Executive Roundtables – Block 4: Governing and Securing the AI Stack

What we'll cover

• •[Hosting Track] A working session on how the open source projects behind AI platforms are governed, what hosting leaders look for before depending on one, and how companies gain a voice in the projects they rely on — AI platforms run on Linux and a long list of other open source projects, and each of those projects is governed differently. Some are led by neutral foundations, some by a commercial company, and some by a small group of maintainers. In this executive roundtable, hosting and infrastructure leaders will compare how they evaluate the projects they depend on, including governance, maintainer health, license and trademark terms, security response, and new obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act. The discussion also covers how companies gain a voice in those projects through sponsorship, engineering time, and leadership. Participants will leave with a group-built checklist of questions to ask before a business depends on an open source project.Led by benny Vasquez
• •[Security Track] Positioning: Security Customers Will Pay For — Packaging, Positioning and Proving Value. Selling security isn’t just a checkbox in the shopping cart. This roundtable will explore how hosting providers can package protection customers understand, position it around the problems it solves and the value it creates, price it appropriately for the market, and equip sales and support teams to have credible security conversations—building trust, improving adoption, and growing revenue without relying on fear tactics or technical overload.Led by Aaron D Campbell

Table Leads