AI Security Engineering NYC: Is AI Governance Actually Working?
Join us in New York City on October 13 for an evening with the AI Security, Cybersecurity & AI Engineering communities as we celebrate the launch of Ashish Rajan's new Wiley book, AI Security Engineering.
📍 New York City — RSVP to be notified of the venue.
AI is moving from copilots and experiments into production systems that can access company data, call tools and increasingly take actions.
Organisations have responded with AI policies, governance programmes, approval processes and new controls.
But is that governance actually helping people use AI safely?
And as AI adoption moves faster than many governance programmes can keep up with, are we reducing risk — or creating processes that people eventually work around?
For this New York conversation, we're bringing together security leaders from an AI-native company and a major financial institution to compare what AI governance looks like in very different operating environments — what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change as AI becomes more agentic.
🎙️ Fireside Chat: Is AI Governance Actually Working?
Rather than another conversation about AI policies and frameworks, we'll talk about what happens after the governance has been written and people actually start using AI.
We'll explore questions including:
Where is AI governance genuinely helping teams adopt AI safely — and where is it slowing them down without meaningfully reducing risk?
What happens when employees want to use AI faster than governance processes can keep up?
Are organisations governing what AI is allowed to do while missing what it can actually access and affect?
How do you educate thousands of employees about responsible AI use without relying on another policy nobody reads?
What should security teams govern centrally, and what needs to be pushed down to engineering teams?
How does governance differ between an AI-native company and a highly regulated global enterprise?
As AI becomes more agentic, which governance assumptions stop working?
If you were rebuilding your AI governance programme today, what would you do differently?
The goal isn't to argue that governance is unnecessary.
It's to ask a more useful question:
What does governance need to look like if we actually want people to use AI safely?
📚 AI Security Engineering
The evening will also celebrate the launch of AI Security Engineering, written by Ashish Rajan and published by Wiley.
The book is a practical guide for people building and securing AI systems, covering the security challenges that emerge across AI applications, models, data, infrastructure and increasingly autonomous systems.
Everyone who RSVPs and attends will receive a signed copy of AI Security Engineering.
👥 Who Should Attend?
This event is for people building, securing, governing or leading AI adoption inside organisations, including:
CISOs and security leaders
AI and engineering leaders
Security engineers and practitioners
AI governance, risk and compliance teams
People responsible for bringing AI safely into their organisations
Expect a practitioner-led conversation, different perspectives and plenty of time to meet others working through the same problems.
No vendor pitches. No generic "AI is changing everything" panel.
Just a candid conversation about what is and isn't working as organisations try to govern and secure AI in the real world.
🤝 Meet the Community
This is also a chance to meet people across the AI Security, Cybersecurity and AI Engineering communities in New York — whether you're already deploying AI in production or still working through what safe adoption should look like.
Come for the conversation, stay for the community — and leave with a signed copy of AI Security Engineering.
Seats are limited. RSVP to join us.
📍 Venue details will be shared with registered attendees.
Event by TechRiot.io & AI Security Lab