Summary
Software delivery has never been faster — the new bottleneck is knowing what to build and delivering it as a complete outcome. In the AI age, buyers won’t purchase tools for teams to master — they’ll buy agent-powered solutions that do the job, with humans setting direction and vision. John Amaral shares how to unite engineering leadership, product vision, and CTO-level technology strategy to thrive in this shift, and provides a practical framework for leading at breakthrough velocity.
Speakers
John Amaral, CTO and co-founder of Root.io, is a veteran cybersecurity leader with a proven track record of scaling and exiting successful companies. At Cisco, he led Product for Cloud Security—its fastest-growing Security and SaaS business. Before that, he ran product and engineering at CloudLock through its acquisition by Cisco in 2016. Earlier, as SVP of Product at Trustwave, John led its industry-leading security portfolio, culminating in a strategic acquisition by Singtel. Today, he’s building Root.io—a next-gen cybersecurity platform pioneering Agentic Vulnerability Remediation (AVR) to automate and eliminate software vulnerabilities at scale.
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