---
title: "Ben Kus"
category: "people"
role: "CTO"
company: "Box"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkus/"
twitter: "https://x.com/benatbox"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Ben Kus

## Profile
CTO at [[box|Box]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkus/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/benatbox)

## Biography
Ben Kus is the Chief Technology Officer at [[box|Box]], where he leads technology and AI strategy to help enterprises securely unlock insights from their unstructured data. Ben’s career spans engineering, product leadership, and startup innovation—including co-founding Subspace (acquired by [[box|Box]]) and being an early employee at BigFix (acquired by IBM), where he later served as Chief Architect of Mobile Security. Ben holds a degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ben-kus-the-half-life-of-agent-infrastructure]] — The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure (2026-06-30, 1:30pm-1:50pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ben-kus-the-half-life-of-agent-infrastructure|The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-12v5S1n1eOY` — 2 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-12v5S1n1eOY`: fortune, fully, integrated, generative, starting.
- Evidence links for `youtube-12v5S1n1eOY`: [[youtube-12v5S1n1eOY]], [[youtube-12v5S1n1eOY-slides]], [[youtube-12v5S1n1eOY-dense-slides]], [[youtube-12v5S1n1eOY-reconstructed-slides]]