Events Calendar
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7:30am
SecureWorld Kansas City
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM
For more than 25 years, SecureWorld has gathered cybersecurity professionals ranging from CISOs to front-line practitioners to exchange knowledge and connect with top solution providers. SecureWorld Kansas City 2026 is scheduled for May 13, 2026, at the Overland Park Convention Center. This premier cybersecurity conference features keynote speakers, panel discussions, and educational breakout sessions designed for security professionals, offering 6-12 CPE credits.
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7:30am
SecureWorld South Florida
Thursday, May 21st, 2026: 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Thursday, May 21st
"SecureWorld is a consistently high-quality event which has topics of interest to security practitioners as well as business executives and staff concerned about securing our data. I always find interesting and topical content that I bring back to share with my colleagues."
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8:00am
7th Annual Nashville Official Cybersecurity Summit
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM CDT
The 7th Annual Nashville 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.
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8:00am
3rd Annual Toronto Official Cybersecurity Summit
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST
The 3rd Annual Toronto 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.
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8:00am
SoFlo DevCon 2026
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026: 8:00 AM to 5:15 PM
This event is a conference for software developers, designers, engineers, tech professionals, and all techies across the region.
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8:30am
AI Revolution Summit 2026: AI Across Every Industry
Friday, June 12th, 2026: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
The virtual learning series for technology, product, delivery, and transformation leaders. Three themed summits - June, September, December
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9:00am
AI SRE Summit 2026
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026: 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Whether you're operating massive GPU clusters or scaling microservices faster than your headcount can support, cloud-native operations have reached breaking point. AI SRE frees engineering teams from the superhuman effort required to keep production running.
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9:00am
Multi-Million-Dollar Lessons: What FinOps Maturity Actually Looks Like
Thursday, May 14th, 2026: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
This webinar will dive into the common pitfalls teams face early on - reporting that doesn't matter, optimization efforts that go ignored, and the struggle to drive adoption across engineering. Learn how leaders moved from ineffective spreadsheets to impactful automation, and how aligning with stakeholders transformed FinOps from a back-office task into a strategic function.
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9:00am
Stress Testing AWS Infrastructure with Terraform: A Hands On Technical Challenge
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
This webinar explores how scenario-driven, hands-on Cloud challenges help engineers build the instincts and resilience needed to thrive in real-world AWS environments.
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9:15am
SUSE Multi-Linux Hands-on Workshop
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 9:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Join our Multi-Linux Hands-on Workshop and discover how to seamlessly convert your systems to SUSE Multi-Linux Support, extend their lifecycle and manage them with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager (even the ones you don't convert).
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11:00am
From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The problem is not just more attacks, it is the speed and efficiency at which they now happen. Traditional security approaches were not built for automated exploit chaining or machine-speed reconnaissance, creating gaps in visibility and control.
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11:00am
Analyze Terraform using Agentic GenAI workflows
Thursday, May 14th, 2026: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join us to discover how a simple yet powerful GenAI-driven workflow can give you real-time awareness into the Terraform resources being deployed across your cloud environments. You'll learn how to build agentic workflows that let generative AI analyze your infrastructure, apply custom logic, and deliver contextual, actionable insights right when you need them.
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11:00am
Bare Metal at AI Speed
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
You should attend if you want to know how market leaders: get the best ROI out of their infrastructure, manage mixed-OEM environments efficiently, scale their infrastructure, eliminate constant firefighting from manual operations, onboard machines in minutes, and keep systems up-to-date and compliant.
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11:00am
CSA Cloud Threats & Vulnerabilities Summit 2026
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026: 11:00 AM to Thursday, May 21, 3:30 PM
The CSA Virtual Cloud Threats & Vulnerabilities Summit 2026 brings together security leaders and practitioners to confront the risks that matter most in today's cloud- and AI-driven environments.
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11:00am
Analyst Angle Webinar: Securing Telecom Infrastructure For The Quantum Era
Thursday, May 21st, 2026: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
In this webinar, on May 21st, RCRTech examines the drivers, challenges and early operator strategies shaping quantum-era security planning.
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11:00am
Watching the Watchers: Exploring and Testing Defenses of Anti-Cheat Systems
Thursday, May 28th, 2026: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
This talk will present new work on video game anti-cheats; highlighting how they are among the most widely deployed and resilient software defenses in the industry. We will outline the key difficulties in analyzing anti-cheats and then dissect some key behaviors to explain how such systems protect game software in hostile environments.
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11:30am
Changing Face of Big Hunting
Thursday, May 14th, 2026: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the landscape of "big hunting," a term often associated with the pursuit of large-scale opportunities, insights, or solutions in various industries.
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12:00pm
Stop Guessing: How to Use AI to Validate Your Startup Idea in Days
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
The gap between a good idea and a fundable startup isn't talent. It's knowing how to test what's real before you invest months into what isn't. AI has made that process faster and more accessible than ever, but only if you know which prompts and workflows actually work.
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12:00pm
Ransomware Reloaded: Finding Resilience When Attackers Wield AI
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Ransomware isn't going away - it's evolving. Attackers are now using AI to scale campaigns, evade defenses, and customize extortion tactics. Organizations that rely solely on traditional backup and recovery strategies are dangerously behind the curve.
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12:00pm
The TDWI Agentic AI Readiness Benchmark: Are You Ahead or Falling Behind?
Friday, May 15th, 2026: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
In this webinar, Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP of Research at TDWI, will present findings from TDWI's Agentic AI Readiness Benchmark Assessment and provide a practical framework for understanding where organizations stand.
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12:00pm
The Rise of Agentic Identities: Who Governs AI Access to Data?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
AI is accelerating the risks that CISOs already struggle to control, such as unmanaged data access, identity sprawl, and limited visibility into who (or what) is touching sensitive information. The real AI exposure sits in the data layer, where both human and agentic identities interact with sensitive data without consistent governance.
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12:00pm
Expert Panel: Unified Data Movement: How to Orchestrate Data for AI and Analytics
Monday, June 1st, 2026: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Join this Expert Panel to learn about important trends in solutions and practices enabling unified data movement so you can orchestrate data more efficiently for AI and analytics. Attendees will gain insights into the latest tools and architectures for automating data movement and streamlining data synchronization, replication, and delivery.
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12:00pm
Building the Interoperable Lakehouse: A Data Foundation for Enterprise AI
Thursday, May 21st, 2026: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
In this webinar, TDWI research fellow Donald Farmer and an expert from Snowflake draw on recent research and real-world implementations to explore how Apache Iceberg and open catalog standards enable true bidirectional interoperability, how declarative pipelines reduce operational burden, and how unified governance turns a storage pattern into an AI-ready foundation.
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12:00pm
TDWI: AI Strategy Bootcamp
Monday, June 1st, 2026: 12:00 PM to 3:30 PM
AI success requires more than experimentation-it demands clear strategy, strong governance, repeatable processes, and the ability to deliver measurable business value. This seminar brings together five top AI experts who will show you how to build a roadmap, operationalize AI, and prove success with meaningful performance metrics.
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12:30pm
Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale
Tuesday, June 9th, 2026: 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
This webinar explains why legacy IAM and perimeter security break down in agentic architectures and how zero trust provides a scalable fix. Learn how zero-trust identity secures autonomous agents without slowing innovation.
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1:00pm
The New Attack Surface Of Agentic AI Coding
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026: 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Adoption of agentic AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and GitHub CoPilot is skyrocketing. While security teams have been scrambling to meet the challenges this creates in code vulnerabilities, there's a much bigger and more urgent risk at play - the new attack surface created by the complex and unsupervised interaction between AI agents, skills, MCPs and other components.
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1:00pm
AppSec in 2026: Security at Machine Speed - or Not at All
Monday, May 18th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This is not another 'shift left' conversation. This is about defining AppSec's role in a post-AI world. If AI is generating your code, reviewing your code, and fixing your code, then security must evolve from reactive enforcement to autonomous, real-time orchestration.
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1:00pm
Test Smarter, Not Slower: AI-Driven Functional Testing
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This webinar explores how AI-driven functional testing is helping teams modernize their testing strategies to better align with today's development speed. Attendees will learn how intelligent automation can assist with generating test cases, identifying the impact of code changes, and maintaining reliable coverage as applications evolve.
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1:00pm
AI in DevOps: An Enterprise Reality Check
Thursday, May 21st, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Join Guy Currier, Analyst at The Futurum Group, and Loreli Cadapan at CloudBees for a conversation that highlights where AI is delivering real value, where adoption is stalling, and what it takes to move forward. You'll leave with a clear understanding of how your pipeline compares to peers, with a grounded view of what AI adoption actually looks like in practice
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1:00pm
Solving the Modern Workload Deployment Paradox
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
In this session, we will discuss how enterprises can continue fueling innovation with speed and at scale while maintaining secure infrastructure and repeatable automated deployments.
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1:00pm
The AI Reality Check - Operationalizing for Business Value
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
There has never been a megatrend as transformative as AI. 2023 unlocked new possibilities, 2024 brought new proof of concepts and 2025 was the year to prove the ROI and business value generation of AI. 2026 is the year of the AI reality check and organizations that successfully operationalize AI to drive concrete efficiency and measurable impact will be the ultimate winners
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1:00pm
Observability Comes of Age: Why 2026 Is the Turning Point
Monday, June 1st, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This Techstrong Learning editorial roundtable brings together industry leaders, frontline practitioners and Techstrong editorial leadership for a candid discussion on how observability has crossed from tooling to strategic discipline.
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1:00pm
CI/CD: Delivering Software at Enterprise Velocity
Monday, June 15th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how CI/CD is maturing - and what it takes to build delivery pipelines that are fast, secure, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes.
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2:00pm
Trusting AI in Production: Building Observability for AI Agents at Scale
Thursday, May 14th, 2026: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
In this webinar, Monte Carlo and Snowflake come together to explore what it actually takes to operate agentic AI systems with confidence. We'll look at how leading teams are using native telemetry alongside production monitoring to catch problems early, maintain reliability at scale, and build the kind of trust in their AI systems that lets them move faster over time.
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2:00pm
Central CIO / CTO Forum - Austin, TX
Sunday, June 14th, 2026: 2:00 PM to 1:20 PM Tuesday, June 16th
Join 70+ CIOs, CTOs, and IT Leaders for three days of strategic insights, executive networking, and hands-on learning at the premier IT leadership forum.
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3:00pm
You Can't Just Layer AI on Your Observability Platform: Why Context is King
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Join us for an insight into using AI to improve incident response and root cause analysis, especially where and when missing context continues to limit results. You'll walk away with a better view of what it takes to make the most out of AI in observability.
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3:00pm
Secure & Govern Agentic AI Apps in Real Time
Thursday, May 28th, 2026: 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST
In this webinar, security experts discuss the rise of agentic AI, where legacy security controls break down, and what a more execution-aware approach to securing AI agents can achieve. It's a move towards security approaches that can respond to agentic AI's capabilities.
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4:00pm
Designing a Modern GRC Stack: Identity, Access, and Continuous Trust
Thursday, May 21st, 2026: 3:00 to 4:00 PM EST
This executive roundtable brings together senior security leaders to discuss how organizations are rethinking the design of their GRC stack by connecting identity, access, and continuous trust. The conversation will focus on how leaders are navigating tradeoffs between speed and assurance, clarifying control ownership across teams, and reducing audit and customer review friction-without adding complexity or slowing the business.
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6:00pm
(CS)2 AI Online: OT Cyber Prioritization Under Fire
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Operational Technology defenders are being asked to prioritize risk in environments where accuracy, stability, and time no longer exist in abundance. OT inventories are often incomplete, outdated, or context-poor, yet they form the foundation for risk mitigation management decisions that carry real safety, uptime, and financial consequences.
