The IEEE Computer Society Sacramento Valley Chapter and California State University, Sacramento invite you to a workshop on Trustworthy AI, an in-person event. This event brings together leaders from industry, government, and academia to share their expertise in one place. Industry experts will share what they are seeing on the front lines, from emerging attacks to the tools companies use to stop them. State agency leaders will present how the public sector is putting AI to work in cybersecurity, sharing real use cases from protecting government systems and services. University faculty will connect these real-world challenges to the latest research. Together, they offer a complete view of where AI security stands today and where it is heading.
AI now shapes decisions in government, industry, and daily life. For people to rely on it, AI must be secure, reliable, and resilient against attack. This workshop explores what it takes to build AI systems we can trust. Students, researchers, and cybersecurity practitioners are all welcome.
Trust in AI can break down at any stage of a model's life. The program traces these risks from start to finish. It begins with training, where poisoned data can corrupt a model before it is ever deployed. It then turns to runtime, where threats like prompt injection and the OWASP risks for AI systems can manipulate a model's behavior. Finally, it examines autonomous AI agents, which face new dangers such as goal drift, memory tampering, and failures that spread across multiple agents.
Knowing the threats is only half the story. Speakers will share proven defense strategies, including threat modeling, risk frameworks, and lessons learned from securing AI in real-world deployments.
Trustworthy AI can also make us safer. Speakers will show how AI strengthens cyber defense and digital forensics through automated threat hunting, faster incident response, and smarter forensic investigation.
The day closes with student research presentations and an expert panel on the future of trustworthy and secure AI.
This is a free event for IEEE members. Registration is required.
Co-sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Sacramento Valley
Agenda:
Session outline
1.00 PM: Check-in
1.30 PM: Welcome and Opening Remarks – Leaders from the IEEE Computer Society Sacramento Valley Chapter and Sacramento State open the workshop and introduce Trustworthy AI.
2.00 PM: The AI Threat Landscape – Risks across training, runtime, and autonomous AI agents.
3.00 PM: Defense Strategies in Industry – How industry experts detect, prevent, and respond to attacks on AI systems.
3.30 PM: AI for Security in the Public Sector – State agency leaders share real use cases of AI in threat hunting, incident response, and forensics.
4.30 PM: Student Research and Expert Panel – Student presentations followed by a panel on the future of trustworthy AI.
5.00 PM: Networking and Light Snacks – Connect with speakers, faculty, industry professionals, and fellow attendees.
6.30 PM: End of event
Room: Redwood Room, Bldg: University Union, 6000 Jed Smith Dr #1106, Sacramento, California, United States, 95819
