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Rod Simmons

VP of Product Strategy, Omada

Rod Simmons is VP of Product Strategy at Omada in North America and has an impressive track record of more than 20 years in the industry. Simmons has a passion for innovation and software design, and he has extensive experience in leading and designing cutting edge products and technologies. His key focus is on sharing his vision about the evolving IGA market and how Omada, a global market leader in Identity Governance and Administration, can assist companies with implementing successful IGA projects. He works closely with the product teams and CTO to define Omada's vision and objectives to achieve goals successfully.

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Simon Kuenstner

Independent Consultant - Specializing in ERP, Business Process, B2B Integrations, Stillwater Consulting

Simon Kuenstner is an independent consultant specialising in ERP, business process and B2B (business to business) integrations under the banner of Stillwater Consulting. Simon consults and supports a wide range of businesses, from businesses in the food industry, particularly FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods), Food Service Distribution, through to distribution businesses and heavy manufacturing industries. Simon has 30 years of experience in ERP, business process, and business to business transactions. As well as working extensively with leading ERP systems, Simon has helped his customers implement ERP, architected reporting systems, and integrated businesses with their trading partners through traditional EDI and B2B systems. He is passionate about “process automation” – removing manual, labour intensive processes from a company’s daily operations, saving clients real dollars on the bottom line.

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Ray Sutton

Technical Solutions Consultant, HelpSystems

Ray Sutton works as a Technical Solutions Consultant for HelpSystems. Ray is a highly skilled technologist with over 30 years’ experience specialising in public and private enterprises and telecommunications industries. His skill-set includes solution design, application architecture, business processes, technical architecture and software solutions. Most recent roles have included being a solution architect for health care services and mine site automation.

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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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Richard Hummel

ASERT Threat Intelligence Manager

Richard Hummel has over a dozen years of experience in the intelligence field and is currently the Threat Intelligence Manager for Arbor Networks' ASERT Research Team. Previously, he served as Manager and Principal Analyst on the FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence’s Financial Gain team. He began his career as a Signals Intelligence Analyst with the United States Army. During the course of his service he became certified in Digital Network Intelligence and supported multiple operations overseas including a deployment to Iraq. After departing from the Army as an enlisted soldier, he began contracting work as a Computer Network Operations analyst in support of the Army. During his tenure as a contractor, he developed many methods and procedures for conducting Cyber Discovery and trained analysts at Army INSCOM HQ's. At FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence, he led a team of technical analysts in the tracking, reporting, and analysis of various cyber crime related malware families.

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Moshe Elias

Engineering and Product Marketing Specialist, Cymulate

Moshe Elias connects product, sales and marketing to customer requirements, perceptions and concerns, applying a customer-centric approach to doing business. He is motivated by the belief that cyber security should be available to all, from safeguarding children surfing the web to protecting large corporations from espionage and extortion. His experience includes both sales and engineering leadership roles at Cisco and Check Point and product marketing roles at Allot and Cymulate.

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Deepen Desai

CISO & VP Security Research at Zscaler

As Chief Information Security Officer & VP Security Research at Zscaler, Deepen Desai is responsible for running the global security research operations as well as working with the product group to ensure that the Zscaler platform and services are secure. Deepen has been actively involved in the field of cybersecurity for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Zscaler, he held a security leadership role at Dell SonicWALL.

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Bryan Lee

Principal Product Manager , Zscaler

Bryan Lee is a Principal Product Manager at Zscaler with over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry in a variety of roles. His areas of expertise are in espionage threats, cybersecurity operations, and threat intelligence.

Prior to joining Zscaler, Bryan was a Principal Researcher with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks, responsible for the co-discovery of adversary groups such as OilRig, DarkHydrus, as well as contributing significantly to research involving other adversaries such as the Sofacy group.

Bryan got his start in cybersecurity working at the NASA Security Operations Center, ultimately moving into a lead position. Due to his diverse set of experiences and skills, Bryan has frequently shared his expertise with some of the most influential organizations and conferences in the world.

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Anshul Garg

Product Marketing Manager, IBM Security

Anshul Garg is a passionate marketer looking to help organization stay ahead of threat actors. He has 12+ years of experience across Product Marketing and Product Management of IT Security Solutions and has worked on areas spanning Cloud Security, Security Consulting, Managed Security Services, Penetration Testing, Operational Technology Security, Threat Management,etc.

He currently works with IBM Security as a Product Marketing Manager. He is responsible for marketing key security solutions including 'Cloud Pak for Security' - IBM Security's strategic security platform, 'Operational Technology Security'- IBM Security's solution for securing critical infrastructure, and 'Open Security' - IBM Security's vision for security of the future. He is also the marketing co-lead for Open Cybersecurity Alliance, anindustry association formed with a vision of driving security interoperability based on open standards.

He holds multiple Security certifications like Certified Network Defender (CND), Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), along with certifications in various security products. He has an MBA in Systems and Finance, along with an engineering degree in Computer Science.

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James Murphy

Global Offering Manager - IBM Security

Global product leader managing, delivering and supporting a portfolio of enterprise solutions and services. Working with customers, partners and IBMers to collaborate, innovate and produce solutions for the Enterprise and beyond.

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Jon Clay

Global Threat Communications, Trend Micro

Jon Clay has worked in the cybersecurity space for over 24 years. He is responsible for managing marketing messages and external publication of all threat research and intelligence within Trend Micro as well as different core technologies. Prior to this role, Jon held numerous roles within Trend Micro as a sales engineer, sales engineering manager, training manager, product marketing manager for small business solutions. As an accomplished public speaker with hundreds of speaking sessions around the globe, Jon focuses on the threat landscape and the use of big data in protecting against today’s sophisticated threats. Jon is also a volunteer speaker for the Trend Micro Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. Jon has a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University with an emphasis on Computer Engineering. In his spare time he likes to play golf, tennis, fly fishing and fly tying as well as spending time with his family.

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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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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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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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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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Jeremy Rasmussen

Chief Technology Officer, Abacode, Inc.

Jeremy Rasmussen is Chief Technology Officer of Abacode, Inc., a company that helps transform cybersecurity challenges into business competitive advantages. Abacode employs global thought leaders and industry experts in corporate governance risk & compliance, ethical hacking, security operations, and incident response to provide its clients with a holistic view of cybersecurity. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and founder of the USF Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC). Since 2000, he has taught USF courses in cryptography and network security, ethical hacking, digital forensics & investigations, and mobile & wireless security. He has more than 25 years of experience in performing R&D and developing cybersecurity solutions for government and commercial customers. Jeremy is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Project Management Professional (PMP). He was named the 2017 Technology Leader of the Year for Tampa Bay, FL.

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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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Kevin O'Brian

CEO & Co-Founder, Greathorn

Kevin O'Brien is GreatHorn's CEO and Co-Founder. Under Kevin's leadership, GreatHorn has become the world's leading next-generation email security company, analyzing billions of messages and stopping phishing attacks that target a global customer base of organizations, both public and private.

Kevin brings deep industry experience, having been an early member of multiple successfully exited security companies, including CloudLock (Cisco), Conjur (CyberArk), and @stake (Symantec). In addition to his role at GreatHorn, Kevin serves as co-chair for the Mass Technology Leadership Council's cybersecurity group and is a frequent speaker at key cloud cybersecurity and industry events. He has presented at the RSA Security Conference, Xconomy's What's Hot in Cybersecurity Conference, Microsoft's Innovation Outreach Program, the MassTLC Cybersecurity Conference, and has been featured in TechCrunch, NPR Marketplace, Mashable, Forbes, CSO Magazine, and more.

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