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Earn a Certificate of Completion, with select courses offering an optional Certificate of Proficiency.

Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall | Aug. 7 (1-day) | Aug. 8–9 (2-day) | Aug. 8–11 (4-day) | Aug. 10–11 (2-day)

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Beat the Breach: Defend, Respond, Survive - McKay Hardy & Wes Wagstaff - DCTLV2026 **1-day Course - Friday**

Trainer(s): McKay Hardy and Wes Wagstaff

Dates: August 7, 2026 1-day course

Time: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm 

Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center W221

Short Summary: Beat the Breach throws participants into a live, hostile enterprise compromise where nothing is scripted and outcomes depend entirely on team decisions. You'll hunt, contain, and coordinate through a real incident in motion-learning what actually breaks, what actually works, and why this feels nothing like any lab or training you've done before.

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Cyber & AI Policy Basics: What Every Organization Needs in Place - Pamela "Pam" Feld & Greg Goldberg - DCTLV2026 **1-day Course - Friday**

Trainer(s): Pamela "Pam" Feld & Greg Goldberg

Dates: August 7, 2026 Note: 1-day Course

Time: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm 

Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center W223

Short Summary: As organizations rapidly adopt AI while facing escalating cyber threats, leaders are increasingly exposed to operational, legal, and reputational risk. This class is designed for executives, IT leaders, and decision-makers who need practical guidance—not theory—on how to govern AI and cybersecurity responsibly. Participants will explore real-world Cyber incidents, AI Ethics and failures, and governance breakdowns, gaining clarity on executive accountability, regulatory expectations, and insurance realities. The session goes beyond awareness, equipping attendees with actionable frameworks, policy guidance, and incident response strategies they can immediately apply within their organizations. This interactive workshop includes live exercises, scenario-based discussions, ensuring attendees leave with defensible governance practices and a clear roadmap for reducing risk while enabling innovation. Led by a Certified IEEE Artificial Intelligence Ethics expert/Cybersecurity Consultant, and a Business Technology Attorney, this course blends AI ethics, cybersecurity, and legal insight into practical guidance that can save your organization thousands of dollars—and prevent costly mistakes—with just one smart, implementable tip.

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Digital Supply Chain Security: Software, Cryptography, AI, and Vendor Risk - Anant Shrivastava & Sunil Yadav - DCTLV2026 **1-day Course - Friday**

Trainer(s): Anant Shrivastava and Sunil Yadav

Dates: August 7, 2026 1-day course

Time: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center W224

Short Summary: This course takes practitioners inside real supply chain attack chains, from compromised packages to tampered upstream artifacts to abused third-party integrations, and teaches how to technically verify what upstream dependencies actually ship. Students will work hands-on with provenance verification, runtime detection, inherited risk analysis, and practical defense implementation to develop skills that go beyond policy documents and questionnaires.

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