FOUNDERS FORUM
AI Agents
Founders and Top vendor technologists
share their point of view
It's often overlooked that at the core of each vendor sits at least one brilliant technologist.
They spend their days contemplating solutions to big problems but with all of the punditry crowding industry discourse we rarely get their perspective.
This forum aims to right that.
Panels are comprised of invited vendor technologists and are hosted by non vendor SMEs.
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DATE
HOST
TOPIC
PANELISTS
October
Host:
Richard Stiennon
Chief Research Analyst
IT-Harvest
Comparing Agent Authorization & Attestation Platforms
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Ken Huang
Co-Chair AI Safety Working Groups
Cloud Security Alliance
Evaluating Agent Orchestration & Policy Propagation
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Meg Anderson
Retired CISO
Retired
Profiling Runtime Behavioral Assurance for AI Agents
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Christopher Crowley
Independent Consultant
Montance
Testing Shared Agent Failure Memory
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Mark Kraynak
Founding Partner
Acrew Capital
Reviewing Economics of Agent Reliability
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Jim Reavis
Chief Executive Officer
Cloud Security Alliance
Measuring agents that validate exposure, reachability & control coverage before action
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Chloe Autio
Founder and CEO
Autio Strategies
Benchmarking Agent Sandboxing & Containment Techniques
Panelists:TBA
October
Host:
Mark Kraynak
Founding Partner
Acrew Capital
Assessing Multi-Agent Collaboration Security Controls
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Jonathan Litchman
Co-Founder & CEO
The Providence Group
Comparing human‑in‑the‑loop approval, rollback & auditability for agent actions
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Zaheer Shaikh
CISO
Al Maryah Community Bank
Measuring Agent Lifecycle Management Solutions
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Krista Arndt
Associate CISO
St. Luke's University Health Network
Testing Agent Behavior Baseline & Anomaly Detection
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Ian Schneller
CISO
Health Care Service Corporation
Measuring a security context graph as shared reasoning for multiple agents
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Meg Anderson
Retired CISO
Retired
Profiling Agent Identity & Delegation Patterns
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Frank DePaola
VP & CISO
Enpro
Reviewing Agentic Risk Scoring & Prioritization Tools
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Namrata Shah
Managing Director - Global Head of Engineering
Nuveen
Comparing agentic breach‑path validation & containment across controls
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Joe Sullivan
CEO
Joe Sullivan Security LLC
Scoring Orchestration Platforms for Heterogeneous Agent Ecosystems
Panelists:TBA
November
Host:
Candy Alexander
Cyber Security Executive Advisor & AI Strategist
Alexander Cyber Advisory Services
Measuring agents that turn vuln intel into patch/mitigate/defer decisions
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Christopher Crowley
Independent Consultant
Montance
Comparing Runtime Governance for Autonomous Agents
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Rick Doten
CISO
Centene Corporation
Evaluating Agent-Level Data Protection & Privacy Controls
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
James Rutt
CISO
The Dana Foundation
Comparing agentic workflows across exposure, threat hunting, investigation & response
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Merlin Namuth
CISO
City and County of Denver
Assessing Agentic Supply-Chain Security
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Michael Myint
CISO
AdaptHealth
Measuring Agent Resilience to Malicious Inputs & Prompt Attacks
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Richard Stiennon
Chief Research Analyst
IT-Harvest
Measuring whether autonomous agents can prove why an action was recommended or taken
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Michelle Dennedy
Chief Data Strategy Officer
Abaxx Technologies
Testing Agent Observability & Forensics
Panelists:TBA
December
Host:
Martin Stanley
AI and Cybersecurity Researcher
NIST
Comparing agents that act through existing tools vs replace them
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Christina Liaghati
AI Department Manager
MITRE
Profiling Agent Performance vs Safety Tradeoffs
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Walker Dimon
AI for Cyber Group Leader
MITRE
Comparing Agent Policy Testing & CI/CD Integration
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
J. Michael Daniel
President & CEO
Cyber Threat Alliance
Measuring access control for enterprise AI agents
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Jim Reavis
Chief Executive Officer
Cloud Security Alliance
Evaluating Agent Interoperability Standards & Protocol Implementations
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Chloe Autio
Founder and CEO
Autio Strategies
Assessing Real-World Use-Case Fidelity for Agents
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Christina Liaghati
AI Department Manager
MITRE
Comparing governance frameworks for AI agents
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Mark Kraynak
Founding Partner
Acrew Capital
Measuring Operator UX for Managing Large Agent Fleets
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Jonathan Litchman
Co-Founder & CEO
The Providence Group
Measuring identity & authentication for AI agents
Panelists:TBA
January
Host:
Zaheer Shaikh
CISO
Al Maryah Community Bank
Testing Agent Kill-Chain Containment Scenarios
Panelists:TBA