Qualys Cyber Risk Conference
Qualys Cyber Risk Conference
Join us at QSC Americas, the premier cybersecurity event where top security leaders and practitioners come to get cutting-edge strategies, insights, and discover new solutions that proactively manage and reduce cyber risk.
QSC, the Qualys Cyber Risk Conference, delivers thought-provoking keynotes, high-impact sessions, and hands-on workshops on threat detection, cloud security, automation, and risk-driven security strategies. You will discover how to streamline security operations, reduce noise, maximize ROI, and strengthen business resilience, and align security initiatives with your leadership. Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of modern cybersecurity and de-risk your organization.
Join us for the QSC Americas 2025 Welcome Reception on Oct. 14 from 5:30 - 7:00 PM.
More information to come!
QSC at a Glance
| 7:00 – 9:00 AM Registration |
| 9:00 AM Welcome Remarks |
| 9:10 AM External Keynote |
| 10:00 AM Qualys Keynote |
| 11:00 AMM AM Break |
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11:30 AM
Plenary Sessions |
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1:00 PM
Lunch |
| 2:00 PM Plenary Session |
| 3:30 PM Break |
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4:00 PM
Plenary Session |
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5:00 PM
Closing Remarks |
| 5:30 PM Risk Busters |
Dive into the profound impact of the digital journey and explore how to build in security automation from the data center to the cloud. Industry experts and Qualys leaders discuss automation strategies, preview product roadmaps, listen to your challenges, and answer your questions.
Engage with Qualys’ customer-facing teams and your peers around best practices and user case studies for applying security automation to real-world challenges.
Two days of free training covers forward-looking strategies, best practices to improve effectiveness and productivity, and core and expanded product features to up-level your security program. Get valuable ISC2 CPE credits.
CIOs, CSOs and CTOs; directors and managers of network, security and cloud; developers and DevSecOps practitioners; Qualys partners and consultants; or any forward-thinking security professionals.
Qualys Cyber Risk Conference will be held at the JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria.
5150 Westheimer Road,
Houston, TX 77056
JW Marriott - Houston, Texas | USA
Attendance at QSC is complimentary. This includes access to all general sessions, breakfast, lunch and breaks.
Travel and hotel accommodations are not included with QSC or pre-conference training.
Qualys is committed to providing a safe and healthy experience for all QSC participants.
As part of our efforts to make QSC Americas a successful and productive event, Qualys is committed to providing a safe, professional and welcoming environment for all participants. To that end, we require everyone to follow our Code of Conduct.
If you have any questions, please read our FAQs. If you still have questions, please call us at +1 (650) 801 6100 or email us at [email protected]
Join us to learn how to effectively secure your hybrid IT environment, streamline your security and compliance initiatives and enable digital transformation. There is no cost to attend this event.
As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.
Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.
As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.
