Pre-Conference Workshops: March 7 - 9

Accelerate: March 9 - 13

Mandalay Bay Convention Center | Las Vegas, NV

Pre-Conference Workshops: March 7 - 9

Accelerate: March 9 - 13

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Overview

Accelerate 2026 is coming—and it’s going to be our biggest event in Fortinet history! Las Vegas is where the future of secure networking takes the main stage. Accelerate 2026 brings together customers, partners, and Fortinet experts for critical sessions built to spark ideas, solve real-world challenges, and show what’s possible with an integrated security platform.

You’ll hear directly from industry experts and Fortinet leaders who will break down emerging threats, platform strategy, and the innovations shaping secure networking. You’ll also hear from organizations that have overhauled their security posture, improved performance, and streamlined operations with Fortinet. You can also dive into sessions that cut through complexity and make it easier to get more value from your secure networking, Unified SASE, SOC, and OT investments.

If you’re looking for hands-on depth, you’ll have it. If you need product insights and roadmaps, they’re here. If you want to understand how AI is being built into solutions to raise security and automation across your environment, you’ll see it firsthand.

Session categories include: 

  • Voice of the Customer
  • Products and Solutions
  • Technical
  • Fast Track Workshops
  • Sponsor Sessions
  • Partner Sessions
  • Pre-Conference Workshops*
    * optional, available for an additional cost

Solutions Sessions

Step into the future of cybersecurity with AI-driven threat intelligence, automation, and protection, integrated into a single platform. Join this session to discover how FortiAI-Protect innovations enable visibility and control over GenAI applications and address their risks. Explore how FortiAI-Assist drives agentic operations across the NOC and SOC, offering autonomous response and faster decisions. And, see how these capabilities integrate with our FortiAI-SecureAI framework to safeguard AI models and large language models (LLMs). Get all the details on how Fortinet’s innovative AI approach delivers better protection and autonomy across your infrastructure.

AI and quantum computing are changing everything, and cybersecurity is no different. To stay ahead of threats and trends, we continally update FortiOS and our custom-built silicon chips to ensure that the FortiGate network firewall offers the latest innovations built for the future of security. Find out how our ASICs ensure the highest performance, and AI-powered security services protect from even the newest, most sophisticated threats. Learn why FortiOS is future-ready with post-quantum cryptography, and how SASE capabilities are tied to the firewall to support the next generation of security architectures. Join this session to hear all the details about how Fortinet is changing the network firewall landscape.

The wired and wireless network is often the largest attack surface in any business. Fortinet Secure LAN converges foundational networking technology with security and services, delivering simplified operations and better business outcomes. Find out how our customers are using Fortinet switches and access points and why they chose Fortinet in a very crowded market.

Managing a large deployment of networking and security technology often means multiple interfaces and manual operations. Not with Fortinet. FortiManager is more than a configuration tool; it's a central network management hub for the Fortinet Security Fabric. Attend this session to learn how FortiManager leverages AI to streamline the management experience and automate everyday tasks to save you time, improve network security, and maintain network uptime.

In a world where users, devices, and applications are everywhere, organizations need a unified, adaptive, and intelligent security strategy. That's where Fortinet Unified SASE comes in. Join us to learn how Fortinet uniquely converges networking and security into a single platform. AI-driven operations with FortiAI-Assist, 170+ global PoPs, data sovereignty, universal ZTNA, and comprehensive SaaS and data protection are all delivered through one OS with one agent and one management console. We’ll share real-world examples of how customers reduce costs, accelerate time-to-value, and improve user experience. Plus, get insights into why Fortinet leads with the most integrated, flexible, and intelligent unified SASE platform.

What will SD-WAN's role be in the next evolution of networking and security? As organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies and hybrid work models, network complexity is increasing. SD-WAN has revolutionized modern networking, and emerging technologies like SASE, GenAI, and zero trust are expanding its possibilities for the future. In this session, we’ll break down why SD-WAN is still essential and how it fits into today’s rapidly shifting IT landscape. Get actionable insights on how SD-WAN is the cornerstone of SASE and how to enhance your network’s performance and resiliency.

Securing modern applications is not a one-time event but a continuous journey that begins at the first line of code. From development through deployment across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, every stage introduces new risks. The challenge has intensified with AI-assisted coding, which accelerates development but also increases exposure of sensitive data in the cloud.

Organizations need new strategies to gain visibility, reduce risk, and proactively protect everything from DevOps pipelines to SecOps.

In this session, we will explore and demonstrate how to secure cloud-native applications and workloads in an AI-driven future.

Security teams are under pressure to move faster, respond smarter, and do more with fewer resources. This session reveals how organizations are modernizing their security operations with the Fortinet SOC Platform, leveraging a unified strategy that combines next-generation SIEM, SOAR, and AI into a single operational foundation that evolves with their needs, enabling a SOC that adapts. Hear directly from peers who have transformed investigations, reduced response times, and unlocked measurable improvements in efficiency, resilience, and security outcomes.

With the majority of attacks originating at the endpoint, organizations need protection that unifies prevention, access, and reponse to detect, contain, and respond to threats faster—while simplifying management and reducing agent sprawl. FortiEndpoint, a unified endpoint platform, brings together prevention (EPP), detection and response (EDR), virtual private network (VPN), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) into a single, integrated platform. In this session, find out how FortiEndpoint simplifies endpoint management, enhances visibility, and strengthens protection across users and devices. Plus, see how customers gain faster time-to-protection, lower operational overhead, and consistent security everywhere—all through one agent, one console, and one unified approach to endpoint security.

Securing sensitive data against theft or exposure—due to malicious insiders or untrained employees—is a complex, ongoing challenge. Join this session to explore end-to-end data security strategies across the network, endpoint, and cloud, protecting data in motion, in use, and at rest. We’ll examine effective approaches to preventing data loss and managing insider risk and share the latest insights into the behaviors and profiles that pose the greatest threats. You’ll learn how to identify what data your organization holds, where it resides, how sensitive it is, and how it’s being used or exposed—so you can secure it with confidence.

Security leaders face mounting challenges in managing risk and responding to threats like ransomware. Legacy vulnerability management programs generate overwhelming alert volumes, miss critical blind spots in the attack surface, and deliver poor ROI. Compounding these is the problem of tool sprawl that paralyzes security teams and slows down incident response. Join this session to explore how FortiRecon can help SOC teams reduce real-world risk and alert fatigue by prioritizing exposures using offensive validation based on an adversarial view of your organization.

Visibility is important. But what you do with it is more critical and actually determines your security posture. Data and vulnerability information can be rendered useless if it is stuck in a workflow or waiting to be prioritized for mitigation. Join us as we discuss OT device risk and mitigation strategies, including automated actions. More importantly, we'll demonstrate how to take rich visibility "detection" information and make it "actionable" to quickly, efficiently, and thoroughly mitigate OT device risk.

Maintaining security operations is resource and operationally intensive. This session highlights how organizations achieve always-on protection through FortiGuard SOC-as-a-Service offering threat monitoring, incident handling, and response to defend critical environments continuously. Attend this session to hear from your peers how Fortinet is making 24/7 security operations accessible to organizations of any size, enabling teams to shift from operational overload to proactive protection, gaining speed, clarity, and predictable outcomes without increasing internal complexity.

Technical Sessions

Learn how FortiManager platform brings together single-pane management across on-prem, cloud, LAN, WAN, Edge, SD-WAN, SASE, and ZTNA, combined with AIOps and Agentic AI to automate routine operations, improve uptime, scale performance and move NOCs from reactive towards predictive and more autonomous operations.

Discover how FortiGuard Labs identifies, analyzes, and neutralizes global threats at machine speed. Through the combined power of FortiRecon threat actor insights, Threat Landscape Reports, and Outbreak intelligence, this session reveals how actionable threat context enables organizations to stay ahead of fast-moving campaigns and strengthen their cyber resilience.

This session covers unified data protection for sensitive information in use, in motion, and at rest. Attendees will learn how AI-based detection and policy-driven DLP prevent data leaks—including through AI tools—while providing end-to-end visibility across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

Dive into the latest advancements in Threat Detection & Incident Response (TDIR), from deep network-based detection using NDR and deception, to cutting-edge AI-powered malware analysis with FortiSandbox. This session highlights emerging capabilities, integration workflows, and practical tips to combat advanced threats and elevate your security operations.

The Cloud and application landscape continues to evolve, adapting to the AI-era. Organizations use of AI agents and applications quickly expand the attack surface exposing customer to various new threats. In this session we’ll explore how Fortinet cloud and application security solutions secure cloud infrastructure and (Web and API) Applications in the new AI era.

In an era where hybrid work, diverse device ecosystems, and sophisticated cyber-threats place unprecedented strain on IT and security teams, a unified approach to endpoint protection and management has become essential. This session provides an overview of a modern Unified Endpoint Solution that combines secure zero trust access, next-generation endpoint protection, advanced Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Attendees will learn how unified policies, centralized management, and integrated threat intelligence can streamline endpoint security, strengthen protection across diverse devices, and simplify IT operations and attack-surface management.

As organizations expand across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, traditional perimeter-centric security models are no longer sufficient. This session explores how FortiOS 8.0.0 introduces a new era of AI-driven threat defence designed to secure today's distributed and dynamic attack surface. Attendees will gain insights into the latest advancements in Fortinet’s security architecture, including enhanced AI-powered detection and the powerful new hardware platforms that extend protection beyond the perimeter.

Build Unified-LAN integrated with Fortinet’s Security Fabric providing single point of management, extending Security to edge of the wired and wireless network. We will discuss latest on Switches and Access-points, FortiLink technology, Fabric integrated access control. Last but not the least, learn how recent additions on FortiAIOps continue to provide meaningful and actionable AI-driven insights into entire network.

As organizations accelerate their adoption of SaaS and cloud applications, the stability of their underlying network becomes mission-critical. Performance issues, brownouts, and latency threaten business continuity, a risk heightened by architectures dependent on centralized controllers. In this session, we’ll explore how Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN architecture was purpose-built around a completely decentralized model—one where every device can independently self-heal and automatically self-correct during outages or degradation.

Discover how Fortinet uses AI to enhance visibility, detect threats, and protect OT environments without adding operational complexity. This session explores how AI-driven insights help identify assets, spot abnormal behaviour, and reduce risk across OT environments.

With organizations increasingly adopting generative and agentic AI tools, they are exposed to growing risks such as prompt injection, data loss, and compliance challenges. The fast-evolving, interconnected nature of AI models, applications, and APIs expands the overall attack surface, producing new regulatory hurdles and operational visibility gaps. This session will explore the Fortinet solutions that help secure the modern AI Data Center with enterprise grade performance, application security and delivery.

This session introduces how FortiAI Agentic powers NOC/SOC operations through an open, secure multi-agent framework, aligned with upcoming FOS 8.0 enhancements and improved device identity to drive more efficient and unified operations.

See first-hand how your Enterprise IT team can deploy FortiSASE and ZTNA like a pro! Witness the power of FortiSASE as we seamlessly secure a hybrid workforce while providing lightning-fast connectivity to business-critical applications. Plus, you’ll see how FortiAI-assisted Digital Experience Monitoring can be used to diagnose and solve SaaS application performance issues.

Learn how the FortiSOC platform unifies Agentic AI, Analyzer, SIEM, SOAR and TIP with SOCaaS best practices into a single platform to reshape the future of SOC, where AI agents work across workflows to accelerate decisions and move SOCs toward a more autonomous, intelligent, and resilient operation.

Discover how to secure the whole suite of  colaboration tools - mail and beyond -  being used within your organization. Collaborative working has many benefits, but tools can sometimes be seen as invisible and uncontrollable. Whether its Cloud, SEG, Hybrid or more, we show how our Secure Mail & Workspace platform solves challenges.

Attack surface is not static. It is ever growing in terms of scale and complexity. We continue to see new devices -xOTs, applications coming on the network in all verticals. Join to us to learn Fortinet solutions and FortiGuard services for device discovery, vulnerability detection, granular network access control enabling zero-trust paradigm and deep visibility into devices and users coming on board your network. Provide best user experience to users – internal and external as well as xOT devices while keeping your network secure.

Executive Speakers

Ken Xie
Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Fortinet
John Whittle
Chief Operating Officer
Fortinet
Jaime Romero
EVP of Marketing
Fortinet
Christiane Ohlgart
Chief Financial Officer
Fortinet
Robert May
EVP, Technology & Product Management
Fortinet
Trevor Pagliara
EVP, US Sales
Fortinet, Inc
Joe Sarno
EVP International Sales
Fortinet

High-Level Agenda

Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops continued

Accelerate Arrivals & Check-In

Ultimate Fabric Challenge

Welcome Reception

General Session

Lunch & Tech Expo

Afternoon Sessions

Tech Expo Happy Hour

Morning Sessions

Lunch & Tech Expo

Afternoon Sessions

Tech Expo Happy Hour

Morning Sessions

Lunch & Tech Expo

Afternoon Sessions

Closing Party

Departures

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FAQs

Accelerate is where industry leaders, visionaries, and partners come together to shape the future of cybersecurity. Customers and Partners will gain exclusive insights into the advancements and strategies that fuel Fortinet’s pioneering solutions, from cutting-edge technology and threat intelligence to resilient infrastructure. Together, we are building a secure, thriving digital future.

The conference will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

Pre-Conference Workshops will be held on March 8 and 9. Plan to arrive in Las Vegas on March 7.

Accelerate will begin on March 9. Attendees will depart on March 13.

There are two options for registration:

Pre-Conference Workshops + Accelerate: $2,795.00
Accelerate: $1,995.00

Special rates have been negotiated for Accelerate attendees at Mandalay Bay and W (formerly Delano) Hotels. Back by popular demand, the option to pre-pay for your hotel stay is available during registration.

Registration is now live! Start the registration process click here

You may request an invitation during registration. 

Your Accelerate registration may be canceled with no penalty until February 9, 2026 (1 month before event start date). From February 10 to March 1 , a 50% cancelation fee will be imposed. After March 2nd, no refunds will be allowed.

Mandalay Bay or The W Hotel Las Vegas reservations not canceled at least Seventy-Two (72) hours in advance of the confirmed arrival date will be subject to the cancellation charge equal to the first night’s room/suite rate, and tax.

To cancel, please contact us at accelerate@fortinet.com.

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