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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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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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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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Jaime Dal Porto

Head of Customer Success, Yubico

Jaime is a seasoned technology executive with extensive knowledge of the financial services and tech payment industry, and specialized experience in security and innovation. As the Head of Customer Success, Services and Support at Yubico, she is responsible for a team that ensures successful customer experience from onboarding to deployment and support.

Prior to Yubico, Jaime spent over 27 years at Visa, most recently as Vice President, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, where she was responsible for digital, mobile, eCommerce and tech, and led relationships with companies such as Paypal, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Jaime led the US and global launch of Apple Pay, the global expansion of Samsung Pay, and the Person to Person payment service on Facebook Messenger.

Outside of work, Jaime is passionate about design thinking and education, and lives with her husband and two children.

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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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Thomas Malta

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Christopher Hertz

VP of Sales for Cloud Solutions, Rapid7

Chris is the VP of Cloud Security Sales for Rapid7, where he combines his technical background and cloud technology expertise with his love of sales and marketing. Chris leads a team of solution architects, marketing, and sales professionals who partner with customers to deeply understand their goals and challenges, and provide the education, insights, and solutions they need to run cloud and container environments securely and compliantly.

Chris served as DivvyCloud's Chief Revenue Officer prior to Rapid7's 2020 acquisition. Prior to his leadership position at DivvyCloud, Chris was founder and CEO of New Signature, a systems integrator, and managed service provider. Under his leadership, New Signature helped hundreds of companies adopt and operate Microsoft Azure and Office 365, achieved 12 years of consecutive double-digit revenue growth, and won more than 120 awards, including being named twice as Microsoft's United States Partner of the Year

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Rich Thompson

VP, Global Sales Engineering, BlackBerry

Prior to joining BlackBerry, Rich has 25+ years of experience in security. This includes 21 years leading security efforts at the regional and national level in the retail industry, and 5+ years leading Sales Engineering and Professional Services efforts in the enterprise software industry.

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Lee Dolsen

Chief Architect, Asia Pacific & Japan, Zscaler

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Andre Bromes

CIO and CISO, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and New Jersey

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Kent Browne

Global Director Stealth Identity GTM & Innovation Lead, Unisys Security

Kent has over 20 years of security industry experience in Information Technology and Information Security. He is currently the Global Director of Stealth Identity - GTM & Innovation Lead within Unisys Corporation. Kent frequently consults with Companies and Governments on important issues concerning their security posture, both physical and logical. Kent is well versed in physical and cybersecurity security infrastructure and strategy, and is asked to speak regularly on the convergence between physical and logical (network) security. Kent has spoken at leading industry events, such as IBM Interconnect, RSA, Interop, InfoSec, BICSI, ISC, Infragard, ISACA, The Conference Board, Harvard University, Yale University, etc. He has been a featured guest on television (BBC, RAI, ABC News, Silicon Spin...), radio, and in magazines (Computer World, Business News, New York Times, Wired, etc) to name a few. Kent received a Bachelors Degree in Business Management/Marketing, Summa Cum Laude, from American Intercontinental University. He has been a penetration tester for the public and private sector, and uses this unique view of security to help others better understand the taxonomy of an attack and the strategies to prevent these attacks and the associated damage from them.

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Arun De Souza

CISO+ CPO, Nexteer Automotive

Arun DeSouza is currently Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer at Nexteer Automotive Corporation. He has extensive global IT and security leadership and organizational transformation experience including as CISO and CIO. Arun's areas of expertise include strategic planning, risk management, identity management, cloud computing and privacy. His current interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Zero Trust, Software Defined Perimeter & Self-Sovereign Identity. Arun earned Master's and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security professional (CISSP) and has earned the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) certification. He was honored by the 1st Global Cyber Observatory by induction into the CISO Hall of Fame in September 2019. He has won multiple other industry honors including CISO of the Week, CSO50 Award, Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award, CIO Ones to Watch Award and the Network World Enterprise All Star Award. He is a member of the Society for Information Management and the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

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Rob Hornbuckle

CISO Allegiant Air

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Suresh Thiru

Chief Product Officer, Yubico

20 years of product management leadership, marketing strategy, and IT experience at Cisco, VMware, and multiple startups. Has incubated and grown many award-winning and globally recognized products and technologies.

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Bernardo Vasquez

CISO, Hudson News

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