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A Visual Summary of SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026

Authored bySANS Institute
SANS Institute

On April 20-21, attendees joined us in Arlington, VA or tuned in Live Online for the SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026.

We invited Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind's Eye Creative to create graphic recordings of our Summit presentations. If you missed a talk or are looking to view the Summit through a visual lens, take a look at the recordings below.

*If you registered for the Summit, video recordings are available on your Summit Access page in your SANS Portal.

Summit Day 1 - Monday, April 20

Keynote | Integrous AI

Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer at University of Toronto

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Keynote | This Is Not a Forecast: AI-Enabled Cyber, 12 Months On

Jacob Klein, Head of Threat Intelligence at Anthropic

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Keynote | Claw and Order: Protecting Your Shell from Bottom Dwellers

Sounil Yu, Co-founder and Chief AI Safety Officer at Knostic

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Keynote | Our Machine-Speed Mandate: Can We Scale National Resilience Through AI-Driven Defense?

Anne Neuberger, Senior Advisor at a16z

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Fireside Chat—Day-1 Keynotes

Moderator:

  • Rob T. Lee, Fellow; Chief AI Officer and Chief of Research at SANS Institute

Presented By:

  • Jacob Klein, Head of Threat Intelligence at Anthropic
  • Anne Neuberger, Senior Advisor at a16z
  • Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer at University of Toronto

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Summit Day 2 - Tuesday, April 21

Keynote | The Boring Seams

Julie Davila, Vice President of Product Security at GitLab

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Keynote | Cram it Up Your Cramhole, LaFleur: Understanding and Managing Indirect Prompt Injection

Diana Kelley, CISO at Noma Security

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Keynote: Beyond the Hype: Operationalizing AI for Tactical Cyber Superiority

Brigadier General Reid J. Novotny, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and DoW Cyber Force Generation Lead, U.S. Cyber Command

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Keynote: Sailing Towards Vesuvius

Pliny the Liberator

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Fireside Chat—Day-2 Keynotes

Moderator:

  • Sam Sabin, Cybersecurity Reporter at Axios

Panelists:

  • Julie Davila, Vice President of Product Security at GitLab
  • Diana Kelley, CISO at Noma Security
  • Sounil Yu, Co-founder and Chief AI Safety Officer at Knostic
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If you'd like to check out our other upcoming Summits, you can view the latest listing here.