Stop by the Registration Desk on the 2nd Floor Foyer and pick up your badge, swag bag, official conference notebook, and official conference t-shirt!

Explore the Expo Hall, the Fun Station, and join one of the workshops that we have set up on Sunday!

Curious about Claude but not quite sure what to do beyond opening a chat and asking it questions? This hands-on beginner workshop is for you.

Designed specifically for cybersecurity marketers at CyberMarketingCon, this session will help you get comfortable using Claude for real marketing work — without requiring any technical or AI expertise.

We’ll cover the basics of how to work with Claude effectively, how to give it the context and direction it needs, and how to start using it across everyday workflows like research, campaign planning, content development, messaging, analysis, and more.

You’ll work through practical examples alongside other cybersecurity marketers and leave with ideas you can put to work immediately.

Bring your laptop and your corporate or personal Claude account. No AI expertise required!

Ready to move beyond one-off chats and start building repeatable AI workflows?

This hands-on workshop is designed for cybersecurity marketers at CyberMarketingCon who already use Claude and want to take the next step: turning the work you do repeatedly into reusable systems.

We’ll focus heavily on Claude Skills—what they are, when to use them, and how to build them around real cybersecurity marketing workflows. We’ll also explore more advanced ways to structure Claude around your work, connect context and resources, and create repeatable processes that can help you and your team work faster and more consistently.

Rather than spending the session perfecting individual prompts, we’ll think bigger: How do you teach Claude how you work once, then reuse that knowledge again and again?

Bring your laptop, your personal or corporate Claude account, and come ready to build!

Cybersecurity marketing is defined by constraint: dense jargon, complex concepts, and audiences who demand precision. The challenge isn’t a lack of creativity; it’s finding space to play, experiment, and make ideas feel truly memorable inside those constraints. This workshop is designed as a creative reset for marketers whose brains have been on “perform under pressure” for a little too long… or those who know they are over-relying on AI for tasks that used to feel fun.

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Using the bold, irreverent naming culture of roller derby as our playground—think Penelope Bruise, Hermione Danger, Momentum Mori—we’ll explore what happens when you step away from AI and lean back pure sporting instinct. We’ll treat derby naming as a proxy for branding; names must instantly signal identity, tell a mini-story, and provoke a reaction, just like the best campaigns.

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The workshop starts with a short individual warm-up to get people out of polished marketing mode and into free thinking. Attendees will quickly jot down the words, frustrations, and ideas that feel most “stuck” or overused in their day-to-day work—terms they’re tired of, value props that feel flat, or product areas that feel impossible to make exciting. This becomes our raw material.

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From there, we’ll move into guided prompts such as:* “If this product or problem were a derby skater, what kind of troublemaker would they be?”* “If you could lean into FUD as a joke, what would you really call this thing?”Participants will then work in small teams, remixing their raw material into surprising combinations: pairing technical jargon with unexpected metaphors, fusing emotional states with security concepts, and bending industry clichés until they become something stranger and more interesting. The focus is less on “getting it right” and more on seeing how far they can stretch a concept without compromising accuracy. Teams will, for example: - Take a word from someone else’s list and combine it with their own to create a new character or brand.- Build a “family” of three related derby names that could all be features of the same product.
Additional playful constraints will push their creativity further: limiting word counts, forcing a quick pivot from serious to absurd, or asking teams to defend a ridiculous name as if it were going into a boardroom deck. Each round builds on the last, moving from silly and safe to sharper and more deliberate.

As the workshop progresses, teams will converge on a brand concept and tagline born from this chaos—something that still nods to the original cybersecurity idea but now feels alive, specific, and ideally, fun to scream out loud.

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Throughout, we’ll surface the meta-lessons: how constraints can unlock creativity instead of shutting it down, and how embracing a bit of discomfort or a “bad idea” often leads to better ones.

Attendees won’t leave with a rigid framework or a perfect campaign. They’ll leave with at least one absurd-but-delightful concept, a renewed sense of creative confidence, and a reminder that even in a jargon-heavy, high-stakes industry, there’s room to play for points.

There will be NO NAPPING during this workshop, where everyone will stand up, talk, move around, and learn how to be a professional business “flirt.” We challenge both extroverts and introverts to come to this session and learn how to make in-person cold connections, find *the* person in the room you need to talk to, and qualify someone for a potential business relationship. Check out this video from our workshop at Cyber Marketing Con 2023. If you attended the 2023 workshop, come back again! This brand new workshop is loaded with new exercises.

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CyberMarketingCon 2026 Welcome Reception: Choose Your Own Character

Every adventure starts with a character. Who will you be?

We’re kicking off CyberMarketingCon 2026 and our theme, Create Your Own Adventure, by inviting you to dress as your favorite character—from literally anything. Anything!

Here's some ideas: Indiana Jones, a medieval knight, an enterprising elf, Taylor Swift, the CISO at the last company that you sold into, Steve Jobs, Skyrim guards, a boxer, or someone entirely of your own creation.

Go all out or come as yourself (if you’re your own favorite character, that's totally fine)!

Join us to meet fellow adventurers, reconnect with friends, and get the CyberMarketingCon conference started!

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Cybersecurity marketing has a scale obsession. More leads. More content. More outbound. And oftentimes - more noise.

But the fastest-growing companies in the space- even the likes of Wiz, Cyera, and Island- don't win (just) because they scaled faster. They win because they built gravity.

They created narratives so clear, so opinionated, and so aligned with how the world was changing, that customers, talent, and markets started pulling toward them.

This talk breaks down what “gravity” actually means in cybersecurity marketing- and how to engineer it. We’ll explore a practical framework for building gravity in the unbelievably noisy cybersecurity market of 2026.

It will be drawing from hands-on experience advising 50+ B2B startup CEOs on positioning, both during my time at Atreo (a B2B branding agency specializing in cybersecurity) and as an independent advisor. This includes cybersecurity companies like JFrog, Adaptive Shield, Axis Security, Bionic, Cybellum, Cato Networks and Claroty.

You are a product marketer at a fast-growing multi-product company. Your messaging is built alongside other products and together with other product marketers. Your launch depends on a roadmap someone else controls. The platform story belongs to everyone and no one. It's frustrating and sometimes feels like you cannot produce your best work.

Drawing on a decade at Cloudflare, Proofpoint, and Veracode, this session covers how PMMs at larger companies can move fast and deliver successful work — even when ownership is messy.

You'll leave with a practical approach for aligning with peer PMMs quickly, delivering work you're proud of, and calmly dealing with bloated launches and messaging conflicts.

What if your newest “employees” could onboard instantly, retain institutional knowledge, collaborate across departments, and scale your team’s expertise 24/7?

In this session, Juliana Slye of Government Business Results (GBR) will demonstrate how GBR is building an interconnected ecosystem of custom GPTs that function like specialized digital team members across marketing, proposal development, operations, research, and business growth.

These GPTs go far beyond simple chatbots. Juliana has developed role-based AI systems, including a Go-To-Market Strategist, Federal Product Marketer, Copy Editor, Brand Assistant, and even a “Condenser” designed to simplify overly complex or lengthy content. Each GPT is built with a distinct function, voice, workflow, and expertise area, allowing them to work independently or collaboratively as part of a layered AI operational framework.

Rather than using AI as a standalone tool, GBR has developed GPT systems that build on one another to create scalable workflows that accelerate onboarding, improve consistency, reduce bottlenecks, and preserve institutional knowledge across the organization.

Attendees will learn how to design GPTs that mirror real employee functions, create AI systems that collaborate together effectively, and establish a practical framework for scaling expertise across a growing organization without sacrificing quality, brand integrity, or operational efficiency.

This session is designed for GovCon leaders, marketers, operations teams, and growth strategists who want to move beyond AI experimentation and into practical implementation that drives measurable business impact.

Cybersecurity marketing has a sameness problem. Most companies sound alike, look alike, and compete for the same keywords. The messaging doesn't land with buyers and the campaigns blur together. A few companies figure out how to cut through, and it comes down to how they think about brand, their category, and pipeline.

I've been lucky to work on exactly that. I've repositioned a company mid-flight and launched campaigns that moved board-level metrics and got the industry actually talking.

In this session, I'll walk through what I've learned about positioning that sticks, campaigns people remember, and how to launch into a market that creates impact. I'll share a practical framework you can apply to your own role.

Take a moment to recharge, grab refreshments, and connect with fellow attendees. Use this afternoon break to continue conversations from the day’s sessions, visit sponsors and exhibitors, visit more locations on the Treasure Map, and prepare for the rest of the CyberMarketingCon 2026 program!

Make more connections in less time! Join a series of quick, guided conversations designed to help you meet fellow cybersecurity marketers from across the community. You’ll introduce yourself, exchange ideas, and discover shared interests before rotating to meet someone new. Whether you’re looking for collaborators, career connections, fresh perspectives, or your conference buddy, speed networking makes it easy to start conversations that can continue throughout CyberMarketingCon...and beyond!

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According to Gartner, 74% of B2B buying committees experience conflict during the decision process. It’s no wonder when most marketers are only building content for one buyer per product or solution. Most cybersecurity marketers in particular have been so focused on grabbing CISO mindshare that we’ve had tunnel vision: marketing to one person on a committee that is usually made up of six or more.

In this hands-on workshop, you'll apply a “Consensus Architecture,” that solves this exact problem. This architecture maps the committee, identifies what each stakeholder needs to feel safe enough to say yes to a buying decision, and builds content that appeals to the whole buying group.

In this workshop you will:- Map a real buying committee for your typical sale- Identify the content gap for each of the key stakeholders for a purchase- Build an outline that your champion can use to drive internal alignment- Leave with a repeatable process you can apply to every product and solution in your portfolio

Come with a deal in mind and leave with a repeatable framework that will have a tangible impact on revenue.

Yonesy Núñez, CISO at Surf AI, is trading the war room for a stage — acoustic guitar in hand.

This isn't a panel. It isn't a keynote. It's a live jam session where cyber marketers get rare, unfiltered access to one of cybersecurity's most recognizable CISOs — one who also happens to play. Yonesy has spent years at the center of enterprise security, building a reputation that precedes him in every room he walks into. Now he's bringing that same presence to CyberMarketingCon, taking live questions from the audience, riffing on what marketers get right (and spectacularly wrong), and answering honestly about what actually influences a CISO's buying decisions, vendor relationships, and attention.

Part performance, part conversation, part something you haven't seen at a conference before.

Just follow the music.

There's a moment every marketing leader knows: your team is talented, your campaigns are running, and somehow the CEO still isn't sure what marketing is actually doing for the business.

This session is about making sure that moment never happens again.

The framework is built around two connected tools: a KPI-driven strategic roadmap and a quarterly marketing review (QMR) that together become the operating system for your entire marketing org. The roadmap is built from the top down: executive business goals translated into channel-level KPIs that every team member owns. The QMR is where those KPIs are reported, defended, and connected back to strategy by everyone.

But the deeper purpose of this framework isn't just accountability. It's orientation. When your team is heads-down in the minutiae, the roadmap is the hundred-thousand-foot view that answers the question every campaign should be asking: does this move our metrics? Creativity doesn't go away. Ideas still matter. But they get filtered through the strategy, not in spite of it.

And for the leader in the room who is the head of marketing with or without the title, this framework does something else entirely. You already operating at the executive level and this proves it. The C-suite, sales, finance, and new leadership will see a marketing org that isn't just executing tasks but executing a vision, with full command of how marketing connects to revenue, operations, services, and growth.

If you want Marketing off the CEO’s worry list, this is how you build the team that makes it possible.

AI is reshaping cybersecurity faster than traditional product marketing can adapt. As enterprises move from copilots to autonomous agents, buyers are no longer evaluating features—they are evaluating trust, governance, and operational control. This session explores how cybersecurity PMMs must evolve from messaging products to defining categories, shaping executive narratives, and building the mental models CIOs and CISOs use to navigate the autonomous enterprise.

Join us for CyberCMO Summit introductions. We'll talk about the Summit and give every CMO in the room a chance to introduce themselves.

For the better part of a decade, the dominant gospel in B2B marketing has been measurement. If you could not attribute it, you should not spend on it. Creative became a variable to test, not a discipline to invest in. Brand became a line item to defend rather than an asset to build. The marketers who rose fastest were the ones who could read a dashboard, not the ones who could write a brief.

The results are everywhere. Categories full of companies that sound identical. Messaging optimized for search terms no buyer actually uses. Campaigns that convert in the model and disappear from memory the moment the window closes.

Eric Gaither has spent twenty years on the other side of that equation. As the brand and creative lead through some of the most consequential moments in cybersecurity marketing, including the FireEye global rebrand, the Mandiant relaunch after divestiture, and the Google Cloud Security integration, he built programs where the creative work did the strategic work. Where the words sounded like something a real person would say to another real person, not a sentence assembled from intent data.

In March 2026, he led the launch of Armadin, which raised $189.9 million in combined seed and Series A funding, the largest raise in cybersecurity history. The launch captured national media attention, drew partnerships with CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, and reached enterprise customers in search of cybersecurity proof. The launch did not land because of a keyword strategy. It landed because the narrative was clear, the message was human, and the story gave a sophisticated audience something worth paying attention to.

His argument is not that data does not matter. It is that data without creative judgment produces marketing that is measurable yet forgettable. The most effective B2B marketing has always been both rigorous and human. The pendulum swung too far in one direction, and the companies that recognize that first will have a material advantage.

This session will cover what it looks like in practice to let data inform creative rather than replace it, why the cybersecurity category is a particularly instructive case study in what happens when messaging gets optimized into abstraction, and what the return to balance actually requires from marketing leaders who built their careers in the data era.

Join Jen, Gianna, and some other members of the team for an open conversation about what’s ahead for the Cybersecurity Marketing Society. Hear their vision for the community’s future, learn about emerging priorities, and share your ideas and feedback. This interactive session is an opportunity to help shape the Society’s next chapter.

AI-generated “spokespeople” are showing up everywhere—but the real value isn’t in letting them speak for you. It’s in how fast they help you get to a strong, human-ready message.

This session breaks down how to build Spokespeople GPTs—custom AI models trained on a brand’s voice, expertise, and guardrails—to rapidly generate drafts, talking points, FAQs, and scenario responses without replacing human judgment.

Attendees will learn how these GPTs can compress hours of prep into minutes, support comms and marketing teams under pressure, and reduce risk by standardizing first drafts—while keeping humans firmly in control of the final output.

No hype, no “AI replaces your team” narrative—just a practical framework for using AI as a speed layer in modern marketing and communications.

Everyone's talking about AI for content. This talk is about something harder and far more interesting: using AI as a genuine executive proxy to extend your judgment, not just your output.

I was drowning in reviews, my team was bottlenecked by my calendar, and everyone was frustrated. I knew there had to be a better way, so I built an AI system that knows my team, my standards, my stakeholders, and my review criteria well enough to triage decisions, draft feedback, manage review queues, and hold my quality bar—whether I'm in meetings all day or out of office for three weeks.

This isn't about prompt hacks or saving 20 minutes on a blog post. It's about what happens when you invest in training AI on how you think. We'll dive into the surprising places where it works, the important places where it doesn't, and what that distinction teaches you about your own leadership.

I'll share the real system behind the 'real' Claudia: how I documented my standards, how I trained my AI proxy, where it's saved me meaningful time, where it's failed, and what it's revealed about the gap between what I think I communicate and what my team actually receives.

Make the most of your CyberMarketingCon experience with these complimentary experiences. Reserve your spot in advance—or stop by to see if a walk-in time is available.

Podcast Studio

Record a podcast, interview, or video in a private, professional studio. Four microphones and an AV technician are included, so all you need to bring is your idea. Walk-ins are welcome when the studio is available.

One-on-One Expert Consultations

Get complimentary, personalized advice from experienced professionals—including cybersecurity industry analysts. Book a session to discuss marketing, channel strategy, graphic design, career strategy, your LinkedIn presence, or the cybersecurity market.

Professional Headshot

Refresh your LinkedIn photo, speaker profile, or professional bio with a polished new headshot. Visit the headshot studio in the Expo Hall, located behind the Fornix Marketing booth. Walk-ins are welcome when space is available.

Fun Station & Postcards

Add some personality to your conference badge with stickers, supplies, and badge ribbons—or write and mail a postcard to someone back home. Stop by the Fun Station in the Expo Hall aka Marketing Land whenever you’re ready for a creative break.

Stop by the Registration Desk on the 2nd Floor Foyer and pick up your badge, swag bag, official conference notebook, and official conference t-shirt!

Good morning, CyberMarketingCon! Join us at 8:00 AM for complimentary coffee and breakfast, catch up with fellow attendees, and explore the booths in the Expo Hall, aka Marketing Land!

We’ll have a set number of breakfasts ready to welcome you, available first come, first served while supplies last.

There’s plenty to explore: send a postcard from our fun station, drop in for a fresh headshot, catch content on the Expo Hall stage, or settle into a seat for networking and meetings. Come grab a bite and start the day with us!

How do you get someone to open a door, bend a rule, or trust a stranger? Magicians, con artists, and social engineers have spent generations figuring it out.

In this funny, interactive keynote, Brian Brushwood (host of Discovery's Scam School and National Geographic's Hacking the System) takes you on a fun, funny tour inside the attacker's mindset. Through stories and demonstrations, he explores how trust, urgency, authority, and familiarity can be used to steer decisions, and why smart people are still vulnerable to a convincing story.

For cybersecurity marketers, it's a look at the human behavior behind the headlines: how believable deception gets constructed, why it works, and how understanding those mechanisms can help us recognize manipulation. Expect a talk that's fun, funny, and just a little bit dangerous.

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Most growth marketing sessions focus on channels, tools, or that magic campaign that'll solve everything. This isn't one of them.

In this session, Nicole Gates, VP of Global Growth Marketing at Varonis, shares the three things she found actually determine whether your growth team scales or stalls: the metrics you choose to optimize for, the people you hire (and why), and the culture that makes growth at the center of everything you build.

Because real growth happens when your strategy becomes shared thinking and your team can carry the vision without you in the room.

This session is for marketing leaders at every stage of building - whether you're making your first growth hire, restructuring a team that's outgrown its design, or trying to figure out why a talented team isn't producing the results the strategy promised.

In Q1 2026, CIS launched its first-ever flagship campaign, Secure by Design, and the results rewrote our marketing playbook. In one quarter: 96% engagement rate to our campaign landing page, 85% audio completion rate, 3,000+ guide downloads, 1,400+ leads, and 900k+ paid media impressions. None of it happened by accident. This session is a candid, step-by-step breakdown of how we built an integrated paid, owned, and earned campaign around a single idea and made it work for two completely different audiences simultaneously. You’ll leave with a replicable framework, the lessons we learned, and the one number that surprised us most.