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Aired on Tuesday, February 3, 2026
1-2PM ET | 12-1PM CT | 11-12PM MT | 10-11AM PT - Americas

Turn New Capabilities into Stronger Protection

Join us for an exclusive quarterly virtual event, where we'll unveil the latest updates and innovations to Proofpoint Collaboration Security. Discover new capabilities designed to combat advanced email threats, including phishing, business email compromise (BEC), social engineering, and more. Connect with product experts for an insider's perspective and learn how these enhancements help protect your most valuable assets—your people—against today’s sophisticated cyber threats.

At Proofpoint Innovations: Collaboration Security, we'll discuss how to:

Stop emerging AI prompt injection attacks delivered via email and other detection improvements
Improve analyst experience with abuse mailbox triage and bulk actions in Threat Protection Workbench
Build end user engagement with Learner Dashboard improvements

Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the threat landscape, optimize your security investment, and protect your organization from potential attacks!

Host

Brian Reed | Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Strategy, Proofpoint, Inc.

Brian Reed is Sr. Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint. He comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics - cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness. Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP. Prior to Gartner, he spent over 15 years in a variety of business development, product management, sales and system engineering roles, at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events, as well as other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.

Featured Panelists

Pat Joyce | Global Resident CISO, Proofpoint, Inc.

Patrick Joyce is the Global Resident Chief Information Security Officer at Proofpoint. In this role, he serves as a strategic advisor to the greater CISO community and spearheads Proofpoint’s Customer Advisory Board (CAB). He is focused solely on the security needs of customer CISOs by delivering unbiased advice, knowledge and training to help CISOs stay ahead of the curve in the ever-changing threat landscape. Mr. Joyce is a highly respected cybersecurity practitioner and industry thought leader with over 30 years of experience in the IT and security field. Before joining Proofpoint in November 2023, he served as Vice President and Chief Security Officer (both CSO & CISO) for Medtronic, a Fortune 500 MedTech enterprise, where he was responsible for leading the company’s global security strategies, operations and initiatives. Prior to joining Medtronic, Patrick held leadership roles in both public and private sector organizations across multiple verticals, including healthcare (both provider & payor), travel/hospitality, and IT consulting. He also served as an Officer in the US Air Force and in the US Intelligence Community. In addition to his accomplishments as a business partner and trusted advisor, Patrick is also known for his commonsense approach, calm and careful leadership, sound judgment, and ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Karen Letain | GVP & GM, Security Awareness Training, Proofpoint, Inc.

Karen leads the Product UX and Content teams for Proofpoint’s Security Awareness Division. Prior to Proofpoint, Karen was Head of Global Strategy and Innovation for McAfee’s Consumer Division leading the innovation product management, design and strategy teams. She was instrumental in launching a new 3-year strategy focused on moving the organization beyond antivirus to privacy and personal protection. Karen also drove the innovation teams to producing and delivering new performance enhancements in McAfee’ consumer products. Karen was also influential in managing McAfee Consumer’s M&A efforts resulting in the successful purchase of a 40M technology company to help accelerate the roadmap toward personal protection. Karen has also founded and led a number of start-ups in both Cybersecurity and Marketing and was VP of Operations for Thomson Learning the learning arm of Thomson Publishing (now CENGAGE). An active learner, Karen holds a number of degrees and designations. When not working or studying, she spends her time with her husband Claude, 2 children Gabrielle and Dominic and a very large furry 4-legged golden doodle.

Molly McLain Sterling | Director, Cybersecurity Strategy, Proofpoint, Inc.

Molly spent 16+ years at Medtronic in a variety of IT and information security roles, including leading a global security culture organization that spanned 100K+ end users in 150+ countries. Throughout her career, she spent time working on DLP and incident management programs and has also been involved in several advisory boards and leadership groups in the information security industry, including SANS Security Awareness Summit Advisory Boards, as well as other regional information security, privacy, and risk organizations. She has also been a frequent public speaker, including the top-rated speaker at last year’s SANS Human Risk Management conference, Cyber Security Summit series, as well as a speaker at last year’s Protect 2023 conference. During her free time, she loves spending time with her husband, her six-year-old daughter aka “karate queen” and two-year-old son “the wrecking ball”.

Host

Bianca Laurendine

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Speakers

Pablo Passera

VP, Product Management, Proofpoint, Inc.

Hector Juarez

Principal Product Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Shomona Mukherjee

Sr. Product Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Ian Horvath

Sr. Product Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Vivek Indrayan

Staff Product Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Lou Paniccia

Sr. Product Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Aired on Tuesday, May 5, 2026
1-2PM ET | 12-1PM CT | 11-12PM MT | 10-11AM PT - Americas

Turn New Capabilities into Stronger Protection

Automate abuse mailbox triage with AI using the Satori Abuse Mailbox Agent, reducing manual review while safely handling high volumes of user-reported emails
Respond faster to large-scale attacks with Email Bombing Remediation in Cloud Threat Response (CTR)
Streamline phishing simulation generation with AI-driven conversion using ThreatFlip, turning real-world attacks into safe training scenarios in one-click

Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the threat landscape, optimize your security investment, and protect your organization from potential attacks!

Host

Ryan Kalember | Chief Strategy Officer, Proofpoint, Inc.

With over 20 years of experience in the information security industry, Mr. Kalember currently leads cybersecurity strategy for Proofpoint and is a sought-out expert for leadership and commentary on breaches and best practices. His global team of security experts ensures that Proofpoint’s customers have consistent insight into the attacks that target their people. Mr. Kalember joined Proofpoint from WatchDox where he served as both chief product officer and CMO, leading the development of pioneering data-centric security solutions through to the company’s acquisition. Previously, Ryan ran solutions across HP’s portfolio of security products, was director of product strategy at ArcSight, and held a variety of positions at VeriSign, including EMEA regional manager and senior product manager. Early in his career, Ryan was a security practitioner, helping build many leading security organizations and security operations centers (SOCs) around the world. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, where he studied fault tolerance, cryptography, and authentication algorithms.

Featured Panelists

Nate Chessin | SVP, Worldwide Sales Engineering, Proofpoint, Inc.

Nate Chessin is a 20 year technology and sales professional with extensive leadership and technical sales experience. Prior to Proofpoint, Nate held various leaderships positions at Cisco Systems and Glue Networks delivering Software Defined Networking, Collaboration, Security, Mobility and Service Provider architectures. Nate holds a BA in Computer Science from Pomona College in Southern California and is CCIE #12034.

Tim Bedard | Director, Product Marketing, Threat Protection, Proofpoint, Inc.

Tim is the Director of Product Marketing for Proofpoint Threat Protection. It is a comprehensive AI-driven solution that provides continuous threat detection and analysis (pre-delivery to post-delivery to click time) throughout the email delivery flow. With end-to-end protection, organizations can better fortify email defenses to protect people against today’s emerging threats. With over twenty-five years of product management and product marketing expertise, Tim has extensive experience driving product vision, strategy, and execution at leading security organizations including, ForgeRock, SailPoint Technologies, and RSA Security. He is an active security evangelist at industry trade shows and in his free time works towards becoming a scratch golfer!

Sarah Sabotka | Sr. Threat Researcher, Proofpoint, Inc.

Sarah Sabotka is a Senior Threat Researcher on the Threat Research Team at Proofpoint where she focuses on commodity crimeware campaigns and communicating the threat landscape to customers and the public. Sarah had her start by doing OSINT collection, case development, and law enforcement collaboration to support animal cruelty investigations for an international animal welfare organization. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Sarah spent over four years developing and leading the Global Cyber Threat Intelligence team at Experian, where she was also responsible for leading brand monitoring, threat hunting, vulnerability intelligence, and ad-hoc incident response activities; before that she was a Senior Threat Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Sarah earned her B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut (Storrs), and her M.S. in Cybersecurity from Utica College. She resides in southern New Hampshire where she runs a 501(c)3 animal rescue and sanctuary with her husband, home to 14 rescue dogs and four rescue fish.

Host and Speakers

Bianca Laurendine

Host
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Kevin Epstein

Speaker
SVP and GM, Premium Security Services
Proofpoint, Inc.

Neha Anand

Speaker
Sr. Director, Product Management
Proofpoint, Inc.

Patrick Wheeler

Speaker
Director, Product Management
Proofpoint, Inc.

Mike Lee

Speaker
Product Management Director
Proofpoint, Inc.

Basant Kumar

Speaker
Staff Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Vivek Indrayan

Speaker
Staff Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Aired on Tuesday, August 4, 2026
1-2PM ET | 12-1PM CT | 11-12PM MT | 10-11AM PT - Americas

Turn New Capabilities into Stronger Protection

Join us for an exclusive quarterly virtual event, where we'll unveil the latest updates and innovations to Proofpoint Collaboration Security. Discover new capabilities to stop advanced email threats like phishing, BEC, social engineering, and emerging AI-driven attacks. Connect with product experts for an insider's perspective and learn how these enhancements help protect your most valuable assets—your people—against today’s sophisticated cyber threats.

At Proofpoint Innovations: Collaboration Security, we'll discuss how to:

Simplify security operations with centralized administration, greater visibility, and faster response.
Strengthen your security strategy by leveraging actionable insights to identify, prioritize and reduce human risk.
Increase email security and governance of AWS hosted applications and AI Agents through streamlined onboarding to Proofpoint Secure Email Relay.

Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the threat landscape, optimize your security investment, and protect your organization from potential attacks!

Host

Ryan Kalember | Chief Strategy Officer, Proofpoint, Inc.

Featured Panelists

Rob Joyce | NSA Cybersecurity Director (2021-2024)
Former Special Assistant to the President & Acting Homeland Security Advisor

Regarded as a titan in national security and one of the field’s most innovative minds, Rob Joyce served as one of the National Security Agency’s most influential figures for 34 years — most recently as the head of the organization’s Cybersecurity Directorate. In the later years of his tenure, Joyce was perhaps the most visible figure of the historically reserved agency, and embraced his refreshingly public-facing role as a means of strengthening trust and collaboration between government and industry against cyber threats. From his distinguished NSA career, as well as his service as a White House cyber official and special assistant to the president, he is viewed by his peers as an exemplary leader whose expertise, collaborative approach, and dedication to improving intelligence sharing has been pivotal to safeguarding our organizations and society against the threats in the digital realm. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Joyce leads an engrossing discussion on everything organizations need to know about the current cyber threat and opportunity landscape, while sharing clear and actionable strategies for how they can enhance their cybersecurity posture and protect their information and operations. Read More >

Daniel Blackford | Director, Threat Research, Proofpoint, Inc.

Formerly a researcher himself, Daniel currently leads Proofpoint's threat research team devoted to tracking financially-motivated actors. From high-profile botnets to credential harvesting and business email compromise, Daniel's team is in the weeds everyday leveraging Proofpoint's world class visibility to make high-confidence attributions and to share their findings with defenders across the world. Prior to his work at Proofpoint, Daniel worked as a malware analyst at the NCFTA and got his start tracking adversaries as a combat engineer with the US Army.

Selena Larson | Staff Threat Researcher, Proofpoint, Inc.

Selena Larson is a staff threat researcher at Proofpoint on the Threat Research team. She collaborates with fellow researchers to identify and investigate advanced threats and develop actionable threat intelligence. Selena is also the co-host of the DISCARDED podcast, featuring unique research and insights from individuals in the infosec industry. Previously, she was a cyber threat analyst for the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos, and a cybersecurity and privacy journalist.

Host and Speakers

Bianca Laurendine

Host
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Vivek Indrayan

Speaker
Staff Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Hector Juarez

Speaker
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Matt Lane

Speaker
Director, Product Management
Proofpoint, Inc.

Michael Blum

Speaker
Staff Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Chris Dawson

Speaker
Principal Threat Analyst
Proofpoint, Inc.

Tim Howell

Speaker
Sr. Product Manager
Proofpoint, Inc.

Zoom | Tuesday, November 3, 2026
1-2PM ET | 12-1PM CT | 11-12PM MT | 10-11AM PT - Americas

Special Protect Spotlight: See What’s New. Discover What’s Next.

Join us for a special spotlight event exploring the latest innovations in Proofpoint Collaboration Security. Building on the momentum of Protect, our annual flagship customer conference, we’ll showcase newly launched capabilities and advancements on the horizon that will help you defend against AI-powered email threats, social engineering, and multi-channel attacks operating at machine speed. Connect with product experts for an insider’s perspective on the capabilities strengthening protection today and shaping how organizations will defend against tomorrow’s AI threat landscape.

You’ll learn how:

The new Nexus Intent-Based Detection goes beyond behavioral analysis to reveal message intent and uncover threats behavior only solutions miss.
Continuous protection before and after delivery as well as against account takeover comes together in a unified solution, providing comprehensive visibility across the full attack lifecycle.
Security teams can leverage the agentic capabilities to accelerate investigations and response while proactively reducing user risk with minimal effort.

Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the threat landscape, optimize your security investment, and protect your organization from potential attacks!

EXECUTIVE HOSTS

Marcel DePaolis | Chief Technical Office, proofpoint

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Ryan Kalember | EVP, Cybersecurity Strategy, proofpoint

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SPECIAL GUESTS

Ralph Johnson | SVP, Engineering, proofpoint

Ralph Johnson | SVP, Engineering, proofpoint

Ralph Johnson | SVP, Engineering, proofpoint

Host

Bianca Laurendine

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint, Inc.

Speakers

Andrew Goodman

Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Proofpoint, Inc.

Dan Gould

Product Marketing Manager Director, Proofpoint, Inc.

Kevin San Diego

VP, Product Management, Proofpoint, Inc.

Gretel Egan

Sr. Manager, Services, Proofpoint, Inc.

August 28

8:00AM - 8:30AM ET
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EXECUTIVE HOSTS

Marcel DePaolis | Chief Technical Office, proofpoint

Ryan Kalember | EVP, Cybersecurity Strategy, proofpoint

SPECIAL GUESTS

Ralph Johnson | SVP, Engineering, proofpoint