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Trust in the AI Age

Tackle hard questions together: what to adopt, how to govern it, and how to make trust business critical.

The GRC Collective

Sharpen your edge, trade hard-won lessons, and shape what good GRC looks like next.

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8:00am - 9:00am PT
Floor 4

Registration and Breakfast

Nov 10
No items found.
9:00am - 10:30am PT
Partner training session 1 of 4
Coastal Hub North

Trust Center Mastery: Turning Your Compliance Into a Sales Asset

About the session

Build and publish a Trust Center live in this session, configuring branding, document access, and automated NDA gating, so you leave equipped to help mid-market and upmarket clients turn their compliance into a proactive sales and security tool instead of a static page.

Nov 10

Jaquez Hodo

Program Manager, Downmarket Education, Vanta
9:00am - 10:30am PT
Partner training session 2 of 4
Vista Studio East

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Building a Scalable Vendor Review Program

About the session

Set up a real vendor review workflow in Vanta—importing vendors, applying risk tiers, and launching an automated assessment—so you can help downmarket and mid-market clients replace fragmented, email-driven vendor reviews with a structured TPRM program that doesn't require a dedicated team to run.

Nov 10

Shannon DeLange

Sr. Manager, Customer Education, Vanta
9:00am - 10:30am PT
Partner training session 3 of 4
Vista Studio West

Scaling Security Operations: Access Governance, Workspaces and Adaptive Scoping

About the session

Configure workspaces, scoping rules, and access reviews against a real org structure during the session, so you leave able to help enterprise clients map Vanta to how their business actually operates—connecting the right people, systems, and business units so security scales without adding operational overhead.

Nov 10

Emily Lanter

Program Manager, Vanta

Kareem Mathias

Program Manager, GRC Education, Vanta
9:00am - 10:30am PT
Partner training session 4 of 4
Coastal Hub South

Workshop: Integrations Mastery and the Vanta MCP

About the session

Connect to the Vanta MCP and build working agentic workflows during the session—querying failing tests, triaging remediation, and pushing fixes to Jira—so you leave able to help upmarket and enterprise clients close integration gaps, automate engineering remediation, and unlock agentic compliance workflows in tools like Claude Code and Cursor.

Nov 10

Jeralyn Abbate

Program Manager, Technical Education, Vanta

Riya Sanjay

Senior Solutions Engineer, Vanta
10:45am - 12:15pm PT
Partner training session 1 of 4
Coastal Hub North

Trust Center Mastery: Turning Your Compliance Into a Sales Asset

About the session

Build and publish a Trust Center live in this session, configuring branding, document access, and automated NDA gating, so you leave equipped to help mid-market and upmarket clients turn their compliance into a proactive sales and security tool instead of a static page.

Nov 10

Jaquez Hodo

Program Manager, Downmarket Education, Vanta
10:45am - 12:15pm PT
Partner training session 2 of 4
Vista Studio East

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Building a Scalable Vendor Review Program

About the session

Set up a real vendor review workflow in Vanta—importing vendors, applying risk tiers, and launching an automated assessment—so you can help downmarket and mid-market clients replace fragmented, email-driven vendor reviews with a structured TPRM program that doesn't require a dedicated team to run.

Nov 10

Shannon DeLange

Sr. Manager, Customer Education, Vanta
10:45am - 12:15pm PT
Partner training session 3 of 4
Vista Studio West

Scaling Security Operations: Access Governance, Workspaces and Adaptive Scoping

About the session

Configure workspaces, scoping rules, and access reviews against a real org structure during the session, so you leave able to help enterprise clients map Vanta to how their business actually operates—connecting the right people, systems, and business units so security scales without adding operational overhead.

Nov 10

Emily Lanter

Program Manager, Vanta

Kareem Mathias

Program Manager, GRC Education, Vanta
10:45am - 12:15pm PT
Partner training session 4 of 4
Coastal Hub South

Workshop: Integrations Mastery and the Vanta MCP

About the session

Connect to the Vanta MCP and build working agentic workflows during the session—querying failing tests, triaging remediation, and pushing fixes to Jira—so you leave able to help upmarket and enterprise clients close integration gaps, automate engineering remediation, and unlock agentic compliance workflows in tools like Claude Code and Cursor.

Nov 10

Jeralyn Abbate

Program Manager, Technical Education, Vanta

Riya Sanjay

Senior Solutions Engineer, Vanta
12:15pm - 1:15pm PT
Floor 4

Lunch

Nov 10
No items found.
1:15pm - 2:00pm PT
Coastal Hub North

Opening Keynotes

About the session

Vanta leadership opens the day with the state of the partnership—where we're investing, what's new for partners, and what it means for your business—so you walk into every session after with the bigger picture in hand.

Nov 10

Christina Cacioppo

CEO, Vanta

Bill Fitzgerald

VP, Global Channel & Alliances, Vanta
2:00pm - 2:30pm PT
Coastal Hub North

Putting Your Partnership into Action

About the session

Join us for the official launch of Vanta's new Partner Program, including the investments we're making in the infrastructure and support behind it, so you're the first to know what's changing and what it means for your business.

Nov 10

Fazila Malik

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Vanta
2:45pm - 3:30pm PT
Coastal Hub North

Product Roadmap

About the session

An inside look at our product direction and what it means for partners.

Nov 10

Boris Logvinsky

VP, Product, Vanta

David Shackelford

VP, Product, Vanta
3:30pm - 4:10pm PT
Coastal Hub North

Executive Fireside Chats

About the session

Candid conversations with Vanta's executive team—ask about the partner program, the product roadmap, or where things are headed next.

Nov 10

Christina Cacioppo

CEO, Vanta

Sarah Scharf

CMO, Vanta

Julie Martin

VP of Sales, America, Vanta

Kelly Bray

SVP, Global Sales

Bill Fitzgerald

VP, Global Channel & Alliances, Vanta
4:10pm - 4:20pm PT
Coastal Hub North

Closing Remarks

About the session

Vanta leadership closes out the day with final thoughts and what's next for the partnership, sending you off with the big picture in hand.

Nov 10

Bill Fitzgerald

VP, Global Channel & Alliances, Vanta
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT
Floor 4

Networking and Happy Hour

About the session

Wind down after a full day of sessions with drinks and light bites, connecting with fellow partners and the Vanta team as the partner summit wraps.

Nov 10
No items found.
9:00am - 9:30am PT
Floor 4

Registration and Breakfast

Nov 11
No items found.
9:30am - 11:30am PT
Training session 1 of 4
Vista Studio West

Trust Center Mastery: Turning Your Compliance Into a Sales Asset

About the session

Build and publish your Trust Center live in this session, configuring branding, document access, and automated NDA gating so you leave with a working page that accelerates security reviews instead of stalling them.

Nov 11

Jaquez Hodo

Program Manager, Downmarket Education, Vanta
9:30am - 11:30am PT
Training session 2 of 4
Vista Studio East

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Building a Scalable Vendor Review Program

About the session

Set up a real vendor review workflow in your own Vanta instance—importing vendors, applying risk tiers, and launching an automated assessment—to replace email-chasing with a repeatable program no dedicated team is required to run.

Nov 11

Shannon DeLange

Sr. Manager, Customer Education, Vanta
9:30am - 11:30am PT
Training session 3 of 4
Coastal Hub North

Scaling Security Operations: Access Governance, Workspaces and Adaptive Scoping

About the session

Configure workspaces, scoping rules, and access reviews against your actual org structure during the session, so you walk out with Vanta mapped to how your business really operates rather than a generic default.

Nov 11

Emily Lanter

Program Manager, Vanta

Kareem Mathias

Program Manager, GRC Education, Vanta
9:30am - 11:30am PT
Training session 4 of 4
Coastal Hub South

Workshop: Integrations Mastery and the Vanta MCP

About the session

Connect to Vanta MCP and build working agentic workflows during the session—query failing tests, triage remediation, and push fixes to Jira—so compliance runs inside your engineering tooling by the time you leave.

Nov 11

Jeralyn Abbate

Program Manager, Technical Education, Vanta

Riya Sanjay

Senior Solutions Engineer, Vanta
11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Floor 4

Lunch

Nov 11
No items found.
11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Floor 4

Support Central

About the session

Make the most of your VantaCon experience with a visit to Support Central, at the Vanta Demo. Connect with our Technical Support Engineers for personalized answers, practical tips, and guidance tailored to how you use Vanta.

Nov 11
No items found.
12:30pm - 2:30pm PT
Training session 1 of 4
Vista Studio West

Trust Center Mastery: Turning Your Compliance Into a Sales Asset

About the session

Build and publish your Trust Center live in this session, configuring branding, document access, and automated NDA gating so you leave with a working page that accelerates security reviews instead of stalling them.

Nov 11

Jaquez Hodo

Program Manager, Downmarket Education, Vanta
12:30pm - 2:30pm PT
Training session 2 of 4
Vista Studio East

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Building a Scalable Vendor Review Program

About the session

Set up a real vendor review workflow in your own Vanta instance—importing vendors, applying risk tiers, and launching an automated assessment—to replace email-chasing with a repeatable program no dedicated team is required to run.

Nov 11

Shannon DeLange

Sr. Manager, Customer Education, Vanta
12:30pm - 2:30pm PT
Training session 3 of 4
Coastal Hub North

Scaling Security Operations: Access Governance, Workspaces and Adaptive Scoping

About the session

Configure workspaces, scoping rules, and access reviews against your actual org structure during the session, so you walk out with Vanta mapped to how your business really operates rather than a generic default.

Nov 11

Emily Lanter

Program Manager, Vanta

Kareem Mathias

Program Manager, GRC Education, Vanta
12:30pm - 2:30pm PT
Training session 4 of 4
Coastal Hub South

Workshop: Integrations Mastery and the Vanta MCP

About the session

Connect to Vanta MCP and build working agentic workflows during the session—query failing tests, triage remediation, and push fixes to Jira—so compliance runs inside your engineering tooling by the time you leave.

Nov 11

Jeralyn Abbate

Program Manager, Technical Education, Vanta

Riya Sanjay

Senior Solutions Engineer, Vanta
2:30pm - 3:00pm PT
Floor 4

Support Central

About the session

Make the most of your VantaCon experience with a visit to Support Central (at the Vanta Demo Bar). Connect with our Technical Support Engineers for personalized answers, practical tips, and guidance tailored to how you use Vanta.

Nov 11
No items found.
5:00pm - 7:00pm PT
Floors 4 & 5

Kickoff to VantaCon!

About the session

Join us for the official kickoff reception — grab your badge, enjoy food and drinks, and start networking before the conference officially begins tomorrow!

Nov 11
No items found.
8:00am – 9:00am PT
Floor 4 & 5

Registration and Breakfast

Nov 12
No items found.
9:00am–10:00am PT
Pacific Hall

Product Keynote

Nov 12

Christina Cacioppo

CEO, Vanta

Jeremy Epling

CPO, Vanta

Eric Freeman

CISO, Writer
10:00am - 10:30am PT
Pacific Hall

The Tabletop Live

About the session

Part game, part masterclass. Watch two top security leaders make on-the-spot calls in a high-stakes tabletop exercise centered on an AI governance incident. As injects evolve and tradeoffs sharpen, you’ll get a front-row seat to how they think under pressure.

Nov 12

Tom Brandl

CISO, Calm

Tom Holland

Executive Director, JPMC

Khush Kashyap

Senior Director, GRC, Vanta
10:40am - 11:10am PT
Breakout sessions 1 of 3
Pacific Hall

AI Governance Playbook: What Leading Companies Are Getting Right

Trust in the AI Age
About the session

Everyone is writing an AI governance policy. Far fewer have one that actually works. Two practitioners who've built AI governance programs from scratch share the five decisions that made the biggest difference: what they'd do again, what they'd skip, and where they got it wrong the first time. Bring your questions; most of the session is yours.

Nov 12
Trust in the AI Age

Stephan Germain

Lead AI Security Engineer, Aledade

Simran Kaur

Staff GRC, Crusoe

Christian Marek

Sr. Director, Product , Vanta
10:40am - 11:10am PT
Breakout sessions 2 of 3
Coastal Hub South

The 100 Smartest People in GRC Walk Into a Room

The GRC Collective
About the session

The best insight at any conference usually happens in the hallway, not on stage. This session moves it into the room. A moderator-guided discussion turns the audience into the panel, surfacing how peers are actually solving the problems everyone is quietly wrestling with. Come with a question you haven't been able to answer — you'll likely leave with three ways others have solved it.

Nov 12
The GRC Collective

Connie Chen

GRC Manager, Decagon

Paige Lambert

Director of Cybersecurity, Plexus

Tushar Badlani

Security Customer Trust Manager, Figma

Allyson Kuegel

Product GRC SME, Vanta
10:40am - 11:50am PT
Breakout sessions 3 of 3
Coastal Hub North

Vanta + Lovable Hackathon: Solve a GRC Pain Point

Vanta, Hands-On
About the session

Most GRC problems get talked about at conferences. Here, you'll build a solution to one. Ayoub from Lovable and Justin from Vanta open with the GRC engineering problems worth solving right now, then attendees break into groups of 3–6 to tackle one of three universal pain points using Vanta's MCP, Lovable, or whatever else you reach for. No engineering background required, just a willingness to build. Space limited to 75 attendees.

Nov 12
Vanta, Hands-On

Ayoub Fandi

GRC Engineer, Lovable

Justin Pagano

Sr. Director, GRC Engineering, Vanta
11:20am - 11:50am PT
Breakout sessions 1 of 2
Pacific Hall

The Great AI Governance Debate

Trust in the AI Age
About the session

Nobody agrees on what AI governance means yet, and that's raising big questions. Do you need AI to govern AI? Is it a new discipline or just governance with a new name? Is the bigger risk your employees or your vendors? These questions are drawing lines in the sand across the security and compliance community. Two sharp voices take sides in a series of rapid-fire debates, and you vote on every one. Come ready to pick a side.

Nov 12
Trust in the AI Age

Gabriel Hubert

Co-founder & CEO, Dust

Jack Levy

CISO & CIO, Amplitude

Kevin Abbott

Field CISO, Vanta
11:20am - 11:50am PT
Breakout sessions 2 of 2
Coastal Hub South

What's Your Secret Sauce? How the Best GRC Programs Differentiate GRC Professionals

The GRC Collective
About the session

Every GRC program passes the audit. Only some become something the business genuinely relies on. Three GRC leaders pull back the curtain on the decisions, habits, and unconventional moves that transformed their programs and their careers. Less theory, more what they actually did differently.

Nov 12
The GRC Collective

Todd Sheeler

Senior Director, Risk and Compliance, Snyk

Josh Fleming

Director, Risk Advisory & AI Services, Echelon Risk + Cyber

Steven Asifo

Senior Director of Cybersecurity Risk, Yahoo, Inc.

Khush Kashyap

Senior Director, GRC, Vanta
12:00pm - 1:45pm PT
Floor 4 & 5

Lunch

Nov 12
No items found.
1:45pm - 2:15pm PT
Pacific Hall

The Puzzle Room at VantaCon

About the session

Shake off the post-lunch lull with David Kwong — magician, mentalist, and New York Times crossword constructor. Expect sleight of hand, wordplay, and a few puzzles you'll be solving together, whether you meant to or not.

Nov 12

David Kwong

Celebrity Mentalist, TED Speaker and Netflix Host
2:25pm - 2:55pm PT
Breakout sessions 1 of 3
Pacific Hall

Machine-Speed Exploits, Vulnerabilities, and the Future of AI Risk

Trust in the AI Age
About the session

AI risk conversations tend to swing between hype and hand-waving. This fireside chat cuts through both, with practitioners discussing where AI risk is genuinely heading — from novel vulnerability discovery to failure modes that don't map to any existing control framework. The focus is practical: what GRC teams should start building now to stay ahead of risks that haven't fully arrived yet.

Nov 12
Trust in the AI Age

Upasana Tripathi

Engineering Leader - Security, Replit

Arthur Stromquist

Security & Compliance Manager, Langchain

Dongting Yu

Security Engineer, Clay

Kolby Dauler

Head of Customer Trust, Anthropic

Iccha Sethi

SVP Engineering, Vanta
2:25pm - 2:55pm PT
Breakout sessions 2 of 3
Coastal Hub South

Risk Without a Roadmap

The GRC Collective
About the session

Some of the biggest risks facing your company don't have a framework, a control mapping, or a precedent to point to. Seasoned risk practitioners share how they make defensible decisions in that gap — how they scope the unknown, document their reasoning, and hold the line when leadership pushes back. Short, practical playbooks followed by open Q&A.

Nov 12
The GRC Collective

Heidi Pili

Senior Director, Information Security, ShipBob

Pierre Malbrough

Executive Security Advisor, AWS

Faisal Khan

Senior Manager, GRC SME, Vanta
2:25pm - 2:55pm PT
Breakout sessions 3 of 3
Coastal Hub North

Hackathon Showcase: Live Demos, Real Problems, One Winner

Vanta, Hands-On
About the session

Teams at the Vanta + Lovable Hackathon took on some of GRC’s toughest problems: automating remediation, quantifying risk, mapping supply chain risk and catching control drift. Now the top teams demo what they built, live. Justin from Vanta and Ayoub from Lovable question each team, score the builds and name the winner. You’ll leave knowing how to build something like it in your own Vanta instance.

Nov 12
Vanta, Hands-On

Ayoub Fandi

GRC Engineer, Lovable

Justin Pagano

Sr. Director, GRC Engineering, Vanta
3:05pm - 3:35pm PT
Breakout sessions 1 of 3
Pacific Hall

The Value of Trust and How to Build it

Trust in the AI Age
About the session

In a market where every company claims to be AI-powered, product differentiation gets copied in a quarter. Trust doesn't. This session makes the case that the companies winning enterprise deals aren't the ones with the best models — they're the ones whose customers believe them. A practitioner walks through how to build trust as a durable competitive advantage rather than a cost center.

Nov 12
Trust in the AI Age

Chuck Kesler

CISO, Pendo

Brian Fulmer

Senior Director of Information Technology, Golden State Warriors

Kevin Abbott

Field CISO, Vanta
3:05pm - 3:35pm PT
Breakout sessions 2 of 3
Coastal Hub South

The GRC Career in 2030: What's Coming and How to Get There

The GRC Collective
About the session

The GRC role is being rewritten in real time by AI, automation, and rising executive expectations. Hiring managers and senior practitioners discuss where the job is heading, which skills will separate good from great, and what to start building now. If you're thinking about your next move — or the next five years — this is the session to sit in on.

Nov 12
The GRC Collective

Mandy Matthew

Senior Security Engineering Manager, GRC, Duolingo

Kenneth Moras

Security Engineer, Cursor

Karen Boctor

Security Manager, NerdWallet

Matt Cooper

Staff GRC Program Manager, Vanta
3:05pm - 3:35pm PT
Breakout sessions 3 of 3
Coastal Hub North

How Vanta’s MCP Unlocks Efficiency for AI Forward Companies

Vanta, Hands-On
About the session

What happens when a GRC team gets programmatic access to their own compliance data? A Vanta customer walks through an application they built on the MCP: why they built it, how it came together, and the measurable impact on their controls and their team's time. A candid look at what's possible when GRC starts building instead of just buying.

Nov 12
Vanta, Hands-On

Calvin Ly

GRC Manager, CodeRabbit

Malvika Nagpal

Group PM, AI, Vanta
3:35pm - 4:00pm PT
Floor 4 & 5

Afternoon Break

About the session

Grab a coffee, recharge, and get ready — because the closing keynote is coming up next, and you won't want to miss it.

Nov 12
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4:00pm - 5:00pm PT
Pacific Hall

Closing Keynote

Nov 12

Adam Savage

Host, Scientist, and Educator; Known for MythBusters, YouTube
5:00pm - 7:00pm PT
Floor 4 & 5

Toast to VantaCon 2026!

About the session

The sessions are done, but the night isn't over. Join us for one last round of drinks, food, and conversation before we all head our separate ways. Trade contact info, swap takeaways from the day, and celebrate a great conference well spent.

Nov 12
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