12th October 2026 | Ned’s Club, Washington D.C.
Live Event
Inside Amazon's Security Engine: Lessons for Boards Navigating AI Risk at Scale
Brought to you by AWS and GDS Group
Amazon processes trillions of security events daily, serves millions of active customers across 190 countries, and operates weekly CEO-attended security meetings. Amazon has one of the world's most diverse business portfolios: the largest cloud computing platform, a global e-commerce marketplace, physical retail operations, streaming media, healthcare services, groceries, satellite networks, autonomous robotics, and an AI ecosystem serving enterprises of every size. Amazon is also embedding AI into every one of these business units, from AI-powered supply chain optimization and autonomous delivery to generative AI coding assistants and intelligent security defenses, making the company both one of the largest builders and operators of AI systems in the world. Their practices secure one of the world's most complex environments at a scale and speed beyond most organizations.
AWS security leaders will provide best practices on how Amazon secures at scale. They will also share lessons from leading CISOs and boards including trends in security and governance and how leading organizations are repositioning security investment as a competitive advantage rather than a cost center.
This session delivers actionable frameworks for AI security governance, practical insights from organizations operating at the frontier of AI innovation, and a strategic roadmap for boards seeking to lead the AI security transformation. Attendees will leave with concrete questions to ask management, governance structures to implement, and a clearer understanding of how to balance innovation speed with security resilience.
Ned’s Club, Washington D.C.
Monday 12th October 2026
Guest Speakers
Hart Rossman
Vice President of Security and Office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services
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Hart Rossman is Vice President of Security for AWS, where his responsibilities include leading the Office of the CISO, AWS CIRT (Customer Incident Response Team), and AWS field engagement security. He focuses on enabling customers and field teams to achieve delightful results while leveraging AWS products and services securely. Hart joined AWS in 2012 as an individual contributor and grew to lead AWS Global Services Security, supporting enterprise customers design, build, and optimize their security, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure architecture at a planetary scale. Before AWS, Hart worked for over a decade as a systems integrator in the defense & intelligence, finance, and energy sectors. He is an Eagle Scout and has earned a CISSP, CSSLP, received his B.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, and received his MBA from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Ned’s Club, Washington D.C. 12th October
A private members' club located on the top three floors of the historic Walker Building at 734 15th Street NW in President's Park
Agenda
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Hart Rossman, Vice President of Security and Office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services
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