Billington CyberSecurity Critical Infrastructure Summit

Name: Billington CyberSecurity Critical Infrastructure Summit
Start: 2026-11-16
End: 2026-11-18
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

Billington CyberSecurity Critical Infrastructure Summit takes place on 16–18 November 2026 at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Texas. B2DB lists 82 speakers and 29 sessions announced so far.

The Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit is an inaugural two-day event presented by Billington CyberSecurity, bringing together owner-operators, OT practitioners, state and local leaders, federal and military partners and solution providers across the energy, communications, transportation and water sectors. The programme includes a cross-sector tabletop exercise, case-study general sessions, lunch roundtables and an exhibit hall reception.

Key facts

Dates	16–18 November 2026 (upcoming)
Venue	Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Texas, United States of America
Series	Billington CyberSecurity Critical Infrastructure Summit
Speakers	82
Sessions	29
Stages	Hemisfair Ballroom CI, 214B, 214A, 214D, 214C, 206A
Sponsors	49
Official site	criticalinfrastructure.billingtoncybersummit.com/agenda

Speakers (82)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

Dan Lohrmann Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Public Sector, Presidio
Sean Connelly Executive Director, Global Zero Trust Strategy and Policy, Zscaler
Zakir Durumeric Co-Founder and CEO, Censys
Brian O'Donnell Vice President, Sales, Carahsoft
Brad Medairy President, National Cyber, Booz Allen Hamilton
Terry Burruss Principal, Deep Water Point & Associates
Matthew Shallbetter Director of Strategy, Civilian, Armis
Charnele Sanders Captain, Great Lakes Water Authority
Marco Ayala President, InfraGard Houston; National Sector Chief, Energy, InfraGard
Matt Hayden VP, Cyber and Emerging Threats, GDIT
JD Dulny Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Meredith Berger (Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy); Advisor, Deloitte
Michael Garcia Vice President, Monument Advocacy
Mike Bimonte Chief Technology Officer, SLGE, Armis
Nancy Rainosek Senior Consultant, Signature Advisory
Netta Squires President, Cybersecurity Strategy & Resilience, Center for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tom Guarente Vice President, Government Affairs, Armis
Danielle Jablanski Cybersecurity Consulting Program Lead – Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity, STV
Adam Ford Chief Technology Officer | State & Local Government and Education, Zscaler
Bart Lauwers Deputy Chief, Texas Cyber Command
Mark Lavin Director of Strategy and Planning, Texas Cyber Command
Tony Sauerhoff Executive Director and State of Texas Chief Information Officer, Texas Department of Information Resources
John Keefe Chief Strategy Officer, Texas Cyber Command
TJ White Chief, Texas Cyber Command
Kevin Morley Senior Manager - Federal Relations, American Water Works Association
William Loomis Risk & Resilience Advisor, Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Bobby Suber Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture - SLED, Elastic
Andrew Winternitz Principal Director for Defense Continuity and Mission Assurance, Defense
Chad Lloyd Director, Cybersecurity Architecture (Senior Edison Fellow), Schneider Electric
Joseph Alm Assistant Secretary, Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk & Resilience, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Emily Burdick Principal Deputy Director, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Jennifer Gallagher Group Director of Engineering, HNTB
Howard Ignal Senior Sales Engineering Manager, Axonius Federal Systems
Kyle McMillan Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Siemens
Major General Mariusz Chmielewski Commander, Poland Cyber Command
Austin Wenke Deputy Senior Liaison Officer, Australian Signals Directorate
Ben A. Director For Critical Infrastructure, UK NCSC
Ben Abramovitz Director of Cybersecurity, Maryland Public Service Commission
Bill McInnis VP, Public Sector, Ent
Brett Leatherman Assistant Director, Cyber Division, FBI
Brian Cook Technical Director, Sixteenth Air Force
Carmen Zapata Solutions Sr Director, GDIT
CheeYee “Chee” Tang Electronics Engineer, NCCoE, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chris Wolski Founder; Principal Consultant, Applied Security Convergence
Clinton Ladd Program Manager, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, Texas Department of Public Safety
COL Michal Golak Chief of the Cybersecurity Division, Poland Cyber Command
Cole Dutton Senior Cybersecurity Specialist, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Daryl Haegley Technical Director, DAF Cyber Resiliency Office for Control Systems, U.S. Department of the Air Force
David Ketchen Assistant General Manager, Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments
David Luna Principal Software Engineer, Elastic
Dawn Ward Praxis Engineering Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director, Solutions Architect, GDIT
Denise Anderson President & CEO, Health-ISAC
Deron McElroy Chief of Cybersecurity, Region 6, CISA
Doug Short Chief Information Officer, Trinity River Authority of Texas
Drew Bonser Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, ERCOT
Egon Rinderer SVP, Federal & Enterprise Growth, NinjaOne
Em Landon Vice Chief, Texas Cyber Command
Erin McGinnis Director of Statewide Cyber Collaboration & Preparedness, State of Kansas
Jay Gazlay Associate Director of Vulnerability Management, CISA, Department of Homeland Security
Josh Poster Intelligence & Analysis Operations Manager, Auto-ISAC
Katherine DiEmidio Vice President, Public Policy & Government Affairs, Dragos
Kathryn Condello Fellow, National Security / Emergency Preparedness, Lumen
Kevin Reifsteck Director for Cybersecurity Policy, Microsoft
Kimberly Guedry Regional Director, Region 6, CISA
Kristen Cassidy Associate Deputy Director for Operations, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Marc Sachs SVP & Chief Engineer, Center for Internet Security
Martina Ulmanová Deputy Director, Czech Republic
Matthew Springer Deputy Associate Director, Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, CISA
Merlin Namuth CISO, City of Denver
Mike George Assistant Chief, Homeland Security Operations, Homeland Security Division, Texas Department of Public Safety
Nathan Willigar State & Local Government and Education - Customer Security Officer, Microsoft
Nick Andersen Acting Director, CISA
Pat Manley Lead for Quantum Security, Cybersecurity Division, CISA
Rich Baich CISO, AT&T
Ryan Heritage Technology Vice President, GDIT
Scott Algeier Executive Director, Food and Ag-ISAC
Shawn Lonergan Ph.D., Principal, Cyber, Data, & Tech Risk, PwC US
Steve Casapulla Executive Assistant Director - Infrastructure Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Tim Kocher Deputy Assistant Secretary, Critical Infrastructure, US Department of Homeland Security
Tim McCracken Principal Cybersecurity Specialist, CISA
Veronica Dasher Director, Stakeholder Engagement, E-ISAC
Zachary "Zach" Tudor Associate Laboratory Director, National & Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory, Department of Energy

Most represented companies

CISA — 6 speakers
Texas Cyber Command — 5 speakers
GDIT — 4 speakers
Armis — 2 speakers
Booz Allen Hamilton — 2 speakers
Microsoft — 2 speakers
Poland Cyber Command — 2 speakers
Texas Department of Public Safety — 2 speakers
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) — 2 speakers
Zscaler — 2 speakers

Agenda (29 sessions)

Day 1 — Tuesday 17 November 2026

Opening Remarks 13:00–13:05 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI
Fireside: Are We Ready? The FBI's Role in Protecting America's Critical Infrastructure During International Conflict 13:05–13:30 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Brian O'Donnell, Brett Leatherman
General Session: Hidden in Plain Sight: Defending Against Persistent Nation-State Access 13:30–14:10 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Zakir Durumeric, David Ketchen, Martina Ulmanová, Rich Baich
General Session: (Case Study 1) Keeping the Lights On: Poland's Energy Sector Under Cyber Attack 14:10–14:50 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Terry Burruss, Major General Mariusz Chmielewski, COL Michal Golak
General Session: (Case Study 2) NotPetya in the Age of AI: Preparing for the Next Self-Propagating Cyber Catastrophe 15:05–15:45 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Adam Ford, Austin Wenke, Jay Gazlay, Katherine DiEmidio
Absolute Resilient CISO Workshop: Keeping Critical Services Running When Systems Fail at Scale (Limited Capacity; Advance Registration Required) 15:55–16:55 · 214B
Practical Session: From Exposure to Remediation: What It Actually Takes to Secure U.S. Water Systems 15:55–16:55 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI
TTX: Cyber Defense in an Era of Autonomous Threats: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Readiness and Resilience - Presented by Booz Allen (Limited Capacity; Advance Registration Required) 16:00–17:30 · 214A
Closing Remarks 16:55–17:00 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI

Day 2 — Wednesday 18 November 2026

Opening Remarks 08:00–08:10 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI
Fireside: Federal Cyber Leadership 08:10–08:35 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Brad Medairy, Nick Andersen
General Session: State of U.S. Cyber Infrastructure, 2027 08:35–09:10 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Matt Hayden, Joseph Alm, Denise Anderson, Deron McElroy +2 more
Breakout A3: How is AI Changing the Critical Infrastructure Threat? 09:55–10:45 · 214D — Michael Garcia, Tony Sauerhoff, Brian Cook, Dawn Ward +2 more
Breakout A1: Protecting the Connectivity Between Power and the Telecommunication Sectors 09:55–10:45 · 214B — Nancy Rainosek, William Loomis, Kathryn Condello, Tim Kocher +1 more
Breakout A2: Cyber-Informed Engineering: Securing the Interconnected Lifelines of Critical Infrastructure 09:55–10:45 · 214A — Marco Ayala, Ben A., Ben Abramovitz, Zachary "Zach" Tudor
Breakout A4: How to Think About Protecting Our Nation's Vital Supply Chain? 09:55–10:45 · 214C — Charnele Sanders, Bart Lauwers, Bobby Suber, Bill McInnis +2 more
Breakout B3: Ensuring Resilience: Cyber Risk, Critical Infrastructure, and the New Resilience Imperative 11:05–11:55 · 214D — Meredith Berger, Danielle Jablanski, John Keefe, Egon Rinderer +2 more
Breakout B1: Beyond Roads, Rails, and Runways: Transportation's Interdependence with America's Critical Infrastructure 11:05–11:55 · 214B — Sean Connelly, Jennifer Gallagher, CheeYee “Chee” Tang, Josh Poster
Breakout B4: Preparing Critical Infrastructure for the Quantum Era: Securing Interconnected Systems Before the Threat Arrives 11:05–11:55 · 214C — JD Dulny, Howard Ignal, Pat Manley
Breakout B2: Leveraging AI to Identify Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies 11:05–11:55 · 214A — Matthew Shallbetter, Major General Mariusz Chmielewski, Carmen Zapata, Tim McCracken
Innovation Roundtable: Building the AI-Enabled Critical Infrastructure SOC (Invitation-Only) 12:00–13:30 · 206A
Lifeline Resilience Workshop 12:10–12:40
Fireside: Safeguarding Texas Cybersecurity for the State’s Critical Infrastructure 13:40–14:10 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Mike Bimonte, Tony Sauerhoff, TJ White
Fireside: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in the Golden Age of Cyberspace 14:10–14:30 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Matt Hayden, Steve Casapulla
General Session: Building a Framework to Increase U.S. Critical Infrastructure Resiliency 14:30–15:00 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Tom Guarente, Mark Lavin, Doug Short, Kevin Reifsteck +1 more
General Session: Connecting Locals to the Bigger Picture: The Implications of Not Protecting the Entire Ecosystem 15:25–15:55 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Netta Squires, Cole Dutton, Drew Bonser, Erin McGinnis +1 more
General Session: One Ecosystem, One Defense: Strengthening Cyber Resilience Across Critical Infrastructure and Its Supply Chain 15:55–16:30 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Marco Ayala, Chad Lloyd, Kyle McMillan, Clinton Ladd +2 more
General Session: Roles and Accountability in Ensuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience 16:30–17:10 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI — Dan Lohrmann, Kevin Morley, Andrew Winternitz, Emily Burdick +2 more
Closing Remarks 17:10–17:20 · Hemisfair Ballroom CI

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