Ruchika Arora is a senior cloud & AI security and governance leader with over two decades of experience protecting some of the world's most regulated financial institutions and technology platforms. As a Principal Security specialist at Oracle, she advises enterprise customers across the ASEAN region on cloud security architecture, AI governance, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and risk helping organisations navigate Southeast Asia's most complex and rapidly evolving regulatory landscapes with confidence. A sought-after international speaker, she has taken the stage at Cloud Expo Asia (keynote), Tech Week Singapore, Tech Week Shanghai, Oracle AI World, and the Cloud Native Security Conference, addressing audiences on AI security, AI ethics and fairness, responsible AI adoption, zero trust architecture, AGI governance, enterprise cloud resilience, and the ethics of emerging technology. Her career spans leadership roles at Citibank, Salesforce, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and HSBC, institutions where she built and scaled cloud security frameworks, drove enterprise compliance programmes, managed high-stakes regulatory engagements, and modernised cybersecurity controls across global operations, bringing practitioner-level depth across application and infrastructure security, vendor and third-party risk, IT risk and audit, and offshoring governance. Beyond her corporate work, Ruchika is a certified mentor for women and young professionals, a Cybersecurity Mentor with NASSCOM India, and a mentor with the Asia Institute of Mentoring, actively shaping the future workforce of the industry she has spent her career building.