
San Francisco CISO Virtual Executive Summit
May 4, 2021 | 8:15am - 3:30pm PDT
May 4, 2021 | 8:15am - 3:30pm PDT
Collaborate with your peers
Come together with your peers virtually to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the San Francisco CISO Virtual Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Accelerating security to match the pace of digital business initiatives
Managing the risk created from a landscape of new core technologies
Achieving sustainability for the CISO role without compromising outcomes
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Yassir Abousselham
Splunk
CISO

Krishnan Chellakarai
Gilead Sciences
Head of Information Security & Data Privacy (CISO)

Al Ghous
Envision Digital
CISO

Jeff Trudeau
Chime
CISO
What to Expect
Connect with your CISO community through a variety of different session formats at the upcoming Virtual Executive Summit. You'll have the opportunity to listen, engage and create lasting relationships with like-minded peers.
Meet the Speakers
Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CISO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the San Francisco community.
Agenda
May 4, 2021
11:30am - 12:15pm PDT Virtual Summit Keynote
Building Better Relationships With Your Board

Selim Aissi
CISO
ICE Mortgage Technology

Marina Levinson
Board Member
Grid Dynamics
Do you have a champion on the board who you can trust? Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to have someone to support your ideas even when you aren't present in board meetings. It doesn't have to be such a farfetched thought.
Bring your questions to this keynote that will explore:
- Tactics on building a better relationship and finding a champion
- Creative ways to gain trust inside the board
- Finding the right opportunities to make change for the benefit of the company and shareholders
12:15pm - 12:30pm PDT Break
12:30pm - 1:00pm PDT Networking
Giving Back - A Networking Session

Krishnan Chellakarai
Head of Information Security & Data Privacy (CISO)
Gilead Sciences

Lucia Milica
Global Resident CISO
Proofpoint
8:00am - 8:15am PDT Opening Comments
Virtual Executive Summit Kickoff
Join us for a quick welcome and kickoff.
8:15am - 9:15am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Securing the Sprawling Endpoint
Hosted by VMware Carbon Black

Dan Graney
Head of Competitive Intel
VMware Carbon Black

Yassir Abousselham
CISO
Splunk

Surbhi Tugnawat
CISO
SRI International
The global health pandemic has forced CISOs into a new era of evolving challenges. With fully remote workforces and assets continuously moving to the cloud, securing endpoint protection has never been more critical. So how are CISOs deploying next-generation endpoint protection to solve these obstacles?
Join this interactive session to discuss:
- Securing critical applications even in a state of compromise
- Tactics for monitoring a sprawling attack surface
- Leveraging new technologies to quantify threats
8:15am - 9:15am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Fostering Innovation in the World of Risk Aversion
Hosted by Devo

Julian Waits
General Manager Cyber Business Unit
Devo

Jack Leidecker
CISO
Gong.io
In cybersecurity, the goal is to minimize risk. However, adversaries are agile in their efforts to subvert security measures and innovation is required to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. What must CISOs do to run an efficient SOC while still mitigating risk?
Join this this session to discuss:
- The biggest risks in cyber today
- Attacks that have resulted in reactive or proactive changes
- Strategies to drive innovation in your program
8:15am - 9:15am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Next-Gen Third Party Risk

Friedrich Wetschnig
CISO
Flex

Jitendra Joshi
Head of Information Security
BetterUp
In this era of digital transformation, organizations rely heavily on their third parties, however, third-party relationships come with risks. To help mitigate those risks, CISOs must work closely with their partners to ensure security.
Join this session to discuss:
- Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
- How to create an accurate inventory of all vendors within your ecosystem
- What to do when your third party gets breached
9:15am - 10:15am PDT Virtual Summit Keynote
Innovation Spotlight
Hosted by YL Ventures

Yaniv Bar-Dayan
CEO & Founder
Vulcan

Avi Shua
CEO & Co-Founder at Orca Security
Orca Security

Lior Levy
CEO & Co-Founder
Cycode

John Brennan
Partner
YL Ventures
Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.
Join this session to learn and explore:
- Vulcan’s risk analytics and remediation orchestration
- Cycode’s DevOps Pipeline Security, Governance & Integrity
- Orca Security’s cloud security risk detection in your cloud environment
10:15am - 10:30am PDT Break
10:30am - 11:30am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Is Identity and Access Enlightenment Possible?
Hosted by Duo Security

Wolf Goerlich
Advisory CISO
Duo Security

Mahesh Ayyala
SVP Engineering & Technology
Bank of the West

Michael Wolfe
Principal Cyber-Security Consultant
Blue Shield of California
What would it mean for the world of business if an organization could fully and effortlessly manage the access of its users? Every enterprise requires safeguards to ensure that the right people are accessing the right systems and information, and finding that balance between agility and security is a unique challenge for any CISO. After so many years spent tackling this issue, has a new way forward revealed itself?
Join this session to discuss:
- Prudent approaches to right-size the balance of security controls and agile access
- Ways your peers discuss strategy for trust and access with other senior leaders
- New technologies that are improving the world of IAM
10:30am - 11:30am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Automation for Improved Data Intelligence
Hosted by BigID

David Tugwell
Senior Director, Information Security/CISO
Agilent Technologies

Cassie Crossley
Director, Cybersecurity
Schneider Electric

Roger Hale
CSO
BigID
You can’t protect what you can’t find — so how do you find regulated and sensitive data? How can security leaders accurately classify, inventory, and know their data in a fragmented data landscape of diverse data formats, schemas, content, and metadata types? How can organizations get ahead of today’s data security challenges?
In this session, you will discuss
- Strategies for attaining a comprehensive data asset inventory
- Challenges and approaches for continuous compliance
- Methods of ML & AI to reduce risk, gain context, and find data
10:30am - 11:30am PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom
Metrics that Matter – Driving Confidence in Your Security Program
Hosted by ReliaQuest

Gaurav Kulkarni
VP of Solutions Architecture
ReliaQuest

Leda Muller
CISO/Assistant Director of Support Services
Stanford University
Security leaders make large investments in technologies and people to protect the business. However, many leaders find it challenging to measure the effectiveness of their program in reducing the highest risks to the business. How do you confidently measure effectiveness and communicate threat mitigation across your organization’s stakeholders?
In this discussion, you will learn:
- Why traditional metrics fall short of communicating security risk and value
- How continuous measurement shows progress over time and the next priority for investment, in either people or technology
- How the right metrics will benefit the business and win investment for security
1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT Virtual Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues
May 4, 2021
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