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Neil
Mansilla
VP, Platform Strategy
Barndoor.ai
Neil Mansilla is Vice President of Platform Strategy at Barndoor AI, where he leads efforts to help enterprises safely adopt and scale agentic AI through governance, access control, and MCP-based platform design. With deep expertise in developer platforms, APIs, and ecosystem strategy, he applies years of experience leading DevRel and platform teams to drive real customer value. Neil is passionate about solving hard problems at the intersection of AI, security, and developer experience.
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14 April 2026 11:30 - 12:00
The CEO vs CISO standoff
The CEO wants AI everywhere for higher productivity, faster decisions, leaner teams, and competitive edge. The CISO wants to take a more security oriented approach, pumping the brakes on data exposure, compliance risk, and AI (LLMs and agents) they can't monitor or control. Both are right, but this tension is where companies lose out on the benefits of AI. The reality is that while the CEO and CISO debate goes on, AI adoption continues to grow. Employees are already using it. They’re uploading sensitive documents, sharing customer data, feeding proprietary information into AI - often without anyone knowing about it, especially the CISO or CEO. Whether you know it or not, AI has entered your organization. Can you agree how to manage and govern it? In this session, Barndoor VP of platform strategy Neil Mansilla maps the framework for AI adoption, showing us how CISOs can achieve small wins on governance that builds trust, and how CEOs can empower security teams to do it without compromising innovation. The bridge between productivity, innovation and protection is achievable - let’s have both sides cross it together.