Sessions -- TechMentor

7:30am - 8:00am Registration - Coffee and Light Breakfast

8:00am - 9:15am TW01 Active Directory Basics, But Not the Easy Stuff!

Derek Melber

8:00am - 9:15am TW02 From Data Chaos to Copilot Clarity: Real Customer Journeys to Successful Adoption

Stephen L. Rose

8:00am - 9:15am TW03 Hype or Trend: Frontier Agents You Can Use Today

Karinne Bessette

8:00am - 9:15am CW04 Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector

Tatu Seppälä

8:00am - 9:15am CW05 Edge for Business in 2026: Is the Browser Becoming the New Security Perimeter?

Myron Helgering

9:30am - 10:45am TW06 Old-time OS Deployment for the "Modern" Customer

Michael Niehaus

9:30am - 10:45am TW07 The Burnout Equation: Why Smart IT Teams Break — and How to Build Ones That Don’t

Heather Wilde Renze

9:30am - 10:45am TW08 To Be Announced

9:30am - 10:45am CW09 Trusted by Design: How Windows Uses TPM to Secure PRTs

Nestori Syynimaa

9:30am - 10:45am CW10 Protect Your Industrial Control Systems with Microsoft Defender for IoT

John Joyner

10:45am - 11:15am Networking Break / Visit Exhibitors

11:15am - 12:15pm TechMentor Panel - AI in the Enterprise: Governance, Risk, and the IT Pro’s New Headache

Moderated By: Dave Kawula

11:15am - 12:15pm Cybersecurity Live! Panel - AI Changed the Battlefield: What Defenders Must Rethink in 2026 and Beyond

Moderated By: Sami Laiho

12:15pm - 1:15pm Networking Lunch / Visit Exhibitors

1:15pm - 1:40pm TW11 Fast Focus: Building a Rapidly Deployable Secure Network

John O'Neill, Sr.

1:15pm - 1:40pm TW12 Fast Focus: Strong Authentication in the Cloud: Introducing Entra Certificate-Based Authentication

Richard Hicks

1:15pm - 1:40pm CW13 Fast Focus: Connect Securely to Your Home Network Without a Single Firewall Port Open

Sami Laiho

1:15pm - 1:40pm CW14 Fast Focus: Inside the Black Box - How Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Work Behind the Scenes

Mayuri Lahane

1:15pm - 1:40pm CW15 Fast Focus: Configuring Cross-Tenant Access for Secure Collaboration

Myron Helgering

1:40pm - 2:30pm Sponsored Break - Exhibitor Raffle @ 2:00 pm (Must be present to win)

2:30pm - 3:45pm TW16 Tactical and Functional PowerShell for the AD Administrator

Derek Melber

2:30pm - 3:45pm TW17 Windows 11: Using local AI Silicon

Michael Niehaus

2:30pm - 3:45pm TW18 Problem-solving with Copilot AI and Power Automate

Karinne Bessette

2:30pm - 3:45pm CW19 How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices

Myron Helgering

2:30pm - 3:45pm CW20 To Be Announced

4:00pm - 5:15pm TW21 GitHub for Newbies

Mike Nelson

4:00pm - 5:15pm TW22 Moving To Zero Trust: Entra Private Access for Always On VPN Administrators

Richard Hicks

4:00pm - 5:15pm TW23 Unlocking the Power of Copilot Automation: A Beginner's Guide

Stephen L. Rose

4:00pm - 5:15pm CW24 Mastering Purview Data Security Solution Design: Lessons from Years of Deployments

Tatu Seppälä

4:00pm - 5:15pm CW25 Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR

John Joyner

5:45pm - 10:00pm TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live!'s Wednesday Night Out

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026