Connect to the future

The Trust Forward Summit by Cloudflare is an exclusive side event at RSA Conference 2026, connecting cybersecurity leaders, AI innovators, and technology executives to tackle the most pressing challenges in digital trust and AI-driven innovation.

As we reach an inflection point driven by the rise of Generative AI and the move toward autonomous digital ecosystems, "business as usual" is no longer an option. Cloudflare's Trust Forward Summit brings together a curated group of CIOs, CISOs, and technology visionaries to explore a "trust-first" approach. An approach that doesn't just react to threats, but anticipates them through innovation, governance, and resilient architecture.

Attendees will explore how to accelerate AI safely, secure AI systems, and harness AI for cybersecurity advantage, leaving with practical strategies, forward-thinking insights, and peer connections.

Featured Keynote Speaker: Roger Spitz

Founder & CEO, Techistential

Roger Spitz is a top-ranked futurist and global authority on artificial intelligence and systemic disruption. President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute, he is an advisor to the World Economic Forum. His expertise is grounded in his tenure as Global Head of Technology M&A (BNP Paribas) and in venture capital (Berkeley SkyDeck).

A bestselling author of five books, including Disrupt With Impact, Roger developed the widely adopted AAA Framework (Antifragility, Anticipatory, Agility). Having lived in 10 cities, he regularly headlines global summits, helping organizations gain clarity and resilience in an increasingly unpredictable world.

"The trade-off between efficiency and resiliency is a trade-off between fragile and antifragile... This asymmetry means that the fragile suffers a disproportionate amount of downside from shocks." - Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact

Roger will be signing copies of his book, Disrupt With Impact, at the event. Join us on the day-of to get your signed copy!

Meet our speakers

 

CEO & Co-founder
Milestone
CISO
SolarWinds
Global Managing Partner Cybersecurity Services
IBM
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Bayer
AVP of Global Cyber Advocacy
World Wide Technology
Chief Strategy Officer
Halcyon
CEO
Adversarial Risk Management
Founder & CEO
Techistential
CEO, Joe Sullivan Security & Ukraine Friends
Joe Sullivan Security LLC
CISO
HALO Branded Solutions
Managing Director
BNP Paribas
Principal Consultant
Kyber Technology
Chief Security Officer
Cloudflare
Chief Strategy Officer
Cloudflare
Chief Cyber Solutions Officer
Cloudflare
VP, Global Industries & Solutions
Cloudflare
Field CIO
Cloudflare
Field CISO, Financial Services
Cloudflare
Field CISO, Southeast
Cloudflare

Agenda at a glance

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

8:00 AM
 
8:30 AM
 
8:40 AM

The acceleration of autonomous technologies and systemic disruptions is eroding the assumption that risk can be predicted or controlled. For the C-suite, this necessitates a shift from planning for a single future to leading through deep uncertainty. Success requires cultivating foresight, preserving optionality, and building organizations that sense change, adapt, and maintain autonomic resilience. Anticipatory leaders who embrace uncertainty as a structural condition, rather than a temporary disruption, can move beyond legacy assumptions to achieve systemic agility.

9:00 AM

AI has moved from experimentation to execution. This panel explores how leading organizations are treating AI governance as a core business and trust mandate—defining clear decision rights, managing real prompt- and model-level risk, and aligning legal, security, and product leaders without slowing innovation.

9:30 AM

As AI drives more machine-to-machine decisions, it also creates new liabilities for CISOs, from unclear accountability to unintended actions at machine speed. This session looks at the practical side of governing and securing these environments, including protecting APIs, managing machine identities, and putting guardrails in place so autonomous systems operate within clear risk boundaries. The focus is on what leaders can do now to reduce exposure while still enabling innovation and ensuring compliance.

9:55 AM

Supply-chain risk now extends far beyond contracted vendors into invisible, fast-shifting dependencies across SaaS, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI services. As regulators tighten expectations, periodic audits and paper attestations are proving inadequate for risks that are inherited dynamically at runtime. This panel examines why traditional assurance models are failing and what it takes to establish continuous, evidence-based assurance in deeply interconnected digital ecosystems.

10:25 AM

Threat intelligence is evolving from reactive indicators to strategic foresight. This session focuses on how leading organizations connect technical signals to adversary intent, geopolitical dynamics, and industry risk—turning intelligence into a decision-making asset that informs executives and boards, not just security teams.

10:50 AM

Technical debt is no longer a back-office issue—it is a compounding source of security and resilience risk. This panel examines where legacy systems create hidden exposure, how modernization reduces systemic risk, and how leaders sequence change to strengthen resilience without introducing new fragility.

11:20 AM

This closing conversation synthesizes the day’s insights into a forward-looking view of trust in autonomous, high-speed environments. Speakers will explore how trust becomes architectural, governance is embedded directly into systems, and resilience is designed to operate at machine speed—reshaping how leaders think about control, accountability, and scale.

12:00 PM
 

    

Location

SPIN

690 Folsom, Suite #100
San Francisco, CA 94107

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