Moderator
Beth Kormanik
Event Content Director
Foundry
A journalist and event strategist for more than 20 years, Beth Kormanik is Event Content Director at Foundry. She served as Editor In Chief of BizBash, a leading media resource event and meeting organizers, following roles as senior editor and news editor. Kormanik also served as co-host of the GatherGeeks podcast and regularly spoke to industry groups on meeting and event trends. Kormanik was a contributed editor Event Marketer and was part of the editorial content team at the Event Leadership Institute. She has written for the New York Times and was a reporter for the Florida Times-Union and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspapers and managing editor of the B2B publication Hotel Interactive. Kormanik is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Upcoming and recent events
IT Governance Risk and Compliance Virtual Summit 2025 | Foundry Events
Live Discussion with Kay Firth-Butterfield
Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:10 - 12:30 pm
Now it’s your chance to join the conversation with AI ethicist Kay Firth-Butterfield. Bring your big questions about navigating the AI regulatory landscape and its impact on business operations, strategies for building trust with customers and employees regarding AI systems, and the potential for AI to create new jobs and…
Q&A: Inside Citigroup’s New Approach to Risk Analytics
Thursday, March 6, 2025
2:30 - 2:55 pm
Risk management touches all aspects of Citi’s operations, so getting accurate information faster leads to better business outcomes. In this conversation, Citigroup CIO Jonathan Lofthouse will discuss the new Xing Platform for risk analytics – part of a companywide digital transformation effort – and share the benefits, strategies to overcome…
SecureIT New York 2024 | Foundry Events
Welcome to SecureIT
Thursday, July 11, 2024
10:30 - 10:40 am
Setting the stage for the program, we unpack the theme of Protecting the Enterprise: Threats, Risk and AI.
Get Ready for AI with a Strong Digital Foundation
Thursday, July 11, 2024
12:35 - 12:45 pm
Not everyone is ready for AI. A realistic assessment of your digital maturity could uncover a weak digital foundation. In this discussion we will sort the hype from the reality of changes GenAI has brought to enterprise AI as well as the steps CIOs need to take to enhance the…
Mitigating the Risk of Adversarial AI
Thursday, July 11, 2024
1:45 - 2:10 pm
As organizations integrate genAI use cases into their business operations, they have to content with a new security challenge: adversarial AI. Malicious actors can exploit vulnerabilities to manipulate outputs, disrupt operations, or poison models. This panel discussion brings together security leaders to dissect the evolving threat landscape of adversarial AI,…
2024 Data, Analytics & AI Summit | Foundry Events
Setting the Stage: Getting Ahead of the GenAI Revolution
Thursday, April 11, 2024
11:30 am - 11:35 am
What you can expect from today’s event about ensuring data access, scalability and protection for Generative AI effectiveness
Live Discussion: AI as a Gamechanger
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Now it’s your chance to join the conversation with Dennis McRae. Bring your big questions about building a GenAI strategy, including implementing an agile methodology. The focus of this live, moderated discussion will be up to you.
