Wednesday 23 April 2025, 4pm-5pm (BST)

Steve Wilson leads product strategy, product management, product marketing, and research at Exabeam. He is a leader and innovator in AI, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, with over 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams to build mission-critical enterprise software and high-leverage platforms.

Before joining Exabeam, he served as CPO at Contrast Security, leading all aspects of product development, including strategy, product management, product marketing, product design, and engineering. Steve has a proven track record of driving product transformation from on-premises legacy software to subscription-based SaaS business models including at Citrix, accounting for over $1 billion in ARR. He has additional experience building software platforms at multi-billion-dollar technology companies including Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Steve is also a project leader at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation where he has assembled a group of over 400 experts to create the first industry-standard, comprehensive reference project called the ‘Top 10 List for Large Language Model Applications’. The list educates developers, designers, architects, managers, and organisations about the potential security risks when deploying and managing generative AI and other large language models (LLMs).

Author of O’Reilly Media’s ‘The Developer’s Playbook for Large Language Model Security’, Steve provides a comprehensive framework for secure AI. He holds 11 US and international patents, was named the 2023 Cybersecurity Innovation Leader of the Year by Enterprise Security Tech, and his 2024 RSA Conference talk was voted a Top Session. He also holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and a second-degree black belt from the American Taekwondo Association.

Martin Smith MBE (info), Chairman & Founder, The SASIG, in conversation with Steve Wilson (info), Chief AI and Product Officer, Exabeam