Agent Controls and the Governance Gap - #SFTechWeek

Name: Agent Controls and the Governance Gap - #SFTechWeek
Start: 2026-10-06T20:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: K&L Gates

Tuesday, Oct 6

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Hosted by AI Realized

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Light lunch

As AI agents take on more responsibility, how can enterprises keep them within scope, compliant, and reliable? Join AI Realized at SF Tech Week for a practical discussion of how to detect unauthorized behavior, govern interactions among agent systems, and keep autonomous work within resource limits. We'll explore how to verify what agents are doing, recognize declining accuracy, and decide when to intervene, reset, or stop an agent while protecting essential operations. Our goal is to help leaders connect governance policies to operating controls: defining where agents have autonomy, what evidence demonstrates compliance, and who acts when something goes wrong. Executives leading agentic initiatives and governance join the panel. Startups will present their in-market solutions for the governance, security, and operational management of agent systems. This event is for C-level, VP and Director leaders responsible for AI systems in production, plus the governance, security, data, risk and operations leaders accountable for how those systems behave. Investors are welcome. Three panels of enterprise leaders alternate with presentations from companies with in-market solutions: Authority, Compliance, and Agent Interactions Visibility, Evidence, and External Activity Sustaining Autonomy, Reliability, and Recovery Panelists: - Vidhi Agrawal, Product Leader, AI & Enterprise SaaS, Databricks - Vikram Godbole, Sr Director of Software Engineering, Walmart - Maher Hanafi, SVP of Engineering, Betterworks - Victor Chang, CIO & CISO, Backstory - Vasanth Chandra, Enterprise AI Products: Trust, Risk and Safety, Meta - Chris McClean, VP, Global Head of AI Governance and Responsible AI, Atos - Madhav Chinta, CTO, Yellow.ai Presenting their in-market solutions: - Christopher Caen, COO, JLINC: verifiable records of data interactions and signed data contracts - Ian Livingstone, CEO, Keycard: agent identity and short-lived verified credentials - Cheryl Kieliszewski, PhD, Chief Customer Officer, Algedonic AI: policy enforcement between agents and enterprise data - Bobby Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Votal AI: runtime security from prompt to tool call - Buddy Brewer, VP of Product, Fiddler AI: monitoring and guardrails for agents in production Doors and light lunch at 12:30. Program 1:00 to 4:30, networking until 5:00. Seats are limited. Bring photo ID for building security. AI Realized is a community of 1,500+ executives across 770+ companies leading AI adoption. Our mission is to help executives realize value from enterprise AI. Joining is free. Sponsored by JLINC Hosted by K&L Gates law firm This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.