Cybersecurity: Get ready for the unpredictable
Qubit Conference New York is a global community of cybersecurity experts and key decision-makers, bringing together a holistic revamp of the cybersecurity domain.
We are creating this immersive digital experience for our audiences to enable them to tackle the most resilient cybersecurity challenges on strategic levels, advancing the state of cybersecurity. This space encourages the open dialogue between cybersecurity experts and CxOs to align on the current industry status, exchange, and explore proven practices, strategies, and innovative ideas.
Main topic:
Cybersecurity: Get ready for the unpredictable
Format:
2 days of interactive panel discussions with executives and cybersecurity experts, value-packed key-notes
Audience:
250+ C-suite
Conference platform:
Virtual interactive event
Share your knowledge
Share your cybersecurity expertise and implementation stories to equip your audience with the right know-how to tackle the cybersecurity challenge.
Interactive panel discussions transcend all industry sectors, focus on current and emerging challenges, as well as the best practices cybersecurity experts and CxOs need to embrace in today’s global environment.
Please send us your application by March 30, 2021 and become a panelist in a virtual Qubit Conference debate. You will receive a feedback Email from the Qubit Conference production team, regardless of your application’s status.
Sales or marketing proposals, product-centric presentations will not be accepted unless you are a sponsoring vendor.
No fees are required to submit a proposal, and Qubit generally does not pay per diem, honoraria, or expenses.
What we look for
- Experienced speakers with original & innovative insights
- Proven actionable advice that can be implemented straight away
- Diverse professional backgrounds, from CxOs, tech-experts, law enforcement & regulations, and industry analysts to ensure balanced coverage
Let’s avoid
Sales pitches, vendor- and product-oriented monologues of low or no value to our audience
Main conference theme
Cybersecurity: Get ready for the unpredictable
Join us as a panelist at the virtual Qubit Conference and equip CxOs and cybersecurity teams with the right intel to create a sound cybersecurity strategy based on the right technology & budgetary insights, proven practices, and processes specially tailored for SMEs.
After this event, attendees will understand how to bring the smart design of cybersecurity architecture and processes, what to automate & how to properly set up internal and external ownership.
We will be focusing on selected panel discussions:
Your proven cybersecurity framework
10:00 - 10:05 AM EST - Opening
10:05 - 10:15 AM EST - Keynote: FBI agent Peter Casson
Peter A. Casson
FBI Supervisory Special Agent – National Security Computer Intrusions
10:15 - 10:25 AM EST - Opening keynote
Kelvin Coleman
CEO/Executive Director at National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA
10:25 - 11:10 AM EST- Cybersecurity for CxOs: 4 things your board needs to know about cyber risk & being compromised
Cybersecurity teams have owned too much “security pain” in the past. A clear grasp of risk assessment, risk ownership, and risk transfer helps CxOs get to the right business & budgetary decisions.
Marianna Belyavskiy
Senior Vice President, Operational Risk Management at Citibank
Howard Israel
Virtual CISO at Mandiant, FireEye
11:10 - 11:25 AM EST - Keynote: How AI Augments Humans: Closing Skills Gaps & Driving Executive Decisions with Cyber AI
Marcus Fowler
Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace
When it comes to securing today’s dynamic workforce, demand eclipses supply for skills & expertise. Moreover, board level executives are grappling with the ongoing challenge of translating technical insights into meaningful decision-making, having to strike the perfect balance between mitigating technical risks and accelerating digital transformation, all while maintaining a high level of innovation.
Discover:
- how automation reduces time to triage by up to 92%
- how AI-driven insights build communication between security experts & executives
- how human augmentation with AI secures dynamic workforce & facilitates digital acceleration
- how AI automated an entire investigation into the sophisticated LeChiffre ransomware
11:25 - 12:10 AM EST - Cybersecurity: #1 business priority
How to make cybersecurity a #1 business priority and avoid the risks from the supply chain ecosystem and its vast complexity?
Marcus Fowler
Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace
Roota Almeida
CISO at Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut
Joseph Tso
Chief Information Security Officer at Scotia bank
12:10 - 12:15 PM EST - Break
12:15 - 1:00 PM EST - The cybersecurity resiliency & strategy framework: How to identify, detect, protect, respond, recover?
The proven cybersecurity strategy fit for your environment can go a long way. Know what to do in-house, what to outsource, set up your budgets right, and get help from the right cybersecurity specialists.
Etay Maor
Senior Director Security Strategy at CATO NETWORKS
Farid Abdelkader
Managing Director IT Audit & Cybersecurity at Protiviti
Steve Vandenberg
Global Black Belt at Microsoft
Ulf Mattsson
Chief Security Strategist at Protegrity
1:00 - 1:45 PM EST - Your business has been breached. Here is your step-by-step playbook on what to do next
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to contain, eradicate and recover from a cyberattack. And a quick action list on how to prepare for future breaches.
Jennifer Gold
Vice President at NY Metro InfraGard
Nick Pelletier
Director, Incident Response at Mandiant, FireEye
1:45 - 2:35 PM EST - Cyber extortion and ransomware: How to confront this challenge?
Ransomware attacks against businesses in 2021 will happen every 11 seconds. This step-by-step guide will help you prepare for such an event based on attacks we have seen so far.
Michelle A. Schaap
Member of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC
Ondrej Krehel
CEO, Founder/ Digital forensics lead at LIFARS
Michael Antico
CISO at Clear
People, processes & technology framework
10:00 - 10:15 AM EST - Opening keynote
Caleb Barlow
President and CEO at Cynergistek
10:15 - 11:00 AM EST - Creating a cybersecurity-centric culture
A guideline that will help you inject cybersecurity into your company’s processes and get you ready for the unpredictable.
Jennifer Gold
Vice President at NY Metro InfraGard
11:00 - 11:15 AM EST - Keynote: Cybersecurity – Educating the Enterprise
Jeff Schmidt
CEO at Avertium
Companies that check the box for cybersecurity, security or compliance are unaware or purposefully disregard that the adversary is always moving, shifting and working on a new angle to get through. Proactively changing conversation around cybersecurity will be a driver in demystifying the concepts and making an impact within your organizations and communities.
11:15 - 12:05 PM EST- Modern CISO: Challenges and competences in the remote age
A set of competencies required from your CISO in 2021: World has shifted towards remote work. Rethink the role of your CISO to gain an advantage over exponentially growing threats.
Joseph Tso
Chief Information Security Officer at Scotiabank US
Preetam Sirur
Director Information Security at Vitech
12:05 - 12:10 PM EST - Break
12:10 - 12:55 PM EST - Cyber resilience playbooks
Five strategies that will help you improve your company’s cybersecurity posture and preparedness for incidents.
Tom Brennan
Chairman of CREST USA & CIO at Mandelbaum Salsburg
Serge Suponitskiy
Chief Information Officer at Brosnan Risk Consultants
Paul Vixie
Chairman, CEO and Cofounder at Farsight Security
12:55 - 1:40 PM EST - Think outside the box: ethical hacking, red teaming, application security & cyberattacks simulations
You have deployed the best technology for your mission, you have the right processes in place, and your employees are trained. Ethical hacking and red teaming will tell you how strong your approach really is.
Steve Tran
Chief Information Security Officer at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
Diana Kelley
Co-Founder and CTO at SecurityCurve
Brice Daniels
Director, NE Proactive Services at Mandiant, FireEye
1:40 - 2:10 PM EST - Closing keynote: Inconvenient Necessity: Managing Cyber Risk in Integrated Technology Solutions
We are starting to see deployment of technology that will integrate technology that includes drones, AI, blockchain, smart contracts, and IoT. Each of these innovations presents cyber risks that are an inconvenient necessity that run alongside the perceived benefits of new technology. How do you evaluate and address the cybersecurity risks as these integrated technologies evolve and are implemented in diverse industries.
Justin Daniels
Shareholder at Baker Donelson
Download the full agenda here.
Panel discussion duration: 30 – 45 minutes, Q&A session: 5 minutes
Benefits of speaking
- Promotion of your speaking session through the Qubit Conference website, Social Media & partner channels
- Qubit conference pass and the access to the community
- Speaker gets a 10% special discount code for friends & colleagues
- Working with the cybersecurity expert community on tackling the challenges that really matter
Panel discussion: 30 - 45 minutes, Q&A session: 5 minutes
Please note that by sending us your application for the panelist opportunity at the Qubit Conference 2021, your participation in a selected panel discussion cannot be guaranteed automatically, and the spots will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. We will notify you about the status of your application by April 5, 2021. Your application doesn’t extend to future Qubit events.
We will appreciate your feedback and ideas at info@qubitconference.com!
Apply as a panelistImportant dates
Abstract submission – March 30, 2021
Notification of acceptance – April 5, 2021
Preliminary program – April 10, 2021
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