AI Con USA 2026 - Security
Customize your AI Con USA 2026 experience with sessions covering security for software developers and testers.
Monday, June 8
Human in the Loop
New"We love AI and use it for everything we do!" "We hate AI and will NEVER use it for anything ever, I swear to god!" Which camp are you in? This will be a question that will come up over and over in 2026 and beyond. If you use AI for EVERYTHING and think you can be mistaken for AI…has AI not already taken your job? We all need to get INTENTIONAL about our stance in the AI-verse. Have you thought deeply about what is a good activity for AI to lead on and what should be uniquely human? We are already seeing a premium price tag on in-person, uniquely human-to-human experiences, and this will...
AI Governance as Code: An Introduction to AIGovOps
NewAI governance is no longer optional. Like privacy and security before it, governance is quickly becoming a production requirement, enforced through regulation, audits, and fines—often after real harm has already occurred. Ken Johnston and Bob Rapp, founders of the AiGovOps Foundation, introduce AIGovOps: the practice of implementing AI Governance as Code, embedded directly into delivery pipelines and operational workflows. This hands-on session begins with a concise review of Responsible AI and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, followed by an interactive HARMS workshop using real AI...
Tuesday, June 9
Prompt Engineering for Software Practitioners
With the sudden rise of ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs), practitioners are using these tools for all aspects of engineering. This includes leveraging LLMs for creating software artifacts such as requirements documents, source code, and tests; reviewing them for issues and making corrective suggestions, and analyzing or summarizing results or outcomes. However, if LLM's are not fed good prompts describing the task that the AI is supposed to perform, their responses can be inaccurate and unreliable. Join Tariq King as he teaches you how to craft high-quality AI prompts and...
Wednesday, June 10
Governance for Fast-Moving AI: Securing Emerging Vulnerabilities
Imagine starting your workday to find all your company’s sensitive data has been leaked due to a nearly imperceptible hack embedded in an AI prompt. The culprit isn’t the AI model but rather a lack of protections surrounding it. When rapidly adopting AI at scale, many organizations unintentionally ignore a crucial element: security and governance. Often, companies will only add operational AI rules post-deployment. However, this approach creates hidden blind spots and slows security teams’ responses when threats inevitably appear. In this presentation, Mark Toler will reveal why AI...
Thursday, June 11
Beyond the Chatbot: Building and Orchestrating Autonomous Security Agents
The next generation of security automation isn’t found in a chat interface—it’s found in Agents. While basic AI assistants can provide security advice and even remediate vulnerabilities, the real breakthrough for security teams lies in using an Agentic Workflow for security testing: the ability to build, customize, and orchestrate specialized agents that take ownership of the testing and remediation lifecycle. In this session, Jeffery Payne demonstrates how to move beyond conversational AI to create autonomous security agents using standardized formats compatible across tools like GitHub...