Harnessing the Power, Managing the Risk: The Future of AI, Data, and Cybersecurity

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• Evan Kotsovinos, Google
• Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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AI has the potential to transform learning, creativity, and productivity. It represents a profound platform shift in technology – like the internet, or the shift to mobile. As with any transformational shift, AI will be (and already is) used for good and for evil. This talk will cover some of the practical examples of threats we see and risks we are preparing for, but also the huge opportunities available to us to use AI to change the game in cybersecurity and ultimately make the world safer.

Evan Kotsovinos is the Vice President of the Privacy, Safety and Security team at Google, which is the central engineering function that builds and scales the foundational technology that keeps billions of people safe online. His team is focused on cybersecurity threat detection, analysis and counterabuse, building advanced AI/ML security technologies, and protecting privacy, identity and data. He continues to work on planet-scale solutions that protect the security and privacy of data of Google’s billions of users around the world.

Evan was previously Global Head of Infrastructure at American Express, responsible for the company’s data centers, networks, compute, storage, hybrid cloud, data infrastructure, and SRE teams. Prior to that he served as Asia CIO at Morgan Stanley, where he managed all technology services and resources in the region.

Evan began his career as a Senior Research Scientist with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and is a recognized leader in cloud computing, having led the team that developed one of the first cloud computing systems in the early 2000s at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in Finance from London Business School.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Security Seminar series.

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