AI Cyber Alliance - San Francisco
AI Cyber Alliance Meetup: San Francisco
When: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Workato
600 Illinois Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
The AI Cyber Alliance returns to San Francisco for an evening of technical talks exploring two of the biggest trends shaping AI today: building more secure AI-assisted software and the growing momentum behind local AI.
Join developers, security practitioners, founders, researchers, and AI enthusiasts for practical discussions on securing modern development workflows, deploying AI closer to your data, and what these shifts mean for the future of software.
Whether you're already building AI products or simply curious about where the industry is heading, you'll leave with actionable insights and new connections from across the Bay Area AI and cybersecurity community.
Complimentary food and drinks will be provided.
Venue kindly provided by our hosts, Workato.
Workato is the Enterprise MCP company, providing the connective layer that gives AI agents secure, governed access to enterprise systems and data. Built on a decade of integration expertise spanning 14,000+ applications, Workato's platform enables organizations to move from simple automation to agentic AI that can reason, act, and orchestrate work across the entire business. You can explore Workato's end-to-end capabilities in our developer sandbox here.
About the AI Cyber Alliance
The AI Cyber Alliance is an open community dedicated to advancing AI and cybersecurity through collaboration, education, and shared technical knowledge.
Our meetups bring together practitioners from industry, startups, academia, government, and the open source community to explore the technologies, challenges, and opportunities shaping AI security.
Expect practical talks, thoughtful discussion, and an inclusive environment where engineers, researchers, founders, students, and security professionals can learn from one another.
Agenda
6:00 PM
Doors open, networking, food & drinks
6:20 PM
Welcome from the AI Cyber Alliance
6:30 PM
Agent skills for more secure code
Aron Eidelman
7:00 PM
Local AI: Why now?
Kendall Miller
7:30 PM
Networking
8:00 PM
Event concludes
Featured speakers
Aron Eidelman
Sr. DRE, Security, Google
Aron Eidelman is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, where he focuses on AI security and secure software development. He is passionate about helping developers build safer AI-powered applications and adopt practical security practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
Outside of Google, Aron serves as Chairman of Azure Printed Homes, a startup transforming millions of discarded plastic bottles into 3D-printed homes and structures to advance affordable housing and sustainable construction.
A frequent international speaker, Aron has presented at Google Cloud Next, the AI Agent Security Summit, ISACA, SANS, AWS re:Invent, HackerOne Security@, BSidesSF, and many other industry conferences.
Agent skills for more secure code
AI coding assistants are changing how software is built—but secure development practices shouldn't be left behind.
In this session, Aron will demonstrate practical, vendor-neutral techniques for integrating open source AI agent skills, hooks, and automated security checks into everyday development workflows.
Using patterns such as test-driven development, pre-commit scanning, and reusable agent skills, you'll learn how to build security into AI-assisted coding regardless of whether you're using Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, or another coding platform. The techniques are free, open, and immediately applicable to modern development teams.
This talk is ideal for developers, security engineers, and anyone looking to make AI-assisted coding both faster and more secure.
Kendall Miller
CEO, DPLYD
Kendall Miller is a technology executive and startup advisor with deep experience scaling B2B SaaS companies across cloud infrastructure, observability, and AI security. Throughout his career, he has helped take companies from early revenue through acquisition, including leading ReactiveOps/Fairwinds through its acquisition and serving on the board of FusionAuth through its successful exit.
Today, Kendall is working on DPLYD, a simple way to run local AI models for regulated industries and privacy-conscious teams. DPLYD makes AI in a box at a predictable, affordable price and works across legal, healthcare, defense, and other industries where privacy and security are critical.
Local AI: Why now?
Running AI models locally has never been more practical—but why is it becoming such an important part of the AI landscape now?
In this session, Kendall will explore the technological shifts driving the rise of local AI, from rapidly improving open-weight models to increasingly capable consumer hardware. He'll discuss where local models make sense, how they compare with cloud-hosted AI, and what they mean for privacy, security, cost, and developer workflows.
Whether you're experimenting with AI on your laptop or evaluating enterprise deployment strategies, you'll leave with a clearer understanding of why local AI is having its moment—and where it's headed next.
Who should attend?
Software developers
AI engineers
Security engineers
Platform and DevOps teams
Security leaders and CISOs
Startup founders
Students and researchers
Anyone interested in AI, cybersecurity, and open source
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
– the AI Cyber Alliance team