cto summit
BEYOND THE HYPE
Marlon Schultz
Head of Engineering @ nebenan.de
Marlon Schultz is Head of Engineering at nebenan.de, Germany's neighborhood network. He leads roughly 30 engineers across product, platform, and infrastructure, working through a team of four engineering managers.
He has a soft spot for software security and has always been fascinated by how systems break, which turns out to be a useful instinct when you are responsible for a platform people trust. What drives him most is bringing people together and helping them learn, which is also why he co-organizes the Tech Leadership Exchange. Off hours: wood, solder, and a busy 3D printer.
AI Security & Governance: what’s working, what’s breaking, what’s missing
Areas of discussion:
What changed for you in the last 12 months?
What AI-related security or governance issue went from theoretical to very real?
Where is AI already happening outside your governance?
Shadow AI, engineers using models directly, SaaS features suddenly becoming AI-enabled, data leaving expected boundaries, etc.
Where have your controls become unrealistic?
Which policies look sensible on paper but people routinely work around because they make AI too difficult to use?
What’s one governance decision you still don’t know how to make?
This is a great closing round because it exposes the unresolved questions rather than forcing artificial consensus.