Securing Generative AI Across the Data Cloud

Nov 18, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Here's what we talked about

Balancing innovation and security
- How regulated industries are advancing generative AI adoption while maintaining trust and compliance.
Protecting sensitive data
- Which proven techniques and policies are minimizing data exposure as AI systems scale across the enterprise.
Building trust through governance
- How consistent data controls and centralized policy management create a foundation for responsible AI operations.
Lessons from the field
- What organizations have learned through their early successes, setbacks, and cross-functional collaboration.
Applying Zero Trust principles
- How to prevent data leakage, secure AI agents, and protect personally identifiable information in unstructured data.
Platforming responsible AI
- What scalable, hybrid architectures enable a secure and consistent experience for data and AI workloads across cloud environments.

Event Partners

Protegrity

Protegrity is a data security company that provides solutions for protecting sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, on-premises, and mainframe systems.

Cloudera

Cloudera is the only data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives.

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Guest Speakers

BWG Connect

Enterprise IT Subject Matter Expert

Our moderator brings decades of experience leading infrastructure, cloud transformation, and enterprise technology strategy across finance, media, publishing, and healthcare sectors. They have overseen IT infrastructure, large-scale digital transformation, and DevOps initiatives for some of the world’s most complex enterprise organizations, bridging strategy and execution to deliver measurable business impact. Their deep expertise ensures every discussion is grounded in real-world insight and informed by a career at the forefront of technological change.

Ave Gatton LinkedIn

Director Gen AI at Protegrity

Averell Gatton, Ph.D., is the Director of Generative AI at Protegrity, where he leads the development of technologies that integrate Protegrity data protection into the GenAI tech stack. He has extensive experience building GenAI systems for the fortune 500 at a variety of startups in the Bay Area. He holds a Ph.D. in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, with research conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and Stanford’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). His work bridges experimental physics, data science, and applied machine learning to drive innovation in AI and data security.

David Dichmann LinkedIn

Vice President Product Marketing and Evangelism at Cloudera

Event Moderator

BWG Connect

Enterprise IT Subject Matter Expert

Our moderator brings decades of experience leading infrastructure, cloud transformation, and enterprise technology strategy across finance, media, publishing, and healthcare sectors. They have overseen IT infrastructure, large-scale digital transformation, and DevOps initiatives for some of the world’s most complex enterprise organizations, bridging strategy and execution to deliver measurable business impact. Their deep expertise ensures every discussion is grounded in real-world insight and informed by a career at the forefront of technological change.

Ave Gatton LinkedIn

Director Gen AI at Protegrity

Averell Gatton, Ph.D., is the Director of Generative AI at Protegrity, where he leads the development of technologies that integrate Protegrity data protection into the GenAI tech stack. He has extensive experience building GenAI systems for the fortune 500 at a variety of startups in the Bay Area. He holds a Ph.D. in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, with research conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and Stanford’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). His work bridges experimental physics, data science, and applied machine learning to drive innovation in AI and data security.

David Dichmann LinkedIn

Vice President Product Marketing and Evangelism at Cloudera

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