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Announcing VantaCon 2025: How AI is Rewriting Trust

Vanta unveils speaker lineup for its fourth annual GRC community conference in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vanta, the leading AI-powered trust management platform, today announced the speaker lineup for VantaCon, its fourth annual community conference on November 19 in San Francisco. To write the future of GRC in the age of AI, VantaCon will include CISOs, founders, security and product leaders and more from Anthropic, Snowflake, 1Password, Clay, Sierra, Golden State Warriors, Golden State Valkyries, Ramp, Duolingo and more.

VantaCon will feature product announcements, keynotes, fireside discussions and collaborative breakout sessions that bring together security and AI experts and the broader GRC community. The VantaCon mainstage includes:

  • Vanta Product Keynote
    • Introducing Vanta’s Agentic Trust Platform product vision presented by Christina Cacioppo, CEO; Jeremy Epling, Chief Product Officer; and innovators from across Vanta.
  • The Future of Trust in an AI world: A Conversation with Alex Stamos
    • Alex Stamos, CSO at Corridor, Professor at Stanford and Former Chief of Security at Facebook, joins Christina in a fireside conversation to discuss the interlock of AI and trust and what’s coming next.
  • From Hype to Trust: Governing AI in the Enterprise
    • CISOs sit at the intersection of the risks and rewards of AI with complexities that rise as organizations grow. The mainstage panel features leaders on the frontline of this environment Jacob DePriest, CISO/CIO, 1Password; Andrew Becherer, CISO, Sublime Security; Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic; and Jadee Hanson, CISO, Vanta.

In addition to the VantaCon mainstage, this year’s VantaCon will host over 20 speakers across three breakout categories of AI Beyond the Hype; Prove Program Impact and Scale Your Impact and Career:

AI Beyond the Hype

  • How to Build Trustworthy Agents
    • Akhila Chitiprolu, Head of Security GRC, Sierra
  • AI, Attackers, and the Future of GRC
    • Oege de Moor, Founder and CEO, XBOW
    • Jeremy Epling, CPO, Vanta
  • Trust: The New Enterprise Currency
    • Josh McKibben, Senior Director, Trust & Compliance, Snowflake
    • Adam Shnider, EVP, Assessment Services, Coalfire
    • Jadee Hanson, CISO, Vanta
  • AI Governance Can’t Wait: What Every Security Leader Should Do Now
    • Patrick Sullivan, VP of Strategy and Innovation, A-LIGN

Prove Program Impact

  • Show Me the ROI: CISOs Discuss What Trust is Really Worth
    • Jonathan Aluveaux, CISO, Ramp
    • Scott Bachand, CIO/CISO, Ro
    • Braden Pitts, CISO and SVP, Enterprise Technology, The MJ Companies
    • Khush Kashyap, Sr. Director, GRC, Subject Matter Expert, Vanta
  • Turning Trust into Your Home Court Advantage
    • Brian Fulmer, Senior Director, Information Technology, Golden State Warriors
    • Maria Valdehueza, Senior Vice President, Ticketing and Events, Golden State Valkyries
    • Scott Holden, CMO, Vanta
  • Quantifying the Counterfactual: Proving the Value of Prevention
    • Mandy Matthew, Lead Security Risk Program Manager, Duolingo
  • Risk to the Nth Degree: Turning Risk Management into Risk Intelligence
    • Fish Fisher, Team Lead, GRC, Ironclad

Scale Your Impact and Career

  • Turning Security Into Your Scaling Superpower
    • Dongting Yu, Security Engineer, Clay
    • Eno Reyes, CTO and Co-Founder,
Factory
    • Matt Hartley, Co-Founder & CPO, BreachRx
    • Akshaya Murali, Vice President, Product, Vanta
  • The Future Belongs to GRC Engineers: Take Your Career to the Next Level
    • Ayoub Fandi, GRC Engineering
  • Rethinking Third-Party Risk: Can We Finally Ditch the Questionnaires?
    • Chuck Kessler, CISO, Pendo
  • AI, Automation, and the Future of Your GRC Career
    • Tony English, CISO, WorkJam

Taking place on November 19 in San Francisco, VantaCon sponsors include A-LIGN, Agency, Amazon Web Services, BARR Advisory, Coalfire, Consilium Labs, EasyLlama, Insight Assurance, Johanson Group, Osano, Prescient Security, RISCPoint, Schellman, Sensiba, VioletX, Vouch, Workstreet and XBOW. For more information and to register for VantaCon, visit: https://www.vanta.com/vantacon.

About Vanta

Vanta is the leading AI-powered trust management platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust. Companies including Atlassian, Duolingo, Golden State Warriors, Icelandair, Ramp, and Synthesia rely on Vanta to build, maintain, and demonstrate their trust, all in a way that is real-time and transparent.

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