Agenda at a Glance

⚠️ Important: Please be seated at least 10 minutes before the session begins. Doors will close promptly at the scheduled start time to avoid disruptions.

07:30 AM onwards

Registration, Badge Collection & Welcome Kit

08:30 AM – 09:15 AM

Networking & Refreshments

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Kavach

CyberSecurity and Innovation in the age of AI

Keynote

Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting companies, Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting citizens, How the world is responding to these attacks, Recommendation for Enterprises, Software Professionals, Government departments, Armed Forces, Students, Expo partners, miniOrange colleagues, Opportunities for Innovation.

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange | Founded and leads miniOrange as CEO, turning a bootstrapped startup into a global IAM force.

✈️ Pune, India

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

Kavach

Cybersecurity: India’s New Line of Defence

Keynote

Exploring how India is building its next line of defence through innovation, policy, and technology to secure the nation’s digital frontier.

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Member of Parliament | An entrepreneur-turned-Member of Parliament known for championing secure, technology-driven growth in India’s digital economy

✈️ Telangana, India

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Kavach

Navigating the evolving Cyber Battlefield - Opportunities and Imperatives for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Military Context

Keynote
Major General KK Chakrabarti

Maj Gen Krishnendu Kumar Chakrabarti

Chief Signal Officer, Headquarters Southern Command

✈️ Pune, India

11:10 AM – 11:45 AM

Kavach

Identity as an Attack Surface: Strengthen Operational Resilience with ITDR

As organizations scale, the explosion of digital identities—users, devices, apps, even service accounts—creates one of the biggest security risks enterprises face today. Identity is the new attack surface. Is your IAM strategy keeping up?

Nandan Patil

Nandan Patil

Country Director, India and SAARC, Gurucul

✈️ Mumbai, India

11:55 AM – 12:30 PM

Kavach

Meet Your AI Minion Team: Boost Security Productivity

Learn how to build specialized AI agents that act as your security “minions,” automating repetitive tasks across AppSec, cloud, and compliance—so your team can focus on what really matters.

Shadab Siddique

Shadab Siddique

SVP/CISO, JioStar

✈️ Bengaluru, India

12:40 PM – 01:15 PM

Kavach

Security on Paper vs Security in Reality: A CISO’s View from Both Sides

Venkata Satish Guttula

Venkata Satish Guttula

Former CISO, Rediff

✈️ Mumbai, India

01:20 PM – 01:55 PM

Kavach

Silent Whispers: Patch Tuesday's Worst Nightmare

Aseem Jakhar

Aseem Jakhar

Co-Founder at EXPLIoT, Payatu, Nullcon

✈️ Pune, India

02:00 PM – 02:35 PM

Kavach

When AI Agents Go Rogue

LLM agents and MCP-based tools are becoming the glue code of modern systems and code development. This session, will cover critical risks that can turn these agents from “helpful assistants” to “silent insider”. We’ll walk through real-world attack stories and go over a practical checklist to harden your agents and secure MCP servers before they become your weakest link.

Pratish Ray

Pratish Ray

VP of Engineering, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

02:45 PM – 03:20 PM

Kavach

Guardians of Digital Trust: Securing Billions of Users, Transactions, and Deliveries

Panel
Mubin Shaikh

Moderator

Mubin Shaikh

Partner, Cybersecurity at Ernst & Young LLP

Panelists (5)

Dr.Shweta Tripathi

Dr.Shweta Tripathi

DGM Cyber and Information Security, Ruby Hall Clinic

Pravin Jha

Pravin Jha

Product and Cloud Security Leader, PropertyGuru Group

Shadab Siddique

Shadab Siddique

SVP/CISO, JioStar

Mrinmoy Dey

Mrinmoy Dey

Chief Information Security Officer, LendingKart

Aditya PS

Aditya PS

Principal Advisor to His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa(Prince of Bahrain) & Founder Terraeagle

03:30 PM – 04:05 PM

Kavach

Built for India, Mandatory for All: Understanding DPDP Act

How the DPDP Act elevates governance and accountability, and why IAM and PAM are now essential for secure, efficient, and compliant operations.

Gaurav Bansod

Gaurav Bansod

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

04:15 PM – 04:50 PM

Kavach

The Malware’s Messenger: Pwn-Ping-Poll, Abusing Telegram API As A C2

This session explores how malware authors abuse Telegram’s Bot API as a stealthy command-and-control channel. Through real-world infostealer campaigns and live API traffic analysis, it dissects Telegram-based C2 techniques and outlines practical methods for detection and disruption.

Rushikesh D. Nandedkar

Rushikesh D. Nandedkar

Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst, GoDaddy

✈️ Pune, India

05:00 PM – 05:35 PM

Kavach

Deep dive into building the next generation local Al-powered Security Code Reviewers

A deep dive into designing and building the next generation of local AI-powered security code reviewers.

Rajanish Pathak

Rajanish Pathak

Sr. Manager, Katim

✈️ Abu Dhabi, UAE

05:45 PM – 06:20 PM

Kavach

The Hacker Mindset: Curiosity, Critical Questioning & Persistent Exploration

Keynote
Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder of BSides Ahmedabad | India’s top ethical hackers and a leading Synack Red Team researcher known for uncovering high-impact vulnerabilities across global enterprises

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Kavach

CyberSecurity and Innovation in the age of AI

Keynote

Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting companies, Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting citizens, How the world is responding to these attacks, Recommendation for Enterprises, Software Professionals, Government departments, Armed Forces, Students, Expo partners, miniOrange colleagues, Opportunities for Innovation.

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange | Founded and leads miniOrange as CEO, turning a bootstrapped startup into a global IAM force.

✈️ Pune, India

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

Kavach

Cybersecurity: India’s New Line of Defence

Keynote

Exploring how India is building its next line of defence through innovation, policy, and technology to secure the nation’s digital frontier.

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Member of Parliament | An entrepreneur-turned-Member of Parliament known for championing secure, technology-driven growth in India’s digital economy

✈️ Telangana, India

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Kavach

Navigating the evolving Cyber Battlefield - Opportunities and Imperatives for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Military Context

Keynote
Major General KK Chakrabarti

Maj Gen Krishnendu Kumar Chakrabarti

Chief Signal Officer, Headquarters Southern Command

✈️ Pune, India

11:10 AM – 11:45 AM

Astra

Explainable AI in Cybersecurity: Building efficient Cybersecurity

As AI enhances cybersecurity, issues like blind alerts, false positives, hidden biases, and black-box behaviour challenge trust and transparency. Explainable AI (XAI) makes decisions understandable, traceable, and auditable by showing why alerts triggered, key signals, and model confidence, ensuring accountability and compliance.

Amit Dabhane

Amit Dabhane

Senior Technical Project Manager, Persistent Systems

✈️ Pune, India

11:55 AM – 12:30 PM

Astra

AI on Wheels: Balancing Intelligence and Security in Smart Vehicles

Panel
Ajit Hatti

Moderator

Ajit Hatti

Founder, PureID

Panelists (5)

Arun Mane

Arun Mane

Founder & CEO, AmynaSec Research Labs

Jay Turla

Jay Turla

Principal Security Researcher, VicOne

Nagarajan M

Nagarajan M

Vice Chairman & MD, Gujarat State Road Transport Corp (GSRTC)

Prateek Bhamri

Prateek Bhamri

Head Cybersecurity and Blockchain, Spiro

Sanil Nadkarni

Sanil Nadkarni

CISO & AI leader, Cummins

12:40 PM – 01:15 PM

Astra

Building Resilient Detection Pipelines: Telemetry, Correlation, and Context

Panel
Smith Gonsalves

Moderator

Smith Gonsalves

Director & CISO, CyberSmithSECURE

Panelists (4)

Gaurav Bhardwaj

Gaurav Bhardwaj

Engineering Manager - Security Engineering, John Deere

Amey Subhash Lakeshri

Amey Subhash Lakeshri

Associate Partner - Digital Trust Cyber Defense and Incident Response, KPMG

Krishna Pandey

Krishna Pandey

Senior Director & Global Head of Security, Xerox

Gautam Kapoor

Gautam Kapoor

Cyber Security Leader- India, Accenture

01:20 PM – 01:55 PM

Astra

Making SaaS and AI Agents Work Safely Together

ID-JAG routes app-to-app and AI-agent access through the enterprise IdP, closing OAuth blind spots to restore visibility, governance, and zero-trust security across SaaS integrations.

Sohail Pathan

Sohail Pathan

Senior Developer Advocate - Okta

✈️ Bengaluru, India

02:00 PM – 02:35 PM

Astra

The Untold Stories of Building Cybersecurity Conferences

Panel
Dikshita Tiwari

Moderator

Dikshita Tiwari

Marketing and Communication Lead, miniOrange

Panelists (3)

Jayson E-Street

Jayson E-Street

Chief Adversarial Officer, "World Class Hacker" by National Geographic & Global Ambassador - Secure Yeti, DEFCON

Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder, BoA and Red Team Legend - BSides Ahmedabad, RiskProfiler, Synack

Dhillon Kannabhiran

Dhillon Kannabhiran

Founder & CEO, VP - Global Strategy & Growth , Hack In The Box, Verichains

02:45 PM – 03:20 PM

Astra

Engineering With AI: Writing Better Code, Faster — Without Losing Control

A practical approach to using AI as a coding partner, improving architecture, components, and quality checks. All while ensuring developers stay in control through effective prompting and reliability safeguards.

Gaurav Singh

Gaurav Singh

Technical Lead, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

Abhishek Gautam

Abhishek Gautam

Sr. Technical Architect, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

03:30 PM – 04:05 PM

Astra

When Compliance Isn’t Enough: Lessons from Real Incidents

Panel
Dhawal Shrivastava

Moderator

Dhawal Shrivastava

Senior Security Assurance Engineering Lead, Microsoft

Panelists (4)

Sairam Santharam

Sairam Santharam

CISO, Avancer Corporation

Krishnendu Dutta

Krishnendu Dutta

Head of Security, Decathlon Sports

Sanjeev Garg

Sanjeev Garg

Vice President - Cyber Security, Tech Mahindra

Alok Shankar Pandey

Alok Shankar Pandey

Group General Manager & CISO, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

04:15 PM – 04:50 PM

Astra

Infrastructure Patterns for Secure, Scalable Systems

Key engineering challenges in modern security systems - from real-time event processing and concurrent access to scaling telemetry, managing large forensic artifacts, and supporting long-running incident-response workflows.

Ashwani Yadav

Ashwani Yadav

Senior Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

05:00 PM – 05:35 PM

Astra

Defending Digital India: Building Cyber Resilience for a New Geopolitical Era

Panel
Ram Ganesh

Moderator

Ram Ganesh

Founder & CEO - CyberEye, UK Chevening Cybersecurity Fellow

Panelists (4)

Dr. Jatin Patel

Dr. Jatin Patel

Project Director(I/C) and Asst. Professor (IT), Rashtriya Raksha University

Arvind Rao

Arvind Rao

DRDO

Commander Vivek Yadav

Commander Vivek Yadav

Director(Cybersecurity and Quantum), C-DAC, Ministry of Electronics and IT

Lt Col Santosh Khadsare (Rtd)

Lt Col Santosh Khadsare (Rtd)

CTO, SysTools

05:45 PM – 06:20 PM

Kavach

The Hacker Mindset: Curiosity, Critical Questioning & Persistent Exploration

Keynote
Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder of BSides Ahmedabad | India’s top ethical hackers and a leading Synack Red Team researcher known for uncovering high-impact vulnerabilities across global enterprises

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Kavach

CyberSecurity and Innovation in the age of AI

Keynote

Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting companies, Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting citizens, How the world is responding to these attacks, Recommendation for Enterprises, Software Professionals, Government departments, Armed Forces, Students, Expo partners, miniOrange colleagues, Opportunities for Innovation.

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange | Founded and leads miniOrange as CEO, turning a bootstrapped startup into a global IAM force.

✈️ Pune, India

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

Kavach

Cybersecurity: India’s New Line of Defence

Keynote

Exploring how India is building its next line of defence through innovation, policy, and technology to secure the nation’s digital frontier.

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Member of Parliament | An entrepreneur-turned-Member of Parliament known for championing secure, technology-driven growth in India’s digital economy

✈️ Telangana, India

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Kavach

Navigating the evolving Cyber Battlefield - Opportunities and Imperatives for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Military Context

Keynote
Major General KK Chakrabarti

Maj Gen Krishnendu Kumar Chakrabarti

Chief Signal Officer, Headquarters Southern Command

✈️ Pune, India

11:10 AM – 11:45 AM

Rakshak

AI Agent (and MCP) Vulnerabilities and Security

The major security risks of AI Agents and MCP - prompt injection, jailbreaking, tool poisoning, command injection, and privilege escalation—and shows how to properly secure and scale them.

Nikhilesh Tayal

Nikhilesh Tayal

Founder and CEO, AI ML Etc

✈️ Jaipur, India

11:55 AM – 12:30 PM

Rakshak

The $100,000 Comma: Tokenomics Strategies to Slash LLM Costs by 50%

Intelligent caching and context compression can cut LLM token costs by about 50% while improving FinOps governance and preventing runaway AI spending.

Nitesh Pamnani

Nitesh Pamnani

Senior Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

12:40 PM – 01:15 PM

Rakshak

How a Single Request Shook Cloudflare, GitHub, Google & AWS

One request. Total blackout. The scariest part? It wasn't a hack—it was valid traffic. This talk reveals how a perfectly legitimate API call can trigger a Microservice Meltdown by exploiting hidden architectural fragility.

Gaurav Todwal

Gaurav Todwal

Cyber Security Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

01:20 PM – 01:55 PM

Rakshak

Securing the Cloud-First Enterprise: From Innovation to Incident Response

Panel
Swati Gupta

Moderator

Swati Gupta

Head of Product, miniOrange

Panelists (4)

Gunjan Chillar

Gunjan Chillar

Security Specialist, Crowdstrike

Ankita Dheeraj Sancheti

Ankita Dheeraj Sancheti

Co-Founder, Career Mantrana, Nano Techware Limited, Nanostuffs Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Sowmya

Sowmya

Vice President, Wells Fargo

Udit Chugh

Udit Chugh

Associate Director-Cybersecurity & Risk, Wipro

02:00 PM – 02:35 PM

Rakshak

Identity Security for Non-Humans (Machines, AI Agents and Devices)

A framework for Identity Security for Non-Humans, using immutable machine identities and behavioral analytics to securely authenticate and manage AI agents, machines, and IoT devices in a growing non-human digital ecosystem.

Dinesh Mishra

Dinesh Mishra

Senior Product Manager, SailPoint Tech

✈️ Pune, India

02:45 PM – 03:20 PM

Rakshak

Breaking LLMs in the Wild

Revealing real-world LLM security vulnerabilities - including prompt leakage, jailbreaks, indirect prompt injection, and unsafe output handling, supported by case studies that show why strong validation, sanitization, and backend controls are essential for securing AI systems.

Manjesh S

Manjesh S

HackerOne

✈️ Bangalore, India

Parveen Yadav

Parveen Yadav

HackerOne

✈️ Bangalore, India

03:30 PM – 04:05 PM

Rakshak

From Intelligence to Action: Proactive Threat Hunting for Cybersecurity

How to turn threat intelligence into actionable, MITRE ATT&CK, aligned hunts using telemetry and adversary TTPs, illustrated through real cases that demonstrate proactive breach prevention.

Rohit Deepak Sadgune

Rohit Deepak Sadgune

Sr. Manager CYBER DEFENSE at Saviynt

✈️ Bengaluru, India

04:15 PM – 04:50 PM

Rakshak

Bridging the Gap: What Hackers and CISOs Can Learn from Each Other

Panel
Nikhil Shrivastava

Moderator

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder, BSides Ahmedabad

Panelists (4)

Chirag Shah

Chirag Shah

Global Information Security Officer & DPO, Model N and Investor

Ebrahem Hegazy

Ebrahem Hegazy

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dark Entry

Charlie W

Charlie W

Technical Security Analyst, Synack, Inc.

Mustafa

Mustafa

Information Security Specialist

05:00 PM – 05:35 PM

Rakshak

From Community to Enterprise: Scaling Open-Source CMS for Mission-Critical Workloads

Panel
Puja More

Moderator

Puja More

Senior Content Writer, miniOrange

Panelists (3)

Aditya Kane

Aditya Kane

Open Source enthusiast and WordPress community builder

Sheeba Abraham

Sheeba Abraham

WordPress Developer

Rakesh Falke

Rakesh Falke

Engineering Manager, miniOrange

05:45 PM – 06:20 PM

Kavach

The Hacker Mindset: Curiosity, Critical Questioning & Persistent Exploration

Keynote
Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder of BSides Ahmedabad | India’s top ethical hackers and a leading Synack Red Team researcher known for uncovering high-impact vulnerabilities across global enterprises

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Kavach

CyberSecurity and Innovation in the age of AI

Keynote

Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting companies, Most Dangerous Cyber Attacks affecting citizens, How the world is responding to these attacks, Recommendation for Enterprises, Software Professionals, Government departments, Armed Forces, Students, Expo partners, miniOrange colleagues, Opportunities for Innovation.

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange | Founded and leads miniOrange as CEO, turning a bootstrapped startup into a global IAM force.

✈️ Pune, India

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

Kavach

Cybersecurity: India’s New Line of Defence

Keynote

Exploring how India is building its next line of defence through innovation, policy, and technology to secure the nation’s digital frontier.

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Hon'ble Shri. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Member of Parliament | An entrepreneur-turned-Member of Parliament known for championing secure, technology-driven growth in India’s digital economy

✈️ Telangana, India

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Kavach

Navigating the evolving Cyber Battlefield - Opportunities and Imperatives for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Military Context

Keynote
Major General KK Chakrabarti

Maj Gen Krishnendu Kumar Chakrabarti

Chief Signal Officer, Headquarters Southern Command

✈️ Pune, India

11:10 AM – 02:00 PM

Yantra

Bug Bounty — Advanced Recon & Reporting

Workshop

Experienced bug bounty hunters, red teamers, and security engineers who already know the basics (OWASP Top 10, Burp, scopes, triage).

Dr. Shifa Cyclewala

Dr. Shifa Cyclewala

CEO and Director, Hacktify Cyber Security

✈️ Pune, India

Dr. Rohit Gautam

Dr. Rohit Gautam

Director and Lead Tactical & Adversarial Principal Instructor, Hacktify Cyber Security

✈️ Pune, India

02:30 PM – 05:30 PM

Yantra

Bluetooth Hacking Workshop

Workshop

Practical, hands-on introduction to attacking Bluetooth (BLE & Classic) devices: discovery, service analysis, common weaknesses, fuzzing, and basic exploitation techniques.

Mr. IoT

Mr. IoT

Founder, IoTSRG Community

✈️ Bangalore, India

Saqeeb

Saqeeb

Co-Founder of IoTSRG and Payment Security Specialist at SISA

✈️ Bangalore, India

05:45 PM – 06:20 PM

Kavach

The Hacker Mindset: Curiosity, Critical Questioning & Persistent Exploration

Keynote
Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder of BSides Ahmedabad | India’s top ethical hackers and a leading Synack Red Team researcher known for uncovering high-impact vulnerabilities across global enterprises

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM

Abhedya

Cybersecurity Priorities for Nation

Prof NK Goyal

Prof NK Goyal

President, Chairman, Emeritus

✈️ Delhi, India

11:30 AM – 12:05 PM

Abhedya

The hidden web hijacker on your device that you will never notice

This session reveals how stealthy tMITM silently intercepts traffic using trusted systems, demonstrating real-world mechanics, abuse scenarios, and practical techniques to detect rogue interceptors and protect trust boundaries.

Ajay Bisht

Ajay Bisht

Senior Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

12:15 PM – 12:35 PM

Abhedya

Cybersecurity in the Age of AI

How AI Artificial Intelligence is redefining cybersecurity—as both a powerful defense tool and a sophisticated weapon. Organizations must now secure not only traditional IT assets, but also data, models, and decision-making systems driven by AI.

Mr. Pramod Sonmale

Mr. Pramod Sonmale

CEO & Director, Amazure Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

✈️ Pune, India

12:45 PM – 01:05 PM

Abhedya

The 100M Record Challenge

Discover how we transformed a failing dashboard from a 2-minute load time to a blistering 50 milliseconds by moving beyond traditional fixes. This session dives into how rethinking core architecture can solve performance crises that conventional methods can't touch.

Fawaz Wangde

Fawaz Wangde

Senior Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

01:15 PM – 01:35 PM

Abhedya

Quality Assurance: Manual Strategies and Modern Automation Tools

This session focuses on how modern QA teams ensure product quality by combining strong manual testing strategies with advanced automation tools. It explains what to test manually, what to automate, and how both approaches work together for faster and more reliable releases.

Kalyani Khairnar

Kalyani Khairnar

Sr. Automation Testing Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

01:45 PM – 02:05 PM

Abhedya

AgenticSDLC for AI coding Era

Yogesh Trivedi

Yogesh Trivedi

Founder and CEO, CognitivTrust

✈️ California, USA

02:15 PM – 02:35 PM

Abhedya

When Your AI Can’t Be Trusted Anymore (Ransomware 3.0, MLOps Security & the Fight for Trust in ML Systems)

What if your ML system is running perfectly—but making the wrong decisions? This talk explores Ransomware 3.0, where attackers poison models and pipelines instead of locking systems, and shows how AI‑augmented attacks bypass traditional security and how to defend against silent ML compromise.

Avinish Thakur

Avinish Thakur

Software Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

02:45 PM – 03:05 PM

Abhedya

BEYOND HUMAN: Securing Ghost Identities in Your Infrastructure

Identity Risks Beyond Human Users

Het Mehta

Het Mehta

Product Security, Accops

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

03:15 PM – 03:35 PM

Abhedya

Generic Privacy concepts (DPDP)

Vivek Dixit

Vivek Dixit

EVP, Riskpro India Ventures Private Limited

✈️ Mumbai, India

03:45 PM – 05:45 PM

Abhedya

Innovation Sanbox Pitches

09:30 AM – 10:05 AM

Kavach

Only Secure is Not Enough: Building Intelligent Cyber Resilience

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, traditional cybersecurity is no longer sufficient. This session challenges the outdated notion of “just being secure” and introduces a forward-looking approach centered on resilience, proactivity, and intelligent recovery. Drawing from global incidents, evolving threat patterns, and real-world examples, the session explores how organizations can shift from reactive defense to holistic cyber resilience.

Subhash Singh Punjabi

Subhash Singh Punjabi

CISO & Head Enterprise Architecture, Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd

✈️ London, UK

10:15 AM – 10:50 AM

Kavach

The Hidden Cost of Third-Party Risk: The Problem No One Sees

The real cost of third-party risk comes from vendors you don’t see. Fast-growing SaaS companies may assess primary vendors, but shadow third parties, subcontractors and fourth parties quietly inherit access to sensitive data. When these unseen links are breached, the impact is immediate: regulatory action, boardroom panic, financial loss, and broken trust. A small percentage of shadow vendors cause most of the risk. This makes continuous, autonomous discovery critical to uncover blind spots, manage risk in real time, and scale securely.

Rahul Tyagi

Rahul Tyagi

Co-founder, Safe Security

✈️ Bengaluru, India

11:00 AM – 11:35 AM

Kavach

AI and Cryptography for Evasive Malware

An exploration of how attackers use AI and advanced cryptography to build stealthy, evasive malware and the defensive strategies needed to detect and counter it.

Zhassulan Zhussupov

Zhassulan Zhussupov aka cocomelonc

Malware Researcher, ANY.RUN

✈️ Turkey

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM

Kavach

Best Practices of Cyber Security and Data Privacy across Industries

Keynote

In this, Burgess Cooper draws on decades of hands-on experience in critical infrastructure, telecom, finance, and enterprise security to explore the best practices that truly work across industries.

Burgess Cooper

Burgess Cooper

CISO, Adani Enterprises Limited | A veteran cybersecurity leader and CEO of Adani Cybersecurity

✈️ Mumbai, India

12:30 PM – 01:05 PM

Kavach

Countering Disinformation and Cyber Threats to Democracy

Keynote

Exploring how technology, policy, and public awareness must work together to protect democratic systems in the digital age.

Brijesh Singh

Brijesh Singh

ADGP Maharashtra Police | Director General of Police at Government Of Maharashtra

✈️ Nagpur, India

01:15 PM – 01:50 PM

Kavach

DEF CON 19 & Beyond!

Keynote

15 years ago at DEF CON 19, one of the most talked-about social engineering talks challenged organizations to confront the uncomfortable truth: people, not systems remain the most vulnerable point in any strategy. As we revisit that moment, this retrospective explores what & more importantly how little has changed when it comes to protecting employees from targeted social engineering attacks.

Jayson E. Street

Jayson E. Street

Chief Adversarial Officer for Secure Yeti | DEF CON group global ambassador, expert known for breaking into banks, hotels, government facilities, and biochemical companies to show how attackers really win.

✈️ Houston, USA

02:05 PM – 02:40 PM

Kavach

From TARA to Takeover: Live Electric Scooter Exploitation Against ISO 21434 Requirements

Arun Mane

Arun Mane

Founder & CEO, Amynasec Labs

✈️ Pune, India

Omkar Mali

Omkar Mali

Security Researcher

✈️ Pune, India

02:50 PM – 03:25 PM

Kavach

When Context Becomes the Exploit: Security Risks in MCP Systems

How MCP underpins modern LLM tooling, exposes new security risks, and provides practical strategies to detect and harden against real-world MCP vulnerabilities.

Vishal Chand

Vishal Chand

Researcher

✈️ Chandigarh, India

Arshagya Shrivastava

Arshagya Shrivastava

AI Researcher and Developer

✈️ UP, India

03:35 PM – 04:10 PM

Kavach

Shadow AI: The New Supply Chain Disruptor

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a background helper—it has become a participant in our software supply chains. Tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI-powered IDEs can now generate code, recommend dependencies, suggest infrastructure, and even automate deployments. On the surface this looks like productivity magic. Under the hood, it is a supply chain disruptor.

Anant Shrivastava

Anant Shrivastava

Founder of Cyfinoid Research

✈️ Bengaluru, India

04:20 PM – 04:55 PM

Kavach

AI vs. AI: The Next Battleground in Financial Cybersecurity

Panel
Alex Tugatijian

Moderator

Alex Tugatijian

Panelists (5)

Yazad Khandhadia

Yazad Khandhadia

Head of Security, Architecture & Engineering, Emirates NBD

Himanshu Kumar Das

Himanshu Kumar Das

Chief Information Security Officer, CRED

Harvinder Gill

Harvinder Gill

Dhiraj Sasidharan

Dhiraj Sasidharan

Vice President Threat and Compliance Management, Emirates NBD

Dr. Nareshkumar Harale

Dr. Nareshkumar Harale

Senior Vice President & Department Head (ISD-IS&SP), State Bank of India

05:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Kavach

Innovation Sandbox Finalist Pitch

06:15 PM – 06:30 PM

Kavach

Awards Ceremony

06:30 PM – 07:00 PM

Kavach

Closing Keynote

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

09:30 AM – 10:05 AM

Astra

Combating Cloud threats in AI driven Era

Cloud security threat landscape evolution. How AI threats are reshaping it & role AI can play in combating cloud adversaries.

Gunjan Chhillar

Gunjan Chhillar

Cloud Security Specialist, Crowdstrike

✈️ Bengaluru, India

10:15 AM – 10:50 AM

Astra

Incident Response When the Lights Go Out: Real Lessons from OT Cyber Crises

Panel
Puneet Tambi

Moderator

Puneet Tambi

Baker Hughes, Principal OT Security Enterprise Architect Founder, OT SECURITY PROFESSIONALS

Panelists (4)

Sharmin Sheikh

Sharmin Sheikh

APAC Lead - OT Cybersecurity

Rohit Jain

Rohit Jain

OT Security Architect, Rockwell Automation

Ravindra Gotavade

Ravindra Gotavade

Senior Domain Architect OT Security, Tetra Pak

Prateek Singh

Prateek Singh

APAC Lead - OT Cybersecurity, Eaton Corp.

11:00 AM – 11:35 AM

Astra

The Emerging duality of modern security operations: Balancing human judgment and AI intelligence

How human–AI collaboration is reshaping SOC workflows, defining new hybrid models, escalation boundaries, and oversight for semi-autonomous security operations.

Aparna TA

Aparna TA

Head of IT Solutions, ManageEngine

✈️ Chennai, India

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM

Kavach

Best Practices of Cyber Security and Data Privacy across Industries

Keynote

In this, Burgess Cooper draws on decades of hands-on experience in critical infrastructure, telecom, finance, and enterprise security to explore the best practices that truly work across industries.

Burgess Cooper

Burgess Cooper

CISO, Adani Enterprises Limited | A veteran cybersecurity leader and CEO of Adani Cybersecurity

✈️ Mumbai, India

12:30 PM – 01:05 PM

Kavach

Countering Disinformation and Cyber Threats to Democracy

Keynote

Exploring how technology, policy, and public awareness must work together to protect democratic systems in the digital age.

Brijesh Singh

Brijesh Singh

ADGP Maharashtra Police | Director General of Police at Government Of Maharashtra

✈️ Nagpur, India

01:15 PM – 01:50 PM

Kavach

DEF CON 19 & Beyond!

Keynote

15 years ago at DEF CON 19, one of the most talked-about social engineering talks challenged organizations to confront the uncomfortable truth: people, not systems remain the most vulnerable point in any strategy. As we revisit that moment, this retrospective explores what & more importantly how little has changed when it comes to protecting employees from targeted social engineering attacks.

Jayson E. Street

Jayson E. Street

Chief Adversarial Officer for Secure Yeti | DEF CON group global ambassador, expert known for breaking into banks, hotels, government facilities, and biochemical companies to show how attackers really win.

✈️ Houston, USA

02:05 PM – 02:40 PM

Astra

Cyber Crysis & Evolving Threat Landscape

Ankit Agarwal

Ankit Agarwal

CISO, Encora Inc.

✈️ Bengaluru, India

02:50 PM – 03:25 PM

Astra

From Idea to Exit: Lessons from Founders Who Built Cyber Companies That Scaled

Panel
Ankur Bhargava

Moderator

Ankur Bhargava

Head of Security, Phonepe

Panelists (5)

Sanjay Katkar

Sanjay Katkar

CEO, QuickHeal

Vikram Mehta

Vikram Mehta

Founder & CEO, Cy5.io

Dhruva Goyal

Dhruva Goyal

Founder/CEO, BugBase

Illyas Kooliyankal

Illyas Kooliyankal

Founder, Chief Security Advisor & Group CEO, CyberShelter, The CISO Factory

Aseem Jhakar

Aseem Jhakar

Co-Founder EXPLIoT, Payatu, Nullcon, Hardwear.io

03:35 PM – 04:10 PM

Astra

Automotive Fuzzing for the Masses

A hands-on methodology for discovering automotive vulnerabilities—using custom fuzzers and real-world cases across CAN, USB, and BLE attack surfaces, including impactful DoS and crash scenarios.

Jay Turla

Jay Turla

Principal Security Researcher at VicOne

✈️ Philippines

04:20 PM – 04:55 PM

Astra

PQC migration - A necessity or hype ?

Evaluating whether migrating to post-quantum cryptography is urgent or premature, offering a balanced roadmap by examining quantum threats, PQC maturity, and the real-world costs and challenges of large-scale transition.

Commander Vivek Yadav

Commander Vivek Yadav

Director (Cybersecurity and Quantum) at Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

✈️ New Delhi, India

05:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Kavach

Innovation Sandbox Finalist Pitch

06:15 PM – 06:30 PM

Kavach

Awards Ceremony

06:30 PM – 07:00 PM

Kavach

Closing Keynote

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

09:30 AM – 10:05 AM

Rakshak

Clean up on aisle vibe!

A cautionary tale highlighting the risks of “vibe-coded” software pushed to production without security controls, sharing real incidents and practical guardrails to build safer DevOps practices.

Gaurav Sood

Gaurav Sood

Principal Software Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

10:15 AM – 10:50 AM

Rakshak

Current Cyber Crime Trends

Assistant Police Inspector Pravin Swamy from the Pimpri Chinchwad Cyber Police shares real-world insights into current cyber crime trends, drawn from investigations involving over 200 cyber fraud cases.

Pravin Swami

Pravin Swami

Head of Cybercell, PCMC

✈️ Pune, India

11:00 AM – 11:35 AM

Rakshak

Fireside Chat: Is AI Making Organizations Safer or Just More Confident?

Saksham Choudhary

Saksham Choudhary

Founder, Findcoder.io

✈️ Bengaluru, India

Alex Tugatijian

Alex Tugatijian

Cybersecurity Advisor

✈️ Dubai, UAE

Nikhil Shrivastava

Nikhil Shrivastava

Founder of BSides Ahmedabad and Top Synack Player

✈️ Ahmedabad, India

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM

Kavach

Best Practices of Cyber Security and Data Privacy across Industries

Keynote

In this, Burgess Cooper draws on decades of hands-on experience in critical infrastructure, telecom, finance, and enterprise security to explore the best practices that truly work across industries.

Burgess Cooper

Burgess Cooper

CISO, Adani Enterprises Limited | A veteran cybersecurity leader and CEO of Adani Cybersecurity

✈️ Mumbai, India

12:30 PM – 01:05 PM

Kavach

Countering Disinformation and Cyber Threats to Democracy

Keynote

Exploring how technology, policy, and public awareness must work together to protect democratic systems in the digital age.

Brijesh Singh

Brijesh Singh

ADGP Maharashtra Police | Director General of Police at Government Of Maharashtra

✈️ Nagpur, India

01:15 PM – 01:50 PM

Kavach

DEF CON 19 & Beyond!

Keynote

15 years ago at DEF CON 19, one of the most talked-about social engineering talks challenged organizations to confront the uncomfortable truth: people, not systems remain the most vulnerable point in any strategy. As we revisit that moment, this retrospective explores what & more importantly how little has changed when it comes to protecting employees from targeted social engineering attacks.

Jayson E. Street

Jayson E. Street

Chief Adversarial Officer for Secure Yeti | DEF CON group global ambassador, expert known for breaking into banks, hotels, government facilities, and biochemical companies to show how attackers really win.

✈️ Houston, USA

02:05 PM – 02:40 PM

Rakshak

Known, Accepted, Breached: Where Security Decisions Go Wrong

Many breaches aren’t caused by blind spots—they’re caused by decisions we made and stopped revisiting. This session explores how accepted risks turn into real incidents, why “medium” risks linger for years, and how better risk discipline and GRC can reduce unpleasant surprises.

Ankit Singh

Ankit Singh

Principal Product Security Engineer, Autodesk

✈️ Bengaluru, India

02:50 PM – 03:25 PM

Rakshak

The Automated Architect: Scaling Bug Bounty Success into a Microsoft Security Career

This session explores how security automation can help bug bounty hunters scale beyond manual recon and build a career-ready skill set. Attendees will learn how to create a personal security automation pipeline and turn real-world projects into a portfolio aligned with modern DevSecOps and cloud security roles.

Gaurav Bhatia

Gaurav Bhatia

Microsoft

✈️ Mumbai, India

Raj Sharma

Raj Sharma

Microsoft

✈️ Mumbai, India

03:35 PM – 04:10 PM

Rakshak

She Secures the Future: Women Leading the Next Wave of Cyber Resilience

Panel
Anupriya Kumar

Moderator

Anupriya Kumar

COO, miniOrange

Panelists (4)

Dr Abhilasha Rakesh Vyas

Dr Abhilasha Rakesh Vyas

Director Learning and Innovation, PureId

Vandana Verma

Vandana Verma

Security Leader, Compliance Lead, Snyk, OWASP Foundation

Alka Vaghela

Alka Vaghela

Information Security and GRC Professional

Satyavathi Divadari

Satyavathi Divadari

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer & Global Advisory Board Member - CTIA, EC-Council Chairperson - CSA Bangalore

04:20 PM – 04:55 PM

Rakshak

Blueprints for Breach: When AI Weaponizes Your SBOM

How attackers use AI to weaponize SBOM transparency while providing a defensive roadmap that turns SBOMs into resilient, zero-trust security assets instead of exploit blueprints.

Lokesh Rajawat

Lokesh Rajawat

miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

05:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Kavach

Innovation Sandbox Finalist Pitch

06:15 PM – 06:30 PM

Kavach

Awards Ceremony

06:30 PM – 07:00 PM

Kavach

Closing Keynote

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

09:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Yantra

Getting started with Source Code Reviews

Workshop

Secure coding starts with deeply understanding code and vulnerabilities, and secure code reviews are crucial in finding issues early. In this hands-on secure code review workshop, we will teach the participants how to perform effective code reviews with both manual and automated techniques.

Prateek Thakare

Prateek Thakare

Senior Security Engineer, GoDaddy

✈️ Bengaluru, India

Gaurav Bhosale

Gaurav Bhosale

Senior Application Security Engineer | Ex-10xbanking, Mastercard, Payatu

✈️ Indore, India

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM

Kavach

Best Practices of Cyber Security and Data Privacy across Industries

Keynote

In this, Burgess Cooper draws on decades of hands-on experience in critical infrastructure, telecom, finance, and enterprise security to explore the best practices that truly work across industries.

Burgess Cooper

Burgess Cooper

CISO, Adani Enterprises Limited | A veteran cybersecurity leader and CEO of Adani Cybersecurity

✈️ Mumbai, India

12:30 PM – 01:05 PM

Kavach

Countering Disinformation and Cyber Threats to Democracy

Keynote

Exploring how technology, policy, and public awareness must work together to protect democratic systems in the digital age.

Brijesh Singh

Brijesh Singh

ADGP Maharashtra Police | Director General of Police at Government Of Maharashtra

✈️ Nagpur, India

01:15 PM – 01:50 PM

Kavach

DEF CON 19 & Beyond!

Keynote

15 years ago at DEF CON 19, one of the most talked-about social engineering talks challenged organizations to confront the uncomfortable truth: people, not systems remain the most vulnerable point in any strategy. As we revisit that moment, this retrospective explores what & more importantly how little has changed when it comes to protecting employees from targeted social engineering attacks.

Jayson E. Street

Jayson E. Street

Chief Adversarial Officer for Secure Yeti | DEF CON group global ambassador, expert known for breaking into banks, hotels, government facilities, and biochemical companies to show how attackers really win.

✈️ Houston, USA

02:05 PM – 05:00 PM

Yantra

Modern ThreatOps — Unmasking Adversaries Across OSINT, Dark Web & Telemetry

Workshop

This hands-on workshop introduces modern Threat Operations (ThreatOps), combining OSINT, dark web reconnaissance, and telemetry fusion to identify, track, and analyze advanced adversaries. Participants will learn actionable techniques for structured dark web monitoring and derive threat insights that strengthen defensive and offensive cyber operations.

Archan Choudhury

Archan Choudhury

Cybersecurity Leader | Founder & CEO, BlackPerl

✈️ Bengaluru, India

05:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Kavach

Innovation Sandbox Finalist Pitch

06:15 PM – 06:30 PM

Kavach

Awards Ceremony

06:30 PM – 07:00 PM

Kavach

Closing Keynote

Anirban Mukherji

Anirban Mukherji

Founder & CEO, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

09:30 AM – 09:50 AM

Abhedya

GRC in the Age of AI

Exploring how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping Governance, Risk, and Compliance through intelligent automation, adaptive risk modeling, and ethics-driven decision frameworks for a faster, smarter, and more accountable enterprise.

Shivani Tikadia

Shivani Tikadia

Founder / Board of Director & Principal Advisor, SecComply

✈️ Pune, India

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Abhedya

Protecting 135M Users: The Income Tax Portal & IRCTC Security Wake-Up Call

What if a simple HTTP request could expose millions of Indian users’ data? This talk breaks down how large-scale platforms failed due to simple mistakes, not advanced hacking, and the key pitfalls you can look for in your own applications.

Pankaj Gajanan Shendurkar

Pankaj Gajanan Shendurkar

Senior Engineer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

10:30 AM – 10:50 AM

Abhedya

DPDPA - What’s for the Common Citizens

This session highlights the rights and responsibilities of common citizens under the DPDP Act and ways to protect personal data amid rising cyber frauds. It also explains how businesses, especially consumer care, healthcare, and insurance, must comply with DPDPA provisions while handling personal data.

Col Janardan

Col Janardan

Army Veteran, Project Consultant, Tekdi Technologies

✈️ Pune, India

11:00 AM – 11:20 AM

Abhedya

How to Get Your Brand Found in AI Search

This session explains how AI search engines discover, evaluate, and surface brands using entity understanding, topical authority, structured data, and trust signals. By the end of the session, participants will have a clear roadmap to ensure their brand is recognised, trusted, and recommended by AI search systems, not just indexed by traditional search engines.

Azaruddin Shaikh

Azaruddin Shaikh

Senior SEO Analyst, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

02:05 PM – 02:25 PM

Abhedya

Machine Identity

Harshvardhan

Harshvardhan

VP and Global Head for Customer Success, ARCON

✈️ Mumbai, India

02:35 PM – 02:55 PM

Abhedya

Legal & regulatory framework in cybersecurity space

Gagan Singh Parmar

Gagan Singh Parmar

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

✈️ New Delhi, India

03:05 PM – 03:25 PM

Abhedya

Why SLM trained agents are better than LLM powered MCPs

Yash Shah

Yash Shah

AI Solution Engineer, CognitivTrust

✈️ India

Ruchita Dodiya

Ruchita Dodiya

AI Engineer, CognitivTrust

✈️ Rajkot, India

03:35 PM – 03:55 PM

Abhedya

How to Protect Your AI Agents from Invisible Risks?

AI agents power innovation but face hidden hacks, leaks, and tricks. This session uncovers 7 key risks, like cyberattacks, insider threats, bias abuse, and rogue actions, with best practices and real demo videos.

Vipika Kotangale

Vipika Kotangale

Technical Content Writer, miniOrange

✈️ Pune, India

04:05 PM – 04:25 PM

Abhedya

Death of the Domain Controller: Why the Cloud is Your New Security Perimeter

Debasish Pramanik

Debasish Pramanik

Associate Director, Shiviom Cloud LLP

✈️ Pune, India

04:35 PM – 04:55 PM

Abhedya

When Business Shapes Security: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage

Harsh Parekh

Harsh Parekh

CEO, Securze

✈️ Mumbai, India

Hello there!

Need Help? We are right here!

support