Notes from the AI panel at “Machine Learning / AI / Technology / Risk + Happy Hour Prototype v0” (Sept. 17, 2026)

Click to read my post promoting the event where the AI panel took place. Last Thursday, I was at the Machine Learning / AI / Technology / Risk + Happy Hour Prototype v0 (they’ve got to work on that name) organized by ISACA’s West Florida Chapter. It’s going to the be the first of a monthly series of get-togethers, and the first one centered around an AI panel witrh the following panelists: From left to right, as seen from the audience Mikael Loefstrand — focused on data protection and data security for AI workloads James Gress — Accenture, 26 years this month. Splits his time between showing people how to be more productive with AI and building AI solutions for complex business problems, governance and monitoring included Jim Lovett — St. Pete born and raised, Gator, 26-ish years as an Oracle DBA, now an AI Ops engineer at Athena Health. Introduced himself by noting he has all of your medical records and won’t let anybody see them Alexei Chirokikh — PhD in physics, twenty years at IBM…