Programme topic
Security & safety
Agents can browse, call tools, mutate systems and act with delegated authority. This collection examines red-teaming, isolation, runtime protection and safer architectures for containing that expanded attack surface.
8 published talks
Talks about security & safety
Autonomous agents need autonomous protection
Adesh GairolaFounder and CEO, raxIT Labs
Autonomous agents need autonomous protection. An agent that acts alone at 3am cannot wait for a quarterly pen test, a consultant's report, or a security engineer the team does not have. We started with the data. We built and published an open threat…
Oops I Hacked It Again: Six Months of Red Teaming Our AI Agents
Jon ShenAI Practice Executive - Strategy and Governance, Suncorp
In March I onboarded our first team member dedicated to AI Red Teaming. That was a month before the announcement of Claude Mythos Preview, and the open letters that followed from APRA in April and ASIC in May (Australia’s prudential and conduct regulators)…
Deliberate Holes Only
Karla BurnettSecurity Engineer, Lorikeet
Making an AI agent vulnerable to exactly one attack is harder than making it completely secure, let alone doing it six different times. In this talk, I'll describe the process of building an agentic AI capture the flag challenge…
Building a Security Agent: Model choice, Harnesses and Evals
Simon HarloffCTO, Dam Secure
In this presentation, I’ll show how we set out to give developers useful security feedback on every pull request in under three minutes. The benchmark results and methodology are published here:…
Query before mutation: guardrail patterns for agents that touch production infrastructure
Jeffrey AvenMaintainer, StackQL Studios
Covered in the session: - Why plan-and-apply was always a human safety mechanism: a person reads the plan, notices something is off, and stops the apply - and why this quietly disappears the moment an agent is the operator - Query before mutation as the…
Don't Fight Hallucinations. Make Them Impossible
Nadia MakarevichPrincipal Engineer, Heatseeker
The Heatseeker AI chat answers data questions for marketers who make decisions with million-dollar budgets. Wrong answers or hallucinated numbers are not an option here, as you can imagine ;) The fight against them (hallucinations, not marketers) was long and…
Assert Chaos
Chris LienertSenior Principal Engineer, Smart AI Connect
Once a product reaches the wilds of production, all sorts of things can go wrong. Carefully logging and monitoring are one thing, but what if we could do better? Bring new levels of code stability by recreating the ‘cat on a keyboard’ randomness of production…
AI Sandboxes: Running Coding Agents Safely in Production-Grade Environments
Shivay LambaLead Machine Learning | Developer Experience Engineer, Qualcomm
The number of cyber attacks and security risks related to Coding Agents has sky rocketed. AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI don’t behave like your typical developer tools. They install system packages, modify configurations, delete…