Roberto Rodriguez

Roberto Rodriguez is a leader in AI for Security Operations at NVIDIA, specializing in agentic cyber defense, with a proven track record of building innovative security capabilities and translating research into real-world defensive systems. Before joining NVIDIA, he led an Applied AI research team within Microsoft's Autonomous Defense and Protection Team (ADAPT), developing autonomous security capabilities for Microsoft's CISO organization. He also contributed to research and engineering efforts within the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), helping build capabilities to investigate sophisticated threats and tackle some of the world's most challenging security problems. Roberto is the founder of the Open Threat Research community and creator of Dapr Agents, an open-source, vendor-neutral agent framework bringing durable execution and production-grade resilience to AI systems, now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem.