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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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David Severski

Lead Data Scientist

David F. Severski is an information security data scientist, specializing in quantified risk management. He has provided risk management expertise across diverse industries -- retail, aerospace, finance, energy, and healthcare. David brings both broad and deep expertise in a number of technical areas with a special focus on cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He strives to combine rigorous methods, technical expertise, and a human-centered approach to advance the state of evidence-based information security risk management. David lives in Seattle, Washington with a low-maintenance spouse, a high-maintenance house and a spiffy fedora.

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Kelly White

CEO and Co-Founder, RiskRecon

Kelly White is the co-founder and CEO of RiskRecon, a company that enables dramatically better third-party security risk management outcomes. Prior to founding RiskRecon, Kelly held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. Kelly was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young.

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Mark Forman

Vice President, Digital Government, Unisys Federal

Forman is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of professional experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government's Chief Information Officer. He has a long record of accomplishments in government management reforms, spanning a variety of government and industry positions. Forman is a CIO Sage. He twice led the Industry Advisory Council's Presidential Transition initiative. He is a respected speaker on government use of cloud computing, government reform, IT risk management, enterprise architecture, data center consolidation, digital technologies, and cyber security. He has testified in state and federal legislatures, and given well over 100 speeches to a wide variety of industry groups and government officials from around the world.

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Shawn Kingsberry

Vice President and Director, Global Government Solutions, Unisys Federal

Kingsberry has more than 22 years of experience in the field of information technology and has a diverse background in both federal government and corporate settings, with extensive experience in large-scale information technology transformation, big data analytics, and enterprise computing, as well as secure hybrid cloud implementations. In his current role directing Enforce ™/Family Now ™ and Digital Investigator ™, he works to guide public sector consumers as they adopt cloud computing, data analytics and other digital government platforms.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew Peters' 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Peters has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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George Pradel

Sr. Systems Engineer, Global Alliances Data Protection Division, Dell Technologies

Pradel has more than 30 years of experience in IT and resides in Denver, Colorado. His experience includes the IT domains of cloud computing, security, server virtualization, desktop virtualization and monitoring tools. This unique combination of expertise provides him with a comprehensive understanding of customers environments and needs with an eye on real world issues. Pradel holds multiple certifications which in the past has included the CISSP security professional certification.

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Christopher Kruegel

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Lastline

Kruegel leads their strategic direction on computer and communications security, with an emphasis on malware analysis and detection, web security and intrusion detection. He is also a professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in top computer security conferences. Kruegel regularly serves on program committees of leading computer security conferences including: Program Committee Chair of the Usenix Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET, 2011); the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID, 2007); the ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM, 2007), and the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016).In addition, Kruegel was the head of a working group that advised the European Commission (EC) on defenses to mitigate future threats against the Internet and Europe's cyber-infrastructure.

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Ricardo Font

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Gigamon

Font is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Gigamon. He has over 14 years of experience in the security space, working with directly with vendor Security Technologies (Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Mail/Web gateways, ATP, NDR) in both pre and post sales roles.

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Robert O 'Brien

CEO, MetaCompliance

With more than 30 years' experience in the IT industry, O'Brien is a serial technology entrepreneur. He started his career working for organisations such as Capita and Intergraph Corporation. As a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, O'Brien has been instrumental in developing and successfully exiting three technology companies prior to managing Metacompliance through its current scaling phase. His mission is to help organisations keep their staff safe online, secure their digital assets and help protect their reputation and brand.

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Jake Olcott

VP, Communications & Government Affairs, BitSight

For years, Jake has helped organizations create sustainable third party risk management programs.

Jake has held a number of leadership roles at BitSight since joining the company in 2015. Prior to BitSight, Jake served as cybersecurity attorney to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Homeland Security Committee. He previously consulted with Fortune 1000 executives on cyber risk management and served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Tony Howlett

CISO, SecureLink

Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP, GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. He is currently the CISO of SecureLink, a vendor privilege access management company based in Austin.

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Justin Strackany

Chief Customer Officer, SecureLink

Strackany is the Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access. He has been with SecureLink since it was founded in 2003 and has served in many customer-focused capacities, including sales engineering, implementation, customer success, account management, and onboarding new clients. Over the years he has developed deep partnerships with some of the largest, most complex enterprise organizations and technology vendors across the country and internationally in industries such as healthcare, gaming, legal, finance, and retail.

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Juergen Loeb

IBM Services - Europe Offering Manager

As an Europe Offering Manager Juergen is responsible to enable and support IBM teams for IBM Service offerings related to Container Platforms, Data Lake management and shared mainframe services.

In his role he is responsible for the enablement of IBM sales and solution teams, provide initial deal support and work closely with centralized development and Offering leaders.

With Juergen's more than 30 years of experience in the IT infrastructure business and multiple roles from project management, sales and business planning is seen as a trusted advisor in these areas.

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Josh Horwitz

Chief Operating Officer, Enzoic

Horwitz is an enterprise software executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience. He was the founder of the cloud-based, enterprise customer-marketing platform, Boulder Logic, whose clients included Microsoft, Siemens, Dell, and CSC. He grew the company as CEO over 46 consecutive profitable quarters and ultimately lead the company's exit in 2015. Prior to founding his company, Horwitz held senior technology and sales positions with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, including IBM where he developed marketing programs to help build Lotus Domino to over 40 million users. He is currently advising start-ups, non-profits, and social enterprises.

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Jaymin Desai

Privacy Engineer, OneTrust

Desai is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E , CIPM) and a Privacy Engineer at OneTrust - the largest and most widely used dedicated privacy management technology platform for compliance with global privacy laws. In this role, Desai oversees a global professional services team of privacy certified consultants focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements. His team advises many of the world's leading organizations on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and ePrivacy (Cookie Law) solution implementations with extensive experience building and scaling enterprise-level privacy programs

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Brian Reed

Chief Mobility Officer, NowSecure

Brian Reed brings decades of experience in mobile, apps, security, dev and operations helping Fortune 2000 global customers and mobile DevSecOps trailblazers while growing NowSecure, Good Technology, BlackBerry, ZeroFOX, BoxTone, MicroFocus and INTERSOLV. With more than 25 years building innovative products and transforming business processes, Brian is a dynamic speaker and compelling storyteller who brings unique insights and global experience. Brian is a graduate of Duke University.

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Chris Wysopal

CTO/CISO, Veracode

Chris Wysopal, Veracode's CTO and Co-Founder, is responsible for the company's software security analysis capabilities. In 2008 he was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's and one of the 100 most influential people in IT by eWeek. One of the original vulnerability researchers and a member of L0pht Heavy Industries, he has testified on Capitol Hill in the US on the subjects of government computer security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software. He is an author of L0phtCrack and netcat for Windows. He is the lead author of "The Art of Software Security Testing" published by Addison-Wesley.

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Chip Witt

Head of Product Strategy, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has nearly 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 Head of Product Strategy and manages the Customer Success Program at SpyCloud, which provides cloud-based security services to help businesses of all sizes prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution and underground monitoring.

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Sivan Nir

Senior Analyst, Skybox Research Lab, Skybox Security

Nir is the threat intelligence team leader in the Skybox Research Lab, a team of dedicated vulnerability researchers who aggregate and analyze vulnerability data from more than 30 public and private vulnerability data sources. Nir has more than 10 years of experience in business intelligence data analysis.

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