Event: Fal.Con 2026
Date: August 31 – September 3, 2026
Location: Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD)
Format: In-person, sold out; on-demand digital pass available
Attendance: More than 10,000 attendees from 4,000 organisations across 71 countries
CrowdStrike’s tenth Fal.Con moves to Mandalay Bay this year and arrives with a record 150-plus ecosystem sponsors behind it. The company describes the event as the largest vendor-hosted conference in cybersecurity, and on headcount alone the claim is hard to argue with: in-person registration has closed out, and the sponsor roster now runs from the hyperscalers and chipmakers down through a long tail of early-stage security startups in the Innovator Pavilion.
The organising theme is securing AI adoption rather than securing endpoints, which is a meaningful shift in emphasis for a company that built its business on endpoint detection. Daniel Bernard, CrowdStrike’s chief business officer, framed the sponsor turnout in terms of scale: The AI revolution won’t be secured by one company
— the ecosystem, in his framing, is the product.
Who Is Sponsoring
The headline sponsors span cloud infrastructure, silicon, consulting, and — notably — the frontier model labs. AWS, Dell Technologies, Horizon3, Intel, and OpenAI hold Pinnacle status. Anthropic, ExtraHop, JetStream Security, and Rubrik sit at Premier. The Diamond tier covers EY US, Google Cloud, Kroll, Mimecast, NVIDIA, Okta, and Zscaler.
Below that, the Platinum and Gold tiers pull in the systems integrators and channel players — Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, Wipro, IBM, Infosys, TD SYNNEX, CDW, SHI International — alongside direct security competitors including Fortinet, Proofpoint, Netskope, and SailPoint. Compute vendors Cerebras, CoreWeave, AMD, and Qualcomm are on the list as well. The Innovator Pavilion and a dedicated Latin America Partner Pavilion round out the floor with smaller and regional firms.
Two things stand out about that roster. The first is that OpenAI and Anthropic are both sponsoring at the top two tiers, which is a reasonable proxy for how seriously the model labs now treat enterprise security as a distribution channel. The second is that a good number of these sponsors compete directly with parts of the Falcon platform — a sign the event has outgrown the user-conference format and become an industry gathering that vendors attend regardless of overlap.
Programme
The week opens on August 31 with the Global Partner Summit, followed by three days of partner-led programming across the Fal.Con Hub, the Partner Theatre, and breakout sessions. The 2026 edition also debuts the Day Zero Threat Research Summit, convening threat hunters and intelligence analysts around original research and emerging adversary tradecraft. The wider session catalogue runs to more than 500 items across cloud, identity, SOC operations, threat intelligence, and executive security tracks, with hands-on Falcon platform workshops alongside the keynotes.
Attending Virtually
Fal.Con Digital gives remote registrants keynote livestreams during the week of the event and access to more than 100 sessions on demand afterwards. Keynotes will also stream free on CrowdStrike’s YouTube channel from August 31.
Why It Matters
Vendor conferences are where security roadmaps get set publicly, and Fal.Con has historically been where CrowdStrike makes its significant product announcements. With the AI-security framing front and centre and both major model labs sponsoring, the announcements coming out of Mandalay Bay next week are worth watching for anyone tracking how agentic AI gets governed inside the enterprise — and for anyone holding CRWD into the second half.
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