Quarterly Executive Briefing

Registration & Networking

Welcome/Introductions

Identity, Reimagined: Rethinking IAM for the Human and Non-Human Era
[Discussion Pod #1]

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is evolving rapidly as organizations confront the growing number of non-human identities, including AI agents, service accounts, bots, and automated processes. This presentation explores why traditional IAM approaches need a fresh look, how expanding identity ecosystems affect security teams and policies, and what emerging legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements mean for identity governance. Discover how security leaders can rethink identity strategies to address new risks, clarify accountability, and strengthen access controls across an increasingly automated enterprise.

Transcend
[Start-Up Showcase #1]

Transcend was founded in 2017 by Ben Brook and Mike Farrell, who met as Harvard computer science undergrads. Their simple question about their own personal data revealed just how fragmented and unenforceable data permissions were across enterprise systems. That question became the seed for building the platform that answers "can I use this data" in real-time, by encoding business rules, agent guardrails, consent, and preferences directly into the systems that process customer data. Today Transcend is the leading data decision infrastructure company for the AI era trusted by Fortune 500 brands.

Agents, Access & Accountability
[Discussion Pod #2]

As non-human identities multiply and agentic AI systems begin making decisions, accessing sensitive data, and taking actions with increasing autonomy, the boundaries of identity, privilege, and accountability are being fundamentally reshaped. Meanwhile, the AI/cyber arms race is accelerating, giving defenders new capabilities while creating new attack surfaces, legal exposure, and questions of responsibility when things go wrong.

This session led by Ron Plesco, Partner, DLA Piper, examines the emerging legal implications of machine identities and autonomous AI agents, from excessive or unmanaged privileges to data exposure, liability, regulatory obligations, and the challenge of assigning accountability for AI-driven actions. Through a CISO-focused lens, we’ll explore how security leaders can rethink identity governance, establish meaningful human oversight, and prepare for a threat landscape where AI is both a powerful defense mechanism and an increasingly sophisticated weapon. The goal: move beyond the hype to identify practical steps that help organizations innovate responsibly, manage risk, and remain accountable as the AI/cyber arms race evolves.

Outtake
[Start-Up Showcase #2]

At Outtake, we have spent 3 years building products that defend the integrity of the Internet with the core insight that trust is an economics problem. A high trust network makes falsehood expensive to maintain & truth universally accessible. This way bad actors pay high costs, and good actors interact fluidly within the network. 

To accomplish this mission, we mapped the public Internet in depth - websites, authors, social content, software packages, and agents. On the behalf of companies like NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI and governments like the United States, we went to war with nation-state attackers, bot farms & malicious agentic swarms to ensure falsehood becomes expensive for bad actors. In doing so, Outtake uncovered the underlying trust graph of the Internet – blooming clusters full of impersonations, scams, fraud, and malware sitting in stark contrast to high integrity nodes of verified good actors & their infrastructure. The rapidly growing volume of agentic traffic now seeks accessible truth as it routes towards those high integrity nodes which constitute the best counterparties, services, goods, and information.

Outtake’s mission is to build a high trust Internet because we believe trusted agent & human collaboration will unlock the next chapter of civilizational growth. We accomplish this by building products which continuously make truth more accessible & falsehood more expensive on digital networks.

The AI–Cyber Arms Race: Mythos, Mayhem, or Much Ado About Nothing?
[Discussion Pod #3]

As AI accelerates both cyberattack capabilities and defensive innovation, security leaders must separate real threats from hype. Using the debate around “Mythos Armageddon” as a starting point, this presentation explores real-world lessons, emerging attack and defense techniques, practical best practices, and the importance of sharing threat intelligence. Join a candid, peer-driven discussion on what CISOs need to prepare for now, where the risks may be overstated, and how organizations can stay ahead in an increasingly AI-powered cyber arms race.

Teleskope
[Start-Up Showcase #3]

Teleskope is building a platform to automate data protection at scale, from detection to remediation and prevention.

Our platform seamlessly monitors cloud and SaaS data stores to provide a comprehensive inventory of assets, hidden or otherwise, alongside associated security and compliance risks. Our classification engine, powered by a multi-model machine learning engine, adapts to your unique environment, identifying sensitive data and any associated personas, such as employees or customers.

Teleskope can automatically enforce compliance requirements, redact sensitive data or remediate security vulnerabilities directly at the source, and allows your developers to implement any custom security or privacy protocols through our open apis, helping to shift security left and reduce the manual overhead on security and engineering teams.

Our mission is to ensure that as technology accelerates, the security of information is never left behind.  We are equipping organizations to detect risks, automate protection, and scale with confidence.  

Our vision is to create a world where protecting data is simple, scalable, and second nature, so organizations can innovate without jeopardizing their customers or business.

Networking & Organized Interaction Break

Non-humans evolved but they are still non-humans 😉
[Discussion Pod #4]

A practical approach to managing our new friends by applying what we know about their siblings: algorithms, services and applications.

AI agents are entering the enterprise with access to tools, internal systems and sensitive data—often operating under the credentials of the people using them. When the activity looks like the employee, how does security distinguish what the human did from what the agent did?

Tim Rohrbaugh, founder of RadicalNotion.AI and former CISO of JetBlue Airways, brings a practical perspective: we have managed non-human accounts for decades, and those foundations still apply. What has changed is predictability. Unlike traditional applications executing predefined rules, agents infer, adapt and take actions that can vary even when the instructions remain the same.

In this interactive discussion, Tim will explore how to extend familiar security practices to AI agents: separate their identities from human accounts, provision only the access they need, establish a controlled path from experimentation to production, and adapt monitoring to less predictable behavior. Drawing on his own work with AI tools and models, he will challenge participants to consider what they can implement now—and how to make those controls workable for the people adopting AI across the business.

Reception & Networking

Refreshments, food, cocktails & discussions till 8pm