SQL Saturday Day of Data Baton Rouge is a free, all-day event hosted by the Baton Rouge User Groups. Formerly known as SQL Saturday, it offers a fantastic opportunity for IT professionals, students, and tech enthusiasts to enhance their skills through expert-led technical training sessions, career development insights, and networking with peers. This community-driven event promotes learning, growth, and connection within the IT community in Baton Rouge. Join us and be part of an enriching experience!

Pavan is a Principal Developer at Automata where he owns the security product end to end.  His research covers real-world prompt injection (including a published analysis of EchoLeak, the first zero-click prompt injection in a production LLM system), adversarial attacks, and safety middleware for AI systems — published at AAAI, ACM, NeurIPS, and FLAIRS. 

In this presentation, Pavan will give a practical roadmap from AppSec to LLM Threat Modeling.  He will discuss how AI security is not just about the model itself, but about securing the system around it: prompts, retrieval, tools, permissions, and the access those components quietly inherit. He'll cover practical AI attack surfaces like prompt injection, indirect injection through untrusted content, insecure tool use, data leakage, and excessive agency through a threat-model-first lens.