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KB is on the ground at the ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, this time for the AI conversation that’s reshaping ROI, risk and governance all at once.

Sushila Nair, Independent Information Security Consultant, and President of the ISACA Greater Washington D.C. chapter, opens with the AI ROI question everyone keeps circling. She walks through ISACA’s latest AI Pulse research, explains why last year’s AI was your friend and this year’s AI has put its hard hat on, and breaks down the shift from chatbots to agents that’s finally moving the numbers. One of her clients went from 4 agents in proof of concept to 140 in production this year. She also covers the workforce transformation underneath all of it, who’s getting displaced first, and why automation is the real driver of cost savings.

Then Mark Thomas, Founder & President of Escoute Consulting and board advisor and ISACA hall of Fame entrant, joins to talk about what all of this means for governance and risk. He walks through ISACA’s new AAIR certification (Advanced AI Risk), why traditional frameworks aren’t outdated but incomplete, and how concepts like drift, calibration and model cards are becoming non-negotiable. His central argument: accountability has to come before architecture, and you can’t certify a moving target with a static framework.

More about ISACA’s AAIR Certification here: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/aair
ISACA® 2026 AI Pulse Poll: https://www.isaca.org/resources/ai-pulse-poll

As a specialist in networking and software development, Vincent joined the F5 team in France in 2000 as a pre-sales engineer. Having contributed to F5’s growth initially in the French market and South EMEA region, he took on several managerial roles before overseeing from 2018 the EMEA pre-sales teams as the VP of Solutions Engineering for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).  From 2025, Vincent has been appointed into the role of VP Global AI Leader managing an international team of Global Solutions Architects focused on AI. 

Vincent holds a degree in network engineering and software development from ESITCOM, and a technical degree in Telecommunications and Network engineering. 

He speaks at events across the globe about Artificial Intelligence and specifically about performing AI inference at scale.

KB takes the mic behind the scenes at SPHERE 2026 by Atmos, where 1,500 people from across cyber, legal, tech and government packed a room to do something rare: shift the entire industry’s focus from the moment of crisis to what comes before it. In two conversations, Reece Corbett-Wilkins and Leah Pinto reflect on the day, the speakers, and what it actually takes to change an industry’s centre of gravity.

Then Anthony Cooke, James Blakely and Michael Boyd unpack why government can be a friend and a facilitator rather than the fun police, the trust that limited use disclosure has unlocked, and what frameworks like Horizon 2 mean for the small businesses sitting at the underbelly of every supply chain. A practical, hopeful look at collaboration, accountability and what cyber resilience looks like when everyone in the room speaks the same language.

Snowflake has recently appointed Mayank Upadhyay its Chief Security and Trust Officer to lead security efforts.

Mayank brings one of the most influential careers in enterprise security to Snowflake. During his more than two decades at Google, he shaped the modern security landscape, ultimately serving as Vice President of Engineering for Google Cloud where he secured both the public-facing Google Cloud Platform and the private cloud infrastructure powering core Google services. Prior to this, his career progression to Distinguished Engineer was defined by a sequence of foundational technologies he delivered.

Today, as CSTO at Snowflake, he secures the data and AI foundation for 11,000+ customers (including over a third of the Fortune Global 2000), giving him a unique, front-row vantage point on how AI is fundamentally reshaping enterprise security.

KB is on the ground at ISACA 2026 North American Conference in Las Vegas, sitting down with two guests pulling at the same thread from different angles: the gap between how dependent we’ve become on modern tools and how little we actually understand them.

First, Pam Nigro, SVP of Security and Security Officer at Medecision and Board Director at ISACA, unpacks why supply chain has become the most vulnerable area in cyber security right now. She gets into the hidden risks sitting inside SaaS dependencies, API chains and open source libraries deployed once and forgotten, what operational paralysis actually looks like when a critical tool goes down, and why companies need to stop treating supply chain as a vendor risk checkbox and start treating it as a resilience problem.

Then Asaf Weisberg, CEO of introSight and Board Director at ISACA, joins to flip the AI ROI conversation. While recent ISACA research shows most companies still can’t measure return on AI investment, Asaf argues the ROI is already obvious if you know where to look. He breaks down why traditional ROI calculations don’t fit AI, what’s happening inside software teams right now with tools like Claude Code, and the very real risk of leaking your most valuable IP through free AI subscriptions.

More about ISACA’s AAIR Certification here: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/aair
ISACA® 2026 AI Pulse Poll: https://www.isaca.org/resources/ai-pulse-poll