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Stephen Golinski

AI and cybersecurity leader

Practical AI and cybersecurity, explained for the people who have to decide.

Stephen Golinski is a Deputy CISO with more than 30 years in technology. He speaks about where AI helps, where it adds risk, and how to govern both, for boards, executive teams and the practitioners who make it work.

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  • Identity for AI agents: governing the workforce you didn't hire

    AI agents act on behalf of people and systems, and they carry credentials of their own. Stephen explains why non-human identity has become the front line of AI security, what governed identity for agents looks like in practice, and which controls are worth building before agents scale rather than after.

    Audience:
    Security and technology leaders
    Formats:
    Keynote, Panel, Workshop

  • Kill switches and guardrails: governing AI before it scales

    Boards and executive teams are approving AI programs whose risks are still taking shape. Stephen offers practical questions for leaders to ask: where AI is already in use, including shadow AI; who is accountable for it; and which controls, such as the ability to stop an agent, need to exist before scale rather than after an incident.

    Audience:
    Boards and executive teams
    Formats:
    Keynote, Fireside chat, Panel

  • Security people actually adopt

    When Stanley Black & Decker extended digital identity to more than 30,000 frontline workers, the answer was passwordless sign-in and provisioning kiosks, not more friction. Stephen shares what that work taught him about designing controls people embrace, and how the same principle applies to rolling out AI safely.

    Audience:
    Security, IT and business leaders
    Formats:
    Keynote, Panel, Podcast

About

Stephen Golinski is Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Tyson Foods, where he leads Identity and Access Management and Enterprise Platform Security and plays a leading role in shaping the company's enterprise AI governance. He has more than 30 years in technology, with senior roles at Stanley Black & Decker and Starwood Hotels & Resorts. There he architected zero trust identity programs, led passwordless authentication across the workforce, and built the security playbooks behind growth through acquisition. He holds the CISSP certification and a Master of Science in Applied Information Technology (Cyber Security) from George Mason University.

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