EVENT RECAP
HFTCON Q3 2025
Step Back: A Big-Picture View of Cybersecurity for Tomorrow
September 18, 2025
NYCES, 4 W 43rd St, NYC
Event Highlights
Keynote Presentation
Networking Moments
Panel Discussion
Sponsor Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight
Benjamin Saberin
Co-Emcee - AI Pro | Data Security & Compliance Expert
AJ Fried
Co-Emcee - Cloud Security & Infrastructure Specialist
Kimberly Bella
Board of Advisor @ MIT, & Senior Director @ Visa
John Brandt
Technical Lead
Michael Cafaro
CTO, Ladder Capital Finance LLC
Yaw Etse
Technology Specialist
Noah Fleiss
IT Manager at The Raine Group
Tia Hopkins
Chief Cyber Resilience Officer and Field CISO, eSentire
Bryan Hull
Cybersecurity Engineer, AbleTo Inc.
Johnny Lan
Head of Technology, Brevet Capital Management
Lorelei Martin
CCO, Starboard Value LP
AJ Mercer
Head of Infrastructure, HighVista Strategies
Naresh Singh
Partner and CTO, Lenox Advisors
Alex Urbahn
AI Strategy Lead, The Raine Group
Danny Weitzner
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Session Recap
10:00 AM
Roundtable: Modern Threats Vs Modern Cybersecurity Tools
11:00 AM
Why Compliance is Not Your Friend or Enemy, But a Tool You Can Use
12:00 PM
Lunch and Vibe Coding
2:00 PM
Zero Trust, They Said. But Trust AI, They Said
3:00 PM
Panel: AI and Data Security
7:00 PM
Keynote: Field Notes from Africa: Rethinking How We Champion AI in the Boardroom
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