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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Joe Linscott

Director of Product Strategy, PKWARE

Joe is adept in the markets of cyber security. He is currently Director of Product Strategy at PKWARE where he aids teams in guiding the overall direction of products. Joe graduated from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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Chris Pin

VP, Security and Privacy, PKWARE

Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutions best fit into their environments and processes. He also works very closely with many other departments such as Sales, Marketing, Partners, and Product to help build brand awareness and product insights.

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Ian Li

Director of Global Strategic Accounts, Ekata

Ian Li is a Director of Global Strategic Accounts at Ekata, focusing on the financial services and payments industries. In his role, Ian works directly with Ekata’s largest customers across banking and fintech to help them leverage Ekata’s data to improve their onboarding processes and reduce risk and fraud. Ekata, a Mastercard company, currently has over 2,000 customers globally, including companies like Alipay, Equifax, Klarna, and Microsoft.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Ann Dunkin

CIO, Department of Energy

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Jason Lee

Chief Information Security Officer, Zoom

Jason Lee is the Chief Information Security Officer at Zoom with 20 years of experience in technology, with a specialization in information security and operating mission critical services. He was recently the Senior Vice President of Security Operations at Salesforce where he was accountable for the global organization delivering critical end-to-end security operations to customers and employees including company wide network and system security, incident response, threat intel, data protection, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, identity and access management, and the offensive security team. Prior to Salesforce, he held the position of Principal Director of Security Engineering for the Windows and Devices division in Microsoft with the charter of protecting the online services of Windows Update, XBOX live, and the Microsoft online store. He was also the Senior Director of Developer Services where he was responsible for the design and management of the mission critical PKI for all products across Microsoft. This included cryptographic services in products such as Windows and SQL Server, and cloud services such as Azure and Office 365. Additionally, Jason was responsible for the codesigning and anti-malware services supporting Microsoft in that role.

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Gary Sorrentino

Global Deputy CIO & Chairman, CISO Council, Zoom

Gary Sorrentino currently serves as Global Deputy CIO for Zoom Video Communications. A former Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, Gary was the Global Head of Client Cyber Awareness and Education. For over 12 years, Gary was the Chief Technology Officer for J.P. Morgan AWM's global technology infrastructure initiatives, where he managed its Data Privacy program and was responsible for Infrastructure, Application and End User Technology Production Support. In 2014, he assumed a new role as the lead for their Cybersecurity efforts and developed a firm wide "Protect the Client" Cyber program designed to raise cybersecurity awareness among employees and clients. With almost 40 years of experience in Information Technology, Gary has served in various other IT leadership positions in firms across the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2005, Gary was Head of Global Infrastructure and Head of Technology Efficiencies at Citi Private Bank, where he was responsible for Global Infrastructure Support and strategic technology initiatives. Other roles he has held include Global Technology CFO at Credit Suisse and North America IT Controller at UBS

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Ranjeet Khanna

CISO, Mirion Technologies, Inc.

Ranjeet Khanna is Chief Information Security Officer for Mirion Technologies, responsible for enterprise Cybersecurity function. He is focused on strengthening policies, process, technology controls, and operations to ensure Trust, Resilience, and Assurance in enterprise IT/OT operations and secure connected products offering to customers. In his prior professional engagements, Ranjeet has held leadership role with large organizations across a range of industries, applying his knowledge to help stakeholders adapt to market challenges. Over 24+ years of career, Ranjeet has specialized in formulating strategy, driving execution, and managing the operations of enterprise Cybersecurity, Digital Identities products/solutions, Internet of Things (IoT), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

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Samer Adi

Technology Operations and Security Leader, Goodfood Market

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Tim McCreight

Managing Director, Enterprise Security, Canadian Pacific Railway and former CISO, City of Calgary

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Dan Wolff

Director of Product Management and Marketing. BigFix

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Bruce Brody

CISO Advisor, Cisco

Bruce A. Brody is a highly experienced, executive-level Chief Information Security Officer and subject matter expert on cybersecurity and risk management. He has served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Energy, DRS Leonardo, and Cubic Corporation; a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service; a distinguished manager in the national security community; and a decorated officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was the Director of the Guidehouse (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector LLP) Cybersecurity Practice from 2015 to 2019, after which he became the Resident CISO for the Federal Practice at Proofpoint. He is now a CISO Advisor for Cisco. Mr. Brody served as the Chief Information Security Officer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2001 to 2004, a position in which he became the first Senior Executive Service CISO in the Federal Government. In this position, he was responsible for directing and overseeing all cyber and information security activities of the second-largest cabinet-level department in the U.S. Federal Government. He is widely credited with creating and defining the U.S. Federal CISO role. Mr. Brody was appointed Chief Information Security Officer for the U.S. Department of Energy in 2004. He has since served in a variety of executive positions in private industry, including Vice President for Information Assurance at CACI (NYSE: CACI), Chief Cyber Security Strategist at Paradigm Solutions, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at DRS Leonardo, and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO for Cubic Global Defense (NYSE: CUB). He became the Resident CISO for Proofpoint’s Federal practice in 2019, and is now a CISO Advisor with Cisco. Mr. Brody is also a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Cybersecurity Committee, and he is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. He has served as a STARS Mentor for the MACH37 Virginia Cybersecurity Accelerator, the founding Co-Chair of the Government Advisory Board of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2), member of the statutory Federal Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, and member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Mr. Brody holds a master’s degree with an emphasis on information security from Eastern Michigan University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Authorization Professional (CAP), both of which are granted by (ISC)2; and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), which is granted by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). He serves on the Advisory Board of the Certified FISMA Compliance Professional (CFCP), a credential that he also holds. Mr. Brody also earned a Level III Advanced Program Management certification from the Defense Systems Management College. His career also includes 10 years at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he distinguished himself as the Chief of the Counterterrorism Section, and an additional seven years with the Defense Information Systems Agency, where he directed the global Defense-wide Multilevel Security Program. An Air Force veteran, Mr. Brody received the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal during his service.

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Errol Weiss

Chief Security Officer at the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center

Weiss is an executive vice president with Citigroup's IT risk and program management office and brings over 20 years of experience in information Security to this corporate level position. Weiss helps ensure that Citigroup receives the most thorough and highest quality threat intelligence from numerous sources including commercial providers and U.S. Government intelligence operations. He also ensures that threat information is delivered to the right person within Citigroup - an international organization with nearly 400,000 employees. Formerly a senior network security analyst for the National Security Agency, Weiss was responsible for conducting vulnerability analyses and penetrations of highly classified U.S. Government computers and network systems.

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William Welch

HC3 Cyber Engagement Lead, Dept. of Health and Human Services

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Martin Dinel

Executive Lead and Chief Information Security Officer, Government of Alberta

Martin Dinel is a trusted and experienced information technology and cybersecurity professional with over 33 years of leadership experience in the industry. As Chief Information Security Officer for the Government of Alberta since August 2015, Martin is defining the Government of Alberta’s vision and strategy to counter the cyber threat and ensure that the information of Albertans is well protected. This year, Martin’s role expanded when he was assigned to the Government of Alberta’s COVID-19 pandemic response team as the Service Alberta representative, and later on, when Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Process Automation, Modernization and Rationalization, Alberta Digital Service (including the province’s Identity Management program), and Provincial Telecommunication were added to his portfolio. During his tenure as CISO, Martin has also been a member of various cybersecurity related committees, including the National CIO Subcommittee on Information Protection (NCSIP), a committee that includes peers from the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments across the country, acting as Chair for almost 3 of the past 6 years.

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Aniket Bhardwaj

Vice President - Cyber Threat Detection & Response, Charles River Associates

Aniket Bhardwaj is an expert in incident response services and cyber intrusion investigations. He has over 15 years of experience helping clients through crises and breach response investigations involving state-sponsored threat actors. Aniket provides proactive threat detection services by conducting cyber hygiene and compromise discovery assessments and providing strategic and tactical threat intelligence services to his clients. Aniket’s experience includes tracking nation-state adversaries, threat actors involved with cyber espionage, and financially motivated crime groups, including insider threats. When not working on crisis engagements, Aniket leads pre- and post-incident service offerings, working with clients to improve their forensic maturity and enhance their ability to respond. Aniket has managed maturity programs for various clients to establish their incident and threat management programs. He assists clients in conducting incident readiness engagements, including incident response plans and playbooks on malware analysis, business email compromise, and ransomware investigations. Aniket frequently moderates tabletop simulations for organizations to help build the muscle memory for detection and response programs. Aniket has multiple industry accreditations. He is SANS GIAC certified with Forensic Analyst (GCFA), Malware Reverse Engineering (GREM), Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA), and Intrusion Analyst (GCIA). Aniket is a trained professional in Memory & Digital forensics, Advanced Incident Response, including Threat Assessments within Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Aniket earned a Master’s degree in Security from Johns Hopkins University and is currently pursuing his MA in International Affairs from King’s College, London with a specialization in Espionage and Surveillance. He is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).

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Joni Brennan

President at Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada, DIACC

Joni Brennan is President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building on 15+ years of experience in Identity Access Management innovation, adoption, and industry standards development, Joni helps the DIACC to fulfill its vision delivering the resources needed to establish a digital identity ecosystem that accelerates the digital economy, grows Canada's GDP and benefits all Canadians. Joni builds diplomatic and impactful relationships and formalizes strategic partnerships. She has participated in influential committees from organizations including: SCC Data Governance Initiative, OECD ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS, ISO, and ITU-T.

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Kolin Whitley

Head of North America Acceptance Risk, VISA

Kolin Whitley is a Senior Director within the North American Risk organization at Visa advising the top 25 US issuers in the areas of fraud and identity management. Prior to joining Visa, Whitley has spent more than 20 years in a variety of risk leadership roles supporting payments, financial services and public sector. Whitley is an internationally recognized subject matter expert in the fields of fraud and identity management and brings a wealth of industry knowledge having worked for a variety of organizations in the payment eco-system. Some of these notable brands included Citi, Moneris, PayPal, and Experian where he represented the organization in a variety of thought leadership groups, including his role as Vice Chair of the Kantara Board of Directors.

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