Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] Driving Successful AI Adoption

  Presented by Hunter Helfgott, Data & AI Consultant, & Hayden Busic, Data & AI Product Manager • Cerium Networks

In this session, we’ll cover the critical steps organizations can take to adopt AI successfully this year, including proven strategies, common pitfalls, and practical frameworks to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide implementation. You’ll leave with actionable guidance to align AI initiatives with business goals, build organizational buy-in, and measure ROI in a way that lasts.

AI adoption is about making AI deliver real business outcomes without creating unnecessary risk, rework, or frustration.

What We’ll Cover

  • The state of AI adoption in mid-2026: key trends and challenges teams are facing
  • Lessons learned: what working, what doesn’t, and what to do differently going forward
  • A practical framework for successful AI adoption: from strategy to execution
  • Measuring success: KPIs, governance, and how to prove value over time

[1 CPE] How to Keep AI From Taking Your Job

  Presented by Kate Belvoir • VP, Business Information Officer, Blue Cross of Idaho

Please join us for a unique presentation as Kate Belvoir will peel back the curtain about success stories when it comes to AI. Blue Cross of Idaho is a leader in the health insurance industry, addressing healthcare costs and delivering exceptional customer service through innovative tools and solutions. With 80 years of servicing their customers, the current landscape requires precise practices. Kate will speak on her experience of using AI to increase business efficiency, without sacrificing IT jobs.

Change is inevitable when it comes to technology. However, the headlines of AI replacing humans doesn’t have to be your reality. Kate will share her passion for what the future holds. The balance needed of humans using the current tools will be a focus. You will gain great insight on how to advance yourself and us AI as a tool, not a job killer. Don’t miss the chance to hear from one of Idaho’s leading companies!

Kate Belvoir serves as Vice President, Business Information Officer at Blue Cross of Idaho, where she leads business technology and enterprise transformation initiatives. She brings 28 years of experience with the organization, having begun her career in business operations before transitioning into IT. With deep expertise in aligning business and technology, Kate focuses on simplifying complexity, strengthening vendor partnerships, and delivering solutions that drive meaningful business value. She is passionate about building high-performing, values-driven teams and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement—enabling both people and the organization to thrive.

An Idaho native, Kate is married and the proud parent of two boys. Outside of work, family remains at the center of her life and perspective.

[1 CPE] A Sociopathic 5-Year-Old Has Your Access Token: AuthN/AuthZ for Agentic AI

  Presented by Gil Kirkpatrick, Chief Architect • Semperis

Semperis Chief Product Officer Alex Weinert describes AI agents as “curious, genius, sociopathic 5-year-olds.” He’s right, but while you can supervise one 5-year-old, you can’t supervise thousands of AI agents operating at millisecond speed across every system you own. You don’t supervise them. You childproof the house.

This session explores the access control model agentic AI actually requires, covering workload identity (SPIFFE, WIMSE, and the IETF’s AIMS draft), delegated OAuth (token exchange, actor chains, Rich Authorization Requests, sender-constrained tokens, and the 2026 MCP authorization spec), and dynamic per-action policy evaluation, including why a role is an input to an authorization decision, not the decision itself.

You’ll leave with a reference architecture, a maturity model, and a clear understanding of what’s standardized today and what still has to be built.

[1 CPE] AI-Native Networking: From Reactive IT to Autonomous Operations

  Presented by William Admire, HPE AI for Networking Specialist SE • HPE

Traditional networks were designed for human troubleshooting. As environments scale and expectations rise, reactive operations and manual workflows no longer meet the needs of modern enterprises.

AI-Native Networking represents a fundamental architectural shift — where AI is not layered on top of infrastructure, but built into its foundation. By combining real-time telemetry, cloud-native microservices, and continuously trained models, AI-Native platforms move IT from reactive firefighting to autonomous operations.

The result: measurable improvements in user experience, reduced operational overhead, faster root-cause resolution, and infrastructure that continuously optimizes itself.

This session explores what it truly means to be AI-native, how it differs from legacy “AI-enhanced” approaches, and the business outcomes organizations are achieving by embracing this new model.

[1 CPE] Building Trust for What’s Next: PKI Modernization & Quantum Readiness

  Presented by Bryan Pitts, Solutions Engineer  • DigiCert

Certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Browser requirements are evolving. Machine identities are growing exponentially. At the same time, organizations are beginning to plan for post-quantum cryptography while supporting new AI-driven systems that depend on trusted digital interactions.

These changes are transforming PKI from a traditional security function into the operational trust layer for modern business.

This session provides a practical roadmap for modernizing PKI, improving visibility into machine identities, automating certificate lifecycle management, and building crypto-agility for future cryptographic transitions. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to reduce operational risk today while preparing for post-quantum security and the next generation of digital trust.

[1 CPE] How to Own and Protect Your Code in the Age of AI

  Presented by Bradlee Frazer Esq., Partner, Hawley Troxell Law Firm • INTERFACE Advisory Council

As you know if you’ve heard Brad’s presentation called “Who Owns the Code?” (presented with his partner in crime Rich Hundhausen), the uneasy intersection of copyright law and AI has called into question traditional code ownership paradigms. It used to be easy: a human wrote source code and thereafter owned a copyright in those lines of Python (or whatever).  But with the rise of Claude coding (or Grok or Gemini or other AI), code ownership is no longer black and white. And if you do not own the code, you cannot legally monetize it and protect it. Join Hawley Troxell partner Brad Frazer for a lively and interactive discussion of “Best Practices to Own Your Code in the Age of AI.”

Bradlee Frazer is a partner with Hawley Troxell and is Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property & Internet practice group. In addition to emphasizing and focusing on all facets of Internet law, Intellectual Property law, and Information Technology law, he also helps clients with related transactional work and litigation.

Brad is a published novelist, and he has also written extensively for national legal publications and law blogs. He is also a frequent speaker on internet, intellectual property, and computer law topics and is a regular guest lecturer at Boise State University on those subjects.

[1 CPE] Driving Innovation with Unified Governance and Security

  Presented by Ken Robinson, Solution Engineer • Island

Browser-based apps, unsanctioned SaaS, and a fast-growing wave of AI assistants are reshaping modern work; and they are entering the enterprise faster than security teams can govern them. For today’s CIO and CISO, the mandate is no longer to choose between enablement and control; it’s to deliver both at once. “Shadow AI” has made that tension urgent and the organizations that win will be the ones that channel this energy safely rather than trying to block it.

This session lays out a practical path to enabling innovation without surrendering governance. We’ll explore how unified visibility into AI and other application usage, granular controls that keep sensitive data protected, and cross-functional collaboration between security, risk, and the business can turn these ungoverned risks into a governed advantage.

Join us to discuss:

  • Turning Shadow AI into sanctioned AI — enabling adoption while maintaining control.
  • Unified visibility and policy across browsers, SaaS, and AI tools.
  • Operational, risk, and compliance impacts — and the collaboration model that keeps organizations resilient, adaptable, and ahead.

[1 CPE] Building Trust for What’s Next: PKI Modernization & Quantum Readiness

  Presented by Jared Mensinger, Sr Solutions Engineer  • DigiCert

Certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Browser requirements are evolving. Machine identities are growing exponentially. At the same time, organizations are beginning to plan for post-quantum cryptography while supporting new AI-driven systems that depend on trusted digital interactions.

These changes are transforming PKI from a traditional security function into the operational trust layer for modern business.

This session provides a practical roadmap for modernizing PKI, improving visibility into machine identities, automating certificate lifecycle management, and building crypto-agility for future cryptographic transitions. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to reduce operational risk today while preparing for post-quantum security and the next generation of digital trust.

[1 CPE] Better Together: Securing Identity in the AI Era

  Presented by CompuNet, with Microsoft & Palo Alto Networks

Explore how to protect user, machine, and AI identities in the modern workplace by implementing layered controls and complementary security processes. This session highlights how a flexible, multi-platform identity strategy—leveraging Microsoft Entra ID, Idera (formerly CyberArk), and related identity and access management technologies—can address evolving security challenges in the age of AI. Learn how Entra ID capabilities such as Conditional Access, identity governance, and workload identities integrate with privileged access management solutions from Idera to create a cohesive, defense-in-depth identity program. We’ll also touch on adjacent controls across endpoint, cloud, and network security to show how these technologies work together rather than in isolation.

[1 CPE] From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Agile and DevOps in Enterprise AI Development

  Presented by Mike Douglas, SVP Digital Transformation • Lunavi

Enterprises everywhere are racing to incorporate AI into their development practices to improve time to market, create competitive advantages, and avoid being left behind. The tools make it easy to get started, but building mission-critical software with AI is a different challenge entirely. Human + AI development demands security, accountability, and rigorous quality controls that isn’t part of most AI development practices.

In this talk, I’ll show how Agentic Engineering built on a foundation of Agile and DevOps, provides a process for developing software at high speed while keeping humans in the loop, delivering value incrementally, and baking quality into every step through automated security and quality gates. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of modern AI development tools and processes, and how proven Agile and DevOps practices provide the critical human oversight that responsible AI development requires.