Cybersecurity

BSides Ahmedabad 2026

BSides Ahmedabad is India's longest running Security BSides Conference, now entering its 7th edition. The event brings together over 5,000 participants including hackers, CISOs, CIOs, corporates, law enforcement professionals, academicians, and cybersecurity experts. It fosters collaboration through high-impact talks, hands-on workshops, networking, and exhi…

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37Speakers
12Sponsors
4Exhibitors
22Sessions
43Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at BSides, in alphabetical order.

Anand Deodhar
Group CIO · Force Motors
Ankur Bhargava
CISO · PhonePe
Bithal Bhardwaj
Chief Executive Officer, Gramax · Gramax
Chirag Shah
Global Chief Information Security Officer & DPO · Model N
Col Alok Shankar Pandey
Group General Manager/IT & CISO · Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd
Commander Vivek Yadav
Director (IT and Cybersecurity), MoD · Government of India
Darshan K Patel
Group Director · Space Applications Center, ISRO
Darshan Patel
Group Director, ISRO · ISRO
Dhawal Shrivastava
Senior Security Assurance Engineering Lead · Microsoft
Divan Raimagia
CISO · Adani Green Energy Ltd
Dr Aditya Khullar
CISO & DPO · Adani Digital Labs & Adani AI Labs
Dr Amit Sharma
Dr. Amit Sharma
Additional Director General and Advisor(Cyber) · DRDO
Dr. Rajendra Kumar
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Extreme Compute, Inc. · Extreme Compute, Inc.
Kalpesh Doshi
CISO, DPO · HDFC Life
Kishan Kendre
Global Head, Information Security · Blue Star Ltd
Krishan Dev Nidumolu
Vice President - Information Security & DPO · Insurance Information Bureau of India
Kuldeep Tomar
CISO · Bigbasket
Lalithya Chiruvolu
Product Security Senior · Salesforce
Maj Gen K. K. Chakrabarti, VSM
Maj Gen Krishnendu Kumar Chakrabarti, VSM
MG-ic-Adm · HQ Eastern Command
Mohd. Shadab Siddiqui
CISO · JioStar

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

MiniOrangePlatinum
UpwindDiamond
cloudSEKBronze
PhishmakeBronze
aikidoExhibitor
Craw SecurityExhibitor
RedactoExhibitor
riskprofilerAwards
riskprofiler.ioAwards Sponsor
salesforceTshirt
synackBadge
TrinetraExhibitor

Agenda

Selected from 22 sessions.

  • 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm

    Technical Talk: The AI Recon Engine: How to Let Machines Understand Targets to Break Them

    Ballroom 2 - Technical Track
  • 02:00 pm - 02:35 pm

    Panel Discussion: DPDP Meets AI: Can You Control Data You Can't See?

    Ballroom 1 - Executive CXO
  • 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm

    Workshop: Exploiting Modern LLM Applications

    Mansion 1 - Workshops
  • 02:35 pm - 03:05 pm

    Technical Talk: Bug Bounty Beyond Web & Mobile: Automated Secret Hunting in Developer Ecosystems

    Ballroom 2 - Technical Track
  • 02:40 pm - 02:55 pm

    Talk: Dr. Rajendra Kumar

    Ballroom 1 - Executive CXO
  • 03:00 pm - 03:35 pm

    Panel Discussion: Who Owns the Risk? Securing an Interconnected Financial Ecosystem

    Ballroom 1 - Executive CXO
  • 03:00 pm - 03:45 pm

    Roundtable: From Compliance to Cyber Resilience: Navigating DPDPA, Identity and AI-Driven Threats in a Fragmented World

    Regency Boardroom - Invite Only Roundtable
  • 03:10 pm - 03:50 pm

    Technical Talk: Breaking Google Antigravity: Owning the AI Developer Workstation

    Ballroom 2 - Technical Track
  • 04:30 pm - 05:00 pm

    Technical Talk: How to Not Run an APT Group: Unravelling APT Operations From Within

    Ballroom 2 - Technical Track
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 43 companies show up, and 5 bet on three roles at once?

43 companies. five are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
5All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
31Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Aikido·Craw Security·Redacto·Salesforce·Trinetra

Speakers by seniority

73% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1951%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of719%
  • Manager / Lead13%
  • Engineer · IC13%
  • Other roles822%

Of 37 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AikidoSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
2Craw SecuritySponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
3RedactoSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
4SalesforceSponsor · Tshirt2
5TrinetraSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
6CloudSEKSponsor · Bronze-
7miniOrangeSponsor · Platinum-
8PhishmakeSponsor · Bronze-
9riskprofilerSponsor · Awards-
10riskprofiler.ioSponsor · Awards Sponsor-
11SynackSponsor · Badge-
12UpwindSponsor · Diamond-
13BlueStar2
14Adani Digital Labs & Adani AI Labs1
Sponsors by tier
diamond1
8% of 12
platinum1
8% of 12
bronze2
17% of 12
exhibitor4
33% of 12
awards1
8% of 12
tshirt1
8% of 12
awards sponsor1
8% of 12
badge1
8% of 12