Beyond human skill: Benchmarking capability in the age of AI
May 20, 2026 — 12:30 pm - 01:00 pmAI Startup Summit - Stage 2
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Description
This talk explores how to leverage competitive environments to generate meaningful insights into assessing and benchmarking both individuals and organizations. What began as a way to evaluate technical skill has evolved into a framework for understanding performance under pressure, adaptability, and real-world problem solving. As AI becomes embedded in workflows, capability is no longer measured in isolation but through how professionals operate alongside AI to enhance speed, accuracy, and decision making, and increasingly through scenarios where autonomous agents operate and compete independently. Drawing on insights from large-scale AI vs human competitions and ongoing cybersecurity events, this session highlights key signals of this shift and offers a forward-looking view on how AI is reshaping the cybersecurity talent landscape and how assessment will evolve in the near future.

