BlackBerry Security Summit: Sponsors, Speakers, Talk Topics Confirmed

[Attachment] Leading names in mobile enterprise management and security will be joining our upcoming BlackBerry Security Summit taking place July 19 in New York City.

There are now 13 BlackBerry partners confirmed, including developers of apps for the Good Dynamics platform, traditional channel partners, and others. Partners of this year's Security Summit include Aetherpal, Branchfire, Cell Trust, Sentegrity, Swyft Mobile, and Symphony. They join the partners we announced in our first blog: Shafer Systems, ISEC7, InkScreen, Tango Networks, Artifex, Webalo, and Zimperium.

Meanwhile, some just-confirmed speakers for the Summit include these leading experts:

• Yisroel Hecht, former CISO for the New York City Department of IT and Telecommunications
• Sam Phillips, CISO, VP and General Manager for Samsung Business Services
• Kathleen Lavoie, Chief Information Management and Privacy Officer at Grand River Hospital in Ontario, Canada (whose deployment of BES12 and BBM Protected is profiled here)

This is in addition to BlackBerry leaders including Executive Chairman and CEO John Chen, CSO David Kleidermacher, COO Marty Beard, and many others.

Confirmed presentations and roundtable talks for this year's packed agenda include:

• The Future of Enterprise Mobility Management
• Managing Security Risks in Real-World Enterprise Environments (CISO Panel)
• Solving the World's Most Important InfoSec Problem: Crisis of Confidence
• How to Protect Your Information Assets in Mobilized and Collaborative World
• An Overview of Auto-ISAC, a group to help carmakers track and prevent cyberthreats to cars

Are you a Fortune 1000 or government CIO, IT manager, or the equivalent? Then consider attending the BlackBerry Security Summit. You can register your interest here.

We'll be sharing more information in the coming weeks - stay tuned for more updates via the @BlackBerry4Biz Twitter handle, which will also be live-tweeting the event on July 19.