Speaking

June 2026

Breaking the Black Box: An Overview of AI Governance and Tabletop Simulation

Chris M. Ward at Planet Cyber Sec AI AppSec, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, June 3, 2026.

May 2026

SPIE Assurance and Security for AI-enabled Systems

Dr. Josh Harguess and Chris M. Ward co-chaired the SPIE conference on Assurance and Security for AI-enabled Systems.

April 2026

Breaking the Black Box: BSides San Diego 2026

A session on the AI governance frameworks that matter: NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, GDPR and MITRE's AI Maturity Model.

April 2026

Breaking the Black Box: A Tabletop Guide to AI Governance and Maturity

An interactive workshop pairing the NIST AI RMF and the MITRE AI Maturity Model with a live incident tabletop.

March 2026

Walk the Line: Third Party Risk Summit 2026

Dr. Josh Harguess on a panel on third party AI risk at the Grand Hyatt, Nashville, March 18 and 19, 2026.

March 2026

Demystifying AI

A three hour workshop with ISACA San Diego, in person and on Zoom, March 5, 2026.

March 2026

Naval Applications of Machine Learning

Chris M. Ward and Dr. Josh Harguess speaking at Naval Applications of Machine Learning.

October 2025

Operational Risk Modeling of Mission-Critical AI Systems

Dr. Josh Harguess at the NATO STO Research Symposium on AI Security and Assurance for Military Systems.

October 2025

IEEE MILCOM: 2nd Workshop on Security, Resilience and Robustness of Systems and Software

Dr. Josh Harguess chaired the workshop and gave its keynote at IEEE MILCOM, Los Angeles, October 2025.

June 2025

Fire Mountain Labs accepted to NATO Research Symposium on AI Security and Assurance for Military Systems

June 2025

Join our AI Assurance talks @ B-Sides Las Vegas August 4th and 5th 2025

May 2025

Hunting for Weakness in a Cloud-Native AI: How Generative Agents Can Be Exploited

Presented by Josh Harguess and Chris Ward at the Cloud Security Alliance San Diego County meet on May 20 and the Orange County meet on May 21, 2025.