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Mountain State Cyber Summit

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025 | 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Morgantown Marriott

Shaping Our Digital Future, Together.

Join top leaders to explore the latest advances in cyber defense, threat intelligence, AI, and the digital future. Strengthen your skills, network, and gain invaluable insights into what's next. This is where cyber meets collaboration. Help shape a more secure future, together.

Attendance is free for government, military, nonprofit, and academic professionals, including students.

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2025 Topics at a Glance

Cyber Threat Intelligence

With over 600 million cyberattacks happening daily, how is the threat landscape evolving, and how can intelligence guide stronger national and state defense?

Critical Infrastructure

As cyberattacks increasingly target essential systems like energy, water, and transportation, what solutions can strengthen resilience and fortify our national and state security?

Healthcare and MedTech

From patient records to medical devices, how does cyber impact care today, and what innovations are shaping secure, connected health?

Cyber in Government

What strategies best protect public systems, strengthen resilience in local, state, and national operations, and ensure policy keeps pace with growing cyber threats?

Cyber and Artificial Intelligence Innovation

How are advances in AI, cyber innovation, and applied research working to outpace threats and shape the next generation of defense?

Education and Workforce Development

With a global talent gap, how can training, credentials, and hands-on learning prepare the workforce needed to meet escalating cyber threats?

Full agenda coming soon...

2025 Speakers

Meet the experts shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Additional speakers to be announced. Final lineup subject to change.

Michael T. Benson

President of West Virginia University

Brian Carbaugh

CEO of Andesite AI

Wes Deadrick

Director at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Timothy Ferguson

FBI Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Information Services

Chris Hollifield

CEO of the Technology Advancement Center

Maj. Bill Keber

Director of US Blue Team, EX Locked Shields

Ming Lei

Interim Vice President of Research, WVU

Clay B. Marsh, MD

Chancellor and Executive Dean of West Virginia University Health Sciences

Jody Ogle

Senior Cybersecurity Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS

Chris Ramezan

Executive Director of Cyber-Resilience Resource Center

Travis Rosiek

Chief Technology Officer at Rubrik

Josh Spence

Chair of the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

Cory Simpson

CEO of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Bill Walker

Executive Director of National Security and Cyber Programs at WVU Cyber

Chuck Weissenborn

Chief Technology Officer at Dragos


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