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AI Without Blind Spots: Secure. Optimize. Protect.

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How to adopt AI securely, improve cyber, and control spend

AI is quickly becoming part of everyday business strategy, operations, customer experience, and decision-making. But as adoption accelerates, organizations are facing a new set of questions: How do we use AI securely? How do we protect the business from new cyber risks? How do we avoid overspending on tools, vendors, and infrastructure we may not fully understand?

Join Procure IT, Cato, and Expedient for a practical Tech Week GR session focused on the blind spots organizations need to address as AI becomes embedded across the business. We’ll explore how companies can adopt AI securely, use AI to strengthen cybersecurity, and optimize technology spend without slowing innovation.

Topics include:

Secure AI adoption and responsible usage
AI’s impact on cybersecurity, risk, and business resilience
Using AI to strengthen cyber defense across users, networks, endpoints, and applications
Emerging risks around agentic AI
IT and infrastructure readiness for AI-driven business initiatives
Controlling AI tool sprawl, vendor overlap, and unnecessary spend
Optimizing technology suppliers, contracts, and ongoing costs
Cloud, network, and operational considerations for AI adoption
Practical steps for aligning innovation with security, cost control, and technology strategy

Procure IT will share how platform-driven IT audits and optimization strategies help organizations gain visibility, uncover savings, reduce waste, and make smarter technology decisions.

Cato will cover how AI is changing cybersecurity across networks, endpoints, applications, and agentic AI security.

Expedient will provide perspective on the infrastructure, cloud, and operational foundation needed to support secure AI adoption at scale.

Whether your organization is just beginning to explore AI or already seeing AI tools spread across teams, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of where hidden risks, costs, and security gaps can emerge, and how to build a more secure, optimized, AI-ready business.

Location
Founders Brewing Co
235 Cesar E. Chavez Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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