Agenda
5:15-6:15 p.m. Networking
6:15-7:30 p.m. Presentation
7:30-7:45 p.m. Q&A
8:00 p.m. Networking
Event Summary
Cybersecurity threats are growing as we start the new year, driven by the increasing value of digital IP and data, international competition and rising security tensions, more numerous potential attack surfaces, and increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques. Join us for a comprehensive look at cybersecurity threats in 2025 and what your company or organization can do to reduce exposure and mitigate risk and impact. Cybersecurity experts Tod Beardsley and Robert “Rsnake” Hansen return to the Austin Forum—together this time—and are joined by security expert Anastasia Uglova for a comprehensive conversation that will provide information, recommendations, and resources to help protect you in the year ahead.
Presenters
Tod Beardsley
Tod Beardsley was employed at CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the US government, as the Vulnerability Response Section Chief (DHS/CISA/CSD/VM/VRC Response, technically). He's also a founder and CNA point of contact for AHA!. He spends most of his time involved in vulnerability research and coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD). He has over 30 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT ops, security, software engineering, and management positions in large organizations such as Rapid7, 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Tod is a CVE Board member, has authored several research papers, and hosted the Security Nation podcast. He is also a Travis County Election Judge in Texas, and is an internationally-tolerated horror fiction expert.
Tod can be uniquely identified at https://github.com/todb, and recognized by his Gravatar.
Robert "RSnake" Hansen
Robert "RSnake" Hansen was the co-founder and CTO of Bit Discovery which was acquired by Tenable. In previous roles he has broken into the world’s largest organizations, including over 2,100 banks, credit card processors, flight control systems and supervisory control and data acquisitions (SCADA) systems. Robert is a frequent keynote speaker, a Managing Director of Grossman Ventures, host of the podcast “The RSnake Show", publishes "The RSnake Report" and is the author of "AI's Best Friend."
Anastasia Uglova
Anastasia Uglova is a leading voice in AI security, digital privacy, and agentic technology. As a Specialist Leader at Deloitte, she advises on securing AI systems and navigating AI governance and risk. She is the founder of Tethics & Chill, a community of founders, investors, and operators dedicated to building technology that enhances human agency, and host of The Privacy Podcast.
Her graduate thesis on human agency in technology introduced "agentic tech," a privacy-preserving framework that expands sovereignty, consent, and agency in digital spaces. She is an advisor at ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic technology, and a John Stuart Mill Fellow at the Mercatus Center.
Previously, she worked at NBC, NPR, the Cato Institute, the U.S. Senate, and in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya, bridging technical depth with cultural fluency and storytelling. She holds an M.S. in Information Security and Privacy from UT Austin and a B.A. from Cornell University.
Attendance Instructions
In-person
Join us at ACC Rio Grande: Building 3000 where you will be checked in at the front. Parking map here! Street parking is free after 6 pm.
In-person attendees, please join us from 5:15 to 6:15 for networking and food. We look forward to chatting with you face-to-face!
Virtual
Once you register via Ticketbud, you will receive the virtual link one day before the event.