Speakers

Partner @ TLV Partners

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Yonatan moved to Israel in 2010 and has been a career venture capitalist since his military service. He focuses on investing in AI infra and applied AI companies at TLV Partners - a $1bn early stage fund based in Israel. Notable investments include Run:ai, which was acquired by Nvidia for $700m earlier in 2025

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Associate Program Officer @ Coefficient Giving

Abbey works on Coefficient Giving's Global Catastrophic Risks team on capacity building. She's currently focusing on the intersection of Infosec and AI. Prior to CG, she was a product manager at various startups in San Francisco.

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Co-Founder and CEO @ Asymmetric Security

Program Manager @ DARPA

Senior Researcher @ Institute for AI Policy & Strategy

Asher is a Senior Researcher on the compute policy team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. Before joining IAPS, Asher was Head of the Cyber Analysis Team at Cynerio, a healthcare and medical device cybersecurity start-up. He also previously served as a cybersecurity officer in Unit 8200 and a Senior Technological Researcher at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Asher is also a co-founder of Heron AI Security, a fellow at ALTER, and an external contributor to RAND.

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Al Researcher @ XBOW

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt is an AI researcher working on autonomous AI agents for offensive security at XBOW. Prior to joining XBOW, he was an Associate Professor at NYU Tandon researching software security and machine learning.

CEO @ Redwood Research

Buck is the CEO of Redwood Research. He's written extensively about risks from misaligned AI, especially threat modeling and risk mitigation strategies.

Founder @ AI Security Forum

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CEO @ CAS Strategies

Camille Stewart Gloster is a strategist, attorney, and executive recognized for her expertise at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, national security, and foreign policy. She is the CEO of CAS Strategies, a boutique cybersecurity and emerging tech advisory firm, She was the first Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology & Ecosystem Security at the White House and has held senior leadership roles across government and private sectors, including at Google, the Department of Homeland Security, Crowdstrike, and Deloitte.

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CEO @ RemoteThreat, DE - AI & Offensive Security @ IBM

Chris the CEO of RemoteThreat, and Distinguished Engineer for AI & Offensive Security leading IBM's X-Force Red practice, and the Founder and Co-organizer of Offensive AI Con.

Strategy and Delivery @ UK AISI

Daisy works on the Cyber and Autonomous Systems Team at AISI, focusing primarily on evaluating the propensity of frontier AI models to demonstrate harmful behaviours.

Co-Founder and CEO @ Trail of Bits

CEO @ Pattern Labs 

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Senior Lecturer and Head of SAFE Lab @ Technion University

Dana Drachsler-Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the Technion, where she leads the SAFE Lab. Her research focuses on formal methods for securing and verifying deep learning models.

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Research Lead @ Palisade

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Assistant Professor @ Ben-Gurion University

Dr. Yisroel Mirsky is a tenured Assistant Professor and Zuckerman Faculty Scholar at Ben-Gurion University, where he leads the Offensive AI Research Lab. He is a recent recipient of a five-year ERC Starting Grant from the European Union to secure the next generation of agentic AI. His work has appeared at top venues such as DEFCON, Black Hat, RSA, USENIX, CCS, and NDSS, as well as in Popular Science, Scientific American, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.

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Director @ Heron AI Security Initiative

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Technology & Security Policy Fellow @ RAND

Mentaleap

Itay Yona is a leading researcher operating at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and neuroscience. He led the creation of a prominent, interdisciplinary research community of over 300 scholars, driving focus on the mechanistic interpretability of deep neural networks. His technical contributions include fundamental research into LLM security at Google DeepMind and AI21 Labs, pioneering model extraction techniques that earned the ICML 2024 Best Paper Award, and conducting high-dimensional analysis of neural tuning curves published in Science.

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Co-Founder and CTO @ HelmGuard AI

Jack is the CTO and Co-Founder of HelmGuard AI. Before starting HelmGuard, Jack was an AI safety researcher with papers on AI governance and the science of deep learning.

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CEO @ Ulyssean

Jacob Lagerros is the founder of Ulyssean, a startup building security and verification for the world's largest AI clusters. They build integrated hardware and software to protect clusters against the most sophisticated threats, both AI and human. Jacob's been an invited speaker on AI and security at the National Security Council, National Intelligence Council, BIS, and various house and senate committees.

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CISO @ Anthropic

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Co-Founder @ Theorem Labs

CEO @ TamperSec

AI Security Lead @ Meta

Joshua Saxe leads Meta's efforts to build AI technologies for security at Meta, and founded the team that leads security for Llama, and which built LlamaFirewall, CyberSecEval, and PromptGuard. Prior to Meta, Joshua helped pioneer the application of deep learning to cyber attack detection as Chief Scientist at Sophos, and as Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA and NSA funded cyber AI research programs.

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Security Engineer @ Trail of Bits

Engineering Manager @ Meta

Dr. Lauren Deason is a software engineering manager at Meta focused on evaluating the cybersecurity risks and opportunities introduced by generative AI systems. She has previously worked on developing machine learning applications for security use cases including malware and network intrusion detection. Lauren serves on the governing board of CAMLIS and holds a PhD in Economics from UMD College Park, a Masters degree in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, and a BS in Applied Math from UVA.

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Project Manager @ AI Futures

Research Lead @ SaferAI

Malcolm Murray is an AI risk management expert, working as a Chapter Lead for the International AI Safety Report, Research Lead at SaferAI, and Superforecaster with Good Judgment. He was formerly Managing Vice President and Chief of Research for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Audit at Gartner and has a total of two decades of experience advising corporate executives and government ministers.

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Executive Director, AI and Advanced Computing @ Schmidt Sciences

AI Safety and Security Architecture Manager @ NVIDIA

AI Safety and Security Architecture Manager

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Technology and Security Policy Fellow @ RAND

Mauricio Baker is a fellow at RAND, where he led RAND's recent working paper "Verifying International Agreements on AI." Before this, Mauricio contracted with OpenAI's Governance team and did a masters in Computer Science at Stanford.

Co-founder and CTO @ Dreadnode

Nick Landers is CTO and Co-Founder at Dreadnode, where he is responsible for the development of the Strikes platform, an offensive AI platform used to deploy, evaluate, and observe agents and run AI red teaming. He's an established offensive security engineer and researcher, known for his Dark Side Ops training courses.

Distinguished Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks

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Founder @ Augur

Nikhil Mulani is the founder of Augur, a research firm focused on the supply chain for frontier AI model development. Previously, he served as the AI lead on the National Policy team at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where he led projects including assessing AI-enabled CBRN risks, providing guidance on AI security risks to critical infrastructure operators, and establishing public-private partnerships on AI security issues. His experience includes over 7 years in data and machine learning products at various businesses.

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Head of Cyber @ Heron AI Security

Nitzan Shulman is a cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and vulnerability research across embedded systems, IoT devices, and AI systems. He currently serves as Head of Cyber at Heron AI Security, where he leads efforts to secure frontier AI models and infrastructure.

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Director of Strategy @ Team8

AI Research Lead @ Delphos Labs

Technical Specialist @ ARIA

Nora is a Technical Specialist at the UK’s Advanced Research & Invention Agency. Her works aims to catalyse R&D that can help make transformative AI go well. This includes, for example, developing a general-purpose workflow for producing AI applications with quantitative safety guarantees, using AI to write formally verifiable software, or developing hardware-enabled mechanisms for AI security & verification.

Co-Founder and CTO @ Irregular

Omer has over 20 years of experience in either AI, cybersecurity or some combination of the two across national security, a previous YC-backed startup and Google.

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Senior Lecturer @ Tel Aviv University

Or Zamir is a Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, specializing in Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithms, Cryptography and the foundations of provable AI security. He was previously a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and a researcher at Princeton University.

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Cybersecurity Researcher @ UK AISI

Philip is a red-teamer with an interest in all-things systems exploitation, with a focus on reverse engineering.

Co-Founder @ Asymmetric Security

Pippa is the Co-Founder of Asymmetric Security, an AI-Native Digital Forensics and Incident Response firm with the mission of accelerating AI's defensive cybersecurity capabilities.

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SVP and CISO @ Oracle Cloud Security

Investor @ Halcyon Ventures

Ross Matican makes AI security investments at the earliest stages at Halcyon Ventures. He is interested in commercializing frontier research that simultaneously addresses enterprise AI security needs while meaningfully reducing societal risks from advanced model misuse. Ross used to work at Bessemer Venture Partners and is an alum of BlueDot Impact's AI Safety Fundamentals course.

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Director @ RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology

Sella is Director of the RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology. He is a co-author of the Securing AI Model Weights Report. Previously, he was head of the Karmel team in Google Research, using AI for humanitarian, global development, and climate related action.

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CEO @ Amodo

Founding Security Engineer @ TamperSec

Pronouns: They/them

Former CISO @ Google DeepMind

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Member of Technical Staff @ UK AISI

Vy is a Software Engineer at the Cyber and Autonomous Systems team in the UK AISI. His current focus is building agent scaffoldings for model evaluations.

CEO @ Dreadnode

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Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering @ Anthropic

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Director of Research @ UK AI Security Institute, Professor @ Oxford University

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VP of AI and Security @ Cisco Foundation AI

Yaron Singer is VP of Engineering and AI at Cisco Security where he leads the Foundation AI team. He was previously CEO and co-founder of Robust Intelligence which was acquired by Cisco. Before Robust Intelligence, Yaron was a tenured Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, and previously he was a researcher at Google AI. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and is the recipient of multiple awards for innovation and academic breakthroughs.

Co-Founder and CEO @ Attestable

Yogi is a security engineer and the CEO of Attestable, an early-stage startup developing integrity solutions for AI. Previously, Yogi worked on AI Security policy at the RAND Corporation and is a co-author of RAND's "Securing AI Model Weights" report.

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