Represented CUSPTech festival
poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Fest
May 20, 2026 · St. Petersburg, FL
- Date
- May 20, 2026
- Location
- Mahaffey Theater
St. Petersburg, FL - Organized by
- Tampa Bay Tech
- Representing CUSP
- Anas Alkatib
Founder & Principal Security Advisor
The event
poweredUP is Tampa Bay Tech's annual tech festival, held this year at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg: a day of keynotes, panels, tech demos and networking with founders, business leaders, investors and security professionals from across the region.
The sessions covered AI, automation, cybersecurity, innovation and startup growth, and the importance of keeping human judgment at the center of technology adoption.
On the program
- 01Keynote: “The human imperative: navigating AI, automation and resilience in security”
- 02Panel: “From pilot to production: scaling AI in the enterprise”
- 03Panel: “Building billion-dollar companies in Tampa Bay”
- 04Panel: “Navigating Tampa Bay's tech ecosystem”
CUSP Security at the event
Tampa Bay is home for CUSP Security. Anas Alkatib represented the firm among the founders, business leaders and investors driving the region's growth, and explored where CUSP can contribute to its technology ecosystem.
“AI can accelerate business, but governance, security, trust, and human oversight are what make that acceleration sustainable.”
Anas Alkatib, on LinkedIn
Photos
7 photos from the event
Our perspective
Keep human judgment at the center: every AI tool needs an owner, clear rules and a person who checks the result.
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The Cybersecurity Foundations Workshop in plain business language: how attacks really happen, the controls that matter most, safe use of AI, and what to do first. Adapted to your members' or employees' tools and risks, on site in the Tampa Bay area or online.