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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
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

Sponsors

The companies 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

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…

    GRC
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
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1TIAASponsor · Bronze Sponsor4
2Duke EnergySponsor · Silver Sponsor3
3Lowe'sSponsor · Silver Sponsor3
4AllySponsor · Bronze Sponsor2
5Bank of AmericaSponsor · Presenting Sponsor1
6TenableSponsor · Bronze Sponsor1
7Booz Allen HamiltonSponsor · Silver Sponsor-
8Charlotte Area Technology CollaborativeSponsor · Reception Sponsor-
9Charlotte ISSASponsor · Reception Sponsor-
10Cisco & NWNSponsor · Exhibitor-
11DexianSponsor · Exhibitor-
12Edge SolutionsSponsor · Exhibitor-
13IslandSponsor · Exhibitor-
14ISSA CharlotteSponsor · 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.

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