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Kevin Hanes

SVP and Chief Operating Officer at Secureworks

Kevin Hanes is the SVP and Chief Operating Officer at Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity that protects customer progress with the cloud-native security analytics software of choice. Kevin's diverse team around the world includes the Secureworks' Incident Response and Consulting business and Customer Advocacy, as well as responsibility for global client service and delivery of Secureworks' managed security services. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Computing for Dell. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in a Computer Systems Management from St. Edward's University, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Kevin has two patents issued and another 12 pending in the area of services automation.

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Kevin Bresser

Director of Higher Education, Okta

Kevin Bresser has serviced the technology needs within Higher Education for the past twenty-five years having worked with Career Services, Human Resources, Athletics, Financial Aid, Advancement, and Information Technology. He is passionate about building strong customer communities that are energized to share best-practices with their peers and help drive the direction of the business.

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Maria Konnikova

Pro poker player, speaker, author

Psychologist, Best-Selling Author of The Confidence Game, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Contributing Writer for the New Yorker.

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Chris Steffens

Research Director, Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Research Director for Enterprise Management Associates, Chris is a seasoned cybersecurity practitioner, with vast experience in cybersecurity, IT management/leadership, cloud, and regulatory compliance.

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Ricardo Villadiego

Founder & CEO, Lumu

Ricardo is a cybersecurity entrepreneur, who has dedicated much of his career to understanding the online attacks that put organizations at risk, designing innovative solutions, and building talented teams whose mission is to help organizations take control of the impact of cybercrime.

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Sami Laine

Principal Security Architect, Okta

Sami Laine is Principal Security Architect at Okta. Over the last two decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches. At Okta he helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

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Alfonso Cabrera

Director of Platform Engineering, Red Ventures

Engineering Director passionate about AWS, DevOps, community, and continuous learning, Alfonso Cabrera works best in a DevOps enlightened culture and enjoys automating, scaling, troubleshooting, and treating all infrastructure as code. He takes pride in being easy to work with, intellectually curious, sharing knowledge, and being involved in the tech community. Cabrera launched the inaugural DevOpsDays Charlotte conference in 2015 and has continued organizing the event annually, as well as the Docker Charlotte and Ansible Charlotte meetups in the past.

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Oliver Crawford

Software Engineer, SkyScanner

Oliver Crawford has been a Software Engineer with SkyScanner for almost four years. He came to the SkyScanner team with a background in research and producing, having worked on a tool for translating graph queries written in Cypher to SQL at the University of Cambridge.

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Simon Maple

VP of Developer Relations and Community, Snyk

Simon Maple is the VP, Developer Relations and Community at Snyk. A Java Champion since 2014, Maple has also been a JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014 and 2017, and Duke’s Choice award winner. Simon is also Virtual JUG founder and organiser,

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Chip Witt

VP, Product Management, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has over twenty years of diverse technology experience, including product management and operations leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Webroot, VMware, Alcatel, and Appthority. He is currently the Vice President of Product Management at SpyCloud, where he drives the company's product vision and roadmap. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution, and underground monitoring.

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Roman Tobe

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Abnormal Security

Roman Tobe is a San Francisco-based product & marketing strategist currently focused on socially engineered security attacks such as BEC. Prior to joining Abnormal Security, he helped guide Prooofpoint's Digital Risk & Compliance and Valimail's product marketing organization. Versed in emerging and disruptive business strategies at Harvard Business School and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Tonia Dudley

Strategic Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Tonia also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense’s inaugural international customer advisory board. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, Tonia has managed programs in cybersecurity incident response, security awareness, and IT compliance for large global organizations. She has spoken at several cybersecurity and industry conferences on building successful security awareness and phishing programs. Her anti-phishing training programs have received three awards.

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Ivan Dwyer

Group Product Marketing Manager, Okta

Ivan Dwyer is a member of the Product Marketing team at Okta. Previously with ScaleFT, he led all things Product, Marketing & Community. As an early advocate for Zero Trust across the security industry, Ivan was a leading voice in promoting Google’s BeyondCorp initiative, one of the marquee examples of Zero Trust done right.

Since joining Okta, Ivan has let the team in on his obscure alter ego as a prominent historian and collector of rare Brazilian jazz records from the '60s to today.

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Ben Sabrin

Vice President, Advanced Server Access, Okta

Sabrin leads Okta’s efforts around securing cloud infrastructure and is a recognized leader in disruptive technology markets across cloud, big data, open source and security. He has over 10 years of experience in building the business behind open source and cloud technologies at organizations including JBoss, MongoDB, Rackspace and ScaleFT

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Jasson Casey, PhD.

Chief Technology Officer, Beyond Identity

Jasson has served as CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of Engineering at IronNet Cybersecurity, Founder and Executive Director of Flowgrammable as well as Compiled Networks, VP of VoIP Product Development at CenturyTel, among other technical and executive roles. Jasson received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Texas A&M University.

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Thomas “TJ” Jermoluk

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Beyond Identity

TJ has served as President and COO of Silicon Graphics, Inc., Founding Chairman and CEO of @Home Network, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, CEO of Hyperion Development Group, and founded nine companies, including Beyond Identity, HiCMOS, AOptix, and SmartPipes. TJ started his career at Bell Labs after attending Virginia Tech.

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Karl Lankford

RVP, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford is RVP of Solutions Engineering EMEIA at BeyondTrust. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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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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