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AI is reshaping every part of the enterprise, from GenAI apps to private LLMs and fast‑moving autonomous agents. As adoption surges, risk surges faster: shadow AI, data exposure, model attacks, and API abuse.

This Summit brings together leading experts to show how to secure AI at enterprise scale while accelerating innovation with confidence.

During this event, you'll learn:

A clear framework for securing AI across stages of adoption

Understand how security priorities shift as organizations move from GenAI experimentation to private LLM deployment and agentic AI operations. 

Greater visibility and governance across AI usage

See how teams are gaining insight into GenAI activity, controlling access, reducing data exposure, and strengthening guardrails and compliance in live environments.

A layered protection approach across the AI stack

Explore how layered defenses can span users, applications, large language models, APIs, and AI data centers; reducing fragmentation and closing security gaps. 

Speakers

  • Neil MacDonald
    Neil MacDonald
    Distinguished VP Analyst
    Gartner

    Neil MacDonald is a Executive Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research, based in Florida, USA. His most recent research area explores the convergence of network and network security as a service into a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE), enabling zero trust, anywhere/anytime access for a digital business and workforce.

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • Robert May
    Robert May
    EVP, Technology & Product Management
    Fortinet

    Robert May currently serves as Executive Vice President of Technology & Product at Fortinet, with more than 25 years of experience in Cybersecurity and Networking industries. Since joining Fortinet in early 2004, Robert has been responsible for overseeing the technology strategy, product roadmap and Engineering realization. Leveraging years of experience and direct engagement with global customers & partners, Robert has driven the successful launch of dozens of new product lines and cloud-based services in Fortinet’s portfolio. Prior to joining Fortinet, he held senior Engineering and Product positions at Nortel Networks, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and IP Infusion, Inc. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

  • David Lorti
    David Lorti
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    David Lorti is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet responsible for Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solutions. He has long-standing experience in the cybersecurity and technology industry involved in cloud security and managed security, security and risk consulting, threat intelligence and incident response

  • Wei Ling
    Wei Ling
    VP of Product Management
    Fortinet

    Wei Ling is VP of Product Management at Fortinet. She is focused on hardware acceleration platforms and strategies with special emphasis on MSSP and CSP market segments and leads multidisciplined teams in new product introduction, Enhanced TAC and is laser-focused on building products and solutions to help global enterprises secure applications and data in a hyperconnected world. Leveraging this experience and wielding best in breed security technology, Wei passionate about customer success and enjoys working with customers on their digital transformation journey. She has extensive experience in product management, customer experience and digital platforms and brings over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and security industries.

  • Ben Zilberman
    Ben Zilberman
    Director, Product Marketing of Application Security
    Fortinet

    Spending the last 15 years in cybersecurity, Ben has a track record of marketing strategy design and execution for technologies and services, focusing on web application and API protection

  • Maggie Wu
    Maggie Wu
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    Maggie Wu is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet, where she is responsible for product launches, Go-To-Market activities, sales enablement and pipeline development of FortiManager and FortiNAC. For 20+ years of her careers, she has been doing product management and product marketing for networking and security solutions, selling into Enterprise, SMB, Service Provider and industrial sectors. Prior to Fortinet, she has worked for companies like Netgear, Belden, Cisco and Philips. Maggie received her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, China and her master’s degree from Stanford University.

Agenda

9:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM EDT

Intro and Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

What changes as AI adoption accelerates across environments

AI Security at the Pace of Adoption
9:05 AM - 9:25 AM

  • Neil MacDonald
    Neil MacDonald
    Distinguished VP Analyst
    Gartner

    Neil MacDonald is a Executive Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research, based in Florida, USA. His most recent research area explores the convergence of network and network security as a service into a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE), enabling zero trust, anywhere/anytime access for a digital business and workforce.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI across business applications and infrastructure, but security models have not evolved at the same pace. In this session, Gartner VP Analyst Neil MacDonald explores how AI is expanding attack surfaces, introducing risks such as shadow AI and fragmented visibility that traditional security approaches struggle to address. Attendees will gain a clearer view of the challenges organizations face as AI moves into production and how security and infrastructure decisions are being reevaluated across the industry. 

Aligning Security to Your AI Journey
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM

  • Robert May
    Robert May
    EVP, Technology & Product Management
    Fortinet

    Robert May currently serves as Executive Vice President of Technology & Product at Fortinet, with more than 25 years of experience in Cybersecurity and Networking industries. Since joining Fortinet in early 2004, Robert has been responsible for overseeing the technology strategy, product roadmap and Engineering realization. Leveraging years of experience and direct engagement with global customers & partners, Robert has driven the successful launch of dozens of new product lines and cloud-based services in Fortinet’s portfolio. Prior to joining Fortinet, he held senior Engineering and Product positions at Nortel Networks, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and IP Infusion, Inc. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

AI adoption rarely follows a clean or linear path. In most organizations, AI is already running in production across different teams, environments, and use cases, each with its own security and operational demands. This session provides a high-level view of how organizations are navigating that reality, aligning security and infrastructure decisions to support AI that is already in use, while balancing visibility, control, performance, and risk as adoption continues to evolve. 

Governing GenAI in Live Environments
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • David Lorti
    David Lorti
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    David Lorti is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet responsible for Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solutions. He has long-standing experience in the cybersecurity and technology industry involved in cloud security and managed security, security and risk consulting, threat intelligence and incident response

  • Wei Ling
    Wei Ling
    VP of Product Management
    Fortinet

    Wei Ling is VP of Product Management at Fortinet. She is focused on hardware acceleration platforms and strategies with special emphasis on MSSP and CSP market segments and leads multidisciplined teams in new product introduction, Enhanced TAC and is laser-focused on building products and solutions to help global enterprises secure applications and data in a hyperconnected world. Leveraging this experience and wielding best in breed security technology, Wei passionate about customer success and enjoys working with customers on their digital transformation journey. She has extensive experience in product management, customer experience and digital platforms and brings over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and security industries.

As generative AI becomes embedded in everyday workflows, organizations are struggling to maintain visibility, manage risk, and enforce consistent policies across rapidly expanding AI usage. This session focuses on the core governance challenges teams face when GenAI is already in use, from understanding application behavior to applying real-time controls that protect data and support compliance. Attendees will see how organizations are approaching GenAI governance without slowing productivity or innovation. 

Securing AI Infrastructure and LLMs
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

  • Ben Zilberman
    Ben Zilberman
    Director, Product Marketing of Application Security
    Fortinet

    Spending the last 15 years in cybersecurity, Ben has a track record of marketing strategy design and execution for technologies and services, focusing on web application and API protection

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

AI-driven workloads are placing new demands on data center and hybrid infrastructure, introducing risks that traditional security architectures were not designed to handle. This session examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and large language models in production, addressing threats such as prompt injection, data exposure, and uncontrolled data movement, while maintaining performance and operational stability. Attendees will gain insight into how layered security approaches are being applied to protect high-value AI environments. 

Converging SOC and NOC with Agentic AI
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • Maggie Wu
    Maggie Wu
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    Maggie Wu is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet, where she is responsible for product launches, Go-To-Market activities, sales enablement and pipeline development of FortiManager and FortiNAC. For 20+ years of her careers, she has been doing product management and product marketing for networking and security solutions, selling into Enterprise, SMB, Service Provider and industrial sectors. Prior to Fortinet, she has worked for companies like Netgear, Belden, Cisco and Philips. Maggie received her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, China and her master’s degree from Stanford University.

Security and network operations teams are under increasing pressure as AI-driven environments generate more alerts, more data, and more operational complexity. This session explores how organizations are applying agentic AI to assist SOC and NOC teams with investigation, prioritization, and response, helping reduce manual workload and improve operational efficiency. Attendees will see how AI-driven assistance is being used today to support faster, more consistent operations across security and networking teams. 

11:00 AM CEST / 10:00 AM BST

Intro and Welcome
11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

What changes as AI adoption accelerates across environments

AI Security at the Pace of Adoption
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

  • Neil MacDonald
    Neil MacDonald
    Distinguished VP Analyst
    Gartner

    Neil MacDonald is a Executive Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research, based in Florida, USA. His most recent research area explores the convergence of network and network security as a service into a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE), enabling zero trust, anywhere/anytime access for a digital business and workforce.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI across business applications and infrastructure, but security models have not evolved at the same pace. In this session, Gartner VP Analyst Neil MacDonald explores how AI is expanding attack surfaces, introducing risks such as shadow AI and fragmented visibility that traditional security approaches struggle to address. Attendees will gain a clearer view of the challenges organizations face as AI moves into production and how security and infrastructure decisions are being reevaluated across the industry. 

Aligning Security to Your AI Journey
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

  • Robert May
    Robert May
    EVP, Technology & Product Management
    Fortinet

    Robert May currently serves as Executive Vice President of Technology & Product at Fortinet, with more than 25 years of experience in Cybersecurity and Networking industries. Since joining Fortinet in early 2004, Robert has been responsible for overseeing the technology strategy, product roadmap and Engineering realization. Leveraging years of experience and direct engagement with global customers & partners, Robert has driven the successful launch of dozens of new product lines and cloud-based services in Fortinet’s portfolio. Prior to joining Fortinet, he held senior Engineering and Product positions at Nortel Networks, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and IP Infusion, Inc. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

AI adoption rarely follows a clean or linear path. In most organizations, AI is already running in production across different teams, environments, and use cases, each with its own security and operational demands. This session provides a high-level view of how organizations are navigating that reality, aligning security and infrastructure decisions to support AI that is already in use, while balancing visibility, control, performance, and risk as adoption continues to evolve. 

Governing GenAI in Live Environments
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • David Lorti
    David Lorti
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    David Lorti is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet responsible for Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solutions. He has long-standing experience in the cybersecurity and technology industry involved in cloud security and managed security, security and risk consulting, threat intelligence and incident response

  • Wei Ling
    Wei Ling
    VP of Product Management
    Fortinet

    Wei Ling is VP of Product Management at Fortinet. She is focused on hardware acceleration platforms and strategies with special emphasis on MSSP and CSP market segments and leads multidisciplined teams in new product introduction, Enhanced TAC and is laser-focused on building products and solutions to help global enterprises secure applications and data in a hyperconnected world. Leveraging this experience and wielding best in breed security technology, Wei passionate about customer success and enjoys working with customers on their digital transformation journey. She has extensive experience in product management, customer experience and digital platforms and brings over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and security industries.

As generative AI becomes embedded in everyday workflows, organizations are struggling to maintain visibility, manage risk, and enforce consistent policies across rapidly expanding AI usage. This session focuses on the core governance challenges teams face when GenAI is already in use, from understanding application behavior to applying real-time controls that protect data and support compliance. Attendees will see how organizations are approaching GenAI governance without slowing productivity or innovation. 

Securing AI Infrastructure and LLMs
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

  • Ben Zilberman
    Ben Zilberman
    Director, Product Marketing of Application Security
    Fortinet

    Spending the last 15 years in cybersecurity, Ben has a track record of marketing strategy design and execution for technologies and services, focusing on web application and API protection

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

AI-driven workloads are placing new demands on data center and hybrid infrastructure, introducing risks that traditional security architectures were not designed to handle. This session examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and large language models in production, addressing threats such as prompt injection, data exposure, and uncontrolled data movement, while maintaining performance and operational stability. Attendees will gain insight into how layered security approaches are being applied to protect high-value AI environments. 

Converging SOC and NOC with Agentic AI
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • Maggie Wu
    Maggie Wu
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    Maggie Wu is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet, where she is responsible for product launches, Go-To-Market activities, sales enablement and pipeline development of FortiManager and FortiNAC. For 20+ years of her careers, she has been doing product management and product marketing for networking and security solutions, selling into Enterprise, SMB, Service Provider and industrial sectors. Prior to Fortinet, she has worked for companies like Netgear, Belden, Cisco and Philips. Maggie received her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, China and her master’s degree from Stanford University.

Security and network operations teams are under increasing pressure as AI-driven environments generate more alerts, more data, and more operational complexity. This session explores how organizations are applying agentic AI to assist SOC and NOC teams with investigation, prioritization, and response, helping reduce manual workload and improve operational efficiency. Attendees will see how AI-driven assistance is being used today to support faster, more consistent operations across security and networking teams. 

11:00 AM SGT / 1:00 PM AEST / 3:00PM NZST

Intro and Welcome
11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

What changes as AI adoption accelerates across environments

AI Security at the Pace of Adoption
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

  • Neil MacDonald
    Neil MacDonald
    Distinguished VP Analyst
    Gartner

    Neil MacDonald is a Executive Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research, based in Florida, USA. His most recent research area explores the convergence of network and network security as a service into a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE), enabling zero trust, anywhere/anytime access for a digital business and workforce.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI across business applications and infrastructure, but security models have not evolved at the same pace. In this session, Gartner VP Analyst Neil MacDonald explores how AI is expanding attack surfaces, introducing risks such as shadow AI and fragmented visibility that traditional security approaches struggle to address. Attendees will gain a clearer view of the challenges organizations face as AI moves into production and how security and infrastructure decisions are being reevaluated across the industry. 

Aligning Security to Your AI Journey
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

  • Robert May
    Robert May
    EVP, Technology & Product Management
    Fortinet

    Robert May currently serves as Executive Vice President of Technology & Product at Fortinet, with more than 25 years of experience in Cybersecurity and Networking industries. Since joining Fortinet in early 2004, Robert has been responsible for overseeing the technology strategy, product roadmap and Engineering realization. Leveraging years of experience and direct engagement with global customers & partners, Robert has driven the successful launch of dozens of new product lines and cloud-based services in Fortinet’s portfolio. Prior to joining Fortinet, he held senior Engineering and Product positions at Nortel Networks, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and IP Infusion, Inc. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

AI adoption rarely follows a clean or linear path. In most organizations, AI is already running in production across different teams, environments, and use cases, each with its own security and operational demands. This session provides a high-level view of how organizations are navigating that reality, aligning security and infrastructure decisions to support AI that is already in use, while balancing visibility, control, performance, and risk as adoption continues to evolve. 

Governing GenAI in Live Environments
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • David Lorti
    David Lorti
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    David Lorti is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet responsible for Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solutions. He has long-standing experience in the cybersecurity and technology industry involved in cloud security and managed security, security and risk consulting, threat intelligence and incident response

  • Wei Ling
    Wei Ling
    VP of Product Management
    Fortinet

    Wei Ling is VP of Product Management at Fortinet. She is focused on hardware acceleration platforms and strategies with special emphasis on MSSP and CSP market segments and leads multidisciplined teams in new product introduction, Enhanced TAC and is laser-focused on building products and solutions to help global enterprises secure applications and data in a hyperconnected world. Leveraging this experience and wielding best in breed security technology, Wei passionate about customer success and enjoys working with customers on their digital transformation journey. She has extensive experience in product management, customer experience and digital platforms and brings over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and security industries.

As generative AI becomes embedded in everyday workflows, organizations are struggling to maintain visibility, manage risk, and enforce consistent policies across rapidly expanding AI usage. This session focuses on the core governance challenges teams face when GenAI is already in use, from understanding application behavior to applying real-time controls that protect data and support compliance. Attendees will see how organizations are approaching GenAI governance without slowing productivity or innovation. 

Securing AI Infrastructure and LLMs
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

  • Ben Zilberman
    Ben Zilberman
    Director, Product Marketing of Application Security
    Fortinet

    Spending the last 15 years in cybersecurity, Ben has a track record of marketing strategy design and execution for technologies and services, focusing on web application and API protection

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

AI-driven workloads are placing new demands on data center and hybrid infrastructure, introducing risks that traditional security architectures were not designed to handle. This session examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and large language models in production, addressing threats such as prompt injection, data exposure, and uncontrolled data movement, while maintaining performance and operational stability. Attendees will gain insight into how layered security approaches are being applied to protect high-value AI environments. 

Converging SOC and NOC with Agentic AI
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

  • Russ Schafer
    Russ Schafer
    Executive Vice President of Marketing
    Fortinet

    Russ Schafer has more than 25 years of success driving growth as a marketing executive at large billion-dollar companies and high growth startups in security, SaaS, enterprise software, semiconductor, media and advertising industries. In his role at Fortinet, Russ leads corporate marketing including product marketing, corporate brand initiatives, demand generation, campaigns, marketing operations, analyst relations, U.S. field marketing and creative services. Prior to working at Fortinet, Russ was Head of Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at a cybersecurity firm. Before his time there, Russ was SVP and GM of Technology at THX. Earlier in his career, Russ held a range of key senior leadership roles at AOL, Yahoo!, Intel, and IBM. Throughout his career, Russ has delivered impactful results in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and business development. Russ holds an MBA from Duke University and a BBA from Texas A&M University.

  • Maggie Wu
    Maggie Wu
    Director of Product Marketing
    Fortinet

    Maggie Wu is a Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet, where she is responsible for product launches, Go-To-Market activities, sales enablement and pipeline development of FortiManager and FortiNAC. For 20+ years of her careers, she has been doing product management and product marketing for networking and security solutions, selling into Enterprise, SMB, Service Provider and industrial sectors. Prior to Fortinet, she has worked for companies like Netgear, Belden, Cisco and Philips. Maggie received her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, China and her master’s degree from Stanford University.

Security and network operations teams are under increasing pressure as AI-driven environments generate more alerts, more data, and more operational complexity. This session explores how organizations are applying agentic AI to assist SOC and NOC teams with investigation, prioritization, and response, helping reduce manual workload and improve operational efficiency. Attendees will see how AI-driven assistance is being used today to support faster, more consistent operations across security and networking teams. 

FAQs

What time will the event take place in my region?

The start times for each regional broadcast are:

  • Americas: 9:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM EDT
  • EMEA: 10:00 AM BST / 11:00 AM CEST
  • APAC: 11:00 AM SGT / 1:00 PM AEST / 3:00PM NZST

Please choose the session that corresponds with your region when registering, you'll receive a confirmation email for your selected regional event.