appliedAI Developers Meetup @ Heilbronn

The appliedAI Developers Meetups bring together engineers, researchers, and tech leads working on real-world AI applications in production. The focus is on practical challenges in developing and deploying AI systems, and on open exchange about concrete approaches and solutions.

Meetup Focus

Let's Debate: AI Agents, Cloud Control & Zero Trust Security

Who's really in control when AI agents operate in the cloud? And what does a security architecture actually need to look like to not just accommodate AI, but be built for it? This meetup puts two of the most pressing questions in modern AI development front and center — debated by the people who deal with them every day.

In the format of open panels, startup CTOs, security experts, researchers, and practitioners come together to critically examine architectural decisions, accountability questions, and security paradigms in the age of AI.

Agenda

• Welcome & Minglement – Arrive, connect, and grab a slice
• Panel 1: Agents as a Service in the Cloud: Who is Really in Control?
• Slicebreaker 🍕
• Panel 2: Zero Trust, Zero Excuses: Rethinking Security for the AI Era

Panels

• Agents as a Service in the Cloud: Who is Really in Control?
  Panelists: Arpita Sarker, Hamed Roknizadeh, Prof. Alexander Jesser, Vivek Subramanian
  
  As AI agents move from experimental prototypes to production-grade cloud services, questions of ownership, accountability, and orchestration become critical. This panel examines the architectural and strategic decisions behind deploying autonomous agents at scale — from API dependencies to runtime behavior — and tackles the central question: where does human oversight end, and where should it?
• Zero Trust, Zero Excuses: Rethinking Security for the AI Era
  Panelists: Kseniia Guillement, Dr. Alessandro Fontana, Syed Amir Hamza
  
  AI is reshaping the threat landscape faster than most security frameworks were designed to handle. This panel brings together cybersecurity practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders to confront the hard questions around dynamic attack surfaces, data-driven systems, and increasingly autonomous infrastructure. The message is clear: in the AI era, legacy security postures are not just insufficient — they are a liability.

The event creates space for knowledge sharing, sharp debate, and meaningful networking around AI architecture, cloud security, and the future of autonomous systems.

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