Anna Lezhikova
Anna Lezhikova is a cyber security consultant based in Wellington, New Zealand. She combines her experience in sociology, business management, communications, and IT to help companies to run and grow their business securely in the digital age. Armed with a Master's degree in Sociology, an MBA, and a Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Anna's expertise is fortified by practical know-how as a full-stack and DevSecOps engineer. This unique blend equips her with the capability to see problems from different perspectives and come up with holistic solutions.
AI-assisted coding is changing how we build software — faster, more exploratory, and often less deliberate. This talk looks at what happens when curiosity-driven “vibe coding” meets multi-agent workflows, MCP tooling, and A2A communication. We’ll explore emerging security and
privacy risks such as data leakage, model and prompt poisoning, insecure trust boundaries, and unsafe defaults, and discuss how developers can stay curious without accidentally shipping vulnerabilities.
Machine learning in general is a buzz word today. Machine learning on mobile devices (or on the Edge) just entered the stage. The hardware is evolving, libraries and tools are appearing, open source projects are spawning every single day. I will talk about what are the main types/patterns of ML available today, what can be used on a mobile phone (and IoT devices), what are the limitations, use cases, libraries, tools, communities: all these things that can help to start a journey in this big ocean.