In-person summit

Chicago Security Leadership Summit

October 1, 2026  |  Downtown, Chicago

AI for security and security for AI are two different problems, and most organizations are behind on both. The coverage gap keeps widening while adoption accelerates.

This event is for security leaders actively managing AI risk in production.

They found the blind spots, rebuilt the detection layer, and know exactly what that cost. This summit is where those approaches get compared against each other.

About the summit

AI for Security and Security for AI

Agentic tools are operating in your environment, moving autonomously, accessing resources, and bypassing controls by design. Security leaders are solving the AI visibility problem differently depending on their stack, their team, and their tolerance for coverage gaps. This summit brings those approaches into the same room to examine what is working, what is not, and why.

Why agentic AI creates blind spots that traditional SecOps tooling was never built to catch

Known activity, unknown telemetry, missing context: the three gaps Anthropic and OpenAI had to close from the inside

What your detection layer actually sees when an AI agent moves through your environment, and what gets through

How the security leaders in this room rebuilt visibility without adding headcount or expanding the budget

Featured session

Rebuilding Zero Trust for AI: What Changed, What It Cost, What Worked

Matthew Scriberras and Andrew Hural walk through what it actually took to rebuild security posture for an AI-heavy environment. This session covers the specific detection gaps they closed, architecture decisions behind the rebuild, cost trade-offs, and what their stack looks like today when an agentic tool enters the environment.

On stage · 9:00am

Matthew ScriberrasCISO, Invicti

Andrew HuralVP of Products, UnderDefense

Summit Agenda

September 30, 2026

8:00am

Registration & breakfast

8:30am

Keynote

Opening keynote

Nazar TymoshykCEO & Founder, UnderDefense

9:00am

Featured session

Rebuilding Zero Trust for AI: What Changed, What It Cost, What Worked

Matthew Scriberras
CISO, InvictiAndrew Hural
VP of Products, UnderDefense

9:50am

Session

Microsoft Specific Security Controls for Modern SecOps

Travis FarralVP & CISO, Archaea Energy

10:35am

Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer meetings

Connect with peers matched by shared priorities.

11:00am

Boardroom

Build vs Buy: Architecture, Playbooks, Experiments with New Startups and Lessons Learned

Speaker to be announced
To be announced

12:00pm

Session

Freedom to Vibecode and Control Over Blast Radius: Blueprints for Agentic AI in IT and Security

Arlin OhmesCISO, Helpware

12:40pm

Closing remarks & networking lunch

Why attend

Top 6 reasons to attend

Know where your architecture is silent

Most detection tooling was not designed for environments where AI agents move autonomously, access resources, and make decisions without triggering the signals your team monitors. This session gives you a structured way to identify the specific coverage gaps in your current setup, based on what practitioners actually found when they looked at their own environments.

Hear from practitioners who already closed the gap

The speakers in this room have already solved the AI visibility problem. They will walk through the specific decisions they made, what they had to rebuild, and what their environments look like today when an agentic tool enters. Decisions made under real operational constraints, current stack explained in full.

Understand what the Anthropic and OpenAI cases actually revealed

When Anthropic and OpenAI ran into the AI visibility problem internally, they surfaced three specific gaps: known activity without context, telemetry that did not capture intent, and missing signals at the points where agents made consequential decisions. This session connects those findings directly to what your SOC is likely missing right now.

See what agentic AI movement actually looks like from inside your environment

Autonomous agent behavior does not look like traditional threat activity. Lateral movement happens differently. Controls get bypassed by design. The signals your team monitors do not fire the way they are supposed to. This session shows you what your detection layer actually sees when an agent is active in your environment, and what typically gets through.

Validate your posture against real architecture decisions

Security teams are expected to enable AI adoption at the speed the business demands and secure it at the same time. The practitioners in this room have navigated both sides of that simultaneously, under real operational pressure. This session is built around the decisions they made in practice.

Get a leaner blueprint without a budget expansion

The security leaders rebuilding their detection posture for AI are not doing it with bigger teams or larger budgets. This session covers how they prioritized when headcount was flat, what they chose to replace versus what they kept, and what a leaner architecture actually looks like when it is working under load.

Chicago Security Leadership Summit

Join the Summit

AI for Security and Security for AI

Speakers

Matthew Sciberras

Travis Farral

Arlin Ohmes

Andrew Hural

Nazar Tymoshyk

Rebuilding Zero Trust for AI: What Changed, What It Cost, What Worked

Summit Agenda

Registration & breakfast

Opening keynote

Rebuilding Zero Trust for AI: What Changed, What It Cost, What Worked

Microsoft Specific Security Controls for Modern SecOps

Peer-to-peer meetings

Build vs Buy: Architecture, Playbooks, Experiments with New Startups and Lessons Learned

Freedom to Vibecode and Control Over Blast Radius: Blueprints for Agentic AI in IT and Security

Closing remarks & networking lunch

Top 6 reasons to attend

Know where your architecture is silent

Hear from practitioners who already closed the gap

Understand what the Anthropic and OpenAI cases actually revealed

See what agentic AI movement actually looks like from inside your environment

Validate your posture against real architecture decisions

Get a leaner blueprint without a budget expansion

Location & Details

This room is for security leaders actively managing AI risk in production.