Cybersecurity at the Speed of AI

KEYNOTE #1: Rethinking Data Security for National Defense in the AI Era

America's national security architecture was built to protect networks, inboxes, and devices — not the data itself. As AI accelerates how the federal government collects and acts on sensitive information, that gap has become a critical vulnerability. This keynote makes the case that the next generation of federal architecture must embed protection into the data itself, not the infrastructure around it. In the age of AI, data-centric security isn't a roadmap item — it's an operational imperative.

KEYNOTE #2: Autonomous Offense: AI, Agentic Pen Testing, and the Race to Patch Faster

This keynote will explore the rise of AI-powered red teaming, continuous autonomous penetration testing, and machine-scale vulnerability discovery. It will challenge security leaders to rethink patch velocity, exposure management, application security, and defensive automation in a world where exploit discovery accelerates dramatically.

Lunch & Networking Break

Panel 1: The AI-Native Enterprise: Securing Software, Data, and Decision-Making at Scale

AI has fundamentally changed the economics of attack and defense. Agentic systems can now probe environments, chain vulnerabilities, and operate continuously at a scale no human red team can match — and adversaries have access to the same capabilities as defenders. This panel brings together practitioners tackling what it means to secure software, data pipelines, and automated decision-making in an enterprise where AI is no longer optional and the threat landscape moves at machine speed.

Panel 2: Defense Tech Disruption: Mission Defense in the Age of AI and Great-Power Competition

Public sector cyber leaders are facing a convergence of pressures: AI-enabled adversaries, insider risk, sensitive data sprawl, supply chain exposure, coalition information sharing, and the need to modernize secure collaboration across agencies and mission partners. The perimeter is no longer enough, and national security missions increasingly depend on the ability to protect data wherever it moves.  This panel will explore how federal leaders are rethinking mission assurance, zero trust, data-centric security, insider-threat prevention, and public-private collaboration.

Networking Break

Panel 3: The CISO Mandate: AI Risk, Board Accountability, and Defensible Security Programs

The CISO role has become one of the most scrutinized jobs in the enterprise. Boards want measurable risk reduction. Regulators want accountability. Business units want AI adoption. Security teams are expected to move faster while defending against more automated, better-resourced adversaries.  This panel will bring together leading DMV-area CISOs for a practical discussion about what is actually changing in security leadership.

Panel 4: CMMC Becomes Real: What the Defense Industrial Base Must Do Now

CMMC has moved from planning exercise to business requirement for the defense industrial base. Contractors and subcontractors now face practical questions about controlled unclassified information, encryption, cloud collaboration, evidence collection, access governance, supplier risk, and executive accountability.  This panel will focus on what companies should prioritize now: how to identify and protect CUI, how to prepare for assessments, where organizations commonly underestimate the work, and how to treat CMMC not simply as a compliance mandate but as a forcing function for improving security outcomes.

Closing Remarks

Cocktail Reception

Join us for a networking happy hour!