CIACON2026Lineup

Cyber Security Evangelist

Pioneering cyber awareness across India with over a decade of experience in ethical hacking, cybercrime investigation training for law enforcement, and large-scale awareness campaigns.

Offensive Security Specialist

Helping organizations identify and fix security weaknesses through practical offensive security techniques to build stronger digital infrastructure.

Cloud Security Specialist & Solution Consultant, CrowdStrike

Expert in cloud security, endpoint protection, and practical cybersecurity solutions. Experienced in guiding teams on defeating advanced threats.

Offensive Security Expert & Penetration Tester

8+ years helping secure products from code to cloud. Specializes in penetration testing, bug bounty hunting, and offensive security (OSCP certified).

Senior Director - IT Security & Compliance, Publicis Groupe

Cybersecurity leader with 18+ years across professional services, telecom, financial services, and enterprise IT. Specializes in Security Operations, Threat Detection & Response, Detection Engineering, SIEM, Cloud, and Identity Security. Has led the design and transformation of enterprise-scale SOCs, combining AI, automation, and threat intelligence to strengthen cyber resilience.

Enterprise Architect & Red Teaming Expert

Helps organizations sharpen their cybersecurity posture through elite offensive and architectural expertise — spanning security architecture, adversary simulation, and enterprise security transformation.

CISO & DPO

Information security and data privacy leader in India’s BFSI sector, spanning security operations, IT risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and payment ecosystem security. CISA, CISM, CDPSE and CPISI certified, and recognised among The BFSI Cybersecurity 100: India’s Most Influential CISOs.

Founder Director - Bharat Responsible AI Forum

Futurist and strategic advisor working to ensure emerging technology serves people. His work spans AI governance, democratic integrity, and strategic foresight, with published research on cognitive security, algorithmic integrity, and the future of work.

Head - IT Infrastructure and Network Security, HT Media

Leads IT infrastructure and network security at HT Media, following technology leadership roles at Jabong and Myntra. Works across governance and risk, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and crisis response, and was named Security Transformation Leader of the Year at the 2026 CISO Conclave.

Vice President & Global BISO, S&P Global

Global Business Information Security Officer for S&P Global’s Enterprise Data Organization, with over 12 years across cloud security, regulatory compliance, IT audits, and data protection. Previously led security governance and strategy in Amazon’s CISO Office, and PCI DSS compliance across APAC at BT Global Services.

CISO & DPO, Singhi & Co.

Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer with 15+ years across banking, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and IT services. Previously CISO at Ambit, Aye Finance, and IFFCO Kisan Finance, with deep experience in regulatory compliance, third-party risk, VAPT, and business continuity.

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Internationally recognised authority on Cyber Law, Cybersecurity Law, Cybercrime Law and Artificial Intelligence Law, practising at the Supreme Court of India. Founder & Chairman of the International Commission on Cyber Security Law and President of Cyberlaws.Net, he also founded the Artificial Intelligence Law Hub and Blockchain Law Epicentre. His work shapes conversations on cybercrime, data protection, AI and digital governance, and the challenges emerging technologies create for governments, enterprises and security practitioners.

Health IT & CISO, AIIMS

Leads health information technology and cybersecurity at AIIMS, where patient records, connected medical devices and hospital systems all sit inside the same threat surface. His work spans hospital information systems, digital health infrastructure, and the security and privacy demands of healthcare delivered at national scale.

Director - Cyber and IT Risk

Cyber and IT risk practitioner working across VAPT, digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. Has delivered over a hundred training programmes for Indian law enforcement — including the Central Detective Training Institute, the Bureau of Police Research and Development, and defence authorities — and supported investigations into major cybercrime incidents nationwide. Author of Advanced Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (BPB Publications).

Senior Director, Offensive Security - NTT Data

18+ years in offensive security, leading global programmes across real-world adversary simulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering and enterprise-scale breach simulation. His expertise spans 0-day discovery, exploitability analysis, red teaming, adversary emulation and AI/LLM security. Author of 12 books with 20+ vulnerability acknowledgements, he has trained global law-enforcement teams in vulnerability research — work centred on understanding how systems truly break before attackers do.