Secure Copilot Readiness and Adoption

Session Overview:

Like brewing good beer, successful Copilot adoption starts with the right foundation. This session provides a practical framework for identity, permissions, data governance, information protection, and compliance controls that reduce oversharing, protect sensitive information, and build trust.

Presenter:

David Branscome, Principal Security Architect

Topic Area:

Infrastructure intelligence

Session Overview:

Every infrastructure team keeps a record of what it runs, whether that's a proper system of record, a wiki, or a spreadsheet someone updates when they remember. The trouble starts when the next initiative arrives, because automation at scale, a compliance deadline, and AI agents proposing changes all need to know not just what the record says but whether it's still true. This session traces what changed and what the shift from documentation to infrastructure intelligence involves: a canonical model of intended state, continuous reconciliation against what's actually deployed, action taken against that data whether the actor is a human, an automation tool, or an AI agent, and governance that every change passes through. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of how these four pieces fit together, and what that means for the initiatives already on their roadmap.

Speaker:

Marcus Sarmento, Director of Product Marketing

Bio:

Marcus Sarmento is Director of Product Marketing at NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of NetBox, the #1 network and infrastructure system of record. Over nearly two decades in product marketing, he has focused on networking and infrastructure, with prior roles at Cisco ThousandEyes, Fastly, Sysdig, AppDynamics, and NETGEAR. Across those roles he has worked on both halves of the problem: the tools that watch what infrastructure is actually doing, and the record of what it was designed to do.

Session Overview:

Discover how ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage enables IT teams to tackle critical backup storage challenges, including improving backup performance, restoring data quickly to keep users productive, scaling efficiently while maintaining a consistent backup window, ensuring recovery after ransomware incidents, and lowering storage costs now and in the future.

Speaker: 

Chris Reily, Director of Systems Engineering, Americas East

Bio: 

Chris Reily, Director of Systems Engineering, Americas East at ExaGrid, has more than 25 years of experience in information technology, with expertise in data protection, data center optimization, and strategic technology planning. Prior to joining ExaGrid, Chris spent more than five years leading Systems Engineering teams at Veeam Software and served as Vice President and Practice Director at GreenPages Technology Solutions. Chris holds a BS in Business Administration from Bryant University and an MEd in Information Technology and Education from Salem State University.

Session Overview:

What attendees will learn:

• *    Securing the expanding Agentic AI attack surface
• *    Replacing legacy rules with AI-led automated detection
• *    Real-time prevention and continuous remediation

Speaker:

Aaron Chen, CISSP  |  Channel Systems Engineer - Cortex

Session Overview:

We are entering an era where AI models (like Mythos) are simultaneously driving innovation and democratizing sophisticated attacks. The cost and skill required to launch attacks has collapsed. The volume and velocity of vulnerabilities will outpace traditional patching cycles. In the age of frontier AI, speed is a security control. The organizations that execute fastest are the ones that stay ahead.

Speaker: 

PK Iyer

Bio:

PK Iyer is currently F5 Senior Director of Global Solutions Engineering for the XC Platform. His team spans Engineers and Architects covering global SaaS customers. Previously, PK Iyer has worked as a Solutions Engineer, Architect, and Global Security Architect leader at F5. Prior to joining F5, PK worked at Comcast Corporation, a large cable and streaming service provider in North America.

PK Iyer holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University, with a minor in Network Technologies

• Recognize emerging adversarial techniques used to exploit generative AI
• Assess where traditional security controls and blocking access leave your organization exposed
• Identify the signals within AI interactions that can reveal adversarial intent

Session Overview:

What if your AI gateway is actually making your AI strategy more expensive, less secure, and harder to govern? Most AI gateways were built to route traffic, but AI traffic is fundamentally different. This session explores why the next generation of AI gateways must evolve from static traffic routers into intelligent control planes that can make decisions in real time. After all, the future of AI infrastructure isn't about knowing where traffic goes, it's about deciding where it belongs.

Session Overview:

A walkthrough of how AI is reshaping the workflow of Network Engineers. Intelligent OPS allows the marriage of AI and Automation to identify and automate repeatable solutions at enterprise scale.

Presenter: Brian Wisler, Vice President, Modern Networks, Presidio

Session Overview:

 AI has changed both sides of the resilience equation. Attackers now move in minutes using deepfakes, poisoned data, and compromised agents, while enterprises need recovery they can actually trust, not just restore. This session breaks down eight AI-era attack vectors and the combined Veeam + Security AI response to each, then looks at how Veeam's platform itself is evolving to keep pace, including what's new in Backup & Replication V13.1 and a first look at the upcoming Veeam Intelligent ResOps. Attendees leave with a practical checklist for what to do about AI risk starting Monday morning.

Speaker:

Drew Schwartz, Senior National Technical Partner Manager

Session Overview: 

In this session, attendees will explore how Zoom's AI-first platform is transforming the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and serve customers — from intelligent virtual agents to AI-powered revenue acceleration tools. We'll walk through real-world customer deployments and measurable outcomes, demonstrating how Zoom's Contact Center, Virtual Agent (ZVA), and AI Companion capabilities deliver tangible ROI. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to identify and qualify AI-driven UC/CC opportunities within their own customer base, and how partnering with Zoom accelerates competitive displacement of legacy platforms like Cisco and Microsoft.

Speaker:  

John Hindman, Account Executive

Session Overview:

AI has made building trust a lot more complicated. It ushers in new concerns about privacy and security, it can improve the effectiveness of traditional attacks, and it increases scrutiny around the authenticity of what you put out into the world.

But AI also has the power to accelerate trust. With AI and automation, large and small organizations can build, monitor, and maintain trust with their specific needs in mind—whether they need to establish a security foundation quickly, or create efficiencies within their outdated, manual-first programs.

In this session, we’ll dive into:

Topic Area:
SASE / Zero Trust

Session Overview:

Complex multi-vendor rollouts are the single biggest reason SASE projects stall out. When organizations try to migrate everything at once, execution grinds to a halt.

In this session, Cloudflare One and Presidio share a practical framework for moving past the strategy phase into a running, measurable security operation. We’ll skip the high-level theory and cover:

• How to identify and prioritize your three highest-risk network on-ramps
• A phased rollout strategy that demonstrates clear progress in 90 days
• Replacing legacy VPN concentrators and SD-WAN appliances without disruptive hardware swaps
• Shifting network and security spend by 30–60% while improving posture

You'll walk away with a concrete playbook to guide your own deployment.

Speaker:

Jacob Rutski (Cloudflare dedicated resource at Presidio)

Session Description: Learn how many customers are leveraging Presidio Advisor to modernize their contract and asset lifecycle as we highlight real client examples that show the power of combining data, automation, and insights to solve real world customer challenges.

Presenter Name and Title: Kevin Corace, Senior Vice President, Software and Services Lifecycle