September 15 2026 Runtime is Where AI Lives (Teddi Poehls) & Election Security Tools and Threats (Jeremy Keller)
Come and network with your friends, make new friends, and hear 2 great speakers. A buffet dinner will be available.
Topic One: Runtime is Where AI Lives
Artificial intelligence is introducing new attack surfaces, new machine identities, and new autonomous actors into modern environments. But the bigger story may not be AI itself. As attackers increasingly move across identities, applications, APIs, infrastructure, and data, traditional security boundaries are beginning to blur.
This session explores why many of these interactions ultimately converge at runtime, why Layer 7 has become a critical source of security signal, and why runtime is emerging as the control plane for modern security. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for understanding AI-driven risk, runtime visibility, and the architectural shifts shaping the next generation of security platforms.
Speaker One: Teddi Poehls
Teddi Poehls is the Head of Sales Engineering at Impart Security and has spent more than a decade helping organizations solve complex application, API, and Layer 7 security challenges. Her background includes security operations in large enterprise environments and extensive experience working with security leaders across industries as they navigate major technology shifts including cloud, APIs, and now artificial intelligence.
Teddi is particularly interested in how AI is reshaping the security operating model and how runtime protection can provide visibility, context, and control across modern application environments.
Topic Two: Election Security Tools and Threats
This session offers a practitioner’s view from inside Los Angeles County, one of the largest and most watched election jurisdictions in the United States, examining how new technologies and traditional communications are reshaping both sides of the security equation. On the defensive side: how security and communications teams are operationalizing AI to triage threats, accelerate threat intelligence, and extend capabilities against a resource backdrop that has grown more constrained as federal support has eroded. On the offensive side: how nation-state actors and sophisticated criminal groups are leveraging AI-assisted attacks and generative disinformation to undermine the one asset no technical control can fully protect: public trust.
Attendees will leave with a concrete understanding of how election-specific security constraints — immovable deadlines, radical transparency requirements, and trust as a measurable security objective — translate into lessons for any security program. In an environment where the margin for error is minimal and the threat landscape includes both sophisticated persistent threats and ideologically motivated narrative attacks, the election security practitioner must balance adopting the latest technology with reinforcing the fundamentals that anchor any strong security program.
Speaker Two: Jeremy Keller
Jeremy Keller is an Information Security Officer with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, where he leads and supports cybersecurity initiatives focused on protecting critical election infrastructure and strengthening public trust in democratic systems.
Jeremy has extensive experience developing enterprise security programs, conducting risk assessments, and aligning cybersecurity strategy with operational and regulatory requirements across Los Angeles County departments. He has served as Information Security Officer for the Department of Human Resources and in a senior security role at the Department of Public Health during the COVID pandemic. He also led the countywide Incident Response Cybersecurity Workgroup from 2021 to 2024.
Jeremy is a two-time recipient of a National Association of Counties cybersecurity award recognizing innovation and leadership in public-sector cybersecurity.
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CPEs
You will earn 2 CPEs by attending this meeting.
