Speaker:: Gadi Evron Title:: Opening Words (Day 2) Duration:: 6 min Video:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9lsiFQFmfo ## Key Thesis A brief conference opening that frames the urgency of AI adoption for security professionals, highlights the conference's online/in-person statistics, and delivers pointed commentary on the pace of change — if you haven't put your entire organization on AI coding tools already, you're already behind. ## Synopsis Evron opens Day 2 of [un]prompted 2026 by noting the conference's unusual energy: roughly 850 people active online (with a drop when Europe sleeps) and ~550-700 in the physical venue. He thanks volunteers — a deliberately eclectic group including professors, researchers, CISOs, billionaires, students, and significant others — and acknowledges speakers stuck in Israel due to closed airspace. He then delivers three punchy recurring themes. First, on security: he names the rise of "citizen coders" — finance, HR, and non-developer staff using Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit to build their own apps and infrastructure — as an emerging concern from a CISO he spoke with recently. The issue isn't just dependencies and vulnerabilities or lost auditability; it's fragmentation. When everyone runs their own infrastructure, how does an enterprise deal with that at scale? Second, on the "startup era": he calls this the "reddest blue ocean" he's ever seen — brutally competitive but too exciting to ignore. Third, on team adoption: he reiterates his Day 1 message that everyone in an organization — CEO, CISO, finance, developers — should already be on Claude Code or equivalent tools. He frames it with deliberate exaggeration ("it's been a day, are all your people on cloud code already?") to make a serious point about pace. He closes with a reminder about conference etiquette: questions are not comments. He quotes a definition of a question and asks people to be concise so more voices can be heard. ## Key Takeaways - ~850 online active attendees, ~550 in-venue average for Day 2 - "Citizen coder" infrastructure sprawl is an emerging enterprise security concern beyond just SAST/dependency scanning - The pace of AI tool adoption is the central organizational challenge — not the technology itself - Power users who build scaffolding and stay current with changelogs will compound advantages; others fall behind fast ## Notable Quotes / Data Points - "If you didn't [get on Claude Code], you're already behind. You had a day to change your lives and you didn't do it." - "This is going to be the reddest blue ocean I've seen in my life... think twice before you enter this space and then enter it anyway because it's so exciting." - "Are you looking at the Claude Code change log every week? Because if you didn't, you're already behind once again." #unprompted #claude