Name: Keynote: Scaling the Shield - Turning AI-Driven Vulnerabilities into a Massive Defensive Advantage - Jamie Thomas, Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM
Start: 2026-10-08T10:00:00+0200
End: 2026-10-08T10:15:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Keynote: Scaling the Shield - Turning AI-Driven Vulnerabilities into a Massive Defensive Advantage - Jamie Thomas, Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Open source has been the single greatest accelerator of productivity in modern software development. As AI reshapes how software is built, and attacked, the priority is clear: we must use AI to reduce friction for maintainers, not create more work. Today, maintainers face a surge of AI-generated vulnerability reports that risks overwhelming the very people who sustain the global software supply chain. This keynote examines how the open source community (OpenSSF in particular) is turning AI from a source of noise into a force multiplier for defenders.

Jamie Thomas will highlight how maintainer-centered AI tooling, shared standards, and practical security techniques are being applied to restore balance at scale. These efforts focus on making security more actionable, automated, and sustainable, ensuring open source remains a resilient, trusted foundation for global innovation.

Join us as we outline a roadmap for systemic resilience, where the global community puts cutting-edge AI capabilities directly into the hands of maintainers to secure the software on which we all depend.

Speakers

Jamie Thomas

Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM

Jamie Thomas is IBM’s Chief Client Innovation Officer and the IBM Enterprise
Security Executive. She oversees the delivery of advanced service solutions, offering
clients worldwide predictive and preventive technical IT support for both IBM and
multi-vendor infrastructures. She le... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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