Sathish Kuppuswamy

Sathish Kuppuswamy

Director of Cybersecurity Architecture Engineering & Operations Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Sathish Kuppuswamy is a senior information security leader with 25 years of experience in information technology, including a 19-year track record of developing and executing robust cybersecurity programs. At Pacific Gas and Electric Company, he directs cybersecurity architecture, engineering, and operations, providing strategic guidance and thought leadership across multiple business verticals including eCommerce, energy and utilities, communications, healthcare, retail, and ISPs.

Sathish specializes in designing and implementing comprehensive security strategies and roadmaps, managing security programs and teams, and enabling secure cloud services. His expertise spans enterprise and customer identity and access management, secure DevOps, PKI governance, encryption key management, data loss prevention, endpoint and network security, and regulatory compliance, including NERC CIP, HIPAA, SOX, and NIST standards.

He has extensive experience in funding security initiatives, defining policies and standards, performing risk assessments and vulnerability management, and establishing business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Sathish is recognized for blending technical depth with strategic vision, helping organizations strengthen security posture while enabling business growth

AI in Energy Week Day Two - March 3, 2027

2:25 PM Case Study: Governing Agentic AI: Building Trust, Control and Accountability into Autonomous Systems

Operating critical electric and natural gas infrastructure across most of Northern and Central California, PG&E is exploring AI within an environment where trust, control and accountability are fundamental to safe and reliable operations. As organizations begin deploying AI agents and autonomous workflows, traditional governance models are being pushed to their limits.

This session explores how PG&E is approaching the foundations required for agentic AI, from semantic layers and knowledge graphs to observability, evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop controls, ensuring increasingly autonomous systems remain trustworthy, measurable and aligned to business value.

• Building governance frameworks for agentic AI and autonomous workflows
• Using semantic layers and knowledge graphs to create trusted AI foundations
• Measuring, monitoring and evaluating agent performance
• Human-in-the-loop controls and risk management
• Creating accountability and observability across AI systems
• Linking AI governance to measurable business value and ROI

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sathish.

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