10:15 ~ 10:30
Universal Basic Indignity: Can we offer a better alternative? (Jackson Blazensky, CTO, Basilica Digital)
07:30 ~ 08:30
Register Open
08:30 ~ 09:30
A Keynote Speaker 2
09:30 ~ 10:00
Tea Time
10:00 ~ 10:15
Opening Industry: Anticipating the Adversary: Using AI and Early Warning Signals to Preempt Cyber Threats (Omkar Nimbalkar, Senior Manager, Cyber Threat Research, Adobe)
10:30 ~ 11:00
From Cybersecurity to Trust & Safety: When Platform Risk Becomes Social Infrastructure — and the Role of AI (Xiuduan Fang, Co-Founder & CTO, Precognition Labs, ex-Snap & ex-Google)
11:00 ~ 11:30
Identity-Centric AI: Detecting Lateral Movement Through Risk-Aware Identity Graphs
(Krupa Brahmkstri, Senior Manager- Data Science, VISA)
11:30 ~ 12:00
Automating Detection Authoring at Enterprise Scale
(Bulut, Fatih, Principal AI/ML Architect & Anjali Mangal, Senior Director Microsoft)
12:00 ~ 12:30
Zero Trust in the Age of AI: Rethinking Cybersecurity for a New Era
(Ashay Mohile, Senior Technical Program Manager, Meta)
12:30 ~ 13:30
Lunch
13:30 ~ 14:00
The Identity Crisis of Autonomous AI: Why Your Agents Need Cryptographic Proof
(Abdel Fane, Founder & CEO, OpenA2A Inc.)
14:00 ~ 14:30
Ensuring Sovereign Data Isolation Across Geolocated Data Centers
(Sahil Kawkaw, Senior Engg Manager, Oracle)
14:30 ~ 15:00
MCP: The Missing Security Layer for AI Agents
(Ashish Shubham, VP Engineering, ThoughtSpot Inc.)
15:00 ~ 15:30
SecurePrompt: Building a Pre-Flight Security Scanner for Agentic AI — A Practical Go Implementation
(Ravi Sastry Kadali, Software Engineer, Samsung)
15:30 ~ 16:00
Tea Time
16:00 ~ 16:30
Defending against Adversarial Misuse of AI: A Paradigm Shift to Preemptive Defense
(Suril Desai, VP Engineering, Acalvio)
16:30 ~ 17:00
Online Privacy Literacy: Measuring, Training, and Decision Making
(Srikant Suddekunte, Principal Consultant, Infosys Inc.)
17:00 ~ 18:00
Networking Times in Grand Ballroom
07:30 ~ 08:30
Register Open
08:30 ~ 09:30
A Keynote Speaker 3
09:30 ~ 10:00
Tea Time
10:00 ~ 10:15
Rethinking Security Automation: Systems, Languages, and Agents
(Xiaoming Zhou, Software Architect, ServiceNow)
10:15 ~ 10:30
Building Agentic Security: Scaling Threat Detection with LLM and Fleet Sweep Orchestration
(Sai kiran Uppu, Senior Security Researcher, Adobe)
10:30 ~ 11:00
Trusting AI for Cyber Defense: Quantifying Reliability, Explainability, and Impact
(Vaishali Vinay, Senior Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft)
11:00 ~ 11:30
One Engine to Rule Them All: How We Turned a Reliability Framework into a Security Powerhouse
(Akshay Pratinav, Software Engineer & Chaitanya Bhatt, Principal Software Engineer, Intuit Inc.)
11:30 ~ 12:00
Reconciliation as Security Control: Closed‑Loop GitOps for Multi‑Cloud Resource Governance
(Arun Pandiyan Perumal, Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe)
12:00 ~ 12:30
What is Agentic Web and why does it need an Internet-scale AI Perimeter?
(Karthik Uthaman, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft)
12:30 ~ 14:00
Conference Reception & Award Ceremony
14:00 ~ 14:30
When AI Agents Fail in Production: Security Lessons for Builders
(Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa, OWASP Chief Architect, Straiker Inc.)
14:30 ~ 15:00
Designing Cloud-Native Databases for Distributed Read Consistency
(Madhushree Kumari, IEEE Independent Researcher, Chair, IEEE YP Atlanta Chapter)
15:00 ~ 15:30
Zero Trust Architecture for Securing Critical Infrastructure, Enterprise, and IoT Systems
(Dharnisha Narasappa, Sr Network Architect, Versa Networks)
15:30 ~ 16:00
Using Identity Data to Reduce Security Risk
(Neha Prakash, Business Analyst, KR3 Information Systems Inc.)
16:00 ~ 16:30
Building Intelligent Healthcare Enterprises: The Convergence of AI, Data Architecture, and CRM Innovation (Sanjoy Mukherjee, Principal Architect & Associate Director, Cognizant Technology)
16:30 ~ 17:00
Closing SVCC 2026 by PC Chairs
Session Chairs
10:00 ~ 11:30
Vikrant Granda, Principal Tech. Manager, Figure
11:30 ~ 12:30
Sean Choi, Santa Clara University
13:30 ~ 14:30
Manohar Raavi, Kennesaw State University
16:00 ~ 17:00
Manohar Raavi, Kennesaw State University
Friday
10:00 ~ 11:30
Jun Dai, WPI
15:00 ~ 16:30
Hongxin Hu, University of Buffalo-SUNY
14:00 ~ 15:00
Wenjun Fan, University of Washington
Here is the list of people who will serve as session chairs for the industry talks. Please communicate with your session chair about your talk.
Thrusday
11:30 ~ 12:30
Sang-Yoon Chang, UCCS
14:00 ~ 15:30
Sujata Ramamoorthy, SJSU