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The AI Control Nexus: Governing Security, Privacy, and Assurance

Date: April 2, 2026
Time: 8:45 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
CPEs: Up to 7 CPEs
Location: Intuit Campus (Building 6) Mountain View, California

The AI Control Nexus: Governing Security, Privacy, and Assurance brings together technology, audit, and risk leaders to explore how organizations can govern AI responsibly, securely, and with confidence. This is a great chance to hear real-world insights, connect with peers, and learn practical approaches you can apply right away. Speakers: Session highlights include insights and case studies from leaders across Cherry Hill Advisory, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, Snowflake, Zscaler, Meta, Google Cloud, AMD, and GitLab. From operationalizing the IIA’s new cybersecurity requirements to advancing agentic AI governance, AI-enabled compliance, AI threat defense, and SOX automation, you will hear how global technology and fintech organizations are embedding security, privacy, and assurance into real-world AI deployments while driving measurable business impact.

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Agenda

Breakfast starts at 8:00 A.M.
Conference kick-off at 8:45 A.M.

9:00 A.M. - Opening Remarks
Atticus Tysen, Senior VP, CISO, CIO, Intuit

9:10 A.M. - Key Note: From Standard to Strategy: Operationalizing the IIA's New Cybersecurity Requirements
Mikey Levy, CEO, Cherry Hill Advisory, IIA Standards Boards

10 A.M. - Cyber Risk in the AI Era - How the Second and Third Line Are Collaborating to Tackle Evolving Threats and What's Next
Emre Alpargun - VP, CAE, Palo Alto Network
Atticus Tysen, Senior VP, CISO, CIO, Intuit
Mikey Levy, CEO, Cherry Hill Advisory, IIA Standards Boards
Ronel Vermeulen, Partner, Risk Advisory, Crosscountry Consulting

11:00 A.M. - The Certification Squeeze: From Paper Audits to Automated Evidence in 2026
Alvaro Hoyos, Director of GRC, Snowflake
Vidhayraman, Director of GRC, ZScalar

11:45 A.M. - Lunch break

12:30 P.M. - The New Frontier: Agentic AI, Governance, and Enterprise Accountability - A Cross-Domain Leadership Dialogue
Amrita Kapoor - VP and Head of IA, Snowflake
Sue Datta - Head of Internal Audit (Interim), Intuit
Kavin Anburaj - IA Director, Privacy & Youth Compliance, Meta
Benjamin Shappell - Partner, RSM

1:15 P.M. - AI for Compliance & Compliance for AI
Ben Kamber - Sr. Staff Privacy Engineer & Manager, Google Cloud
Sayee Balaji Chandrasekaran - Privacy Engineer, Google Cloud

2:15 P.M. - Walking the AI Kill Chain - Understanding and Disrupting AI-Native Threats Before Impact
Abhishek Verma - Head of AI Threat Labs, Lineaje
Irfan Asrar - Director of Global Cyber Defense, AMD

3:00 P.M. - Automating SOX: Using AI to Reduce Manual Testing and Drive Measurable ROI
Danielle Ritter - VP, Internal Audit, Gitlab
Gabriel Medina - Senior Director, IT Risk Assurance, RGP
Wasif Shabbir - Head of Sox Compliance, Meta

3:45 P.M. - AI - Risky If You Do; Riskier If You Don't
Matt Solomon, Managing Director, ERM, Uniqus
Vijay Sampath, Partner, Technology Consulting Uniqus

Social Networking starts at 4:00 P.M. Light refreshments will be served.

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Speakers

Internal Controls Working Group

Date: April 8, 2026
Time: 12 - 1 P.M. PT
CPE: 1 NASBA CPE

Members & Students - Free | Non-members - $50

Join us for an interactive working group dedicated to the evolving landscape of Internal Controls. This session is designed as a collaborative forum for practitioners to exchange ideas, benchmark processes, and discuss real-world challenges. Through facilitated breakout sessions, attendees will connect with industry peers to "compare notes" on current control environments, emerging risks, and best practices. Whether you are refining SOX compliance or tackling automation, this is your opportunity to gauge how your organization measures up and take home actionable insights from fellow audit professionals.

Working Group Host: Alisanne Gilmore Allen is an influential governance, risk and controls executive with expertise building right-sized, scalable programs that meet regulatory and public-company expectations across emerging-growth, mid-size public, and privately held organizations, and is on the Board of Governors of our IIA San Jose Chapter. She is a trusted advisor to boards and senior management on regulatory matters including Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) / Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) readiness, enterprise, fraud, and cyber risks, and internal audit modernization for high growth and public company readiness. Recognized as an industry expert, she translates complex risk and control issues into clear decisions, accountability, and measurable remediation. Alisanne brings deep corporate governance experience through her work with corporate and nonprofit boards, including reporting to corporate boards and audit committees.

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