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October 15 & 16, 202611:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET dailyJoin from anywhere

For the people building security programs that go beyond awareness to inspire action, ownership, and lasting change. Two days. One movement. A shared mission to make security part of how everyone works.

Two days. Two perspectives. One evolving conversation.

Day 1 puts champions at the center. Go deep on the work of building influence, growing engagement, proving impact, and creating the kind of program people actually want to be part of. Choose the track that speaks to your role, then come together with peers to tackle the challenges leaders and champions share. 

Day 2 looks ahead. Explore what happens when the same champion model meets AI, from adapting the programs you already have to building new networks of trusted advocates who can help your organization adopt AI securely. 

DAY 1

Building Security Through Champions

For the people building the program and the people making it happen.

Program Leaders Track

Launch it. Scale it. Prove it. Sustain it. Get into the strategies behind champion programs that earn engagement and deliver measurable impact.

Security Champions Track

Take security into the work. Explore real-world secure development, peer influence, and practical ways to make an impact inside engineering teams.

Closing discussion & breakouts

Get into the conversations that matter most: How do you prove value? Keep momentum? Build trust? Create activities people actually care about? And keep champions engaged for the long haul?

Day 2

How Champion Programs Are Evolving in the Era of AI

AI is changing the way people work. Your champion program needs to evolve with it.

A single shared track brings leaders and champions into the same conversation around practical AI adoption, secure behavior, and the role trusted people will play as AI moves deeper into the organization.

Adapt What You Already Have

Put your existing champion network to work in a new environment. Explore how copilots, embedded AI, and AI-driven workflows are changing the conversation around secure development.

Build an AI Champion Network

Take security beyond engineering. Learn how to build a network of trusted advocates across engineering, product, data, legal, compliance, and leadership to drive secure AI adoption.

Who this is for

Security champions

Engineers and product people carrying security into their teams who want practical tactics, not another policy deck.

Program leaders

AppSec leads and program owners responsible for recruiting, motivating and measuring a champions community.

Anyone navigating AI in the SDLC

Teams working out who approves what, where AI belongs in the review loop, and how governance survives contact with a pull request.

The Experts Taking the Stage

Meet the security leaders and champions bringing real-world experience to the conversation. From building programs from the ground up to driving engagement and adapting to AI, these experts are sharing what they’ve learned along the way.

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Michael Novack
Principal Engineer
DevAltus
Security Is Everyone's Job, So Why Doesn't It Feel Like It?
Day 1 keynote
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Michael Burch
Vice President of AI Adoption and Acceleration
Security Journey
Opening keynote — title to be announced
Day 2 keynote
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Scott Norberg
President & Founder
Opperis Technologies
There's Never Enough Time — Lessons From Building Two Security Champions Programs
Day 1 · Program Leaders
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Katelyn Falk
Lead Product Security TPM
Docusign
From Fatigue to Force Multipliers: Making Security Champions Stick
Day 1 · Program Leaders
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Juliane Reimann
Founder & Security Culture Enthusiast
FullCyrcle Security
Circle of Trust: How Trust and Psychological Safety Shape Security Collaboration
Day 1 · Program Leaders
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Sabrina Lavi
Security Champions Community Lead
Thales
Beyond Participation: Measuring What Security Champions Actually Change
Day 1 · Program Leaders
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Anthony Pipia
Senior Application Security Consultant
Optiv Consulting
Security Champions as an SDLC Force Multiplier
Day 1 · Program Leaders
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Akshay Manchanda
Product Manager, Engineering
Cisco Systems
The Breach Is in 2032. The Meeting Is Tuesday.
Day 1 · Champions
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Gurucharan Raghunathan
Cofounder & CEO
Trench Security
The Muscle Memory Problem: Growth Mindset for Champions in Agentic SecOps
Day 1 · Champions
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Brett Crawley
Principal Application Security Engineer
Mimecast
What AI Threat Modelling Does and Doesn't Do for Security Champions
Day 1 · Champions
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Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Security Engineer
Donnelley Financial Solutions
AI-Powered AppSec: Making Security Easier for Developers, Not Harder
Day 1 · Champions
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Anthony Russell
Principal Security Software Engineer
SquidSec
Groking the Kill Chain
Day 1 · Champions
KF
Kriti Faujdar
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft
Between Policy and Pull Requests: The AI Champion as Translator
Day 2
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Sammy Chuks
Founder
CyLynk
Day of 'Amalgeddon': Equipping the Human in the Loop
Day 2
HH
Hiral Humal
AI Governance & Risk Specialist
HH Consulting
Operationalizing AI Governance: Responsible AI Policy to Champion-Led Workflows
Day 2
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More to be announced

The lineup is just getting started.

More speakers. More perspectives. More reasons to join in on the conversation. Save your seat now and we’ll keep you in the loop as new speakers are announced and send you the full agenda as soon as it’s live.

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The full agenda is coming soon

We're still finalizing times and a few sessions. Here's the shape of the two days so you can plan around them.

Day 1 runs a shared keynote, then two focused tracks, then brings everyone back together for an extended discussion and breakout rooms to close. Day 2 stays as one track all day. Both run on Eastern Time with real breaks, a proper lunch, and time at the end to take the conversation further.
11:00 AM ET
Start time, both days
35 min
Typical session length
3
Tracks across the two days
5:00 PM ET
Day 1 close (Day 2 closes 4:30 PM ET)

Visit the virtual expo

Drop into a booth between sessions to see tooling, ask questions, and talk to the teams building for security champions. Booths stay open across both days.

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Registration is free, and one sign-up covers everything on October 15 and 16 — both days, both Day 1 tracks, the closing breakout rooms, the virtual expo, and the recordings afterwards.
Two days of sessions built for champions and the leaders behind them
End-of-day breakout rooms — small-group discussion, not another webinar
Live Q&A with every speaker
Session recordings sent to all registrants
The full agenda in your inbox the moment it's published
Free to attend — but breakout capacity is limited, and seats are allocated in registration order.

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