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27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026

The 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium brings together cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts for two days of workshops and talks covering the latest trends and challenges in the field. The symposium is hosted on the UNC Charlotte campus and features sessions on October 6th (workshops) and October 7th (talks), providing networking opportu…

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56Speakers
24Sponsors
43On the bill · sessions
56Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at 27th, in alphabetical order.
Adrian Wood
Staff Offensive Security Engineer · Dropbox
Alexandra Villareal O'Rourke
Founder · Credytu
Allen O'Rourke
SVP Chief Cyber Counsel · Truist
Ashiq Islam
Senior Data Scientist, Cyber AI · TIAA
Bala Sriraman
Senior Director of Technology · Lowe's
Bilal Saeed
GreyMatter Engineer · ReliaQuest
Brian Young
Director, Cyber Investigations · TIAA
Chad Haskins
Senior Sales Engineer · SentinelOne
Colin O'Connor
President of Field Operations · ReliaQuest
Cory Hefner
Data Science Manager, Cyber AI · TIAA
Curt Aubley
CEO and Co-Founder · Sevii
Dennis Andrade
Sales Engineer · Twine Security
Doug Rambo
Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Compliance Technology, Security & Data Risk · Ally
Edna Conway
CEO · EMC Advisors
Frank Jackson
Chief Advisor & Field CISO · World Wide Technology
Hilary Bonaccorsi
Partner · Dechert
Jake Lee
Lead Cloud and AI Security · Ally
Jason McGlauflin
VP and Digital Security Officer · Securitas
John Melton
Director of Product Security · Oracle Netsuite
Josh Devon
Co-founder and CEO · Sondera
Kara Schlageter
CISO · Discovery Education
Ken Collins
Enterprise Security Executive · Flow Control Group
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Lowe'sSilver
AllyBronze Sponsor
Bank of AmericaPresenting Sponsor
Booz Allen HamiltonSilver Sponsor
Charlotte Area Technology CollaborativeReception Sponsor
Charlotte ISSAReception Sponsor
Cisco & NWNExhibitor
Cisco NWNExhibitor
DexianExhibitor
Duke EnergySilver Sponsor
Edge SolutionsExhibitor
IslandExhibitor
ISSA CharlotteReception Sponsor
KodemExhibitor
Lowe’sSilver Sponsor
NetRiseExhibitor
OpenText CybersecurityExhibitor
PryonSilver Sponsor
ServiceNowExhibitor
StratascaleSilver Sponsor
TenableBronze Sponsor
TIAABronze Sponsor
UntitledReception Sponsor
Wells FargoSilver Sponsor
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Agenda

Selected from 43 sessions on the bill.
  • Tuesday, October 6 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Agentic Defense

    Three hours. One question: Is your SOC reacting to attacks - or operating with an agentic defense? Attackers have gone agentic. They are using AI to move faster, scale attacks wide…

    AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
  • Tuesday, October 6 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Compliant All the Way Down, But Broken at the End A New Paradigm for AI Governance: The Governance Twin

    Agentic AI is not another kind of autonomous machine. A machine executes what was specified for it, and controls are the right instrument for it, because its behavior was fixed bef…

    GRC
  • Tuesday, October 6 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit: Exploit Development and Defending against AI-Powered Attacks

    AI has made it easier than ever for low-skill attackers to build and launch exploits against your organization. We will show how these attacks actually work, as well as a new break…

    AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
  • Tuesday, October 6 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    ThreatOps CTF: Hunting at Scale with SentinelOne Security Data Lake

    Legacy SIEMs and disparate log sources leave security teams drowning in alerts while sophisticated threats slip through the noise. To stop modern threat actors, SOC teams need real…

    ATTACK AND DEFENSE
  • Tuesday, October 6 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Three hours. One question: Is your SOC reacting to attacks - or operating with an agentic defense?

    Attackers have gone agentic. They are using AI to move faster, scale attacks wider, and reduce the skill needed to launch advanced threats. Defense needs to be agentic as well. Mos…

    AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
  • Tuesday, October 6 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Compliant All the Way Down, But Broken at the End A New Paradigm for AI Governance: The Governance Twin

    Agentic AI is not another kind of autonomous machine. A machine executes what was specified for it, and controls are the right instrument for it, because its behavior was fixed bef…

    GRC
  • Tuesday, October 6 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    CyberAgents Exchange: AI Skills Build Workshop

    A free, hands-on workshop for building AI cybersecurity skills, at the UNC Charlotte Cybersymposium on October 6, 2026. AI agents are changing how security teams work, but most of …

    AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
  • Tuesday, October 6 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    THE DECISION WINDOW: A Live Executive Cyber Crisis Simulation

    Modern attackers do not wait for a meeting. In this four-hour immersive workshop, participants step into leadership roles inside a fictional enterprise as a fast-moving, malware-fr…

    ATTACK AND DEFENSE
  • Tuesday, October 6 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    ThreatOps CTF: Hunting at Scale with SentinelOne Security Data Lake

    Are You Ready to Hunt? Legacy SIEMs and disparate log sources leave security teams drowning in alerts while sophisticated threats slip through the noise. To stop modern threat acto…

    ATTACK AND DEFENSE
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 56 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

56 companies. six 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
6All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
34Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

TIAA·Duke Energy·Lowe's·Ally·Bank of America·Tenable

Speakers by seniority

50% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1120%
  • Founder / Owner47%
  • VP-level35%
  • Director / Head of1018%
  • Manager / Lead713%
  • Engineer · IC611%
  • Research / Science47%
  • Other roles1120%

Of 56 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01TIAASp·B4V
  2. 02Duke EnergySp·S3V
  3. 03Lowe'sSp·S3V
  4. 04AllySp·B2V
  5. 05Bank of AmericaSp·P1V
  6. 06TenableSp·B1V
  7. 07Booz Allen HamiltonSp·S
  8. 08Charlotte Area Technology CollaborativeSp·R
  9. 09Charlotte ISSASp·R
  10. 10Cisco & NWNSp·E
  11. 11DexianSp·E
  12. 12Edge SolutionsSp·E
  13. 13IslandSp·E
  14. 14ISSA CharlotteSp·R
Sponsors by tier
silver1
4% of 24
bronze sponsor3
13% of 24
exhibitor9
38% of 24
presenting sponsor1
4% of 24
reception sponsor4
17% of 24
silver sponsor6
25% of 24
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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