Securing the AI PC Beyond the OS: Data, Agents, and Resilience

Oct 13, 2026 1:00 PM2:00 PM EST

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Event Description

As organizations adopt AI PCs, sensitive corporate IP, GenAI interactions, and autonomous agent workflows move directly onto employee devices, shifting the central security control point to the edge. This transition creates critical challenges around endpoint data exfiltration, shadow AI usage, evasive fileless threats, and operational resilience. The discussion will be positioned around how IT and security leaders can establish a unified silicon-to-cloud defense model, combining hardware-rooted trust (Intel Core Ultra, vPro, TIEE) with AI-native endpoint protection (CrowdStrike Falcon Data Security, Guardian, Falcon for IT) to maintain visibility and control over distributed AI PC environments without sacrificing user privacy or system performance.

BWG Connect, Insight Enterprises, Intel & Crowdstrike invite you to join an interactive event with industry peers to review & discuss practical insights across the digital space.

As always, there will be no sales pitch and all attendees are welcome to listen and learn.

Discussion Topics

  • How AI PC Adoption Shifts Endpoint Risk: Moving GenAI execution and autonomous agents onto local devices introduces new data exfiltration vectors, unmonitored tool calls, and prompt-injection risks.
  • Why Software-Only DLP & OS Controls Fall Short: Legacy rule-based DLP struggles with unstructured GenAI interactions, while OS-level software fails against malware-free and fileless memory attacks that dominate modern breach activity. (~79% of all breaches according to 2025 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report)
  • Hardware-Accelerated Detection & Memory Scanning: Offloading memory scanning to the GPU via Intel TDT delivers 7X performance gains, while CPU telemetry catches exploits below the OS layer.
  • On-Device Data Protection via the NPU: Running Falcon Data Security models locally on the Intel Core Ultra NPU enables real-time semantic classification at the point of egress—preserving privacy, eliminating cloud latency, and reducing costs.
  • Hardware Guardrails for Autonomous AI Agents: Intel TIEE uses TPM 2.0 and VT-x sandboxing to block unauthorized agent actions and feed tamper-proof telemetry into Falcon Guardian.
  • Out-of-Band Operational Resilience: Intel vPro AMT integration in Falcon for IT enables remote access, management, and recovery of unbootable or compromised endpoints.

Event Partners

Intel

Intel Corporation is a global leader in semiconductor manufacturing and technology solutions. Intel designs and produces advanced microprocessors, integrated graphics, chipsets, and other computing components that power a wide range of devices, from personal computers and data centers to networking, artificial intelligence, and edge computing systems.

Insight Enterprises

Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a Fortune 500 solutions integrator helping organizations accelerate their digital journey to modernize their business and maximize the value of technology. Insight’s technical expertise spans cloud and edge-based transformation solutions, with global scale and optimization built on 33+ years of deep partnerships with the world’s leading and emerging technology providers.

Crowdstrike

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) is a leading cloud-native cybersecurity company whose Falcon platform unifies endpoint, cloud, identity, and threat-intelligence protection for enterprises worldwide.

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.

Jim Medell LinkedIn

Senior Technical Leader, Commercial Platforms at Intel

Jim Medell serves in Intel's Commercial Platforms organization, where he helps drive the strategy and delivery of Intel vPro® manageability solutions. His work spans enterprise device lifecycle management, remote remediation, cloud-connected manageability, and AI-enabled IT operations. Jim regularly collaborates with customers, partners, and IT leaders to help organizations securely manage large-scale PC fleets and maximize the value of Intel vPro platforms.

Todd Cramer LinkedIn

Sr Director Security Ecosystem Business Development, Client Computing Division at Intel

Todd leads security ecosystem business development/technical enabling for the Commercial Client Division of Intel. He is an expert in hardware security technologies, AI for security, and emerging agentic security practices. For the past 20 years, he has directed go-to-market engagements for: Intel Threat Detection Technology, Intel’s IOT Secure Device Onboard, API Management, Security Gateway, Identity, PCI Tokenization, and AI inference solutions as applied to client/edge devices. His 25+ years in the enterprise security sector have included leadership work for Ping Identity, IBM, MITRE, and other corporations. Todd has a degree in marketing, an MBA, and is based in Colorado.

Chris Kachigian LinkedIn

Sr Director, Global Solution Architecture at CrowdStrike

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.

Jim Medell LinkedIn

Senior Technical Leader, Commercial Platforms at Intel

Jim Medell serves in Intel's Commercial Platforms organization, where he helps drive the strategy and delivery of Intel vPro® manageability solutions. His work spans enterprise device lifecycle management, remote remediation, cloud-connected manageability, and AI-enabled IT operations. Jim regularly collaborates with customers, partners, and IT leaders to help organizations securely manage large-scale PC fleets and maximize the value of Intel vPro platforms.

Todd Cramer LinkedIn

Sr Director Security Ecosystem Business Development, Client Computing Division at Intel

Todd leads security ecosystem business development/technical enabling for the Commercial Client Division of Intel. He is an expert in hardware security technologies, AI for security, and emerging agentic security practices. For the past 20 years, he has directed go-to-market engagements for: Intel Threat Detection Technology, Intel’s IOT Secure Device Onboard, API Management, Security Gateway, Identity, PCI Tokenization, and AI inference solutions as applied to client/edge devices. His 25+ years in the enterprise security sector have included leadership work for Ping Identity, IBM, MITRE, and other corporations. Todd has a degree in marketing, an MBA, and is based in Colorado.

Chris Kachigian LinkedIn

Sr Director, Global Solution Architecture at CrowdStrike

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