Events
Conferences, private dinners, and the occasional detour. If we’re in your city, come say hello — the best conversations rarely happen on stage.
Recently on stage
An official LA Tech Week event, a hangar full of builders, and a main-stage conversation on fiduciary oversight in the agentic era: which person owns what an agent does, what boards and buyers want to see, and one golden rule from each panelist.
Moderated by Ekene Uwaezuoke, founder of AI LAX Summit, with panelists from Morrison & Foerster, Andreessen Horowitz, IV.AI and Google DeepMind.
Field notes — where we’ve been
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Our co-founder Jon McLachlan took the main stage at AI LAX Summit, an official LA Tech Week event inside the hangar where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose, now Google’s Playa Vista home. His view from security: agents aren’t magic, and they aren’t autonomous. They’re software we write and prompts we choose. Take responsibility for them, test them, keep a playful sense of adventure, and security becomes the reason people trust what you’ve built.
Track 03 · Main stage · 2:50 – 3:25 PM Pacific
On the table
Moderated by Ekene Uwaezuoke, founder of AI LAX Summit. On stage: Stephanie Sharron of Morrison & Foerster, Wayne Goeckeritz of Andreessen Horowitz, Vince Lynch of IV.AI, Philo Juang of Google DeepMind and Jon McLachlan of YSecurity.
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Pierre Betouin and Jean-Baptiste Aviat worked alongside Jon at Apple. At Tolmo Day, they and the Tolmo team filled Accel’s San Francisco office with live demos of their autonomous security agents: real exploits found and proven on production targets, then fixed. A room full of builders, and a team we’re proud to call friends.
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Our Minnesota team spent the day at Twin Cities Startup Week for Innovation Day. Good talks and good panels, but one of our biggest takeaways was how many founders need a cybersecurity team and don’t know where to start. That’s exactly the gap we help fill. More on the blog.
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Six days in the desert with twenty thousand of the industry’s most careful people. We walked the floor, hosted a few dinners far from the noise, and talked AI pentesting until the small hours. The photos tell it better than we do.
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Where the CISOs bring their budgets and their skepticism. Two Junes at National Harbor now — the YSecurity booth in 2025, the Cyberbase stand this year — telling the same story both times: embedded security teams, receipts included.
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A different crowd — founders, bootstrappers, people who ship. We sponsored the Portland edition because startups deserve real security help long before the enterprise vendors learn their names.
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The community circuit: five cities and counting. Volunteer-run, badge-optional, and closer to the ground than any keynote stage — our kind of rooms.
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No booth, no scanner, no agenda. DEF CON the way it’s meant to be done — villages, hallway tracks, and the AI Cyber Challenge finals as professional homework.
The best conversations never needed a badge. Fifteen minutes, no deck — just answers.