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August 4, 2026   |   11 AM - 3 PM   |   Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

The Purple Book Community is back in Las Vegas for PBC Connect - Black Hat USA 2026, an exclusive gathering of security leaders, practitioners, and trusted partners. PBC Connect events bring together CISOs, AppSec, infrastructure security, product security, AI security, and cyber resilience leaders for high-value discussion, networking, and community-building.

This year's Black Hat gathering will focus on the future of AI security, vulnerability management, product security, and frontier AI risk, anchored by a featured fireside chat with Jason Clinton and Phil Venables on how security leaders should prepare for the risks from advanced AI capabilities.

Expect sharp conversations, meaningful networking, delicious lunch and drinks, happy hour with capture the flag event.

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Agenda

11:00 AM
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Doors Open
12:00 PM
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Lunch & Networking Hour
1:00 PM
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Fireside Chat: Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI
1:45 PM
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Networking Intermission
2:00 PM
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Panel: Operationalizing Security for Mythos-Class Capabilities
3:00 PM
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Capture the Flag with ArmorCode

Meet the Speakers

Phil Venables
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Partner Ballistic Ventures; ex CISO Google Cloud and Goldman Sachs
Jason Clinton
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Deputy CISO, Anthropic
Nathan Motyl
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SVP, Global Operations, AI, Architecture, & eCommerce, Solera
Kris Howitt
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Senior Manager, Information Security, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Karthik Swarnam
CSTO, ArmorCode; ex CISO Kroger, Transunion, DirectTV

Special thanks to our event sponsors

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