Sugar Pushin’ towards Quantum Day 2029 (Security Tech Conference + West Coast Swing) / Double Feature
Disclaimer: Everything below is a mix of what I observed and heard during the event. The goal isn’t to pinpoint "who exactly said what," but to share (usually) an outsider's view and overall perspective on these industries. I’m not here to act as a definitive firsthand source—readers should do their own research. I hope this inspires you to attend events, explore new industries, and hear what leaders are presenting. These notes combine my observations with thoughts on how things could run smoother and how ideas connect (IMO). I’m not an expert, you know? Just hanging out in the room with them. Enjoy!Topics: Corporate Security, Product Leaders, Hackathon, Free Food, AI, Technology, Quantum Computing, Security, West Coast Swing, Netwokring, NPC
This is the most vague event I’ve ever seen. It lists a lot of speakers in the picture, but there is no agenda… and its a full day event!? What can we expect. I’m not sure. But I think that since it’s free - and hosted by a big tech comapny - it’ll be somewhat of a commercial. They’re highlighting lots of products and how wonderful they are. THEN - its off to a literally 12 hour swing dancing event.
Why Attend: I want to keep learning about tech, top trends, and there is free food. I hope I meet some interesting people there. Lately I want to be more social and make more community. And as for the dance… duh! I love to dance with good dancers. And I wanna socializeeee/networkkkrkrkr.
PHOTO COLLAGE AND COMMENTARY:
Notes from the Event:
Arrive late but great. Got a seat in the front row
Actually, sitting next to a guy i’ve met before and he was super blunt and funny, but he doesn’t seem to. remember me. I even remember his name, its so unique. Maybe I’ll introduce myself again to him later. I just remember he was really smart but I don’t remember what we talked about. I’ll have to try to figure it out cause I’m sure I wrote about him in the past.
Okay so 90% of the world’s data has been created in the past 2 years
Wow her ppt is so nice. It has a gift that’s teh background but it’s super subtle. Just a nice moving background almost liek a secreensaver. I’ve never seen someone do this so well. But also she’s really casually fashionable.
She says:how do you secure data from agents and copilots which will be highly used in enterprises. When we talked about to our security practitioners, three things are top of mind:
Security and governing AI (73% are investing in to AI-specific data security and compliance controls)
What becomes clear with AI is that shadow AI is going to be a problem. If you don’t understand like your users who are these unmanaged units in your organization, they are like you new workers. Tehy can transfer and access data at speeds never seen before. We think about this problem deeply.
Shadow Ai is when employees use tools not monitored by the company
Whats the unified security control claim? What shoudl I know about to start securing? And with all of this happening, you’re going to get even more signals. How do you make your teams… well, tehy’re going to get smaller and smaller.
So the challenge is to get AI to help us be, not just productive, but with security programs, how do they become more effective helping us do investigations, analysis, and remediations.
We think about securing data and how AI can help us accelerate the jobs.
What do you know about our product: Purview
The commercials begin!! Or, at least for me.
There’s a whole AI lifecycle. When you thin about securing data, think about the three lifecycle, when you think about data security, there is data addressed.
Data news and used, agents accessing that.
When you think about correlating all these signals, understand and discover the data. Not just thinking of data that self but the users accessing the data. Users move data and agents move data.
Think about data loser prevention as our core technology.
We’ve elevated all of this into data security management. Postuer management.
Her accent is a little tough to understand so I’m probably writing this down correctly but not for sure
When you think about your platform, you’ve got to get hte data and reason it in a good way.
Put in our data, not only our data but 3rd party data.
Enabled by a unified platform. Thats how our company ensures out strategy. Think of it with the analogy of batman and robin (ut it sounded like she said packman).
Batman goes and protects everyone, robin is the one enabling him.
Think about a single unified control being that will ensure and help batman.
This is happening across a unified way.
If you see waht we’ve done, we’ve brought in a shared platform that has helped… (idk)
We do this across our entire portfolio, not just across our assets. Our unstructured assets. Shaerpoint sights. Devices, but also as we bring them to a structured database. Data breaks.
And we took it one step ahead. So to naturally extend our control playbooks the copilots became easy. I’ll show you a demo so you take home a visual so you see how naturally these things extend to the data we spoke about. Aceess to data.
We bought value into our own copilots. Security copilots, VR copilots, not just that. But we also think about two other aspects in our strategy:
Not all AI will be created with our own platforms. Lots will make it super easy, built in whenever you create an agent or an agent, we are already monitoring that and auditing the agent to see what is the compliance around it, data security risks. But what about all those apps created outside our ecosystems. We extend our API’s and enable them to have the same compliance and level.
We’ve incubated with liek ChatGPT and a connector. You can start to govern that.
And last but not least, your employees and all of us are going to want to use AI apps outside of what is allowed for us (gemini, deepseek) - so the browser network is going to be a big control thing for us. We are integrated in those control things.
I sneezed and no one said “bless you” lol
Are we complete? No. But do we have a strategy and know where we are going ? Absolutely.
As we think about what organizations need, thats the entire one unified thing.
Okay so if you drop back from strategy, I’m going to show you and walk you through a couple of quick demos to help you see this in action.
First and foremost, how amen of you use copilot? (A lot of people raise their hands).
How many of you experienced the moment you asked for someting and got sometihng you’re not supposed to see
Lol no one raises their hands
You’re not trying to be sneaky, but the problem is that this problem of oversharing.
At first, oversharing is a data hygiene problem. It’s not just a data problem, it’s an AI readiness problem.
Data hygiene is keeping your data organized, classified, and properly permissions.
If organizations don’t think about getting the data ready for AI, the sensitivities and classifications… what are the permissions? You end up leaking info you never intended to use for AI.
When you think about data management, you think where shoudl you stop and waht shoudl yo do?
Ugh this is crazy hahahah. I’m like ogm this is so unreliable at the moment. And really her voice with the little eco is a little tiny bit hard to follow but okay.
What is the top prioritized data set that copilot is accessing and where do you see sensitive data leakage happening where permissions are not proper.
I’m just thinking now that even when I do more of my big companies… idk how many “secrets” my company woudl have. I want to make a reality tv show, classes, all sorts of things. But… it’s like, idk I justfeel like so much of security is “yeah right” liek people know how to hack into things and such, so idk. It’s like… idk. Hahah Idk. Just this isn’t my world, this “security” world, at the moment.
Think about this as if you had a confidential document and that document is classified, you can set up a DFV policy.
No way did she say DFV policy hahaha. I think I heard her wrong. But, even so, let’s go DFV Keith Gill MOASS Retail Will Prevail!!!
You want users not to have access to things
But a lot of data is not yet classified.
What if you enter sometihng sensitive and you’re asking for the right data - but what if you’re not supposed to ask for certain data.
Look for certain rules in the prompts and get that protection right away.
Omg now I’m thinking like what if some info gets locked away and then it gets so locked and something happens that people can’t access it ever and dont’ even relaize its there. You know? Like a lost bitcoin key or sometihng
I just think it’d be cool if there was more transparency in the world. This is late stage capitalism. IP matters, kinda, but so does like communal goodness. Just woudl be cool if the world shared information and helped each other and it was less haves and have nots and transparency was glamorized and the norm.
LOL I’m noticing now that the banner they made for this event is too big, they have it like shorter and everything cause I they used the full fabric banner they made, at the full size, it’d be too tall that peopel can’t see the screen… so they shortened it and just have hte extra fabric hanging/sitting on the floor.
- cause I’m looking at this banner and like, “why don’t they have it fully stretched out” and now I realize, oh they made it too tall, like 8 feet instead of 6 feet, and so its just like awkwardly only standing up like 80% of its height, so that people can see the screen behind it. Just a funny small or they didn’t think through. But luckily the stand can e shorter. I’ll take a pic
Deploying agents is not easy. Let’s just start with IP and security teams.
Oof okay. I wonder how long these talks are. I just think that seminars and stuff would be so useful if people sat at round tables and had themed discussions. You know? More interaction, not just lecture, lecture, lecture.
- But this is a free event thats a big infomercial.
BTW are you curious waht the free breakfast is tehy provided?
- bananas and bagels
When you think about… you can’t protect waht you can’t see. So everything starts with observing. When you think about AI observability, it’s one of the biggest things in any organization. We’ve brought in that unified observability across all agents in the organization.
How many agents are in your org? Are they triggered on as active or inactive? How many sensitive information are they looking at
Wow this is wild they have dozens of agents
Btw why is “dozens” a phrase instead of “tens” - just strange and random. I wonder when that decision got made. Cause hundreds is a word… but dozens?
You can start to see deeper insights and explore activities around data that the agents access.
LOL also it’s so funny this event has no agenda. You know? Tehy’ve got us trapped.
You can start to bring the same guardrails that we brought to users, to these agents.
Also, the seating here is wild. Like I’m in the front row but it’s only cause this place is so crowded and there are peopel in the back standing and chairs in teh back like extending into the hallway. There are more peopel here than seats, but I just went and looked to see if there were any random spare chairs in the main room and then I saw there was one seat in the main room on teh front row, so I just went up and took it when the first speaker was done.
There are a few random chairs like that - but it seems liek teh whole front row is reserved… though, I think it’s mostly for speakers. And my chair didn’t have “reserved” on it. So maybe MOST of the front row was reserved. Lol
If an admin wasn’t to go and see how all the agents are being used, they can see across evrything and see if its behaving ethically. This allows the developer to be in alignment with the organization’s policies.
Agents are going to start making more needs for investigations and alerts in your system.
Humans in the loop can start to observe overharing - what sites require governance. It’s a continuous job. The posture agent will help you with automated jobs.
We’re building agents to complete end to end jobs on behalf of your…(idk)
You’d have your inbox, you’re used to using that. The agent can help you create your focused inbox with high priority alert. All connected across multiple risk factors. Whats the policy? Sensitivity if compromised.
Data security posture dta. Let’s say you’re workign on a sensitive project in your organzaiton and you want to know everything: who has accessed it, whats the sensitive data? Is this classified? Go work with your agent and reason with it.
The agent will tell you that your particular files are sensitive or not, recommend you to update it. It’ll give you a reich report with all of the correlation that woudl have taken lots of time.
It’ll help you get your posture updated.
This woman speaking just like, I feel liek she knows her stuff but she’s just selling this. She din’t smile once but at the same time, she almost smiled the whole time. IDK how to put this into words.
Okay so now the emcee says this seminar is all forward thinking. The next talk is about quantum cyber security. This guy works for our government.
How does he think about protecting critical city infrastructure
How do we think about this huge shift and how we do security.
How many of you have knowledge on this topic?
I raised my hand, cause I know a tiny bit about quantum… just like that any reality can be real.
Okay this guy says he’s going to go into the weeds.
His mic is echoey a bit.
Show of hands with PQC quantum phootgraphy, crypto developers?
Things have changed drastically over the recent years, days, hours. Even one of his slides is incorrect cause of a project that occurred last week.
Before he goes into this, good morning… before we go to bad, bad, bad…
-if you’re walking into cyber security for the first time, raise your hand. I’m proud to see this.
Post quantum cryptography, you’re going to see a whole new OSI. Thank you for joining this frontier with me.
He was in teh army for several years, he’s seen multi spectrum operations. The first time he played defense was (idk)
AI and idk he talks fast.
He says we’re going to go way into the weeds and talk about bad, bad, bad, and wants coming and at the end we’ll talk about what we can do about it.
Who here has heard of Q day? Quantum day? 2030… or 2029. Confirmed. Confirmed 2029. What does that mean? That means we have quantum processors centralized or (idk)
That’ll break cryptic.
In terms of RSA, we can almost consider it crackable within 3 years time
We have a measurement of the scale of how we communicate investments
- this guy talks too fast
Essentially it’s a timeline, basically mathematic formula it’s Mosca’s Inequality X+Y?Z
When you are making and pitching your ivnesmtens in your budget cycles into quantum security. Why would you invest in something but if you look at it, it’ll collapse?
Pay attention to this - your dat his already exposed.
All of your browser and mobile applications, it proves this model for every organization, the city, everything.
X = how long your data must stay confidential in years
Y = years to complete crypto migration
Z = years until CRQC arrives
This guy really talks so fast and makes jokes among it.
How long will it take your platform to d a CRQX cryptography transformation.
If anyone in — idk haha ahhhh this guy talks tooooo fast.
Q day, 2029. We have 3 Lagos which can help protect us. This is a healthy measurements to take to your IT teams and CFO. This is more than a browser security issue, this is full stack.
This isn’t theory, this is evidence backed.
One of the largest data exploitation techniques that is still happening, similar to.. know where attribution occurs from. This is a scary one. We have more than 200 organizations compromised across 80 countries. They (this organization) infratrated our telecommunications backbone. How they did it flips the script, new terrator in defense and offense. They can use your OAM security software against you.
The most significant cyber espionage companion in history
The worst telecom hack in our nation’s history
I applaud you for walking into this world. The chaos is gaining streamline clarity
Omg I’m loving this guy’s drama hahaha but it’s also like ,huh?
The front door we required became the way in.
This attack was pure genius. If you think hackers can outsmart you… I’ll submit to counter that proposal. IT takes a genius of curiosity and whats in you to not outsource your own intelligence. Leverage your system and you can outsmart this attack.
This is coming and coming systemically.
Not WHAT they stole , thats what makes the headlines. It’s bad news for anyone, but it’s how they did it. How did they get into the front door of a law enforcement and telecom backbone provider.
Even if your data has a hard RSA or a 128 or data protection later. If that dat his exposed, wait five years when a quantum processor can break that impression. ITs accelerating, RSA will become weak in 3 years.
Google proved that last week
HNDL harvest now, decrypt later. It’s cheaper to store offline.
Then once the quantum is in your hand, then you can use it against them.
Salt typhoon was not WHAT they decrypted, what the detailed. This took them years to pull off and plan
Step 1 as the foothold. If you’re just joking, we love callbacks, implatnts. How do we (blah blah he talks so fasssttttt)
Switching infrastructure
Step 2: capture at the line rate.
Mirrored TLS, VPN, and SSH traffic exfiltrated continuously
Step 3: Achieve and Wait
Cipertext is useless today and strategically valuable tomorrow
Step 4: Quantum reconstruction
Record handshakes become enough to derive past sessions keys later
Is anyone a quantum mechanics physicists? I’m sure there are some here just not raising their hands
You trap an aluminum atom in a super position - in any state at the same time, difficult to measure. This is the new level of computing we are going into
Te guy sitting behind me keeps cracking up at his speech
We are looking to compute directly off an electro that is in multiple states at hte same time.
That’s how we mathematically have Lagos secure data
The guy behind me says “wow”
This processor can be in multiple states at the same time looking at all your key changes. Its tracking patterns which is different.
If you’ve been in this space for a while, you’ve heard how long the encryption key will take - it will take Foran AS218key, about 2.4 billion year just to crack that Key.
The age of the universe if 14B
But its quantum processors with multiple states in coexistence at the same time, the 14B years becomes less than 1 year. This processor is coming to all of us.
So, when we lookout harvest now, decrypt later, who here uses ALS1.3?
By the way if you haven’t, if your developer is using Crome, safari, Firefox… if you looka t the network, you ‘ll see you have the quantum algorithm. It’s running right now as your edge. It’s more than TLS1.3. If you’re running 1.3 that’s great, butlets get into why that’s nowhere near as effective… if someone steals your private key, this is what 1.3 is (idk) mog.
But here’s what it doesn’t do. It doesn’t protect against anyone to record that handshake. The most cryiicla eleven in your cryptographic. Radically different. 1.3 protects against hte future theft of longterm secrets. Exploits the handshake itself.
Different actor, same model. EBT39. Advanced persistence prep. In this particular one btw, ore than 200 networks are encrypted one at ta time. That takes a long time to pull off.
Omg what? Lol this is like waht is he talking about right now
No one is immune, not university. No one.
A security supplier company… no one is immune to this threat factor.
In the city of Seattle, we have 3 titles, lifecycle, water and waste water, and 1200 intersections. NO one Is immune. Waiting for the 2029 Q day.
What makes quantum different from everything else we’ve faced?
This is where I’ll go WAY in the weeds. Waht does it do?
If you’re a cryptologist or crypto engineer, you’ll already know this
There are two Lagos, Shor’s also.
It does not try to factor like a classical computing ADS or RSA, its converts the factoring problem into a fundamentally different equation. There are quadratic formulas and quantum inference.
Specifically, the inverse quantum way outside the scope.
Measurable symbol and it ensures…
Classical encryption is one number at time, highest CPU to try one number and mathematical computation to brute force our way in.
It will take weeks, months, and at times, years.
- we meant to make these altos protectable for billions of years. But we work on the structure of how it’s deisgned, but patterns are how we do this.
- exploiting the patterns
Quantum encryption is patterns. Hacking the key thsemvlves. YOu’re facing a fundamentally different approach.
Grover’s also is a key item.
AWS 356 survives the quantum resistant era we’re about to enter into. It sureties because we have roughly 128 bits of security. Grover is manageable but it will be changing. Grover’s also will scale at 2029.
If you’re predicting something, you’re already wrong out of the gate.
Let’s talk about what breaks and what survives.
BrOKRN BY SHORS:
RSA2048, RSA4096
EDH/ECDHE, ECDSA, Diffie-hellman
SURVIVES:
AES-256
Sha384
ML-KEM(FIPS 203)
ML-DSA (FIBS 204)
SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)
I sneezed again and two people blessed me :)
Two days ago, nature covered ap trio on both papers and the headlines is a real shock. Cloudflare said they are very concerned, that’s nothsometihng you heard a lot- they protect 25% of the internet.
Google considered their improved methods too sensitive to publish in full. Lots of data not in there just yet. Their results are validating zero knowledge proofs.
They did us a solid here by publishing that. Tehy don’t want to exploit quantum computers, but we can virtualize them. Thats a theory on how we’ll get quantum processing in mobile devices.
IF you look at atoms, will collapse in data state. I only have 5 minutes left.
This is a heavy slide but these algorithms are approved and the three finalized FIPS now define the post-quantum deployment baseline.
A problem is solvable, we gotta make up our own words.
This brings up to the fact you can’t find what you can’t migrate.
Who here ran a policy bomb before? I highly recommend you write down “Cbomb” especially if you’re entering now. Run a CBOMB, SBOMB, ABOMB. All your artictuer. Cryptographically materials. Find your handshake. Find them. Especially ar your edge devices.
Run your standards internally. You may be surprised where they’re running at.
Are you things FIPS 143 or 142? If 142, upgrade to 143 and enable a quantum resistant algorithm.
Then you just eliminated and scaled your quantumness readiness forward.
One scan may not find that, so there’s a tooling gap to implement scanners.
How are you workign with vendors? Suppliers? Have you had this conversation? If you havent, have the conferstoin. W’er edging that now in this city. Rack and stack critical vendors in the city’s infrastructure and have that conversation.
Before migration is feasible, do those things. Firs build your CBOM, your inventory, move key change, and engineer crypto-agility.
Design systems so Lagos can be swapped without year-long re-platforming projects.
Lower your quantum exposure before hte full migration curve arrives.
LOL this guy is so interesting. I understand like zero of it but still it’s such a good speech to hear cause it’s such an introduction to this!!!
We’re already running late but there’s no need to stop. We need to keep going as more data than ever is being created. 2029 Q day arrives.
As a quick summary, real quick. There are new peopel, right?
1. Carry out archive. Salt typhoon proved we need to archive now.
Start building the Cbomb inventory, look at the nhandshakes
Floor securucy is not a shield. Quantum will exploit keys
The blocker is visibility. You can’t protect what you can’t see. AI shows this.
Dont’ sequence your migration behind hardware security
Don’t wait for quantum to arrive to prepare for them.
So your migration journey can start today. Have the conversation with vendors, talk to app developers, RID, product developer, research group. This is a solvable problem.
We will see cyber insurance reflect this. Let market drivers influence your decisions ad you’re looking to find a budget, find solutions.
Thank you. You showed up here on a bright sunny day. I’m grateful you all made it here. If you have any question I’m available to talk.
We are hte new paradigm and the new journey.
The world, globe, needs to you to protect this data. Thank you so much
Huge applause.
No Q&A
Omg another session!! This is like 4 in a row.
How will you take the aspiration dn road map to get there.
Ugh omg this is crazy. No networking break? Oof.
Okay he works to help compares and organizations get organizations get secure and embrace AI to be more productive and transform themselves to get results. Wleocme me in welcoming him to the stage.
He says hi everybody, thanks everybody. Thakns for sticking around and we’ll try to get through this.
Lol.
Okay. He says he wants to use this example in a bit. THe example of his mic not working.
- His leader of the practice he is the tech consultant, the guy isn’t there and the guy is sorta his boss and he eeveloped a lot of content in this.
He joined a consultant group a while ago but prior to that he worked 17 years in big tech and one company.
Consultants = eew!!! Just ask my hero Ryan COhen
This guy is so nonfriendly/bored liek idk how to explain his demeanor. It’s like he is so bored and has said this 700 times.
He listed off all his degrees. Two masters and blah blah.
Now he’s a solution architect at a consulting agency.
He says visit our booth after and he shows a map of their offices. They advertise themselves as a CPA firm but they also do tech consulting.
Tehy’ve been around 106 years, top 15 privately held
They’re tough to find that they do tech consulting
Weird, is this on purpose? Like RC’s theories on BCG? Idk. You jsut goa wonder
Their primary industries are affordable hosing and ag producers, healthcare, construction, and manufacturing.
If they’re workign on a project and listening to your business’ problems, we won’t try to sell you a solution. Find the right tech and the right price point. We’re at the lower end of the market typically. We find you an affordable solution that you can solve yourself and not alsway use my help.
Now he’s drilling in on bicroboft.
Organized practice as h e said. You see data analytics, modern workplace, cloud and security, process automation, CRM and ERP.
On the right are applications
Most clients are business apps. Lots of business and sales.
Omg he’s got weird pacing.
Categories of AI:
Predictive analytics (Uses historical data to forecast future outcomes)
Generative
And agentic
He brushes through this slide so quickly. But it was such a thorough AI overview. So random.
It’s great to have ideas but waht clients don’t understand as S&B and such, a lot needs to be in place before deplying agents.
We refocus our discussions. This is our framework:
Organization readiness (policies and governance, education and training, and change management
Technology Readiness: data quality and availability, security and privacy controls, and integration wit and reimagine of business process.
Quick wims and ROI validation
I’m surprised there is not much networking here. Lots of peopel are walking around in teh back of the room.
First they start with data nd security. He will not delve into it too deeply, but we have a large and robust in our practice
Lol he keeps showing slides and saying he won’t dive into them
So it’s like, okay his partner made this PPT but he keeps brushing through it. Lol lolllll
Now he says that data analytics is like a restaurant.
Raw data, data prep, data serves, and the seaboard is the dining room.
Lol what?
Fabric int he kitchen and power of AI in the deck. That’s how we see it.
Again, this walks through more detail in the different pieces (he says about another slide he skips through)
And then the new PPT is how they want to take the clients.
Lol. Idk this is just funny and totally a commercial.
He said you have unstructured data and structured data here… let’s talk about what value having that dispersed all over the place brings to the organization. Can you centralize it to build an intelligence platform for the AI to sit onto of and be effective?
Structured perspective… we have a robust modern work practice.
Let’s get your security proper.
We get involved with monitoring. We like to bring everything to bear
It’s like he has 100 slides to go through and keeps rushing through them.
Do you want to build a data wearhosue? Do you need it? Will you get a ROI?
Omg this guy is just totally reading off the PPT. I wonder if he practiced or not. He keep saying, “so now” and looking at the slide. It’s liek a million pages and he seems so bored. What does he wish he was doing right now? I feel like maybe he wishes he was… idk. Watching a game? Or like, idk,
Let’s say Debbie in accounting is great but 90% of her time is spent with worksheets.
She’s a great accountant, we dont’ want to replace her with AI but free her up to do better things
Idk what he’d like to do for fun. This guy is tough to figure out bushes totally totally bored
There are all these moundane tasks people are doing and they could provide much more value to us if they were’ spending time doing these things.
Whats the expensive, but shiny and cool?
I feel like he wants to be napping.
He’s just reading the slides quickly when they appear on the screen and then summarizing them lollll
AI implementation will always uncover broken policies.
Then he keeps reading and letting the ppt lead him.
Lots of peopel are outside networking and there’s not door or anything you know? So it’s just kinda loud in teh hallway right outside here.
People are having fun chatting. Hope its time to officially network soon.
People fall in love with AI, see what it can do, and then the organizational pieces come in.
Edition and change management is a big piece of this as well. We dont’ bring that side of your business advisor in for smaller clients. ITs easy for individuals to internally evangelize. For a larger org, we an help lay a framework.
- dude he said this is not a commercial but I feel like its’ just 100% a commercial, this whole entire slide.
Then he says he won’t go through this next slide in detail. These are buckets and personas.
Take a look after or scan it. YOu’ll identify traits
Let’s talk about you actually sitting down and using this for more than one interaction. It’s liek a child, you have to teach it.
I feel liek this guy maybe likes playing cards. Like poker or seomtihng
You’re teachers, right? Yeah... you need to teach it. SO, its ineresting peoples perceptions in this new realm
The guy sitting next to me is fidnign a gif to send to someone in a chat. Lol I never think to send gifs. See? He’s funny. Lolll
Continually assess your progress to that goal. If we’re assessing that project, it’s what project managers do. T hey see how we’re prporessing towards this. If you find yosursel off hte rails, these things are agile and flexible. Quite say to get back not he raises.
The finally piloting. With that small group, a ring approach.
LOL a woman to the right holds up a sign that says “2 minutes” thank goodness. It’s almost noon so I think it’s time to network. Maybe I’ll talk to someone intersting. A small group of employees you know are enthusiastic about AI.
The ringed approach, make sure you have metrics to make sure you’r realizing return on invemstn.
I also feel liek this guy maybe likes cooking? Idk r fishing? IDK or watching races, like race cars.
And of course sports. But, yeah. Hs vibe is funny and hard to capture. LOL his last slide is so funny. It has a beautiful African American woman with a bright yellow background So different from any other. Ts completely different than the entire vibe of his thing.
As a consultant, I want to be there and bill you, but as a business advisor, an org as our believe in relationships and trust. I want to do what’s right for you. If you’re already paying for copilot, let’s figure out how to use it best. If it just can’t meet art vision
Lol he keeps lookign direclty at me so much of this speech.
Talking about building something custom in your studio
LOL he keeps looking at me so much, especially in this ending.
LOL I keep trying not to laugh/smile
He said he won’t take any questions but he’ll be at a table if you have any questions for him. And one thing he wants to say as a sales pitch (lol his whole thing is a sales pitch) - he said he’ll be doing a workshop for a chemical company. On site or remote. And we do these exact things he talked about. Thats where ehe starts, listening to waht an org wants to do with AI. Let’s workshop this. We have structured frmakewokr. Bring in key stakeholders. Bring in peopel who will use this. Everyone on the same page. Rollout plans developed. Then at the end you have an output, Your prioritized lists and goals and thoughts around data and security. Then we hand that to you and say we’d love to do this with you in tehfuture. But you can find anyone else or do it on your own. Its fine. W’ere advisors. So, that’s just one of the things we offer. Come see me, let’s just have conversation. Thanks everybody.
-Omg ONEMORE IMPORTANT TOPCI: ai security in the cloud. Omg how do tehy have another talk!? I think I’ll pack up and use the restroom or something. I wanna move out of this room. And take a break.
Okay I jsut went into another room to change scenery, a room tehy’re livestreaming the talks. The guy’s name sounds like someone beat boxing and the emcee was like, while he’s setting up, let me changllenge you. During lunch meet three people. Not one, not two, but three people.
Lol
Many times the cyber attackers aren’t doing their attacks immediately, sometimes it’s over a few years.
Omg
80% of hackers are sitting and waiting for more than a year.
I’ll spell his name wrong, but it’s basically: Thangarang Patchoappani - you see? Hahaha
Okay I’m just not paying attention to this guy. I’ll go chat. Go network. Let’s see.
I can hear the guy who was sitting next to me now taking to a woman. He told her to pitch to him, and then when she was done, he was liek, “I didnt’ hear you tell me the problem it solved”
i remember him being that way towards me the first time we met too lol.
Also, during lunch someone came up to me who recognized me from another event. It was sorta nice to talk and sit together during lunch ,with a big group, but also it reminded me why I like to go to events alone. I just dont like to sit with peopel and talk for extended amounts of time unless the conversation is truly unique. You know?
Then suddenly some guy came and talked to me and he said all he does is go to events and instead of attending sessions he just networks with people. lol.
During the break I also talked to a guy who worked in fintech a few years ago. For a Singaporean company who built trading platforms for JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs and stuff. I asked him how it connected to the DTCC but he just got confused and said that’s different. Then he turned away from me.
Maybe ehe doesn’t know what hte DTCC is and wanted to save face. I’m so surprised. But also not at all. Thats the industry. Need to know basis. So corrupt.
Doesn’t like every options trade go through the DTCC? Isn’t that a huge connection?
- especially if you’re workign with JP and GS??
Okay I took a long mental break and now I’m back. For some reason this next guy speaking just got my attention.
He’s tailing about how everyone is racing to deploy AI Agents for security.
78% of security teams plan to deploy AI agents int honest 12 months.
There are themes for deploying agents.
Ahhh his microphone is so loud it keeps ringing.
He said AI agents are making bad decisions faster and its creating more problems I the world its trying to solve.
The uncomfortable truth is that most deployments will underperform. The problem is not the AI its the data its running on.
Fragmented data: fragmented defense like AI agents operating whiteout full visibility to make the same mistake as under-resourced analysts
Content-poor data: ai has no judgement without relationships, history and enrichment. So it generates alerts, not answers.
He clicked past this too fast I dint get it
Oof. Okay. I think I’ll go and go to teh dancing event. IT’s enough of this event. I networked, I gave it my best shot. And I’m out!
BONUS STORY:
So I went to the dancing event and it was super fun - I saw some people I knew and even met a new person or two. Even took a break amid the hours and hours of dancing to go sit by a fountain at the downtown park with a pushy, handsome gentleman. We talked about his work (it’s super complicated and I just couldn’t figure it out!! And that says a lot. I’m not dumb! Lol.)
We talked about how my business is half tutor, half undercover investigator. I also told him that I had boycotted pants intentionally (cause now I have only been wearing skirts and dresses for like a year now… you’d know that if you’ve been reading my blogs). I asked him what he’d boycotted, his answer was good: T-Shirts! He said he likes to dress nicely. So… we may hang out again sometime. Not sure. Let’s see his behavior :).
I can’t tell if he’s a manifested NPC… or more (I’ve manifested people before!?) Cause, literally, I said aloud what I wanted from that night and then he showed up and delivered, though was also a bit awkward and rude? Its a bit hard to summarize. So... I won’t get into details, but, I need to ask for MORE from the world (like, idk… I just was thinking a random wish and then it came true) so I need to be more epic with my wishes. And be aware of my manifestation skills hahahah.
But overall it was a super fun night and I really love dancing with good dancers. I’m a pretty good dancer with a good lead, as I’ve said before. So it’s just really a lot of fun to go to epic dancing events. Even another one of my friends I saw has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better at dancing and it was really fun to see. Cause I used to always dance with him at each dance and it was like… you know. To be nice (he’s nice) but I asked him if he’s been working at his skills and he said yeah - and I told him I could tell!! That’s fun.
Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time.
Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if there’s no other reason to go. Let’s see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. 😊
