SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2026: Empowering CISOs, directors, managers to set the pace in cybersecurity.
SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2026 unites CISOs, directors, and managers for advanced cybersecurity strategies. Attendees engage in expert-led talks, hands-on workshops, and immersive courses, gaining critical knowledge and tools. This event fosters unparalleled networking, sharing lessons learned, and best practices among top practitioners to navigate evolving threats and lead effectively. Learn more at SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit website
The SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2026 gathers top CISOs, directors, and managers in one focused environment for five days of intensive learning.
Attendees are industry-leading CISOs, directors, and managers, empowered to make strategic decisions and drive cybersecurity initiatives.
Engage with peers and experts to gain actionable strategies, tools, and best advice to immediately enhance your organization's security posture.
The Challenge
Without preparation, SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2026 becomes an expensive networking trip with nothing to show.
attendees. No way to filter by ICP. Finding ideal prospects means manually clicking through thousands of profiles.
30-40% of attendees register in the last 2-3 weeks. Finish reaching out to one batch, hundreds more registered. Always behind.
Without scoring and segmentation, all attendees look the same. Teams waste cycles on low-fit prospects instead of focusing on high-value targets.
Reaching prospects across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app manually is impossible at scale. Most teams pick one channel and miss opportunities.
Best Practices
Winning teams follow two phases: preparation and execution.
Monitor attendee lists continuously as 30-40% register in the last 2-3 weeks.
Add verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, company data, and tech stack to raw attendee names.
Score by role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, industry. Match to target personas and ABM accounts. Focus on top 20%.
Email, LinkedIn, phone, in-app. Goal: pre-book meetings with high-value prospects.
Calendars should be 60-70% full with high-fit prospects before arriving at Arlington.
Know ICP score and context for every interaction. Focus on high-value targets.
These practices work. But 30-40% of attendees register in the last 2-3 weeks. Manual execution takes 5-7 days per batch. Teams would need to repeat identification, enrichment, scoring, and outreach continuously across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app. Most don't have the bandwidth.
The question isn't what to do. It's how to execute continuously at scale.
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Best Practice: Monitor attendee lists continuously as registrations come in.
How Spivot Helps: Connect to the event portal or upload the CSV. We identify target prospects and refresh daily as new registrations come in. Catch the 30-40% who register late without lifting a finger.
Best Practice: Transform basic attendee lists into rich prospect profiles with verified contact data.
How Spivot Helps: Connect Apollo, ZoomInfo, or any other enrichment provider. We add verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, company data, and tech stack. Full control over provider and costs.
Best Practice: Score prospects against ICP and match to target personas to prioritize outreach.
How Spivot Helps: AI scores every attendee by role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, and industry. Match to target personas and ABM accounts automatically.
Best Practice: Sync enriched, scored prospects to existing workflow.
How Spivot Helps: One-click sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, or export to Google Sheets. Enriched, scored lists ready for outreach.
Best Practice: Start personalized outreach 3-4 weeks before the event to schedule meetings.
How Spivot Helps: Launch campaigns in Outreach, Salesloft, or Apollo. Reach prospects across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app automatically. Track engagement, responses, and meetings. All attributed to SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2026.
Reach every attendee automatically, even the 30-40% who register late. Land in Arlington with meetings booked. Your competitors are still cleaning spreadsheets.
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SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit is designed for industry-leading CISOs, directors, and managers seeking to advance their cybersecurity leadership skills. It brings together top practitioners to share strategies, lessons learned, and best advice. Attendees will find invaluable insights to empower their teams, navigate evolving threats, and set new standards in the cybersecurity landscape. The event also offers world-class SANS courses for hands-on, immersive training, making it ideal for professionals committed to continuous growth and networking with peers.
Absolutely. SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit offers unparalleled value for cybersecurity leaders. Attendees gain invaluable insights from industry experts, learn innovative defense strategies, and enhance their knowledge through world-class SANS courses. The summit provides unique networking opportunities with top CISOs, directors, and managers, fostering open dialogue and experience sharing. With a focus on practical tools and strategies, participants can immediately apply learnings to empower their teams, analyze risks, assess threats, and build robust security operations, ensuring they set the pace in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit covers a wide range of critical topics for cybersecurity leaders. Key areas include AI threats and defense strategies, innovative defense strategies, and essential leadership skills for navigating the evolving landscape. The event also features in-depth courses on CIS Controls implementation, building and leading Security Operations Centers, cyber incident management, and cloud security for leaders. Attendees will learn about risk analysis, threat assessment, and effective team building, ensuring they are equipped with the latest knowledge and tools to lead their organizations effectively.
Connect to the event portal or upload attendee data. Spivot automatically identifies, scores, and enriches prospects as new attendees register, with daily updates to catch late registrations.
Yes. Spivot is an AI agent that automates event workflows for any event where attendees are available in the event portal. The same workflow applies across all events.
Spivot's AI uses multi-factor analysis across role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, and industry. Match attendees to target personas and ABM accounts automatically. Built-in intelligence recognizes equivalent roles like 'VP of Growth' and 'Chief Revenue Officer.'
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