A Visual Summary of SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026

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

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

Jacob Klein, Head of Threat Intelligence at Anthropic

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

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

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

Day 1 - Lightning Talks

What Got Us Here Will Get Us There

Chris Hughes, VP, Security Strategy Zenity

AI Security Reality Check: Stop Chasing Shiny Threats, Do the Basics

Daniel Bardenstein, CEO & Co-Founder, Manifest

From AI Risk to AI Responsibility: Operationalizing AI Governance with NIST AI RMF

Kellep Charles, Cybersecurity Department Chair, Capitol Technology University

The Blind Spot That Almost Killed Us: Why AI for ICS Needs IT/OT Integration

Harry Thomas, CTO and Co-Founder, Frenos

Bridging the Geek — Wonk Divide: A Practical Guide to AI and Third-Party Risk Management Programs

Josh Snavely, Attorney and Practice Group Leader, McAfee & Taft

AI vs. AI: They're Already Inside

Zakery Stufflebeam, Director of IT Security, Spartan Cyber Consulting LLC

Phishing Without Phishers: Fully Automated AI Campaigns in the Wild

Yotam Perkal, Director, Security Research, Pluto Security

Vibe Detection Engineering: Accelerating Defense with Compound AI & Deception

Ismael Valenzuela, Author and Senior Instructor, SANS Institute

Predictive AI Shrinks Brand Takedown Cycles: Weeks of Manual Triage to <7 Minutes, $12M ROI

Andre Piazza, Cybersecurity Strategist, BeforeAI

How the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) Prepares Defenders for AI (And How You Can Contribute)

Jason Garman, Principal Security Solutions Architect, AWS

Summit Day 2 - Tuesday, April 21

Keynote | The Boring Seams

Julie Davila, Vice President of Product Security at GitLab

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

Diana Kelley, CISO at Noma Security

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

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

Day 2 - Lightning Talks

Dancing Between Raindrops: 3 Keys to Weather the Autonomous Attack Storm

Chris Cochran, Field CISO and Vice President of AI Security, SANS Institute

AI Isn’t the Risk. We Are, and That’s Where Security Must Change

Teri Green, Vice President of Technology, Elevate Energy

Are We AI’ing Much? GenAI-Washing, Specialized Agents, and the Security Trade-off

Ferhat Dikbiyik, Ph.D., Chief Research and Intelligence Officer (CRIO), Black Kite

AI In The SOC Without Losing The Plot

Charles Everette, CISO,City of Fort Lauderdale; vCISO Advisor, Mimic Cyber Solutions

When AI Becomes the Attack: How Threat Actors Weaponize AI APIs to Hide Their Tracks

Bryant Pickford, Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

AI Turned an Engineering Workflow into a Security Boundary

Marissa Morales-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Founder and Technology Security Strategist, STEMPRISE

Designing AI-Assisted Threat Hunting That Remembers

Sydney Marrone, Head of Threat Hunting, Nebulock

Operationalizing AIBOMs: Policy-Gating Models & Datasets in AI Supply Chains

Dr. Ugur Koc, SR. AI R&D Engineer, Manifest

When Humans Stop Thinking: The First Undetected Failure Mode of Agentic AI

Allen Westley, Director Cyber Intelligence, L3Harris Technologies

MCP Under Attack: Securing the New Trusted Control Plane

Yevhen Pervushyn, Founder and Security Researcher, Red Asgard

If you'd like to check out our other upcoming Summits, you can view the latest listing here.