AISec-Tor #1: Toronto's AI Security Meetup
OVERVIEW
AISec-Tor is Toronto's practitioner-focused meetup at the intersection of AI and security — securing AI products, agents, and the model supply chain, and using AI inside security operations without creating a new attack surface.
This is a practitioner focused AI security meetup, happening roughly every 6 to 8 weeks
HOST
This is event #1 and hosted at Homebase office.
AGENDA (5:30–8:30 PM)
5:30 — Doors, food, drinks
6:00 — Agentic D&R: Where AI Helps and Where It Breaks by Khrystyna Manko
6:30 — Practical MCP Security by Harish Ramadoss
7:00 — Open networking
8:30 — Hard stop
SPEAKERS
Talks will be practitioner-led, covering AI security in either direction: securing AI products and agents, or using AI inside security operations.
Khrystyna Manko is a Senior Detection and Response Engineer (Tech Lead) at Homebase, where she leads work across security operations, corporate security, and AI security. She's spent nine years in the field — starting as a Tier 1 analyst, then building ISA Cybersecurity's security awareness service from scratch, running their SOC (20+ analysts, 100+ MSSP customers), and managing InfoSec Operations at Samsung Ads. CISSP, SSAP. Toronto-based.
Harish Ramadoss is a founding member of Rippling's Security Engineering team, where he leads AI Security and AppSec. He was previously a Principal at Trustwave SpiderLabs running their application security practice, and Security Assurance Manager at Etihad Airways. He built DejaVu, an open-source deception platform, teaches AI security through ModernSecurity.io, and has presented at Black Hat, DEFCON, and HITB
HOUSE RULES
Practitioners only on stage — no vendor pitches, no product demos
The discussion block runs under Chatham House Rule and is never recorded
Talks are recorded only with speaker consent
Not a recruiting event — 1:1 conversations are fine, list-building isn't
Standard code of conduct applies (Berlin CoC)
WHO SHOULD COME
CISO, Head of Security, Security engineers, AI security practitioners, and practitioner working on AI in either direction — securing AI systems, or using AI within security teams.
Space is limited to keep the room conversational. We'll follow up with details closer to the date.
👋 See You There!
Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at the meetup!