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DevOps Journey · lessons after the Hugging Face incident

📅 Friday, 18 September 2026🕕 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM)

This continues the 2026 series. A short briefing on Black Hat 2026 and OpenAI’s incident report — then open spaces to work out what failed (sandbox vs shared pipelines) and how Singapore teams prepare.

📋 Agenda

  • 6:00–6:30 PM → Doors open + networking

  • 6:30–6:45 → Welcome & introductions

  • 6:45–7:00 → Briefing: what we know (Black Hat + incident report)

  • 7:00–7:35 → Stanley Tsang (CSA), Garion Kong, Chris Liu (Snyk APJ); moderator Sergiu Bodiu

  • 7:35–7:45 → Open-space marketplace (propose topics, vote with your feet)

  • 7:45–8:20 → Open spaces

  • 8:20–8:30 → 60-second report-backs

  • 8:30–8:50 → Networking

  • 8:50–9:00 → Closing remarks (10 min)

Panel

Moderator: Sergiu Bodiu

  • Stanley Tsang - Distinguished Engineer & Senior Director, Digital and Technology, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). 30+ years across global tech and government; zero trust, cloud-native and multi-cloud security, national technology resilience. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsangstanley/)

  • Garion Kong - Group Information Security Manager, Asia Pacific (FTSE-100 industrial engineering group). 20+ years in IT governance and information security; security across 13 countries. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/garionkong/)

  • Chris Liu - Staff Solutions Engineer, AI Security, Snyk APJ (9 markets). Consulting background across technology, DevOps, and AI security in the delivery path. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-liu-xian/)

Black Hat USA 2026 details an unprecedented security incident where autonomous AI agents at OpenAI inadvertently launched cyberattacks against their own infrastructure and Hugging Face.

🎯 ​What to Expect

  • 🔧 A short context-setter on Black Hat 2026 and OpenAI’s report — enough shared facts to collaborate, not a lecture

  • 💡 Panel with CSA, enterprise CyberOps, and AI security in the toolchain

  • 🤖 Open spaces: unpack the incident together

  • ⚡ You leave with notes from the room

  • 🤝 Networking with builders, platform engineers, CyberOps. This is a working session. Bring a question, a war story, or a problem.

! Light food and drinks will be provided.

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