Conference Schedule

Hackers, Defenders, and Machines - The Three-Way Contest in the Age of Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Johnson Jose

Group President and CTO at Federal Bank

Sony A

Chief General Manager and CIO at South Indian Bank

Dr. A Shiju Rawther

Chief Information and Technology Officer at CareEdge Ratings

Dipu KV

Senior President at Bajaj General Insurance

John Varughese

General Manager at Dhanlaxmi Bank

Dr. Prince Joseph

Group CIO, NesT Group, SFO Technologies

[Moderator] Suvabrata (Suva) Sinha

CISO-in-Residence at Zscaler

Strategic Pillars for AI-Resilient Information Security Preparedness

R Vittal Raj

Founder and Partner at Kumar & Raj Chartered Accountants, Member RBI Standing Committee and Former International Vice President at ISACA

People over Technology - Preparing your cyber workforce for an AI-First enterprise

V V Jacob

Chief General Manager, Malayala Manorama

Shantanu Mahajan

Solutions Architect at Netskope

Biju K

Chief Data Protection Officer at Federal Bank

Deepu S

Chief Information Security Officer at Muthoot Microfin Ltd

Georgie Kurien

Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Cyber Assurance Practice at SecnSure

[Moderator] Adarsh Nair

Director and Global Head of Information Security Compliance at UST

Red Team in a Box - Building Autonomous AI Attack Agents

Akhil Sharma

Founder at ArmurAI

The AI Edge - Beyond the Hype

Mariam Mammen Mathew

CEO - Manorama Online at Malayala Manorama

Suzannah Muthoot

Executive Director at Muthoot Housing Finance Company Ltd.

[Moderator] A Balakrishnan

Director at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

Critical Infrastructure Security: Securing the Invisible Perimeter and IT/OT Convergence

P Prakash IPS

IGP SCRB and Nodal Officer CCTNS Kerala

Himanshu Kumar Das

Chief Information Security Officer at CRED

Anil Menon

CIO, Lulu Group India

Thomas Kurian Ambattu

Business Head - Cyber security at Apeiron Pte Ltd.

Jojy Payyanickal

CISO, Geojit Financial Services

Kiran Mohandas

Director Sales at Fortinet

[Moderator] Rajeev Panicker

Global Scheme Manager - Automotive Cyber security at DNV

AI Security and Deepfakes

Abhishek Dashora

Director - Cyber Defense and Incident Response at KPMG

Anish Mamachan

Manager - Cyber Defense & Incident Response, Digital Trust, KPMG

The Weakest Link? Cloud, Supply Chain Breaches, Securing the AI Economy, and Autonomous Agents

Ajith Balagopal

Vice President Enterprise Services and Cyber security at Envestnet, Inc.

Ananth Subramanian

Executive Vice President and Head of IT at Kotak Mutual Fund

Rushikesh R Dhumal

Sr. Solutions Architect AI at Econz

Shinoj Kumar

Chief Information Security Officer at The Muthoot Group

Sunil Varkey

CISO, CTO, Former Wipro Fellow, Writer, Speaker, Mentor, Cyber Evangelist

[Moderator] Niranjan Kiran Kumar Dhurjaty

Sr. Solution Consultant at Palo Alto Networks

Policy vs. Reality: Closing the Gap Between Compliance and Actual Security

Vinodhkumar

Chief Technology Officer at Muthoot MCred Limited

Shibin Chulliparambil

Head of Information Technology at Malabar Group

Prasad Paulose

Head of Information Technology & CISO at Agappe Diagnostics Ltd.

Robin Joy

Independent Director at Muthoot Money Ltd. and Emsyne Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Former VP and CIO at V Guard Industries Ltd.

[Moderator] Anoop Job Choondal

Director - Cyber Risk & Compliance, Digital Trust, KPMG

Breaking AI Browsers: Hidden APIs, Agentic Chaos, and the Race Toward Secure Architecture

Kabilan Sakthivel

Security Researcher at Zscaler (squareX)

Wait, What Happened? A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Forensics and Incident Response.

Vipin George

Cyber Forensic Consultant at LEAs, Kerala Excise

LLMGoat: Offensive LLM Security Environment

Litesh Ghute

Software Engineer (R&D) at INE

G Khartheesvar

Software Engineer at INE

Beyond Individual Vulns: How We Hardened a 200M+ User Platform’s Cloud Backend Without Chasing CVEs

Dakshita Agarwal

Senior Security Engineer at Sharechat co

One Tap to Own Them All: Chaining WebView Flaws into a 1-Click Account Takeover

Sam MG Harish

Mobile Security Researcher at Team bi0s

When Human Eyes and AI Disagree

Sahil Gupta

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Siemens

The npm Attack Surface in 2026: Account Takeovers, Fake Plugins, and Full C2 Agents

Sudhanshu Dasgupta

Software Engineer at SafeDep

Catching Ransomware in the Act: Behavioral Profiling and Entropy Analysis with DB Sherlock

Taha Kathiria

Cybersecurity Researcher at Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology and Management and Volunteer at AI-Sec Community

TESTERPy2 - Threat Emulation and Security Testing Platform

Shana Buhaisa P

Associate Security Consultant at BreachSimRange

Auria Theresa Jijo

Security Researcher Intern

From ClickFix to PXA Stealer: Evolution of Multi-Stage Infostealer Campaigns and the Role of Proactive Threat Hunting

Niranjan Jayanand

Advanced Threat Hunting Service Lead at Cyberproof

DetectOps - Detection Engineering Platform

Anand Kumar

Detection Engineer (Security Researcher) at Grant Thronton Bharat

Pins, Pads and Payloads, a hands-on hardware, IoT and OT Security

Season Cherian

Lead Hardware Security Researcher, Traboda Cyber Labs

Abhinand N

Lead Mobile Security Engineer, Traboda Cyber Labs

Sreesankar S

Security Researcher, Traboda Cyber Labs

Vivek N J

Senior Security Researcher, Traboda Cyber Labs

Lockpicking and Physical Security

Praveen S

Offensive Security Lead at Healthcare Industry, DEF CON Group Trivandrum

Offensive Hardware: Hands-On RF, BLE and Wireless Security Lab

Rahul Thareja

Founder and CEO at C1PH3R-FSocitey

Breaking On-Prem Active Directory: A Hands-On Offensive Workshop

Abhisek Rajkumar

Security Consultant at NetSPI and Founder of The Abhisek Cast

Capture The Flag Competition Begins

CTF challenge environment goes live. Teams can start solving challenges.

CTF Continues

Afternoon session. New challenge categories may unlock.

CTF Final Round

Last stretch. Scoreboard freeze before closing ceremony.