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Singapore Data Protection & Security Summit 2026

Join industry experts, security professionals, and IT leaders at the second edition of the Data Protection & Security Summit for hands-on sessions, expert insights, and discussions on the latest in data protection and privacy. Key themes include data encryption, loss prevention strategies, balancing data accessibility with security, legislative updates, and…

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36Speakers
4Sponsors
11On the bill · sessions
37Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Singapore, in alphabetical order.
Adeline Chan
Vice Chair Digital Asset Security & Compliance Committee · Global Fintech Institute
Andrew Dean
Solutions Architect · Chainguard
Angelina Liu
Account Executive, ANZ · Aikido Security
Ang Leong Boon
Senior Head of Cybersecurity · National University of Singapore
Arnaud Wenger
Chief Compliance Officer & Regulatory Strategy / DPO · Tazapay
Brandon Tan
Senior Director Sales Engineering, APAC · Forcepoint
Chiam Chee Kong
Head of Data and AI · M1
Chun Yong Teo
Director of Data Governance & Protection · Singapore University of Social Sciences
Cole Cornford
Chief Executive Officer · Galah Cyber
Edwin Kwan
Head of Product Security · Domain Group
Gaurav Vikash
Head of Security and Risk - APAC · AXON
Girish Darda
Head of Security · Littlepay
Kanik Sachdeva
Security Engineering Manager · Medibank
Kenneth Choo
Chief Information Security Officer & Chief Data Privacy Officer · SPH Media
Louis Nyffenegger
Founder · PentesterLabs
Luke Bampton
Application Security Lead · Monash University
Magdala Boyer
Principal Counsel, Cybersecurity · Agoda
Marc Tzivelekas
Director of Data Conduct and Quality · Standard Chartered
Melvin Tan
Sales Engineering Leader (Asia) · Varonis
Mohamed Fazila Abd Rahman
Group Data Protection Officer and Data Governance Lead · CGS International Securities
Paul Theriault
Senior Security Architect · Atlassian
Rajesh Sreenivasan
Head, Technology Media and Telecoms Law Practice · Rajah & Tann Asia
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
11:11 Systems
Forcepoint
OneTrust
Varonis
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Agenda

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:10 AM

    Panel: The Evolving Supply Chain Risk Landscape: What’s Actually Breaking in Production

    Modern applications run on layered platforms, third-party extensions, and AI assisted development and tooling, each introducing dependencies that traditional supply chain controls …

  • 10:40 AM

    The Source Code Was Clean: How npm Malware Skips the Repository and What Actually Stops It

    Software supply chain attacks are shifting. Attackers aren't really hunting for vulnerabilities in source code anymore, they are going after the trust that developers put in packag…

  • 11:40 AM

    Lessons from the Software Supply Chain: What They Teach Us About Securing AI

    The rise of AI is introducing supply chain–style risks we’ve seen before in open source. The way developers pick, use, and secure components has direct parallels to how organisatio…

  • 11:55 AM

    How GitLab Solves... AI-DLC Governance from Commit to Compliance

    Governance and audit processes often span disconnected tools, manual approvals, and time-consuming evidence collection. This session explores how GitLab helps teams bring governanc…

  • 12:10 PM

    Panel: Security vs Velocity: When to Say Yes to Risk (and How to Track What You Said Yes To)

    Modern engineering teams move fast, and AppSec teams are constantly negotiating when to block, when to slow down, and when to accept risk to keep delivery on track. As exceptions, …

  • 2:35 PM

    How the Right Harness Makes LLM Vulnerability Detection More Effective and Deterministic

    LLMs can reason about security bugs, but when pointed straight at a codebase they're inconsistent, expensive, and noisy. The biggest gains come from what wraps the model. We show h…

  • 2:50 PM

    How I Solved...Redesigning Secure Code Review for an AI-Native World

    AI is changing how software gets written. Code is no longer produced line by line by a single developer. It is generated, refactored, and stitched together by AI tools at a speed t…

  • 3:05 PM

    Testing Second-Order Prompt Injection in AI Agent Deployments

    Most security programs have matured around AI-generated code risks, but a critical gap remains: the injection surface introduced by autonomous AI agents. Gaurav Vikash, Head of Sec…

  • 3:25 PM

    Think Tank: How AppSec Should Really Operate: Live Debate With the Audience

    AppSec teams sit at the center of fast-moving engineering organisations, yet there’s still no consensus on how they should be structured, what they should own, or how much authorit…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 37 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

37 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
33Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Forcepoint·OneTrust·Varonis

Speakers by seniority

50% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite617%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of1131%
  • Manager / Lead617%
  • Engineer · IC617%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles514%

Of 36 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01ForcepointSp1V
  2. 02OneTrustSp1V
  3. 03VaronisSp1V
  4. 0411:11 SystemsSp
  5. 05Agoda1V
  6. 06Aikido Security1V
  7. 07Atlassian1V
  8. 08Australian Signals Directorate1V
  9. 09Axon1V
  10. 10CGS International Securities1V
  11. 11Chainguard1V
  12. 12Domain Group1V
  13. 13Edrington1V
  14. 14Galah Cyber1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified4
100% of 4
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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