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Threat modeling journeys: from 0-1, from good to great.
Join us for two action-packed days of practitioner-led talks, peer discussions and networking.

Call for Papers open now!
This year’s theme is Threat Modeling Journeys.
We’re inviting stories of how you started, scaled, or sharpened your threat modeling practices.
Submission deadline: August 8, 2025
- Share your voice in a global community
- Engage with a passionate, practitioner-led audience
- Get professional development support and speaker mentoring
- Join a growing movement advancing threat modeling and secure-by-design practices

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As a practice-oriented conference, we welcome proposals that explore real-world experience, hands-on techniques, and community-proof across all maturity levels.
- 30-minute presentation
- 70-minute interactive workshops
- 70-minute threat modeling game session
- New: 5-minute threat modeling story/mini case-study (for the un-keynote)*
- New: Poster sessions **
The Un-Keynote is back—a community-led session featuring five-minute flashbacks from real threat modeling journeys. Share a defining moment: how you got started, a tough lesson, a breakthrough, or what you’d do differently if starting today. These bite-sized stories highlight the human side of threat modeling and inspire others through honest, relatable experiences.

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New this year, poster sessions offer a visual, conversational way to share your work. Great for early-stage ideas, research, or prototypes, this format lets you engage one-on-one with attendees and spark informal, thoughtful discussions.
Speakers
Gain invaluable insights from top industry experts, seasoned practitioners, and thought leaders in threat modeling across technology, security consulting, academia, and beyond. Explore cutting-edge trends, delve into real-world case studies, and discover how these experts have empowered organizations to advance their threat modeling capabilities.
ThreatModCon’s iconic un-keynote is back. Four leading practitioners, four journeys, one shared passion for threat modeling.




Meet the industry experts speaking at this year’s event.

Senior AppSec Consultant at NVISO, Nathan helps teams across Europe embed security from design to delivery. He leads threat modeling workshops, secure design reviews, and lectures. Nathan turns AppSec into real-world impact and help fast-paced teams make threat modeling stick for good with no bullsh*t.

Dan has been quoted in CNBC, The Washington Post, WTOP News, The Today Show, and more. His accomplishments include being voted Best Real Estate Agent in DC by the Washington City Paper Readers Poll and being featured on The Nightly News with Brian Williams.

Dustin Lehr is the Application Security Advocate at Security Journey, Co-founder of Katilyst, and an accomplished software engineer and cybersecurity leader. He helps organizations build developer-centric programs that motivate and engage developers by leveraging behavioral science techniques.

Damian is obsessed with scaling security across agile development teams. He was a founding member of Workday’s product security champions program and, weirdly, seems to be happiest when helping teams to threat model their systems. Damian is a Sr. Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at Workday.

Taraka is a software engineer turned cybersecurity professional. His development background helps him identify software vulnerabilities and create practical security solutions. He specializes in secure SDLC design, automating code reviews, and leveraging AI to solve complex security challenges.

Areeb Khawaja is an engineer passionate about design thinking and emerging technologies, transforming ideas into impactful prototypes. With a background in Electrical Engineering and an MEng in Engineering Design, he blends human-centered design with technology to craft innovative solutions.

Vikramaditya holds a Master’s from Carnegie Mellon and is an Azure-certified AI Engineer. He built the prototype for an AI governance system that secured YC funding. Vikramaditya is now leading work on multi-agent threat modeling, using LLM-driven pre-mortems across layered agentic architectures to uncover emergent risks.

Marisa Fagan is Head of Product at Katilyst, a "security champions as a service" startup that's revolutionizing how organizations scale their security culture initiatives. She's dedicated her career to building security into the SDLC and empowering developers to own secure code. She lives in SF, CA.

Tony Lombardo is the marketing leader at ThreatModeler, where he brings a deep technical foundation and a growth-focused mindset to advancing the threat modeling. Tony has a background in Computer Science and brings a unique voice to the threat modeling space—one that speaks both code and customer.

Amir Kavousian is a two-time cybersecurity founder and the CEO of DevArmor, an AI-native platform reinventing threat modeling and security design reviews for the AI era. He also led engineering teams at Capital One and holds a PhD in Engineering from Stanford.
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Ian Justiniani has been in the Cybersecurity field for 9 years starting in utilities and now in the financial space specializing in app sec and threat modeling. He lives in Southern California with his wife and. two young boys. In his spare time he is out golfing and playing basketball.
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Dave is a veteran of the security industry, working across a range of industries and performing a range of security functions. An engineer and developer at heart, his focus has been more toward all aspects of application security, from finding vulnerabilities to designing and architecting solutions

Sebastien Deleersnyder, CTO Toreon, has a deep cybersecurity background. He has trained many developers in secure coding practices, started OWASP Belgium, contributed significantly to projects like SAMM. Now, he's focusing on integrating AppSec into DevOps and expanding the reach of threat modeling.
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First-time conference speakers? We’ve got you!
All accepted speakers will be paired with a mentor through our well-received Speaker Mentorship Program. Mentors are experienced threat modeling professionals and seasoned speakers who will support you with feedback, preparation tips, and coaching to help you succeed.
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