c0c0n 2026

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Venue & Date

CHIEF GUESTS

V. D. Satheesan
V. D. Satheesan

Chief Minister

Kerala State, India

Ramesh Chennithala
Ramesh Chennithala

Home Minister

Kerala State, India

SPECIAL GUEST

Dulquer Salmaan

Indian Actor & Producer

GUEST OF HONOUR

Honouring Visionaries Driving Digital Trust

T V Ravichandran

Deputy National Security Advisor of India (Dy NSA)

Govt. of India

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty

Chairman

State Bank of India

Ashishkumar Chauhan

MD & CEO

National Stock Exchange of India

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Global Experts Decoding the World of Security

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti

Head of Cyber Security

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Sanjay Bahl
Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General, CERT-In & Controller Of Certifying Authorities (CCA)

Ministry Of Electronics And IT, Government Of India

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Eng. Badar Al Salehi
Eng. Badar Al Salehi

Director General, Oman National CERT

Head of C4IR Oman, Head of RCC, Chair of OIC-CERT

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alisa Esage
Alisa Esage

Founder

Zero Day Engineering

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Where Experts Share, Defenders Evolve

Lt Gen M U Nair, PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd.)
Lt Gen M U Nair, PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd.)

Former National Cyber Security Coordinator

Allurity

Ajit Kumar IAS
Ajit Kumar IAS

Joint Secretary

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Prasad Panicker
Prasad Panicker

Executive Chairman

Nayara Energy

Joerg Simon
Joerg Simon

Security Advisory @audius

Bjørn Richard WATNE

CISO

INTERPOL - Office of Internal Oversight

Mahesh Vaidya

Director, Intelligence & Cyber Security

Cmde Atul Deswal, NM
Cmde Atul Deswal, NM

Deputy Director General, Navy Cyber Group / CISO (Navy)

Indian Navy

Markus Vervier
Markus Vervier

Director

Nemesis / X41

Sebastian Neef

IT Security Research by <3

PhD Candidate. Freelancer. CTF-Player. & more ;-)

Aleksandr Kolchanov
Aleksandr Kolchanov

Security Researcher

Russia

Daniel Kapellmann Zafra

Technology Strategy Lead

Google

Giuseppe Trotta (ohpe)

Principal Security Researcher

Malwarebytes

Leeladhar Meena
Leeladhar Meena

Director (West)

NCIIPC

Pravin Kumar

Chief Market Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Dr. Durga Dube

EVP and Group Head - Information Risk Management (IRM) & Cybersecurity

Reliance Industries Limited

Sunil Varkey

Cyber Security Thought Leadership

Former CISO Wipro & Idea

Sameer Ratolikar

Group Head and Chief Information Security Officer

HDFC Bank

Amit A Pradhan

Head of Mandiant Consulting (India, SAARC, Japan & Korea)

Mandiant (Google)

Massimo Iuliani

Forensic Analyst

Amped Software

Zaineb Mounir
Zaineb Mounir

Cybersecurity Engineer

Munich, Germany

Prabh Nair

Program Director

Azpirantz Technologies LLP

Sridhar Govardhan

Group CISO

Angel One

Karthik Rao Bappanad

Cybersecurity Consultant

Independent Freelancer

Dr. A Shiju Rawther

Chief Information Technology Officer

Care Ratings Limited

Maya R Nair

Cyber Security Thought Leader

Shivkumar Pandey

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Adani Group

Ramesh Kumar Rajasekharan Pillai

Associate Vice President - Info-Tech

Biocon Limited

Nitin Kalra

Group Chief Information Security Officer

UST

Balakrishnan A

Former Executive Director

Geojit

Nalinikanth Meesala

Head of Product Security - AI/Works

Thoughtworks

Rajeev Raj
Rajeev Raj

CEO & Co-Founder

Spharaka Networks Private Limited

Seemant Bisht

Principal Consultant - OT Cyber Security

Google Cloud (Mandiant)

Aniket Rastogi
Aniket Rastogi

India Cyber and AI Risk Audit Head

Uber Technologies Inc.

Dr. Prince Joseph

Group Chief Information Officer

SFO Technologies

Dr. Clement Arul

Chief Business & Innovation Officer

Foresight Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Vivek M K

Deputy Vice President & Head (Cyber Policy Hub)

State Bank of India

Linson Paul

Chief Technology Officer

Muthoot Microfin Ltd.

Sapann Harish Talwar

Vice President - Digital, Technology & Cybersecurity | CDIO

Essar Power

Anant Shrivastava

Founder

Cyfinoid Research

Anish Koshy
Anish Koshy

Vice President - Cyber Security, Operation and Technology Risk

Standard Chartered GBS

Riyaz Walikar

Researcher

Nisarga Adhikary
Nisarga Adhikary

Security Researcher

Rishi Kant

Founder

Sekant Security Inc

Bharat Sharma

Senior Engineering Manager - Detection Engineering

SentinelOne

Abhinav Roy

General Manager, Cybersecurity MSS

Schneider Electric

Hardik Shah

Principal Security Researcher

Balachandar Natarajan

Platform Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Private Limited

Saksham Tushar
Saksham Tushar

Lead Security Engineer

Abhinav Thakur
Abhinav Thakur

Security Researcher - Detection Engineering

Cyble Inc.

Geet Hirawat
Geet Hirawat

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

we45 Solutions

Harish Ramadoss

Founding Member

Rippling

Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta

CEO

CyberWarFare Labs

Yash Bharadwaj

Security R & D Director

CyberWarFare Labs

Rushikesh D. Nandedkar
Rushikesh D. Nandedkar

Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Avkash Kathiriya

Co-Founder & CEO

Fencio

Amey Gat

Principal Threat Researcher

Fortinet

R D Tarun

Threat Researcher

Independent

Biju K

Chief Data Protection Officer

Federal Bank

Kartikey Dwivedi
Kartikey Dwivedi

CEO

Turtleneck Systems and Solutions

Deepu S

Chief Information Security Officer

Muthoot Microfin

Kishan Kendre

Global Head - Information Security

Blue Star Limited

Dominic Vijay Kumar

President & Head of Technology

Namdev Finvest Limited

Shiv Kataria

OT Security Leader

Sangeeth K M

Associate Vice President - IT

V MANE Fils

Dr. Siraj Rahim

DGM - Operation Technology & Information Security

MRF Limited

Muneer H

Deputy General Manager & CISO

J & K Bank

Srinivasan Sekar

Director of Engineering

TestMu AI

Anurag Dubey
Anurag Dubey

Associate Director - Legal & LEA

CoinDCX

Archana Venugopal

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

NCDEX

Chandra Sekhar

Head of Infosec and Privacy

Porter

Jimit Gandhi

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Akasa Air

Rajeev Panicker

Global Scheme Manager - Automotive Cybersecurity

DNV

Farooq Mohammad

Security Researcher

Thoughtworks

Zachariah George, CISSP, CISA

GRC Lead, SWIFT CSP Assessor, Security Researcher

ECS Fin

Georgie Kurien
Georgie Kurien

CISO& Head of Cyber Assurance Practice

SecnSure

Dr. Anand Handa

CSO

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Dr. Parul Sindhwad
Dr. Parul Sindhwad

Director

Securenex Private Limited

Dr. Ras Dwivedi

CTO

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Suchith Narayan

Staff Security Engineer

Razorpay

Hari Prasad

Lead Security Engineer

Razorpay

Satyam Dubey
Satyam Dubey

Senior Security Consultant

Optiv Security

Nikhil Mittal

Head IT & CISO - AVP

Pipeline Infrastructure Limited

Ramesh Gurram

CISO

BSE

Sony A

Chief Information Officer, Head Strategic Alliances, Digital Business, Marketing and Customer Experience

South Indian Bank

Rajendra Kalyan Phanibhatla

Head of IT and Cyber Security

HBL Engineering Ltd

Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma

Practice Manager

Optiv Security

Thejes Sree Satheesh Kumar
Thejes Sree Satheesh Kumar

Quality Analyst - Consultant

Thoughtworks

Kartik Lalan

Security Architect

PIC (Independent)

Aravind C Ajayan

Security Architect

PIC (Independent)

Prashant Mahajan

Organizer

OzHack

Dhruv Shah

Founder/ Technical Head

TCP Infosec LLP

Adesh Manjrekar

India Pre-sales Head, Data Protection Solutions

Dell Technologies

Ananda Krishna SV

Senior Red Team Engineer

CyberProof

Samarth Bhaskar Bhat

Technical Director

Reinfosec

Cdr Jim Mathew (retd)

CEO

StarOne IT

Aditya Singh

Senior CyberSecurity Researcher

Siemens Healthineers

Aravind Prakash

Senior Security Consultant

Optiv

Abhishek J M

Security Trainer at 7ASecurity

Security Engineer at CRED

Amrudesh Balakrishnan

Senior Mobile Security Engineer | Developer | Researcher

Security Trainer at 7ASecurity, Security Engineer at CRED

Kartheek Lade

Automotive Security Researcher

Vipin George

Faculty (Cyber Forensics)

Amandeep Singh Banga

Senior Security Consultant

Payatu

Tapadyuti Baral

Security Researcher

Aseem Pandya (ThreadpoolX)

Embedded Security Researcher

Vijay Kumar Gowda K K
Vijay Kumar Gowda K K

Independent Researcher

Rahul Chakraborty

Blue Team Security Researcher

CyberWarFare Labs

Hemant Sonkar

Lead Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Pugal Selvan

Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Arun Krishnan (winters0x64)

Security Engineer, Scapia

Member, Team bi0s - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Shubham Thorat

Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Sathwik Ram Prakki

Senior Threat Researcher

Group-IB

Subhajeet Singha

Senior Threat Researcher

Acronis

Parth Agarwal
Parth Agarwal

Security Researcher

CyberWarFare Labs

Aadesh Shinde

Senior Threat Researcher

BforeAI

Aryan Singh
Aryan Singh

CTI professional

Rahul Binjve

Director of Engineering

iCOUNTER

Darshit Ashara

Senior Manager, Threat Research

Zscaler

Jatin Singhla

Cybersecurity Manager

FIS Global

Advait Pandya
Advait Pandya

Windows Security Researcher

CoE-CNDS, VJTI Mumbai

Aman Framewala
Aman Framewala

Security Researcher

CoE-CNDS, VJTI Mumbai

Ojasveer Singh Saini

Junior Security Consultant

CSSI India Pvt. Ltd.

Sreedan S Kumar

DevOps Intern

Saint & Masters

Alfin Joseph

Security Engineer

CRED

Shebin John Mathew
Shebin John Mathew

Offensive Security Researcher and Red Team Operator

Google/Mandiant

Adityakrishna Vinod

Associate Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Kumar Ashwin
Kumar Ashwin

Security Engineer

RedHunt Labs

Praveen
Praveen

Sub inspector

Cyberdome, Kerala Police

Haricharana S
Haricharana S

Solutions Engineer

we45

Ajinkya Panday
Ajinkya Panday

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Aman Raj
Aman Raj

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Tanmay Agrawal
Tanmay Agrawal

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Adwaith R Nair

Student

Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi

Diya S Nair

Student

Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Kochi

Ishwar Kumar

Student

Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

Thakor Pavansinh
Thakor Pavansinh

Student

Unitedworld Institute of Technology (UIT), Karnavati University

Ashhar Farhan
Ashhar Farhan

Founder

HF Signals Electronics Pvt Ltd

Prem Patil

Founder & CEO

RedDoraLabs

Ashish Kumar
Ashish Kumar

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team

CERT-In

John Varughese

General Manager (Head - IT)

Dhanlaxmi Bank

Vinothkumar R

Incident Response & Enterprise IT Security Manager

Freshworks

Aravind Baskaran

Senior Engineer

LinkedIn

Aditya Singh Gaur

Deputy Manager

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Rahul K. Shukla

Deputy Manager (Innovation)

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Rupesh Surve

Senior Hardware Security Researcher

Utkarsh Yadav

Security Researcher

EXPLIoT

Lince Lawrence

Distinguished Technologist & Global Leader - CTM

EY

CSEA SPEAKERS

Meet the experts contributing to this year’s CSEA programme.

Zoe Lambourne

Chief Operating Officer

Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute

Kelvin Lay

Director, Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP)

Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute

Lydia Davenport

Manager, Technical Advisory Program (C-TAP)

Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute

Karolina Mason

Specialized Officer – Safeguarding Crimes Against Children Unit

INTERPOL

Martin James ("Bart")

National Victim Identification Coordinator, Home Office CAID Implementation Support Team (seconded)

CAID National Director for Strategy & Delivery

Nidhi Sudhan

Co-founder & Director

Citizen Digital Foundation (CDF)

Farzana Simran Anzarudeen

Research and Communications Lead

Citizen Digital Foundation (CDF)

Prerna Deep

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Global Data Fellow at Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute

Aparajita Bharti
Aparajita Bharti

Founding Partner

TQH Consulting

Meghna Bal

Director

Esya Centre

Ram Ganesh

Founder & CEO

CyberEye | CrimeOS AI

Chitra Iyer

Co-founder & CEO

Space2Grow

Peter Pilley

Founder and DevOps Architect

Pathfinder Labs and Kindred Tech

Nida Zamani Siddique

Programme Manager

Railway Children India

Navin Sellaraju Sukumar

Chief Executive Officer

Railway Children India

Dr Indrani Bhattacharya

CEO & Secretary

Child in Need Institute (CINI), Kolkata, India

Dr Laura Carolyn Wood

Director

VITA Foundation

Maria Eira

DirAI Expert

Centre for AI and Robotics at United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

Capt. Abdulla Alhashmi
Capt. Abdulla Alhashmi

Head of the Permanent Alliances Section

International Affairs Bureau, UAE Ministry of Interior

Sidharth Deb

Associate Director

TQH Consulting

Ankit Asokan
Ankit Asokan

Kerala Police

VILLAGE CREW

Meet the experts sharing their knowledge and skills across c0c0n Villages

Rushikesh D. Nandedkar
Rushikesh D. Nandedkar

Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Avkash Kathiriya

Co-Founder & CEO

Fencio

Amey Gat

Principal Threat Researcher

Fortinet

R D Tarun

Threat Researcher

Independent

Dr. Anand Handa

CSO

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Dr. Ras Dwivedi

CTO

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Pugal Selvan

Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Shubham Thorat

Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Aadesh Shinde

Senior Threat Researcher

BforeAI

Aryan Singh
Aryan Singh

CTI professional

Rahul Binjve

Director of Engineering

iCOUNTER

Darshit Ashara

Senior Manager, Threat Research

Zscaler

Adityakrishna Vinod

Associate Security Consultant

Payatu Security Consulting Pvt Ltd

Ajinkya Panday
Ajinkya Panday

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Aman Raj
Aman Raj

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Tanmay Agrawal
Tanmay Agrawal

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Aditya Singh Gaur

Deputy Manager

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Rahul K. Shukla

Deputy Manager (Innovation)

C3iHub, IIT Kanpur

Rupesh Surve

Senior Hardware Security Researcher

Utkarsh Yadav

Security Researcher

EXPLIoT

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