Conference Description
Key Takeaways
- ROCon Americas 2026 takes place October 13 to 15 at the Fairmont Austin in Austin, Texas
- The conference focuses on proactive cyber risk management and exposure management in an era of rapid vulnerability exploitation
- Sessions are built around the AI-Powered Risk Operations Center (AI ROC) framework, covering AI-driven detection, prioritization and remediation
- Target audience includes CISOs, vulnerability management teams, cloud and application security professionals, compliance teams and developers
About the Event
ROCon Americas 2026 is a three-day cybersecurity conference hosted by Qualys, dedicated to cyber risk operations. The event addresses a core operational challenge facing security teams: how to manage a security program when new exposures emerge faster than teams can respond. With vulnerabilities being exploited increasingly quickly after disclosure, traditional scan windows, ticket queues and patch cycles often cannot keep pace.
The conference evolved from the Qualys Security Conference (QSC) and positions itself as a forum for security leaders to move beyond risk enumeration toward active risk elimination.
The AI-Powered Risk Operations Center Framework
Sessions at ROCon Americas are structured around the AI-Powered Risk Operations Center (AI ROC) framework. This operational model combines AI-driven threat detection, hyper-prioritization of vulnerabilities and zero-day remediation capabilities. The framework incorporates agentic AI to enable autonomous remediation while maintaining operational resiliency and meeting compliance requirements.
Attendees will see this program built session by session, with practitioners sharing approaches that can be adapted for their own organizations.
Who Should Attend
ROCon Americas is designed for security professionals across the full spectrum of security operations, from strategic leadership to hands-on execution:
- CISOs, Risk Officers and SecOps Leads
- Vulnerability Management Teams
- Cloud Security Teams
- Application Security Teams
- Compliance Teams
- Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Teams
- IT Operations and Remediation Teams
- Developers
- Security Consultants