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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 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist 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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Emma Carpenter

Vice President, Global Security Specialist Organization Cisco

Emma Carpenter joined Cisco in August 2022 as Vice President, Global Security Specialist Sales. Emma leads the worldwide specialist sales team dedicated to helping customers solve complex business issues with Cisco security solutions. In this role Emma is responsible for all aspects of specialist sales, including growth initiatives, acquisitions, operations, services and aligning with an ecosystem of partners. With her extensive technology and security experience spanning 25 years she is the leader to take Cisco security to new levels of recognition across the industry.

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Raj Chopra

SVP, Chief Product Officer, Cisco Security Business Group

Raj Chopra is SVP, Chief Product Officer for Cisco Security, the most comprehensive platform portfolio to secure all users, from any device to any network or application. In his role, he leads strategy, execution, and design for all Cisco Security products. Raj is a seasoned executive with a proven record of delivering market leading innovation in security with a strong focus on user first experiences. He is a strong advocate of supporting diverse teams and equitable environments that bring out the best in everyone.

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Brad Garnett

Director, Talos Incident Response, Cisco

Brad Garnett leads the Cisco Talos Incident Response team with over fifteen (15) years of experience in the information security field focusing efforts on: Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Malware, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Cybercrime, and hacktivism. Brad is a teacher, creator, coach, and mentor within his teams professionally and also through his passion for volunteerism working with youth. Brad has a proven track record in incident response business development and building professional relationships to manage cyber risk with various trusted partners; such as, cyber insurance providers, legal firms, and risk management.

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Yoshiyuki Hamada

Managing Director, Sales, APJC, Cisco

Yoshiyuki Hamada is Managing Director of Cisco Security Sales, leading the security sales specialists organization across Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC) region. In this role, Yoshiyuki is responsible for creating and delivering the security strategy and sales growth. Together with his team, he is focused on one single mission – securing customers in an increasing threat landscape.

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Jeetu Patel

EVP and General Manager, Security & Collaboration, Cisco

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration. He leverages a diverse set of capabilities to lead the strategy and development for these businesses and also owns P&L responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor and innate market understanding to create high growth Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses.

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Helen Patton

CISO, Security Business Group, Cisco

Helen Patton is the CISO for the Security Business Group at Cisco where she leads a team who ensures that Cisco’s customers can trust the Cisco security products they use. Previously she served as an Advisory CISO for Cisco, providing strategic insights to the security community. She was the CISO at The Ohio State University and spent ten years in risk and resiliency at JPMorgan Chase.

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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 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist 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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Crane Hassold

Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security

Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, an email security company focused on using behavioral AI to stop business email compromise, supply chain fraud, and other socially-engineered attacks. He leads an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused threats and serves as the Head of Abnormal Intelligence—a community platform that provides unique insight into the attacks targeting customers each day. He worked in similar roles at Agari and PhishLabs, and prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, spending most of his time in the Behavioral Analysis Units. While there, he provided support to the intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor TTPs.

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Robert Leong

Head of Product Management, HCL BigFix

Robert Leong is a zealot for technology since he was young, and with Masters and Bachelors in EE/CS from MIT; he's a card-carrying nerd! He moved to the business / marketing side of technology because he wanted to speak with customers directly and hear their needs. He has worked extensively on the business side of the house, thus giving me MBA-level experience through the school of hard-knocks. He has helped a string of companies get to funding, acquisition or big increases in sales and brings a combination MIT nerd and marketing/business strategy and product management to jump-start marketing, sales, and create technology products that perform well in the market. Robert currently serves at the director of product management at HCL BigFix.

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Dan Wolff

Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, HCL BigFix

Dan Wolff is a product management and product marketing leader experienced in taking technical IT products from concept to high market performance. He has served in many roles across the startup community and within the world’s largest technology brands like Intel and IBM. Dan offers deep understanding of all aspects involved in defining, managing and marketing security and cloud software products, with a focus on global B2B marketing and product management. In his present position Dan serves as the senior director for product marketing for HCL BigFix.

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Demi Ben-Ari

CTO and Co-founder, Panorays

Demi Ben-Ari is co-founder and CTO at Panorays, which automates, accelerates and scales third-party security management. At Panorays, he is deeply committed to making third-party security management as seamless and as effective as possible. He is also an expert at building communities and networks, both online and offline, and is a recognized Google Developers Expert, is the co-founder of "Big Things."

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Vandana Verma Sehgal

Security Relations Leader, Snyk

Vandana is a Security Relations Leader at Snyk with a current focus on DevSecOps. She has extensive experience in Application Security, Vulnerability Management, SOC, Infrastructure Security and Cloud Security. Vandana is a seasoned speaker and trainer. She presented at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events, to regional events such as BSides events in India. She is on the OWASP Global Board of directors (Vice-Chair). She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives such as InfosecGirls, InfosecKids and WoSec. She is a recipient of multiple awards and is listed as one of the top women leaders in technology and cybersecurity in India.

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John Gudmundson

Product Marketing, Security Service Edge Solutions, Cisco

John Gudmundson is in Product Marketing for Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in security, cloud and networking including Application Delivery Controllers, Intrusion Prevention Systems and Web Application Firewalls. He holds an MBA from University of Southern California, BSBA from University of California, Berkeley and BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Information Security Media Group

Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is the world's largest media company devoted to information security and risk management. Each of its 34 media sites provides relevant education, research and news that is specifically tailored to key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare and the public sector; geographies from North America to Southeast Asia; and topics such as data breach prevention, cyber risk assessment and fraud. Its yearly global summit series connects senior security professionals with industry thought leaders to find actionable solutions for pressing cybersecurity challenges.

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Jason Wright

Manager of Solutions Marketing, Cisco

Jason is a Manager of Solutions Marketing at Cisco and the host of the ThreatWise TV Show for Cisco’s security business unit. In this role, Jason is responsible for demonstrating how Cisco security products work together to create a more holistic and automated security solution for customers. With over 20 years of experience in network security, Jason has held numerous positions in product management, technical marketing, and product marketing with companies such as Sourcefire, Fortinet, and TippingPoint.

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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

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

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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David Levine

Vice President Corporate & Information Security & CSO, Ricoh, USA

David Levine is Vice President of Information Security and CISO for Ricoh USA, Inc. In this role, he has responsibility for operational security, security policy, access management, eDiscovery and litigation support and HIPAA compliance. Levine chairs Ricoh’s Security Advisory Councils, leads Ricoh’s Global Virtual Security team and is routinely engaged in customer opportunities to discuss risk and security. Levine has held a wide and diverse variety of positions during his 23-year tenure with the company, giving him a great perspective on technology, the business and security. Levine is a member of Forrester Research’s Security and Risk Leadership Board and the FBI’s InfraGard Program. He holds a BA degree in information systems from Eckerd College.

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