WestCap CISO Summit
Join us for the annual WestCap CISO Summit, where today's cybersecurity luminaries connect and share ideas shaping the modern landscape of defense. This three-day summit combines exclusive talks, workshops, and networking events into powerful connections, all within the dynamic backdrop of New York City.
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Agenda
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20
Venue: WestCap Offices
1:00 PM | Opening Thoughts & Sharing
Andrew Cal, CISO, WestCap
Business-risk alignment
2:00 PM | Business Process Mapping
Nick Vigier
Operational security
3:00-4:00 PM | Open Conversation
Attendees
Q&A and discussion
4:00 PM+ | Happy Hour & Dinner
Attendees Networking
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
Venue: TBD
1:00 PM | From Prison to Protecting: Rewiring the Hacker Pipeline Speakers: Mark Rabone (National Crime Agency)
Ricky Handschumacher
Bianca Lewis (Bia Sci Lab)
Moderator: Fergus Hay, CEO, Hacking Games
2:00 PM | Securing AI Use / AI Governance
Speakers:
Lior Solomon (VP Engineering, Drata), Schellman
Omer Singer (CTO, Glow)
Matt Brown (OpenAI)
3:00 PM | Responding to AI Attacks
Speakers:
Adam Malone (Kroll)
Avi (Sygnia)
Jamie Brim (OpenAI)
4:00 PM | Using AI to Secure Your Company
Speakers:
Alex Hurtado (Nebulock)
Cynthia Damian (Valon.com)
5:00 PM | Phone Farms to Cloud Phones: Industrialised Abuse at Mobile Scale
Speakers: Gavin Reid
Lindsay Kaye
6:00 PM+ | Book Signing, Networking, Happy Hour & Dinner Lindsay Kaye (Author: Dissecting the Dark Web)
Attendees
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
Venue: WestCap Offices
9:00-11:00 AM | Shark Tank Pitches
Participating companies:
Act Security
Things Recon
Reborg
WithLevering
Braindance
11:00 AM-3:00 PM | Networking Activities Demos, 1:1s, and
open networking
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
Travel Day
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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 comprised of seasoned investors, founders, and operators that have 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 the CFO and Head of 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 like 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 key investment focus areas: FinTech; ReTech; ExTech; LifeTech; InfraTech; Cybersecurity.