WestCap CISO Summit
Join us for the annual WestCap CISO Summit, where security leaders, investors and founders meet to share the ideas shaping modern defense. Over three days, the summit brings together talks, workshops and networking across two New York City venues.
The summit runs October 20 to 22. Venues change by day, so please check the schedule below before you travel.
AT A GLANCE Tuesday, October 20: WestCap and portfolio companies only, at WestCap Wednesday, October 21: The Main Event, open to all registered guests, at Chelsea Piers Thursday, October 22: The Startup Shark Tank, open to all registered guests, at WestCap
AGENDA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 WestCap and Portfolio Companies Only Venue: WestCap, 40 10th Ave, New York, NY 10014
1:00 PM | Opening Thoughts and Sharing Andrew Cal, CISO, WestCap Business-risk alignment
2:00 PM | Business Process Mapping Nick Vigier Operational security
3:00 PM | Open Conversation Q&A and discussion with attendees
4:00 PM | Happy Hour and Dinner
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 The Main Event · Open to All Registered Guests Venue: Sunset Terrace at Chelsea Piers (full address shared after registration)
1:00 PM | From Prison to Protecting: Rewiring the Hacker Pipeline Mark Rabone (National Crime Agency), Ricky Handschumacher, Bianca Lewis (Bia Sci Lab) Moderator: Fergus Hay (CEO, Hacking Games)
2:00 PM | Securing AI Use and AI Governance David Sledge (Glow), Jonathan Mucha (Socket.dev), Danny Maninbo (Schellman), Johnny Kinder (Drata), Pranava Adduri (Bedrock Data), Beth Cartier (Control Risks)
3:00 PM | Preparing for an AI Attack
Thomas Wilson (Bishop Fox) Adam Malone (Kroll), Avi Sambria (Sygnia), Stephan Goldberg (ACT Security), Stephen Garcia(BreachRx)
4:00 PM | Using AI to Secure Your Company
Sabrina Sotirhos(WestCap) Alex Hurtado (Nebulock), Cynthia Damian (Valon.com), Sean Murphy (F5), Matt Brown (OpenAI)
5:00 PM | Phone Farms to Cloud Phones: Industrialised Abuse at Mobile Scale Gavin Reid, Lindsay Kaye(HUMAN Security)
6:00 PM | Book Signing, Networking, Happy Hour and Dinner Book signing with Lindsay Kaye, author of Dissecting the Dark Web
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 The Startup Shark Tank · Open to All Registered Guests Venue: WestCap, 40 10th Ave, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10014
9:00 AM | Doors Open
9:15 AM | Kickoff with Braindance Chris Callahan and Andy Lewis, co-founders, Braindance
9:30 AM | Shark Tank Pitches Six cybersecurity startups pitch and take live questions, hosted by Braindance and Andrew Cal: Mars Security, Corridor, Alt Security, ThingsRecon, Reborg and CheckSee AI
12:30 PM | Lunch and Networking Demos, one-on-ones and open networking until 3:00 PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 Travel Day
ABOUT BRAINDANCE
Braindance does positioning, brand, websites and decks for cybersecurity companies. Between them, co-founders Chris Callahan and Andy Lewis have built award-winning brand and messaging work for Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco, American Express, Spotify and Discord.
For companies attending the WestCap CISO Summit, Braindance is opening a limited number of free virtual messaging diagnostics. Send them your site or your deck and they’ll tell you what a buyer or investor actually takes away from it. Anyone pitching in the Shark Tank can also sit down with them in person on October 21.
Learn more: https://braindance.agency
ABOUT WESTCAP
WestCap is a strategic investor and operator in growth equity that partners with leaders to build successful companies, positioning them to dominate industries. WestCap’s team is made up of seasoned investors, founders and operators with deep industry knowledge in scaling leading technology-driven companies. WestCap was launched in 2018 by Founder and Managing Partner Laurence Tosi (“L.T.”), a career technology-driven founder, investor and business builder through his senior executive positions as CFO and Head of the Technology & Innovation Fund at Blackstone, CFO at Airbnb, and CFO/COO at Merrill Lynch. With $7 billion in assets under management and committed capital, WestCap and its partners have made notable investments including StubHub, Addepar, Hopper, iCapital, GoodLeap, NYDIG and Avenue One.
The firm has a team of 100 professionals across offices in New York, San Francisco and London. WestCap has six investment focus areas: FinTech, ReTech, ExTech, LifeTech, InfraTech and Cybersecurity.
Questions? Contact Andrew Cal at andrew@westcap.com.