State of Partnering: Industry Outlook, Trends, and Opportunities: The partner ecosystem is undergoing a massive transformation driven by AI, shifting consumption models, and platform economics. This keynote explores key trends shaping the future, including rapid AI growth, evolving go-to-market strategies, and emerging opportunities in cybersecurity and managed services.

Securing the Expanding AI Attack Surface: A practical look at emerging AI threats including data leakage, prompt injection, and model exploitation—and how to defend against them.

Trust Over Tokenomics: Driving AI ROI—How trust, security, and governance drive successful AI adoption at scale.

AI From Intent to Impact: Overcoming Blind Spots

Breakout sessions will feature experts from HPE Networking, ConRes IT Solutions and N-able, offering unique insights on timely and impactful topics.

Self-Driving Networks: AI for Campus & Branch. AI is rapidly shifting from concept to capability in campus and branch networking, pushing IT leaders to deliver measurable outcomes—not just experimentation. This session explores the evolution toward autonomous, self-driving networks and what it means for CIOs navigating rising complexity, security demands, and user expectations.

Identity Security: Human & Non-Human—A deep dive into identity as the modern security perimeter and how to manage growing identity risks across users, APIs, and AI agents.

AI Security, Compliance & Risk Reduction—This session will explore today’s evolving threat landscape, including the rise of AI-powered attacks and the real challenges organizations face in securing their environments. We’ll walk through how modern cyberattacks unfold, where traditional defenses fall short, and what it takes to move from compliance-driven security to a truly resilient, layered approach. Leveraging insights from Adlumin, we’ll highlight how AI is transforming detection and response.

Leading in the Age of AI: Thriving in a World That Won’t Slow Down—Artificial intelligence is accelerating the pace of change across every organization, placing new demands on leaders and teams. In this keynote, Ron Utterbeck explores four critical capabilities for success in this environment: adaptability, continuous learning, emotional intelligence, and talent development. Attendees will leave with practical insights to lead more effectively and build teams that can thrive in an AI-driven world.

Microsoft Copilot & AI in Action: AI is moving faster than most organizations can govern it. As shadow AI, security risks, and licensing complexities grow, enterprises need a smarter way to scale. This session explores how organizations are using Microsoft E7 to drive AI adoption securely, control costs, and create measurable business impact.

Agentic AI: Your New Adversary Doesn’t Sleep: Agentic AI is not an incremental evolution in cyber capability—it is a step-function change that marks a true inflection point in risk. As autonomous AI systems begin to plan, execute, and iterate on objectives with minimal human intervention, the constraints that historically limited cyber-attacks—time, expertise, and scale—are rapidly dissolving. This presentation explores how agentic AI enables machine-speed reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and exploitation across entire digital environments simultaneously, fundamentally shifting the threat landscape from targeted campaigns to continuous, adaptive pressure. We will examine how this acceleration compresses defender response windows, erodes traditional control effectiveness, and lowers the barrier to entry for sophisticated attacks. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of why existing security models are becoming obsolete, what new attack patterns are emerging, and how organizations must rethink detection, response, and resilience strategies to operate in an era where adversaries are no longer human-paced, but AI-driven.

The Alibi Machine: Why Your AI Strategy Is Lying—This session will explore today’s evolving threat landscape, including the rise of AI-powered attacks and the real challenges organizations face in securing their environments. We’ll walk through how modern cyberattacks unfold, where traditional defenses fall short, and what it takes to move from compliance-driven security to a truly resilient, layered approach. Leveraging insights from Adlumin, we’ll highlight how AI is transforming detection and response.

Managing Reality: The Next Evolution of Devices, Data, and AI—A forward-looking session on how environments are evolving beyond traditional devices to include sensors, automation, and AI-driven “digital workers”—and what that means for security, visibility, and managed services.