Ascend '26 · meetup

CXO Roundtable & Lunch: AI Agents in Production, Securely

A private peer lunch for tech and security leaders shipping AI agents

Most AI agent pilots work. The hard part comes after that.

When an agent can read your data, call your systems and act without a human in the loop, the questions change. What identity does it run as? What stops it leaking sensitive data or being hijacked by a prompt injection? Who approves it, who monitors it, and who is accountable when it gets something wrong? Few teams have settled answers yet, and vendor briefings rarely tell you what is working in practice.

This lunch is a room of people who are working through these questions right now. Around one table you'll find 14 technology and security leaders from enterprises and funded startups, trading what has shipped, what stalled and what they would do differently.

What to expect

A 2 minute opener from Ben King, Founder of Aviato Consulting, then the table leads the discussion

No slides, no product demos, no sales pitches

Google Cloud joins the table as a participant

Discussion is off the record, so people can speak openly

What we'll dig into

Moving agents from pilot to production: what made the difference and what got in the way

Security that holds up: permissions, data boundaries, prompt injection and audit trails

Governance and risk sign-off that doesn't grind delivery to a halt

Build, buy or partner: how enterprises and startups are working together on agents

Who it's for CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and heads of engineering, platform, data and security at enterprises, plus technical founders of funded startups who are building or deploying agents.

18 seats, and registration requires approval https://luma.com/ze4bqyic

In partnership with

Aviato Consulting Pty Ltd

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