AI Insiders Cybersecurity · 2025 Showcase
Generative AI Security
Founder perspective, paraphrased
Real-time safeguards and research help enterprises adopt AI with confidence.
David Haber, Lakera co-founder and CEO
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15 convenings · 6 verticals · 475+ companies represented
Leaders from organizations including
15
Curated Rooms
3
Nine-Figure Acquisitions
475+
Companies
2,000+
Introductions Made
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Signal before consensus.
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AI Insiders Cybersecurity · 2025 Showcase
AI Security Infrastructure
Founder perspective, paraphrased
Enterprises need visibility and guardrails to adopt AI safely.
Oliver Friedrichs, Pangea founder and CEO
AI Insiders Cybersecurity · 2026 Partner + CTO Panelist
Identity Security
Founder perspective, paraphrased
Deeper visibility into identity risks helps security teams respond faster to threats.
Paul Nguyen, Permiso co-founder
Three cybersecurity companies. Three nine-figure acquisitions.
Selected for or participating in AI Insiders programming before their respective acquisitions. AI Insiders does not claim to have caused these outcomes.
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How the network works
Stage. Table. Signal.
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Stage
Ideas enter the network.
02
Table
Trust gets built privately.
03
Signal
The strongest insights travel beyond the room.
Every person in the room has been personally vetted. Quality over quantity, always. Introductions that lead to real work, not business cards.
Speakers & Alumni
Who has spoken in our rooms
Operators, investors, and researchers who have taken the stage across our thirteen events.
Josh ConstineSignalFire
Prof. Ronjon NagR42 Institute · Stanford
Prof. Ramesh RaskarMIT Media Lab
Malika Aubakirovaa16z
Shreya ShekharGreylock
Chenxi WangRain Capital
Franziska BossartAmazon
C.C. GongMenlo Ventures
Prof. De KaiHKUST · Berkeley
David HahnBallistic Ventures
James GreenCRV
Lu ZhangFusion Fund
Max MarchioneSuperpower
Feyza HaskaramanMenlo Ventures
Victoria HerlitzMeta
Michelle DennedyPrivacyCode
Dr. Jonathan MatesKaiser Permanente
Cuy SheffieldVisa
Luba GoldbergVisa Direct
Sasha OrloffPuzzle
Dasha ShuninaForbes · Puzzle
Sandeep PatilQED Investors
Paul CalatayudCircleRock Capital
Brooke MottaRAD Security
Daniel MiesslerUnsupervised Learning
Matan LamdanStriker
Mahesh LambeProject NANDA · MIT
Crystal HazenHackerOne
Yair SabanAIR Security
Josh ConstineSignalFire
Prof. Ronjon NagR42 Institute · Stanford
Prof. Ramesh RaskarMIT Media Lab
Malika Aubakirovaa16z
Shreya ShekharGreylock
Chenxi WangRain Capital
Franziska BossartAmazon
C.C. GongMenlo Ventures
Prof. De KaiHKUST · Berkeley
David HahnBallistic Ventures
James GreenCRV
Lu ZhangFusion Fund
Max MarchioneSuperpower
Feyza HaskaramanMenlo Ventures
Victoria HerlitzMeta
Michelle DennedyPrivacyCode
Dr. Jonathan MatesKaiser Permanente
Cuy SheffieldVisa
Luba GoldbergVisa Direct
Sasha OrloffPuzzle
Dasha ShuninaForbes · Puzzle
Sandeep PatilQED Investors
Paul CalatayudCircleRock Capital
Brooke MottaRAD Security
Daniel MiesslerUnsupervised Learning
Matan LamdanStriker
Mahesh LambeProject NANDA · MIT
Crystal HazenHackerOne
Yair SabanAIR Security
Leadership
Vertical leads who curate each room
Each vertical is led by practitioners who decide what gets discussed and who gets in. Open any profile to see their focus and the rooms they curate.
Six Domains. One Standard.
Where do you build?
Six domain-specific verticals, each led by experts who curate membership and protect the standard.
Healthcare & Biotech
Medical AI, drug discovery, diagnostics, and biotech innovation.
Clinical AIDrug DiscoveryMedical ImagingGenomics
Cybersecurity
Threat detection, security AI, privacy infrastructure, and defense.
Threat IntelligenceSecurity OperationsPrivacy TechZero Trust
Fintech & Payments
Trading AI, fraud detection, banking automation, and financial infrastructure.
Algorithmic TradingFraud PreventionLending AIPayments
Media & Content
Generative media, creator tools, entertainment, and content platforms.
Generative VideoCreator EconomyMusic AIGaming
Government & Policy
Public sector AI, regulation, compliance, and civic technology.
Defense TechRegulatory AICivic TechPublic Safety
Robotics & Automation
Embodied AI, manufacturing, logistics, and autonomous systems.
Humanoid RobotsIndustrial AutomationAutonomous VehiclesDrones
Track Record
15 Events. One Standard.
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AI Insiders Cambridge
September 2026 · Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Co-hosted with Cambridge Inference & Tertium AI · 16 seats
What would a credible coalition-led frontier AI program look like, and who in the room can build it?
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AI Insiders: Government & Policy Dinner
September 2026 · San Francisco
Olivia Igbokwe-Curry (AWS) · Invite-only
AI adoption, procurement, and public trust: the questions no single institution can solve alone.
View event →13
AI Insiders: Venture Signals
July 2026 · San Francisco
Invite-only · Investors & operators
View event →12
AI Insiders: Cybersecurity
June 5, 2026 · Chorus Theater, San Francisco
Paul Calatayud, Caleb Sima, David Hahn, Brooke Motta, Daniel Miessler, Julie Tsai, Bhavya Gupta, Sharat Ganesh
View event →Inside the Room
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Sasha Orloff
Co-founder and CEO, Puzzle
Merve Isler
Founder, AI Insiders
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Real Outcomes
In their words.
"The June 2025 event was one of the best, most beneficial events that I have been to in a very long time. Looking forward to being a member, attending more events, and hopefully providing value to the community."
BNP
Barry N. Perkins
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Tesseract Group
""Instead of attending the next cyber conference, we should all be going to the next AI conference." YES. AI Insiders is exactly what our industry needs right now. Can't wait for the next one!"
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David Haber
Founder & CEO of Lakera
"It was amazing to see hundreds of people showing up on Friday night to engage in AI innovation discussions. There is no better place to be in tech than San Francisco right now."
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Chenxi Wang
Managing General Partner of Rain Capital
From the Founder
The room is the product.
Merve Isler is the Founder and CEO of Marvelous and the creator of AI Insiders. She has delivered 300+ keynotes at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and worldwide stages, and her work has been featured in Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and the San Francisco Post.
Her conviction: the most powerful companies of the future will be community-native. AI Insiders is where that belief becomes a room, one vertical at a time.
300+Keynotes Delivered
160+Global Communities
30+Countries Reached
Merve Isler, Founder of AI Insiders and CEO of Marvelous
From the Founder
The room is the product.
Merve Isler is the Founder and CEO of Marvelous and the creator of AI Insiders, a verticalized ecosystem where AI founders, investors, researchers, and enterprise leaders convene. Her signature is building rooms that people reorganize their week to be in.
With 300+ keynotes at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and worldwide stages, and her work featured in Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and the San Francisco Post, she brings one conviction to every room she builds: the most powerful companies of the future will be community-native.
300+Keynotes Delivered
160+Global Communities
30+Countries Reached
Merve Isler, Founder of AI Insiders and CEO of Marvelous
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