Cyber resilience is the ultimate team sport
In an era of autonomous agents and machine-speed threats, you can’t win from the sidelines. Join us in Las Vegas to fuse data, security, and AI into a single, high-performance strategy.





























In-Person Agenda
Browse every session and register for your favourites to make Forward all your own.
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Come grab your Forward badge starting at 12 PM to beat the rush and ensure you’re ready for the week ahead.
Read more Read less5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Kick off Rubrik Forward with an evening of live music, food & drinks, and the high-octane networking that turn industry peers into lifelong partners.
Read more Read less7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
Fuel your day with a premium breakfast spread before we dive into a high-impact agenda.
Read more Read less7:30 AM - 4:15 PM PDT
The Hub of the Event. Stop by for exclusive sponsor access, live activations, and networking. It’s the one place you won't want to miss for a good time.
Read more Read less8:30 AM - 10:15 AM PDT
Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Rubrik
Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder & CTO, Rubrik
Join Rubrik leadership and industry visionaries to explore the cutting edge of product innovation and the next era of Cyber Resilience.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Threats now move at machine speed, rendering human-driven dashboards and manual recovery officially broken. It’s time for a paradigm shift: Rubrik is evolving from a platform you operate to one that operates for you. Join us as we reimagine cyber resilience. On top of unifying data, identity, and AI, we are also introducing the industry’s first autonomous cyber resilience agent—designed to anticipate, execute, and self-correct on your behalf.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Your cloud environment is evolving rapidly, and the threats against it are moving even faster. This session pulls back the curtain on the Rubrik Cloud Data Protection roadmap. See exactly how we are expanding our defenses across the entire modern app stack—from source code to mission-critical Database PaaS. Discover breakthrough new capabilities designed to slash recovery times, ensure clean restorations, and fundamentally redefine how you operate cloud resilience.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Rubrik does a lot more than backup and recovery. But most teams start there and never get around to the rest. Cyber Recovery Simulation, Threat Monitoring, and Sensitive Data Discovery are capabilities that can change how your organization thinks about cyber resilience, and they're already in your hands. This session is the practical guide to turning them on, tuning them up, and proving to your board that you can recover within your SLAs. Real timelines, real resource requirements, and a maturity framework you can take home.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Raf Kelly, Identity Sales Engineer, Rubrik
Identity has evolved from a simple access point into an active weapon for environment-wide disruption. Attackers now exploit identity persistence to ensure they can bypass initial containment and maintain a long-term presence. Once established, they weaponize the identity provider (IdP) and management tools like Intune to dismantle defenses and trigger mass disruption. This session deconstructs the anatomy of these attacks, providing a practical blueprint for tackling identity persistence, accelerate recovery when your own infrastructure is turned against you.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 3:45 PM PDT
Hear from leadership, gain exclusive insights, and equip yourself to elevate your partnerships with Rubrik.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Dev Rishi, GM, AI, Rubrik
The gap between a successful AI prototype and a reliable production agent is wider than most teams realize. Without a centralized platform for monitoring and governance, "Agentic AI" is just another word for "unmanaged risk." This session goes through Rubrik Agent Cloud and will demonstrate how to move past the pilot phase into production by providing the visibility and remediation tools necessary to keep your agents secure, compliant, and performing at peak efficiency.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Your most critical data isn't in your databases, it's in your files. The IP, patient records, financial documents, and legal files that attackers hold hostage live in unstructured data, and most recovery strategies replicate the malware right alongside it. This session breaks down how to build an immutable, air-gapped recovery tier, identify exactly what was compromised across billions of files, and recover with precision, so paying a ransom never enters the conversation.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
After a systemic breach, your production becomes untrustworthy. The industry’s answer? Buy a Clean Room. But if Security finds the threat and IT has nowhere to rebuild and restore, your business stays offline.
Let's dismantle this myth and build the blueprint for an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE). Break the IT/Security bottleneck and rebuild in parallel, turning the lights back on while your datacenter is wiped clean.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Head to the Expo floor for an amazing lunch paired with networking and the chance to connect directly with our sponsor ecosystem.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Mallika Swaminathan, Business Line Leader (Senior Director, Product Management), SaaS, Rubrik
Mohammad Akram, Staff Product Manager M365, Rubrik
In an era where weaponized AI can corrupt data in seconds, traditional backup processes are no longer enough to protect your organization. Join us for the unveiling of Rubrik’s evolved cyber resilience platform to discover how to defend against identity-based attacks, secure AI pipelines, and ensure M365 SaaS data remains unstoppable. This session will demonstrate how to safeguard your Minimum Viable Business by leveraging our agentic cyber resilience platform to provide comprehensive, end-to-end protection across your data, identity, and AI.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Your DevOps platforms are the engine of innovation—and a massive single point of failure. As AI coding assistants accelerate production, they are also introducing a staggering 153% increase in complex architectural flaws. Bad AI-generated code can contaminate your entire pipeline without a reliable rollback option. Join us to learn why enterprise-grade DevOps recovery is the cornerstone of safe AI adoption, and see how to secure and recover your critical repositories in just a few clicks.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Bad guys love AI, and so do the good guys. Externally, attackers are using AI to probe and exploit your network. Internally, your business leaders are rushing to deploy AI agents, creating a massive blast radius for data exposure. You cannot out-manage this dual threat—you must out-architect it. Join us as we demonstrate the power of our Agentic Cyber Resilience that unifies platform designed to secure your data, identity, and AI actions.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
James Purvis, RVP of Sales & GTM, Identity, Rubrik
When identity fails, the war room becomes a high-stakes test of business continuity where the cost of downtime is measured in lost trust and halted operations. This session cuts through the chaos, sharing hard-won recovery strategies from fellow leaders who have navigated the "fragility gap." Join your peers to extract the best practices needed to build a resilient, recovery-oriented identity architecture that protects your bottom line and ensures your business stays operational.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Every headline is about AI and identity. But none of it works without recoverable data underneath. This session is the EDP state of the union, straight from the product leader who owns the roadmap. What shipped this year. What's coming next. And why Rubrik is investing more in data protection, not less.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Lauren Anderson, Product Marketing Principal, Industry Solutions, Rubrik
Cyberattacks on healthcare average 28 days recovery time, during which mortality rates increase 28% and medical errors spike 30%. This session introduces the Minimum Viable Hospital framework—identifying the absolute minimum technological capabilities required for safe patient care during extended downtime, from EHRs and pharmacy systems to critical communication tools. Learn practical MVH strategies including application dependency mapping, recovery prioritization, and pre-planned crisis response to maintain patient safety and operational continuity during severe cyber incidents.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
You’re juggling with multiple hypervisors, managing hybrid environments, and trying to evolve your infrastructure without migrating hidden malware in the process. This session shows you how Rubrik acts as your cyber safety net, giving you the clean data mobility and unified control to decouple security from the hypervisor, proactively hunt threats, and protect your entire estate with a single SLA policy.
Read more Read less4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
Head back to the mainstage for enlightening discussions with the industry’s most influential voices on the future of the AI and security landscape.
Read more Read less6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
An exclusive gathering of Rubrik practitioners who protect, defend, and recover what matters most. Whether it's swapping stories, tackling challenges together, or simply enjoying good company with fellow practitioners in the trenches - this huddle is built for you. Come for the conversations, stay for the connections, and leave with a circle of resilience that lasts.
Read more Read less7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
Fuel your day with a premium breakfast spread before we dive into a high-impact agenda.
Read more Read less7:30 AM - 5:30 PM PDT
The Hub of the Event. Stop by for exclusive sponsor access, live activations, and networking. It’s the one place you won't want to miss for a good time.
Read more Read less8:30 AM - 10:15 AM PDT
Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Rubrik
Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder & CTO, Rubrik
We’re closing the mainstage with an unforgettable session. Join us for a final word from a world-class guest speaker—designed to challenge your thinking and celebrate our community.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Dev Rishi, GM, AI, Rubrik
AI is accelerating cyberattacks and expanding the blast radius across identity and data systems. At the same time, fragmented security tools slow response, obscure impact, and make clean recovery harder. This session explores how organizations unify identity resilience, data security, and AI agent operations into a single control plane to reduce risk, contain impact, and recover trust across modern hybrid environments.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Sovereignty isn't just where your data lives. It's who can touch it, who can operate it, and whether anything leaves your borders at all. Defense ministries, financial institutions, EU enterprises, they all define it differently. And until now, meeting those requirements meant sacrificing the threat detection and recovery capabilities you actually need. This session shows how Rubrik delivers full cyber resilience no matter how you define sovereignty.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Security demands you track every piece of PII. The business demands your Oracle and SQL databases run at lightning speed. Because traditional scanners tank your IOPS, you’re forced to fly blind—hoping ransomware doesn’t find what you couldn’t. This session shows how Rubrik ends the trade-off. Learn how to achieve total data visibility with zero performance penalty. We will show you how Data Discovery and Classification shifts the heavy lifting to your backup infrastructure, analyzing your data inside the Rubrik Secure Vault to map sensitive exposure without ever touching your live database.
Read more Read less10:45 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Damani Norman, SE Manager - AI, Rubrik
While building an AI agent takes days, deploying it safely often takes months because traditional, static governance fails to grasp the dynamic intent of autonomous behavior. Join us for the technical unveiling of SAGE (Semantic AI Governance Engine), the intelligent core of Rubrik Agent Cloud that replaces rigid filters with a purpose-built Small Language Model. By using AI to govern AI, SAGE understands the context of every interaction in real time, transforming natural language policies into machine-speed enforcement to ensure your agents follow the "spirit" of your rules without the bottleneck of manual reviews.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Your production environment is compromised. Your hypervisor is encrypted. Your admin credentials are stolen. Now what? This session tears open the engineering that keeps Rubrik standing when everything else falls: append-only immutability, no Windows dependencies, no open protocols, a clock that can't be poisoned, and a metadata index that hunts threats across 50,000 snapshots in under a minute. If you're evaluating Rubrik, this is where you get your "how" answers.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Native snapshots and manual scripts offer a quick start in the cloud, but they fail spectacularly against modern adversaries. It’s time to move beyond the dangerous illusion that cloud durability equals cyber resilience. This session breaks down the "4 Levels of Cloud Cyber Resilience." Learn how to self-assess your posture, uncover hidden architectural blind spots, and master the capabilities required to graduate to enterprise-wide visibility, fully managed air-gapping, and proven recovery readiness.
Read more Read less11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Irshad Allana, Director of Product Management, SaaS, Rubrik
In the modern enterprise, Google Workspace has evolved from a productivity tool into a mission-critical operating system. While Google provides world-class availability, the responsibility for Data Resilience—the ability to recover from corruption, deletion, or compromise—remains with the enterprise. Today, this challenge is compounded by two new variables: the vulnerability of the identity plane and the high-velocity nature of AI-driven data interaction.
Read more Read less12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Head to the Expo floor for an amazing lunch paired with networking and the chance to connect directly with our sponsor ecosystem.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
If you're still manually managing backup policies across thousands of workloads, you're not just slow. You're exposed. This session is for the practitioners who run Rubrik at massive scale and want to automate everything: policy management, SIEM/SOAR integration, compliance reporting, and workload onboarding. All API-first. All production-tested. You'll leave with code you can deploy Monday morning.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
In the "assume breach" era, perimeter defenses will fail. The survival of your business hinges entirely on a single question: How fast can you safely recover? Join an exclusive fireside chat with an enterprise IT leader who architected true cyber resilience for their mission-critical cloud. See the blueprint they used to establish an air-gapped foundation, leverage continuous threat intelligence to identify clean data, and transform unpredictable downtime into automated, confident recovery.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Noam Perel, Security Field CTO, Rubrik
Attackers don’t break in; they log in. Once inside, they exploit identity persistence—using static, long-lived credentials to dwell in your environment for weeks or months. In this session, we’ll dive into an anatomy of attack, tracing a real-world breach from the initial credential harvest to lateral movement and full domain dominance. You'll see exactly how "forever" identities provide the oxygen attackers need to thrive. Don't let your identities become their permanent foothold. Learn how to make identity a dead end for attackers.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Marty Garvin, Head of Security, Rubrik
Cloud durability is not cyber resilience—and mistaking the two is a high-stakes strategic blind spot. This session moves leadership beyond the dangerous illusion of manual backups toward a strategic framework for eliminating architectural vulnerabilities. Learn to transition from reactive scripts to a defensible enterprise posture defined by immutable air-gapping, total visibility, and proven recovery readiness.
Read more Read less2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Join us for your chance to get hands on with the lab of your choosing.
- Camp Rubrik: Cyber Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: Databases
- Camp Rubrik: VMware
- Camp Rubrik: Kubernetes
- Camp Rubrik: CNP AWS
- Camp Rubrik: CNP Azure
- Camp Rubrik: Orchestrated Recovery
- Camp Rubrik: M365
- Camp Rubrik: Identity Resilience
- Camp Rubrik: Rubrik Agent Cloud
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Alka Tandon, Sr. Director, Product Management, Rubrik
Modern cloud applications are intricate webs of dependencies. When a cyberattack strikes, attempting to piece together isolated workloads forces IT into a chaotic, manual scramble. Backing up individual components is no longer enough to survive. Join Rubrik product leaders and an early design partner to explore a massive paradigm shift in cloud resilience. Discover how to move beyond fragmented backups and shift toward a strategy that protects and recovers your complex application ecosystems as a whole.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Shyam Rajaram, Field Technology Strategist, Rubrik
Modern security is only as strong as its weakest integration. As identity becomes the primary attack surface, organizations must shift from fragmented management to a unified, resilient stack. This session explores how to bake Identity Resilience directly into your existing infrastructure by leveraging deep integrations with industry leaders like Okta, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft Intune. We will demonstrate how to create a "bi-directional" defense where identity signals and endpoint telemetry work in tandem to detect persistence before it takes root. Attendees will leave with a technical blueprint for configuring their stack to ensure that even if a perimeter fails, the identity layer remains a self-healing fortress.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
In recovering from a cyberattack, if you attempt to rebuild 100% of your infrastructure, 100% of your business will be stuck waiting. Recovery isn’t about saving the data center—it’s about restarting the revenue engine.
Join us to build a framework for restoring your Minimum Viable Business (MVB). Learn how to ruthlessly prioritize core identity and Tier-1 apps to resume operations in hours, not weeks.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
In this deep-dive session, we perform a digital autopsy on a sophisticated, AI-driven breach to expose how modern attackers use automated intelligence to bypass legacy perimeters and accelerate data exfiltration. By breaking down the anatomy of a live attack, we demonstrate how Rubrik Agent Cloud moves beyond simple recovery to become a proactive neutralization engine. You will see RAC in action as it provides the essential framework to monitor for real-time anomalies, govern data access and posture to prevent lateral movement, and rewind compromised environments to a known clean state with surgical precision.
Read more Read less3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PDT
Your data lakehouse isn't just for analytics anymore. It's the operational engine powering your enterprise AI and machine learning pipelines. Yet these data lakehouses and the massive layers of unstructured data sitting on Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage are often completely unprotected. Join experts from AWS and Rubrik to explore why this modern data layer can't go unprotected. Then hear from one of our leading customers how they protected the data lakehouse their whole business depends on.
Read more Read less7:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
Experience the ultimate Vegas takeover at the Rubrik Forward Party, featuring "can't-miss" entertainment and gourmet eats and drinks that will turn the night into a legendary celebration.
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