security

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Vendor Fair

2:00 - 2:30 pm - Choose the session most aligned with your role and interest

  • Beyond the AI Agent Hype: What's Actually Working in Security Operations - Tommy Scott, AI Sales Engineer Leader, 7AI
  • Navigating Modern Ransomware & Threat Actor Communications - Jake Plant, Strategic Delivery Manager, DFIR & GRIT, GuidePoint Security
  • Frontier AI: Defense at Machine Speed - Jake Bloom, Principal Platform Architect, Palo Alto Networks

2:30 - 3:00 pm - Choose the session most aligned with your role and interest

  • The AI Security Imperative - From Baseline to Battle-Ready - Felix Simmons, Director of Emerging Tech, GuidePoint Security
  • Optimizing OT Networks: Automated Asset Discovery for Proactive Cybersecurity - Dan Geisler, Armis with Nikki Hegdahl, GuidePoint Security, Dan Fisher, GuidePoint Security
  • Accelerate AI, Not Risk: Zscaler's End-to-End AI Security Platform - Venkat Lakshminarayanan, VP/CTO in Residence, Zscaler


3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Happy Hour on the Energizer Park Sideline