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🎤 This page lists confirmed speaking engagements and a book-signing appearance scheduled for early 2026, spanning universities, public libraries, conventions, and major cybersecurity conferences. Included are talks at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (Waterloo) and the Université de Montréal, a combined talk and signing at the Chicago Public Library, and appearances at Capricon 46, the Munich Cybersecurity Conference, Tech Live: Cybersecurity, the Ross Anderson Lecture at Cambridge, and RSAC. Dates and times are provided where available; some speaking slots remain TBD and the list is maintained on the page.

🔒 CrowdTour 2026 is CrowdStrike’s global roadshow focused on securing the AI era, bringing executives, practitioners, architects, and innovators together across 60+ cities. Attendees will learn to counter AI-accelerated threats, transform SOCs with agentic automation, and govern AI across the enterprise. Sessions include live demos, hands-on training, customer stories, and guidance on using the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to protect data, agents, identities, and models.

🎤 This post lists Bruce Schneier’s confirmed speaking engagements through March 2026, with dates and locations for public talks, a book signing, academic lectures, and industry appearances. Notable entries include a public talk and signing at the Chicago Public Library on February 5, Capricon 44 in Chicago (February 5–8), the Munich Cybersecurity Conference on February 12, Tech Live: Cybersecurity in New York on March 11, the Ross Anderson Lecture at Cambridge on March 19, and RSAC 2026 in San Francisco on March 25. Some speaking times remain TBD and the list is maintained on the page.

🏆 Check Point's Infinity Global Services (IGS) concluded its inaugural Cyber Park World Championship, organized with community partner CheckMates and training specialist Cympire. Hundreds of participants worldwide competed in realistic cyber ranges, demonstrating technical mastery, incident response skills, and effective teamwork under pressure. The event showcased hands-on cyber simulations within IGS training programs and crowned the first global winners, reinforcing Check Point's commitment to upskilling defenders and strengthening the security workforce.

🔒 The Cortex Cloud team at Palo Alto Networks is hosting a technical webinar that dissects three recent cloud investigations and demonstrates practical defenses. Speakers will reveal the mechanics of AWS identity misconfigurations, techniques attackers use to hide malicious artifacts by mimicking AI model naming, and how overprivileged Kubernetes entities are abused. The session emphasizes Code-to-Cloud detection, runtime intelligence, and audit-log analysis to close visibility gaps; register to attend the live deep dive.

🔑 Renee Guttmann and other senior cyber leaders explain when professionals need mentorship versus executive coaching. At a September ISSA LA meeting, Guttmann distinguished mentoring as a one-on-one transfer of real-world experience and coaching as focused work on skills like executive presence. Speakers pointed to formal programs, networking, and industry groups as primary sources for guidance. Together, mentors and coaches help bridge technical foundations and board-level business acumen.

🏆 The 2025 CSO 30 Awards celebrate cybersecurity leaders blending technology, culture and measurable impact. A panel of judges recognised achievements across categories such as AI and Digital Excellence, Rising Star, Diversity and Inclusion and CSO of the Year. Highlights include Greg Emmerson’s automation and canary tooling at Applegreen, Chris Bardell’s response advances at Royal Papworth Hospital, and Craig Hickmott’s human-first transformation at the British Heart Foundation. The programme emphasises workforce development, responsible AI and organisational resilience.

🎟️ Registration is now live for Google Cloud Next, returning to Las Vegas April 22–24, 2026. Secure early bird pricing at $999 for a limited time and join a global community of builders, engineers, and business leaders for keynotes, deep-dive sessions, hands-on labs, demos, hackathons, and workshops. Expect practical AI-focused content and collaborative networking designed to deliver actionable insights and skills.

🔒 Community-driven package managers like Chocolatey and Winget speed deployments but can introduce supply-chain risks when packages are added or updated without rigorous vetting. Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1, will lead a free webinar that tests these tools in practice, highlights common weak points, and demonstrates pragmatic safeguards such as source pinning, allow-lists, and hash/signature verification. The session focuses on actionable steps to help teams prioritize updates using known-exploited vulnerability data (KEV) and to choose whether to rely on community repos, vendor sources, or a hybrid approach while maintaining operational velocity.

🏆 Hall of Fame award nominations are officially open, with a deadline of December 3. The CSO Hall of Fame, now in its eighth year, recognizes seasoned security leaders (10+ years in CSO, CISO or comparable roles) for lifetime contributions that have shaped information risk management. Inductees will be honored at the CSO Conference + Awards May 11–13, 2026 in Nashville, TN, where attendees can network across topics from AI to zero trust.

😴 At the Global Cyber Conference 2025 in Zurich, CISOs openly confronted a profession-wide exhaustion tied to escalating cyber risk. Tim Brown distilled the anxiety into five core threats: shrinking exploit windows, persistent adversaries, third-party risk, an AI arms race, and staff burnout. The Swiss Cyber Institute's vendor-free format created a trust-based forum where peers share IOCs, run joint table-tops and adopt risk-based patching and UEBA to speed response and restore resilience.

🎮 The UK government has launched the International Defence Esports Games (IDEG), touted as the world’s first military esports tournament, involving personnel from 40 allied nations. The three-day event at the National Gaming and Esports Arena in Sunderland on 9–11 October 2026 will combine live-streamed competitive matches with summits on cybersecurity, AI and drone operations. Officials say IDEG will sharpen cyber and digital skills, improve rapid decision-making and build allied partnerships.

🤖 Bruce Schneier highlights three new online events in his Prompt||GTFO series: sessions #4, #5, and #6. These recordings showcase practical and innovative uses of AI in cybersecurity, spanning demonstrations, research discussions, and operational insights. Schneier recommends them as well worth watching for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in AI's applications and risks. The events are available online for convenient viewing.

🔒 AWS re:Invent 2025 highlights an expanded Security and Identity track featuring more than 80 sessions across breakouts, workshops, chalk talks, and hands-on builders’ sessions. The program groups content into four practical themes — Securing and Leveraging AI, Architecting Security and Identity at scale, Building and scaling a Culture of Security, and Innovations in AWS Security — with real-world guidance and demos. Attendees can meet experts at the Security and AI Security kiosks in the expo hall and are encouraged to reserve limited-capacity hands-on sessions early to secure seats.

📅 Bruce Schneier lists his upcoming public and virtual speaking engagements through February 2026, including joint appearances with coauthor Nathan E. Sanders and solo presentations. Highlights include a talk on AI and Congress: Practical Steps to Govern and Prepare at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC (Nov 17, noon ET) and a campus presentation on Integrity and Trustworthy AI at North Hennepin Community College (Nov 21, 2:00 PM CT). Additional events are scheduled at the MIT Museum (Dec 1, 6:00 PM ET), a virtual City Lights event on Zoom (Dec 3, 6:00 PM PT), and a book signing at the Chicago Public Library (Feb 5, 2026). The schedule is maintained on his events page for updates and details.

🏆 The CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN and Hong Kong Awards Gala on November 12, 2025 validated the region's maturing technology leadership, drawing winners and teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. With a record 243 nominations, the program highlighted artificial intelligence as the defining strategic imperative reshaping operations, innovation and security. Judges prioritized clear, measurable business impact, recognizing cybersecurity leaders and collaborative public–private initiatives. Headline sponsor was AWS.

🔒 Join a free webinar from The Hacker News and Bitdefender to learn how Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) proactively closes exposures and reduces risk without adding operational burden. Experts will explain why traditional scans fall short, how automation and context reduce risks in real time, and how to safely test DASR in your environment. Register to save your seat.

🔐 On December 2 at 2:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will host a live webinar featuring Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1, on modern patch management strategies to reduce risk and speed remediation. The session, titled Winning the 2026 vulnerability race, explains how cloud-native, policy-driven tools can address limitations of legacy systems like WSUS. Attendees will learn prioritization techniques, visibility practices, and automation use cases to align patching with business impact.

🚀 At GitHub Universe 2025, Microsoft and GitHub presented a vision for agentic development that lets developers see, steer, and build across autonomous agents. The event introduced platform capabilities like Agent HQ, a prompt-first AI Toolkit for VS Code, and the GA release of Azure MCP Server. Announcements focused on enterprise-grade security, standards-based integration, and faster, more intuitive agent creation and governance.

🔍 At the Picus Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Summit, practitioners and CISOs argued security must move from annual compliance checks to continuous, evidence-driven validation. Speakers emphasized outcome-first testing, purple-team collaboration, and using AI as a curated intelligence relay rather than an improvisational engine. BAS was portrayed as the operational core of CTEM, converting missed detections into prioritized remediation and demonstrable protection for leadership.