Move from Proactive Defense to Preemptive Resilience

FC, aka Freakyclown, is a world-renowned ethical hacker, social engineer, and bestselling author of How I Rob Banks. With over 30 years experience, he has helped banks, governments, and global organizations uncover vulnerabilities by thinking like an adversary. A former Head of Offensive Cyber Research at Raytheon and now co-founder of cybersecurity firm Cygenta, FC brings deep insight into how nation-states and sophisticated attackers operate, and how to defend against them. Known for his engaging, story-driven style, he blends real-world exploits with practical lessons that challenge leaders to rethink security in today’s AI-driven threat landscape. His talks offer a rare, inside-the-mind-of-a hacker perspective, equipping executives and security teams to anticipate and outmaneuver modern cyber threats.

Prudential Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through PGIM, Retirement Strategies, Group Insurance, Individual Life, and International Businesses segments. The PGIM segment offers investment management services and solutions related to public fixed income, public equity, real estate debt and equity, private credit and other alternatives, and multi-asset class strategies to institutional and retail clients, as well as its general account. The Retirement Strategies segment provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products. The Group Insurance segment offers various group life, and long-term and short-term group disability, as well as group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States primarily for institutional clients for use in connection with employee and membership benefits plans; sells accidental death and dismemberment, and other supplemental health solutions; and plan administration services in connection with its insurance coverages. The Individual Life segment develops and distributes variable life, universal life, and term life insurance products. The International Businesses segment develops and distributes life insurance, retirement products, investment products, and certain accident and health products; and advisory services. The company provides its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Founded in 2013, Corelight is a company that offers network traffic analysis solutions for cyber security offering cloud protraction and data security. Corelight is located in California.

Joseph Zhou is a transformation-focused security and technology leader - part operator, part builder - who translates complex technical challenges into business velocity. Currently serving as the Americas CISO at SHEIN, Joseph leads Global Security Engineering & Product Security for a highly distributed enterprise encompassing over 2,000 applications and 6,000–7,000 engineers. Known for building and scaling AI-powered security and technology platforms that unlock competitive advantage in high-ambiguity environments, he has successfully scaled global teams across APAC, EU, and the Americas. Under his leadership, security engineering, GenAI, cryptography, and application security are seamlessly integrated into a unified, planetary-scale ecommerce platform.