

Graph The Planet 2026
Graph the Planet 2026 returns as an intimate one-day summit bringing together executives, senior specialists, researchers, and founders working at the intersection of generative AI, graphs, and data-intensive investigations.
Hosted in downtown San Francisco during RSA week, this exclusive event brings together top professionals from cybersecurity, fraud detection, misinformation analytics, and AI research for a day of insightful talks, startup demos, leader panels, discussions, food, and excellent company. The carefully structured schedule that includes breaks, meals, and interactive sessions designed to facilitate dialogue, collaboration, and meaningful professional connections.
This year’s program emphasizes practical deployments of generative AI technologies, focusing on copilots, autonomous systems, trustworthy AI, and scalable RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) solutions: moving beyond model training to deployed agents and reasoning. Expect detailed use cases and experience reports with an emphasis on cybersecurity applications such as fraud detection, misinformation control, risk management, and crime analytics.
Complementing these discussions, the event will explore advances in graph visualization, analytics, databases, AI integration, GPU acceleration, and data lake management, ensuring a comprehensive examination of the technologies shaping our industry.
Schedule
March 23, 2026
Bloomberg R&D Tech Hub - San Francisco
Livestream available
8:15 AM
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Leo Meyerovich - CEO, Graphistry
9:10 AM - Keynote
Software Factories
Justin McCarthy - Co-Founder & CTO, StrongDM
9:40 AM
Building Trustworthy AI at Scale
Sarah Bird - Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI, Microsoft
10:05 AM - Panel
Running with AI Scissors - Painful Lessons from Widely Rolling Out AI and Vibe Coding
Justin McCarthy (StrongDM)
Sarah Bird (Microsoft)
10:25 AM
Break and DeepTempo Breakout
10:45 AM
Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-weight Security Reasoning Model
Amin Karbasi - Cisco
11:10 AM
Bad Actors: Building Realistic Security Eval Data with Agentic AI
Dave Herrald - Databricks
11:35 AM
Towards Building Safe & Secure Agentic AI
Dawn Song - UC Berkeley
12:00 PM
Lunch and Graph Masterclass
1:00 PM
AI That Investigates and GPU Cypher
Leo Meyerovich - Graphistry / Louie.ai
1:25 PM
Cryptocurrency Investigations with Agentic AI
Victor Fang - CEO, AnChain.AI
1:50 PM
World Café Breakout Discussions and Sondera Team Demo
2:30 PM
Security Guidance as a Service: Building an AI-native Blueprint for Defensive Security
Shruti Datta Gupta - Adobe
Chandrani Mukherjee - Adobe
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Evaluating and Hill Climbing Efficacy in Cyber Defense Agents
Joshua Saxe - Former AI Security Lead, Meta
4:00 PM
Lifting Knowledge Graphs from Security Logs (Without ETL)
Diana Damenova - Microsoft
4:30 PM
AI Safety in Regulated Enterprise Deployments
David Cass - CISO, Keyrock
5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Venue Access
LOCATION Bloomberg Beta, 140 New Montgomery St, 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105
CHECKING IN: Please bring a photo ID.
You may receive an email with a QR code a few days ahead of your visit. Please follow the steps to upload your picture before you arrive. When you arrive, check in with first floor security in the lobby and tell them you’re visiting Bloomberg Beta. They’ll direct you to the 22nd floor. If you received a QR code, show it at the 22nd-floor reception to check in and get your visitor badge. Otherwise, you will show your ID and get your visitor badge.
PARKING
We recommend the SFMOMA parking garage on Minna St.