AI Connect Season 2: The Next Chapter of Application Security
About the Event
For most of modern software history, finding and exploiting vulnerabilities required a combination of expertise, patience, and time.
AI is removing that bottleneck.
Frontier models such as Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, Qwen, and the emerging class of autonomous AI agents are simultaneously becoming some of the most powerful tools defenders have ever had.
What was once a human-paced security landscape is becoming machine-paced. Vulnerability discovery, exploit generation, attack-chain planning, and defensive analysis can increasingly happen in hours rather than weeks. At the same time, organisations are introducing entirely new attack surfaces through AI agents, plugins, connectors, retrieval systems, open-source models, and increasingly autonomous workflows.
The result is a world where attackers and defenders increasingly have access to the same intelligence.
At the Harness AI Connect Season 2, security leaders, engineers, researchers, and AppSec practitioners will unpack what this means for modern software systems, and how security, governance, and engineering practices need to evolve when intelligence itself becomes part of the attack surface.
What We'll Discuss
The Asymmetry Problem
From exploit generation and vulnerability chaining to API probing and autonomous reconnaissance, frontier models are changing the economics of offensive security. The discussion will explore how organisations respond when attackers and defenders increasingly have access to the same intelligence.
The Defender's New Toolkit
Security is moving beyond periodic scanning toward runtime visibility, adaptive defenses, automated remediation, and continuous risk assessment. What does an effective AppSec stack look like when software and threats both operate at machine speed?
The Governance Gap
When an AI agent triggers a production-impacting action, the chain of accountability is rarely obvious. The discussion will examine how organisations are approaching oversight, control, and decision-making in systems where humans are no longer involved in every step.
Panelist
Dhiraj Khare, Chief Revenue Officer, Matters.AI
Alok Goyal, Tech investor, Stellaris Venture Partners.
Natraj Choudhury, CTO, Lenskart
Pranav Tiwari, Head of Engineering, Postman
Agenda
Time
Session
03:00 PM – 03:20 PM
Registration, networking, and snacks
03:20 PM – 03:35 PM
Opening and scene-setting
03:35 PM – 05:05 PM
Panel Discussion
05:05 PM – 05:45 PM
Audience Q&A and open discussion
05:45 PM – 06:00 PM
Closing remarks and networking
About Harness
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform for everything after code.
It applies intelligence and automation across the full software delivery lifecycle – testing, deployment, security, governance, and optimization – so enterprise organizations can ship software faster, safer, and at scale. Harness is trusted by 1,000+ enterprises across regulated and high-scale industries.