Cybersecurity as we know it is dead. Frontier AI models can now find and exploit vulnerabilities at a scale and speed that outpaces human defenders. That capability exists, it is improving, and threat actors will have access to it.
Meanwhile, the rush to adopt enterprise AI is expanding the attack surface in ways that static controls and legacy recovery plans weren't built for.
Forward 2026 is where the security and IT community comes together to address these challenges at scale.
Register Now: June 8–11 at The Venetian, Las Vegas | Global virtual broadcast available | Forward EMEA: June 25, London
Why This Year's Forward Is Different
The agenda was built around the threat landscape as it exists today. And a lot has changed in the last year.
The most significant shift isn't just that attackers are using AI. It's the intersection of organizations deploying agentic systems at scale while threat actors develop the capability to exploit them.
An AI system that can take autonomous actions across your environment is a productivity asset and a potential liability, and most recovery frameworks were designed for traditional software configurations.
Agentic cyber resilience means two things: governing what your AI systems can do, and being able to recover when they make mistakes. Most organizations have invested in the former and underestimated the latter.
Add to that the speed at which threat actors are now operating, and the window between incident and unrecoverable damage has compressed significantly.
If your team is asking hard questions about your defenses and recovery plans, Forward is where you get answers.
Don’t Miss Out on Key Sessions
🔴 Jason Clinton, Founding CISO at Anthropic — How AI Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever One of the most anticipated talks at Forward this year. Clinton brings a rare perspective from the frontlines of frontier AI development on what the new threat landscape actually looks like from the inside.
🔴 Ensuring Cyber Resilience When Attackers and Users Are AI The threat model changes when both sides are AI-powered. This session addresses how to keep defenses effective when adversaries and your own workforce are both operating with AI assistance, and what your security posture needs to account for that didn't exist two years ago.
🔴 The Identity Siege: Securing the Vector & the Target Identity-based attacks are accelerating. This session is for teams rethinking access controls and recovery playbooks in an environment where identity is both the most common entry point and the highest-value target.
🔴 Day Zero Learnings: Defining Your MVB Now Most organizations don't know their minimum viable business until an incident forces the answer. This session is about defining it before that moment arrives. One of the more practically useful sessions on the agenda.
🔴 The Frontier of Fast Cyber Recovery vs. Today's Attacks Recovery speed is the new measure of security posture. This session covers why automated recovery has moved from aspirational to operationally necessary, and what it takes to build programs that can actually execute under pressure.
What Else You'll Get
The in-person experience is built around more than sessions.
Hands-on labs and tabletop simulations let you pressure-test your recovery plans in real time, covering identity, cloud (AWS and Azure), Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, VMware, and more.
Direct one-on-ones with Rubrik's executive leadership give you a bespoke roadmap aligned to your specific challenges.
And 75+ speakers, 50+ breakout sessions, and peer networking with security leaders from around the world mean you'll leave with a playbook to bring back.
The closing keynote in Las Vegas features John Cena on mental toughness and overcoming the impossible. In London, Jake Humphrey on the high-performance mindset for leading through change. Both are worth staying for.
Register Now
Spots are limited for in-person attendance. Post-event on-demand access to select sessions is available for registrants, but the labs, one-on-ones, and peer conversations only happen live.
The moment to get your team's recovery strategy right is before the next incident, not after. Forward 2026 is that moment. Register now.
Forward EMEA — June 25, London
For the first time ever, Forward comes to London in person. European security and IT leaders can now experience the full conference in their region, with Rubrik executives leading sessions on strengthening resilience in an era of uncertainty.