Program

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast
9:05 AM - 9:55 AM
VIP Breakfast \| The Story Behind the Security: Mastering Board Communication Through Narrative	Jeff Aguilar, VP & CISO, Hoag Health System Mel Reyes, President & Founder, ISSA SoCal
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Keynote \| SASE in Action: Simplifying Security and Securing the Hybrid Enterprise	Pete Lujan, Sr Director, Systems Engineering, Fortinet AJ Soria, Sr. VP & Deputy CISO, TCW AJ Cruz, CTO, CGI
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM
Lightning Talk \| Tanium	Miguel Galhouse, Senior Cybersecurity Specialist, Southern California Edison Felix Sanchez, Director, Strategic Accounts, Tanium
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Boardroom \| Advancing Data Protection in the Digital Era	Benjamin Longuechaud, Senior Sales Engineering Lead, Thales
Boardroom \| Cyber Resiliency: Redefining Security for the Inevitable	Chris Schindler, Director of Sales, Veeam Gregg Dalby, IT Director, Cybersecurity and Operations, Behr Process LLC Awwab Arif, CISO, Bank of Hope
Breakout \| Tech Debt: The Enemy of Innovation & Productivity	Adrian Cunningham, Director of the Commercial Sales Engineering, Island Allen Zhang, Information Security Officer, IEHP Sasha Pereira, CISO, Wash
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Networking & Use Case Pavilion
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Boardroom \| Containment Is the New Control: Rewriting Incident Response for a No-Fail World	Todd Palmer, SVP, Global Partner Sales and Alliances, Illumio Eddie Galang, Chief Information Security Officer, Port of Long Beach Quincey Collins, CSO, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP
Boardroom \| Quantum Readiness in the Real World: A Peer Exchange on Progress, Priorities, and Practical Steps	Gary Landau, vCISO, Unisys Larry Lidz, VP Customer Security, Cisco
Breakout \| Building the Blueprint: Combating Fraud with Workforce Identities	Jeff Farinich, SVP Technology & CISO, New American Funding Loren Russon, SVP, Product Management, Ping Identity
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Networking, Use Case Pavilion & Lunch
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM
Lightning Talk \| CRA Accelerator Membership	Parham Eftekhari, Executive Vice President, Communities, CyberRisk Alliance
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Lightning Talk \| Cerby	Keith Ledgerwood, Principal Solutions Consultant, Cerby
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Keynote \| The 2025 State of Cybersecurity – Balancing Risk and Reward	Helen Yu, CEO, Tigon Advisory Corp. Karl Triebes, Chief Product Officer, Ivanti
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM
Networking & Use Case Pavilion
3:25 PM - 4:10 PM
Boardroom \| From Chaos to Clarity – How AI is Transforming Data Security	Larry Whitehead Jr., Chief Advisory Officer, The CISO Society, Cyera Advisory Board, Cyera Miguel Villegas, CISO, TRISTAR Insurance Group Nick Reva, Head of Enterprise Infrastructure Security Engineering, Snapchat
Breakout \| CISO’s Hot Takes on Cybersecurity Trends	Larry Whitehead Jr., Chief Advisory Officer, The CISO Society, Cyera Advisory Board, Cyera Miguel Villegas, CISO, TRISTAR Insurance Group Nick Reva, Head of Enterprise Infrastructure Security Engineering, Snapchat
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Keynote \| Inside Salt Typhoon: Lessons from the Front Lines of a Global Cyber Campaign	Larry Lidz, VP Customer Security, Cisco
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Closing Reception & Networking

Los Angeles Leadership Exchange

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