AWS Elemental - PDX13 1320 SW Broadway #400 · Portland, OR

Join the Portland AWS User Group for a full day of AI Governance!

We are thrilled to invite you to the first AI Governance Day hosted by the Portland AWS User Group. Learn from expert speakers and tech leaders about AI governance, ask your burning questions, network with fellow techies, and join interactive demonstrations. Join us for one session or come hang out all day!

📍 Location: AWS Elemental (PDX13) 📍 Address: 1320 SW Broadway #400, Portland, OR 97201 Access: You MUST be registered on Meetup.com and bring a photo ID to attend this event.

Schedule:

9:00 - 9:30 am Doors & Donuts & Coffee Sponsored by ProFocus Technology 9:45 - 10:00 am Welcome from AWS User Group Leaders! 10:00 - 11:00 am Role of Data Engineering in AI Governance with Andrew Kalik 11:00 - 11:15 am BREAK 11:15 - 12:15 pm The Weaponization of AI, Its Impact on Organizations, and How to Respond with Trey Blalock 12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH - Lite bites & snacks provided! 1:15 - 2:15 Use AWS Well-Architected to Navigate & Evolve Enterprise AI Governance with Logan Kleier & Emily Soward 2:15 - 2:45 Interactive Session with Logan Kleier & Emily Soward 2:45 - 3:00 pm BREAK 3:00 - 4:30 pm Hands-on Workshop: AI Governance Tools with Karthik Rajendran 4:30 - 4:45 pm Closing Remarks! 5:00 pm Event Close - Please plan to leave the building before 5 pm. Speaker Bios: Trey Blalock is a highly respected Chief Information Security Officer and security researcher who has performed extensive work in almost every security domain for some of the world's largest corporations and governments. He has managed all aspects of security for one of the world's largest financial transaction hubs, performed hundreds of penetration tests for Fortune 500 companies, and has performed forensics for several high-profile cases such as "Donald Vance vs. Donald Rumsfeld."

Andrew Kalik is the Director of Data Engineering at NBCUniversal, leading data-driven solutions for business insights. He is an AWS Community Builder in the Data category and a Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner. With a background in computer science, he actively contributes to the tech community and participates in industry events, including the Portland AWS User Group.

Logan Kleier is a technical product manager with 10 years of experience across startups and enterprise environments. He's currently a Senior Product Manager at AWS for Trusted Advisor and Well Architected. He's also built Oracle Cloud's Center for Internet Security foundational benchmarks and a concert ticket comparison platform that predicts with 95% accuracy when concert ticket prices go up or down. His career path includes roles as a startup founder twice over, creating ML systems that saved clients 30% on Office 365 costs and serving as the City of Portland's CISO where he built PCI-DSS compliant payment systems handling $180M annually, and developing one of America's largest public WiFi networks. With expertise in cloud computing, and security and compliance, Logan brings a balanced blend of technical knowledge and plain English focus on what do customers and users actually want.

Emily Soward is a leader in AI, ML, and Generative AI Security & Privacy, fostering collaboration between AI and Security communities while advising AWS customers, including Fortune 100 companies and public sector organizations, on AI vision and production readiness. With expertise in AI SDLC, AI Observability, and large-scale strategic AI initiatives, she focuses on governance, compliance, and operational resilience across industries such as critical infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing. A contributor to AWS' Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework, she plays a key role in Responsible AI, Generative AI Security, and AI Privacy.

Karthik Rajendran is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, with diverse Enterprise architecture experience across Finance, Retail, Insurance and energy sectors. He has over 20 years of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud native applications. His passion is helping enterprise customers with their cloud migration journey. Outside work passions include Milky Way photography and motorcycles.

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