Speakers

Daniel Manolache

Senior Product Manager
Bitdefender

I've spent more than 13 years in the security industry, taking on different roles along the way. I was here when Android took off and we began protecting consumers in their pockets. I'm here again now that AI agents are taking off, and we're in the same position. A new computing layer arriving faster than the defenses around it. Today I'm a Senior Product Manager at Bitdefender's Consumer Security Group working on  AI agent runtime protection, the new layer of defense needed when autonomous software pulls dependencies, calls MCP servers, and acts on the same machines as the people it was meant to help. I'm also responsible for security across Bitdefender's consumer applications, and my H1 2026 research mapped the agentic security landscape across 52 tools and vendors. Outside of work, you'll find me teaching Salsa and hitting the country roads on my bike. I believe the most interesting security problems are the ones the old playbook can't solve.