Breakout Session

Security, Value, Adoption: Three Conversations to Get AI Right

Wednesday, Nov 4 | 1:20PM - 5:00PM

Details

Every organization faces the same tension: business teams want to move fast on AI, while IT needs security, governance, and proof of ROI first, often resulting in stalemate or shadow AI. Using Smartsheet MCP as the foundation, we cover the three conversations that matter most: security (how MCP preserves existing permissions), value (productivity gains from AI reading, writing, and reasoning across your data), and adoption (ready-made prompts that make AI an everyday habit). Attendees leave with a repeatable framework and conversation kit of prompts, proof points, and architecture references.

Speakers

Galina Jordanowa

Senior Product Marketing Manager II

Galina translates complex AI and product capabilities into clear, strategic market narratives and GTM motions. With 26+ years in B2B SaaS marketing and a dev background that means she actually gets how builders think, she's spent her career connecting technical depth with business impact — and stays genuinely energized by what's next in AI and the new ways it's reshaping how teams build and work.

Vasil Kosturski

Principal SE

Vasil is a Principal Engineer at Smartsheet, where he leads the squad that built Smartsheet’s remote MCP server from concept through GA. He drove the system design, AWS architecture, and the AI-specific optimizations covered in this post. More broadly, he works across Smartsheet’s developer ecosystem and shapes its public API platform. Before Smartsheet he spent over a decade in distributed systems and real-time data, most recently as Lead Developer at Sportradar building large-volume Kafka-based event-processing pipelines. He is based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.