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Lone Star Cyber Summit 2026

Lone Star Cyber Summit 2026 is a two-day forum held in Austin dedicated to bringing together over 100 executive IT security leaders from a range of industries. With the theme 'Resilience Blueprint: Navigating the Next Era of Cyber Risk', the event features high-impact presentations focused on tactical foresight, framework deployment, and collaborative proble…

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39Speakers
8Sponsors
117Sessions
39Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Lone, in alphabetical order.

Akshay Talathi
Vice President of Software Engineering · Goldman Sachs
Alexanne Collison
Director of Information Security, Surface Area Management · Cargill
Carlos Renteria
CISO · Southside Bank
Chris Derton
SEM · Rubrik
David Morgan
Deputy CISO · Texas Department of Public Safety
David Perez
Head of IT · EnergyX
Derek Booth
Director, Technical Services · TrendAI
Doug Rinehart
SVP – CISO · Marigold
Dr. Vianney Chimezie
Director, Information Security, AI Governance, Cyber Risk & Data Protection · Centric Brand
Eric Mims
Executive Director, IT Security · University of Houston System
Ernesto Ballesteros
Cybersecurity State Coordinator of Texas · Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Jack Ngai
Lead Solutions Architect · Atakama
James Brake
Director, Cyber Security · LCRA
Jeremiah Clifton
CISO · City of Austin
Joe Carroll
CIO & Head of Cybersecurity · CITGO Petroleum
John Green
Security Management Incident Response Manager – Cyber Security Officer · Texas Workforce Commission
Joshua Knox
Principal Cybersecurity Strategist · Horizon3.ai
Kaila Mathis
Vice President of Marketing · Atakama
Khamonte Johnson
CISO · Oak Compliance and VP, Cloud Security Alliance – Austin Chapter
Landon Blum
CISO/CSO · First National Bank of Bastrop
Linda Bough White
Director Information Security · Axiom Medical
Mahesh Todkar
CISO · Wilsonart

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Adaptive Security
Atakama
CoreView
Dispel
Rubrik
ThreatLocker
TrendAI Security
Trenda Security

Agenda

Selected from 117 sessions.

  • 08:50

    Opening Address

  • 09:00

    Governance in Action: Translating Regulation and Frameworks into Cybersecurity

    Translating complex regulatory mandates into everyday cybersecurity operations is a critical challenge for the modern enterprise. Compliance is not a standalone checkbox; it must b…

  • 09:00

    Securing the Lone Star State: CISA’s Blueprint for Texas Infrastructure Resilience

    As threat actors increasingly target local governments, school districts, and municipal utilities, defending the state’s digital perimeter requires a unified front. In this keynote…

  • 09:40

    Decoding NIST CSF 2.0: Strategy, Compliance, and Execution

    The launch of the NIST CSF 2.0 expands the gold standard of security beyond critical infrastructure to all organizations, introducing the pivotal “Govern” function. Transitioning t…

  • 09:40

    Unlocking Secure Operations: Implementing IAM into Your Environment

    With hybrid workforces and cloud adoption running apace, security begins and ends with identity. This case study presentation walks through a real-world enterprise deploying an IAM…

  • 09:45

    The Velocity Shift: Outpacing Adversaries via AI-Driven Operations

    To survive today’s modern cyber attacks, organizations must move beyond human-scale processing and embrace the Velocity Shift. In this session, we examine the transition from human…

  • 1:00

    Guardrails, Not Speed Bumps: Empowering Developers to Build Securely by Default

    Traditional application security forces developers to choose between velocity and safety. This session explores shifting security from a gatekeeper to an automated enabler. Embed g…

  • 10:50

    The Velocity Shift: Outpacing Adversaries via AI-Driven Operations

    To survive today’s cyber attacks, organizations must move beyond human-scale processing. This session examines the shift to AI-driven operations, exploring ML and GenAI integration…

  • 10:50

    Unlocking Secure Operations: Implementing IAM into Your Environment

    With hybrid workforces and cloud adoption running apace, security begins and ends with identity. In this case study presentation, we explore a real-world enterprise journey of succ…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 39 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

39 companies. four 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
4All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
31Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Atakama·CoreView·Dispel·Rubrik

Speakers by seniority

72% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1128%
  • VP-level25%
  • Director / Head of1538%
  • Manager / Lead513%
  • Engineer · IC13%
  • Other roles513%

Of 39 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AtakamaSponsor2
2CoreViewSponsor2
3DispelSponsor1
4RubrikSponsor1
5Adaptive SecuritySponsor-
6ThreatLockerSponsor-
7TrendAI SecuritySponsor-
8Trenda SecuritySponsor-
9LCRA2
10Axiom Medical1
11BT1
12Cargill1
13Caterpillar1
14Centric Brand1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified8
100% of 8
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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