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.
Sandeep Shilawat, Hybrid Cloud CTO Lead, & AI/Automation Leader at IBM, on how agentic attacks are already operational and enterprises need to step up their continuous architectural enforcement.
Ira Winkler, Field CISO at AISLE, on why AI vulnerability discovery solves only half the security problem, and what closing the remediation gap actually requires.
CTO and CISO Stewart Alpert warned that while security is approaching the limits of human scalability, human-led AI guardrails are more essential than ever.
Vid Desai, CEO of Desai Technology Consulting LLC and former CIO at the FDA, on healthcare deregulation shifting the compliance burden to enterprise IT, and why most organizations aren't ready.
Sandeep Shilawat, Partner, Hybrid Cloud CTO Lead & AI/Automation Leader at IBM, on why compliance as code is the only path from periodic federal security reviews to real-time automated proof.
José Freitas, Lead Enterprise Architect at IATA, broke down why data context, lineage, and digitalization determine whether AI delivers or stalls.
Ann Dunkin, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy and EPA, on why mutual accountability is the real foundation of CIO-CISO success.
Masato Yamanishi, SVP and Global CISO at Olympus, explains why security governance is inseparable from enterprise growth and why the CISO's reporting line determines strategic authority.
Mei Lin Fung, Vice Chair of the UN AI for Good Impact Steering Committee and an Oracle CRM pioneer, on why an adaptive framework built on the OODA loop and strong data governance is the way to win.
Frank Sgueglia, VP of Information Technology at Penta Group, explains why autonomous AI agents have created an identity crisis and how leaders can adapt their security models for the new reality.













