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.
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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.
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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 emerging as Southeast Asia’s hub for digital innovation and cybersecurity excellence. With a thriving tech ecosystem, strategic regional position, and rapidly expanding business landscape, the city serves as a gateway to opportunities across Asia and beyond.
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As cyber threats grow more complex and digital regulations evolve, organizations are doubling down on security and resilience. Backed by forward-thinking policies, a highly skilled tech workforce, and a strong culture of innovation, Manila stands at the forefront of the region’s cybersecurity movement — a place where experts collaborate to build a safer digital future.
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Join the momentum at the DiCyFor & AI Security Summit Manila 2026 — where global innovation meets regional leadership, and the next era of cybersecurity comes to life.
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
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
CYBERSECURITY FORECAST
Breakfast
Ideas
INDUSTRY ATTENDANCE
GOVERNMENT
Breakfast
Ideas
2026 SPEAKERS
Jed Chua
CISO
@ Asia United Bank​​​​​
Randy Sac
Director & Auditor
@ Healthcare Cybersecurity Technology Alliance (HCTA)
Efren Tercias
CTO
@ MicroPhase Corporation
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Clarence Pascua
Senior Security Engineer
@ Tenable
Derick Ohmar Adil
Head of AI and Privacy Governance
@ Globe Telecom
Marlon Sorongon
CISO
@ Maybank PH
Kris Trinidad
Chief Risk and Information Security Officer
@ Total Information Management Corporation
Samit Khattar
Founder
@ ERMIS Advisory
Robert Paguia
Division Chief and Data Protection Officer
@ Cybercrime Investigation & Coordinating Center (CICC)
Christopher Dio Chavez
Chief Cyber Security Researcher
@ CyberForensiq.AI
Mac Esmila
CISO
@ SM Investments Corporation (SMIC)
John Alarcon
Adjunct Professor
@ DLSU College of St. Benilde
Chin Kian Teck
Sales Engineer Manager, APAC
@ Promon
Gabriel Tuason
Head, Information Security @ Energy Development Corporation
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.
2026 Sponsors
Abnormal AI is the leading AI-native behavioral security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. Our anomaly detection engine leverages identity and context to analyze normal behavior and assess the risk of every cloud email event—detecting and stopping sophisticated, socially-engineered attacks that target your organization's most valuable cybersecurity asset: your people.
You can deploy Abnormal in minutes with an API integration for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and experience the value of the platform instantly. Additional protection from Abnormal is available for Slack, Workday, ServiceNow, Zoom, and multiple other cloud applications. Abnormal is currently trusted by thousands of organizations, including more than 25% of the Fortune 500, as it continues to redefine how cybersecurity works in the age of AI. Learn more at abnormal.ai.
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.
SailPoint (Nasdaq: SAIL) is defining the new era of adaptive identity security. In a world where non-human identities now significantly outnumber humans, our AI-powered platform unifies identity, security, and data intelligence to protect today’s enterprise from advanced identity-based threats. We deliver the identity solution that spans both the breadth of identities and the depth of context needed to drive real-time access with confidence. Built on principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our SailPoint platform transforms identity from a point of vulnerability into a powerful security advantage. Trusted by many of the world's leading organizations, SailPoint secures the enterprise with intelligent, autonomous identity security.
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