Thursday, 23rd April 2026
AI Agenda 2026: Where Are You on the Security Journey?
4:00 - 5:30PM ET | Virtual
Event Overview
The rise of generative AI, AI agents and vibe coding has brought artificial intelligence to the forefront of every industry.
Enter a few prompts and you can craft emails, prioritize tasks, generate code, proofread documents and build reports in seconds. Agents can manage menial tasks, and AI can write basic code.
But at the same time, adversaries are using AI to automate and scale their attacks. And even well-meaning insiders are creating Shadow AI initiatives that can put sensitive data and systems at risk.
How do you harness AI to achieve economies of scale and enable new business innovations while maintaining strong data security and governance?
Register for this exclusive roundtable discussion and explore with peers and AI experts how to secure the AI journey – no matter where your enterprise is on the road.
Among the discussion topics:
- Understanding the AI security journey and where your enterprise is – and needs to be.
- Gaining comprehensive visibility into your AI ecosystem.
- Embedding security throughout the AI lifecycle to ensure safe, responsible
innovation.
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Moderator
Tom Field
SVP Editorial
ISMG
Brian Golumbeck
Managing Director, Secure AI COE
Optiv
Ben Shelston
Director of Solutions Engineering, Netskope
Netskope
Speakers
Join ISMG’s Tom Field for a moderated discussion that will feature insights from Brian Golumbeck and Ben Shelston.
This 2-hour roundtable discussion over a networking dinner, will be:
- Chatham house rule
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Ant Ducker
Global Security Technologist
Cisco
With over 20 years of hands-on experience in network security engineering and implementation And has developed network security platforms for some of the biggest names from the service provider, finance, advertising, government, and education verticals. In addition to network security engineering, Ant spends a great deal of time thinking about proactive and reactive cyber defence, leveraging both manual, automated and AI Augmented threat hunting workflows to enhance security posture, and how to manage hyper distributed environments with an integrated security platform.
Subject matter expert
Dennen Monks
Field Tech Strategist
CrowdStrike
Monks has 20 years of cybersecurity experience across network, data, cloud and applications. He helps
companies achieve streamlined operational states across people, process and technology. Monks
previously spent 10 years in professional services, five years at Skyhigh Networks in sales engineering,
and served as lead solution architect at Bionic.
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Venue
Zurich, Switzerland
Venue to be announced
Underwritten by
Optiv is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can. At Optiv, we manage cyber risk so you can secure your full potential
Netskope is a leader in modern security, networking, and analytics for the cloud and AI era. The unique architecture of its Netskope One platform enables customers to protect data, reduce risk, simplify infrastructure, and optimize performance from anywhere.
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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.