Kate Adam leads the Customer Trust & Employee Awareness team within Autodesk’s Trust Org, reporting into the Chief Trust Officer. She owns the strategy that turns trust into a competitive advantage—helping Autodesk earn, maintain, and deepen customer confidence through transparent engagement, technical credibility, and executive partnership. Her role involves communicating to customers Autodesk's security and privacy policies and controls, governance standards, and reliability/recovery processes; and leading internal initiatives that strengthen customer confidence in Autodesk by aligning product, legal, security, privacy, and customer-facing teams. Her mission is to ensure customers have the transparency and assurance they need to trust Autodesk with their data.

Kate has been in the cybersecurity industry for 15 years, starting her career by learning on the job at a web application security startup after crashing and burning as a journalist, and adventuring into network security, malware analysis, and behavior analytics. Kate is deeply passionate about ethical AI, protecting data and privacy, and inviting of users and makers technology to become interested in its trustworthiness. In her free time, Kate enjoys soccer, puzzles, parenting her (crazy) kids, and binging podcasts while making friendship bracelets to unwind after work.