The industry is racing toward autonomous agents. That framing is wrong. In consequential systems, the goal is not to trust an agent once and let it run. Each new operation must earn its authority, and we'll walk through a demo of verified loops, a model developed inside the 1Password engineering team that connects identity, deterministic checks, and human ownership to the next action an agent wants to take. Better models and prompts can't solve failures of authority, and by implementing your own verified loop patterns, leaders can now scale useful agent work without scaling blind trust.
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Speakers
Nancy Wang
Chief Technology Officer @ 1Password
Nancy Wang is the Chief Technology Officer at 1Password and a Venture Partner at Felicis, where she backs early-stage founders building in infrastructure, cybersecurity, and AI. As CTO, she leads the company's technology strategy and engineering organization, driving innovation across AI-powered security, identity access management, and the next generation of trusted digital security for an agent-first future. As a product and engineering executive, Nancy brings a builder’s mindset to investing, helping startups refine their product-market fit, land their first enterprise customers, and scale production-grade systems.
Prior to 1Password, Nancy served as Director of Product & Engineering and General Manager at Amazon Web Services, where she owned P&L and led product, engineering, and design for AWS's $1.5B+ data protection and data security portfolio. Earlier in her career, she built cloud SaaS products at Rubrik, network infrastructure products at Google, and helped launch HealthData.gov for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nancy extends her cybersecurity expertise by serving on the Cyber-Resilience Advisory Council for Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), advising the C-suite on enterprise security trends and product strategy, and bridging early traction with durable growth for both Fortune 10 companies and startups.
Passionate about expanding access to technical leadership, Nancy founded and serves as Board Chair of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has educated more than 45,000 learners through Coursera. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves on the Board of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (BoTIE).
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