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Angel Ceballos

Angel Ceballos

CEO @ SeraphicGuardian | Architect of Defensible Systems

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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Angel Ceballos is the Founder and CEO of SeraphicGuardian and an architect of defensible systems.

Her work focuses on how complex data and decision systems are designed, governed, and held accountable in real-world environments. Rather than treating governance as documentation or policy layered on top of technology, she builds it directly into system architecture.

With a foundation in data engineering and enterprise architecture, Angel designs and implements accountable infrastructure that governs risk, fairness, and long-term resilience. She challenges organizations to move beyond performance metrics and build systems that withstand scrutiny, degrade safely under stress, and produce defensible evidence by design.

Her mission is to ensure accountability and safety are not policy add-ons but engineered foundations that preserve the human voice, lived experience and narrative behind the number.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Health & Medical
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • All things data
  • Database
  • Data Science
  • Data Platform
  • Data Analytics
  • Data Management
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Warehousing
  • Azure Data & AI
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics and Big Data
  • Data Security
  • Big Data Machine Learning AI and Analytics
  • Big Data
  • Databases
  • Data Science & AI
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Women in Data
  • Women in AI
  • Women in STEM
  • Democratized Artificial Intelligence
  • Women in Tech mentorship program
  • Empowering Women in Technology and Business Leadership
  • Women in Tech & Diversity in Tech
  • Data Architecture
  • Data Engineering & Analytics
  • Data Governance

Designing for Failure: Engineering AI Systems That Degrade Gracefully

AI systems operate in changing environments. Data shifts, assumptions evolve, dependencies update, and models continue running long after conditions have changed. When those changes are not anticipated in the system’s design, small issues can compound into larger consequences.

This session focuses on treating failure as a design consideration rather than an exception. We will examine how architectural decisions influence what happens when models drift, thresholds are misaligned, or upstream data changes unexpectedly. The discussion will cover containment strategies, escalation design, and approaches to limiting downstream impact when systems are under stress.

Participants will leave with a practical, systems-level perspective on building AI architectures that can absorb disruption, reduce unintended harm, and remain accountable when conditions change.

Angel Ceballos

CEO @ SeraphicGuardian | Architect of Defensible Systems

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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