Who sponsors 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026?

ConferenceGrid lists 24 sponsors, including Lowe's, Ally, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton and Charlotte Area Technology Collaborative.

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27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026

Name: 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026
Start: 2026-10-06
End: 2026-10-07
Location: Charlotte

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27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026 ran Oct 6–7, 2026 in Charlotte, United States. It is a Technology conference. ConferenceGrid lists 56 speakers, 24 sponsors and 56 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Sep 27, 2026 · dates verified Sep 15, 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

56Sessions

56Companies · in total

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

Agenda

Selected from 56 sessions.

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
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
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. Mo…
AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Agents Will Try to Solve All Your Problems... With Unintended Consequences
We keep trying to secure agents by reading their intentions. Intent matters, but it's not what you can build a guarantee on. The agents causing real incidents today aren't maliciou…
SECURING AI
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Application Security in the Age of AI: From SDLC to AI-SDLC
AI is being used to assist or even write production code, and the application security workflow built for human created software are not practical anymore. Security leaders from te…
GRCSECURING AI
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Runtime is Where AI Lives
Artificial intelligence is introducing new attack surfaces, new machine identities, and new autonomous actors into modern environments. But the bigger story may not be AI itself. A…
SECURING AI
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Who Gives the Agent Authority? Governing AI Across Enterprise Boundaries
AI agents introduce a governance challenge that extends well beyond the technology itself. Giving an agent access to enterprise data, tools, workflows, and execution authority requ…
GRCSECURING AI
8:45 am – 9:05 am
Crime With No Criminal Intent: control and accountability when the attacker is an agent
In July 2026, AI agents broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, harvested credentials, and moved across multiple clusters. Had a person done it, they'd have been prose…
KEYNOTE
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…
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Quick answers

When is 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026?: 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026 ran Oct 6–7, 2026 in Charlotte, United States.
Where is 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026 held?: 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026 was held in Charlotte, United States.
Who is speaking at 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 56 speakers, including Adrian Wood (Staff Offensive Security Engineer, Dropbox), Alexandra Villareal O'Rourke (Founder, Credytu) and Allen O'Rourke (SVP Chief Cyber Counsel, Truist).
Who sponsors 27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 24 sponsors, including Lowe's, Ally, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton and Charlotte Area Technology Collaborative.

Company intelligence

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

34Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

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 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	TIAA	Sponsor · Bronze Sponsor	4
2	Duke Energy	Sponsor · Silver Sponsor	3
3	Lowe's	Sponsor · Silver Sponsor	3
4	Ally	Sponsor · Bronze Sponsor	2
5	Bank of America	Sponsor · Presenting Sponsor	1
6	Tenable	Sponsor · Bronze Sponsor	1
7	Booz Allen Hamilton	Sponsor · Silver Sponsor	-
8	Charlotte Area Technology Collaborative	Sponsor · Reception Sponsor	-
9	Charlotte ISSA	Sponsor · Reception Sponsor	-
10	Cisco & NWN	Sponsor · Exhibitor	-
11	Dexian	Sponsor · Exhibitor	-
12	Edge Solutions	Sponsor · Exhibitor	-
13	Island	Sponsor · Exhibitor	-
14	ISSA Charlotte	Sponsor · Reception Sponsor	-

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.

Cisco×6 peers
Microsoft×4 peers
PwC×4 peers
Barclays×3 peers
Deloitte×3 peers
Deutsche Bank×3 peers
FIS×3 peers
HSBC×3 peers
IBM×3 peers
KPMG×3 peers
Leidos×3 peers
Palo Alto Networks×3 peers

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27th Annual UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Symposium 2026

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

ThreatOps CTF: Hunting at Scale with SentinelOne Security Data Lake

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

Agents Will Try to Solve All Your Problems... With Unintended Consequences

Application Security in the Age of AI: From SDLC to AI-SDLC

Runtime is Where AI Lives

Who Gives the Agent Authority? Governing AI Across Enterprise Boundaries

Crime With No Criminal Intent: control and accountability when the attacker is an agent

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

56 companies. six are betting more than once.