Michael Baader
Vice President, Divisional Information Security Officer
Capital One
About
Michael is currently the Divisional CISO for Capital One's Banking & Premium Products division. Additionally, he heads their Security Testing and Product Security services for the enterprise on their journey to the frontier of AI. Before Capital One Michael spent 12 years in the Telecommunications sector, where he held multiple engineering and leadership roles focused on information security and technology. Michael is a leader passionate about securely building and unifying technology that enables business innovation to drive financial inclusion and economic empowerment by uniting finance, technology and humanity.
Sessions
The CISO Reality Check: AI Risk Without the Filter
What you will learn:
“Expect sharper edges” means we’re done pretending AI risk is neatly contained. • A clearer view of where AI is introducing unseen enterprise risk—and how leaders are surfacing it before it becomes material • How different industries are making tradeoffs between speed, innovation, and control—and what those decisions actually cost • Practical approaches to governance that go beyond policy decks and stand up in production environments • Lessons from the field on where security programs are quietly failing—and how they’re being rebuilt in real time If you’re looking for polished answers, this isn’t it. If you want to understand how CISOs are actually navigating AI risk when the stakes are real this is where the conversation starts.