When the stakes are high, your presence shapes how people respond to your ideas, your decisions, and your leadership. In this dynamic workshop, executive communication expert Dennis Kenney explores how to command attention, build credibility, and bring a room with you. Drawing on his work with executives and media personalities, Dennis shares strategies for turning complex ideas into compelling messages and bringing greater authority, energy, and connection to every interaction. Attendees will leave with a fresh perspective on their own presence and practical ways to communicate with impact, from the boardroom to the stage.

Many CIOs successfully stabilize systems and deliver early wins, only to find their influence plateauing just as the business expects more. Based on insights from his book "Digital Inside Out", Nicholas Colisto explores the critical mid-tenure inflection point where technology leaders must shift from managing platforms to shaping business outcomes. Attendees will leave with a practical perspective on leading digital transformation from the inside out, turning external market signals into lasting organizational impact.

Regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, and systemic risk are the ultimate excuses used to stall production-level AI. But while some organizations hide behind guardrails, industry trailblazers are weaponizing them to move faster.  

This session unites elite technology executives across Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, and Retail to debunk the "highly regulated" bottleneck. Discover how market leaders are aggressively forcing core modernization, protecting critical infrastructure, and scaling autonomous workflows without tripping over strict compliance parameters

Legacy Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) was built for a static world, leaving a massive visibility gap across human identities, non-human accounts, and autonomous AI agents. As enterprise environments scale, traditional tools struggle to keep up with fragmented access across hybrid ecosystems. In this session, Vijay Vattikuti explores how a unified, real-time identity graph closes the governance gap.

Attendees will discover how to layer continuous visibility over existing incumbent tools, or replace them entirely, to secure every human and machine identity across the modern enterprise.

AI can now convincingly impersonate a human (deepfakes) and act in place of one (agents). Enterprise identity was built for neither. Today’s identity controls verify devices and credentials - not the human behind them. Attackers are exploiting this gap at critical trust moments: remote hiring fraud, help desk compromise, and credential sharing. As employees spin up agents to act on their behalf, often faster than security can see them, the question only gets harder: which real person is accountable for what an agent just did? iProov CTO Dominic Forrest covers why proving genuine human presence is a critical missing control in an increasingly digital, remote, and agentic enterprise, and where to apply it first.

Generative AI is accelerating software development faster than ever, leaving security teams with a critical question: are we actually shipping features faster, or are we just piling up security debt at scale? Without the right guardrails, code generated by AI frequently introduces vulnerable patterns and unverified dependencies straight into enterprise pipelines.

Join Veracode’s CISO alongside industry security leaders for an honest, practical discussion on moving past the AI hype, managing real-world risk, tracing code provenance, and establishing clear accountability when machines write the code.

Enterprises often ask teams to innovate while still requiring them to follow the same approval chains, delivery processes, and technology decisions that slow change. Capable people can see a better way forward, but they rarely have the freedom to try it.

In this talk, Chris Blackburn, founder and CEO of Liatrio, shares an approach shaped by more than a decade of work with complex enterprises: build a small team outside the organization’s usual constraints. Give that team a clear problem, the authority to make decisions, and room to work differently. Then let the results challenge the rules the enterprise has come to accept.

Join Chris for a roadmap to giving teams the space to prove a better approach, then using that proof to change the decisions and structures that determine how the wider enterprise works.

Everyone's talking about AI in security, but we're overlooking a crucial question on the mechanics of successful implementation: can AI actually force-multiply the security team once the pilot's finished? In this session, practitioners get honest about the pragmatic aspects of getting AI to work reliably in the SOC. It starts with governance: who owns AI decisions and how the guardrails get set before anything ships. Then choosing the right use case: telling an impressive demo apart from real impact. Next, the reality of deployment: how pilots get validated, how success is measured, and where it commonly fails. And finally culture and buy-in: getting analysts to trust and adopt AI-assisted workflows rather than work around them. These four decisions can determine whether automation transforms a team or frustrates it, but teams risk making them by default rather than by design.

AI agents are either about to transform your business, compromise everything you run, or both, depending on which vendor you asked last.

This talk is a game show. We take the five claims you've heard most this year about AI agents, autonomous attackers, agents as insider threats, and the rest, and judge each one live: fact, fiction, or FUD. The verdicts come from what practitioners are actually experiencing: real deployment states, real incidents, and real controls, drawn from ten months of conversations with teams running real agents today.

You'll leave able to separate the shift that's genuinely underway from the noise around it, with a shorter list of things worth your attention. You've got your intuitions; we'll bring the scorecard.

Generative AI delivered the first wave of productivity gains. The next wave, AI agents that act across business systems, is where real transformation happens, and where risk compounds. Every agent logs in, holds permissions and acts on the business’s behalf. That makes every AI initiative an identity decision, whether or not security was in the room.

This session shows how leaders can scale agentic AI without scaling identity risk:

• See every AI agent in your environment, whether it holds its own identity or acts on a person’s access, and the paths it opens into Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta
• Extend governance consistently to human, machine and agent identities
• Keep the business running, and recover, when an AI-dependent process or the identity system behind it is compromised

In an increasingly automated world, trust remains uniquely human. Join StandOutIn90Sec host Ashwin Krishnan for a live podcast on how tech leaders can use personal storytelling to build authentic recognition, foster team belonging, and drive executive trust across the enterprise.

As generative AI reshapes the enterprise landscape, leaders face new challenges - and opportunities - in harnessing the full power of their data. Join us to explore how unified data access, robust governance, and cloud-portable architectures are accelerating the adoption of Gen-AI across industries.

As AI automates routine work, teams across IT and marketing are feeling the strain: constantly shifting toolsets, mounting burnout, and a growing “techno-insecurity,” the worry that leaning on machines is quietly eroding human judgment and creativity.

This session gives IT and marketing leaders a practical blueprint for leading through the disruption. Learn how to design roles that put AI to work while elevating uniquely human strengths like critical thinking, strategy, and creativity, and how to keep your teams connected, confident, and engaged as the way work gets done keeps changing.

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