April 20, 2026
SINET VIP Reception for Speakers, Sponsors, and Platinum Members Only.

April 21, 2026
SINETSilicon Valley

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Registration 

8:30 AM – 4:50 PM

General Session
Hahn Auditorium

8:30 AM – 8:40 AM

Welcome Remarks
Robert Rodriguez, Chairman of SINET and Venture Partner, SYN Ventures

8:40 AM – 9:20 AM

Building Trust in Agentic AI: Securing Platforms and Ecosystems to Accelerate Innovation
Abstract: AI agents already outnumber employees 100:1, operating with real access to production systems and almost no visibility from security or IAM. They authenticate through non-human identities and exist almost entirely outside existing controls. Most enterprises don’t know what’s running in their environment, let alone what it’s permitted to do.

This panel brings together security leaders to cut through the noise on agentic AI security: where it has to start, and what it actually takes to move from visibility to enforcement so enterprises can adopt AI at speed without losing control of what it can do.

Moderator
Gene Golovinsky, Vice President of Product & AI Security, ServiceNow

Panelists
Idan Gour, Co-Founder & President, Astrix Security
Rick Orloff, VP, CISO, Pure Storage
Pathik Patel, Cloud Security, Salesforce
Hemanta Swain, VP and Product CISO, HP
Chirag Shah, Global Information Security Officer & DPO, ModelN

9:20 AM – 10:00 AM

Built to Endure: Cyber Resilience in a Volatile Threat Landscape
Abstract: Cyber resilience has become a strategic imperative as organizations face an increasingly volatile and sophisticated threat landscape. This panel explores how enterprises can move beyond prevention to ensure continuity, rapid recovery, and adaptive defense. Experts will discuss integrating resilience into architecture, leveraging zero trust principles, strengthening incident response, and aligning cybersecurity with business risk. Attendees will gain actionable insights into designing, measuring, and sustaining cyber resilience in the face of evolving adversaries, regulatory pressures, and operational complexity across modern digital ecosystems.

Moderator
Andy Stone, Chief Technology Officer – Americas, Pure Storage

Panelists
Kurt John, CISO, Con Edison
Pete Kim, Executive Director, Special Programs, RTX
Scott Stransky, Managing Director, Head of the Cyber Risk Intelligence Center, Marsh
Randa Zarifeh, Director, TELUS
Mrityunjay Gautam, CISO, Instacart

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Governing AI: Data-Aware AI and the Rise of Agentic Security
Abstract: We are entering an era where AI is not just generating output. It is taking action. Agentic systems create new identities, new execution paths, and new data flows. The attack surface expands accordingly. Governing this reality demands a shift in mindset. The model is not the primary risk. The data is. Security leaders must treat live data awareness as the foundation for AI oversight, extending zero trust to agents, supervising behavior in motion, and embedding policy directly into AI decision loops. This discussion focuses on what changes now, what breaks next, and how enterprises can build AI systems that are autonomous by design and accountable by default.

Moderator
Chenxi Wang, PhD, Managing General Partner, Rain Capital

Panelists
Teza Mukkavilli, CIO & CISO, Tekion Corp
Ken Ricketts, CISO, Teradata
Dimitri Sirota, CEO, BigID
Satyam Das, EVP – Head of Technology Risk Management & CIRO, Santander U.S.

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM – 11:40 AM

From Signal to Decision: Executive Judgement in the First 24 Hours of an Incident
Abstract: Accelerated decision-making while balancing speed, accuracy, legal obligations, and business impact in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Moderator
Brendan Rooney, Global Incident Response Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton

Panelists
James Beeson, Interim CISO, R1 RCM
Randy Vickers, Deputy CISO, National Student Clearinghouse
Pavi Ramamurthy, CISO & CIO, Blackhawk Network
Jim Higgins, CISO, CoreWeave

11:40 AM – 12:20 PM

Build vs. Buy in AI Security: Separating Signal from Noise in the Enterprise
Abstract: Many organizations are reevaluating their build vs. buy strategy as coding agents make giant leaps forward in capabilities. Some risk executives are freezing planned purchases, consolidating to “best-of-platform-breed”, and building composable, custom-built tooling in house. Others are preaching caution after struggling with latency, cost, governance, and reliability as demos move toward production.

This panel will examine how enterprises are evaluating the age-old build vs. buy decision with respect to securing AI usage and deploying AI for the security org. We’ll share early wins and real battle scars with a focus on (i) enabling experimentation without chaos, (ii) deploying healthy friction through guardrails and human‑in‑the‑loop controls, (iii) managing exploding code volume in CI/CD, and (iv) pressure‑testing claims that traditional AppSec is dead in the wake of agentic systems and new testing paradigms.

Moderator
Danny Hatfield, Managing Director – Venture Banking, Stifel

Panelists
Prakash Kalaiah, Head of Security, Enphase Energy
Disha Agarwal, Vice President, Security Engineering, Cisco
Satish Laxminarayanan, Field CTO, Cloudflare
Timothy Torres, Chief Security Officer, TriNet
Jake Seid, Co-Founder and General Partner, Ballistic Ventures

12:20 PM – 1:10 PM

Lunch

1:10 PM – 1:50 PM

Detective vs Preventive Cyber Practices: Where Should You Be Investing Your Cyber Budget?
Abstract: Cybersecurity investment is increasingly defined by tradeoffs between prevention and detection, raising important questions about priorities, outcomes, and risk tolerance. This panel will focus on how organizations allocate resources across these approaches, and what those choices signal about confidence in stopping threats versus responding to them. In an era shaped by automation and AI-driven attacks, the stakes of that balance are growing, challenging organizations to reconsider where security spending delivers the greatest impact.

Moderator
Rich Baich, SVP, CISO, AT&T

Panelists
Upendra Mardikar, CISO, TIAA
Gary Vaughan, Sector CISO, Space Systems, Northrop Grumman
Eric Tan, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Goodwin
Jeff Lunglhofer, CISO, Coinbase

1:50 PM – 2:30 PM

Bigger Phish to Fry – The Acceleration of Fraud and Phishing in The Age of AI
Abstract: As artificial intelligence advances, fraud and phishing are accelerating in both scale and sophistication, reshaping the nature of digital deception. Enterprises are now dealing with a threat landscape where attacks are faster to produce, more convincing, and increasingly difficult to detect. From hyper-personalized messages to synthetic identities, the boundaries between legitimate and malicious interactions continue to blur. This shift raises critical questions about trust, verification, and vulnerability in an AI-driven world, where the tools enabling innovation are equally empowering new forms of exploitation across industries and everyday digital experiences.

Moderator
Jeremy Gibb, Global Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, & Compliance Leader – Managing Director

Panelists
Pritam Mungse, Head of Security, Poshmark
Jeremiah Salzberg, Chief Security Technologist, CDW
Jeremy Embalabala, CISO, HUB International
Sid Patel, Special Agent, FBI Field Office, Sacramento, FBI
Leda Muller, Chief Information Security, Privacy Officer, R&DE, Stanford University

2:30 PM – 3:10 PM

The Identity Renaissance: Capitalizing on the Agentic AI Security Gap
Abstract: In 2026, the “Identity Perimeter” is the primary theater of cyber warfare. Devastating software supply chain attacks, which weaponized autonomous “attacker-hosted” runners, proved that legacy IAM is mathematically incapable of defending the modern enterprise. As organizations shift toward Agentic AI, where autonomous entities outnumber human users 50-to-1, a massive structural “Identity Gap” has emerged, creating the decade’s most significant venture opportunity in cybersecurity.

This panel will discuss the idea that identity is no longer a compliance cost, but the fundamental control plane for the autonomous era:

• Why the failure of static secrets is triggering a “rip-and-replace” cycle, favoring new platforms built for Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance.
• The call for a unified Identity Fabric. We analyze which startups are successfully collapsing silos between CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Workloads, and AI Agents.
• Utilizing the SINET Risk Executive Handbook on Identity maturity framework to identify “Alpha” in the market—specifically the transition from binary login to Continuous, Behavioral Authentication for AI agents.
• As “Identity-First” security becomes the mandatory prerequisite for enterprise AI adoption, we discuss the valuation delta between legacy incumbents and agent-native disruptors.

Join us for a high-stakes briefing on why the next generation of “Identity-Aware” infrastructure is the cornerstone of the $1T autonomous economy.

Additional resource: The AI Revolution: It’s Here, It’s Big, and Identity Will Unleash Its Full Power

Moderator
Robert Rodriguez, Chairman of SINET and Venture Partner, SYN Ventures

Panelists
Taher Elgamal, CTO, Salesforce
Carey Frey, CSO, CISO, VP, TELUS
Nick Reva, Director, Engineering Security, DoorDash
Mark Rushing, MD – Head of Cybersecurity Technology, Citi
Rohan Singla, CISO, ChargePoint

3:10 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM – 4:10 PM

Securing What You Don’t Control: Software Supply Chain Risk
Abstract: Software supply chain risk remains a critical concern as organizations depend on a vast ecosystem of third-party vendors, open-source components, and external development tools. Vulnerabilities introduced at any stage, from code development to integration and distribution, can propagate widely, often without immediate visibility. This interconnected model expands the attack surface and complicates traditional approaches to security and accountability. As software becomes increasingly composable and distributed, managing risk requires greater transparency into dependencies, stronger assurance of code integrity, and more rigorous evaluation of how software is built, maintained, and delivered across the broader ecosystem.

Moderator
Nick Shevelyov, CEO and Managing Partner, vCSO.ai

Panelists
Richard Barretto, SVP, CISO, Progress
Deepali Bhoite, CISO, Quickbase
Mike LoSapio, CISO, Palantir Technologies
David Tsao, CISO, Notion
Sunny Nain, CISO, Intuit Credit Karma

4:10 PM – 4:50 PM

Next Generation of SOC

Moderator
Che Bhatia, Managing Director, LevelBlue

Panelists
Jimmy Sanders, Sr. Director of Information Security, Save Mart
Scott Bowden, CISO, Physicians Mutual
Larry Zelvin, Head, Security Advisory, Bank of Montreal (BMO)
Jeff Zygmunt, Head of IT Cybersecurity, Enstar Group

4:50 PM

Closing Remarks 

4:50 PM

General Reception