Gurpreet Kaur Khalsa is a Principal Product Manager at Cisco, where she leads AI Runtime and Agentic Security strategy as part of Cisco's AI Defense product within the AI Software and Platform Group. With deep expertise spanning AI security, application security, and responsible AI, Gurpreet has built and shaped products that help enterprises safely adopt and deploy generative AI and agentic systems. Previously at Palo Alto Networks, she led product strategy for securing generative AI applications across the enterprise. Gurpreet holds a Master's degree from UC Berkeley, where her research focused on responsible AI — a lens she brings to industry stages regularly, speaking on topics ranging from AI governance and safety to the emerging security challenges of agentic architectures. She is driven by the belief that security and responsibility must be built into AI from the ground up, not bolted on after the fact.