Thursday, October 1st, 2026: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
In this session, we'll break down what actually separates AI cost management from cloud cost management: different unit economics, different owners, different attribution models, and a waste rate of 25% of cloud and AI spend, which took cloud a decade to reach and AI hit almost overnight.
Thursday, October 1st, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS.
Thursday, October 1st, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
If you're an engineering leader trying to figure out whether 'AI fixes vulnerabilities automatically' is a real operating model or a demo, this is the mechanism and the data, not the pitch.