Conversations on security, identity, AI and the changing enterprise

I speak at conferences, technical communities and industry events on cybersecurity, identity, data security, AI security, governance and agentic systems.

Cynthia Akiotu speaking at a conference
Upcoming speaking

Where I'll be speaking next

Upcoming conferences, community sessions and industry events.

Data Decoded MCR 2026

From AI Adoption to Agent Sprawl: Governing the Enterprise Agent Estate

October 14, 2026

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Engineering & Developer Conference, Birmingham Tech Week

From Prompt Engineering to Agent Engineering: Securing AI Agents that can take action

October 23, 2026

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M365 Dublin User Group

Are You Ready for Enterprise AI Agents? The Role of Agent 365

October 29, 2026

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Conf42 Platform Engineering 2026

From Prompt Engineering to Agent Engineering: When LLMs Can Take Action

November 5, 2026

The shift from prompt engineering to agent engineering, following the journey from Prompt to Context, Identity, Tools, Action and Governance, and the new capabilities and failure modes each layer introduces.

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Past speaking

Talks, panels and conversations

A selection of past speaking engagements exploring cybersecurity, identity, data and the evolving impact of AI on enterprise security.

Signal Over Noise: AI-Powered Data Security at Speed and Scale

Experts Live UK 2026

How to use Microsoft Purview with AI agents, including the Data Security Posture Agent and Data Security Triage Agent, to run data security operations with speed and control.

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AI-Speed IAM Response with Microsoft Security Copilot

Experts Live UK 2026

Practical, experience-led lessons on using Microsoft Security Copilot to accelerate Identity & Access Management operations, for analysts triaging identity alerts and for admins hardening the identity control plane.

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Panel: AI and Privacy

Women In Data, London Chapter

Panel discussion on practical approaches to building trustworthy AI: privacy in modern AI systems, embedding it into AI workflows, and balancing innovation, responsibility and business impact.

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When AI Becomes an Identity: Defending Agentic Systems with Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Purview & Defender Days 2026

As organisations adopt AI agents, those agents become digital actors that must be secured like identities, with visibility, governance and continuous threat detection from build to run-time.

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Securing Access, Smarter: How AI Is Rewriting Conditional Access Governance

Azure User Group Sweden

How AI is reshaping Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra, and what security leaders must rethink to maintain protection, usability and scale in modern cloud environments.

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Who's Accessing What? Data Security & Identity Visibility in Santa's AI Workshop

Festive Tech Calendar 2025

How to stay in control as AI assistants and agents evolve, using DSPM, DLP, Microsoft Entra Agent ID and identity visibility to keep sensitive data off the naughty list.

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Behind Every Breach: The Power and Peril of Privileged Access in Microsoft 365

M365 Dublin User Group

A session on a topic at the centre of identity, governance and organisational resilience: privileged access in Microsoft 365.

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Securing AI Agents Before They Secure Your Stack

TechMids Conf 2025

How AI agents are reshaping the way we design, deploy and govern systems, and why security must live inside the ecosystem: visibility into what every agent can see and do, guardrails against drift, and human oversight.

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From Prompts to Protection: How Security Copilot Reinvents Cyber Defense

Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2025

Keynote on how Security Copilot uses prompts to optimise Conditional Access, enforce Zero Trust, and turn AI insights into defensive action.

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Beyond Compliance: How AI is Reshaping Data Governance and Insider Risk

Wonder Women Tech Fest 2025

Why data governance must move beyond checkboxes, the dilemma of hybrid insider risk where human intent and AI behaviour converge, and how Microsoft Purview DSPM for AI and adaptive governance help mitigate it.

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When AI Agents Become Your Teammates

Birmingham Tech Week 2025: Engineering & Developers Conference

How collaboration with AI agents changes the way we build, secure and trust systems, with use cases including Microsoft Entra ID agents, Azure AI Foundry guardrails and Data Security Posture Management for AI in Microsoft Purview.

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From Productivity to Protection: Governing Microsoft 365 Copilot the Right Way

Microsoft 365 UK (M365UK) User Group

How to govern Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively by aligning identity, access and data protection, and how Microsoft Purview and SharePoint Advanced Management strengthen data visibility and compliance.

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CyberSIPs Doncaster 25.2: The Future with AI

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Who Owns Your SRE Stack? The Rise of AI Agents

SREday London 2025

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From Access Control to AI Control: Why Identity Governance Is Key to Scaling AI in the Enterprise

TechLead Conference 2025: AI in Orgs (GitNation)

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Access is the New Breach: Why Observability Must Start with Identity

Conf42 Observability 2025

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The Use of AI and Cybersecurity: Where do we draw the line?

International Webinar on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning

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