Vineet Agrwal is a senior risk, cybersecurity, technology resilience, and AI governance leader at American Express, serving as Vice President, Cybersecurity, Technology & Resiliency Risk Oversight and AI Risk Management within Global Risk & Compliance. Public profiles also describe him as American Express’s firmwide leader for independent risk management across AI, cybersecurity, technology, and resiliency risk.
His work sits at the centre of one of the most critical challenges facing global financial institutions today: how to innovate with AI while protecting trust, resilience, security, and regulatory confidence at enterprise scale. In a world where financial services are becoming increasingly digital, automated, and AI-enabled, Vineet’s role connects advanced technology adoption with the risk discipline required to keep large institutions safe, compliant, and operationally resilient.
At American Express, he helps oversee the risk frameworks that matter most in the next era of finance — AI risk management, cybersecurity governance, technology resilience, operational risk, and second-line oversight. His perspective is especially valuable because it is grounded not in theory, but in the realities of one of the world’s most trusted and highly regulated financial brands.
Vineet brings a rare combination of AI governance expertise, cybersecurity depth, enterprise risk leadership, and financial-services discipline. His work reflects a defining shift for major institutions: AI is no longer just a technology opportunity — it is now a board-level risk, compliance, resilience, and trust issue.
For Webit 2026 Sofia, Vineet brings a powerful and highly relevant perspective on how financial institutions can deploy AI responsibly while strengthening cyber resilience, regulatory readiness, and enterprise trust. His insights will be especially valuable for senior executives, regulators, risk leaders, cybersecurity teams, CIOs, and transformation leaders navigating the next phase of AI-powered financial services.