Alex Zoldova

Alex Zoldova is a leading cyber security and AI risk keynote speaker who works at the point where enterprise AI adoption meets the evolving cyber threat landscape. With more than 12 years of experience in technology and security, she is a Senior Cybersecurity Solution Architect at Microsoft, where she supports organisations navigating AI adoption, identity security, cyber resilience and secure digital transformation. Alex is also a Board Member of Women in Cybersecurity at Microsoft, and her growing reputation as an industry speaker saw her selected as a Keynote Speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2026. Drawing on her experience of enterprise technology deployments across UKI and EMEA, she provides audiences with a practical perspective on how AI is changing the economics, scale and speed of cyber threats.

Throughout her career, Alex has progressed from commercial technology and product roles into specialist cyber security leadership, developing expertise spanning cloud security, identity governance, Zero Trust, threat protection and AI security. At Microsoft, Alex works with technology organisations and consultancies deploying AI and security solutions into complex and regulated environments. She has led security engagement across an extensive UK partner ecosystem while contributing to Microsoft’s wider EMEA software security activity, giving her direct exposure to the challenges organisations face when introducing AI at scale. Alex has also worked alongside Microsoft product groups to shape capability and overcome adoption barriers, and co-led a Microsoft security marketplace from private preview to global launch in 2025. This experience allows her to explore the realities of shadow AI, excessive permissions, ungoverned agents and data exposure through examples grounded in enterprise implementation.

Alex has established herself as an authoritative voice across the international cyber security community. Alongside delivering her Infosecurity Europe 2026 keynote in the Microsoft Theatre, she has spoken for ISC2 London Chapter, HMRC Tech Week, PwC, Coding Black Women and Black Hat Europe, reaching audiences ranging from technical practitioners to senior security decision makers. She was also selected as a Speaker at the IET Cyber Security for Critical Industries Conference 2026, addressing issues relevant to organisations responsible for critical infrastructure. Alex has further strengthened her industry profile through interviews and published insights covering AI security, cyber resilience and Zero Trust governance. She is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, credentials that complement her ability to communicate complex technical change clearly and help organisations turn security strategy into practical action.

When hired as a cyber security keynote speaker, Alex challenges fear driven narratives surrounding artificial intelligence and focuses instead on the weaknesses AI can expose and accelerate. Her central argument is that AI has intensified familiar security risks by allowing attackers to operate, experiment and adapt at machine speed, making strong fundamentals increasingly important. Through talks including ‘AI Isn’t Creating New Risks, It’s Exposing the Ones You Had’, ‘Shadow AI: The Unsupervised Reality’, ‘Governing the Agent Workforce’ and ‘AI Risk in the Boardroom’, Alex explores identity hygiene, least privilege, access reviews, shadow AI, agent governance and Zero Trust. Combining frontline Microsoft cyber security experience with engaging delivery and practical recommendations, Alex equips CISOs, CIOs, boards and technology teams to understand emerging AI risks, strengthen cyber resilience and make informed decisions about secure AI adoption.