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Agenda

Tuesday, August 4th

IANS Happy Hour

Location: IANS Suite - Mandalay Bay
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join IANS Faculty and staff for a relaxed, informal evening of networking with peers and the broader IANS community. This fan-favorite event is the perfect chance to share experiences, exchange ideas, and hear how fellow security professionals—and IANS clients—are tackling today’s toughest challenges, and connect directly with IANS Faculty—seasoned practitioners who bring real-world experience and insights from the front lines of cybersecurity.

Wednesday, August 5th

AI Breakfast - When Agentic Systems Go Sideways: What Can Go Wrong and How to Prevent It

Location: IANS Suite - Mandalay Bay
7:30am - 9:00am

We’ve heard the horror stories. There was the rental car company that had its entire production database wiped by an AI coding agent performing a routine task. And the time attackers took over Instagram accounts via Meta’s AI support assistant via a confused deputy attack. The list goes on. Join us for a lively discussion with IANS Faculty Jake Williams where he’ll walk through recent cases where agents went sideways (either on their own, or by adversarial prompting), and provide actionable, practical guidance to help you prevent similar situations from occurring within your enterprise.


Speakers

Jake Williams

Thursday, August 6th

IANS Breakfast - Generic AI Gives You Opinions. IANS MCP Gives You What Your Peers Are Actually Doing.

Location: IANS Suite - Mandalay Bay
7:30am - 9:00am

In this session, we'll demo the IANS MCP, which puts IANS intelligence directly inside the AI tools your team already uses. Ask IANS your difficult questions and see the difference when answers are grounded in:

  • Practical guidance tailored to your industry and team size — no generic best practices
  • Over 6,000 call summaries between your peers and experts, discussing and solving real problems
  • Vendor selection advice from 350+ vendor assessments, all free of vendor marketing influence
  • Practical outputs you can instantly use, such as vendor checklists, playbooks, board slides, and more
  • The ability to request a 1:1 Faculty expert call right from within your AI tool

Walk away seeing IANS in action — live, against real security questions.

Speakers

George Gerchow

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