Bhawna Singh
Lightspeed Commerce

Bhawna Singh

Lightspeed Commerce, CTO

Bhawna Singh is Chief Technology Officer at Lightspeed Commerce, where she leads the company’s global Engineering and Security organizations. She leads the strategy and execution for agentic AI across customer products and enterprise transformation, shaping how intelligent agents can create meaningful customer and business value while addressing the security, trust, and governance challenges that emerge as AI systems become increasingly autonomous. Previously, Bhawna served as CTO at Okta, where she led technology for the Customer Identity business supporting billions of secure authentications each month. Her work spanned both sides of the agentic shift: building capabilities to secure AI agents and applying agentic systems to transform how software was developed. She also worked closely with global enterprise customers on identity, security, and digital transformation. Earlier, as CTO of Glassdoor, she led the global Engineering, Data, and AI organization, using data and machine learning to drive product innovation and customer experiences at scale. With more than 25 years of experience spanning AI, cybersecurity and identity, enterprise software, and consumer technology, Bhawna’s work sits at the intersection of product innovation, emerging technology, and digital trust. She also advises early-stage cybersecurity and AI companies, bringing experience across both scaled enterprises and emerging technology companies.

Talk

When AI Gets It Wrong, What’s on the Line?

October 17, 2026

On the agenda

  • When AI Gets It Wrong, What’s on the Line?

    10:10 AMGrand Hall

    AI is moving beyond assisting with work to making decisions and taking action inside some of our most consequential systems. As agents gain greater autonomy across cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, and the systems that shape economic opportunity, the stakes of failure rise with them.

    Speakers

    • Dor Fledel, Anthropic — MIT AI Conference speaker
      Anthropic

      Dor Fledel

      Anthropic

      Member of Technical Staff

    • Ana Pinczuk, SentinelOne — MIT AI Conference speaker
      SentinelOne

      Ana Pinczuk

      SentinelOne

      President & CPTO

    • Jake Seid, Ballistic Ventures — MIT AI Conference speaker
      Ballistic Ventures

      Jake Seid

      Ballistic Ventures

      General Partner

    • Mike Hamilton, Genesys Works / Cloudflare — MIT AI Conference speaker
      Genesys Works / Cloudflare

      Mike Hamilton

      Genesys Works / Cloudflare

      Board Member / Former CIO

    • Omar Khawaja, Databricks — MIT AI Conference speaker
      Databricks

      Omar Khawaja

      Databricks

      Field CISO