There used to be a window.
When a vulnerability surfaced, security teams had time; not a lot, but enough. Enough to triage. Enough to patch in stages. Enough to escalate through the right channels before anything caught fire.
That window has been a foundational assumption in how enterprise IT and security operations are structured: the belief that human reaction speed, at least roughly, could keep pace with threat speed.
That assumption no longer holds.
Adversaries are using AI to compress the timeline between discovery and exploitation to minutes. The tools, workflows, and mental models that IT and security teams built for a slower world are now structurally mismatched to the environment they’re operating in.
“I’m opening Converge London with exactly this conversation, and for the first time in Europe, we'll be showing what Tanium Atlas makes possible," said Tanium's CEO Dan Streetman. "Real-time intelligence across every endpoint. Autonomous action. Humans in control. That's the operating standard the industry needs right now.”
Converge London is convening on 19 May, and the world tour stops in Paris on 21 May.
<blockquote>Converge World Tour is designed to equip attendees with actionable knowledge for managing and securing their IT estates in the AI age.</blockquote>
The conversations will hit hard. McDonald’s, a company managing technology operations across 43,000 restaurants and more than a million endpoints worldwide, will be on stage at Converge London to talk about what it takes to standardize and secure at that scale without increasing cost. The University of Manchester will address how board-level risk conversations have changed as AI becomes simultaneously a threat vector and a strategic tool.
In Paris, URGO Group’s operational security lead will address the same problem from a different angle: What it takes to standardize and secure a complex, distributed enterprise when fragmented tools and manual processes are no longer an option.
And guest speaker Grace Trinidad, Ph.D., research director for AI security and trust at IDC, appearing at both stops, will make the case that trust, not model performance, is the real constraint on enterprise AI transformation.
As Dan Streetman noted, the events will mark the European debut of Tanium Atlas, the autonomous operating system designed around the idea that one operator, with the right data and the right reach, should be able to do what once required an entire team.
Whether or not you’re attending, the question Converge World Tour is built around is worth sitting with: With the window between vulnerability and exploitation closing, what does your organization need to look like on the other side of that shift?
This year's theme, unifying IT and security with AI and real-time intelligence, isn’t aspirational language. It describes a capability shift that some organizations have already made, and that others are still working out how to approach.
The value of a room like this is that the people who’ve done it are willing to be specific about how, equipping attendees with actionable knowledge for managing and securing their IT estates in the AI age.
Boardroom accountability, the evolving threat landscape from Log4j to today's AI-driven attacks, and the operational reality of rewiring IT and security from the inside out are all on the agenda not as theory, but as working sessions.
Attendees will move through hands-on simulations, product masterclasses, and direct access to Tanium experts alongside peers who are navigating the same decisions.
Both events are open to senior IT, security, and risk leaders across Europe. Seats are limited.