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Bold Starts: Wednesday
Nov 5- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CT Forrester Women's Leadership Program: Thrive In Chaos
- 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm CT Executive Leadership Exchange (Invite-Only): Welcome & Kickoff
- 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm CT Workshop: Security & Risk Summit AI Certification Workshop
- 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CT Workshop: Mature And Justify Your Security Program With Forrester's Information Security Maturity Model
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CT Welcome Reception
Thursday
Nov 6- 8:00 am – 9:00 am CT General Breakfast
- 9:00 am – 9:30 am CT Welcome & Opening Remarks
- 9:30 am – 10:00 am CT Keynote: The Security Singularity
- 10:00 am – 10:30 am CT Keynote: The CISO Of The Agentic Future
- 10:40 am – 11:30 am CT Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CT Workshop: ZT for OT / OT Security
- 11:30 am – 12:00 pm CT Breakout Sessions
- 12:10 pm – 12:40 pm CT Case Study Sessions
- 12:40 pm – 1:40 pm CT Lunch & Marketplace Break (In-Person Only)
- 12:40 pm – 2:25 pm CT Executive Leadership Exchange (Invite Only): Exclusive Networking Lunch
- 1:40 pm – 2:25 pm CT Breakout Sessions
- 2:35 pm – 3:05 pm CT Case Study Sessions
- 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm CT Breakout Sessions
- 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm CT Workshop: Leading Through Challenging And Changing Times
- 3:45 pm – 4:35 pm CT Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
- 4:35 pm – 4:50 pm CT Welcome Back
- 4:50 pm – 5:20 pm CT Keynote: 2025 Security And Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
- 5:20 pm – 5:50 pm CT Keynote: Proactive Security From Fantasy To Framework
- 5:50 pm – 6:00 pm CT Closing Remarks
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CT Reception
Friday
Nov 7- 8:00 am – 9:00 am CT General Breakfast
- 9:00 am – 9:10 am CT Welcome Back
- 9:10 am – 9:40 am CT Keynote: Continuous Risk Management In Flight
- 9:40 am – 10:10 am CT Keynote: The Quantum Security Mystery
- 10:15 am – 11:05 am CT Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
- 10:35 am – 11:35 am CT Workshop: Demystifying AI Security: A Practical Guide To Getting Started
- 11:05 am – 11:35 am CT Breakout Sessions
- 11:45 am – 12:15 pm CT Case Study Sessions
- 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm CT Lunch & Marketplace Break (In-Person Only)
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CT Workshop: Align And Clearly Communicate Your Security Strategy
- 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm CT Breakout Sessions
- 2:10 pm – 2:25 pm CT Welcome Back
- 2:25 pm – 2:55 pm CT Keynote: Predictions 2026
- 2:55 pm – 3:00 pm CT Closing Remarks
Bold Starts: Wednesday Nov 5
Forrester Women's Leadership Program: Thrive In Chaos
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, women leaders must be equipped to embrace challenges, take calculated risks, and make confident decisions while building the skills necessary to adapt and grow. This session will empower attendees with practical tools, strategies, and insights to navigate disruption and lead with resilience. Through interactive exercises, collaborating with peers and inspiring discussions, attendees will gain the confidence to turn uncertainty into opportunity and growth. In this session, you will learn how to:
- Take control of your career with purpose and clarity, using modern tools to navigate opportunities, shape your path, and stand out.
- Build a powerful voice and visible presence, leading with clarity through complexity and change.
- Cultivate resilience and inner strength to face challenges head-on and emerge stronger, more focused, and future-ready.
Speakers:
Jinan Budge, VP, Research Director, Forrester
Deidre Diamond, Founder & CEO, CyberSN
Joni Klippert, CEO and Co-Founder, StackHawk
Executive Leadership Exchange (Invite-Only): Welcome & Kickoff
Join your peers to share real-world challenges, exchange insights, and learn from leaders who have successfully led change within their organizations.
Speakers:
David Levine, VP, Executive Partner, Forrester
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Fireside Chat: The Risks And Rewards Of Security Leadership
Join Jess Burn and Tim Brown, Chief Information Security Officer at SolarWinds, for an insightful fireside chat reflecting on the SolarWinds breach — one of the most impactful cyber incidents in recent history. Tim will share lessons learned on securing software supply chains, rebuilding trust, and driving industry-wide reform through transparency and a secure by design approach. Executive Leadership Exchange participants will learn:
- How to enhance resilience and collaboration in cybersecurity programs.
- The evolving role and challenges of the CISO in today’s threat and regulatory landscape.
Speakers:
Tim Brown, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Security, SolarWinds
Jess Burn, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Workshop: Security & Risk Summit AI Certification Workshop
Generative AI is finally starting to get interesting! This workshop serves as the kickoff for attendees to get their Forrester AI Security Certification. In this session, we will cover exactly what genAI is and how it plays into security, the steps to complete the certification process, and what decisions your organization should make when considering genAI for security. Attend this workshop to:
- Start your certification process for the Forrester AI Security Certification.
- Learn the foundations of how genAI is affecting security.
- Identify the most interesting genAI talks at Forrester’s Security & Risk Summit for your organization.
Speakers:
Allie Mellen, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Jenna Wohead, Director, Product Management, Forrester
Workshop: Mature And Justify Your Security Program With Forrester's Information Security Maturity Model
Learn how to prioritize your time and resources across common use cases.
Security leaders have long used maturity assessments to assess their security programs and set future roadmaps and strategies. Join this workshop to learn how the maturity assessment approach is evolving and how CISOs are using cyber risk quantification to complement their approach. Attend this workshop to:
- Learn how to use a maturity assessment framework to assess your security program and chart improvements.
- Learn how maturity assessments can be complemented with cyber risk quantification to further hone focus on investments that address the critical risks to an organization.
Speakers:
Paul McKay, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Ron Woerner, Senior Consultant, Forrester
Welcome Reception
Join us for refreshments and light appetizers. All registered attendees are welcome.
Thursday Nov 6
General Breakfast
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Forrester CEO George Colony and summit host Amy DeMartine kick off Security & Risk Summit 2025 with words of welcome and questions to keep in mind to help you get the most out of your Security & Risk Summit experience.
Speakers:
George Colony, CEO, Forrester
Amy DeMartine, VP, Research Director, Forrester
Keynote: The Security Singularity
Generative AI hit the scene almost three years ago, but the truly transformative advancements are only just beginning. Now is the pivot point into the next generation of genAI, where agents and agentic AI make it easier for security practitioners but harder for attackers. Attend this session to explore the security singularity: the moment where genAI prevents attacks faster, costs attackers more and makes security teams lives simpler and more productive. Join this session to learn:
- How AI agents will be used to make attacks more expensive for the attackers.
- How agentic AI will shorten and simplify the time to respond.
- How agentic AI will help security teams make better decisions about defense — from identification to protection to detection and response.
Speakers:
Allie Mellen, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: The CISO Of The Agentic Future
Generative and agentic AI are taking the business world by storm, leading to new risks, threats, and vendor claims as AI enables opportunities for organizations to leapfrog competitors. While ensuring the secure use of emerging tech in the enterprise, CISOs must also navigate the complexities of integrating agentic AI into their security programs. This joint keynote will delve into the transformative potential of agentic AI, its uses, implications, and challenges and will help security leaders:
- Understand the financial implications and cost-saving opportunities of deploying AI agents and how agentic AI will transform security budget planning and resource allocation.
- Rethink skills and staffing as agentic AI complements practitioners, allowing human experts to focus on strategic initiatives and develop new competencies for securing AI in the enterprise.
Speakers:
Jess Burn, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Jeff Pollard, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
Enjoy coffee and snacks while networking in the Marketplace. Learn about innovative products and gain a deeper understanding of industry trends by attending any of the spotlight sessions, located in the Marketplace.
Workshop: ZT for OT / OT Security
Zero Trust is no longer just an IT concept — it’s essential for securing IoT and OT environments. This session will explore how to adapt Zero Trust principles like least privilege, continuous verification, and microsegmentation to protect connected devices and critical infrastructure from evolving threats. In this session, attendees will:
- Recognize the unique constraints of IoT and OT systems that pose challenges to the Zero Trust model.
- Learn practical steps for implementing the Zero Trust model in mixed IT/OT environments.
Speakers:
Carlos Rivera, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Paddy Harrington, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Peter Cerrato, Principal Consultant, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions
Join case study sessions to hear real-world stories, solutions and insights leveraging the best in today’s security, risk, and privacy solutions.
Lunch & Marketplace Break (In-Person Only)
Marketplace breaks are your chance to connect with sponsors and catch up with colleagues on the show floor.
Executive Leadership Exchange (Invite Only): Exclusive Networking Lunch
Establish connections with like-minded peers and Forrester experts as you trade insights on your approaches to the most pressing topics for technology, data, and AI leaders.
1:40 pm - 2:25 pm | Mastering An Effective Executive Tabletop Exercise
- The right tabletop exercise for the right audience.
- Communication, delivery, and structure.
- The after-action report.
Speakers:
David Levine, VP, Executive Partner, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions
Join case study sessions to hear real-world stories, solutions and insights leveraging the best in today’s security, risk, and privacy solutions.
Breakout Sessions
Workshop: Leading Through Challenging And Changing Times
Each year, the pace of change seems to accelerate. As organizations evolve and security teams respond to a chaotic threat, technological, budgetary, and regulatory environment, many security leaders will need to activate and sustain the energy required to drive the change successfully. Join us in this interactive workshop to discuss:
- How to get your stakeholders and teams to be excited and enthusiastic about change initiatives.
- How to overcome change resistance.
- Share and learn from others to improve your change leadership skills.
Speakers:
Jinan Budge, VP, Research Director, Forrester
Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
Enjoy coffee and snacks while networking in the Marketplace. Learn about innovative products and gain a deeper understanding of industry trends by attending any of the spotlight sessions, located in the Marketplace.
Keynote: 2025 Security And Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
Welcome to the highly anticipated Forrester Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award, the only assessment dedicated to recognizing excellence in security, privacy, and risk strategy, integral to building a trusted and resilient business. In this session, we will hear from this year’s award winner on how they continually build trust with customers, employees, and partners.
Speakers:
Joseph Blankenship, VP, Research Director, Forrester
Keynote: Proactive Security From Fantasy To Framework
In a world where digital chaos and proactive defenses evolve hand in hand, security leaders must continuously anticipate threat playbooks and implement safeguards that put attackers to rest. This keynote charts the expedition of vulnerability management into proactive security programs, empowering security leaders to anticipate, adapt, and ascend resilience in an era of threats where AI is both a burden and a resource. Attendees will leave the session with:
- A roadmap for their proactive security program that includes advice on what they can start doing today and what they can start preparing for.
- An understanding of how proactive defenses will evolve alongside shifting threat landscapes.
Speakers:
Erik Nost, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Reception
Join us in the Marketplace for an opening night reception full of networking, fun, food and refreshments.
Friday Nov 7
General Breakfast
Keynote: Continuous Risk Management In Flight
Most GRC programs are stuck in “risk theater.” They prioritize compliance yet struggle to partner with the business and prevent foreseeable risk events. Forrester’s Continuous Risk Management Model offers a better path forward. This keynote session will take you from launchpad to liftoff by operationalizing the model through clear process steps and real-world examples. Learn how to ignite your risk program and transform it into a proactive force to guide the business. Attendees will learn:
- How to interpret the end-to-end process of continuous risk management, including key inputs, activities, outputs, and stakeholders to consider.
- How to tailor the Continuous Risk Management Model to your organization by aligning it to the pursuit of value.
Speakers:
Cody Scott, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Keynote: The Quantum Security Mystery
What if you can’t trust what you see in front of you? Quantum computing poses a growing threat to today’s cryptographic foundations, from harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks to the potential collapse of digital signatures that underpin the trust fabric of the internet. This keynote will outline the evolving quantum risk landscape and offer a path forward to assessing your risk and developing a plan for action. Attendees will learn:
- Why collaboration across technology, business, risk, and security domains is essential to develop a resilient quantum migration strategy.
- How to assess exposure, prioritize systems based on risk, and begin the journey toward quantum-safe security.
Speakers:
Sandy Carielli, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Marketplace Coffee Break & Networking (In-Person Only)
Enjoy coffee and snacks while networking in the Marketplace. Learn about innovative products and gain a deeper understanding of industry trends by attending any of the spotlight sessions, located in the Marketplace.
Workshop: Demystifying AI Security: A Practical Guide To Getting Started
While some of the technologies to secure AI are in their infancy, there is no shortage of offerings available. There are also existing controls that you can use to secure AI adoption. Cut through the confusion of what it means to secure AI and genAI use. Join this workshop to:
- Discover an approach for how to get started and map against your existing efforts.
- Understand the full scope of areas required for managing the security posture of AI.
Speakers:
Jeff Pollard, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Heidi Shey, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Case Study Sessions
Join case study sessions to hear real-world stories, solutions and insights leveraging the best in today’s security, risk, and privacy solutions.
Lunch & Marketplace Break (In-Person Only)
Marketplace breaks are your chance to connect with sponsors and catch up with colleagues on the show floor.
Workshop: Align And Clearly Communicate Your Security Strategy
An effective cybersecurity strategy is built on several foundational elements that work together to protect an organization’s data, assets, and reputation — and adopted on the ability of the security leader to align it with what matters to the business and effectively communicate it. In this interactive workshop, you will use Forrester security strategy templates to kick start your strategy refresh and:
- Use Forrester’s CISO Strategic Canvas template to understand what is needed for an aligned strategy that anticipates where the business is going and how security empowers it to get there.
- Use Forrester’s Security-Strategy-On-A-Page template to develop a first-draft mission statement, purpose statement, and vision statement to refine with your team and stakeholders.
Speakers:
Jess Burn, Principal Analyst, Forrester
David Levine, VP, Executive Partner, Forrester
Breakout Sessions
Keynote: Predictions 2026
Back by popular demand! Four leading Forrester Security & Risk analysts will unveil their bold 2026 predictions regarding the future of cybersecurity, privacy, and risk. Each analyst will defend their individual prognostication and offer compelling supporting facts. This interactive dynamic session will enable you to vote on which prediction is most likely to be realized in 2026. Join us for this engaging closing session, where the audience decides which prediction prevails!
Speakers:
Merritt Maxim, VP, Research Director, Forrester
Security & Risk Summit · November 5 – 7, 2025 · Austin & Digital
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