Opening Words – Research conferences aren't effective.
Gadi Evron
[un]prompted 2026 — AI Security Practitioner Conference · Day 1 · 1
Gadi Evron opened [un]prompted 2026 not with a keynote but with a provocation: most security conferences are bad at creating the informal peer connections that actually matter. Drawing on a classic talk by Joe Stewart and closing with a Dan Hubbard poem that skewered "vibe coding" culture, Evron set the tone for a community-first event built around action over theater. ---
AI review
A conference opener, not a talk. Evron has charisma and the 'deterministic to non-deterministic' framing is worth 30 seconds of thought. The rest is meta-conference therapy and a poem. Fine for setting tone, wrong venue for a review.