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The Seventh Annual Tampa Official Cybersecurity Summit is the must-attend event for CISOs and senior leaders looking to strengthen resilience, reduce risk, and align security with business goals. Join top executives, innovators, and experts for a full day of actionable insights, cutting-edge solutions, and high-impact networking. Experience interactive panels, exclusive solution showcases, and strategic discussions that go beyond theory to deliver real-world results, all complemented by a catered breakfast, networking lunch, and closing cocktail reception.
Key Issues Covered at The Official Cybersecurity Summit
AI and Emerging Tech at the 2026 Security Frontline
As artificial intelligence, automation, and new digital technologies accelerate across every industry, cybersecurity leaders face both unprecedented risk and powerful opportunity. The summit will explore how Cybersecurity leaders and their teams can harness emerging technologies to strengthen resilience, streamline operations, and stay ahead of adversaries who are equally quick to innovate. Attendees will gain insight into real-world applications of AI for threat detection, incident response, and decision intelligence, while learning how to identify and mitigate the new classes of vulnerabilities these tools introduce.
From generative AI and large language models to autonomous security systems and deepfake detection, these discussions will separate hype from reality. Experts will share practical frameworks for governing AI responsibly, managing data integrity, and aligning innovation with enterprise risk management. The conversations will help cybersecurity executives navigate the complex balance between embracing emerging technology for competitive advantage and ensuring it doesn’t become their next threat vector.
Key Takeaways:
• Learn how AI and automation are transforming threat detection, incident response, and security operations in measurable ways.
• Practical strategies for managing and mitigating new risks created by emerging technologies like generative AI and autonomous systems.
• Frameworks for responsible AI governance, including data integrity, transparency, and regulatory alignment.
• Real-world examples of organizations balancing innovation with security and risk management priorities.
• Actionable insights cybersecurity leaders can take back to their teams to prepare for the next wave of AI-driven threats and opportunities.
Securing the Extended Ecosystem: Supply Chains, Vendors, and Identities
As organizations expand their digital ecosystems, the lines between internal and external risk are rapidly disappearing. Today’s threat actors know that the fastest way into a network isn’t always through the front door. From compromised vendors and cloud integrations to weak identity controls, attackers are exploiting every link in the chain. The summit brings cybersecurity leaders together to unpack how supply chain vulnerabilities, third-party dependencies, and identity-based risks are converging to create a complex and often underestimated attack surface.
Cybersecurity executives will explore real-world examples of cascading breaches, lessons learned from managing large vendor ecosystems, and emerging frameworks for continuous third-party risk monitoring. The discussions highlight strategies for mapping hidden connections, enforcing stronger identity governance, and building resilience through transparency and collaboration. Attendees will walk away with practical insights for reducing exposure and strengthening trust across every part of their digital supply chain.
Key Takeaways:
• Understand how interconnected supply chains and third-party vendors expand your organization’s attack surface.
• Learn proven methods to assess, monitor, and mitigate risks across your extended digital ecosystem.
• Explore best practices for managing identity as the new security perimeter, including zero trust and access governance strategies.
• Gain insights from real-world breach scenarios that reveal common breakdowns in vendor and identity controls.
• Leave with an actionable framework to improve third-party risk visibility, strengthen resilience, and build more secure partnerships.
Resilience, Risk, and Results: Aligning Security with Business Outcomes
In today’s threat landscape, resilience is more than just recovery - it’s readiness, adaptability, and alignment with the business mission. The summit explores how forward-thinking cybersecurity executives are quantifying cyber risk to drive smarter investments and communicate value in business terms. By translating technical controls into measurable business impact, cybersecurity leaders are helping their organizations make data-driven decisions that balance protection with performance.
Join top executives and thought leaders for in-depth discussions on the frameworks, metrics, and real-world practices shaping the next generation of cyber resilience. From risk quantification models to boardroom-ready reporting, this conversation will reveal how leading security teams are reframing cybersecurity as a strategic business enabler - bridging the gap between risk reduction and results.
Key Takeaways:
• Learn how to translate cybersecurity metrics into meaningful business outcomes that resonate with executive leadership and the board.
• Explore practical approaches to cyber risk quantification that help prioritize investments and justify budget decisions.
• Understand how resilience strategies can align with overall business continuity and growth objectives.
• Gain insights from leading CISOs on how they communicate security value across the organization to drive engagement and accountability.
• Discover frameworks and tools that connect operational security performance with measurable business impact.
Top 6 Reasons to Attend the Cybersecurity Summit
Learn from renowned experts from around the globe on how to protect & defend your business from cyber attacks during interactive panels & fast track discussions.
Evaluate and see demonstrations from dozens of cutting-edge cybersecurity solution providers that can best protect your enterprise from the latest threats.
Our mission is to bring the cyber summit to the decisionmakers in the nation’s top cities. Our events are limited to one day only and are produced within first-class hotels, not convention centers.
Engage, network, socialize and share with hundreds of fellow business leaders, cybersecurity experts, C-Suite executives, and entrepreneurs. All attendees are pre-screened and approved in advance. On-site attendance is limited in order to maintain an intimate environment conducive to peer-to-peer interaction and learning.
By attending a full day at the Cybersecurity Summit, you will receive a certificate granting you Continuing Education Units (CEU) or Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. To earn these credits you must participate for the entire summit and confirm your attendance at the end of the day.
By investing one day at the summit you may save your company millions of dollars, avoid stock devaluation, and potential litigation.
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Agenda
The Official Cybersecurity Summit delivers high-impact sessions designed to help leaders strengthen resilience, protect critical infrastructure, and align security with business goals.
Attendees will gain actionable insights from expert panels, explore cutting-edge solutions, and connect directly with top industry innovators - making this a can’t-miss agenda for CISOs and security executives.
Abstract
AI and new digital technologies will continue to shift the cybersecurity landscape in 2026. This session explores how modern tools can enhance detection, response, and decision making while introducing new risks tied to generative systems, data integrity, and fast moving threat innovation. Leaders will gain a clear view of how to adopt emerging technology in a responsible and strategic way that supports resilience and aligns with enterprise risk goals.
Key Takeaways
• How AI and emerging tech are reshaping core security functions
• The new risks created by generative models and evolving attack techniques
• Practical governance steps that support responsible AI use
• Examples of organizations pairing innovation with disciplined risk management
Abstract:
As organizations expand their digital ecosystems, risks extend far beyond internal networks. Threat actors are increasingly exploiting supply chains, third-party vendors, and identity gaps to gain access. This session brings together cybersecurity leaders and solution providers to explore how these interwoven risks create a complex attack surface -and how technology can help mitigate them.
Panelists will share real-world examples, lessons from managing large vendor networks, and innovative tools and frameworks for continuous risk assessment. Discussions will highlight strategies for mapping hidden dependencies, enforcing strong identity governance, and strengthening resilience through automation, collaboration, and transparency. Attendees will gain actionable insights on reducing exposure, improving third-party risk visibility, and leveraging technology to secure their extended digital ecosystem.
Key Takeaways:
• Understand how supply chains, vendors, and identities amplify organizational risk.
• Explore practical methods and tools for assessing, monitoring, and mitigating third-party and ecosystem vulnerabilities.
• Learn how to treat identity as a security perimeter using zero trust, access governance, and automated solutions.
• Gain insights from real-world breaches that reveal common gaps in vendor and identity controls.
• Walk away with a technology-informed framework to enhance resilience, secure partnerships, and reduce exposure across your digital ecosystem.
Abstract:
Cybersecurity challenges are complex, and solving them requires teams with diverse perspectives, skills, and experiences. This panel explores how diversity drives better problem-solving, innovation, and threat detection in security organizations.
Panelists will share strategies for attracting and retaining talent from varied backgrounds, leveraging unique thinking styles, and applying different experiences to uncover blind spots in risk management. Attendees will gain actionable insights for building teams that are not only technically skilled but more adaptive, creative, and resilient in the face of evolving cyber threats.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how diversity strengthens problem-solving, innovation, and threat response.
- Learn approaches to recruit and retain talent from non-traditional backgrounds.
- Explore how different perspectives and thinking styles reveal hidden risks.
- Gain strategies to create teams that are adaptable, collaborative, and resilient.
- Walk away with practical ideas for integrating diversity into cybersecurity team design and strategy.
Speakers
Our speakers bring unmatched expertise and real-world experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and business strategy. Through engaging keynotes, panels, and discussions, they deliver actionable insights and practical solutions that help CISOs and security leaders stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sponsors
The Official Cybersecurity Summit connects innovative solution providers with the cybersecurity leaders who evaluate and influence purchasing decisions. With a dynamic exhibition hall and a packed agenda of interactive panels and engaging sessions, this event offers unmatched opportunities to showcase solutions and build meaningful connections.
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The Cybersecurity Summit is proud to partner with some of the industry’s most respected organizations in technology, information security, and business leadership.
Admission to the Cybersecurity Summit is reserved exclusively for active cybersecurity, IT, Information security practitioners tasked with safeguarding their enterprises against cyber threats and managing cybersecurity solutions. All registrations are subject to review.
Students, interns, educators, individuals not currently employed in IT, and those in sales or marketing roles are not eligible to attend.
Additionally, if we are unable to verify your identity with the information you provided during registration, your attendance may be cancelled.
Please note these qualifications pertain to all attendees, including members of our partner organizations.
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