MAIN CONFERENCE
Main Conference - Day 2
10 October 2026
TRACK 1
AI, Leadership (CXO) & GRC — Liwa 1 & 2, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | KEYNOTE 1 (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Ashishkumar ChauhanMD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Hacking India's Largest Exam System | TALK | Nisarga AdhikarySecurity Researcher |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | It's been "AI" days since the last 0day: Finding vulnerabilities with the help of AI | TALK | Sebastian NeefIT Security Research by, PhD Candidate. Freelancer. CTF-Player. & more ;-) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Beyond Prompt Injection Exploiting and Defending Tool-Driven AI Systems (RAG, Agents, and MCP)? | TALK | Nalinikanth MeesalaHead of Product Security - AI/Works, Thoughtworks Farooq MohammadSecurity Researcher, Thoughtworks |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | The Trust Gap: Why CISOs Don't Trust AI Agents Yet | TALK | Rajeev RajCEO & Co-Founder, Spharaka Networks Private Limited |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Securing the AI Era: Critical Infrastructure, National Security & Strategic Technology | PANEL | Leeladhar Meena ModeratorDirector (West), NCIIPC Vedant Panelist Vipin Pavithran Panelist Maya R Nair PanelistCyber Security Thought Leader Ramesh Gurram PanelistCISO, BSE Anant Shrivastava PanelistFounder, Cyfinoid Research |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Cybersecurity Careers: Navigating the Next 5 Years | PANEL | Zaineb Mounir ModeratorCybersecurity Engineer, Munich, Germany Joerg Simon PanelistSecurity Advisory @audius Sunil Varkey PanelistCyber Security Thought Leadership, Former CISO Wipro & Idea, Former CTO Symantec & Forescout Prabh Nair PanelistProgram Director, Azpirantz Technologies LLP Giuseppe Trotta (ohpe) PanelistPrincipal Security Researcher, Malwarebytes Simran Sankhala Panelist |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | KEYNOTE | KEYNOTE | Dr. Sanjay BahlDirector General, CERT-In & Controller Of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry Of Electronics And IT, Government Of India |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 2
FinTech & BFSI — Vembanadu 2, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | KEYNOTE 1 (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Ashishkumar ChauhanMD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Hacking India's Largest Exam System (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | TALK | Nisarga AdhikarySecurity Researcher |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | AI-SecOps and Supply Chain Security: A Lifecycle-Driven Framework | TALK | Aniket RastogiIndia Cyber and AI Risk Audit Head, Uber Technologies Inc. |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Compliance-as-Code for SWIFT (and Beyond) | TALK | Zachariah George, CISSP, CISAGRC Lead, SWIFT CSP Assessor, Security Researcher, ECS Fin |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | When Money Moves Without Borders: The Cybersecurity Implications | TALK | Sridhar GovardhanGroup CISO, Angel One |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | The Personality of Cybersecurity | TALK | Georgie KurienCISO& Head of Cyber Assurance Practice, SecnSure |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | AI vs AI | PANEL | Linson Paul ModeratorChief Technology Officer, Muthoot Microfin Ltd. Biju K PanelistChief Data Protection Officer, Federal Bank Ramesh Gurram PanelistCISO, BSE Sony A PanelistChief Information Officer, Head Strategic Alliances, Digital Business, Marketing and Customer Experience, South Indian Bank Deepu S PanelistChief Information Security Officer, Muthoot Microfin Nitin Kalra Panelist |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Governing Hybrid Financial Systems-Integrating Decentralized Protocol Risk into ERM | TALK | Anish KoshyVice President - Cyber Security, Operation and Technology Risk, Standard Chartered GBS |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | KEYNOTE (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Dr. Sanjay BahlDirector General, CERT-In & Controller Of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry Of Electronics And IT, Government Of India |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 3
Research and Technical Track — Grand Ballroom 3, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | KEYNOTE 1 (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Ashishkumar ChauhanMD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Hacking India's Largest Exam System (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | TALK | Nisarga AdhikarySecurity Researcher |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Killing the Kill Chain: Deterministic Approach for Agentic Discovery and Remediation of Cloud Misconfigurations | TALK | Ojasveer Singh SainiJunior Security Consultant, CSSI India Pvt. Ltd. |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | From Walls of Text to Attack Graphs: Rethinking Local Privilege Escalation with PrivHound | TALK | Aravind PrakashSenior Security Consultant, Optiv |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Trojan Penguin in the Windows: Advanced Attack Vectors Through WSL | TALK | Aditya SinghSenior CyberSecurity Researcher, Siemens Healthineers |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | SCANNER DOWN: Three Ways We Silenced AMSI and Danced Past MDE + ATP + WDAC & FALCON | TALK | Ananda Krishna SVSenior Red Team Engineer, CyberProof |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Closing the Tag, Owning the Agent: Tag Boundary Injection in Bedrock Agent Orchestration | TALK | Riyaz WalikarResearcher |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Wormable AI: A Cross-Protocol Attack Chain and Defense Model for MCP and A2A | TALK | Thejes Sree Satheesh KumarQuality Analyst - Consultant, Thoughtworks Srinivasan SekarDirector of Engineering, TestMu AI |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 4
OT, IoT, Hardware & Beyond — Vembanadu 3, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | KEYNOTE 1 (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Ashishkumar ChauhanMD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Hacking India's Largest Exam System (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | TALK | Nisarga AdhikarySecurity Researcher |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Too Big to Block: Weaponizing the Implicit Trust of Enterprise AI Architecture | TALK | Yash BharadwajSecurity R & D Director, CyberWarFare Labs Manish GuptaCEO, CyberWarFare Labs |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | AI Meets OT: Opportunity & Risk | PANEL | Rajendra Kalyan Phanibhatla ModeratorHead of IT and Cyber Security, HBL Engineering Ltd Sangeeth K M PanelistAssociate Vice President - IT, V MANE Fils Jimit Gandhi PanelistChief Information Security Officer (CISO), Akasa Air Sapann Harish Talwar PanelistVice President - Digital, Technology & Cybersecurity | CDIO, Essar Power Abhinav Roy PanelistGeneral Manager, Cybersecurity MSS, Schneider Electric Gaurav Wadhwa PanelistDirector - Enterprise Security Architecture & Engineering, Tata Digital |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Beyond the Endpoint: Context-Aware YARA Detection for Browser-Native Attacks in India | TALK | Rishi KantFounder, Sekant Security Inc |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Model File Deserialization: A Silent RCE Bug Class in Production AI | TALK | Arun Krishnan (winters0x64)Security Engineer, Scapia, Member, Team bi0s - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | DissPair - A Bluetooth Security Toolkit | TALK | Tapadyuti BaralSecurity Researcher Aseem Pandya (ThreadpoolX)Embedded Security Researcher |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | 12 Digits Journey: Step to Safeguard the Fragile Foundation | TALK | Kartik LalanSecurity Architect, PIC (Independent) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | KEYNOTE (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Dr. Sanjay BahlDirector General, CERT-In & Controller Of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry Of Electronics And IT, Government Of India |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 5
LEA — Vembanadu 1, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | KEYNOTE 1 (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Ashishkumar ChauhanMD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | HacKP Top performers award, Recognition of Mentors and the MoU signing between Alliance University and Cyberdome | TALK | — |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | HONORA: Secure Blockchain-Based Evidence Management System with NLP-Driven Case Analysis | TALK | Adwaith R NairStudent, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi Diya S NairStudent, Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | DNS as Digital Evidence: Real-Time Detection and AI-Assisted Investigation for Cybercrime Units | TALK | Ashish KumarIndian Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Cooperative Federalism: The Need to Reimagine Law Enforcement Framework for the Cyber World | TALK | Karthik Rao BappanadCybersecurity Consultant, Independent Freelancer |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | The Phone Bill You Never Made: Six Years of VoIP Toll Fraud Operations | TALK | Abhinav ThakurSecurity Researcher - Detection Engineering, Cyble Inc. |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | The First 15 Minutes: An ISO/IEC 27037 Approach to Collecting Digital Evidence from Smartphones, IoT, BLE Trackers, and Embedded Systems | TALK | Vipin GeorgeFaculty (Cyber Forensics) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Narrative Tracking in Crises | TALK | Rudra Narayan Padhy Somya Gupta |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea / Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | KEYNOTE (TRACK 1 LIWA HALL) | KEYNOTE | Dr. Sanjay BahlDirector General, CERT-In & Controller Of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry Of Electronics And IT, Government Of India |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 6
CSEA — Liwa 3, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Arrival in CSEA Track Hall & Welcome | Doug MarshalSenior Impact Lead, Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Track Keynote Speech 3: Building a National Response to Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse | KEYNOTE | Martin James ("Bart")National Victim Identification Coordinator, Home Office CAID Implementation Support Team (seconded), CAID National Director for Strategy & Delivery |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Presentation 7: Keeping Children Safe Online: An Assessment of India's Policy & Enforcement Landscape | TALK | Aparajita BhartiFounding Partner, TQH Consulting Sidharth DebAssociate Director, TQH Consulting |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Presentation 8: From Research to Reform: India’s Evolving Legal Response to AI-Generated CSAM | Prerna DeepAdvocate, Supreme Court of India, Global Data Fellow at Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute | |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Tea/Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | PANEL 2 - Meta & Google directly reporting CSAM to India - What Opportunities and Challenges does this Bring? | PANEL | Childlight - Moderator invited panel members - Panelist |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Presentation 9: Understanding the Economics of CSAM/CSEM in India | TALK | Meghna BalDirector, Esya Centre |
| 12:15 - 12:40 | Presentation 10: Industrialisation of Cyber Crimes, TTPs and Agentic Investigations | Ram GaneshFounder & CEO, CyberEye | CrimeOS AI | |
| 12:40 - 13:30 | Networking Lunch | LUNCH | — |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Track Keynote Speech 4: AI for Safer Children - Building your AI capacity to Save Children | KEYNOTE | Maria EiraDirAI Expert, Centre for AI and Robotics at United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) |
| 14:15 - 14:40 | Presentation 11: Childhood Trauma vs Adult Trauma - What is the Difference | TALK | Dr Laura Carolyn WoodDirector, VITA Foundation |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Presentation 12: Systems Strengthening - Using a Standards Framework to Strengthen the Law Enforcement Systems to Investigate Online CSEA | TALK | Lydia DavenportManager, Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP), Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute |
| 15:10 - 15:25 | Tea/Coffee Break | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | — |
| 15:25 - 15:40 | Presentation 13: Hackathon Update | TALK | Peter PilleyFounder and DevOps Architect, Pathfinder Labs and Kindred Tech |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Looking Ahead in India: From Evidence to Action | TALK | Kelvin LayDirector, Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP), Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute Ankit AsokanKerala Police |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | TRACK Closing Ceremony | Kelvin LayDirector, Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP), Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute Ankit AsokanKerala Police |
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| 16:30 - 17:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY (TRACK 1- LIWA HALL) | CLOSING | — |
TRACK 7
Mini Training — Chef's Table, Grand Hyatt, Kochi
| Time | Session | Type | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Securing GitHub Actions Across the Enterprise | MINI TRAINING | Alfin JosephSecurity Engineer, CRED |