The Cybersecurity & AI Summit 2026 brings together global leaders, innovators, and practitioners at the cutting edge of digital defense and intelligent technologies. This premier event explores the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity, offering a deep dive into how organizations can harness advanced automation while defending against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

Here’s a preview of what you can expect:

Agenda at a Glance
Registration opens at 9:15 am
Agenda begins at 9:45 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Session – Adversarial AI in the New Frontier (Daniel Sergile)
• Industry Trends and Insights
• Code Z – Night of the Living Malware Exercise (Erin Trost and Misha Thomas)
• From Prototype to Practice: Building Governed AI Agents in Healthcare (Varun Divi)
• Practical Tips and Real-World Applications (Paul Curylo, Chris Baker, Brady Miller, Joe Braud)
• Open Q&A and Audience Engagement
• Closing Remarks and Next Steps

More details below.

In the meantime, mark your calendar and plan to join us. This is shaping up to be a valuable session with plenty of opportunities to learn and connect.

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Sessions:

Adversarial AI in the New Frontier
Presenter: Daniel Sergile, Unit 42
Learn about the modern threat landscape and the evolving use of AI in cyberattacks. Discover how Frontier AI will impact the future of security and data breaches, and hear critical lessons learned from recent healthcare industry incidents. This will be a dynamic talk, packed with information you can take back and put into action.

Stop Admiring the Magic: Governing AI as Software
Presenter: Rob Garbee, Carilion Clinic
Bringing healthcare AI into SDLC, vendor risk, access control, monitoring, and incident response.

Code Z – Night of the Living Malware Exercise
Presenters: Erin Trost and Misha Thomas, UVA Health
Zombie apocalypse as a metaphor for a fast-spreading malware/worm + disinformation campaign.

From Prototype to Practice: Building Governed AI Agents in Healthcare
Varun Divi, Carilion Clinic
Explore how governed AI agents can be built, deployed, and trusted inside the healthcare enterprise.

Using AI Tools in SOC – CISO Panel
Paul Curylo, Inova Health
Brady Miller, Carillion
Chris Baker, UVA Health
Joe Braud, Wellstar Health System

Presenters:

Misha Thomas
UVA Health
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Misha Thomas is the Director of Cybersecurity Operations at UVA Health, leading security operations spanning threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and data protection. With more than 11 years of experience across healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications, she has extensive expertise defending critical infrastructure environments and building mature security operations capabilities. Her background spans SOC leadership, threat hunting, digital forensics, and enterprise incident response. Misha earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security. She holds the CISSP and seven GIAC certifications across offensive security, intrusion analysis, incident handling, digital forensics, and security operations leadership.

Erin Trost
UVA Health
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Erin Trost serves as manager of cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance and audit at UVA Health, a role she has held for the past nine years. In this position, she is responsible for ensuring appropriate security controls are established and maintained across information systems and hardware.
Trost recently celebrated her 25th anniversary with UVA Health, reflecting her long-standing commitment to the organization.

Daniel Sergile
Unit 42
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Daniel Sergile is a veteran cybersecurity leader and information security executive with global experience across healthcare, finance, and telecommunications. As Senior Director of Transformation at Unit 42, he advises global organizations on ransomware defense, incident response, and strategic security transformation. Daniel is a sought-after speaker at major cyber security conferences and has provided expert written testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives on ransomware threats facing the financial services sector.

Paul Curylo
Inova Health
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Paul Curylo is the Chief Information Security Officer and primary cybersecurity advisor for Inova Health System. He guides executive leadership on managing cyber risk in support of safe, reliable patient care and leads teams responsible for protecting the clinical and enterprise systems essential to care delivery. Paul brings decades of experience across healthcare and federal cyber operations and works closely with government and industry partners to advance resilience, preparedness, and intelligence sharing across the healthcare sector.

Chris Baker
UVA Health
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Chris Baker is the chief information security officer at UVA Health, where he leads enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy, governance and risk management across a complex academic medical system. With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare information security, he has built and matured programs addressing insider risk, cloud security, application and network security, and third-party risk management, aligning UVA Health’s security posture with peer benchmarks and national standards.

Baker joined UVA Health in 2024 from Thomas Jefferson University Healthcare, a 30-hospital system in southeastern Pennsylvania, where he led efforts to secure one of the first and largest implementations of Epic on Microsoft Azure.

A champion of security awareness and education, he has taught enterprise penetration testing and ethical hacking for the SANS Institute and, since 2018, has volunteered as a red team lead with the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. He holds multiple information security and leadership certifications and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Brady Miller
Carilion Clinic
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Brady Miller is chief information security officer at Carilion Clinic, with more than two decades of leadership in cybersecurity and information assurance. Before joining Carilion, he was deputy CISO at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, where he led a team of 20 and advanced enterprise initiatives such as a data governance program and CyberArk cloud privileged access management. His career also includes roles as information security operations manager and risk manager, along with more than 20 years of service in the U.S. Navy in cybersecurity and IT leadership. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity and information assurance, as well as industry certifications including CISSP and CDPSE.

Joe Braud
Wellstar Health System
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Joseph Braud has extensive experience in information technology and security, currently serving as both Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Wellstar Health System since January 2020. Previous roles include Chief Information Security Officer at ePlus inc. from January 2019 to January 2020, and CTO/CISO at SLAIT Consulting from February 2016 to January 2020. Joseph held the position of VP of Information Technology at Anthem, Inc. from July 2013 to January 2016, and served as CTO, CISO, and Senior Vice President at Amerigroup from February 2000 to June 2013. Earlier in the career, Joseph was Director of IT for the Louisiana Appellate Court System from November 1994 to February 2000. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Ambassador University, obtained between 1987 and 1991.

Rob Garbee
Carilion Clinic
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Robert Garbee is director of information security at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia, where he leads a multidisciplinary team overseeing cybersecurity, information risk management, Epic security and access administration. With more than 25 years of experience in IT and security, Garbee has held leadership roles across the health care, education and defense sectors, driving strategic initiatives that strengthen enterprise security posture and regulatory compliance.
In addition to his role at Carilion Clinic, Garbee serves as an adjunct instructor at Virginia Western Community College, where he teaches cybersecurity and information technology courses.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in business management information systems from Liberty University and maintains CISSP, CCSP and CEH certifications. Garbee is also a founder of the Roanoke Information Security Exchange, or RISE, and BSides Roanoke. He is a recognized voice in the regional cybersecurity community, frequently presenting to local organizations and providing expert commentary to media outlets including The Roanoke Times and WSLS News 10.

Varun Divi
Carilion Clinic
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Varun Divi is a data science and AI scientist at Carilion Clinic, where he develops enterprise AI systems for healthcare operations. His work brings together applied machine learning, agentic AI, data engineering, system design, and clinical and operational data integration to translate emerging AI capabilities into secure, maintainable tools for enterprise use. He focuses on practical delivery patterns that move AI from prototype toward governed deployment while preserving privacy, reliability, and operational accountability in healthcare environments.