Schedule – Nolacon

Thursday - May 14

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Time	Speaker(s)	Title
15:00		15:00 Registration - Reg Desk Floor 2 - 3-5pm - Canceled, Badges are arriving Thurs, so holding reg until Friday.

Friday - May 15

Time	Speaker(s)	Title
09:00		09:00 Registration Opens - Reg Desk Floor 2
10:15	Krewe of NolaCon	10:15 NolaCon 2026 Intro and Opening Remarks
10:30	Mansoor Ahmad Mansoor Ahmad is an offensive security professional who has always had a curiosity about how things worked. While in …	10:30 Who Takes the Bait: Understanding phishing susceptibility with practitioner intelligence Every organization has phishing training, but almost none can answer the question “which roles are actually the …
11:00	Anthony Hendricks Anthony Hendricks is a legal problem solver and litigator at Crowe & Dunlevy. At Crowe & Dunlevy, Anthony serves …	11:00 2026 is the New 2016: Relearning the Cyber Lessons from 2016 In 2016, several high-profile data breaches took place, including two Yahoo breaches that affected 1.5 billion user …
12:00		12:00 Lunch A 1 hour lunch break, enjoy the food of New Orleans.
13:00	C.H. Becker C.H. Becker, aka Malate, began as an infosec and hacker hobbyist in the days of dial-up BBSes. This began a lifelong …	13:00 Hacking into the Blue Team and Leadership The hacker mindset, and the curiosity and skills developed as one driven by such, are most commonly seen as contributing …
14:00	w0mbat Kelsey (w0mbat) is a threat detection and response analyst focused on investigating activity that appears legitimate but …	14:00 It Wasn’t Spoofed: When Authentication Lies A suspicious email spread internally. The user whose account was associated with the message stated they did not send …
15:00	Sno0ose Brad Ammerman, a leading figure in security testing, currently serves as the Senior Director at Prescient Security. His …	15:00 FORTRESS (Framework for Organized RedTeam and Threat Response Evaluation for Security and Safeguards) Physical security is a critical component of an organization’s overall cybersecurity strategy. Despite its importance, …
16:00	Bryson Byrd Bryson Byrd is just a guy–a guy trying to be proud of the one staring back in the mirror through the work he does within … Joshua Childs Joshua Childs is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at The University of Texas at Austin. His …	16:00 Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast (And Your Security Program for Lunch) We keep buying tools. We keep writing policies. We keep getting breached. The uncomfortable truth is that …
17:00		17:00 Happy Hour with Open Bar 2 Hour open bar for all attendees!!! Want the bar next to your booth, This sponsorship spot is still open!!! …

Saturday - May 16

Time	Speaker(s)	Title
09:00		09:00 Registration Opens - Reg Desk Floor 2
10:00	Kevin Tackett (fka Johnson) Kevin Johnson is a leading cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of experience who has become one of the …	10:00 Keynote - Back to the Future-Proof: Preparing Now for Quantum Decryption Threats Quantum computing is no longer a distant theoretical concern. Adversaries are already executing harvest now, decrypt …
11:00	James Gilkey (Retro) James Gilkey is an Information Security professional with over a decade in the IT industry, providing services from …	11:00 Pentester's Tools of the Trade Pentesting doesn’t have to be mysterious. At its core, it’s about understanding systems and knowing which tools are …
12:00		12:00 Lunch A 1 hour lunch break, enjoy the food of New Orleans.
13:00	Matthew Wollenweber Matthew Wollenweber is a security engineer at a late-stage cybersecurity startup. He has over 20 years experience as a …	13:00 Project Mayhem: Defending New Orleans from a Private Spy Network There are more than 5,000 private spy cameras in New Orleans, operated by a former NOPD officer with zero oversight or …
14:00	Emanuel "Manny" Ohlsen Emanuel “Manny” Ohlsen is a Principal Consultant specializing in governance architecture, quantified risk modeling, and …	14:00 The Death of the Annual Risk Assessment: Engineering Continuous Governance in the AI Era For decades, enterprise risk programs have operated on an annual cadence: conduct a risk assessment, update the …
15:00	Evan Kirstein Evan is a massive nerd, father of 2 boys, and an InfoSec professional in the Finance sector with over 10 years of … Luke Canfield Luke Canfield is a cybersecurity analyst focused on vulnerability management, RMF compliance, and OSINT, with over eight …	15:00 The Drone Renaissance 2: #DronesForGood This session is a maker-friendly blueprint for rapid, community-scale “out-of-band” comms when conventional networks …
16:00	Jae Park Jae is a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst with over a decade of experience in the cybersecurity space. He has …	16:00 From Hurricanes to BLIZZARDs: A Perspective on the role of Cyber Threat Intelligence. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is often misunderstood by leadership and misapplied by operations. This talk argues that …
16:30	Zach Miller Zach Miller is a CISSP and security engineer at Bluestaq where the job is keeping large, fast-moving technology stacks …	16:30 LOLMgmt: SCCM to Intune - How the Management Plane Became the Attack Surface Nobody’s Watching Configuration Manager (SCCM and MECM) manages millions of enterprise endpoints and operates on a core assumption: the …
20:00		20:00 NolaCon 2026 Party! Join us for a great performance by DualCore, and others. And, an Open Bar, of course!! Where? Conference area of the …

Sunday - May 17

Time	Speaker(s)	Title
10:00	Sanjay Kodukula Sanjay Kodukula is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Visa Inc on the M&A Product Security Architecture team. He … Sandeep Siva I am Sandeep S., a Sr. Security engineer at VISA, where my work focuses on the intersection of cloud security, …	10:00 Securing the AI Supply Chain Before Your Vendors Become Your Weakest Link Every organization now relies on vendors, and every vendor is racing to bolt AI capabilities onto their platforms. While …
10:30	Luke McOmie Since 1994, Pyr0 (Luke) has been a trusted advisor, security leader and industry mentor. At Blue Bastion, he is the Vice … Ryan Jones	10:30 Panel We drink and tell cool stories about us doing stuff
12:00	Krewe of NolaCon	12:00 NolaCon 2026 Closing Remarks and Awards Closing Remarks and Awards for 2026

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