Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Driving AI Innovation with Confidence
5:30pm – 8:00pm PT | San Francisco, CA
Event Overview
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is reshaping the technological landscape, presenting unprecedented opportunities alongside a new generation of sophisticated cyber threats. As your organization embraces AI to drive innovation, how can you ensure your security posture is prepared to protect your most critical assets?
Join senior security peers for an exclusive executive briefing that explores the convergence of AI, security, and cloud. Discover how our enhanced partnership empowers you to build a resilient and proactive security framework designed for the AI-driven world. We will discuss strategies for leveraging AI-powered security solutions to outpace threats, ensure compliance, and streamline operations.
This event is your opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how this group insights can help you accelerate your digital transformation journey with unwavering confidence.
DISCUSSION POINTS
- How are you accelerating AI adoption while ensuring visibility and control over critical risks?
- What steps are you taking to align AI-driven innovation with evolving compliance and governance requirements?
- What strategic questions do you ask before greenlighting an AI initiative across your business?
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Moderator
Chris Riotta
Executive Editor
ISMG
Nicolas Bédard
Technical
Engagement Leader
Palo Alto Networks
Melissa McGuire
Managing Director
Google Cloud
Speakers
Guided by insights from Nicolas Bédard and Melissa McGuire from event sponsors Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud, this session will show how to transform your security operations, protect data at scale, and secure your future in the age of AI.
This session will be:
- Chatham house rules
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Nathan Rollings
Field CISO
Zafran Security
Nate Rollings has over 15 years of leadership and information security experience. He is currently the Field CISO at Zafran Security, a cyber risk and mitigation platform that defuses threat exploitation. Previously, he worked at Elevance Health, overseeing vulnerability management, cloud security and secure configuration. Nathan has been recognized for his contributions to the cybersecurity sector by CDO Magazine and has served on the Board of Governors for The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. He is also a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Venue
Alexander’s Steakhouse San Francisco
165 O’Farrell St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
Underwritten by
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Its mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting the digital way of life. The company helps address the world’s greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation and orchestration.
Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business by providing a series of modular cloud services, including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning. It also delivers enterprise-grade solutions that use Google’s cutting-edge technology to run applications, store data and manage workloads on a secure, scalable and high-performance infrastructure.
Rules of Engagement
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- These events follow Chatham House Rule. Nothing shared will be recorded or distributed anywhere online.
- If for any reason you need to cancel your reservation, we ask you to let us know 48 hours prior to the event commencing so we can open your seat up to someone else.
- These are interactive discussions, so we ask that all attendees participate in the discussion. If this is a virtual event, we ask all attendees to join via video.