Security, Governance, Risk
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk for CIOs

A provider can stay up and still break you. Denis Kondratev, CTO of HR Tech Stream at MTS Group, on building AI failover around answer quality instead of uptime.

Masato Yamanishi, Owner of Liaison Works and former global CISO at Olympus, on why business impact should decide the order of the risk register before cost enters.

Mark Alvarado, Executive Director of IT Security & Compliance at Academy Sports + Outdoors, on governing AI as a hybrid workforce that needs both people and system controls.

Sandy Jacolow, SVP and CTO at Empire State Realty Trust, on why prompt logs can expose sensitive disclosures and how shared oversight keeps them with the right reviewers.

Arvinda Rao, Director of Compliance at Veeam, on the case for governing agent delegation through intent, human checkpoints, and continuous monitoring instead of static access rules.
Candlewood Strategies Principal and CIO, Tim Ehrhard, on why autonomous AI needs the same audits and control mechanisms that decades of financial and healthcare regulation already require.
Boston Public Health Commission CIO, Puneet Sharma, on why public-sector AI fails on data, budget, and team readiness, and how CIOs build the foundation first.
Aaron Weller, Leader of Privacy Innovation & Assurance at HP, on why the AI failures that matter most surface after launch, in how users react.
Dell Joshi, CIO of Envu, on why a confident AI answer no one verifies is the business risk enterprises miss, and how the right guardrails catch it first.
Philip Neufeld, Executive Officer of IT at Fresno Unified School District, on why school networks underpin access, security, and workforce readiness.
Aaron Weller, Privacy Innovation and Assurance Leader at HP, argued that financial discipline is becoming the most effective AI governance control as enterprises confront token spend, unproven ROI, and accountability gaps created by fast adoption.
Pamela Austin, a healthcare IT executive and advisor, on why digital transformations stall on leadership alignment and who has to own the outcome.
Claudionor Coelho, Senior Fellow for AI at Majestic Labs, on the renewal rate companies won't admit and why the data and connections a demo skips decide whether agents survive.
Gregory Baran, Deputy CIO at Tenable, reflected on a year of building and managing 36 personal AI agents to argue that enterprise trust in agentic AI must be enforced through architectural controls and identity layers, not written governance policy.
A rising trend says companies should record every meeting, call, and interaction. The legal, security, and compliance risks are real.
Ajay Paul, Chief Sales Officer at IT consultancy SIMARN Solutions, on the risks of deploying agentic systems before establishing the governance, data architecture, and accountability structures.
Leo Simonovich, VP of Industrial Cyber at Siemens Energy, on securing data center environments where the threat surface extends from the rack to the turbine.













