Agenda
We look forward to hosting you at El Prado Hotel for an immersive day of learning, networking, and what’s driving the future of the web.
12:00 PM
Lunch: Birds of a Feather Discussion Tables
Join your peers for informal, security-focused discussions at dedicated tables during lunch
Breakouts
11:30 AM
Track 1
Delivering the biggest media moments in the world
Jamie Sherry, Staff Product Manager | Fastly
Jim Ketcham, VP of Software Engineering | Paramount Global
Dilip Singh, Sr. Director of Video Engineering | Fox Corporation
Track 2
End the CAPTCHA nightmare: A bold new approach to bot management
Brooks Cunningham, Staff Enterprise Architect | Fastly
James Santos, Site Reliability Engineer | Alaska Airlines
Darren Walsh, Site Reliability Engineer | Alaska Airlines
1:00 PM
Securing the Always-On Economy: PayNearMe on Fastly
Kip Compton, CEO | Fastly
Carol Hobson, CISO | PayNearMe (ex USAA, Wells Fargo, AmEx)
Securing the always-on economy requires a flexible platform built for resilience at global scale without compromising performance. Fastly CEO Kip Compton will outline our approach to security, from built-in resilience and layered defenses to deep threat insights. He’ll be joined by Carol Hobson, CISO of PayNearMe, a payments platform transforming the payment experience for non-ecommerce businesses and their customers. Carol will share how her team uses Fastly to secure their perimeter and how a common platform fosters collaboration between security and engineering teams, driving faster innovation.
1:30 PM
Architecting for Resilience and Security
Mike Shaver, VP of Engineering | Fastly
Join Mike as he takes a look under the hood of Fastly’s platform, highlighting how it’s architected for security and resilience at scale. He’ll dive into the layered protections built into our platform, including Adaptive Threat Engine and NLX, and show how they help Fastly defend against massive traffic surges and evolving threats. Operating one of the world’s largest global networks also gives Fastly unique visibility into bot activity, informing the findings Mike will share from our latest Threat Insights Report.
2:00 PM
Fastly Security in Action: Real-world Outcomes
Liam Mayron, Director of Product Management - Security Products | Fastly
Ben Trafton, VP of Performance Engineering, Yottaa
Yottaa, a web performance and optimization platform supporting more than 1,500 eCommerce brands, delivers secure, always-on shopping experiences for its customers’ end users. Ben Trafton from Yottaa will share how they leverage Fastly’s resilient platform and security portfolio to provide layers of protection. He’ll highlight how Yottaa partners with Fastly to drive security innovation while delivering measurable impact on their clients’ bottom line. Liam Mayron will wrap up with highlights from Fastly’s security roadmap.
Breakouts
1:30 PM
Track 1
Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story
Jesse Von Doom, Director of Product Management | Fastly
Jefferson Frazer, Director of Infrastructure | Shutterstock
Track 2
How The RealReal transformed application security with a developer-first approach
Kelly Shortridge, VP of Product Management | Fastly
Kevin Ponds, Director of Security Engineering | The RealReal
Alex Wang, Staff Security Engineer | The RealReal
2:30 PM
Break & networking
Breakouts
Track 1
Track 2
3:00 PM
Verizon DBIR: Insights and Trends
Alex Pinto, Associated Director - Threat Intelligence | Verizon Business
We’re excited to welcome guest speaker Alex Pinto to Xcelerate! For nearly 20 years, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has provided a clear view of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, helping CISOs and CIOs make evidence-based cases to defend security budgets. In this session, Alex will review what has changed—and what hasn’t—over recent years and share emerging trends ahead of the 2026 DBIR. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the latest attack patterns and behaviors shaping today’s cyber threats.
3:30 PM
Security Leaders Panel:
Challenges and Best Practices for Securing the AI Infrastructure
Fastly Moderator:
Fernando Medrano, Deputy CISO | Fastly
Guest Panelists:
Geoff Mattson, CEO, SecureAuth
Lars Kamp, Security Advisor at Datadog, (Founder & CEO of Fix Security)
Chris Karlof, VP of Cloud and Ecosystem Engineering, Mozilla
As companies scale their AI deployments, securing the underlying AI infrastructure— models, inference endpoints, APIs, and data pipelines—remains a growing challenge. Many CISOs are still figuring out how to protect this infrastructure from threats such data poisoning, adversarial attacks, API abuse, and other attacks that can disrupt AI services or expose sensitive data. This panel brings together security leaders to explore emerging risks, practical defense strategies, and governance approaches for safeguarding AI infrastructure while maintaining performance and availability.
Breakouts
Track 1
Track 2
4:15 PM
Networking Reception
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Location
El Prado Hotel, 520 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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