"AI, Leadership, and the Future of Cybersecurity"
"AI, Leadership, and the Future of Cybersecurity"
Tue May 20 - 5:20 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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Session: AI, Leadership, and the Future of Cybersecurity
As AI transforms enterprise strategy and threat landscapes alike, today’s technology leaders are navigating a new frontier—where innovation, ethics, and cybersecurity converge. Join Aysha Khan (CISO & CIO, Treasure Data), Bhawna Singh (CTO, Customer Identity, Okta), and Stephanie Domas (CISO, Canonical) for a dynamic conversation moderated by Virginia Mayo (VP, Global Security & Resiliency, Kyndryl). Together, they’ll unpack what it means to lead secure innovation in an era defined by generative AI, identity threats, and systemic complexity.Key Takeaways
- How AI is redefining the risk landscape—and the CISO/CTO response
- The evolving convergence of cybersecurity and software architecture
- Executive leadership strategies for AI governance and resilience
- Building trust-first cultures that empower innovation with accountability
Bio
Aysha Khan, CISO & CIO, Treasure DataAysha Khan is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Treasure Data. She has over 20 years of experience managing Information Technology and Security at Fortune 500 companies. She is passionate about aligning strategy with agile execution to drive business results and customer satisfaction. Aysha has successfully built and led technology, security, compliance, risk, and operations functions from scratch, as well as turned around disjointed organizations into cohesive and collaborative environments.
Her core competencies include data and security strategy in alignment with GTM and R&D, strategic partnerships, technology direction, digital transformation, cross-functional team leadership, building A+ global and remote diverse teams, company culture, and strategic negotiations. She has extensive expertise in cloud security and engineering, trust and assurance, security operations, audit and compliance frameworks, product security, governance, risk management, vulnerability management, data analytics, program implementations, vendor and supplier risk management, M&A integration, and board and executive reporting.
Aysha is also an advisor with Silicon Valley CISOs Investments, a Clear Ventures CXO council member, an investor in many early-stage startups, a DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) executive, a speaker, and a life coach who strongly believes in connecting people, purpose, and performance to bring the best out of others and achieve sustained and predictable results.
Bhawna Singh, CTO, Customer Identity, Okta
Stephanie Domas, CISO, Canonical
Stephanie has over a decade of experience in ethical hacking, reverse engineering, and advanced vulnerability analysis, helping her think like hackers do and design security that’s aiming one step ahead. Stephanie is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Canonical, the creators of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu.
Virginia Mayo, VP, Global Security & Resiliency, Kyndryl (moderator)
Virginia Mayo is a Kyndryl (formerly IBM Services) Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, Security and Resiliency Architecture and The Open Group™ Distinguished Technical Specialist. She is a globally recognized technical expert for her outstanding history of leadership in enterprise infrastructure automation, security,and resiliency.
In her tenure as Chief Engineer of the IBM Services Chief Engineer of Security Patch Management Service, she patented technical innovations that transformed IBM's security and compliance solutions to standardize the service, converging into best-of-breed architecture and strategy. This led to her appointment as a Distinguished Engineer in 2020 becoming the first ever Filipino American technical executive in IBM corporate history. As Kyndryl customers strengthen their business continuity, Virginia provides technical leadership in Security and Resiliency Global Delivery Practice to ensure secure and compliant systems are built to protect clients’ business with resilient, adaptive and flexible solutions.
Virginia holds a dual Bachelor of Science Degrees in Computer Engineering and Information Technology and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is currently a student at New Jersey City University pursuing a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Civil Security Leadership, Management & Policy with a focus on Cybersecurity. She is the recipient of the prestigious juried award, “Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry – Security” at the 2019 Women of Color STEM Conference. As a recognition of her career achievements, Virginia was awarded the prestigious ©TOFA (The Outstanding Filipino in America) Award at Carnegie Hall in October 2021 and was honored in June 2023 by her alma mater NJIT with the Alumni Achievement Award. In March 2024, she was featured by Vogue Philippines International Women’s Day issue through “Raising Hope,” in a call for nominations of inspiring women redefining technological innovations and making their mark in the digital age.
Virginia is a Board Member of the NJIT Murray Center for Women in Technology since June 2021 and Metropolitan Family Health Network since 2016. In 2024, Virginia joined the Stevens Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board.
