Laura Grace Ellis is SVP of Artificial Intelligence at Arctic Wolf, where she leads the teams building agentic AI and machine learning capabilities for security operations. Across her career she has built AI at scale, from the internal data and AI systems that run a business to the AI capabilities built directly into SaaS offerings for customers. Her work centers on agentic AI and SOC automation, AI governance and ethics, enterprise AI strategy, and the data engineering and architecture that make it all work in production. Laura holds a Master of Science in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University, a Chief Data Officer Executive Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor of Engineering Science in Software Engineering from the University of Western Ontario. She speaks and writes regularly about AI and security across industry events, press, and analyst conversations.