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Chicago

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AppSec Breakfast: Securing Software When AI Writes the Code*

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CT
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10:30 AM
Opening Keynote

Jyoti Bansal
CEO
Harness
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Harness
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CT

Lunch and Networking

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CT
1:30 pm

AI Cost Management: Token Maxxing to Outcome Maxxing

Jay Patel
Director of Engineering
Advanced
Tim Curless
Principal Engineer
ahead
Carlos Delatorre
President, Go To Market
Harness

Token optimization got you here. It won't get you to what's next. AI is a load-bearing infrastructure and the teams pulling ahead aren't the ones squeezing costs, they're the ones redefining what value looks like. Walk through the shift from token-level thinking to outcome-driven AI investment: how to measure it, operationalize it, and make the case internally.

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2:00 PM

Security at AI Speed

Daniel Mayer
CISO
Morningstar
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
Harness
Damon Sorrentino
Solutions Engineer
Kong

Security practices have evolved to match the pace of AI-assisted development and automated deployments. Learn about real-time threat detection, automated security testing that keeps up with rapid release cycles, and how enterprise security teams are leveraging AI to identify vulnerabilities faster than developers can introduce them.

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2:25 PM

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: DevOps in the AI Coding Era

Daniel Knauf
Chief Technology Officer
Merkle
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Harness

AI is becoming the primary author of code — and that changes everything downstream. This session explores what DevSecOps looks like when your developers are orchestrating agents instead of writing every line themselves: new quality gates, new security considerations, new questions about ownership and accountability, and what it means to ship with confidence when the code came from a model.

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3:05 PM

From Chaos to Common Ground: Standardizing DevOps Across the Enterprise

Tim Fisher
Manager, Platform Engineering
Transamerica
Derek Meinen
Senior DevOps Engineer
Transamerica
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
Harness

Any enterprise with enough history has the same problem: teams picked their own tools for years, and no one reconciled them. This session tackles that mess, aligning independent business units on shared standards, and getting past the inevitable "that's how we've always done it."

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3:35 pm

Beyond the Bottlenecks

Kyle Binns
Director of Platform Engineering
Morningstar
Sugato Bose
Chief Architect & Sr. Director
Medline Industries
Jignesh Patel
Field CTO
Harness

AI has shifted where teams spend their time — but it hasn't eliminated friction, it's moved it. This session explores the new bottlenecks in AI-augmented workflows: where productivity gains stall, how organizations measure developer experience beyond velocity, and what platform engineering looks like when AI is doing more of the work.

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Nick Colyer
Chief Architect
Ahead
Jignesh Patel
Field CTO
Harness
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Ninos Gabriel
Managing Director, Enterprise Architecture
United
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Richard Steenburg
VP of SRE and Platform
Early Warning
Owen Wolf
Senior Director, Platform Engineering
Sony
Brandon Whelply
Field CTO & Board Member
Avyka
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
Harness
Sorabh Singhal
Business Head of Industry Cloud and Digital Service
Wipro
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
Harness
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From Complexity to Clarity: Lloyds’ Journey to a Unified Developer Platform

Andrew Greenough
CI/CD Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Tony Phillips
Engineering Lead - DevOps Services, Engineering Platform
Lloyds Banking Group
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Harness
Sorabh Singhal
Business Head of Industry Cloud and Digital Service
Wipro
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
Harness

At Lloyds Banking Group, decades of tools and processes left developers navigating a fragmented, complex environment. Tony Phillips and Andrew Greenough share how the bank is simplifying with an Internal Developer Platform—introducing “Golden Paths,” self-service onboarding, and standardized pipelines to streamline delivery. Hear how they’re cutting through complexity to improve developer experience while balancing innovation with the stability required of a 250-year-old institution.

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4:00 PM

Happy Hour Networking

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6:30 PM

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September 15, 2026

The Dalcy, 302 N Green Street, 3rd Floor

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10:30 AM

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12:30 pm

2 hr

Opening Keynote

Trevor Stuart
Jyoti Bansal
CEO
,
Harness
Trevor Stuart
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
,
Harness

12:30 pm

-

1:30 pm

1 hr

Lunch

1:30 pm

-

2:00 PM

30 min

Panel Session:

AI Cost Management: Token Maxxing to Outcome Maxxing

Token optimization got you here. It won't get you to what's next. AI is a load-bearing infrastructure and the teams pulling ahead aren't the ones squeezing costs, they're the ones redefining what value looks like. Walk through the shift from token-level thinking to outcome-driven AI investment: how to measure it, operationalize it, and make the case internally.

Trevor Stuart
Jay Patel
Director of Engineering
,
Advanced
Trevor Stuart
Tim Curless
Principal Engineer
,
ahead
Trevor Stuart
Carlos Delatorre
President, Go To Market
,
Harness

2:00 PM

-

2:25 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Security at AI Speed

Security practices have evolved to match the pace of AI-assisted development and automated deployments. Learn about real-time threat detection, automated security testing that keeps up with rapid release cycles, and how enterprise security teams are leveraging AI to identify vulnerabilities faster than developers can introduce them.

Trevor Stuart
Daniel Mayer
CISO
,
Morningstar
Trevor Stuart
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
,
Harness
Trevor Stuart
Damon Sorrentino
Solutions Engineer
,
Kong

2:25 PM

-

2:55 PM

30 min

Panel Session:

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: DevOps in the AI Coding Era

AI is becoming the primary author of code — and that changes everything downstream. This session explores what DevSecOps looks like when your developers are orchestrating agents instead of writing every line themselves: new quality gates, new security considerations, new questions about ownership and accountability, and what it means to ship with confidence when the code came from a model.

Trevor Stuart
Daniel Knauf
Chief Technology Officer
,
Merkle
Trevor Stuart
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
,
Harness

2:55 PM

-

3:05 PM

10 Min

Break

3:05 PM

-

3:35 pm

30 min

Panel Session:

From Chaos to Common Ground: Standardizing DevOps Across the Enterprise

Any enterprise with enough history has the same problem: teams picked their own tools for years, and no one reconciled them. This session tackles that mess, aligning independent business units on shared standards, and getting past the inevitable "that's how we've always done it."

Trevor Stuart
Tim Fisher
Manager, Platform Engineering
,
Transamerica
Trevor Stuart
Derek Meinen
Senior DevOps Engineer
,
Transamerica
Trevor Stuart
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
,
Harness

3:35 pm

-

4:00 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Beyond the Bottlenecks

AI has shifted where teams spend their time — but it hasn't eliminated friction, it's moved it. This session explores the new bottlenecks in AI-augmented workflows: where productivity gains stall, how organizations measure developer experience beyond velocity, and what platform engineering looks like when AI is doing more of the work.

Trevor Stuart
Kyle Binns
Director of Platform Engineering
,
Morningstar
Trevor Stuart
Sugato Bose
Chief Architect & Sr. Director
,
Medline Industries
Trevor Stuart
Jignesh Patel
Field CTO
,
Harness
1:30 PM –2:00 PM30 min

Panel: Security at AI Speed

Three security leaders on defending a delivery pipeline that now ships faster than any human review cycle — and why the old perimeter model doesn't survive contact with AI-generated code.

Nicole Dove
Nicole Dove
Head of Security, Riot Games
Craig Statham
Craig Statham
Distinguished Systems Architect, SAS
Ravi Upad
Ravi Upad
Head of Infrastructure & DevSecOps, FleetPride

4:00 PM

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5:00 PM

1 hr

Happy Hour