Ignite on Tour

Chicago

Convene Willis Tower | Chicago, IL
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 9:00 AM CT

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 Chicago 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
10:00 AM - 10:03 AM
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM
Welcome to Ignite on Tour Chicago

Speaker Image

BJ Jenkins

President

Speaker Image

Tanya Shastri Shastri

SVP, Product Management - NetSec

10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Partner Session
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Customer Session

Speaker Image

Anar Desai

VP, Americas Channel Sales

11:30 AM - 11:33 AM
Lunch and Expo 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Breakout Sessions

Yang Liang 
Director, Product Marketing, Cortex

Sharon Maydar 
VP, Unit 42 Managed Services

Muddled Libra (also known as Scattered Spider) is a sophisticated cybercriminal group that bypasses legacy defenses with fluid tactics, social engineering, and credential theft. Join this session to learn how Cortex XDR proactively defends against their most advanced attacks. We will show how Cortex XDR breaks the kill chain by monitoring for abnormal behavior across endpoints, networks, and identities, helping you stop threat actors before they can compromise your environment.

Sachin Thatte
Domain Consultant 2

AI, cloud adoption, and a distributed workforce are transforming how enterprises operate, creating new challenges for securing users, applications, and data everywhere. Traditional point solutions can’t keep up with today’s scale and speed in the AI era. This session will explore how Prisma SASE empowers organizations to stop evasive AI threats, secure modern work globally, protect data, and automate operations and management — enabling secure access for every user, to every application, from any location, while building the foundation for a modern AI-ready enterprise.

Chris King
Sr Principal Product Manager 

Hitendar Sethi 
Principal Product Marketing Manager - AI

AI adoption is transforming industries, yet security often lags, creating vulnerabilities across the AI lifecycle. Learn how Prisma AIRS secures AI development and protects against critical threats like prompt injection, model exfiltration, and runtime threats. We will show you how you can safely embrace AI innovation without compromising your company’s data or models.

Kasey Cross
Director, Product Marketing, Cortex

Peter Havens
Principal, Product Marketing, Cortex

The autonomous SOC is no longer just an aspiration—advances in AI have made it possible. In this session, we’ll reveal five keys to building the autonomous SOC with Cortex XSIAM. See how unifying all your data, analytics, automation, XDR, and AI into a single platform transforms security operations. Experience agentic AI in action with a fast-paced demo, and learn how AI-driven playbooks accelerate detection, triage, investigation, and response. You’ll also see why human expertise remains essential to guide and validate outcomes—and the skills you’ll need as SOC operations evolve.

Discover the future of network security with a platform engineered for modern challenges like the quantum revolution, multicloud, and AI. This session shares our vision and best practices for creating a unified, AI-driven, and future-ready security posture. Learn how to simplify operations, strengthen defenses, and achieve quantum readiness with continuous risk assessment and automated security, from every device to every cloud.

Justin Kapahi
Director, Domain Consulting

Today's distributed workforce relies heavily on browsers, creating a significant security gap as 95% of organizations report browser-originated security incidents. This session will demonstrate how Prisma Browser secures this critical workspace. Learn to enable secure work on any device in minutes, prevent the leak of data-in-use, eliminate blind spots in encrypted traffic, and stop advanced threats. Powered by Palo Alto Network's security, it blocks 30.9 billion attacks daily, protecting your organization's most vulnerable access point.

Danny Milrad
Principal, Unit 42 

Michael Spisak
Technical Managing Director, Unit 42

Step into an interactive crisis simulation led by Unit 42’s experts. You will go face-to-face with a modern, AI-driven attacker and deconstruct the full attack lifecycle, based on intelligence from thousands of real-world cases. Learn to anticipate adversary moves, validate your defenses, and execute a rapid, intelligence-driven response when seconds count. Move beyond theory and discover how to operationalize expert guidance to build an adaptive, resilient security program that is always one step ahead.

Bulent Teksoz
Director, Domain Consulting

Larry Irvin
RVP, Commercial

The separation between SecOps and Cloud is a legacy we can no longer afford. The future of cloud security isn't just about building a better CNAPP; it's about a unified vision. In this session, we’ll challenge the traditional separation of cloud security responsibilities and show you how to create a single, adaptive security ecosystem. This is the new era of cloud security: an end-to-end defense that predicts, adapts, and responds with machine speed and human insight, protecting your enterprise from code to cloud to SOC.

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Break and Expo 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Hands-on Workshops

Kelly Feltes
Domain Consultant 2

Stephen Gordon
Senior Domain Consultant

When it takes 145 hours to resolve a cloud alert and an attack can unfold in just 25 minutes, breaches become almost inevitable. In this workshop, we’ll show you how a modern CNAPP goes beyond compliance checks and vulnerability management to play a critical role in the SecOps ecosystem.

You’ll see how natively integrating CNAPP with SOC tools creates a continuous feedback loop that accelerates detection and response. We’ll demonstrate how this integration delivers a unified view of risk across the enterprise, enabling teams to investigate and shut down threats faster.

Emran Mazumder
Sr Technical Marketing Manager

Brandon Barton
Domain Consultant 2

Staying ahead of today's sophisticated threats requires  moving beyond the limits of traditional, human-centered SOCs.

Join our technical workshop to see how Cortex XSIAM, the world's leading AI-driven SecOps platform, transforms security operations with advanced AI and automation. You will learn how to investigate and respond to cases in record time, speed up workflows with automation, and modernize your SOC to outpace adversaries.

Imran Bashir
Sr Director, Technical Marketing Engineering 

Raj Patil
Director, Technical Marketing Engineering

This workshop will introduce participants to a unified approach for securing multi-cloud and AI transformation with Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls—the industry’s first automated multi-cloud security fabric designed to protect every workload. Participants will gain practical knowledge and a clear understanding of how a single platform can reduce risk and complexity while accelerating innovation. Learn how to simplify operations and enforce consistent threat prevention across your entire cloud estate through centralized management with Strata Cloud Manager.

Sean Morgan
Sr Director, Technical Marketing Engineering

This workshop will introduce participants to a unified approach for securing AI development with Prisma AIRS - the world's most comprehensive AI security platform designed to protect the entire AI ecosystem — apps, agents, models, and data.
Participants will gain practical knowledge and a clear understanding of how a single platform can reduce risk and cost while accelerating innovation.
Learn how to secure applications against novel AI-specific attacks like prompt injections, insecure outputs, and sensitive data loss.

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

16K+

Global Attendees

300+

Global Sponsors

40+

Locations

Speakers

Anar Desai's Profile Picture
Anar Desai
VP, Americas Channel Sales
Palo Alto Networks
Tanya Shastri Shastri's Profile Picture
Tanya Shastri Shastri
SVP, Product Management - NetSec
Palo Alto Networks
BJ Jenkins's Profile Picture
BJ Jenkins
President
Palo Alto Networks
Add empty div here to hide this black box

Location

Convene Willis Tower
Chicago, IL

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.

Paid parking is available at the following nearby parking garages.

211 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60606

230 S LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60604

217 S Wells St, Chicago, IL 60604

How do I access Convene?

Convene is located on the 3rd Floor of Willis Tower. We recommend entering the venue from the 233 S Wacker main lobby. From this entrance you will go up the stairs to the 2nd Floor mezzanine and take a right towards the Willis Tower security desk. Past security you will see a drop down sign for Convene next to a large stairwell that leads to the 3rd Floor Meetings location.

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.