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Thursday, July 23
 

8:30am EDT

Registration and Continental Breakfast
Thursday July 23, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT

Thursday July 23, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT
  Meal

9:00am EDT

Opening Remarks
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Mark Sherman

Mark Sherman

Technical Director, Cyber Security Foundations, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Dr. Sherman joined the SEI after a career in the private sector at both start-ups and F100 companies.

Immediately prior to joining SEI, Dr. Sherman retired from IBM where he held leadership positions in development, strategy, marketing and sales. He was also CTO and VP Product Management at Transarc, a CMU spinoff that was acquired by IBM. Dr. Sherman was an Assistant Professor of... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
  Opening/Closing Remarks

9:05am EDT

Keynote Presentation: Implementing Secure by Design - Principles, Practices and Assessment
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Steven Lipner

Steven Lipner

Executive Director, SAFECode
Steven Lipner is a pioneer in cybersecurity with over 40 years’ experience as a general manager, engineering manager, and researcher. He is the Executive Director of SAFECode, a global industry forum where business leaders and technical experts come together to exchange insights... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT
  Keynote Presentation

9:45am EDT

Secure Software by Design and Program Protection
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Bradley Lanford

Bradley Lanford

Director, Software Assurance, Office of the Under Secretary of WAR for Research and Engineering
Bradley Lanford is the Director, Software Assurance with the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering (OUSW(R&E)).

With more than two decades of experience developing and leading software development and supporting DoW Acquisition Programs, he is an expert i... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am EDT
  Presentation

10:15am EDT

Morning Break
Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 10:30am EDT

Thursday July 23, 2026 10:15am - 10:30am EDT
  Meal

10:30am EDT

The Unverified Developer: Threat Modeling AI Coding Agents in Secure Software Pipelines
Thursday July 23, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Alok Tibrewal

Alok Tibrewal

Independent AI Researcher
Alok Tibrewala is an IEEE Senior Member and software engineer working at the intersection of AI systems, software architecture, and applied research. His work focuses on designing and evaluating production-ready LLM-based systems in Java ecosystems, including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
  Presentation

11:00am EDT

Secrets That Survive Everything: Five Design Decisions That Let Credentials Reach Production
Thursday July 23, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Gorijala Hemanth

Gorijala Hemanth

Security Researcher, Global Pentest Lead
Hemanth Gorijala is an application security practitioner, penetration tester, and Security Researcher focused on runtime credential exposure in production web applications.

He is the author of SecretSifter (https://github.com/secretsifter), a free open-source runtime secret scann... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
  Presentation

11:30am EDT

Using LLMs for Adjudication of Static Analysis Alerts
Thursday July 23, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Will Klieber

Will Klieber

Software Security Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Dr. Will Klieber is a software security engineer focusing on the areas of software assurance and automated code repair.

He is now leading an effort on use of LLMs to adjudicate static analysis alerts.
Thursday July 23, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
  Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Lunch
Thursday July 23, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Thursday July 23, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
  Meal

1:00pm EDT

Keynote Presentation: Tyranny of Innovation
Thursday July 23, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Nick Guertin

Nick Guertin

Vice President, Innovation, Davie Defense
I am the Vice President for Innovation at Davie Defense, a multi-national shipbuilding and advanced manufacturing company.

I most recently served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, responsible for the Navy and Marine Corps’ research, development, acquisition, and sustainment enterprise, as well as its contracting community. Before that, I served as Director

... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
  Keynote Presentation

1:45pm EDT

Secure by Design for Enterprise AI: A Governance Framework for Agentic Systems at Scale
Thursday July 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Sanat Pattanaik

Sanat Pattanaik

Principal Security Architect, ADP
Sanat Pattanaik is Principal Security Architect at ADP, where he secures AI-driven enterprise systems at the scale of 42 million workers and $19B in annual revenue.

He is a contributor to the AI Use Case Catalog (AIUC-1), recognized by NIST in the final AI Risk Management Framewo... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT
  Presentation

2:15pm EDT

Afternoon Break
Thursday July 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:30pm EDT

Thursday July 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
  Meal

2:30pm EDT

Secure and Accessible by Construction: Engineering Guardrails for AI-Generated User Interfaces
Thursday July 23, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Niharika P Pujari

Niharika P Pujari

Lead Software Engineer, McGraw Hill
Niharika P. Pujari is a Lead Software Engineer with over eight years of experience building large-scale web applications in the higher-education technology domain.

She specializes in frontend architecture using Angular and accessibility-first engineering, embedding inclusive desi... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
  Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Secure by (Human) Design: Integrating Behavioral Architecture into Software Security
Thursday July 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Rakia Finley

Rakia Finley

Founder and CEO, Copper and Vine Studio
Rakia Finley is a strategist, founder, and systems thinker working at the intersection of AI governance, organizational transformation, and human-centered innovation.

As the Founder and CEO of Copper & Vine Studio, she advises startups, enterprises, public-sector organizations, an

... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
  Presentation

3:30pm EDT

Threat-Informed Product Security for Critical Infrastructure
Thursday July 23, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Glenn Gasmen

Glenn Gasmen

Chief Product Security Engineer, Trane Technologies
Glenn Gasmen is a product security executive with deep experience leading secure product development across connected systems and global engineering organizations.

His work centers on embedding cybersecurity into the product lifecycle, strengthening resilience in cyber-physical environments, and aligning security strategy with business and engineering priorities... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
  Presentation

4:00pm EDT

AI Assisted Semantic API Contract Validation for Resilient Microservices
Thursday July 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Jai Chandra Mouli Langoju

Jai Chandra Mouli Langoju

Senior Software Engineer, NetApp
Jai Langoju is a Senior Software Engineer, UI Architect, and Full Stack Engineer with over 25 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise web and mobile applications. He specializes in front end architecture, scalable UI systems, cloud based applications, and full stack... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
  Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Thursday July 23, 2026 4:30pm - 4:45pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Mark Sherman

Mark Sherman

Technical Director, Cyber Security Foundations, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Dr. Sherman joined the SEI after a career in the private sector at both start-ups and F100 companies.

Immediately prior to joining SEI, Dr. Sherman retired from IBM where he held leadership positions in development, strategy, marketing and sales. He was also CTO and VP Product Management at Transarc, a CMU spinoff that was acquired by IBM. Dr. Sherman was an Assistant Professor of... Read More →
Thursday July 23, 2026 4:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
  Opening/Closing Remarks
 

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