March Cyber Madness Live From Automotive Cybersecurity Summit 2026

March Cyber Madness brought the full-court pressure to Upstream’s booth at the Automotive Cybersecurity Summit 2026 in Ann Arbor, and the industry showed up to compete.
The conversation on the court this year was clear: the threat landscape has shifted. As AI, MCPs, and LLMs become embedded across the Connected vehicle ecosystem, the leaders who win are the ones building real-time security programs that can keep pace with intelligent, fast-moving threats.
Executives from across the industry stepped in to talk detection, response, and what a winning cybersecurity posture actually looks like in an AI-driven world.
No warm-up. No timeouts. Just the real game.
Watch the full lineup and hear from the leaders who showed up to play.

Featuring:
Monica Mitchell, Cybersecurity Lead for Intelligent Cockpit SBU, HARMAN International
Hannah Perez, Senior Embedded Security Engineer, Polaris Inc.
Vivek Venkatachalam, Senior Director, Vehicle and Connected Cybersecurity, Ford Motor Company
Pawel Brzezinski, Head of Cybersecurity Domain, HARMAN Automotive Engineering Services Bill Mazzara, Board Member, GlobalPlatform | Regulatory Lead and Technical Fellow for Product Cybersecurity, Stellantis
Hassan Elkhatib, CSMS Architect, TRATON R&D
Saif Salih, Staff Systems Engineer, Torc Robotics
Robert Schiff, Senior Manager, Transformation Programs, ZF Group
Dan O’Reilly, Vehicle and Mobility Cybersecurity Supervisor, Ford Motor Company
Cameron Walker, Embedded Cybersecurity Engineer, Ford Motor Company