Cybersecurity

Cohesity Catalyst 2026

Cohesity Catalyst is an AI and data security summit where top innovators, cybersecurity experts, and business leaders from across the globe share battle-tested strategies to strengthen cyber resilience at scale. The event explores how to keep data secure in the agentic era and how to drive resilience across AI, cloud, and identity.

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28Speakers
0Sponsors
40Sessions
14Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Cohesity, in alphabetical order.

Bill Chang
CEO, Digital InfraCo · Singtel Group
Brett Goldstein
Emmy-Award winning actor and writer
Brian Chang
Product Marketing Manager
Carol Carpenter
Chief Marketing Officer, Cohesity · Cohesity
Chris Kempczinski
President and Chief Executive Officer · McDonald's
Dan Moseley
CRO · GDT
David Dawson
System Administrator Supervisor · City of Detroit
Dr. Joye Purser
Field CISO · Cohesity
Dr. Matt Wood
Chief AI and Technology Officer · Amazon Web Services
Emily Chang
Emmy-winning journalist and author
Jason Clinton
Deputy CISO, Anthropic · Anthropic
Jed Wallace
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Cohesity · Cohesity
Kari Briski
VP of Gen AI · NVIDIA
Matthew Horowitz
AVP, Enterprise Platform Operations · CVS Health
Nitin Nagpal
VP & GM, AI · Cohesity
Patrick Ringelberg
Domain Architect, Datacenter, Cloud and AI · Rijkswaterstaat (RWS)
Prasanna Ramakrishnan
Global CISO and VP, Infrastructure · Clarios
Ragnhildur Geirsdottir
CEO · RB
Robert Bair
CXO, CISO Advisor · Anthropic
Rob Sadowski
VP, Product & Solution Marketing, Cohesity · Cohesity
Sanjay Poonen
CEO and President, Cohesity · Cohesity
Sheetal Venkatesh
VP, Product Management, Cohesity · Cohesity

Agenda

Selected from 40 sessions.

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Autonomous Cyber​ Resilience: From Intent to Execution

    Most organizations have recovery plans, but disconnected workflows and manual steps slow everything down when it matters most. This session covers Cohesity's latest work in autonom…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Beyond Code Scanning: What CISOs Need to Know in the Agentic AI Era

    Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian joins Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen to challenge a common assumption: That scanning code is enough to secure the agentic AI era. Kurian breaks down fou…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Beyond Toughness: Brett Goldstein on Resilience and Human Connection

    Join Cohesity CMO Carol Carpenter for a fireside chat with Brett Goldstein, Emmy Award-winning actor and writer known for Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Office Romance. Goldstein has cr…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Building Trusted AI Agents and the Foundation That Enables Scale

    Carol Carpenter, Cohesity CMO, and Dr. Matt Wood, AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer, sit down for a candid conversation about what it takes to put AI agents into production. They…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Built for Machine Speed - Resilience for the AI Era

    Cybersecurity is entering a new era where attackers can operate at machine speed and AI agents can act with unprecedented autonomy. In this fireside chat, Sanjay Poonen, CEO and Pr…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Cyber Recovery Plans Weren’t Designed for This Moment

    When disruptions hit at machine speed, most organizations discover their recovery plans don't hold up. This session shares findings from Cohesity's new global survey of resilience …

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    How Frontier AI Is Changing Cybersecurity

    Frontier AI models are developing cybersecurity capabilities quickly, and the implications for enterprise defenders are still coming into focus. This session covers the current sta…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    Keynote: The Cyber Resilience Imperative

    AI is rewriting the rules of enterprise security, and the organizations that thrive will be the ones that adapt now. In this keynote, Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen makes the case for …

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026

    McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski on Innovation and Global Business

    Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity, talks with McDonald's Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski about what it's like to guide McDonald's through transformation. Kempczinski …

Company intelligence

An audience of 14 companies, parsed from the program.

Fourteen companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
14Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

68% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1346%
  • VP-level518%
  • Director / Head of14%
  • Engineer · IC14%
  • Marketing / Brand27%
  • Other roles621%

Of 28 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.