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Date: June 12–13, 2026
Event: Vulncon 2026
Location: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru
Format: CXO Panel
Moderator: Ankur Bhargava (Head of Product Security, PhonePe)
Panelists: Abhisek Datta (Founder, SafeDep), Anant Shrivastava (Founder, Cyfinoid Research), Nikhil Prabhakar (Founder, PodArmor)
Overview
CXO panel at Vulncon 2026 on software supply chain security — open source risk, SBOMs, and defending the build pipeline. The discussion brings together practitioners who work this problem daily: open-source supply chain tooling (SafeDep), supply chain research and conference review boards (Cyfinoid Research), and a product company focused exclusively on supply chain security (PodArmor), moderated by PhonePe’s Head of Product Security.
Supply chain attacks have repeatedly shown that compromising one dependency, build tool, or CI/CD pipeline can reach thousands of organizations at once. SolarWinds, XZ Utils, and compromised npm/PyPI packages permanently changed how security teams think about trust boundaries — this panel examines what that means for builders and defenders in practice.
