EMEA Google Cloud Security Summit: What to Expect on 4 November

This guide is for IT managers, security leads, developers and business owners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa who are deciding whether to spend 90 minutes at the EMEA Google Cloud Security Summit on 4 November 2026. It explains what the free online event will cover, why its focus on AI agents matters now, and how to get real value from it, even if your organisation does not run on Google Cloud.

Key takeaways

• When: Wednesday, 4 November 2026, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM GMT (10:00 AM to 11:30 AM in Lagos).
• Who is presenting: security specialists from Google Cloud, Mandiant and Wiz. Individual speakers had not been named publicly at the time of writing.
• What it covers: building and governing AI agents securely, protecting applications from the ground up, defending against new types of attack, and responding quickly when something goes wrong.
• Why it matters: AI agents can take actions inside your systems, not just answer questions, so they need identities, permissions and monitoring like any other user.
• Who should attend: anyone responsible for cloud security, software delivery or security operations, including small teams evaluating AI tools.

What the EMEA Google Cloud Security Summit is

The summit is a short, virtual briefing from Google Cloud’s security organisation aimed at the EMEA region. Its pitch is simple: as the “agentic era” reshapes how companies work, security has to move faster than before. The session brings together three parts of Google’s security business, which now sit under one roof.

The three organisations behind it

• Google Cloud provides the cloud platform and its built-in security products, such as Google Security Operations and Security Command Center.
• Mandiant is Google’s incident response and threat intelligence arm. Its consultants investigate breaches around the world, so its speakers usually bring frontline evidence of how attackers actually operate.
• Wiz is a cloud and AI security platform that Google finished acquiring on 11 March 2026. Google says Wiz keeps its own brand and continues to protect customers across the major clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, not only Google Cloud.

Earlier editions of the EMEA summit, such as the 2024 series hosted online, focused on emerging cyber threats, frontline intelligence and AI-supported cloud security, with Mandiant experts sharing what they were seeing in real investigations. The 2026 edition shifts the spotlight firmly onto AI agents.

Date, time and format

The EMEA session runs from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM GMT on Wednesday, 4 November 2026. For readers in Africa, that is 10:00 AM in Lagos, Kinshasa and Luanda (WAT), 11:00 AM in Johannesburg (SAST) and 12:00 PM in Nairobi (EAT). A Google Cloud Security Community listing also shows a 90-minute Google Cloud Security Summit webinar on the same date at 9:00 AM Pacific time, aimed at other time zones, so check the time shown on your own registration confirmation and calendar invite.

Registration is handled through Google Cloud’s events pages and the Google Cloud Security Community, which offers calendar links for Google Calendar, Outlook, Office 365 and Apple Calendar. No fee is listed.

The agenda: four themes to expect

The organisers have published themes rather than a detailed timetable. Here is what each theme means in practice and why it is on the programme.

1. Building and governing AI agents securely

An AI agent is software that uses a large language model to plan and carry out tasks, often by calling other tools, reading data and taking actions on a user’s behalf. That autonomy is useful, but it also means an agent can be tricked, over-permissioned or simply make mistakes at machine speed.

Google laid out its approach to this problem at its Google Cloud Next conference in April 2026. Announcements included:

• Agent Identity, which gives each agent its own identity and scoped, delegated permissions rather than letting it borrow a human’s full access.
• Agent Gateway, which enforces policy on connections between agents and between agents and tools, with awareness of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent protocol.
• Model Armor, runtime protection that screens interactions with models and agents.

Expect the summit to explain how these controls fit together and what “governance” looks like day to day: knowing which agents exist, what they are allowed to touch, and who is accountable for them.

2. Safeguarding applications from the ground up

This theme is where Wiz is likely to feature most. Wiz’s approach links code, cloud configuration and what is running live, so teams can see which risks are real and fix them at the source. At Next ’26, Google said Wiz would add inline AI security hooks that check prompts and scan AI-generated code inside developer tools before it is committed, plus a dynamic “AI bill of materials” that inventories AI frameworks, models and IDE extensions to expose unapproved “shadow AI”.

Google also said Wiz coverage was expanding to agent platforms such as AWS AgentCore, Azure Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, Databricks and Google’s own Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. For organisations running a mix of clouds, that multicloud angle is one of the more practical reasons to attend.

3. Protecting against new-age attacks

Attackers are using AI too, to write convincing lures, find weaknesses faster and automate parts of an intrusion. Mandiant’s role at events like this is usually to show real attack patterns and what defenders missed. Expect discussion of attacks that target AI systems directly, such as prompt injection and data leakage through agents, alongside familiar threats such as stolen credentials and exposed cloud services.

4. Responding quickly when risks appear

The organisers promise to show how teams can respond to incidents “in minutes” using agent-powered security operations. At Next ’26 Google introduced preview agents for its Security Operations platform, including a Threat Hunting agent, a Detection Engineering agent that looks for gaps in detection coverage, and a Third-Party Context agent that pulls in outside data for analysts. Google said its existing Triage and Investigation agent had processed more than five million alerts in the previous year.

The useful question to bring to this part of the session is not “can AI do the work?” but “what does my team still need to check, and how do we stop an automated response from causing its own outage?”

Why this matters for African and EMEA organisations

Many organisations in Nigeria and across Africa are adopting AI assistants, chatbots and workflow automation quickly, often through software-as-a-service products rather than in-house builds. That speed is positive, but it often means agents are connected to email, file storage, customer records or payment workflows before anyone has written down who approved those connections.

Common gaps the summit can help you spot

• Shared or personal credentials used to connect AI tools to business systems, instead of dedicated, limited accounts.
• No inventory of which AI tools staff are using, a problem Google’s own “shadow AI” reporting features are designed to address.
• Thin logging, so that if an agent does something unexpected there is no record of what it saw or why it acted.
• Small security teams that cannot watch alerts around the clock, which is exactly where automated triage is being pitched.

Even if you never buy a Google product, the summit is a free way to benchmark your own practices against what one of the largest cloud providers considers the baseline for agent security.

How to get the most out of the 90 minutes

Before the event

1. Register early and add the session to your calendar, checking that the time shows correctly for your zone.
2. List every AI tool or agent your organisation uses, including browser extensions and chatbot integrations.
3. For each one, note what data it can read and what actions it can take.
4. Write down your three biggest worries, for example “an assistant forwarding customer data” or “AI-written code reaching production unchecked”.

During the event

• Listen for concrete controls you can copy, such as separate identities for agents, approval steps for risky actions and logging requirements.
• Use any Q&A feature to ask how the advice applies to multicloud or smaller environments.
• Note which features are generally available and which are still in preview. Several announcements from Next ’26 were previews, which matters if you need something production-ready.

After the event

• Share a one-page summary with your team or management.
• Pick one control to put in place within 30 days.
• Look for on-demand recordings if colleagues missed the live session.

Frequently asked questions

Is the summit free?

No fee is listed on the event pages. Registration is required.

Do I need to be a Google Cloud customer?

No. The themes, especially agent governance and incident response, apply to any cloud or on-premises environment, and Wiz itself works across the major cloud providers.

Who are the speakers?

The organisers have said the session features experts from Google Cloud, Mandiant and Wiz, but had not published individual names at the time of writing. Check the registration page for updates.

Is it technical?

The themes span strategy and hands-on practice, so it should suit both security managers and engineers. Developers interested in AI-generated code checks will find the application security theme most relevant.

Next steps

• Register for the 4 November session through Google Cloud’s events pages or the Google Cloud Security Community.
• Prepare a simple inventory of AI tools and agents in use across your organisation before the day.
• Bring questions about identity, permissions and logging for agents, since these are the controls most organisations are missing.
• Act on one lesson within a month, such as giving each AI integration its own limited account or switching on logging for agent actions.

AI agents are moving from pilots into everyday operations. A 90-minute briefing from teams that investigate real breaches and build cloud defences at scale is a low-cost way to make sure your security keeps pace.

Sources

• Google Cloud Security Community: Google Cloud Security Summit
• Google Cloud Press Corner: Google Completes Acquisition of Wiz
• SiliconANGLE: Google Cloud Next security operations agents, Wiz integrations and agent governance tools
• BrightTALK: EMEA Google Cloud Security Summit series
• Google Cloud Events