Security leaders have always navigated uncertainty. What’s different now is the speed and scale of change. AI is accelerating business decisions, automating operations, reshaping threat landscapes, and introducing new risks. At the same time, boards want greater visibility into security investments, regulators continue to expand oversight, and organizations are being asked to move faster than ever.

The result is what we call the security singularity: a point where traditional security models no longer scale and risk assessments can become outdated almost as soon as they’re completed.

That’s why Security & Risk Forum 2026, taking place November 9–10 in Washington, DC, focuses on helping leaders transform security, risk, and resilience programs for the AI era. From assurance operating models and AI governance to resilience and security economics, the event is designed to help organizations adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

The challenge isn’t simply securing AI. It’s creating an organization capable of governing, assuring, and proving trust in AI-driven decisions and outcomes.

Why Security & Risk Leaders Need A New Playbook

Today’s leaders are accountable for more than protecting systems and data. They’re expected to guide enterprise risk strategy, govern AI initiatives, strengthen organizational resilience, and communicate effectively with executive leadership and boards. They must reduce risk while enabling the business to innovate confidently.

Through keynotes, breakout sessions, deep dives, and workshops, attendees will gain practical guidance on governing AI, strengthening resilience, improving oversight, and managing enterprise risk. Here are some of the topics that will be explored.

What Does A Trust And Assurance Organization Look Like?

Many organizations recognize that security, risk, privacy, compliance, and governance can no longer operate in silos. The next question is how to bring those functions together in a way that supports business objectives while maintaining confidence in increasingly automated environments.

In the breakout session, The Rise Of The Trust And Assurance Organization, leaders will explore how organizations can evolve beyond traditional security functions to establish and maintain trust at scale.

Attendees can build on those ideas in sessions including:

  • AEGIS Powers Trusted AI At Scale, which explores the foundations of trusted AI implementation.
  • Defend Against AI Attacks With Zero Trust, focused on applying Zero Trust principles to emerging AI threats.
  • Get Value From Threat Intelligence With Agentic AI, which highlights new ways organizations can use AI to improve intelligence-driven decision-making.

Together, these sessions examine how organizations can extend trust, transparency, and assurance as AI takes on a larger role in business operations.

Governance, Guardrails, And Resilience For Agentic AI

One of the defining questions of 2026 is how to govern increasingly autonomous systems without slowing the business.

As organizations deploy AI agents capable of making decisions and interacting with enterprise systems, traditional approaches to oversight and risk management face new challenges. Leaders need frameworks that reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and keep AI-driven actions aligned with business objectives.

Several sessions tackle these issues directly:

  • Beyond The Human: Evolving Human Risk Management In The Agentic Era, where attendees will examine how risk management practices must evolve as organizations rely on AI agents alongside human workers.
  • Build Resilience For AI, which explores how organizations can strengthen resilience as AI adoption accelerates.
  • Contracts: AI Guardrails With Teeth, which examines how contractual mechanisms can establish accountability and reduce risk exposure beyond technical controls alone.

Making The Business Case For AI Security

Security and risk leaders are increasingly expected to justify investments in terms that resonate with executives and boards.

That’s why one of the most relevant sessions for this audience may be Token Economics: Security Budgets In The AI Age. As AI changes spending priorities across the enterprise, this session will address how security leaders can optimize investments while maintaining resilience and confidence.

The keynote program expands on these strategic considerations through sessions such as:

  • Trusted Autonomy Starts With Securing Intent, which explores how organizations can establish governance and accountability as autonomous systems increasingly make decisions and take action on their behalf.
  • Identity Context Is King, which examines the growing importance of identity as a foundation for informed security and risk decisions.
  • Forge The Trusted Future, which explores the capabilities that organizations need to support innovation while maintaining confidence in AI-driven outcomes.

Strengthening Control And Accountability In AI-Powered Organizations

As organizations deploy more autonomous systems, one question continues to rise to the top of boardroom discussions: How do you maintain control and accountability when AI is making or influencing critical decisions? The Security & Risk Forum keynote, Advancing Data Controls To Secure Agentic AI, addresses this challenge directly.

In the session, security and risk leaders will explore the evolving role of data controls in AI governance and learn how stronger approaches to securing and managing data can reduce risk while supporting innovation. For leaders responsible for enterprise risk and governance, data controls provide the foundation for explainable, auditable AI outcomes that are becoming increasingly important to regulators, executives, and boards.

Leave With A Strategy For The AI Era

The most successful security and risk leaders won’t be those who simply deploy more controls. They’ll be the leaders who can create accountability, resilience, and effective oversight across increasingly autonomous environments.

At Security & Risk Forum, attendees will gain practical guidance on governing AI, implementing guardrails, strengthening resilience, applying Zero Trust principles, improving threat intelligence capabilities, optimizing security investments, and communicating security priorities at the board level. Most importantly, they’ll learn how to build the trust and assurance capabilities that organizations need to thrive in the security singularity.

Join us November 9–10 in Washington, DC and discover how to lead confidently through the next era of security and risk. If you register before September 4, you can save 10% on your ticket with our Summer Advantage discount.

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