Michael Elkins is a Sr. Client Solutions Engineer at AHEAD with nearly 30 years of experience working at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, risk, and resilience. Throughout his career, Michael has helped organizations navigate large-scale transformation—from enterprise architecture and infrastructure modernization to cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and emerging technology risk.

His work has taken him inside some of the most complex and highly regulated environments, where technology decisions have real operational and human consequences. He has advised executives and boards, contributed to cybersecurity frameworks and strategies, and helped organizations rethink how they design systems to withstand disruption.

Michael brings a human-centered perspective to technology, exploring not just how we build and secure systems, but how people, complexity, and technology interact. His talks challenge technology leaders to think beyond tools and architecture—and consider how we build systems, organizations, and teams that become more resilient as the world around them becomes more complex.