Virtual Roundtable
Building Trusted Foundations for AI: Security, Governance, and Resilience Across Hybrid Cloud
September 23, 2026 | 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT
Organizations are under increasing pressure to accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, compliance, and operational resilience.
As AI agents, cloud-native applications, APIs, and automated workflows proliferate, traditional approaches to identity, secrets management, and governance are struggling to keep pace.
Join IDC and IBM for an interactive executive roundtable examining how leading organizations are building trusted foundations for AI and hybrid cloud environments. This discussion will explore emerging challenges around machine identities, secrets and certificate management, AI governance, regulatory compliance, and cyber resilience. Attendees will exchange insights on balancing innovation with risk management, securing distributed workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, and establishing consistent security policies that scale with business demands.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Strategies for improving cyber resilience, compliance, and operational agility while enabling faster innovation
- How leading organizations are securing AI workloads, machine identities, and automated workflows at scale
- Best practices for managing secrets, credentials, and governance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Discussion Themes
Five Conversations Every Senior IT Leader Should Be Having Right Now
Trusted AI Requires a Trusted Infrastructure
- Foundational security controls needed to scale AI responsibly.
- Balancing innovation, governance, and risk management.
- How enterprise security practices have evolved over the last two years.
The Rise of Machine Identities
- Managing the growth of AI agents, APIs, containers, and non-human identities.
- Securing secrets, credentials, certificates, and cryptographic assets.
- Governance considerations for AI workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
Securing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
- Consistent security policies across on-premises, Azure, and other cloud environments.
- Visibility, control, and risk management across distributed infrastructures.
- Best practices for securing workloads while maintaining flexibility and scale.
Data Protection and Compliance
- Emerging regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Protecting sensitive data used by AI and cloud applications.
- Industry standards and protocols supporting trusted AI adoption.
Operational Resilience and Cyber Readiness
- Reducing risk while maintaining business agility.
- Preparing for increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
- Building resilience into AI, cloud, and automation strategies.
What To Expect
A live video meeting led by a skilled host/moderator
An intimate gathering of senior leaders from diverse industries, grappling with similar issues
A secure, private conversation open only to a carefully vetted group (no recording, no playback)
Your hosts
Partner
Sponsored By
IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of governments and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.