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# SardineCon | San Francisco 2026

SardineCon SF 2026 brought operators and risk leaders together in San Francisco to tackle a hard truth: fraud has gone fully agentic, and defenses need to move at machine speed to keep up. 



Joseph Cox, author and founder of 404 Media, opened with why most companies aren't ready for AI-powered fraud, and shared some startling examples.



Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan followed with real attacks his team has caught this year, including deepfaked interviews, and 250,000-account fraud rings, and the shift toward narrow, specialist AI agents over single do-everything models.


The afternoon brought a candid panel on real-life AI deployments with leaders from Slope, Imprint, and Intuit, followed by firesides and roundtables on topics including foundational models, compliance, and building an AI-native risk org. 

The throughline across every session? Specialist agents, proprietary data, and disciplined human-in-the-loop rollouts are what's actually working in production today.


Thank you to our speakers and the attendees who joined us. This is where the industry figures it out together, and we'll see you at the next one.

## Speakers
- Lalitha Rao — CRO
- Simon Taylor — Founder
- Joseph Cox — Author of Dark Wire and co-founder
- Soups Ranjan — CEO
- Arjun Ramakrishnan — Head of Risk
- Karthik Thillai — Head of Payments Risk
- Lawrence Lin Murata — CEO
- Steve Lenderman — Head of Fraud Prevention
- Karisse Hendrick — Founder
- Hailey Windham — Banking Community Lead
- Troy Huth — Senior Director
- Seb Goddijn — CEO and Founder
- Jas Randhawa — CEO
- Thomas Todd — Applied AI Lead
- Pahal Patangia — Head of Global Industry BD Payments
- Ryan Osgar — Senior Data Scientist
- Matt Vega — Chief Fraud Strategist
- Aaryan Gupta — Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
- Rupali Pardasani — Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance

## SF/26 Agenda
- We’re Not Ready for 
AI-Powered Fraud
- The Rise of Agentic 
Risk Operations
- Learnings from Real-Life 
AI Deployments
- AI-Driven Fraud Attacks: Know What’s Coming Before It Hits You
- Building a Foundation 
Model for Risk
- Attendee pick
- The AI Operating Model Playbook