# Pamela Feld

Pamela Feld develops and delivers training on practical AI use, responsible AI, and cybersecurity policy. Feld's work includes training business teams on AI workflows and ethics, and a DEF CON course on cybersecurity and AI policy basics. Feld describes herself as a certified AI ethics specialist and offers AI training, policy development, and AI agent development.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/pamela-feld/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelafeld
- LinkedIn followers: 1,452
- Topics: artificial-intelligence, cybersecurity, ai-governance
- Based on 11 dated posts, latest 2026-10-05

## Summary

Practical AI and cybersecurity policy training for business teams and governance-focused organizations.

- Best for: Technology consulting firms needing scoped paid AI governance and cyber policy training or workshops.
- Not for: Mass-reach consumer or event brands wanting sponsored keynotes with guaranteed audience size and a published rate card.
- Check first: Confirm whether they taught the RFP session or had a commercial relationship with the utility mentioned.

### Takeaways

- Fear of AI is a bad reason to wait.
- Responsible AI is a governance problem, not a productivity add-on.
- Training should end with something people can use the next day.

## Main ideas

- **Fear of AI is a bad reason to wait**: Feld argues that alarming headlines about AI should not stop ordinary businesses from using it. While large technology companies work through the biggest open questions, smaller organizations can put proven uses to work — market research, business development, and everyday workflows — thoughtfully, transparently, and responsibly. Feld frames AI as a way to level the playing field for businesses without large in-house resources.
- **Responsible AI is a governance problem, not a productivity add-on**: Feld argues that adoption should be steered by ethics, privacy, governance, risk, policy, and legal and compliance considerations — not treated as a tooling question alone. They help organizations look beyond productivity to those areas, and the security-conference course focuses on policy basics rather than product demonstrations.
- **Training should end with something people can use the next day**: Feld pitches their sessions as practical and interactive — with questions, discussion, real examples, and frameworks — rather than lectures. Their train-the-trainer sessions are designed to help participants pass the material along. The stated outcome is a set of tools attendees can apply inside their organization, whether in a classroom or small-business setting.
- **Small businesses and supplier programs are a priority audience**: Feld's work targets organizations without deep in-house expertise, and the business-development needs of that audience matter too: how a small company positions itself for larger contracts and which buyer programs can open that door. This is a recurring concern, not a one-off event.
- **Security is everyone's job, including the smallest team**: Feld's Cybersecurity Awareness Month message makes the case that protecting a business, its team, and its data is a shared responsibility rather than a specialist function, and that simple steps are worth taking. It is the broadest and least technical of these posts — an awareness message rather than teaching material — so it should be read as a stated priority, not as a claim of deep technical security work.

## Work to read

- [DEF CON 34 training wrap-up: Cyber & AI Policy Basics](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pamelafeld_defcon-cybersecurity-ai-activity-7493852901753180161-g2Q1)
- [Course announcement: what attendees take away from the DEF CON policy class](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pamelafeld_defcon-defcontraining-defcon34-activity-7490041701395247104-Xx_g)
- [AI Workforce Essentials: training the trainers with an SBDC team](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pamelafeld_ai-aitraining-ieee-activity-7508297466740391937-Nzjg)
- [Supplier diversity and RFP guidance session with PG&E](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pamelafeld_smallbusiness-supplierdiversity-rfp-activity-7508685956128919552-pTW4)

## Brand relationships

- **DEF CON Training** (disclosed_partnership)
- **Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)** (disclosed_partnership)
- **SBDC** (disclosed_partnership)
- **Barta | Goldberg** (mention)
- **Pacific Gas and Electric Company** (mention)
- **IEEE** (mention)
- **WBENC / WBEC-West** (mention)

## Partnerships

Feld's posts describe paid services, not a media or sponsorship program. They offer AI training—including sessions that teach advisors and business teams to use AI in daily workflows—along with cyber and AI policy development and AI agent development, and invite organizations to start a conversation. A DEF CON Training course shows the work in practice: a full-day class co-taught with a second presenter and supported by a teaching assistant, covering cybersecurity and AI governance, policy, and responsible technology use. For a technology consulting firm, the realistic route is a scoped paid engagement in training or policy work, rather than a sponsored placement. Agree on scope, price, and format directly.

## Alternatives

- Filiz Demirci: Choose Filiz Demirci when the client's problem is the framework itself: mapping ISO 42001 or the EU AI Act onto existing processes, or building an internal data and AI governance position the client can point to. Demirci's posts show a technology-consulting voice on those questions: a Future AI Summit London recap that examines ethical-AI design, sustained ethical ecosystems, and where organisations get GenAI wrong; and a post that treats ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act as practical tools for governing data and images. Pamela Feld's posts focus on running the room — co-developing a DEF CON course and training SBDC advisers. If the firm's deliverable is a framework-to-process mapping rather than a taught session, Demirci is the closer match.
- Michele Vincenti, Ph.D, MBA, MA, CM, CPHR, SHRM-SCP: Choose Michele Vincenti when the engagement needs an academic spine and a named ethical framework. Vincenti's posts describe presentations of "The Inviolability of the Innocent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Thomistic Insights for Leadership, Cybersecurity, and Military Ethics" at the FIDMA conference on fairness in digital markets and AI in Lund, Sweden, co-authored with Pierluigi Testa, both faculty at University Canada West. The Ethico-Prudential Matrix described there is the kind of framework a university, defence, or regulated client may want cited in an executive briefing. The military-ethics and cybersecurity angle also reaches audiences Pamela Feld's posts do not address.
- Nataly Garcia: Choose Nataly Garcia when the need is European regulatory awareness for a legal or compliance audience, or when the budget suits a guest contributor rather than a lead trainer. Garcia's posts describe a European Master in Law, Data and Artificial Intelligence at Dublin City University; work on data governance, GDPR, AI regulation, and trustworthy AI; and a summer at FutureLaw in Tallinn, the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference in Brussels, an EMILDAI summer school on building public AI in Europe in Avignon, and a summer school on AI governance and comparative law in Warsaw. A recurring question is how to move from principles and regulation to practical implementation. That framing sits close to Pamela Feld's policy-first pitch and can carry the European compliance segment of a programme.

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