Hosted by Anzenna · Phoenix, AZ

Boots& Bourbon

An evening with security leaders

Date
Thursday, October 8
Time
5 – 8 PM
Where
The Gladly
Phoenix, AZ
A western boot
The conversation

A small, peer-only conversation about the modern risk cases keeping your team up at night

What to expect

An evening measured to fit

No badges, no pitch decks. Just a well-made room, a good pour, and people who carry the same weight you do.

01
On us

A pair of Tecovas boots

Picked on-site, fitted to you. Yours to keep, a proper pair of Western boots.

02
The bar

A high-end bourbon selection

Plus craft cocktails, poured through the evening.

03
The table

An awesome curated menu

New American plates from The Gladly kitchen, served through the evening. Graze as the conversation moves.

04
The company

20–30 regional security leaders

Peers only. The kind of room where notes get traded honestly.

Request an invitation

Reserve your spot. Space is limited.

RSVP to secure your place at Boots & Bourbon, and trade notes with peers rather than sit through another vendor deck.

Date
Thursday, October 8
Time
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location
The Gladly
2201 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix
Dress
Come as you are, leave in new boots

We review every request to keep the room peer-only. You'll hear back within two business days.

Request received.

Thank you, we'll be in touch shortly to confirm your place at Boots & Bourbon.

Ganesh Krishnan
your host
In the room

Ganesh Krishnan

CEO & Co-Founder, Anzenna

Ganesh will be there all evening, less a host, more a peer. Come trade notes on what's actually keeping your team up at night, and what changes when AI lands on both sides of the fight.

Ganesh, Co-Founder and CEO of Anzenna, is a seasoned security practitioner and technology leader with over 25 years of experience. Before founding Anzenna, he was an EIR (Entrepreneur In Residence) at 8VC and VP of Engineering at Sophos, which acquired his startup, Avid Secure.

Previously, he served as CISO at Atlassian and LinkedIn, where he also led Privacy Engineering and bootstrapped the LinkedIn India Technology Center. Ganesh was VP of Information Security and CISO at Yahoo! Inc. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Nima Vazindel
co-host
In the room

Nima Vazindel

VP Sales, Anzenna

Nima will be there through the evening too, ready to swap real stories from the field. Pull up a chair and talk shop about what's actually landing on your team's plate right now.

Nima leads sales at Anzenna and spends most of his time with CISOs and their teams, working through how their people and AI agents actually handle company data. A decade in cybersecurity, much of it alongside the teams who live with insider risk, shapes how he sees the problem.

His take is that two problems are colliding. Alerts pile up faster than any team can work through them, and the quickest way for sensitive data to leave now is a prompt or a personal AI account. Anzenna reads user and agent behavior in context, so it can quiet that alert load and surface the AI activity most tools never see. That is the conversation he enjoys having with peers.

Getting there

The Gladly, Phoenix.

2201 E Camelback Rd,
Phoenix, AZ 85016

Date
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Time
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Parking
On-site and nearby parking