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Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Analysis and Intelligence, Darktrace

Fier is the director of cyber analysis and intelligence at Darktrace, based in Washington D.C. With more than 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Fier has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. Fier is a highly-skilled technical officer, and a specialist in cyber operations across both offensive and defensive arenas.

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Michael Sherwood

Director of Technology and Innovation, City of Las Vegas

Sherwood is the Director of Technology and Innovation for the City of Las Vegas. Sherwood has more than 20 years of management experience, specifically in the field of technology, process improvement and innovation with the majority of that experience being in municipal government operations. Most recently he served as the deputy director of public safety, business services and city technology for the city of Irvine, CA since December 2013. Prior to that, he was the CIO and the information technologies manager for the City of Oceanside, CA.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud, data security, and consumer compliance issues. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees. Formerly, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was SVP and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank.

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Alex Niu

Director of Solution Engineering, DataVisor

Niu has more than nine years of experience in financial industry serving large banks in the area of risk management using advanced analytics. As the director of Decision Science at American Express, Niu was involved in developing and implementing machine learning based solution for both credit assessment and fraud detection. He also led efforts to build machine learning models for credit line assignment for American Express portfolios. Prior to American Express, Niu served as a consultant to top financial institutions.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Bert Grantges

VP of Solutions Engineering

Grantges is a proven leader in Enterprise Sales Engineering with more than 10 years of sales engineering and consulting experience across a wide range of technologies, building and managing teams across the US, EMEA and APAC. During the course of his career, he has had the pleasure of working with some of the largest and most dynamic international companies while helping them see their vision of digital transformation come into fruition and ensuring the overall protection of their company and brands.

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Brian Laing

SVP Corporate Development & Strategic Alliances, Lastline

For more than 20 years, Laing has shared his strategic business vision and technical leadership with a range of start-ups and established companies in various executive level roles. The author of "APT for Dummies," he was previously vice president of AhnLab, where he directed the US operations of the internationally known security and software leader. Laing founded Hive Media and served as CEO. As the co-founder of RedSeal Systems, he conceived of the overall design and features of the product and was granted two patents related to network security. Laing was also founder and CEO of self-funded Blade Software that released the industry's first commercial IPS/FW testing tool.

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Miguel Pinto

Senior Product Manager, BitSight

Miguel is the Senior Product Manager at BitSight for the company's Analytics products. He has spent the last 20 years creating software products for enterprise and consumer markets at companies like Siemens, Vodafone, and Anubis Networks.

At BitSight, Miguel is responsible for Analytics propositions. He has an MBA from Maastricht University Business School and a degree in Computer Science from Porto University.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Tim Bedard

Director, Security Product Marketing, OneSpan

Tim Bedard is the Director, Security Product Marketing and is responsible for OneSpan's Trusted Identity Platform security solutions for financial services. With more than twenty years of IT security experience, Tim has successfully launched and managed multiple cloud-based security, compliance and identity and access management (IAM) offerings with responsibilities for strategic planning to go-to-market execution. Previously, he has held leadership positions in product strategy, product management and marketing at SailPoint Technologies, RSA Security and CA Technologies. Tim is active security evangelist at industry leading tradeshows and events.

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Lynne Courts

VP of Global Marketing, Seclore

With more than 20 years of global executive marketing experience in the software industry, Courts has a passion for identifying and analyzing industry trends in the security software space. In her current role as VP of Global Marketing for Seclore, she is responsible for understanding customer and market requirements for data-centric security software across North America, Europe, and Asia. Previously, Courts was Chief Marketing Officer for FoxT, a provider of privileged access management software, Managing Director of EMEA for ActionPoint, Director of Product Marketing for Chordiant Software, and a variety of roles driving marketing for Enterprise Content Management solutions at NCR.

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Robert Westervelt

Research Director, IDC

Westervelt is a Research Director within IDC's Security Products group. He provides insight and thought leadership in the areas of cloud security, mobile security, and security related to the Internet of Things (IoT). Westervelt is also responsible for research and analysis around a wide range of evolving security markets, including endpoint security, security and vulnerability management (SVM), and identity and access management (IAM).

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Dr. Matt Kraning

CTO & Co-Founder, Expanse

Dr. Kraning is the CTO and Co-Founder of Expanse. He is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Expanse, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.

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Paul Turner

CTO for Products, Venafi

Turner has worked directly with many of the world's largest Global 2000 companies to solve security and operational challenges related to cryptographic key and certificate management. In addition to working with and presenting at IEEE, IETF and ISACA, Turner has worked closely with the NIST, where he coauthored the July 2012 Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) bulletin, Preparing for and Responding to Certification Authority Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance, and the NISTIR 7966, Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH). Prior to Venafi, Turner was a vice president for Novell's Resource Management group and served as vice president of product management at CertCo, a spinout from Bankers Trust that delivered public key infrastructure (PKI) and secure electronic commerce solutions to the financial services industry.

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