In March 2023 Zscaler held its inaugural Public Sector Summit, bringing together over 500 government and industry leaders to separate zero trust fact from fiction. The exchange last year was enlightening and energizing! We captured highlights from the event in an eBook, The Power of Zero Trust, including the challenges agencies are facing, some of our best practices for developing a robust zero trust architecture, and a use case demonstrating how zero trust can integrate into every part of your agency’s operations.

As we prepare for the 2024 Public Sector Summit on April 4th, I am excited that this year’s line up will be bigger and even more engaging. With more than 22 guest speakers from across government, education and private sector, the audience will hear top of mind topics and discuss current threats and challenges facing agencies and the supporting community such as AI, funding zero trust initiatives, safeguarding critical infrastructure, SD-WAN and much more.

Distinguished Speakers

The power of the public sector community is in the forward-thinking individuals across agencies who have dedicated their careers to transforming our nation securely. We’ve built a program for the day with a stellar lineup of speakers including:

Dr. Kelly Fletcher, CIO Department of State, Luis Coronado, CIO State Consular Affairs, and Eric Hysen, CIO/Chief AI Officer Department of Homeland Security will join Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry during his keynote.
Chris DeRusha, Federal CISO and Deputy National Cyber Director, OMB.
Panel on resources to fuel government modernization with Jessie Posilkin, Technical Lead at Technology Modernization Fund, Maria Roat of MA Consulting and Eric Mill of GSA.
Suneel Cherukuri, CISO, DC Government
Zach Benz, Sr. Mgr for Cyber Operations/DCISO with Sandia National Laboratories to talk about AI/ML.
Panel discussing zero trust implementations with Gerald Caron, CIO, ITA/Commerce, Dan Han, CISO of VCU, Bob Costello, CISO of CISA and Dr. Gregory Edwards, CISO of FEMA.
DoD leaders including Winston Beauchamp, DCISO with the Department of Air Force and General Les Call, Director of Zero Trust portfolio management office.
Systems Integrator panel with Justin DePalmo, CISO and VP of IT at GDIT and Bob Ritchie, SVP & CTO at SAIC.
Nelson Sims, Cyber Architect, DC Water and Dustin Glover, Chief Cyber Officer, State of Louisiana to discuss securing critical infrastructure.

From Revolution to Evolution

Our CEO and founder, Jay Chaudhry, will keynote the event setting the stage with his perspective on the zero trust revolution that began over a decade ago, and how that has now surpassed the tipping point in adoption thanks to the dedication of IT leaders across government.. He will be joined on stage by Dr. Fletcher, Luis Coronado and Eric Hysen and followed by many more innovators within the public sector speaking to a number of current cybersecurity issues including:

Using AI to combat AI-based threats
OMB’s perspective on the state of zero trust
Unlocking resources to continue modernizing
How agency leaders are taking the next steps in their zero trust implementations
New innovations in predictive cybersecurity to identify and resolve vulnerabilities

View the full agenda here to see the range of topics to be addressed during this year’s summit.

Hands-On Zero Trust

In addition to the informative sessions, we will also have hands-on solution stations this year for attendees to dive deeper into areas including:

From Zero Access to Zero Trust in 10 Minutes: A joint solution with our integration partners AWS, Okta, and CrowdStrike
Your Network Transformed: Zero trust for cloud and branch
TheatLabz: Global Internet threat insights from Zscaler's research team
CMMC: Empowered by zero trust
Customer Success Center
Zscaler Digital Experience

We’re excited to welcome the public sector community in-person for a full day of learning, networking and experiences from the most forward-thinking Government IT leaders. Register today to learn more on how you can Simply, Secure and Transform your agency.

Space is limited for this live event so we’ll be in touch to confirm your invitation. There is no charge for the event.