Secure LLMs & Prompt Defense 2025

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Participants

Dr. Dr. Nina Volkov 🇺🇸

CinderSec

LLM Security Researcher

Keynote: Opening Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Sep 15, 2025 2:00 AM – 2:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Jailbreaks & Defenses: Lessons from LLM Red-Teaming

Isolation patterns, layered filters, continuous evaluation.

Focus on jailbreak defense and eval harnesses.

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Prof. Prof. Mateo Alvarez 🇺🇸

UC Santa Clara

Professor of Secure NLP

Keynote: Day 2 Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Sep 16, 2025 2:00 AM – 2:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Beyond Prompt Injection: Supply-Chain Threats

Weights, datasets, tool plugs and provenance verification.

Security of language models and aligned systems.

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Ava Jensen 🇺🇸

PromptShield

Head of Trust & Safety

Session_chair: Track A Chair Track: Track A Room: Room A Featured

Chair: Session

Runs incident response and abuse prevention for LLM apps.

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Dr. Dr. Raghav Raman 🇺🇸

BenchAI

Staff Researcher, Eval Systems

Session_chair: Track B Chair Track: Track B Room: Room B Featured

Chair: Session

Designs adversarial evals for LLM safety.

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Noah Patel 🇺🇸

TrustForge

Security PM

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Workshop Track: Workshops Room: Room W1 Sep 16, 2025 3:30 AM – 5:00 AM Featured

Workshop: Writing Effective Guardrail Policies

Templates, exception queues, and staged rollout.

Policy rollouts and exception handling.

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Eleanor Park 🇺🇸

ModelSafe

Security Engineer

Speaker Track: Track A Room: Room A Sep 15, 2025 4:00 AM – 4:30 AM

Talk: Multi-Agent Attack Surfaces

Coordination exploits and role confusion attacks.

Red-teaming pipelines for multi-agent systems.

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Yusuf Karim 🇺🇸

GuardTrail

Principal Engineer

Speaker Track: Track A Room: Room A Sep 15, 2025 4:35 AM – 5:05 AM

Talk: Tool Use Isolation: Sandboxes that Scale

Syscall filtering, broker patterns, and escape prevention.

Runtime isolation and sandbox patterns for LLM tools.

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Mira Kowalski 🇵🇱

TraceWorks

Data Provenance Lead

Speaker Track: Track B Room: Room B Sep 15, 2025 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM

Talk: Provenance-First Training Data

Hash chains, attestations, and human-in-the-loop QA.

Dataset lineage and tamper-evident curation.

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Dr. Dr. Wei Chen 🇸🇬

SafeLang Labs

Research Scientist

Speaker Track: Track B Room: Room B Sep 15, 2025 7:35 AM – 8:05 AM

Talk: A Practical Taxonomy of Jailbreaks

Injection family tree with concrete mitigations.

Alignment evals and jailbreak taxonomy.

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Sara M�ller 🇩🇪

BlueCanary

Incident Response Lead

Panelist: Panelist Track: Panels Room: Room P Sep 15, 2025 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Panel: Incident Postmortems that Actually Fix Things

Runbooks, decision logs, and accountability loops.

Runs post-mortems for LLM incidents.

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Jacob Reed 🇺🇸

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Panels Room: Room P Sep 15, 2025 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Panel: Incident Postmortems that Actually Fix Things

Moderating panel on disciplined remediation.

Moderator for security/AI panels.

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Isabella Rossi 🇮🇹

EvalCraft

Eval Engineer

Speaker Track: Track C Room: Room C Sep 16, 2025 6:30 AM – 7:00 AM

Talk: From Static Benchmarks to Continuous Evals

Shift from one-off scores to live signals.

Builds eval harnesses and dashboards.

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Dr. Dr. Omar Saad 🇦🇪

LLM Risk Lab

Research Lead

Speaker Track: Track C Room: Room C Sep 16, 2025 7:05 AM – 7:35 AM

Talk: Risk Registers that Matter

Severity scales and near-miss logging for AI incidents.

Risk registers and governance boards.

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Emily Ward 🇺🇸

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Program Operations

Ops: Session

Program operations and speaker success.

Liam O'Connor 🇺🇸

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Logistics Lead

Ops: Session

Venue logistics and A/V.

Judith Park 🇺🇸

OpenEval

Judge

Judge: Poster Awards Judge Sep 16, 2025 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Judging: Session

External evaluator for poster awards.

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Rafael Santos 🇧🇷

Citadel AI

Security Architect

Speaker Track: Track A Room: Room A Sep 16, 2025 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Talk: Broker Patterns for Toolformer-Style Agents

Decoupling tools with capability bounding.

Interfaces for safe tool use.

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Chen Li 🇨🇳

PromptLab

Research Engineer

Panelist: Panelist Track: Panels Room: Room P Sep 16, 2025 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM

Panel: Measuring Safety: Where Benchmarks Fail

Panel on eval blind spots and proxy metrics.

Safety taxonomies and test corpora.

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Sofia Dimitriou 🇬🇷

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Panels Room: Room P Sep 16, 2025 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM

Panel: Measuring Safety: Where Benchmarks Fail

Moderates panel discussion on evals.

Moderator for policy/safety panels.

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Diego Herrera 🇲🇽

ShieldWorks

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Room W2 Sep 15, 2025 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM

Workshop: Implementing Policy as Code

OPA examples and deployment pipelines.

Policy templates and rollout strategies.

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