RSAC 2026 is scheduled for March 23 through March 26 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, bringing one of the cybersecurity industry’s largest annual gatherings back to the city for four days of keynotes, sessions, expo programming, and networking. RSAC is promoting this year’s event around the theme “The Power of Community,” with keynote stages set to run from Monday through Thursday.
The conference’s official keynote release shows a lineup that reaches well beyond traditional security speakers. Headline names include former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz, author Michael Lewis, and actor Hugh Jackman, who is slated to appear in RSAC’s 35th anniversary closing celebration alongside RSAC Executive Chairman Hugh Thompson. RSAC says the 2026 program will feature two keynote stages with sponsor discussions, panels, guest speakers, and industry sessions throughout the week.
The cybersecurity bench is equally prominent. The official keynote roster includes CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz, Ballistic Ventures founder and general partner Kevin Mandia, Microsoft Security Business corporate vice president Vasu Jakkal, and Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi. Their inclusion reflects how RSAC continues to draw major leaders not only from pure-play cybersecurity firms, but also from cloud, data, and enterprise technology companies that now sit close to the center of security strategy.
The keynote list also adds several other high-profile names from across technology, finance, venture capital, and national security. Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel, JPMorganChase Global Chief Information Security Officer Pat Opet, cybersecurity author and investor Nicole Perlroth, and former NSA and U.S. Cyber Command leader General Paul M. Nakasone are all listed as speakers. Adam Savage, known for MythBusters, is also on the keynote roster, giving the event a mix of technical, executive, policy, and broader public-facing voices.
RSAC’s published lineup also shows strong representation from major cybersecurity and infrastructure companies. In addition to CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Cisco, and Databricks, the keynote program includes speakers from Google Cloud, Splunk, JPMorganChase, Armis, Axonius, SentinelOne, Tenable, Varonis, and Wells Fargo. That breadth underscores RSAC’s role as a convening point not just for security vendors, but for large enterprises, financial institutions, cloud providers, and software companies operating across the wider cybersecurity market.
Several names on the schedule reinforce the conference’s national security and cyber policy dimension. Alongside Nakasone, the keynote release lists former NSA director and first U.S. Cyber Command commander General Keith Alexander, former NSA director and retired Cyber Command commander General Tim Haugh, and former national cyber director Chris Inglis. It also includes H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, head of cybersecurity for the United Arab Emirates government, and Despina Spanou of the European Commission, giving the event a broader international policy footprint.
The program also leans into research and technical history. RSAC’s keynote release includes a cryptographers’ panel featuring Whitfield Diffie, Cynthia Dwork, and Adi Shamir, moderated by Paul Kocher. Bruce Schneier is also on the keynote roster, along with Brian Krebs and James Lyne, adding research, journalism, and technical analysis to a lineup otherwise filled with company operators and senior executives.
For San Francisco, RSAC remains one of the city’s signature technology conferences and a major annual draw for the cybersecurity sector. The official event page highlights expo access, innovation programming, networking, and the Innovation Sandbox contest, which is scheduled to announce its 2026 winner on March 23. RSAC also says keynote and track sessions will be made available on demand after their live presentation, with certain keynote sessions livestreamed.
With Ardern, Horowitz, Jackman, Lewis, Ghodsi, Kurtz, Mandia, and Jakkal all on the official keynote list, alongside names such as Adam Savage, Jeetu Patel, Pat Opet, Nicole Perlroth, Paul Nakasone, Hugh Thompson, and Jen Easterly, RSAC 2026 is shaping up as one of the Bay Area’s biggest cybersecurity gatherings of the year. At Moscone Center in March, it will bring together a wide mix of executives, policymakers, researchers, and public figures for a conference that continues to sit at the center of the security industry’s live events calendar.
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