“The conference is the crown jewel, but now we are also a year-round global membership entity for cyber professionals,” Easterly tells WIRED. “We are internationalizing more deeply and I’m excited to expand the innovation sandbox, the early stage expo and startup ecosystem, and that’s really about supporting the next generation of AI-driven cyber companies and secure by design innovators to produce high-quality software. In many ways we are living through an inflection point.”