Thursday, May 28 from 6:00–10:00 PM | F1 Arcade Seaport
Get On the Grid: The Cyber Summer Kickoff Party
As a Founding Host, we’re launching the inaugural Boston Tech Week by bringing the cybersecurity community together for a summer kickoff. Join peers and industry leaders for an evening of conversation, connection, and some friendly competition.
Boston’s cybersecurity community is coming together for an evening to officially kick off the summer. From practitioners to CISOs, this event brings together the people operating, building, and leading security teams.
We'll be kicking off the event with a keynote from Coach Mike Vrabel — and the connection runs deeper than you think.
Vrabel took over a Patriots team coming off back-to-back 4-13 seasons. Every analyst said the rebuild would take years. He delivered a 14-3 record, a 10-game win streak, a Super Bowl appearance, and the single largest turnaround in NFL history — in one season.
The cybersecurity leaders in this room are being told the same thing: AI transformation takes years. Vrabel's story is the perfect counter-argument. The right leadership, the right system, and the right mindset collapse timelines. That's true on a football field. It's true in security.
What to Expect
Live Panels & Full Venue Takeover
Keynote with Coach Mike Vrabel: Hear how the leadership principles behind the greatest single-season turnaround in NFL history apply directly to AI transformation in security – and why the teams winning today aren't waiting years to get there.
AI in Production: Operators, Defenders, and Investors Panel: This panel brings together voices from across the AI ecosystem: the people funding it, shipping it, and running it at scale.
F1® Racing Simulators: 3+ hours of unlimited racing. The F1® Arcade experience is accessible to all skill levels and designed for casual competition and fun between conversations.
Food & Drinks: Hosted food and drinks throughout the evening to refuel and recharge.
Networking
Build new connections, reconnect with familiar faces, and learn from practitioners and leaders shaping the Boston cybersecurity community.
Who Should Attend
Attendance is reserved for cybersecurity professionals and subject to confirmation.
Right off the bat we've seen an 80% reduction in tier 1 analyst time. As those tickets progressed through the funnel, we've seen easily a 95-99% reduction in the tickets that human beings have to look at. Incredible outcome. We believe this is the world’s largest, most successful AI SOC deployment.
Mike Baker
CISO of DXC Technology
I’ve envisioned this for five years – AI handling the mundane alert triage so my team could focus on creative, strategic security work. 7AI made it real, scaling our team's capacity 10x and freeing analysts from burnout to work on the interesting challenges that actually matter.
Kyle Kurdziolek
VP of Security at BigID
We started looking at 7AI a few months ago and in my mind... this totally makes sense, this is the future. The proof is in the pudding - it doesn't take very long. Within the first few weeks, you're going to know. This is not an ERP implementation.
Jason Thomas
CIO of Cole, Scott & Kissane
We know our teams divide their time on “run, grow and transform” activities. What drew met o 7AI was the vision that AI agents could handle the 'run' work—the endless alert triage—so my team could focus on 'grow and transform' work. Since implementing 7AI, we've changed how our security team operates, with people spending their time on strategic work instead of sorting through noise.
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Right off the bat we've seen an 80% reduction in tier 1 analyst time. As those tickets progressed through the funnel, we've seen easily a 95-99% reduction in the tickets that human beings have to look at. Incredible outcome. We believe this is the world’s largest, most successful AI SOC deployment.
I’ve envisioned this for five years – AI handling the mundane alert triage so my team could focus on creative, strategic security work. 7AI made it real, scaling our team's capacity 10x and freeing analysts from burnout to work on the interesting challenges that actually matter.
We started looking at 7AI a few months ago and in my mind... this totally makes sense, this is the future. The proof is in the pudding - it doesn't take very long. Within the first few weeks, you're going to know. This is not an ERP implementation.-1.png)
We know our teams divide their time on “run, grow and transform” activities. What drew met o 7AI was the vision that AI agents could handle the 'run' work—the endless alert triage—so my team could focus on 'grow and transform' work. Since implementing 7AI, we've changed how our security team operates, with people spending their time on strategic work instead of sorting through noise.