Enabling Highly Autonomous Trusted Agents

[2026 - DAY 3 - AI SECURITY & SAFETY] As AI agents become more autonomous, organizations face both unprecedented opportunities and emerging risks. Organizations need trusted agents not only to drive productivity but also to defend against emerging AI-powered threats. So why aren’t more agents in production? This panel unpacks the key technical, organizational, and trust barriers, and explains why success requires buy-in beyond security, spanning CIOs, developers, and product teams. We’ll close with what it takes to run agents safely at scale: governance, monitoring, and controls that build trust in real-world deployments. As AI agents become more autonomous, organizations face both unprecedented opportunities and emerging risks. Organizations need trusted agents not only to drive productivity but also to defend against emerging AI-powered threats. PANELISTS: Heather Ceylan - CISO, Box Diana Kelley - CISO, Noma Security Feross Aboukhadijeh - CEO, Socket Allie Howe - Host, Insecure Agents podcast (moderator) 👉 Sign up for our "No BS" Newsletter to get the latest technical data & AI content: https://aicouncil.com/newsletter ABOUT AI COUNCIL: AI Council brings together the brightest minds in data to share industry knowledge, technical architectures and best practices in building cutting edge data & AI systems and tools. FIND US: Website: https://aicouncil.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aicouncilconf/ X: https://x.com/aicouncilconf