AI Connect: Cyber Security Edition
AI Connect is back in Vancouver! This meetup will be focused around the implications of AI for Cyber Security.
Event Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time: 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Location: Downtown, Vancouver
Keynote Speaker
Milos Stojadinovic, Fellow, Cyber Security (VP), RBC
Faster Than the Defenders: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cyber Resilience
Cyberattacks are now run like businesses: stolen identities are bought and sold, attack capabilities are offered as a service, and AI models are finding and weaponizing software vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch them. In response, organizations are rethinking resilience from the ground up: assuming attackers are already inside, and building systems that detect, verify, and increasingly fix problems on their own. Drawing on experience leading the team at RBC that hunts for attackers and tests the bank's defences by emulating attackers, this talk explains that shift from the inside and asks what happens when the defence is faster than the people responsible for it. It closes with a practical question for anyone entering the field: as AI absorbs the routine work on both sides, what skills stay valuable, and what should you be learning now?
Who Should Attend
This meetup is intended for individuals with hands-on experience in:
Machine Learning Research
Applied AI & Generative AI
Research Engineering & ML Systems
Machine Learning Software Engineering
Data Science
Product Management
Cyber Security
Express your interest!
To keep the experience focused and meaningful, attendance is limited, and invitations are non transferable. Entry is first-come, first-serve to approved guests.
Our team will follow up with additional details for confirmed attendees.