Do I know you? Conference focus:
Modern identity now includes people, service accounts, APIs, machine workloads, autonomous agents, and the systems that grant them authority. Do I Know You brings the East Bay cybersecurity community together to examine how organizations can verify identity, govern access, detect abuse, and preserve trust across human and non-human environments.
- Non-human and AI agent identities, including service accounts, workload identities, and API keys
- Identity threat detection and response for credential abuse, session hijacking, and privilege escalation
- Zero Trust IAM architecture, continuous authentication, and dynamic access controls
- Biometrics, synthetic identity, deepfakes, and identity-centered social engineering
- Practical identity alignment with OWASP guidance for LLM and agentic AI security
Conference experience
The day combines main auditorium keynotes, flexible technical breakouts, demonstrations, question-and-answer sessions, panel discussions, an exhibition area, a Partner Lounge, and structured networking. Full breakfast, a networking lunch, and an afternoon cake break are included in the day.
Recorded playback access will be available for selected sessions. Don’t worry if you miss a favorite presenter. QR codes to attend their future and past webinars are provided at every vendor station. Attendees may earn up to 13 CPEs through the combined live and playback program.
| Conference information | Details |
|---|---|
| Date | Friday, November 13, 2026 |
| Conference hours | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM PST; event setup begins at 7:30 AM |
| Venue | Las Positas College, Building 2400, Parking Lot E, Livermore, CA, and outdoor weather-resilient tented campus grounds, Livermore, California |
| CPE credits | 8 CPEs for full-day live attendance plus up to 5 CPEs through recorded playback access Volunteers and Speakers earn up to 5 additional CPEs |
| Audience | 175–250 cybersecurity practitioners, CISOs, GRC leaders, entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and student scholars |
| Early Bird pricing goes on sale 9/17/2026 | Members: USD 100 Guests: USD 125 Full-time students: To be announced; proof of enrollment required |
Working conference agenda
| Time | Main program | Concurrent activity or status |
| 7:30 – 8:00 AM | Event setup and logistics readiness | Breakout rooms, tents, exhibitor stations, and staff setup |
| 8:00 – 8:45 AM | Registration and breakfast | Networking, booth visits, coffee, and breakfast service |
| 8:45 – 9:00 AM | Welcome and opening remarks | Robin Basham, Conference Chair – Introducing your committee and 2026 ISC2 East Bay Board |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM | Opening keynote on AI and human identity context | Abnormal Security; speaker to be announced |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM | Core identity management and Security OS | Vijay Vattikuti, Oak – Identity Security OS |
| 10:30 – 10:45 AM | Morning coffee and networking break | Exhibition area and tent conversations |
| 10:45 – 11:15 AM | The Two Sides of AI in Cybersecurity | Bob Gilbert, Netskope |
| 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | Runtime AI and cloud security platform showcase | Upwind Security |
| 12:15 – 12:45 PM | Networking lunch | Expo and Partner Lounge |
| 12:45 – 1:30 PM | Continuous autonomous testing and guardrails fireside chat | Rene Brandel, CEO, Casco; Partner Lounge networking |
| 1:30 – 2:15 PM | Flexible breakout block one | BalkanID, Corelight, Veria Labs, and Snyk; assignments being finalized |
| 2:15 – 3:00 PM | Flexible breakout block two | Redblock.ai, Horizon3.ai, Mavs.ai, and P0 Security; assignments being finalized |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Cake break, expo visits, and vendor Q&A | Exhibition Hall and vendor SME conversations |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Identity governance for non-human and machine workloads | Provisional Cyera session; sponsor and speakers not yet confirmed |
| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | CISO and Cyber Leaders panel, closing remarks, vendor giveaways, and Conference Feedback & CPE distribution | Closing assembly in the main auditorium; teardown follows from 5:00 to 5:30 PM |
Featured Platinum speakers and session leaders
Keynote: AI and human identity context
About your speaker
About Abnormal
Abnormal AI (abnormal.ai) is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. The anomaly detection engine leverages identity and context to understand human behavior and analyze the risk of every cloud email event—detecting and stopping sophisticated, socially engineered attacks that target human vulnerability.
Keynote: Core Identity Management and Security OS
About Vijay Vattikuti
About Oak – Identity Security OS
Keynote: The Two Sides of AI in Cybersecurity
About Bob Gilbert
About Netskope
Netskope (netskope.com) is a leader in modern security, networking, and analytics for the cloud and AI era. The unique architecture of its Netskope One platform enables real-time, context-based security for people, devices, and data wherever they go, and optimizes network performance—without trade-offs or sacrifices. Thousands of customers and partners trust the Netskope One platform, its patented Zero Trust Engine, and its powerful NewEdge Network to reduce risk, simplify converged infrastructure, and provide full visibility and control over cloud, AI, SaaS, web, and private application activity.
Keynote: Runtime AI and cloud security platform showcase
About your speaker
About Upwind
Luncheon served in the Partner Lounge and the Platinum Galley, followed by a fireside chat.
Keynote: Continuous autonomous testing and guardrails – a fireside chat
About Rene Brandel, CEO, Casco
About Casco
Casco (casco.com) provides autonomous security testing for web applications, APIs, infrastructure, and AI systems. Moving beyond traditional, intermittent penetration testing, Casco offers “always-on” security that integrates directly into the development lifecycle. The platform utilizes advanced intelligence to identify critical vulnerabilities, such as broken object-level authorization and prompt injection. Every finding is safely exploited to prove its business impact. Casco also allows users to one-click retest and generate code fixes for every finding. Casco is trusted by over 250 companies, from high-growth startups like CrewAI to large enterprises like Gusto. As a Gold Sponsor of OWASP AI Exchange, Casco is committed to advancing AI-driven security standards for the global developer community.
Afternoon breakout sessions – meet legacy Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsors – Earn extra CPE – Register for their past and future ISC2 East Bay Chapter webinars
BalkanID – Live Session and Playback
About Subbu Rama
About BalkanID
BalkanID (balkan.id) provides modular, AI-assisted identity security and access governance (IGA) solutions designed to work with both connected and disconnected applications. Its platform streamlines critical tasks such as user access reviews, lifecycle automation with purpose-based just-in-time access, and identity security posture management (ISPM)—including IAM risk and RBAC analysis and an AI Copilot feature. By empowering organizations to enforce least privilege principles, BalkanID enables enterprises to efficiently manage complex identity risks at scale.
Corelight – Live Session and Playback
About Vern Paxson playback
About Bernard Brantley, CISO
About Michael Henkelmen, Leader
About Corelight
Corelight (corelight.com) is the pioneer and fastest-growing provider of Open Network Detection and Response (NDR), delivering a unique approach to cybersecurity risk centered on comprehensive network evidence. As the only solution powered by the dual open-source foundations of Zeek® and Suricata—now enhanced by GenAI—Corelight provides deep visibility into network traffic by transforming raw data into high-fidelity logs, metadata, and actionable insights. By equipping elite defenders at the world’s most mission-critical enterprises and government agencies with this rich evidence, the platform enables rapid threat hunting, forensic analysis, and complete situational awareness across complex, distributed environments. Ultimately, Corelight helps security teams level up their defenses, accelerating investigations and dramatically reducing the time required to detect and neutralize sophisticated attacks and model theft.
Veria Labs – Live Session and Playback
About Stephen Xu
About Cayden Liao
About Veria Labs
Veria Labs (verialabs.com) provides an AI-native offensive security platform designed for autonomous vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Founded by members of the #1 US competitive hacking team, Veria Labs builds specialized AI agents that integrate directly into Git repositories and CI/CD pipelines to analyze codebases continuously. These agents operate faster than human researchers, finding deep, complex vulnerabilities that traditional tools miss and generating real-world exploit PoCs to verify risk and eliminate false positives. By adapting to business logic and providing automated remediation, Veria Labs shifts offensive security left, enabling organizations to validate their security posture and secure critical vulnerabilities with high confidence and at machine speed.
Snyk – Live Session and Playback
About Javier Garza
About Snyk
Snyk (snyk.io) is the leader in developer security, providing an enterprise-grade, multi-layered platform powered by the DeepCode AI orchestration engine to secure every component of the modern software supply chain. By combining symbolic AI with machine learning, Snyk delivers real-time vulnerability scanning and automated fix suggestions across source code (SAST), open-source dependencies (SCA), container images, and infrastructure as code (IaC). Snyk’s technical edge lies in its curated vulnerability database and its ability to integrate directly into the developer workflow, enabling security leaders to implement global risk policies while empowering engineering teams to remediate security debt without sacrificing deployment velocity. By bridging the gap between security and development, Snyk provides the scalability, visibility, and auditability required for large-scale digital transformations and secure AI adoption.
Redblock.ai
About Indus Khaitan
About Redblock
Redblock’s Agentic AI (redblock.ai) automates identity and security workflows across disconnected apps — extending SailPoint and other identity systems for full coverage. It connects what Identity systems can’t, eliminates CSVs and IT tickets, and automates actions safely with policy guardrails. The result: a smaller identity attack surface in days, not months. Manual workflows become autonomous, auditable actions.
Horizon3.ai – Live Session and Playback
About Tony Taylor
About David Affonso
About Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai (horizon3.ai) provides NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform. It continuously assesses an organization’s internal and external attack surface, automatically discovers exploitable weaknesses, and verifies vulnerabilities without human intervention. By rigorously emulating real-world attacker behaviors and techniques, NodeZero identifies critical attack pathways and provides clear, actionable remediation steps to proactively strengthen security posture and continuously validate an organization’s defenses against evolving cyber threats, supporting a continuous security validation program.
Mavs.ai
About Amit Kharat
About Manjul Kubde
About Abhijit Tannu
About Mavs.ai
Mavs AI (mavsai.com) delivers smart guardrails, intelligent policy control, and real-time visibility for every GenAI interaction. They address specific risks like PII and sensitive data shared in prompts, prompt injections compromising systems, and misuse by business users or rogue application users. Mavs AI closes the gap where innovation outpaces safety guardrails, enabling enterprises to innovate fearlessly and scale AI responsibly.
P0 Security – Live Session and Playback
About Shashwat Sehgal
About P0 Security
P0 Security (p0.dev) is helping companies modernize PAM for multi-cloud and hybrid environments with the most agile way to ensure least-privileged, short-lived, and auditable production access for users, NHIs, and agents. Centralized governance, just-enough-privilege, and just-in-time controls deliver secure access to production, as simply and scalably as possible. P0’s Access Graph and Identity DNA data layer make up the foundational architecture that powers privilege insights and access control across all identities and production resources, including the new class of AI-driven agentic workloads emerging in modern environments.
HiddenLayer – Live Session and Malcolm Harkins’ March Keynote on playback
About Malcolm Harkins (Playback only – Sorry, he’s out of the country for this event.)
About Jason Martin
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer (hiddenlayer.com) HiddenLayer’s AI Security Platform secures agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications across the entire lifecycle, including AI discovery, AI supply chain security, AI attack simulation, and AI runtime security. Backed by patented technology and industry-leading adversarial AI research, HiddenLayer protects IP, ensures compliance, and enables safe adoption of AI at enterprise scale.
Intezer – Live Session and Playback
About Mitch Boles
About Intezer
Intezer (intezer.com) is the leading Autonomous SOC platform designed to emulate the decision-making process of a human security analyst at machine scale. By leveraging proprietary Genetic Malware Analysis, Intezer automatically triages, investigates, and responds to every alert originating from an organization’s existing security stack (EDR, SIEM, and Phishing reports). Unlike traditional automation that relies on rigid playbooks, Intezer’s AI-driven platform identifies the “DNA” of code to distinguish between trusted software, known threats, and sophisticated new mutations. This allows security teams to automate over 90% of their Tier 1 and Tier 2 monitoring tasks, effectively eliminating alert fatigue while ensuring that critical incidents are triaged and remediated in seconds rather than hours.
Stellar Cyber – Live Session and Playback
About Daniel Cheng
About Mayuresh Ektare
About Aime Wei
About Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber (stellarcyber.ai) is the innovator of Open XDR, the only intelligent, next-generation security operations platform that provides high-fidelity detection and response across the entire attack surface. By unifying EDR, SIEM, and NDR into a single, AI-driven interface, Stellar Cyber eliminates the data silos that traditional security tools create, providing a comprehensive, correlated view of the entire threat landscape. The platform uses advanced machine learning and behavioral analytics to automatically detect sophisticated attacks, reduce alert fatigue for security analysts, and significantly accelerate incident response workflows through a single, integrated “pane of glass.”
VulnCheck
About Erica Cunningham
About VulnCheck
Thank you to sponsors who will be appearing at the March 12th conference, The Debt Collector. We will see them there.
About netAlly
NetAlly (netally.com) offers portable network testing and analysis solutions essential for IT and cybersecurity professionals managing complex infrastructures. Its suite of tools provides deep visibility into both wired and wireless networks, enabling efficient troubleshooting of connectivity issues, precise validation of network performance, and verification of security configurations. This comprehensive approach helps ensure reliable network infrastructure, reduces downtime, and facilitates rapid issue resolution for enhanced operational stability and secure network operations.
About Happiest Minds
Happiest Minds Technologies (happiestminds.com) is an AI-led, digital engineering and “Mindful IT” company that delivers secure, scalable solutions spanning from chip to cloud. By integrating deep expertise in Gen AI with core capabilities in product engineering, cybersecurity, and automation, Happiest Minds helps enterprises across BFSI, Healthcare, and Hi-Tech fast-track their digital evolution. Their innovation-led strategy is supported by strategic partnerships with AWS and Microsoft, as well as a growing portfolio of proprietary platforms like Arttha and FuzionX.
Auditorium – Afternoon Sessions and Panel
Identity governance for non-human and machine workloads -Provisional Cyera session; sponsor and speakers not yet confirmed
About Sean Cordero
About Eddie Borrero
About Cyera
CISO & SVP, CEO and Founder, Keynote Panel Moderator
About your speaker
About Panelist 1
About Panelist 2
About Panelist 3
About Panelist 4
Meet Our Partners – don’t forget to enjoy spending some time with them during lunch and the fireside chat
ISACA San Francisco
ISACA Silicon Valley
CSA San Francisco
ISC2 North Bay
ISC2 Silicon Valley
Pacific Hackers
ISSA
AIUniversity
Distinguished Speaker Dinner
| Date and time | Thursday, November 12, 2026, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM |
| Location | McKay’s Beer Garden, Pleasanton, California |
| Hospitality | Dinner and open bar |
| Attendees | Keynote speakers, Platinum, Gold, and Silver sponsor representatives, Chapter Board members, invited CISOs, VIP guests, and ticketed members |
| Purpose | VIP networking, speaker alignment, pre-conference briefing, and relationship development with prospective partners for the March 2027 conference |
Partner Lounge and community ecosystem
The Partner Lounge creates space for collaboration with regional chapters and communities, including ISACA, ISC2, ISSA, Pacific Hackers, and CSA. BalkanID will provide an on-site videographer for practitioner spotlight interviews and selected conference coverage.
Accommodations
Recommended hotel: Courtyard by Marriott Livermore.
Our mission of shared stewardship
The ISC2 East Bay Chapter is incorporated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3), EIN 47-1242819. We view our sponsors as collaborative defense partners whose support funds student scholarships, workforce development, and local community education.
