Sponsors | AKJ Associates

2026 Principal Sponsor

Open Systems is an international provider of co-managed SASE and Zero Trust operating models, helping enterprises and organizations securely operate complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Switzerland, the company generates over USD 100 million in annual revenue and supports global enterprise customers with more than 60,000 employees across operations in more than 180 countries.

Open Systems combines cloud-native networking and security with transparent, co-managed 24×7 operations to close the execution gap many organizations face when deploying modern architectures. As a European alternative to US- and Israel-based security providers, Open Systems places strong emphasis on regulatory alignment, operational visibility and shared responsibility, enabling secure, reliable and scalable network and security operations in an increasingly distributed IT landscape.

2026 Strategic Sponsors

Cyera is a pioneer in the data security space that empowers security leaders at Paramount Pictures, Mercury Financial, and others, to discover their data attack surface, control the use of data, monitor, detect, and quickly remediate risk. What makes Cyera unique is its agentless design that deploys in just five minutes across any environment - and its AI-powered classification engine that auto-learns over time, and delivers 95% accuracy. With Cyera, security leaders can focus on enabling their business to safely use data in all the ways they see fit - both now, and into the future.

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a guaranteed 99.99% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise.

Learn more about Delinea on delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Huntress is a fully managed cybersecurity platform built for organizations of all sizes and expertise levels. Because our enterprise-grade Huntress Agentic Security Platform is never separated from our 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC), organizations can rest easy with protection that stops high-profile threats with the easiest possible user experience. The Huntress Managed Platform is purpose-built by our security experts and operated by our SOC, leading the charge in industry research with decades of experience and a passion for wrecking hackers.

PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland. At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 370,000 people in 136 countries. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting we help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum. PwC Switzerland has around 3,600 employees and partners in 13 locations in Switzerland and one in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Find out more at www.pwc.ch. “PwC” refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.

Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.

For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on X and Rubrik, Inc. on LinkedIn.

Stop attacks before they start. Get a comprehensive solution to your security needs on a single agent with the ThreatLocker Zero Trust Platform. With ThreatLocker, you'll have the necessary controls in place to:

•Block untrusted software and limit lateral movement
•Gain operational efficiency and oversight
•Leverage vast telemetry and intelligence data to alert unusual behaviours and Indicators of Compromise

You'll also be backed by the included 24/7/365 US-based Cyber Hero support team for rapid assistance and response as you harden your environment.

2026 Education Seminar Sponsors

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced organizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.

2026 Networking Sponsorships

1Password is redefining identity security for how people and AI agents work today. The 1Password Unified Access platform discovers and secures identities and credentials, establishes trusted access, and audits actions across humans, machines, and AI agents. 1Password Privileged Access enforces zero standing privilege across critical infrastructure with just-in-time access provisioning and automatic deprovisioning. 1Password SaaS Manager helps organizations discover and secure access to SaaS applications and optimize AI spend. 1Password's enterprise vault protects more than 1.5 billion credentials and secrets and is trusted by more than 1 million developers and over 200,000 businesses, including Canva, CIBC Capital Markets, Cursor, Dust, ElevenLabs, Figma, GitHub, HackerOne, Hugging Face, MongoDB, Notion, Perplexity, Salesforce, Stripe, Vercel, Wiz, Workday, and Zscaler.

Learn more at https://1password.com/