What’s Happening at InfoSec World 2025

For more than three decades, InfoSec World has united the global cybersecurity community to share insights, sharpen skills, and stay ahead of evolving threats. InfoSec World 2025 promises a forward-looking program October 27–29, 2025 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, with pre-event workshops Oct 25–26 and post-event workshops Oct 29–30.

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This year’s theme is The Great Cyber Race: the need for speed and agile innovation. With AI reshaping threats and defenses and compliance pressure mounting, the winners of the Great Cyber Race will out-learn and out-iterate. InfoSec World 2025 will equip security leaders, practitioners, and innovators with the skills, strategies, and perspectives to succeed in the new era.

A World-Class Lineup of Speakers

This year’s InfoSec World event will feature sessions delivered by 200+ speakers who represent a diverse array of backgrounds, including practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders. Keynotes include:

• Pascal Bornet — Award-winning AI & Automation expert, consultant, and speaker.
• Valerie Cofield — Executive Director, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT).
• Dr. Ron Ross — Dartmouth College Fellow and former NIST Fellow
• Cory Simpson — CEO, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)
• Alex Stamos — Chief Security Officer, Corridor
• Marene Allison — Cybersecurity Leader, former CISO, Johnson & Johnson
• Ryan Heritage — Major General (ret.), USMC, and former Director of Operations, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Cyber Command
• Morgan Adamski — Principal, US Cyber, Data & Technology Risk, Deputy Platform Leader, PwC
• Lynn Dohm — Executive Director, Women in CyberSecurity
• Nicole Ford — Vice President, Customer Security Officer, Microsoft
• Phyllis Sumner — Partner and Chief Privacy Officer, Data, Privacy, and Security Practice Leader, King & Spalding
• Nancy Morgan — CEO, Ellis Morgan Enterprises, Former US Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer

What’s New in 2025?

For this year's event, the InfoSec World team has focused on delivering deeper leadership programming, expanded hands-on workshops, and networking formats that turn hallway conversations into actionable takeaways. Expect immersive sessions on AI, supply chain, XDR, ransomware readiness, and the evolving CISO mandate—plus a refreshed expo experience designed for purposeful, high-signal conversations.  

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Built around eight imperatives, this year’s program will help participants:

• Advance your cyber career with new skills and credentials.

• Anticipate the threat landscape by decoding emerging adversaries.

• Elevate cyber leadership and execute with authority and vision

• Lead cyber as a business strategy and align cybersecurity with organizational priorities

• Modernize governance, risk, and compliance programs.

• Operationalize AI securely to enhance defenses.

• Secure the core infrastructure across hybrid environments.

• Protect the software supply chain and development pipelines.

Spotlight Summits & Tracks (New!)

This year’s InfoSec World will feature more focused deep dives, clearer paths by role and industry, and faster idea-to-action takeaways. Three new summits aim to deliver exactly that in three different focus areas:  

Summit Deep Dives

• AI Summit (Sun, Oct 26): A full-day program on secure AI adoption—from governance and law to adversarial threats, identity spoofing, and securing the AI stack. Expect spirited debates (“AI is just math…”) and highly tactical sessions on DevSecOps, confidential computing, and agentic AI risk.

• CISO Summit (Sun, Oct 26): Senior-leader benchmarks, executive sessions, and a SANS executive exercise—purpose-built for translating strategy to execution. Hear from national-level voices on speed, resilience, and leading through regulatory scrutiny.

• Women in Cyber Summit (Tue, Oct 28): A day of conversation and community featuring panels, leadership firesides, roundtables, and an evening reception—spotlighting the impact of women leaders and practical allyship across the industry.

Industry Guides (Session Maps by Vertical)

We’ve also mapped the program this year to help align to the priorities of Financial Services, Healthcare, Hospitality/Travel, Manufacturing, and Retail. These guides surface the can’t-miss sessions by industry vertical so your team knows which sessions will deliver the most relevant content for them.

Quick Hits: Big Ideas, Fast

Think of these as our version of a TED-style lightning track. In just a few minutes, speakers distill a single powerful idea—an applicable concept—backed by real-world evidence. It’s your rapid-fire path to new frameworks, mental models, and tools without the fluff.

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Not yet registered? Make sure you get registered today to join us in Lake Buena Vista this October and be part of the conversations shaping the future of cybersecurity. Register here: https://events.infosecworldusa.com/2025  

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