SecureWorld St. Louis 2026

Come to the Registration desk in the lobby to check-in and get your badge. SecureWorld staff will be available throughout the day if you have any questions.

Your opportunity to visit our solution vendor partners, whose sponsorship makes SecureWorld possible, as well as association chapters! Booths have staff ready to answer your questions. Look for participating Dash For Prizes sponsors to be entered to win prizes.

Also, look for “Cyber Connect” discussions on select topics and join the conversation.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

Participating professional associations and details to be announced.

Despite the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals, many job seekers struggle to translate their skills into practical experience.

Drawing from my enterprise experience and extensive volunteer-led workforce since leaving AT&T, I will share examples to help individuals build the technical and professional skills employers prioritize. During the session, we will examine successful examples such as community-driven labs, apprenticeship-style experiences, certification-aligned practice, and employer-informed mentoring.

The presentation highlights how policy, education, nonprofits, and industry can collaborate to create scalable, accessible pathways cybersecurity careers. Participants will leave with practical strategies to strengthen workforce pipelines and improve job readiness outcomes.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our vendor sponsors and association partners.

Despite all the tools and technology, people remain the most unpredictable variable in security. Whether insider threats, awareness training, or culture-building, human behavior is central to your cyber strategy.

Please join us in the Networking Hall to connect with peers over coffee and snacks and discuss how organizations are tackling the people side of cybersecurity.

Session details to come.

AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity at all levels, speeding up detection and enabling automated attacks on an unprecedented scale. This session examines AI’s dual role as both a powerful defensive tool and a new threat vector for attackers. Panelists will discuss how AI copilots enhance analyst workflows, triage, and anomaly detection, while also addressing emerging risks such as LLM data leakage, prompt injection, model poisoning, and hallucinations within high-trust SOC processes.

The discussion will cover AI governance and assurance frameworks, evolving regulatory expectations, and the impact of synthetic content—including deepfakes, audio spoofing, and hyper-personalized phishing—on social engineering defenses. Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of AI’s potential, the safety measures needed for responsible deployment, and practical steps for preparing teams and pipelines for an AI-driven threat environment.

Artificial intelligence rapidly redefines how we defend our networks—and how attackers target them. From threat detection to deepfakes, explore the double-edged nature of AI in cybersecurity and how it’s impacting your daily work.

Please join us in the Networking Hall to connect with peers over coffee and snacks and share real-world experiences, strategies, and concerns around AI’s growing role in security.

AI is rapidly becoming one of the biggest drivers of productivity and innovation in the enterprise—and one of the fastest-growing sources of data security risk. As copilots, assistants, and public AI tools become integrated into daily work, sensitive data is flowing into systems that most security teams can’t fully see, understand, or control. 

The problem is that traditional data security controls were never built for this. In fact, many organizations were already struggling to operationalize data security before AI accelerated the challenge. The good news? AI isn’t just creating the problem—it’s also enabling a smarter, more effective way to solve it.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• Why AI has become one of the fastest-growing and least visible sources of enterprise risk 
• How GenAI is creating new exposure points for sensitive data 
• Why legacy data security tools have failed to keep up—and why AI is making those gaps harder to ignore 
• How context-aware, AI-driven data security can deliver more accurate visibility, stronger controls, and real-time enforcement 
• What organizations can do to enable AI innovation without expanding their risk surface 

Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how AI is reshaping data security—and how they can use that same technology to gain control, minimize exposure, and support safer AI adoption across the business.

Session details to come.

As organizational footprints expand across cloud, SaaS, OT/IoT, and dispersed workforces, defenders face a more complex and interconnected digital battlefield. This panel brings together experts to explore how today’s threat actors combine automation, social engineering, identity breaches, and software supply-chain attacks into highly coordinated assaults.

Panelists will examine the expanding importance of identity in the modern SOC, the emergence of AI-driven threats such as automated reconnaissance and deepfake-assisted breaches, and how fourth-party dependencies are changing risk visibility. The discussion also connects these trends to organizational resilience—showing how teams can improve detection, response, and business continuity across an evolving attack surface. This comprehensive session provides practical insights for any security leader seeking clarity amid converging threats.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our vendor sponsors and association partners.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

The days of reacting to alerts are over. From continuous monitoring to threat hunting, organizations are shifting to proactive security models that anticipate and prevent incidents before they happen.

Please join us in the Networking Hall to connect with peers over coffee and snacks and explore how to make proactive security a reality in your environment.

Session details to come.

AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity at all levels, speeding up detection and enabling automated attacks on an unprecedented scale. This session examines AI’s dual role as both a powerful defensive tool and a new threat vector for attackers. Panelists will discuss how AI copilots enhance analyst workflows, triage, and anomaly detection, while also addressing emerging risks such as LLM data leakage, prompt injection, model poisoning, and hallucinations within high-trust SOC processes.

The discussion will cover AI governance and assurance frameworks, evolving regulatory expectations, and the impact of synthetic content—including deepfakes, audio spoofing, and hyper-personalized phishing—on social engineering defenses. Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of AI’s potential, the safety measures needed for responsible deployment, and practical steps for preparing teams and pipelines for an AI-driven threat environment.

People have always been the most targeted layer in any organization’s security posture—but AI is rewriting the rules of engagement. Sophisticated phishing campaigns now arrive personalized at scale, deepfake audio and video are eroding the credibility of internal communications, and MFA fatigue attacks are turning security controls against the users they were designed to protect. The threat surface hasn’t changed, but the speed, precision, and plausibility of attacks targeting it have.

At the same time, defenders are gaining new tools. Behavioral analytics and UEBA platforms are surfacing anomalies that static rules would miss, and AI-assisted policy frameworks are helping organizations govern workforce behavior—including how employees interact with AI tools themselves—without sacrificing productivity. This panel brings together practitioners navigating insider risk, identity-based threats, and the governance questions that arise when the line between human error and AI-augmented deception becomes increasingly hard to draw.

Head to the Networking Lounge to connect with peers and sponsors. This open-ended discussion theme invites you to share what’s top of mind in your role—whether it’s emerging threats, resource challenges, or the next big project on your plate. Compare perspectives, swap strategies, and see how others in the community are tackling the same late-night concerns.

Session details to come.

Session details to come.

People have always been the most targeted layer in any organization’s security posture—but AI is rewriting the rules of engagement. Sophisticated phishing campaigns now arrive personalized at scale, deepfake audio and video are eroding the credibility of internal communications, and MFA fatigue attacks are turning security controls against the users they were designed to protect. The threat surface hasn’t changed, but the speed, precision, and plausibility of attacks targeting it have.

At the same time, defenders are gaining new tools. Behavioral analytics and UEBA platforms are surfacing anomalies that static rules would miss, and AI-assisted policy frameworks are helping organizations govern workforce behavior—including how employees interact with AI tools themselves—without sacrificing productivity. This panel brings together practitioners navigating insider risk, identity-based threats, and the governance questions that arise when the line between human error and AI-augmented deception becomes increasingly hard to draw.

This is your final chance to visit the Networking Hall and get scanned by our participating partners for our Dash for Prizes. You can also turn in your Passport cards at the Registration Desk before we announce our winner!

Join your peers for conversation and complimentary beverages. This is a great opportunity to network with other security professionals from the area and discuss the hot topics from the day.

Participating sponsors will announce their Dash for Prizes winners. Must be present to win.