AI-Driven Security as a Competitive Advantage

10:45 am
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11:15 am

AI adoption in cybersecurity is accelerating, but many organizations struggle to translate technical innovation into clear business value. Based on real-world enterprise deployments across regulated industries, this session explores how AI-driven security automation improves resilience, strengthens brand trust, and supports executive-level risk narratives.

In this session, we will examine how agentic AI frameworks in modern SOC environments affect customer confidence, operational maturity, and strategic differentiation. Attendees will gain practical insights for aligning AI-powered security initiatives with marketing, trust, and growth objectives.

Session Agenda

  • 1. How AI-driven SOC automation strengthens brand trust and customer confidence
  • 2. Translating technical AI investments into executive-level business value messaging
  • 3. Aligning security innovation with GTM and trust positioning
  • 4. Governance-aware AI as a differentiator in regulated industries
  • 5. Lessons learned from production AI deployments in financial and insurance sectors

Speakers

Joyjit Roy

Principal Technical Program Manager

Kforce Inc.

Joyjit Roy

Principal Technical Program Manager

Kforce Inc.

Joyjit Roy is a technologyand program management leader specializing in digital transformation, cloudmodernization, and applied artificial intelligence. With over two decades ofexperience across financial, insurance, and eCommerce sectors, his work bridgeslarge-scale enterprise delivery with AI and ML-driven automation.

 He currently serves as aLead Principal Technical Program Manager and AI/ML Cloud certifiedprofessional, leading modernization initiatives that integrate machinelearning, automation, and agile delivery frameworks. His writing and researchexplore how emerging AI technologies such as generative models, multimodalsystems, and agentic architectures can optimize enterprise operations anddecision-making.

 His key interests includeapplied AI research, agentic systems, cognitive automation, cloud-nativearchitectures, and responsible AI adoption in large organizations.

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Samaresh Kumar Singh

Principal Engineer - Distributed Systems, Edge AI and AI Governance

HP Inc.

Samaresh Kumar Singh

Principal Engineer - Distributed Systems, Edge AI and AI Governance

HP Inc.

Samaresh Kumar Singh is anEngineering Principal at HP Inc. with more than 21 years of experiencedesigning and implementing large-scale distributed systems, cloud-nativeplatform architectures, and secure Edge AI / ML systems. His expertise spansagentic AI systems, GenAI / LLMs, Edge AI, federated and privacy-preservinglearning, and secure hybrid cloud–edge computing.

 In addition to buildingintelligent systems, Samaresh specializes in cybersecurity, Zero Trustarchitectures, and AI governance frameworks for production environments. He hasled initiatives focused on securing AI pipelines across the full lifecycle fromdata ingestion and model training to deployment, monitoring, and continuousvalidation. His work integrates secure MLOps practices, model risk management,AI supply chain security, identity-centric access control, and runtimeprotection for distributed AI systems operating at the edge.

 Throughout his career, hehas architected high-throughput, low-latency services and resilientorchestration frameworks that deliver intelligence closer to devices and datasources while maintaining strong security, compliance, and governance controls.He actively contributes to the technical community, serving as a book revieweditor for Apress and Manning, and has reviewed more than 50 research papersfor IEEE conferences and journals spanning AI/ML, distributed systems, edgecomputing, cybersecurity, and AI risk management.

 Samaresh is passionateabout translating academic research into secure, production-grade systems andmentoring engineers and researchers in building trustworthy, scalable, andgovernance-aligned AI platforms.

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About this Session's Track

Security Research & Content Marketing

Learn how to leverage original threat research and technical insights to create authoritative content that educates your audience and fuels demand.

GovCon & Public Sector

Discover the nuances of selling into government and public sector organizations, including contract vehicles, compliance best practices, and public‑sector positioning.