AI Security Summit - San Francisco 2026

About AI Security Summit - San Francisco 2026

Registration is listed at $0 for the AI Security Summit in San Francisco, a single-day, in-person event on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at the Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell St. The hotel is described on the site as a San Francisco landmark on Union Square, open since 1904. It is aimed at CISOs, CTOs, VPs of Security and heads of AI.

The program is built around five themes, among them trusting what the AI software factory ships, agent identity and authentication, attacks at machine speed, open models in AI-powered defense, and how enterprise leaders, investors and CISOs weigh AI risk. The official site lists 16 speakers and 14 sessions, including a fireside chat with Anthropic, an investor panel and a talk titled AAuth: Moving Beyond OAuth. Speakers include Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, and Guy Podjarny, Founder and CEO of Tessl.

A happy hour and an official after-party are listed.

Location

335 Powell St, San Francisco, California, 94102, United States

Venue: Westin St. Francis

Agenda

Thursday, October 15

• 09:30–10:00 · The AI Hurricane Is Here: Cut Through the Opera. Build for the Storm. — Manoj Nair
• 10:00–10:25 · How to Build Trusted Delivery by the Software Factory — Guy Podjarny
• 10:25–10:50 · Open Source at the Inflection Point: A Fireside Chat with Anthropic on AI-Powered Defense
• 11:00–11:25 · How Enterprise Leaders Are Sequencing AI Investment and Weighing Risk
• 11:25–11:50 · The Criticality of Open Models Has Never Been More Relevant
• 11:50–12:15 · Investor Panel: What Investors Are Actually Seeing in AI Security
• 13:15–13:50 · AAuth: Moving Beyond OAuth
• 13:50–14:20 · Cyber Autonomy: When Attacks Move at Machine Speed — Vyas Sekar
• 14:20–14:45 · The Last Mile of Agentic AI: Securing Where Agents Actually Touch Your Data — Jason Clark
• 15:00–15:25 · The Agent Baseline: Where Should You Start?
• 15:25–15:50 · The Attack That Only Works Sometimes: Reproducing Probabilistic Prompt Injection — Aparna Dhinakaran
• 15:50–16:30 · CISO Debate — speakers to be announced
• 16:30–17:30 · Happy Hour
• 17:30–20:30 · Official AISS after-party: AAuth Night Moving Beyond OAuth

Audience

• CISOs
• CTOs
• VPs of Security
• Heads of AI

Speakers

• Manoj Nair
  Chief Innovation Officer, Snyk
• Guy Podjarny
  Founder and CEO, Tessl
• Liran Tal
  Snyk
• Punit Shah
  Anthropic
• Adrian Guevara
  Telus Digital
• Ed Sim
  Founder and General Partner, boldstart ventures
• Tony Kim
  BlackRock
• Allie Howe
  Insecure Agents
• Dick Hardt
  hello.co
• Jared Hanson
  Co-Founder, Keycard
• Karl McGuinness
  Keycard
• Vyas Sekar
  Carnegie Mellon
• Jason Clark
  Cyera
• Eli Aleyner
  Docker
• Ian Livingstone
  Co-founder and CEO, Keycard
• Aparna Dhinakaran
  Arize AI

Networking & recordings

Happy Hour; Official AISS after-party: AAuth Night Moving Beyond OAuth

Hotels & travel

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.

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