ABOUT DICYFOR & AI SECURITY SUMMIT
As the cybersecurity landscape evolves at unprecedented speed—fueled by AI-driven threats and intelligent attack vectors—security and risk leaders must move beyond reactive defense. Today’s security organizations must act as proactive interceptors, capable of anticipating and mitigating risks to protect digital ecosystems and ensure enterprise resilience.
The DiCyFor & AI Security Summit is designed for security practitioners and risk leaders looking to elevate their approach to AI security and cyber risk management. Discover how to harness AI to enhance threat detection, accelerate response, and build agile, future-proof security strategies.
Join the summit to gain leading-edge insights, practical frameworks, and proven best practices you can take back to empower your team and strengthen your organization’s security posture.
WHY MANILA?
Manila is fast becoming Southeast Asia’s hotspot for digital innovation and cybersecurity leadership. With its vibrant tech scene, strategic location, and rapidly growing business ecosystem, the city connects you to opportunities across the region and beyond.
As cyber threats evolve and regulations shift, organizations are investing in stronger digital defenses. Manila’s forward-looking policies, tech-savvy talent, and commitment to innovation make it the place for cybersecurity professionals to collaborate, create, and drive secure digital growth.
Be part of the action at the DiCyFor & AI Security Summit in Manila — where global innovation meets regional leadership, and the future of cybersecurity comes alive.
Key Statistics from 2025
Job Titles
C-Levels
32%
Heads of Department
23%
Directors
21%
VP's
12%
Managers
7%
Others
5%
76%
DIRECTOR LEVEL OR ABOVE
82%
KEY DECISION MAKERS
96%
REQUEST TO RETURN
100%
SATISFIED WITH QUALITY OF ATTENDEES
DELEGATES
250
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20
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SPEAKERS
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
CYBERSECURITY FORECAST
Breakfast
Ideas
INDUSTRY ATTENDANCE
GOVERNMENT
Breakfast
Ideas
2025 SPEAKERS
Kathreen Palencia
Information Security Head
@ Air Asia
Francisco Castillo
SVP & CIO
@ Maynilad Water Services, inc
Ryan Babon
Division Chief, IND
@ Department of Economy,
Planning, and Development
Randy Sac
IT Group Head
@ Mount Grace Hospitals, Inc.
Abraham Quirimit
Head of Cybersecurity Operations Center
@ PSBank Official
Charmaine Valmonte
CISO
@ Aboitiz Equity Ventures
Jed Chua
CISO
@ Asia United Bank
John Alarcon
CISO & VP
@ PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies
Noel Perdigon
CISO
@ Insular Life Assurance
TOPICS AT A GLANCE
Cybersecurity & AI Security Leadership
With the current Cybersecurity & AI Security climate as aggressive as ever, leaders must navigate economic uncertainty, important technology decisions, staff shortages and an exponentially expanding attack surface. Learn how Cybersecurity & AI Security leaders can succeed in their roles in the face of these mission-critical challenges.
Cyber, AI & IT Risk Management
This session covers risks relevant to privacy, supply chains, Cybersecurity, and AI Security. Learn how to communicate value, correlate risk data, and leverage AI-driven insights to automate control monitoring and support informed decision-making for the right outcomes.
Infrastructure Security
Explore concepts such as practical zero trust projects, vendor and product consolidation, cybersecurity mesh, AI-driven security monitoring, and security infrastructure configuration management.
Application and Data Security
As AI and modern technologies reshape the digital landscape, security challenges grow. Learn the latest AI Security developments, practical solutions, and future-focused strategies for safeguarding data and applications.
Securing AI Systems
AI is transforming businesses—but with great power comes new vulnerabilities. This session explores the latest threats to AI systems, including model manipulation, data poisoning, and adversarial attacks. Learn practical strategies to secure AI pipelines, implement robust governance, and ensure that AI-driven decisions remain safe, transparent, and trustworthy.
Technical Insights for Security Practitioners
This session will share experience highlighting the hacker methods and security learnings and the elements necessary to respond. Learn from first-hand experience how to improve protection, detection, and response capabilities against these attacks.
2025 Sponsors
Reduce risk. Increase efficiency. Be sustainable . Blancco Technology Group, a carbon-neutral supplier, provides organizations with secure, compliant, and automated solutions that accelerate the transition to the circular economy. With more than 25 years of responding to customer needs and 40+ patented or patent-pending ideas, Blancco is the industry standard in data erasure and mobile lifecycle solutions. Our dedication to technological innovation empowers top-tier enterprises, IT asset disposition (ITAD) vendors, and mobile industry stakeholders to protect end-of-life data against unauthorized access, comply with data protection requirements, extend the useable life of IT assets, accelerate operations, and enhance the mobile customer experience. Read more about us at www.blancco.com.
Cato provides the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform. Cato creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. Using Cato, businesses
easily replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with a modern, zero-trust SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack to secure and optimize their global hybrid
workforce and mission-critical applications and data on premises and in the cloud. With Cato, any organization can reap the full benefits of digital transformation and move at the speed of business. CatoNetworks.com @CatoNetworks.
Promon is a Norwegian firm specialising in App Hardening, with our solutions focusing largely on Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP). The company works with a variety of global Tier 1 clients, counting customers in industries such as finance, gaming, health and the public sector. Promon’s technology originates from the internationally recognized research environments at SINTEF and the University of Oslo. Promon’s patented deep protection technology Promon SHIELDTM, has protected apps and applications used by more than1Billion users. Promon AS is a Norwegian limited company registered in 2006, with offices in Hong Kong, Germany, the UK, the US and India.
Tenable is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for approximately 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com.
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The Grand Hyatt Manila
Address: 8th Avenue corner 35th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Manila
Phone: +63 2 8838 1234
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