Technology

Golden State Cyber Summit 2027

Join California’s leading CISOs at the Golden State Cyber Summit, a private, full-day experience in San Diego designed for honest conversation and meaningful connection. This summit addresses the unique challenges California faces as a leader in technology and a prime target for cybercrime. The event features closed-door roundtables, collaborative problem-so…

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18Speakers
9Sponsors
12On the bill · sessions
25Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Golden, in alphabetical order.
Akshay Sharma
Senior Solutions Engineer · Drata
Ari Giguere
Vice President – Security and Intelligence Operations · Netskope
Brandon Wilson
CISO · Confidential
Dario Loeb
IT Director · Young Community Developers
David Scott
Sr. Director, Product Security · Intuitive
Fred Chang
VP of Product & Operations · Dispel
Jacob Combs
VP of Cybersecurity, CISO · Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Jason Christopher
Cyber Security Director, University of California · Berkeley
Jeanette Lind
Director of IT and Information Security · Unison
Lon McPhail
CISO · Allspring Global Investments
Matt Britter
Senior OT SME · Fortinet
Nick Padron
Director of Information Security · Fairfield Residential
Robert Cantrell
Director Engineering and Information Security · San Ysidro Health
Robert Rees
Director of Cybersecurity and Technology Operations · Rexford Industrial
Rouman Ebrahim
Head Deputy, Cyber Crime Division · Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Tim Jee
Director, Cybersecurity Services · New American Funding
Timothy Dzierzek
Director, Security and Compliance · Atomic
Vimal Subramanian
CISO · Foodsmart
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Delinea
Drata
Netskope
Sumo Logic
ThreatLocker
Vanta
Varonis
Veracode
Zscaler
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Agenda

Selected from 12 sessions on the bill.
  • 08:30

    Chair’s Opening Address: Brandon Wilson

  • 08:40

    Panel Discussion: Rethinking Human-Centric Security: Are We Overemphasizing Human Behavior Over More Effective Cyber Defenses?

    ● Are we overemphasizing human behavior in cybersecurity at the expense of technical and systemic controls? ● How can Californian organizations measure the real impact of awareness…

  • 09:30

    Presentation: Global Data Defense in the AI Era

    Sensitive data movement across borders can be risky but restricting it outright can create operational and security challenges. As agentic AI, generative AI, and quantum computing …

  • 10:40

    Presentation: OT Cybersecurity: Now a Business Value Multiplier

    OT cybersecurity has moved beyond risk mitigation to become a measurable driver of business value. As cyber compromise is now expected across critical infrastructure, organizations…

  • 11:10

    Case Study: From Reactive to Resilient - Our Journey to Proactive Cyber Defense

    ● Our lessons learned in identifying systemic capability gaps and informing executive-level risk prioritization ● How we utilized active monitoring across our enterprises to improv…

  • 11:40

    Presentation: From Manual Compliance to Autonomous Trust: How AI is Shifting the Future of GRC

    AI is reshaping governance, risk, and compliance from a reactive, audit-driven function into a continuous, intelligence-driven trust system. In the next 24 months, leading organiza…

  • 11:50

    Case Study: Developing Resilience Through Our Approach to Product Security

    ● Embed security-by-design across the product lifecycle, aligning with business risk and resilience goals ● Establish clear ownership and governance between CISO, engineering, and …

  • 1:20

    Group Discussion: Shaping the Future of Cyber Leadership - Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

    ● How must the CISO role evolve to transition from a technical supervisor to a strategic business partner who influences board-level decision-making? ● In an increasingly automated…

  • 1:50

    Case Study: Building A Secure Security Architecture in a World of Increasing Geopolitical Risk - Our Journey

    ● How we integrated cyber risk to account for increasing geopolitical challenges ● Where we implemented threat intelligence and scenario planning to anticipate ransomware, supply-c…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 25 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

25 companies. two 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
2All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
16Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Drata·Netskope

Speakers by seniority

83% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite422%
  • VP-level211%
  • Director / Head of950%
  • Engineer · IC16%
  • Other roles211%

Of 18 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01DrataSp1V
  2. 02NetskopeSp1V
  3. 03DelineaSp
  4. 04Sumo LogicSp
  5. 05ThreatLockerSp
  6. 06VantaSp
  7. 07VaronisSp
  8. 08VeracodeSp
  9. 09ZscalerSp
  10. 10Allspring Global Investments1V
  11. 11Atomic1V
  12. 12Berkeley1V
  13. 13Confidential1V
  14. 14Dispel1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified9
100% of 9
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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