CYBERHACKCON 2026

Registration & Coffee Break

Check-in at the registration desk, collect your attendee badges and conference materials, and network over morning coffee.

Opening Speech

Welcome address by the organizing committee, introducing the tracks, speaker roster, and key cybersecurity themes for CyberHackCon 2026.

Ilkin Javadov CEO at @CyberHackCon / Organizer

Welcome Keynote: National Cyber Security & Defense

Opening remarks on the strategic state of national cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, and the critical role of incident response coordination.

Tural Mammadov Former CISO & Deputy Head at SCISSS / Head of CERT.GOV.AZ

Signal in the Noise

Security teams today are drowning in alerts, logs, and false positives, while real threats slip through the cracks. This session looks at why traditional detection approaches generate so much noise, how attackers exploit alert fatigue to stay hidden, and what it takes to build detection practices that surface the signals that actually matter.

Erdem Ocal Domain Consultant at Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Warfare: The Era of AI Cyber War

A keynote briefing on how artificial intelligence is reshaping cyber conflict, from AI-generated exploits and autonomous attack tooling to the strategic defenses organizations must build for the next era of cyber warfare.

Shahmeer Amir CTO at Veiliux & CEO at Speeqr

Making Next-Gen SOCs Available: Why the AI Era Demands a New Vision

As attackers adopt AI, traditional SOC models struggle to keep pace. This session makes the case for a new vision of the security operations center, built for the speed, scale, and automation the AI era demands.

Rising Standards: The Compliance Playbook from Audit to Secure Development

A practical playbook for turning rising regulatory and industry standards into real security, moving from audit-driven checklists to compliance embedded in secure development.

Fuad Malikov Head of Information Security at SmartIT

Evasion in Depth: Bypassing Modern EDRs via Custom Malware & Design Flaws

Rahul Vashisht explores advanced AV/EDR evasion techniques, exploiting design limitations in security controls, and executing custom malware payloads without triggering behavioral telemetry.

Rahul Vashisht Offensive Security Red Team Manager at NBSP

AI-Speed Threat Response & Network Access Control

Presented in partnership with iiTD. Ronald Pool (Cribl) asks whether your technology and teams can match the speed of the Agent State when responding to AI-based threats, while Maciej Salamoński (NACVIEW) shows how to regain full control over network access without rebuilding your infrastructure.

Ronald Pool Senior Solution Engineer at Cribl

Maciej Salamoński Business Development Manager at NACVIEW

M-Trends 2026

Drawing on frontline incident response and threat intelligence data, this briefing unpacks the key findings of the M-Trends 2026 report: how attacker dwell time, tactics, and targeting are evolving, and what defenders should prioritize based on a year of real-world breach investigations.

Robert Feeney Consulting Manager at Google EMEA

From Zero Day Discovery to Verified Fix - AI Native Software Vulnerability Management

This session explores how AI-native platforms are transforming the vulnerability management lifecycle, from discovering zero-day flaws to validating exploitability and producing verified fixes.

Ahmet Ünal Aksoy Sales Director at AISLE

Intelligence Gathering for Corporates in the Darknet

This briefing covers CTI fundamentals, darknet and deep web environments, and collection sources, alongside threat actor profiling, combining darknet monitoring with predictive intelligence to give corporates a clearer view of emerging threats.

Kobe Shwartz Head of CTI at Signify / Founder, Underdark.ai

One Attack, Four Control Points: How Softprom Builds Defence with Greycortex, ImmuniWeb, Netwitness, Rapid7, and Symantec by Broadcom

A walkthrough of how a single attack can be met at four distinct control points, and how Softprom layers Greycortex, ImmuniWeb, Netwitness, Rapid7, and Symantec by Broadcom into a cohesive defense strategy.

Samir Mammadov Business Development Manager at Softprom

★ PREMIUM LUNCH & NETWORKING HOUR ★

A catered gourmet lunch served at The Ritz-Carlton, Baku. Take this time to network with speakers, sponsors, and fellow cybersecurity leaders from the region.

Welcome Back & Networking

A short window to settle back in after lunch and continue networking with speakers, sponsors, and fellow attendees before afternoon sessions resume.

Your Browser Already Logged Me In: Hijacking Sessions After MFA and Passkeys

Strong authentication does not always mean a secure session. This session explores how attackers can hijack authenticated browser sessions after MFA or passkeys have already done their job. Through a live, controlled demonstration, the talk will show how session replay works, why traditional authentication controls may not stop it, and how defenders can detect and respond to session theft using modern identity and security controls.

Maria Mehwish Security Researcher, Identity & Session Security

Securing What's Next: AI, Zero Trust, and the Future of Cyber Risk

Drawing on 25+ years of enterprise and government security leadership across EMEA, this session explores how AI adoption is reshaping the threat landscape, why Zero Trust has become foundational to secure cloud transformation, and how organizations can translate emerging AI-driven risks into practical, actionable security strategy.

Melih Kirkgoz Field CTO, South EMEA at Fortinet

From Fingerprint to Finding: Building an Autonomous Offensive Agent

A builder's account of an autonomous offensive agent developed over four months and 326 versions against real bug-bounty programs — the fingerprint, hypothesis, test, finding pipeline, the engineering fixes that made it survive contact with live targets, and the failure modes that never make it into demos.

Himanshu Sharma Security Researcher, Autonomous Offensive Security

Recon to Compromise: Mapping the External Attack Surface

This session follows the adversary’s journey from reconnaissance to compromise. It demonstrates how attackers discover publicly exposed assets, identify weaknesses, correlate leaked credentials and vulnerabilities, and build attack paths toward critical business systems. Participants will learn how External Attack Surface Management, threat intelligence and vulnerability-led penetration testing can be combined to continuously identify, prioritize and reduce external cyber exposure before it develops into a breach.

Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri Head of Cyber Defense and Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited (HBL)

Securing Users Across the Modern Workspace

As work spreads across email, browsers, devices, and remote access channels, the attack surface for the modern workforce keeps expanding. This session looks at how to deliver consistent, consolidated protection across the entire hybrid workspace.

Onur Ozyazicioglu Workspace Security Sales Manager, EEMEA at Check Point

The Psychology of Cyber Threat Perception: Why Our Minds Are the First Attack Surface

A briefing on the human dimension of cybersecurity, exploring how psychology, governance, and strategic decision-making shape digital resilience, and why the human mind is often the first attack surface.

Safina Amir Entrepreneur & Strategic Advisor

☕ AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK ☕

A short break to recharge, grab a coffee, and network with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors.

Speaker Announcement Pending

An elite technical briefing to be announced. A leading security researcher will present their latest findings on offensive security, threat intelligence, or vulnerability research.

To Be Announced Invited Expert