AI Connect Season 2: The Next Chapter of Application Security

About the Event For most of modern software history, finding and exploiting vulnerabilities required a combination of expertise, patience, and time. AI is removing that bottleneck. Frontier models such as Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, Qwen, and the emerging class of autonomous AI agents are simultaneously becoming some of the most powerful tools defenders have ever had. What was once a human-paced security landscape is becoming machine-paced. Vulnerability discovery, exploit generation, attack-chain planning, and defensive analysis can increasingly happen in hours rather than weeks. At the same time, organisations are introducing entirely new attack surfaces through AI agents, plugins, connectors, retrieval systems, open-source models, and increasingly autonomous workflows. The result is a world where attackers and defenders increasingly have access to the same intelligence. At the Harness AI Connect Season 2, security leaders, engineers, researchers, and AppSec practitioners will unpack what this means for modern software systems, and how security, governance, and engineering practices need to evolve when intelligence itself becomes part of the attack surface. What We'll Discuss The Asymmetry Problem From exploit generation and vulnerability chaining to API probing and autonomous reconnaissance, frontier models are changing the economics of offensive security. The discussion will explore how organisations respond when attackers and defenders increasingly have access to the same intelligence. The Defender's New Toolkit Security is moving beyond periodic scanning toward runtime visibility, adaptive defenses, automated remediation, and continuous risk assessment. What does an effective AppSec stack look like when software and threats both operate at machine speed? The Governance Gap When an AI agent triggers a production-impacting action, the chain of accountability is rarely obvious. The discussion will examine how organisations are approaching oversight, control, and decision-making in systems where humans are no longer involved in every step. Panelist Dhiraj Khare, Chief Revenue Officer, Matters.AI Alok Goyal, Tech investor, Stellaris Venture Partners. Natraj Choudhury, CTO, Lenskart Pranav Tiwari, Head of Engineering, Postman Vikas Singh Yadav, CISO, Flipkart Agenda Time Session 03:00 PM – 03:20 PM Registration, networking, and snacks 03:20 PM – 03:35 PM Opening and scene-setting 03:35 PM – 05:05 PM Panel Discussion 05:05 PM – 05:45 PM Audience Q&A and open discussion 05:45 PM – 06:00 PM Closing remarks and networking About Harness Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform for everything after code. It applies intelligence and automation across the full software delivery lifecycle – testing, deployment, security, governance, and optimization – so enterprise organizations can ship software faster, safer, and at scale. Harness is trusted by 1,000+ enterprises across regulated and high-scale industries.