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// CRACCON.26 / EDITION 04 STATUS: BOARDING

The Nexus
for Cyber
Innovation &
Opportunity.

// TEASER 2025 → 2026 OCT 24 - 25
Recap · '25

Two days. 100+ Experts. One signal.

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01 / About Us

Build the future of security - don't just watch it.

This year, we're tackling the cybersecurity industry's biggest challenges head-on, from closing the skills gap to creating real-world hiring pathways. Whether you're here for networking or hands-on training, you'll gain mastery in AI integration, Red Team, SOC, Exposure Management and more. Don’t just watch the future of security, build it with us at CRACCON 2026.
06
Tracks
60+
Speakers
500+
Practitioners
48h
Networking
02 / Tracks

Six lanes. One mission.

AI-powered security & Adversarial ML

14 SESSIONSDAY 1+2

Exposure Mgmt, Cloud & IAM

9 SESSIONSDAY 1

Threat Research & Digital Forensics

11 SESSIONSDAY 2

OffSec, AppSec & Supply Chain

8 SESSIONSDAY 1+2

Cyber-Physical Threats

10 SESSIONSDAY 1

Career & Skills

12 SESSIONSDAY 1+2
// The Experience

Eight ways to get your hands dirty.

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03 / Speakers

Voices shaping the next decade of defense.

// SPEAKER · Keynote
Rear Admiral Sanjay Sachdeva
Director General
Defence Cyber Agency
● KEYNOTE Defence Cyber
// SPEAKER · Panel
Dr. Gaurav Gupta
Director
MeitY, Government of India
● PanelFollowing the Digital Footprint
//Chief Guest
Ashutosh Bahuguna
Scientist/Additional Director
CERT-IN
//Chief Guest
Ashwini Pandey
DPO
Punjab National Bank
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Nidhish Bhatnagar
Professor of Practice, NFSU
Tech Talk Defense Tech
//Panelist
Rajan Arora
CISO
GeM
//Panelist
Rohit Sharma
CISO
Siemens Energy India Ltd
//Tech Talk
Santosh Khadsare
Chief Executive Officer
iDEFENCE Innovations Pvt Ltd
//Panelist
Anand Handa
Chief Strategy Officer
C3iHub, IIT Kanpur
// SPEAKER · Panel
Col Anurag Saksena (Retd)
TBA
TBA
● Panel Cybersecurity Skill Gap
// SPEAKER · Panel
Wg Cdr Sonika Tanwar (Retd.)
Founder & CEO
DigiTruce.ai
● PanelSecuring Critical Infrastructure
// SPEAKER · Panel
Dr. Milan Patnaik
Advisor
Whizhack
● PanelSecuring Critical Infrastructure
// SPEAKER · Panel
Vishwameet Chawla
Director
Microsoft
● PanelCybersecurity Skill Gap
// SPEAKER · Panel
Dr. Pankaj Sharma
Assistant Professor
NFSU
● PanelFollowing the Digital Footprint
//Chief Guest
Rajesh Dangi
DGM (IT)
PUNJAB & SIND BANK
//Panelist
Sumit Chouhan
CISO
Trojan Hunt India LLP
// SPEAKER · Training
Kevin Cardwell
President
Cyber2Lab & CybastionTech
● Training SOC, CSIRT and deception
// SPEAKER · Panel
Dr. K. P. Singh Parmar
Deputy Director (Technical) & Ex HoD – CAMPS (NPTI)
National Power Training Institute (NPTI), Ministry of Power, Govt. of India
● Panel Cyber readiness metrics for security teams
// SPEAKER · Panel
Achintya Gupta
TBA
NIC
● Panel Visibility, Exposure Mgmt & Unified Controls
// SPEAKER · Panel
Ashish Adhikari
TBA
Microsoft
● Panel Visibility, Exposure Mgmt & Unified Controls
// SPEAKER · Panel
Ravinder Arora
Global CISO and DPO
Tenarai
● Panel Security risks on AI adoption in BFSI
// SPEAKER · Panel
Col Sanjeev Relia (RETD)
Advisor, Security and Privacy
Itellisecure
● Panel Security risks on AI adoption in BFSI
// SPEAKER · Panelist
Balkishan Chauhan
Regional SE - India, Tenable
Panelist Exposure Management
// SPEAKER · Inaugural Address
Swati Laxmi
Founder
CRAC Learning, Defhawk
● Inaugural Address SKILLS GAP
// SPEAKER · TECH TALK
Deepak Gandotra
Cryptography Expert, Global solution architect
Landys+Gyr
● TECH TALK PQC
// SPEAKER · Talk
Siddharth Jain
Managing Director
EPI India
Talk Agentic AI
// SPEAKER · Workshop
Champika Wijayatunga
Technical Engagement Director - Asia Pacific
ICANN
Workshop DNSSEC
// SPEAKER · Workshop
May Chan Lye Choon
Technical Engagement Manager - Asia Pacific
ICANN
Workshop DNSSEC
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Aman Malhotra
Security Leader, Microsoft
Talk AI Security
// SPEAKER - Online · Talk
Naga Mohan Gollangi
External CISO
National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company
● Talk AI
// SPEAKER · Talk
Soumyadip Chowdhury
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat
Talk Agentic AI
// SPEAKER · WORKSHOP
Ayushman Agrawal Hingorani
Defhawk
Talk IoT Security
// SPEAKER · Tech talk
Harpreet Singh
Security Researcher
Talk ZeroDay Research
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Sandeep Singh
VP, Product Strategy, HackerOne
Talk Bug Bounty
// SPEAKER · Online Talk
R.D. Tarun
Malware Researcher
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
● Online TalkAPT36 & Linux .desktop Malware
// SPEAKER · Tech talk
Dr. Sangita Roy
Founder, BanavatNest
Talk Drone Security
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Prof. Triveni Singh
FCRF
Tech Talk BFSI
// SPEAKER · Online Talk
Gaurav Singhal
Founder
APX
● Online Talk Agentic AI in the GitHub pipeline
// SPEAKER · TBA
Praveen Varshney
Director
Cube Software Private Limited (CSPL)
● TBA TBA
// SPEAKER · Workshop
Nagarjun Rallapalli
AI & Security, Accorian x GORICO
Tech Talk AI Security
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Meena R.
AI Security, Luminis Consulting
Tech Talk AI RED TEAMING
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Rajesh T. R.
Director Cyber security & resilience, Kyndryl
Tech Talk AI governance framework
// SPEAKER · Tech Talk
Shashank Dubey
Co-founder, Trisec labs
Tech Talk Cloud Security
// SPEAKER · Workshop
Almadad Ali
Founder & Cybersecurity Specialist, Cyber Mind Space
Workshop Red Team
// SPEAKER · Workshop
Azim Javed
Security Researcher, Defhawk
Workshop IoT Security
// SPEAKER · Village
Tarush Sonakya
Security Researcher, Defhawk
Village Drone Security
// SPEAKER · workshop
Sagar Tiwari
Founder & Lead Researcher, F0Society00
workshop OSINT
// SPEAKER · Workshop
Shubham Kumar
Co-Founder, F0Society00
workshop OSINT
// SPEAKER · Online Talk
Praful Agarwal
Principal Security Engineer, Atlassian
talk Exposure Mgmt.
// SPEAKER · Online Talk
Sujal Bhati
Co-head, EHAX, DTU
talk OSINT
// SPEAKER · Online Talk
Dhruthan M N
Researcher, PES University
talk Offsec
// SPEAKER · Talk
Sohan Das
Cryptographic Researcher
WESEE
Talk PQC
// & MORE VIEW FULL LINEUP →
04 / Advisory Board

An advisory board with operational depth.

RG
BOARD MEMBER ★ INDIA

Rajnish Gupta

Managing Director & Country Manager - India
Two decades scaling exposure-management programs across India's largest enterprises.

Tenable →
SM
BOARD MEMBER ★ POLICY

Sudhanshu Mittal

Head & Director, Technical Solutions
Architect of the national cyber-skills agenda and India's industry-academia bridge.

Nasscom →
HM
BOARD MEMBER ★ OPERATIONS

Harsh Marwah

Chief Executive Officer
Building the OA Compserve & Silicon Comnet group into a security-first systems integrator.

OACPL →
NB
BOARD MEMBER ★ ACADEMIC, DEFENSE TECH

Nidhish Bhatnagar

Professor of Practice
NFSU

NFSU →
NS
BOARD MEMBER ★ Industry solutions

Nirupam Kumar Sinha

Director
Cube Software Private Limited (CSPL)

CSPL →
SC
REVIEWER ★ Automotive Security

Sumit Chouhan

CISO
Heads a team of elite security researchers at DestroSolutions

Trojan Hunt India LLP →
05 / CFP Review Board

CFP Reviewers with the technical depth.

SC
REVIEWER ★ Automotive Security

Sumit Chouhan

CISO
Heads a team of elite security researchers at Trojan Hunt India LLP

Trojan Hunt India LLP →
EP
CFP REVIEWER ★ Threat Research, Detection & Response

Eitan Platok

Chief Technical Officer
Head of the Incident Response Team at Israeli E-Government organization, now leads a team of elite security researchers

CODEBLUE →
SJ
CFP REVIEWER ★ Application Security and Offensive Security

Sulabh Jain

Application Security at Amazon
Head of Application Security at Amazon Asia/Pacific

Amazon →
AO
CFP REVIEWER ★ Space Security - Cyber Physical Security

Andrzej Olchawa

Offensive Security Researcher, VisionSpace
Offensive security researcher with 15+ years in the space industry, known for his vulnerability research on satellite infrastructure and for speaking at Black Hat USA, DEF CON, and BSides. He is the co-author of The Spacecraft Hacker's Handbook and holds numerous credited CVEs from his work uncovering real-world weaknesses in space systems.

VisionSpace →
ST
CFP REVIEWER ★ India

Dr. Somanath Tripathy

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Patna
Research Interest: Cybersecurity, Malware Detection, Secure Machine Learning, Blockchain

IIT PATNA →
Reserve seat →
06 / Partners

Powering the 2026 edition.

Not a logo wall — a working hive. Every partner here plugs into the same community: sharing talent, mentoring newcomers and opening doors, so everyone in the cell grows together.

Presenting & Headline Community Supporting
CRACCON The CONFERENCE
// Partner Applications Open

Put your name on the front line.

Companies and communities - apply to partner with CRACCON '26. Tell us who you are and how you want to show up, and our team will be in touch within 48 hours.

  • ✦Booth & stage presence in front of 500+ practitioners
  • ✦Logo placement across site, decks & on-site collateral
  • ✦Community tracks, CTF sponsorship & recruiting access
Prefer to read first? Request the sponsorship deck →

Takes 60 seconds · No commitment · We reply within 48 hours

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Thanks — our partnerships team will reach out within 48 hours.

05 / Tickets

Five passes. One conference.

01 · Entry

Individual Pass

₹1,899
Open till 20 Oct 2026
  • ✓Main hall & Networking area
  • ✓6 Tracks · 1 workshop
  • ✓Conference kit
  • ✓Tea/ coffee, lunch on both days
Book Individual→
02 · Most complete

Delegate Pass

₹4,500
  • ✓Main hall & Networking area
  • ✓6 tracks with unlimited workshops
  • ✓Hacking villages (Drone & Lock picking)
  • ✓IoT badge
  • ✓Conference kit
  • ✓Lunch and tea/ coffee breaks on both days
Book Delegate→
03 · Upskill

Delegate Pass + Training

₹10,000
  • ✓All benefits of Delegate Pass
  • ✓Access to one of the certified training
Book Delegate + Training→
// Bulk Booking · 10+ seats

Bringing your team or cohort?

Custom rates for universities, security teams & corporate cohorts booking ten or more passes. Reserve a private cluster of seats, get group invoicing, and (if you ask nicely) a dedicated CRACCON liaison through the conference.

08 / Archive · '25

Field notes from last year's edition.