This is the AISS flagship event.
One full day. One room. No filler.
The people building with AI and the people who own the risk, on the same stage: agent identity, attacks at machine speed, AI-powered defense, and where the money is (or should be) going.
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Interested in sponsoring an AI Security Summit edition? Partner with us at the San Francisco flagship event or one of our satellite regional editions, and put your work in front of people who evaluate on technical merit. Email us to register your interest: partners@aisecuritysummit.com
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The people who own AI risk at the org level: setting budgets, signing off on vendors, and writing the governance playbook in real time.
- CISOs, CTOs, VPs of Security and Heads of AI
- Leaders who set risk budgets and choose vendors
- The people who answer to the board when something goes wrong
topics we'll cover
- Trusting what the AI software factory ships
- Agent identity, auth, and where to start on agent security
- Attacks at machine speed, and what the research shows
- Open source and open models in AI-powered defense
- How enterprise leaders, investors, and CISOs are weighing AI risk
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One room, sized for the people who own AI risk. Register to claim your seat at the Westin St. Francis.
What's included
- A full day in one room: keynotes, fireside chats, panels, and the people doing the work, up close
- Zero vendor fluff: published research and trade-offs from the people who made them
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The hard calls on AI risk: budgets, vendors, and deciding what your org defends vs. what it accepts.
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We book speakers who've done the work: made the calls on AI risk at scale, owned the outcomes, and can show what happened next. Our bar is high. More speakers are announced as they're confirmed.
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- 09:00 – 09:30Breakfast & Registration
- 09:30 – 10:0030 minkeynote
The AI Hurricane Is Here: Cut Through the Opera. Build for the Storm.
- Snyk
- 10:00 – 10:2525 minkeynote
How to Build Trusted Delivery by the Software Factory
- Tessl
- 10:25 – 10:5025 minfireside chat
Open Source at the Inflection Point: A Fireside Chat with Anthropic on AI-Powered Defense
- Anthropic
- Snyk
- 10:50 – 11:00Break
- 11:00 – 11:2525 minpanel
How Enterprise Leaders Are Sequencing AI Investment and Weighing Risk
- Telus Digital
- Snyk
- 11:25 – 11:5025 minkeynote
The Criticality of Open Models Has Never Been More Relevant
- Faisal Tameesh NVIDIA
- 11:50 – 12:1525 minpanel
Investor Panel: What Investors Are Actually Seeing in AI Security
- boldstart ventures
- BlackRock
- Ken Mac
- 12:15 – 13:15Lunch
- 13:15 – 13:5035 minpanel
AAuth: Moving Beyond OAuth
- Keycard
- Keycard
- hello.co
- Insecure Agents
- 13:50 – 14:2030 minfireside chat
Cyber Autonomy: When Attacks Move at Machine Speed
- Carnegie Mellon
- Max Baader
- 14:20 – 14:4525 minpanel
The Last Mile of Agentic AI: Securing Where Agents Actually Touch Your Data
- Cyera
- Jason Trunk Island
- Chris Suen
- 14:45 – 15:00Break
- 15:00 – 15:2525 minkeynote
The Agent Baseline: Where Should You Start?
- Keycard
- Docker
- 15:25 – 15:5025 mintalk
The Attack That Only Works Sometimes: Reproducing Probabilistic Prompt Injection
- Arize AI
- 15:50 – 16:3040 minpanel
CISO Debate
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- 16:30 – 17:301 hrnetworking
Happy Hour
Networking before the official AISS after-party.
- 17:30 – 20:303 hrnetworking
Official AISS after-party: AAuth Night
111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St, San Francisco, CA 94105. Free. Separate registration on Luma.
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Westin St. Francis
335 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102
A San Francisco landmark on Union Square, open since 1904. The event spaces have the bones to match — grand ballrooms with carved ceilings and gilt pillars in the historic Landmark Building, and floor-to-ceiling views of the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate from the 32nd floor. The kind of venue where the room does some of the work for you.
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AAuth Night Moving Beyond OAuth
The summit's official after-party, co-hosted with Insecure Agents. After happy hour, head to 111 Minna Gallery for live demos of AAuth, the agent auth protocol from OAuth's author Dick Hardt, lightning talks, and drinks.
Registration is free and separate from your summit pass.
- date
- Thursday, October 15, 2026
- time
- 5:30 to 8:30 PM PDT
- hosts
- AI Security Summit with Insecure Agents, powered by Keycard
- entry
- Free. Separate registration on Luma.
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The best AI security knowledge right now lives inside companies. It's in incident reports that nobody publishes, in architecture decisions that never leave the engineering org, in red team findings that stay in internal wikis. AISS exists to get that knowledge on stage.
San Francisco is where it all started. AISS launched here in 2025 and sold out, the city has been its flagship ever since. Satellite editions take AISS to other cities around the globe: Copenhagen and Sydney follow on November 25.
We select talks the way peer review works: show us what you found, how you tested it, and what happened once it hit production.
There's no place for platitudes, no panels where everyone agrees: the tough conversations are welcome here.
That's the deal: practitioners share what they've found, built, broken, or defended. Leaders share the real-life trade-offs behind the decisions they've made. In a room of the people who own AI risk, that level of honesty is worth it.
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