Ignite on Tour

New York

Convene 30 Hudson Yards | New York, NY
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:00 AM ET

Securely Unleash What's Next

The future is being built today, driven by an AI transformation that’s reshaping our world. This new digital way of life offers incredible opportunities, but it also creates massive cyber risk, forcing leaders to question if security is a barrier to progress.


It's time to reframe cybersecurity as a critical enabler of innovation.
Ignite on Tour New York is the essential one-day event where you’ll learn how to stop chasing threats and start building a resilient defense for what’s next. Join your peers and our leading experts to discover a new security strategy — one that empowers you to confidently embrace revolutionary technologies and confidently unleash your organization’s mission.

Why attend?

Gain a strategic blueprint:

Move beyond keeping pace and learn how to get ahead. You’ll gain a clear plan for consolidating your architecture with a unified platform, automation and the power of AI, giving you the confidence to drive secure innovation.

Master the tools to stop modern attacks:

Step into our hands-on workshops and move from theory to execution. Learn to operationalize Palo Alto Networks platforms to neutralize sophisticated, evasive threats at scale and strengthen your security posture immediately.

Connect with a community of leaders:

Network with fellow cybersecurity leaders who are also navigating this complex landscape. Learn from the real-world successes of your counterparts and build a trusted network of peers that you can rely on long after the event.

Discover How to:

Transform your SOC for the AI era:

Learn how to scale and enhance your security operations center to combat the sophisticated, AI-powered attacks of today and tomorrow.

Harness AI and agentics safely:

Harness AI and agentics safely: Embrace AI’s potential without introducing new risk. We’ll show you how to embed security throughout the entire AI lifecycle to accelerate your AI-driven transformations securely.

Simplify security and reduce complexity:

Discover how to leverage a single, AI-powered platform to reduce operational complexity and automate manual tasks — freeing your teams to focus on innovation.

Agenda

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast, Expo 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
9:59 AM - 11:30 AM
Keynote Sessions

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KP Unnikrishnan (Unni)

SVP, NAM Marketing
Palo Alto Networks

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Witness the future of security in action. Join us as we unveil the bold innovations charting the course for AI security, security operations, cloud and identity. See what's next firsthand, straight from the definitive cybersecurity leader.

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Meerah Rajavel

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

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Daniel Campbell

President, North America Sales
Palo Alto Networks

10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Partner Session

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Join us to hear from Neil Boland, CISO at MLB, and Tim Somrah, CISO at MLS, in a dynamic discussion. Through an “agree or disagree” format, Neil and Tim will react to common cybersecurity opinions, sharing their real-world experiences and providing authentic insights into critical security topics.

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Neil Boland

CISO, SVP Technology & Security
Major League Baseball

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Tim Somrah

CISO
Major League Soccer

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Meerah Rajavel

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

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In an ever-evolving threat landscape, AI is no longer just a buzzword—it's the key to a solvable security future. This expert panel brings together key partners of Palo Alto Networks to discuss the most critical challenges facing enterprises today and the collaborative strategies that are making a difference.

You'll hear from partners on how they are leveraging AI-driven solutions to:

- Solve the complexity problem: Simplify security management and operations.
- Close the talent gap: Augment human expertise with intelligent automation.
- Stay ahead of sophisticated attacks: Predict and prevent threats at scale.

This session will offer an exclusive look at how leading organizations are turning the tables on cyber adversaries and creating a world where security is truly a solvable endeavor.

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Aaron McCray

Field CISO
CDW

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Akshay​ Batra​

Principal Product Manager, Threat Detection and Response
IBM

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Kevin Ginestet

Client Solutions Advisor
Optiv

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Anar Desai

VP, Americas Channel Sales
Palo Alto Networks

11:34 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch and Expo 11:35 AM - 12:30 PM

Hudson Hub 1

Women in Tech fireside chat on AI innovation and advancing female leadership, featuring Meerah Rajavel and a panel of C-level customers.

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Tameka Alsop

CAO
Moody's Corporation

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Atti Riazi

CIO
The Hearst Corporation

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Katherine Wetmur

CIO
Morgan Stanley

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Meerah Rajavel

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks

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Michelle Zeiser

Director, Revenue Consultant
Palo Alto Networks

12:29 PM - 2:00 PM
Breakout Sessions

Highline 1

Ofer Ben-Noon
SASE CTO & SVP of Prisma Browser

The rise of AI has transformed the modern workforce and redefined the nature of risk. With the browser acting as the new workspace and AI agents operating at machine speed, legacy security cannot keep pace. Prisma SASE is the unified platform designed to power this new era. By bringing together secure agentic browsing, AI-lifecycle data protection, and autonomous operations, Prisma SASE addresses critical risks like "AI data sprawl," prompt injection, and agent hijacking. Join us to learn how to transform security from a barrier into a growth engine, enabling your business to innovate at machine speed.

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Kasey Cross
Director, Product Marketing

Frontier AI has pushed adversary speed beyond human limits. By using advanced models to execute attacks 100x faster, attackers have rendered manual SecOps obsolete. To survive this shift, the SOC must move at the speed of the autonomous adversary.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Detect and stop attacks in real-time with AI-driven analytics that outpace automated threats.
- Eliminate the triage bottleneck and cut alert noise by up to 99% using agentic AI.
- Scale your team by enabling analysts at any level to operate with expert-level precision.

See the agentic SOC in action with a live demo of Cortex XSIAM neutralizing an AI-driven attack in real-time.

Hudson Hub 1

Lahary Ravuri
Senior Director, Product Marketing

Chris King
Senior Principal Product Manager

AI is becoming the enterprise workforce, executing tasks at machine speed and shifting risk from access to autonomous action. At the same time, infrastructure has become dynamic—spanning containers, multicloud environments, and high-throughput AI workloads that demand hyperscale enforcement and microperimeter-level control. In this session, see how the Prisma AIRS platform governs agent identity, enforces real-time control across the AI lifecycle, and secures your infrastructure.

Pier Studio 1 & 2

Eric Valli
Solution Architect, Enterprise Accounts 

For years, identity and access management meant managing access, passwords, and privileged accounts — all in silos. What worked for yesterday's organization no longer holds up in today's AI-speed business. As organizations expand across cloud, SaaS, and AI-driven workflows, identity has become the layer that either holds everything together or becomes the biggest liability. This session looks at how Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk are redefining identity not as a point solution, but as a foundational control plane — one that secures every identity with the right level of privilege controls, enforces consistent guardrails across human and machine access, and feeds intelligence across your entire security environment. The result is an architecture where identity isn't just managed, it's a strategic control point for the enterprise.

Highline 1

Sid Singh
Director, CDSS GTM

Security teams are hitting a breaking point as the ‘complexity debt’ of fragmented tools meets the speed of AI-driven threats and the looming shift to a post-quantum world. This session demonstrates how to move beyond reactive defense with a unified network security platform. Learn how AI-driven services and integrated management remove operational silos, accelerate real-time response, and future-proof your data ahead of the quantum horizon.

Highline 2

Yang Liang
Director of Product Marketing, Cortex

Emran Mazumder
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Cortex

Modern adversaries replace predictable playbooks with machine-generated attack chains that can breach traditional controls in seconds. By targeting agentic tools and AI agents, attackers leverage created blind spots that legacy defenses miss. To stop these threats, your prevention must be as autonomous as the adversary.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Neutralize stealthy attacks in real-time by identifying behavioral anomalies unique to automated threats.
- Expose attack chains by correlating cross-domain signals into a single high-priority incident.
- Secure the agentic ecosystem by closing blind spots in AI agents, browser extensions, and agentic tools

See how the combination of Cortex XDR and Koi Security breaks the kill chain of the most advanced AI-driven attacks.


 

Hudson Hub 1

John Yandziak
Manager, Domain Consulting

Nick Ohri
Domain Consultant II

Your cloud security must evolve from simply seeing risks to autonomously stopping them. As Frontier models like Mythos autonomously chain vulnerabilities in minutes, the manual handoffs between siloed teams create the very delays attackers exploit. To survive this shift, you must move to an agentic CNAPP that bridges the gap between code, cloud, and the SOC, transforming your defense from passive visibility into real-time action.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Unify security workflows by connecting AppSec and cloud security with real-time SOC telemetry. 
- Prevent risk before production by identifying and remediating issues before they ship.
- Move from visibility to action with autonomous agents that remediate risks in real-time.

See how an agentic CNAPP evolves your operating model to outpace AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation.

Pier Studio 1 & 2

Kevin Jacque
Sr Solution Engineer

The security landscape is rapidly changing due to the shrinking lifespan of public TLS certificates, moving from 200 days to an impending 47-day cycle. This transition makes manual renewal processes an operational liability, exponentially increasing the risk of business-impacting service outages as workloads are set to increase twelve-fold. Relying on calendar reminders is no longer a human-scale problem. Surviving this cryptographic reset requires a shift to fully automated, comprehensive visibility and lifecycle management. We introduce Next-Generation Trust Security (NGTS), a native capability of our network security platform. NGTS leverages network-native discovery and agentic automation to manage certificates, effectively shrinking the effort of remediating an expiring certificate from four hours to zero minutes. Gain visibility. Facilitate operational resilience. Build cryptographic agility.

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Break and Expo 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:29 PM - 4:00 PM
Hands-on Workshops

Highline 1

Vishal Mehta
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Saad Kahn
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

This workshop introduces a unified approach to securing modern, distributed environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure using Palo Alto Networks Hybrid Mesh. As environments scale and cryptographic requirements evolve, security teams must move from fragmented tools to continuous, real-time operations. Participants will gain practical insight into how a single platform can reduce risk and complexity while improving visibility and control. Learn how to simplify operations, enforce consistent threat prevention, and use AI-driven, agentic remediation to identify and respond to threats faster. The session will also cover how to manage shrinking certificate lifecycles and evolving encryption requirements, helping prevent outages and prepare for quantum-safe security through centralized management with Strata Cloud Manager.

Highline 2

Don Bennett
AIRS Solutions Specialist

Chris King
Sr Principal Product Manager

This hands-on workshop shows how to secure the AI enterprise from dynamic infrastructure to autonomous execution using Prisma AIRS 3.0 and the AI Runtime Firewall. Learn how to protect containerized and multicloud workloads with microperimeter-based controls and hyperscale enforcement, while discovering and governing AI agents. You will also learn to apply red teaming to test agent behavior, enforce real-time policies through the AI Gateway, and implement a unified security model that scales from infrastructure to agentic AI systems.

Pier Studio 1 & 2

Sam Flaster
IT Solutions Strategy Director

Privileged access is your highest-risk attack surface. This lab puts you in control of it.
Get hands-on with the CyberArk Identity Security Platform and work through how modern PAM actually operates: uncovering hidden privilege risks, enforcing Just-in-Time access, and eliminating standing credentials with Zero Standing Privileges — across infrastructure, cloud, and applications.
Walk away knowing how to reduce your attack surface from day one — and what a ZSP-first privileged access program looks like in practice.

Hudson Hub 1

Danny Milrad
Principal Product Marketing Manager, Unit 42

Machine-speed attacks have rewritten the crisis timeline. This interactive simulation puts you in the crosshairs of an AI-driven breach to deconstruct how modern adversaries operate. Learn to operationalize Unit 42 expertise to build a resilient program that’s always one step ahead of autonomous attacks.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Deconstruct the attack lifecycle using intelligence from thousands of real-world Unit 42 cases.
- Anticipate adversary moves by validating your controls against machine-scale tactics.
- Execute rapid response by applying intelligence-driven playbooks when seconds count.

Experience a high-stakes crisis simulation led by Unit 42 experts and walk away with a framework to neutralize the next generation of attacks.


 

Hudson Hub 1

Kevin McCall
Director, Cybersecurity Data & Tech RIsk | PwC

Frontier AI is revolutionizing vulnerability discovery by rapidly identifying critical software flaws and attack chains previously undetectable. But CISOs don't need to start over. They just need to act now with what they have. To help companies move from discover to continuous defense, PwC will show a three-step approach using Palo Alto's Unit 42 Frontier AI Defense:

Frontier AI exposure analysis
Threat-driven road-mapping
Cyber defense transformation

This solution can integrate seamlessly with existing security programs, providing CISOs a crucial window to outpace attackers before advanced AI capabilities become widely accessible. 

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Networking Reception 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

16K+

Global Attendees

300+

Global Sponsors

40+

Locations

Speakers

Tameka Alsop's Profile Picture
Tameka Alsop
CAO
Moody's Corporation
Akshay​ Batra​'s Profile Picture
Akshay​ Batra​
Principal Product Manager, Threat Detection and Response
IBM
Neil Boland's Profile Picture
Neil Boland
CISO, SVP Technology & Security
Major League Baseball
Kevin Ginestet's Profile Picture
Kevin Ginestet
Client Solutions Advisor
Optiv
Aaron McCray's Profile Picture
Aaron McCray
Field CISO
CDW
Atti Riazi's Profile Picture
Atti Riazi
CIO
The Hearst Corporation
Tim Somrah's Profile Picture
Tim Somrah
CISO
Major League Soccer
Katherine Wetmur's Profile Picture
Katherine Wetmur
CIO
Morgan Stanley
Daniel Campbell's Profile Picture
Daniel Campbell
President, North America Sales
Palo Alto Networks
Anar Desai's Profile Picture
Anar Desai
VP, Americas Channel Sales
Palo Alto Networks
KP Unnikrishnan (Unni)'s Profile Picture
KP Unnikrishnan (Unni)
SVP, NAM Marketing
Palo Alto Networks
Meerah Rajavel's Profile Picture
Meerah Rajavel
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Palo Alto Networks
Michelle Zeiser's Profile Picture
Michelle Zeiser
Director, Revenue Consultant
Palo Alto Networks

Location

Convene 30 Hudson Yards
New York, NY

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FAQs

How is Ignite on Tour different from Ignite?

Cyber adversaries are more innovative and effective than ever. The same disruptive technologies that are fueling digital transformation in the enterprise, such as AI/ML, cloud computing, and IoT, have changed the game for cybersecurity. Yesterday’s approaches just can’t keep up.

That’s why we’ve reimagined Ignite, our flagship user conference, into Ignite on Tour, a global road show that brings the best of Ignite to you. At Ignite on Tour, we will share the latest innovations, insights and strategies for cybersecurity in the AI era.

Ignite on Tour brings cybersecurity practitioners and decision-makers together for one exciting day packed with inspiring thought leadership keynotes, hands-on workshops and technical breakouts, and networking opportunities.

Ignite on Tour is a global road show, happening in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. To view our current tour schedule, please visit: https://register.paloaltonetworks.com/igniteontour.

Parking information to come. 

The venue is in close proximity to the Jacob Javits Convention Center and is easily accessible via Penn Station, New York Waterway, NYC Ferry, and the 7 train.

There is no charge to attend Ignite on Tour.

Yes, we will be hosting hands-on workshops at the event.

Yes, please provide your ISC2 number during registration. We will confirm your attendance by scanning your badge on the day of the event.