
The Cybersecurity Coalition and Cyber Threat Alliance hosted the annual CyberNextDC 2025 conference on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.
From weaponized AI to the fragility of our critical systems, these are the visionaries who live on the fault lines of the digital world. Hear their unfiltered takes on what’s coming—and whether we’re ready.
CVE, NVD, and vendor processes form the backbone of cyber defense—but today’s system is strained. Hear leaders debate how to close the gaps before adversaries exploit them.
Generative and Agentic AI tools are already improving cyber defenses through their use in cybersecurity technologies, but these tools can also help with cybersecurity’s non-technical aspects as well. AI tools have the potential to make compliance reporting easier, enable organizations to find unknown pools of personally identifiable information, and enhance policy development by identifying all the relevant statutes and regulations. This panel will explore the application of AI to the non-technical side of cybersecurity and how investments in these capabilities could generate significant improvements in an organization’s cyber posture. These activities may not be very flashy, but they will likely have a large ROI for those organizations that make the investment.
On this panel our experts will discuss how industry and government can work together to identify and mitigate exposures across critical infrastructure sectors.
Few things in the digital realm generate more myths than offensive cyber operations. From the Hollywood “no hack takes more than 30 seconds” to the assumption that “the government’s not doing anything,” these myths hinder our ability to make offensive cyber operations more scalable and effective. This panel will bust common myths and lay out options for making offensive cyber operations an even more effective tool.