Chris Glanden

MENTAL GAMES

What you believe can be overwritten in seconds. That's the power mentalists exploit, and the weakness that cybercriminals weaponize. In this live interactive session, a professional mentalist performs mind reading and influence demonstrations, then we pull back the veil to show how it's done. Together we dissect multiple mentalism techniques and expose the cognitive vulnerabilities they exploit. Each reveal is aligned with real world social engineering parallels: phishing and pretexting, deepfake impersonation, trust-exploiting scams, and more. Attendees witness how subtle cues, misdirection, and psychological priming can hijack logical decision making and security controls.