Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) Most VB Conference attendees work in roles in which threat intelligence plays a vital part – whether tasked with collecting and generating threat intelligence data to share with others, or as consumers of that data, using it to assist them in fighting real-world threats.
Started in 2018, the Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) is a mini-summit within the VB Conference that acts as a forum bringing together industry analysts, commercial and academic researchers, network operators and software developers, to hone in on the specific challenges and successes of working in threat intelligence.
Since 2019, VB has partnered with the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) to co-host TIPS which, under CTA's curation, has become a popular and integral part of the VB conference.
The VB2026 Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit will take place on 15 October, with the theme of Collaboration in Action.
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Keynote: The next chapter Jiří Sejtko (Gen Digital) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Collaboration in action: turning shared threat intelligence into coordinated defence Tuna Dabak (SOCRadar) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | From signal to shield: rapid collaboration to defend critical infrastructure during crisis Madeline Sedgwick (Palo Alto Networks) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Wartime intelligence collection and collaboration Sergey Shykevich (Check Point) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Harmonizing AI agents and human analysts in CTI – are CTI agents friends or rivals to junior analysts? Takahiro Kakumaru (NEC) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Stairway to resilience: cybersecurity in good times, bad times, and everything between Selena Larson (Proofpoint), Jeannette Jarvis (Cyber Threat Alliance), Kathi Whitbey (Palo Alto Networks) & Jeanette Miller-Osborn (Dataminr) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | STIX in action: proposed industry collaboration on sharing DigSig Metadata Samir Mody (K7 Computing) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Defending (against) the human layer: IoBs in the real world Righard Zwienenberg (ESET), Kathi Whitbey (Palo Alto Networks), Samir Mody (K7 Computing) & Mienke (NCSC-NL) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | TBC (Europol - EC3) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ghosts in the chat: tracking GhostPairing from trusted message to linked-device takeover Michal Salat (Gen Digital) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | The art of fighting back Gabor Szappanos (Sophos) |