Securing the shift to AI native

Nnenna Ndukwe is a Principal Developer Advocate and Software Engineer, enthusiastic about AI. With 8+ experience spanning across startups, media tech, cybersecurity, and AI, she's an active global AI/ML community architect championing engineers to build in emerging tech.

Bob Remeika is the co-founder and CEO of Ragie.ai, a trailblazing "RAG-as-a-Service" platform that enables developers to launch retrieval-augmented generative AI applications faster and more reliably. With a background as a seasoned industry veteran, Bob co-launched Ragie to simplify and accelerate RAG infrastructure for developers.

A former Head of Product at AWS working on AI agents, Rene is the cofounder and CEO of Casco (YC X25),  an agentic red team that identifies high-quality findings in AI systems, apps, and agents.

Nate Barbettini is a seasoned developer, author, and educator with deep expertise in authentication, developer tooling, and AI-driven software. As a Founding Engineer at Arcade.dev, he brings a potent blend of technical leadership and real-world product experience.

Harshad Kadam is a Senior Security Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of experience leading Zero Trust, Deception Engineering, and Platform Security initiatives. He specializes in designing secure network architectures and driving large-scale cloud migrations that strengthen global infrastructures.

Jeff Watkins is the Chief Technology Officer at CreateFuture, the award-winning digital consultancy formed from the 2024 union of CreateFuture and xDesign, where he previously served as Chief Product & Technology Officer. In this dual-hat role, he steered multi-disciplinary teams across AI strategy, product engineering and cloud, turning bold ideas into secure, human-centred digital experiences for big-name brands.

Brett is a Distinguished Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience, specializing in Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security, and AI Security. Brett is currently Engineering and Securing the Supply Chain with Event Driven CI/CD gitOps Pipeline Architectures that leverage Kafka, Go, Rust, and Python running in Containers on Kubernetes and SBOMs.

Guy Podjarny is the founder and CEO of Tessl, where he and his team are shaping the new AI-Native Software Development paradigm. Guy is also Snyk’s Founder and was previously CTO at Akamai, co-founded Blaze.io (acq by Akamai), and was acquired by Watchfire and then IBM when building the first AppSec products. Guy is a frequent speaker, an O’Reilly author, and an early stage angel investor and advisor.