2024 Speakers

OWASP AppSec Days India 2024 (Virtual) ran over two days, 14–15 November 2024, with an opening and closing keynote each day. See also the 2025 speakers.

Keynote Speakers

Opening Keynote Saumil Shah CEO, Net-Square Users - The Last Frontier Thursday, November 14 · 10:00am IST Closing Keynote Rohit Srivastwa CoFounder & MD, KAS Cyber Ventures Beyond Compliance: Building a Security-First Culture Thursday, November 14 · 5:00pm IST Opening Keynote Shivangi Nadkarni CEO | Co-Founder, Arrka Understanding Digital Governance Friday, November 15 · 10:00am IST Closing Keynote Sunil Varkey CISO The Role of CISOs in Shaping the Future of Digital Trust Friday, November 15 · 5:00pm IST

Day 1Thursday, November 14

10:00am IST

Opening Keynote

Users - The Last Frontier

Saumil Shah
CEO, Net-Square

10:45am IST

Scaling Smart Contract Security with AI Automation

Shashank
CEO, CredShields

11:10am IST

Policy Driven Vetting of OSS Components

Abhisek Datta
Co-Founder, SafeDep

11:45am IST

HARMONIZE APPSEC STANDARDS: A MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO COMPLIANCE SPECTRUM MASTERY

BHARADWAJ D J
SENIOR ARCHITECT - CYBER SECURITY, SYNECHRON TECHNOLOGIES

12:30pm IST

Attack Surface Management - Safeguarding Digital Landscapes via AI

Antara mane
Vertical Lead, SecureNeexus

1:15pm IST

Building git hooks for your organization

Naveen S
Lead Security Engineer, Freshworks

2:00pm IST

ATT&CK LENS (An AI based Visualization for Mitre ATT&CK Exploration)

Shankar Murali
AVP, Standard Charted Bank
Krishna Chaitanya Yeleswarapu
Senior Manager, Standard Chartered Bank

2:45pm IST

MPT! Pentest In Action

Jyoti Raval
Baker Hughes, Senior Staff Product Security Leader

3:30pm IST

Transforming Threat Modeling: Harnessing ChatGPT for Automated Security Analysis

Gustavo Arreaza
CTO, AppSecCl

4:15pm IST

Practical Session on AI Red Teaming

R Nagarjun
Security Researcher, AKTO

5:00pm IST

Closing Keynote

Beyond Compliance: Building a Security-First Culture

Rohit Srivastwa
CoFounder & MD, KAS Cyber Ventures

Day 2Friday, November 15

10:00am IST

Opening Keynote

Understanding Digital Governance

Shivangi Nadkarni
CEO | Co-Founder, Arrka

10:45am IST

The Dark Side of AI: Exploring Adversarial Threats

Alex Devassy
AppViewX

11:30am IST

Threat Modelling is, Buy’n’Large, the best way to secure generative AI

Chris Cooper
Director of Product Security, News Corp

11:45am IST

My Threat Modeling Journey

Takaharu Ogasa
CEO, Security Initiative

12:30pm IST

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why Developers Drive Security Professionals Crazy and How to Restore Sanity

Debrup Ghosh
Principal Product Manager, F5

1:15pm IST

Shift-left Security with Open Policy Agent(OPA) controls

Anshu Bathla
Lead Consultant - Security, AWS

2:00pm IST

Zero Day Apocalypse: The Rising Cyber Threat Landscape

Somen Das
Technology Head, Attack Surface Management, TCS

2:45pm IST

Leveraging DevSecOps and AI to Triage and Resolve OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities in a project(s)

Bala Kumar Subramani
Senior Backend Engineer, Gitlab

3:15pm IST

Thinking Like An Attacker - Quick Wins For Securing Your Application

Hotanya Ragtah
Information Security Consultant, Kiwibank

3:30pm IST

Building Secure AI Systems: A Comprehensive Approach to AI Security

Gowtham Sundar
Head - AppSec, SPH Media

4:15pm IST

Maturing Your Application Security Program

Tanya Janca
Head of Community and Education, SEMGREP

5:00pm IST

Closing Keynote

The Role of CISOs in Shaping the Future of Digital Trust

Sunil Varkey
CISO

5:30pm IST

Closing Note and Updates

Vandana Verma
Security Relations Leader, Snyk