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NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security

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NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security ran on Jan 27, 2026 in Virtual. It is a Technology conference that expected about 1,100 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 27 speakers and 5 sponsors. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified May 6, 2026

NHIcon 2026 is the second-annual conference focused on agentic AI security, designed to bring together builders and defenders to discuss the fast-evolving landscape of autonomous AI, identity, control, and risk. With two tracks - Builders and Guardians - the event is dedicated to practical talks, candid discussion, and lessons drawn from real experience. NHI…

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27Speakers
5Sponsors
0Sessions
26Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at NHIcon, in alphabetical order.

Ammar Ekbote
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest · Pinterest
Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Application Security Engineer at Donnelley Financial Solutions · Donnelley Financial Solutions
Brenton House
Principal AI and API Security Adviser at IBM webMethods · IBM webMethods
Dan Graves
Chief Product Officer at WitnessAI · WitnessAI
David Goldschlag
Co-Founder & CEO, Aembit · Aembit
David Sudia
Senior DevOps Engineer at Aembit · Aembit
Diana Kelley
CISO at Noma Securiy · Noma Security
Dwayne McDaniel
Developer Advocate at GitGuardian · GitGuardian
Gaurav Singodia
Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps & SRE at Snowflake · Snowflake
Ido Halevi
Director of Product Management at Silverfort · Silverfort
Itzik Alvas
Co-Founder and CEO at Entro Security · Entro Security
Jason Clinton
Deputy CISO at Anthropic · Anthropic
John Yeoh
Chief Scientific Officer at Cloud Security Alliance · Cloud Security Alliance
Ken Huang
AI Security Researcher, Author, and Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco · University of San Francisco
Larry Whiteside
CISO and President of the CISO Society · CISO Society
Michael Morgenstern
Cyber Partner at DayBlink Consulting · DayBlink Consulting
Misam Abbas
Staff AI Engineer, LinkedIn; Former Machine Learning Engineer at Meta & Dropbox · LinkedIn
Nishanth Sirikonda
Workday Solutions Architect at FirstDay Foundation · FirstDay Foundation
Paul Guerra
CISO at StockX · StockX
Pavan Kota
IEEE Senior Member and Architect
Phil Venables
Partner, Ballistic Ventures | Former CISO at Goldman Sachs and Google Cloud · Ballistic Ventures
Renee Guttmann
Former CISO Coca-Cola, Time Warner, Royal Caribbean · Coca-Cola

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Aembit
Entro
GitGuardian
Silverfort
WitnessAI

Quick answers

When is NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security?
NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security ran on Jan 27, 2026 in Virtual.
Where is NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security held?
NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security was held in Virtual.
Who is speaking at NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security?
ConferenceGrid lists 27 speakers, including Ammar Ekbote (Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest, Pinterest), Anitha Dakamarri (Lead Application Security Engineer at Donnelley Financial Solutions, Donnelley Financial Solutions) and Brenton House (Principal AI and API Security Adviser at IBM webMethods, IBM webMethods).
Who sponsors NHIcon 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Security?
ConferenceGrid lists 5 sponsors: Aembit, Entro, GitGuardian, Silverfort and WitnessAI.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 26 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

26 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
1Sponsoringsponsor only
21Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Aembit·GitGuardian·Silverfort·WitnessAI

Speakers by seniority

59% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1452%
  • Founder / Owner14%
  • Director / Head of14%
  • Manager / Lead519%
  • Engineer · IC519%
  • Research / Science14%

Of 27 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier
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100% of 5