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Jeff Thorne

Director of Technology and Field Engineering

Jeff Thorne is the Director of Technology and Field Engineering at Trend Micro based. Prior to that Jeff has held various roles in the app dev and infosec community at VMware, Ooyala, and Third Brigade. He has extensive experience in hybrid cloud architectures, advanced breach detection, product management, and SW engineering. Jeff is a proud Canuck and now calls Seattle and London home.

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David Hamdani

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Docker

David Hamdani is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Docker, focusing on the Windows Server and MTA programs. Prior to joining Docker, David led platform marketing at Aera Technology, a leading AI applications company. David received his BA from the University of California Los Angeles.

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Christopher McClean

Vice President, Research Director Serving Security & Risk Professionals

Chris leads a team of analysts covering topics including risk management, compliance, audit, information security management, and brand protection. He also leads the company's coverage of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). In this role, he helps clients around the U.S. & world implement successful strategies, best practices, and technologies to support GRC programs as well as related functions such as enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, and corporate responsibility. Chris frequently contributes on these subjects at vendor and industry events as well as top media outlets.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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Todd Thiemann

Product Marketing Director, Arctic Wolf Networks

Thiemann is responsible for product marketing at Arctic Wolf. He has over 15 years of information security experience across a range of subjects including malware detection, SIEM, encryption, key management and IAM/authentication at leading cybersecurity companies including Trend Micro, Vormetric/Thales, PrivateCore and Nok Nok Labs.

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Jayesh Raut

CISO and VP (Special Projects)

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Anush Shetty

CEO and Director - Technology

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Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General - CERT-In, MeitY, Govt. of India

Bahl is currently director general at CERT-In. He has been providing consultancy in the areas of governance, risk, compliance, security, privacy, forensics, investigation and fraud management to national level projects in India. Prior to CERT-In, he was the chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation in India where he was responsible for interaction with the government, academia, key strategic accounts and the CXO community with respect to Microsoft's security policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bahl was the global CSO of TCS where he established an enterprise-wide converged security environment and effectively addressed risk management and security across the organization worldwide. He has also worked with academic and professional communities as well as government groups to enhance their awareness of comprehensive security models. He has been in the IT industry since 1984 with experience in various areas. Bahl is and has been a member of various security committees at national and international level.

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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, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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Sunil Chandiramani

Founder & CEO, Nyka Advisory Services and Independent Director- Jammu & Kashmir Bank

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Sameer Ratolikar

CISO, HDFC Bank

In his current role of Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Vice President at HDFC Bank, Ratolikar heads the Information Security Group and provides leadership to the development and implementation of Information Security program across the Bank. Prior he served as CISO with Axis Bank, where he was responsible for developing and implementing robust information strategies in line with business IT initiatives in a time-bound manner. Additionally, he ensured domestic and foreign information security, compliance, and gathered threat intelligence. Previously, Ratolikar served with Bank of India for six years. There, he facilitated information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program. He led Bank of India in achieving ISO 27001, Business Continuity and PCI-DSS certifications, implemented access control, data leakage prevention, identity and access management, two-factor authentication, encryption, IT GRC solutions, and established and SOC for SIEM. Prior to Bank of India, Ratolikar served as principal systems analyst of security and networking with National Informatics Centre, part of the India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology.

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Shivakumar Shankar

Managing Director, LexisNexis

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Avivah Litan

VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research

Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. Her areas of expertise include endpoint security, security analytics for cybersecurity and fraud, user and entity behavioral analytics, insider threats, fraud detection, and prevention and identity proofing.

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James McDowell

Director, BlackBerry Cybersecurity Consulting

James is an experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in cybersecurity and information security. He is responsible for working with clients to develop robust approaches to cyber security defences. James is currently engaged in large projects in the automotive and marine spaces and often delivers talks on areas such as security planning, IoT security and GDPR legislation.

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Sam Robshaw

Technical Manager/ Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, BlackBerry

A professional technical specialist, Sam is qualified in Comms, IT, Security and multiple Equipments and draws on a background of security testing and over 23 years of Royal Air Force experience across a wide range of IT disciplines, including leading their Cyber Defence training programme. He has in-depth knowledge of IT Systems and Security in his current dual role of Technical Task Control Manager and Penetration Tester.

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John Salmon

Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Salmon specializes in providing e-commerce and IT advice, particularly in the financial-services sector. He has represented major insurance companies and banks on their key strategic IT and e-business arrangements in a number of cutting-edge projects. He has market-leading experience in dealing with wrap and corporate platforms and other online projects. Salmon lectures and writes extensively about IT and e-business legal issues, and has a regular blog on legal issues related to financial-services companies. He also has a keen interest in the use of IT in law firms and founded OUT-LAW.com, which has more than 500,000 unique users a month and is one of the most popular law firm websites in the world.

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Ronald Raether

Partner, Troutman Sanders

Ron Raether leads the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice and is a partner in the Financial Services Litigation practice group at Troutman Sanders. Ron is known as the interpreter between businesses and information technology, and has assisted companies in navigating federal and state privacy laws for over twenty years. Raether's understanding of technology led him to be involved in legal issues that cross normal law firm boundaries, including experience with data security, data privacy, patent, antitrust, and licensing and contracts. This experience allows Raether to bring a fresh and creative perspective to data compliance issues with the knowledge and historical perspective of an industry veteran.

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Ed Amoroso

Founder and CEO, TAG Cyber; former Senior Vice President and CISO, AT&T

Dr. Edward G. Amoroso is founder chief executive officer of TAG Cyber LLC. He recently retired from AT&T after 31 years of service, where he began his career in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs. He served as senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T from 2004 until 2016. He was elected an AT&T Fellow in 2010. Amoroso also has been adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past 29 years, as well as a research professor in the Computer Science Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a senior adviser within the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Amoroso's work has been highlighted on CNN, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has worked directly with four Presidential administrations on issues related to national security, critical infrastructure protection and cyber policy.

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Adnan Baykal

Global Technical Advisor, Global Cyber Alliance

Adnan Baykal is the Chief Technical Advisor and the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Global Cyber Alliance, a not-for-profit organization who mission is to eliminate cyber risks around the globe. Before taking this role, Baykal served as Vice President of Operations at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization that provides cybersecurity services and support to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments throughout the United States. He was charged with overseeing all technical incident response and forensic analysis activities for CIS and for the Multi-State Information-Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). Prior to this role, Baykal served as the Vice President of Security Services as well as the Director of the CIS Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team (CERT). As the Director of CIS CERT, he managed a highly select group of expertly skilled individuals responsible for providing rapid cybersecurity and incident response services to all state and local governments across the United States.

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Georgea Mancuso

Special Counsel, Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP

Georgea Mancuso currently serves as Special Counsel for Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP. Her practice focuses on cyber risk, privacy and data security. She has extensive experience handling all types of cyber matters having worked as a senior analyst in the Cyber, Media and Technology Errors and Omissions Department at AIG as well as an Assistant Vice President for underwriting in the Cyber, Media and Technology Errors and Omissions Department at Swiss Re. Mancuso has worked closely with numerous business and in-house legal departments to evaluate and implement proactive cyber security controls and risk management procedures based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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