Breakout Session

Responsible AI: Management, Governance, and Security

Wednesday, Nov 4 | 2:40PM - 3:40PM

Details

As agentic AI proliferates, the questions of security, governance, and control come into sharper focus. Join us as we share our perspective, our product, and our plans: how we think about building AI responsibly, the controls available to govern AI today, and the capabilities on our roadmap. You'll walk away with a practical sense for how Smartsheet intends to safeguard users, data, and trust in the AI era.

Content Track

Trust at Scale: Permissions, Compliance, and AI Control

User Level

Intermediate

Location

Terrace Suite - Level 4

Speakers

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Giridhar Shankar

Senior Director, Product Management

Giridhar Shankar is a product management leader with deep entrepreneurial experience across cloud, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. At Smartsheet, he leads the Enterprise Security & Trust pillar, building the platform trust that lets regulated enterprises, government agencies, and Fortune 500 security teams run sensitive work with confidence. His portfolio spans authentication, SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit reporting, and a data governance product covering safe sharing, egress controls, retention, and classification. Giridhar is extending these guarantees to AI and agentic access, so connectors, MCP integrations, and AI actions operate within the same authorization boundaries as human users.

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Daniel Medved

Sr. Manager, Product Marketing

Daniel Medved is Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Smartsheet, where he leads a team focused on enterprise-grade platform positioning and serves as the company's CxO audience lead. With more than a decade at Smartsheet—first selling to enterprise accounts, later shaping how it speaks to them—he's passionate about earning the trust of CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, and COOs who rely on Smartsheet to power their organizations. His work centers on communicating how the platform supports enterprise work today and will evolve as agentic AI transforms enterprise security and governance.