
Session 2: Prompt Design as System Design
Learn how prompt design shapes AI behavior—and how to get more reliable, creative, and targeted results from LLMs.
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															Julian Lancaster is CISO at Prowess Consulting, where he leads efforts to ensure clients can adopt advanced technologies with confidence and resilience. With more than 15 years of experience spanning systems engineering, IT administration, and enterprise security, Julian brings both technical depth and a pragmatic perspective to his work.
Before returning to Prowess, Julian served as Director of Systems Engineering at SmartDeploy for over a decade, where he helped organizations modernize infrastructure and optimize IT operations. His expertise spans Amazon Web Services (AWS), ISO 27001, and enterprise-scale security practices, giving him a strong foundation for guiding teams through today’s rapidly shifting technology landscape.

Learn how prompt design shapes AI behavior—and how to get more reliable, creative, and targeted results from LLMs.

Demystify how LLMs really work—watch Session 1 of The Road to Agentic AI and level up your prompt game.

Explore how LLMs use latent space and probability—not understanding—to simulate reasoning, translation, and more through prompt-driven behavior.
 
															As founder and CEO of Prowess, Aaron Suzuki has led the organization to become a thriving business filling the important space between technology development and marketing teams with technology, applications, content, and analytics.
Aaron was also the founder and CEO of SmartDeploy, a Seattle-based IT management software company. SmartDeploy simplified the secure configuration and management of business computing endpoints for thousands of customers globally.
Earlier in his career, Aaron served as Director of Business Development at Entirenet, a Seattle-based technical services firm. Before moving to Seattle, Aaron was President of Inetz Media Group, a web application development company based in Salt Lake City.
Aaron holds a B.S. from Brigham Young University and a M.S. from the University of Iowa. An avid cyclist and passionate skier, he also serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Devils Performing Arts, a youth performing arts non-profit.