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Hiroshi Doi

Product Marketing Manager at Acronis

Doi is a seasoned IT professional with 30 years of experience in the industry. He currently serves as Product Marketing Manager at Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection. Doi has been instrumental in promoting the development and deployment of Acronis' cyber protection software and SaaS solutions in the Japanese market.

His expertise spans a wide spectrum of IT disciplines, including mini-computer control software programming, MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and DCIM (data center infrastructure management system) product management. With a rich tapestry of business experience and insights, Doi is a true "fighting middle generation" warrior dedicated to safeguarding information assets and the IT society from the ever-evolving threat landscape.

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Andrew Kopcienski

Principal Analyst, Mandiant Intelligence

Andrew Kopcienski is a principal analyst for the Mandiant Communications Center, with ten years experience in cyber intelligence.

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Eric Van Woerden

Senior Manager, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks Americas

Eric Van Woerden is a Senior Manager within Palo Alto Networks' Network Security product group. His primary focus is helping customers achieve Zero Trust across all vulnerable environments by leveraging a consolidated, AI-powered Network Security platform. Since beginning his cybersecurity career in 2012, Eric spends most of his time collaborating with customers and partners to ensure Palo Alto Networks delivers solutions that solve real customer problems. Previous to joining Palo Alto Networks, Eric was part of Microsoft IT's Infosec organization and has been working in technology for over 20 years.

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Pankaj Goyal

Director of Research, FAIR Institute

Pankaj Goyal is the Director of Research at the FAIR Institute. He is responsible for driving the research agenda for the Institute. He led the AI business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where his team built some of the most powerful AI systems and applications in the world for both federal and commercial entities. Pankaj has also spent time at McKinsey & Company in the High Tech Practice. Pankaj is embedded into the startup community. He is an angel investor and founded a startup in the mobile technology space. He has written a best-selling book, 'Before You Start Up'. Pankaj lives in Houston and invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn for continued conversations.

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Omar Khawaja

VP, Field CISO at Databricks

Omar is VP, Field CISO at Databricks and former CISO at Highmark Health. He also serves on the boards of HITRUST, The FAIR Institute, and Leadership Pittsburgh; he also serves as an advisor to a half dozen tech firms and as faculty for the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) program at Carnegie Mellon University. For his dedication and focus on cyber resilience, he has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, SANS, Forrester, Gartner, NACD, Reuters, HIMSS, CSO Magazine, CMU, and others. Omar is passionate about people, community, frameworks, communication, and measurement.

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Jackie Lebo

Risk Advisor, Safe Security

Meet Jacqueline Lebo, a seasoned Risk Advisory Professional known for her exceptional ability to steer organizations through turbulent waters and safeguard their operations. With a career marked by hands-on experience in risk assessment, compliance, and internal auditing, and most recently, enabling companies to manage their GenAI risk. Jacqueline is a trusted advisor to her clients, which include one of the largest social media companies in the world, with a focus on building the metaverse as well as Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, data infrastructure, technology, retail, and banking.

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Pete Chestna

CISO, Checkmarx North America

Pete Chestna serves as the CISO of North America at Checkmarx, where he provides customers and prospects with practical advice for building successful application security programs. Bringing more than 15 years of direct AppSec practitioner experience, Pete has held roles ranging from developer and development leader to his most recent position as the Global Head of AppSec for the Bank of Montreal.

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Eitan Worcel

Co-founder and CEO, Mobb

Eitan Worcel is the co-founder and CEO of Mobb, the recent Black Hat StartUp Spotlight winner. He is an application security expert with more than 15 years of experience as a developer, product management leader, and now business leader. Throughout his career, Eitan has worked with numerous companies to help them detect security issues and is now on a mission to help make those findings actionable with trusted automated vulnerability remediation. In the past, in his spare time, Eitan used to be a long-distance runner and participated in a few marathons, including the Red Rock Canyon Marathon, and even did an ultra marathon. Now, since starting Mobb, he simply doesn't have spare time...

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Jeremy Grant

Managing Director, Technology Business Strategy, Venable, LLP & Coordinator, Better Identity Coalition

Jeremy Grant was the founding leader of the National Program Office for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and senior executive adviser for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He led the White House’s initiative to catalyze a marketplace of secure, easy-to-use, privacy-enhancing identity solutions for online services through government and private sector partnerships. Grant is now managing director of technology business strategy for Venable.

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Omer Yoachimik

Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare

Omer Yoachimik has over 13 years of experience in Cyber Security from enterprise, start-up, and military backgrounds. He started his career in the Israeli Military Intelligence reaching Lieutenant rank and focusing on tactical cybertech for special forces. Omer is based out of London, where he has been leading Cloudflare’s industry-leading DDoS protection service for almost 4 years.

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Ken Westin

Field CISO, Panther Labs

Ken Westin, Field CISO Ken Westin has been helping organizations with security analytics, threat hunting and insider threat programs for the past 15 years and has aided law enforcement in investigations, unveiling organized crime groups in the process. His work has been featured in Wired, Forbes, New York Times, Good Morning America and others and is regularly reached out to as an expert on topics including cybersecurity, insider threat, privacy and surveillance.

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Resha Chheda

VP of Product Marketing & Analyst Relations, Safe Security

Resha is a seasoned product marketing leader with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. She has expertise in a wide range of security technologies, including ATT&CK MITRE, CASB, NGFW, SSO, federation, and more. As a product marketing leader, Resha drives go-to-market strategies and develops sales enablement programs and marketing collateral. She is also leading Safe’s Analyst Relations and is skilled at identifying market trends, customer needs, and developing new business ideas to address those needs. Under Resha's aegis, Safe Security has continued gaining market traction and mindshare within cybersecurity.

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James Lam

President, James Lam & Associates & Board Director, FAIR Institute

James C. Lam is a board director, management consultant, and best-selling author. He is President of James Lam & Associates, a risk management consulting firm that serves clients across all industry sectors. As a board director, James currently serves as an independent director and audit committee member of World Gold Trust Services and WGC USA Asset Management. He is also a board director of the FAIR Institute. Previously, James served as a board director, chair of the risk oversight committee, and member of the audit committee of E*TRADE Financial and E*TRADE Bank. James has been recognized in the NACD Directorship 100 by the National Association of Corporate Directors, Lifetime Achievement Award by Shared Assessments, Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury & Risk Management magazine.

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Nicola (Nick) Sanna

President, Safe Security

Nicola (Nick) Sanna is President of Safe Security, the category leader in cyber risk quantification and management software, a board member of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and a member of the cyber risk and corporate governance working group at the World Economic Forum. Nick is also the Founder of the FAIR Institute, a 15,000 members research-driven not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline of cyber and operational risk management through education, standards and collaboration, that was named one of the 3 most influential industry organizations of the last 30 years. Nick is fluent in 5 languages and received a master's degree in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza.

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Michael Smith

CTO, Asia Pacific and Japan, Akamai Technologies

Smith serves as Akamai's CSIRT Director and is responsible for leading a team of web security incident responders and researchers that study the tactics, techniques, and procedures of web attackers and apply that knowledge to help protect Akamai customers during events such as Distributed Denial of Service. Prior to his current role, Mr Smith served as Akamai's Security Evangelist and as the customer-facing ambassador for the Information Security Team, helping customers to understand both the internal security program and the unique security features and capabilities of the Akamai product portfolio and cloud-based solutions.

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Paolo Miranda

Membership Director, (ISC)2 Singapore

Miranda is the membership director of (ISC)2 Singapore, lead faculty at NUS STMI, advisory board member of CIO Academy Asia and former regional CIO & technology head of companies such as NVPC, REHAU and Olympus. He has contributed more than 25 years of strong strategic, management and leadership experience, enabling enterprise innovation and creativity with outstanding results. Miranda also has experience in business development, sales & marketing, finance, procurement, design, implementation and support of enterprise solutions for the top global, regional and local companies. He passionately continues to craft, collaborate & communicate new technology and business process improvements in organizations and society as a whole.

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Robert Poh

Director Asia, Financial Services Information Sharing And Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Singapore

Poh is currently the director for Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Asia. He is responsible for facilitating relationships with members and partner organizations and providing face-to-face opportunities to meet with other members to help them build and develop the FSISAC threat intelligence exchange community in Asia Pacific. This supports the effective sharing of cyber threat intelligence that enhance the security of the financial industry and adds value to the membership. Before FS-ISAC, Poh was director of security services, working with public healthcare institutions to innovate and transform healthcare in Singapore with more than 25,000 users. He was responsible for setting the security strategies, policies and standards on the protection of valuable, sensitive information assets within these healthcare institutions. He was also part of the national Electronic Medical Record Exchange and Electronic Health Record projects.

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Pauline Yam

Head of Transition & Steering Office, Deutsche Bank

Yam is the head of the transition & steering office of Deutsche Bank. Prior to this role, she was the global head of identity & access quality and compliance with the bank. She has been working in the IT, information security and risk management space in the financial services world for more than 20 years at global banks like Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase based in Singapore. She has been mainly responsible for leading, managing and driving the information security, IT risk, control and audit functions across the banking businesses globally. She specializes in information security, IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC), IT audit, business continuity/disaster recovery, ITIL v3. She was appointed subject matter expert (SME) by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) in 2006, for reviewing and writing questions for CISSP and ISSMP examinations.

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Dr. G Athithan

Former DG (MED & COS), DRDO

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Mary Kavaney

Chief Operating Officer, Global Cyber Alliance

Mary Kavaney currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the Global Cyber Alliance. Her responsibilities include strategy, personnel, legal and work with the cyber risk task forces. Prior to GCA, she worked at the Center for Internet Security. She developed relationships with law enforcement and other partners around the state. From 2007 to 2015 Kavaney served as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Public Safety for the New York State Governor's Office working towards the passage of the state's first anti-human trafficking law, all crimes DNA law and New York's gun control law, the Safe Act. Prior to working in the Governor's Office of Public Safety, she was appointed as General Counsel at DCJS, the Division of Criminal Justice Services and for eight years she ran the Poughkeepsie Regional Office for the New York State Attorney General. Kavaney served as an Assistant District Attorney for four and half years at the Orange County District Attorneys' Office.

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Elvis Chan

Supervisory Special Agent, San Francisco Division, FBI

Chan manages a squad responsible for investigating national security cyber matters. He is a decorated agent who is recognized within the Intelligence Community as a cyberterrorism expert. SSA Chan was the lead agent on significant cyber investigations and managed joint counterterrorism operations with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. Prior to joining the Bureau, SSA Chan was a process development engineer in the semiconductor industry for 12 years. He holds two U.S. patents, presented at many technical and law enforcement symposiums, and published multiple articles in technical journals. SSA Chan graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry.

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Ronald Watters

Cybersecurity Advisor Region X, Cybersecurity and Communication Division, Department of Homeland Security

Ron Watters currently serves as the Region X (WA, OR, AK, ID) Cybersecurity Advisor for the Stakeholder Engagement and Cyber Infrastructure Resilience Division of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Based in Seattle, WA, he supports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure. His program coordinates cyber preparedness, risk mitigation and incident response, and provides cyber security resources, including assessments, to the nation's sixteen critical infrastructure sectors and state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities. Prior to joining DHS, Watters served 27 years with the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve as a Submarine Sonar Technician and Diver, retiring from the US Navy in 2007. Recalled to Active duty following 9/11, he was offered a position as the Deputy, Information Systems Management Officer with the 4th Marine Corps recruiting District in New Cumberland, PA. He rose to the position of S-6 before leaving in 2009 to take a position as the Chief, Information Assurance Division, Network Enterprise Center Ft Irwin, CA. Watters remained in that position until leaving to become the Branch Manager of the Cybersecurity Branch of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in March of 2016 and, soon after, as the Region X Cybersecurity advisor in June of 2017, which he currently holds.

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Elvis Chan

Supervisory Special Agent, San Francisco Division, FBI

Chan manages a squad responsible for investigating national security cyber matters. He is a decorated agent who is recognized within the Intelligence Community as a cyberterrorism expert. SSA Chan was the lead agent on significant cyber investigations and managed joint counterterrorism operations with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. Prior to joining the Bureau, SSA Chan was a process development engineer in the semiconductor industry for 12 years. He holds two U.S. patents, presented at many technical and law enforcement symposiums, and published multiple articles in technical journals. SSA Chan graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry.

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Anton Chuvakin

Research Vice President, Gartner GTP Security and Risk Management Strategies

As Research VP at Gartner, Chuvakin specializes in projects involving data loss prevention, threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management, security monitoring of public cloud assets, network forensics and denial of service (DoS/DDoS) protection. Before joining Gartner, his job responsibilities included security product management, research, competitive analysis, PCI-DSS compliance and SIEM development and implementation. He is the author of two books, "Security Warrior" and "PCI Compliance," and was a contributor to other industry resources, including "Know Your Enemy II" and "Information Security Management Handbook."

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Myrna Soto

Chief Security Strategist and Trust Officer, Forcepoint

Myrna Soto is a Partner at ForgePoint Capital, serving as a member the group's Capital Investment Team. Her responsibilities include organizing and continuing to develop the ForgePoint Advisory arm of advisors that includes, the CISO, CIO, CTO communities. Prior to joining ForgePoint Capital, Soto served as Corporate SVP & GCISO (Global Chief Information Security Officer) for Comcast Corp. In this capacity, she was responsible for all security & technology risk management for the Enterprise. Her focus was to develop and maintain the highest standards of Cyber Security, network/infrastructure security, product security, data security strategies, operational efficacy of security programs, policies, and technology risk management that protect the interests of Comcast's customers, employees, critical technology assets, company brands and other critical stakeholders. Prior to joining Comcast, Soto served as CISO & Vice President of Information Technology Governance for MGM Resorts International where she was responsible for Information Security, IT Audit & Compliance, Business Analysis, PMO and the development of a Six Sigma practice. She previously held senior leadership positions with American Express, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Lines and Kemper Insurance.

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Michael Zweiback

Partner and Co-Founder, Zweiback Fiset & Coleman LLP

Michael Zweiback is a co-founder of the firm which specializes in white collar criminal defense, litigation and trial practice, international arbitration and cyber security. Previously having served as an Assistant US Attorney in California and Chief of the Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section in the Central District, he investigated and prosecuted cyber crimes including computer intrusions and the theft of intellectual property. Zweiback also previously served as the Deputy Chief of the Terrorism & Organized Crime section supervising National Security investigations. He also participates in The George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security's Active Defense Task Force, which has tasked itself with developing best practices for business and government in addressing cyber threats.

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