Keynote - Opening
Main Hall
Venkatesh Murthy. K
2025 Speakers
OWASP AppSec Days India 2025 was held in person on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at the J N Tata Auditorium, National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), CV Raman Road, Kodandarampura, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012. See also the 2024 speakers.
Keynote Speakers
Saturday, October 18
9:00am IST
9:45am IST
Tea Break & Snacks
Food Area Downstairs
10:00am IST
Five MCP Anti-Patterns Compromising Agentic AI: Exploits and Mitigations
Main Hall
Anshu Bathla
Don't Just Train It, Sign It: A New Era of ML Security
Room 2
Achanandhi M
The CISO Lens: Communicating Risk Effectively to the Board - CISO Panel - 1
CISO Track
Praveen Kumar MOTUPALLI
Cybersecurity Leader MNC
Cybersecurity Leader MNC
Shivakanth Kumar
Sowmya Moni
CTF (Capture the Flag)
CTF Area
Manindar Mohan
Solder & Spark Badge Village
Solder and IoT Village Area
Kartik Ekanathan
Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff
10:30am IST
Lint Today, Pwned Tomorrow: eBPF Adventures in OSS Malware Hunting at Internet Scale
Main Hall
KunalSingh
10:45am IST
Operationalizing AI in AppSec: A Leadership Perspective on ML Platform Design
Room 2
Sudhir Kumar Rai
11:00am IST
Decoding Telecom Frauds: Uncovering the Root cause
Main Hall
Kartik Lalan
IoT Firmware, SBOMs, and Supply Chain Security - CISO Panel - 2
CISO Track
Himanshu Kumar Das
Mini TT
Minatee Mishra
Kowsalya Kodamagani
11:30am IST
Beyond the First Bug: Building a Scalable Variant Hunting Program
Main Hall
Nikhil Sahoo
Arun Agrawalla
Hands-On Real-Time Threat Management with MITRE ATLAS
Room 2
Smita Jha
Accorian, Senior Security Compliance and Privacy Analyst
Accorian, Senior Security Compliance and Privacy Analyst
Shashwath Aiyappa
12:00pm IST
Practical exploitation of zigbee-class networks with USB-based RF transceivers & open source softwar
Main Hall
Rahul U
Puneeth K
DevSecOps to DevSecAI: The Next Shift in Application Security - CISO Panel - 3
CISO Track
Prajal Kulkarni
CISO, Grow
CISO, Grow
Divakar Prayaga
Dhawal Shrivastava
Dr Samiksha Shukla
12:15pm IST
Build A Successful Security Champions Program
Room 2
Prasad Salvi
12:30pm IST
Securing the AI Pipeline: Implementing DevSecOps for Machine Learning Projects
Main Hall
Marudhamaran Gunasekaran
1:00pm IST
Lunch
2:00pm IST
The Evolving Security Landscape of AI-Generated Code
Room 2
Aditi Bhatnagar
Unveiling the Risks of MCP Servers: An In-Depth Exploration
Main Hall
Alex Devassy
Stopping Credential Misuse is critical to Cyber Defense - CISO Panel - 4
CISO Track
Raakesh Thayyil
Kamal Sharma
Pooja Agrawalla
Security Leader, NXP
Security Leader, NXP
Seema Khandelwal
2:30pm IST
Building Secure Agentic AI Systems Through Embedded Testability
Room 2
Yuvaraj Govindarajulu
3:00pm IST
Protecting AI Inference Workloads Using Confidential Computing - AWS Nitro
Room 2
Karan Bhagat
Chandirasekaran Dhakshinamoorthy
Vibe Coding to VibeSec: Securing AI‑Assisted Development from Supply‑Chain Threats
Main Hall
Hariprasad Pujari
Suchith Narayan
3:30pm IST
We Got 99 Problems, but Popping a Windows Active Directory Domain Ain’t One
Room 2
Rajat Singh
Manish Kishan Tanwar
Zero-CVE by Design: Building a Pipeline to Generate and Maintain Vulnerability-Free Base Images
Main Hall
Akhil Mahendra
4:00pm IST
Tea Break
4:30pm IST
Open Source & Security: Happily Ever After?
Main Hall
Ram Iyengar
5:00pm IST
Closing
Main Hall
Vandana Verma Sehgal
Security Leader, Snyk
Security Leader, Snyk