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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Marko Ljubanovic

Director, Solutions Engineering, HYCU

For over 15 years, Marko’s focus has been design and support for next-generation multi-cloud data protection, backup and recovery to companies worldwide. Prior to HYCU, he held pre-sales, project management and technical team leadership positions at Comtrade Software and Hermes Softlab. There are few technology issues or challenges that Marko and his teams have not been able to meet. When not solving the hardest technology challenges, you can find Marko enjoying the surf with friends and family. He holds a BSc in Information Technology from the University of Ljubljana.

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Crane Hassold

Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security

Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, an email security company focused on using behavioral AI to stop business email compromise, supply chain fraud, and other socially-engineered attacks. He leads an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused threats and serves as the Head of Abnormal Intelligence—a community platform that provides unique insight into the attacks targeting customers each day. He worked in similar roles at Agari and PhishLabs, and prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, spending most of his time in the Behavioral Analysis Units. While there, he provided support to the intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor TTPs.

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Luke Hebditch

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Luke joined Cisco in 2016 and has since then worked within different teams covering all of the Cisco portfolio before joining the Cloud Security team back in 2018. Luke is CCNP certified and since joining Cisco, he has predominantly worked with UK-based customers to assist technically on making recommendations based on highlighted security gaps.

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Robert Leong

Head of Product Management, HCL BigFix

Robert Leong is a zealot for technology since he was young, and with Masters and Bachelors in EE/CS from MIT; he's a card-carrying nerd! He moved to the business / marketing side of technology because he wanted to speak with customers directly and hear their needs. He has worked extensively on the business side of the house, thus giving me MBA-level experience through the school of hard-knocks. He has helped a string of companies get to funding, acquisition or big increases in sales and brings a combination MIT nerd and marketing/business strategy and product management to jump-start marketing, sales, and create technology products that perform well in the market. Robert currently serves at the director of product management at HCL BigFix.

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Dan Wolff

Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing, HCL BigFix

Dan Wolff is a product management and product marketing leader experienced in taking technical IT products from concept to high market performance. He has served in many roles across the startup community and within the world’s largest technology brands like Intel and IBM. Dan offers deep understanding of all aspects involved in defining, managing and marketing security and cloud software products, with a focus on global B2B marketing and product management. In his present position Dan serves as the senior director for product marketing for HCL BigFix.

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Nirav Shah

Security Product Marketing, Cisco

Nirav is on the Endpoint Security product marketing team at Cisco Security. He is a seasoned product marketing manager with a background in IT security and IT operations through roles at organizations such as SolarWinds and Symantec. Nirav has an MBA from the Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. In his spare time, he is a big foodie, enjoys watching sports, and likes to travel.

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Demi Ben-Ari

CTO and Co-founder, Panorays

Demi Ben-Ari is co-founder and CTO at Panorays, which automates, accelerates and scales third-party security management. At Panorays, he is deeply committed to making third-party security management as seamless and as effective as possible. He is also an expert at building communities and networks, both online and offline, and is a recognized Google Developers Expert, is the co-founder of "Big Things."

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Vandana Verma Sehgal

Security Relations Leader, Snyk

Vandana is a Security Relations Leader at Snyk with a current focus on DevSecOps. She has extensive experience in Application Security, Vulnerability Management, SOC, Infrastructure Security and Cloud Security. Vandana is a seasoned speaker and trainer. She presented at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events, to regional events such as BSides events in India. She is on the OWASP Global Board of directors (Vice-Chair). She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives such as InfosecGirls, InfosecKids and WoSec. She is a recipient of multiple awards and is listed as one of the top women leaders in technology and cybersecurity in India.

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Gaurav Gupta

Strategic Advisor - Retail/eCommerce, Splunk

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Chris Poad

Managing Director, Retail Solutions EMEA, Google Cloud

Chris Poad joined Google Cloud in May 2022 and leads Retail Solutions for EMEA. Chris has deep experience in global e-commerce at scale, with a particular focus in building and operating marketplace platforms, last-mile fulfillment, cross-border commerce, and grocery.

Prior to joining Google Cloud, Chris led digital strategy at Tesco - the UK’s largest retailer - as Managing Director, Online. Chris had day to day responsibility for tesco.com, an online grocery business delivering to millions of customers every week.

Prior to Tesco, Chris spent over a decade at Amazon, starting as a director in the UK first-party retail business, then joining the UK operating board where he led Amazon Marketplace. This business supported 2 million professional sellers and 400 million SKUs and grew to 65% of UK sales. He then moved to Seattle and led Fulfillment by Amazon, a program that allows third-party sellers to use Amazon’s fulfillment platform, growing that business to ~$40B in sales. Chris then launched and led Amazon Business, a B2B marketplace platform, in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan and grew sales from zero to $2.5B.

Prior to Amazon, Chris led the UK e-commerce business for Otto Group, a German home shopping conglomerate and worked in the early days of search engines and in strategy consulting.

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John Gudmundson

Product Marketing, Security Service Edge Solutions, Cisco

John Gudmundson is in Product Marketing for Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in security, cloud and networking including Application Delivery Controllers, Intrusion Prevention Systems and Web Application Firewalls. He holds an MBA from University of Southern California, BSBA from University of California, Berkeley and BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Information Security Media Group

Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is the world's largest media company devoted to information security and risk management. Each of its 34 media sites provides relevant education, research and news that is specifically tailored to key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare and the public sector; geographies from North America to Southeast Asia; and topics such as data breach prevention, cyber risk assessment and fraud. Its yearly global summit series connects senior security professionals with industry thought leaders to find actionable solutions for pressing cybersecurity challenges.

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Jason Wright

Manager of Solutions Marketing, Cisco

Jason is a Manager of Solutions Marketing at Cisco and the host of the ThreatWise TV Show for Cisco’s security business unit. In this role, Jason is responsible for demonstrating how Cisco security products work together to create a more holistic and automated security solution for customers. With over 20 years of experience in network security, Jason has held numerous positions in product management, technical marketing, and product marketing with companies such as Sourcefire, Fortinet, and TippingPoint.

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Matthias Maier

EMEA Product Marketing Director, Security, Splunk

Matthias Maier is Product Marketing Director at Splunk, as well as a technical evangelist in EMEA, responsible for communicating Splunk's go-to market strategy in the region. He works closely with customers to help them understand how machine data reveals new insights across application delivery, business analytics, IT operations, Internet of Things, and security and compliance. He holds the certification of the Certified Ethical Hacker, the CISSP as well as the Certified Information Security Manager.

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Enrico Maresca

CISO, .Italo

Enrico currently works as the CISO at Italo. In his previous experience, he worked as a manager for PwC and Deloitte for several clients as Poste Italiane, Technogym, and Gamenet and before that as Security Engineer for Ferrovie dello Stato.

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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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