Security, Governance, Risk
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk for CIOs
Emmanuel Dahunsi, former Executive Director and Security Architect at Goldman Sachs, makes the case for agent permissions and approval rules that malicious prompts can’t override.
Subba Raju Vathsavai, Chief Information Security Officer at iBASIS, on why AI agents now act as non-human identities inside the network, and why trust in them has to be shown in production, not certified on paper.
Nate Busa, a longtime CTO specializing in AI & Automation and formerly of NEOM, on why external benchmarks can't identify which model truly works at the lowest cost, and why real governance has to be operationalized with tests you build yourself.
Britton Burton, CISO at D4C Dental Brands, secured 180 pediatric dental and orthodontic practices across 10 states. His method: narrow security to the handful of controls, and get non-technical leaders to fund them.
Jigar Shah, Chief Information Security Officer at healthcare firm Medusind, on why security teams manufacture their own agentic AI complexity, and how sequencing the problem, the data, and the identity keeps it from happening.
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.