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Ido Rozen

Security Research Lead, Transmit Security

Ido Rozen is a seasoned Cyber and Fraud leader who currently holds the pivotal role of Security Research Lead at Transmit Security. He previously led Fraud and Security Research teams at Ping Identity, SecuredTouch and Forter. Throughout the past 8+ years, he has continued to grow his expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security Research, Data Analysis, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Risk Assessment, and Fraud Detection. With a career marked by consistent advancements and multi-dimensional skills, his professional trajectory over the years reflects an innate passion for cybersecurity and data science. He has a knack for applying machine learning methods, optimizing detection strategies, and leading intricate big data projects that require both meticulous analysis and a bird's-eye view of overarching goals. Ido's expertise in fraud and risk positions him as an invaluable asset in the rapidly-evolving digital world, ensuring that both businesses and their customers are well-protected against cyber threats. As a seasoned speaker, he offers insights from deep hands-on experience in the cybersecurity domain.

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Tom Baumgartner

Cloud Solutions Marketing. Cisco

Tom has 20+ years of experience in teams and organizations across product marketing, marketing communications, demand generation, business development, sales enablement, GTM strategy, and digital transformation in companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, F5, Alaska Airlines, and Virtuozzo. He currently is focused on product marketing for Cisco Umbrella.

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John Chambers

Chairman Emeritus at Cisco and CEO at JC2 Ventures

John Chambers is founder & CEO of JC2 Ventures, where he focuses on helping startups from around the world build and scale, while also promoting the broader development of a startup world. He invests in companies across categories that are leading market transitions. He serves on the Board for JC2-backed Bloom Energy, Pindrop, OpenGov, Sprinklr, and Uniphore. Prior to JC2, John spent 25+ years with Cisco, serving as CEO, Chairman, and Executive Chairman. He currently holds the title of Chairman Emeritus of Cisco. John is the author of Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, where he shares lessons for success in the Digital Age. He is the Chairman of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and Global Ambassador of the French Tech under French President Macron.

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Professor Joseph Grundfest

Former SEC Commissioner and Served on the Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Currently, Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University and Senior Faculty for Corporate Governance.

Joe Grundfest is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business (emeritus) at Stanford Law School. Joe served as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1985 to 1990.

He is a former director of KKR, Inc., Oracle Corp., and Financial Engines, Inc, which he co-founded with William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics. His scholarship has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Law Reviews, and he has been recognized as among the most influential attorneys and directors in the United States.

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Saket Modi

CEO and Co-founder, Safe Security

Saket Modi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Safe Security, a Cybersecurity and Digital Business Risk Quantification platform company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Safe Security in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated in IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO, John Chambers, Safe Security protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies worldwide with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform, SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40-under-40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35-under-35, Forbes Magazine’s 30-under-30 lists, among others.

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Mark Toussaint

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Mark Toussaint is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the NetWall product line. Mark joined OPSWAT in 2023, bringing with him a strong cyber security background and a proven history of providing comprehensive cyber security solutions to a wide range of critical infrastructure industries. Mark has a unique ability to take complex technical concepts and transform them into business value-oriented Go-to-Market product strategy. With over 30 years of experience at high tech and B2B companies, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, he is now focused on accelerating the launch and market acceptance of the NetWall product line for OPSWAT. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Mark held Senior Product Management roles at Owl Cyber Defense, Bell & Howell and Pitney Bowes. Based in Connecticut, Mark holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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Matt Wiseman

Sr. Product manger, OPSWAT

Matt Wiseman is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the OT product line. Matt’s focus is on product, engineering, product marketing and cybersecurity strategy. Matt has experience working in large industrial organizations and has worked to provide comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for all key critical infrastructure industries. His passion for cybersecurity comes from a love of solving unique business cases and deciphering complex problems. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Matt served in various cybersecurity strategy and global marketing leadership roles at Honeywell. Based in Canada, Matt holds an MBA and a BA in Business Management with an Honors Specialization in Finance. In addition, Matt has obtained a variety of cyber related certifications from the Department of Homeland Security, GISF and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Outside of the office, Matt is committed to on-going education in all aspects of life, loves the outdoors and spending quality time with family and friends. Always up for a new challenge, he is looking forward to helping others navigate the fast-paced world of cybersecurity

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Mark Toussaint

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Mark Toussaint is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the NetWall product line. Mark joined OPSWAT in 2023, bringing with him a strong cyber security background and a proven history of providing comprehensive cyber security solutions to a wide range of critical infrastructure industries. Mark has a unique ability to take complex technical concepts and transform them into business value-oriented Go-to-Market product strategy. With over 30 years of experience at high tech and B2B companies, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, he is now focused on accelerating the launch and market acceptance of the NetWall product line for OPSWAT. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Mark held Senior Product Management roles at Owl Cyber Defense, Bell & Howell and Pitney Bowes. Based in Connecticut, Mark holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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Matt Wiseman

Sr. Product manger, OPSWAT

Matt Wiseman is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the OT product line. Matt’s focus is on product, engineering, product marketing and cybersecurity strategy. Matt has experience working in large industrial organizations and has worked to provide comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for all key critical infrastructure industries. His passion for cybersecurity comes from a love of solving unique business cases and deciphering complex problems. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Matt served in various cybersecurity strategy and global marketing leadership roles at Honeywell. Based in Canada, Matt holds an MBA and a BA in Business Management with an Honors Specialization in Finance. In addition, Matt has obtained a variety of cyber related certifications from the Department of Homeland Security, GISF and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Outside of the office, Matt is committed to on-going education in all aspects of life, loves the outdoors and spending quality time with family and friends. Always up for a new challenge, he is looking forward to helping others navigate the fast-paced world of cybersecurity

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Tim Frazier

Sr. Solutions Engineer, Anvilogic

With a background in electrical engineering, Tim started his career in the US Army as a signal officer, where he learned about satellite communications and computer networking. During this time, Tim read Cyber War by Richard A. Clarke, where he learned how cybersecurity could be used as a form of national defense, and since then, cybersecurity has been the focus of his career. After a stint in consulting, Tim ran the gamut of hands-on-keyboard experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority: blue teaming, cyber tool chain engineering, risk management framework development, and more. Tim later realized there was an opportunity to help more people across many organizations and industries, so he pivoted to the vendor side of cybersecurity, where he’s been helping to solve customer challenges ever since.

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Rahul Gupta

Head of Security & GRC, Sigma Computing

Rahul is a Cyber Security and compliance leader with 17 years of experience in helping companies establish trust and manage infrastructure security, privacy, IT and business risk, and compliance in the digital business ecosystem. Mr. Gupta is a people-first and positive leader focused on action, results, learning, teaming and collaboration, quality, integrity, value, and relationships. He is experienced and has wide Knowledge in Systems and Network security, Product Security, Global Compliance frameworks, Architecture Design, Incident analysis & Response, Business continuity and Recovery Planning to provide a powerful combination of analysis, Implementations, and support. He hold various industry recognized certifications and is a trusted consultant for the organization and its clients. He is a self-starting IT professional with experience in leading and managing high-level systems security architecture, facilitating requirements and design sessions, and understanding complex business interactions and how they translate to complex system interactions. Although an IT generalist and able to work in many domains, he is specialize in multiple security and compliance domains and have build the programs for various large enterprises and start ups.

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Kelly Huang

Product Marketing - Cybersecurity, Snowflake

Kelly Huang is the Lead PMM for Snowflake’s Cybersecurity Workload, helping security teams embrace the Data Cloud as a security data lake. Kelly began her cybersecurity journey at Splunk, where she helped bring Splunk SOAR Cloud to market.

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Danny Manuel

Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Security, Crowdstrike

Danny is the Senior Product Manager for CrowdStrike Cloud Security. At work, he’s passionate about enabling customers to meet their security goals with CrowdStrike cloud managed security platform. At leisure, he enjoys the casual outdoors and fun games with his family.

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Narendran Vaideeswaran

Director of Zero Trust & Identity Protection Product Marketing, CrowdStrike

Narendran Vaideeswaran is a Director of Product Marketing for Zero Trust & Identity Protection, at CrowdStrike. Narendran has over 15 years of experience in driving product marketing and GTM strategies at cybersecurity startups and large enterprises such as HP and SolarWinds. Narendran was previously Director of Product Marketing at Preempt Security, which was acquired by CrowdStrike. Narendran holds a M.S. from University of Kiel, Germany, in Computer Science.

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Sameer Raje

General Manager and Head, India & SAARC Region, Zoom

Sameer Raje is General Manager and Head for India & SAARC Region for Zoom. He joined Zoom in April 2019 to kick start and grow its operations in the country and is responsible for leading Strategic Initiatives, Operations, Pre-sales, Sales, Customer Success, Support and General Management functions. Prior to Zoom, Sameer was at West Unified Communications (Intercall) for about seven years as Director Sales, India & Director, Inside Sales Small Medium Businesses APAC. He charted the journey of increasing West Corporations’ market share across APAC countries. Sameer has previously held senior leadership positions in technology MNCs including Cisco WebEx, IBM and Microsoft during his career where he built and led high profile teams across Pre-Sales, Sales and Support. Sameer has an Engineering degree from M. S. University of Baroda.

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Mehar Ullipalem

Manager-Solution Engineering- India, Zoom

Mehar Ullipalem is head of solution engineering for Zoom in India. He joined Zoom in January 2022 and he is responsible for leading the pre-sales function, provide leadership and guidance for design and deployment of complex products/applications/solutions.Prior to Zoom, Mehar was with NTT India for about 8 years leading the Digital Workplace Solutions Practice, he worked with technology firms including Wipro, AGC in his career. He is consultative sales and solution focused specialist with strong expertise in UCaaS, CCaaS & Digital Workplace domains.

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Sebouh Arakelian

Security Consulting Senior Manager, Accenture

Sebouh Arakelian is a Security Consulting Senior Manager as part of Accenture’s Digital Identity practice. He has been planning and executing projects across the CyberArk Core PAS solution over the last 10 years and is experienced in a number of CyberArk’s expanded cloud capabilities. His background in data-center management and networking allows him to articulate common risks found across the Enterprise.

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Chip Gandy

Lead Endpoint Engineer, Cox Communications

Chip Gandy is the Lead Endpoint Engineer for Cox Communications.  He has been in the IT field for over 25 years focusing on endpoint management and better user experience through automation and tools.  Industry changes over two decades have shifted from freedom to better controls in order to protect the end user from not only themselves, but bad actors who want to gain access to anything they can.  “We strive to improve user experience, security controls and management capability, without impacting the day to day operations.

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Adam Markert

Principal Solutions Architect, CyberArk

Adam is a Principal Solutions Architect for CyberArk software and primarily helps enterprise customers in the Northeastern U.S. secure their critical infrastructure. Previously, he held senior security architecture and systems administration roles, and maintains CISSP and multiple AWS and Azure certifications.

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Alan Cunningham

CIO, State of Nevada

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Bill Smith

CISO, State of Alaska

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Jim Weaver

CIO, State of North Carolina

Jim Weaver was appointed Director and State CIO for Washington Technology Solutions in December 2018. Jim has over 32 years of experience in the IT industry, having served in varying management and technical positions, most notably as the Commonwealth of PA's Chief Technology Officer, as well as Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the commonwealth's Departments of Human Services, Aging and Insurance.

During his tenure, he had responsibility for planning, directing, and evaluating Commonwealth IT operations and was a key contributor for the IT shared services transformation effort to align technology staff and services into functional matrix-based teams. In his agency roles, Jim was responsible for planning, directing and evaluating the IT operations of the three agencies, which included mainframe and distributed systems platforms, data base design and application/software development, telecommunications, IT security and business intelligence.

Jim has proven expertise with successful large scale modernization efforts with an enterprise approach to technology and information security management - many of these efforts have been nationally recognized by NASCIO (2008, 2013, and 2014) and Computerworld Honors (2010 and 2013). Jim holds numerous ITIL certifications and earned his Certified Government Chief Information Officer qualification from Harrisburg University. Jim is also an active member of the armed forces serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard with over 33 years' experience in personnel information management systems.

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Nastassja Finnegan

Cyber Security Officer, FNB South Africa

Finnegan is CSO, First National Bank in South Africa. She is a skilled cybersecurity leader with more than 12 years of experience in solution design concepts, security consulting and vendor management across sectors, including financial services, utilities and the telecommunications industry.

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Ian Holmes

Global Lead, Enterprise Fraud Solutions, SAS Institute

Ian Holmes is a Global Lead for Enterprise Fraud Solutions with the SAS Fraud and Security Intelligence practice. Previously, Ian gained extensive banking industry leading experience through fraud strategy roles, with specific expertise in payments fraud and application fraud. His career developed from the ‘ground up’ to embrace a customer focussed approach alongside analytics and strategy. Ensuring the bank was best placed to prevent fraud attack Ian gained deep expertise of industry decisioning systems. Ultimately, Ian became Head of Fraud in a UK division of HSBC and was recognised globally by his contemporaries. Joining SAS in 2011, Ian’s global role is to provide fraud expertise to drive the product enhancement; pre-sales and business implementation of the banking fraud solution globally. Ian’s team are SME’s and solution experts whom support new and current customers to maximise fraud performance as well as presenting business case capability to potential clients. Ian’s fraud expertise is pivotal in retaining SAS’ recognition and reputation in the industry by customers and analysts; supporting marketing initiatives and strategic collaboration with key third party vendors.

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Todd Roberts

Partner, Consulting, Deloitte

Todd leads Deloitte’s National Payments Practice and co-leads Deloitte’s efforts in Digital Identity. He is responsible for managing a team of payments and identity professionals across a range of leading financial institutions, networks and payments service providers. Todd is a senior advisor to executive teams, Boards of Directors, investors and regulators.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Todd was the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Payments and Innovation at CIBC. Prior to CIBC, Todd led the Corporate Strategy Practice at Deloitte and the North American Financial Services sector at Monitor Company. Todd has served on the Boards of various payments companies and industry stakeholder groups.

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Yuri Rueda

Fraud Expert, SAS LATAM

Yuri Rueda Fraud Expert for SAS LATAM, is an expert in Fraud Prevention, Anti Money Laundering, Internal Control and Risks. He has more than 15 years of experience in the area of Fraud Prevention with checks, credit cards, debit cards, prepayment and electronic banking.

He has collaborated in financial institutions such as Citibank, Banamex, Scotiabank, as well as in organizations such as BNP PARIBAS PERSONAL FINANCE, SI VALE México, Broxel FINTECH, among others. As part of the SAS team, he works as a specialist in Fraud Prevention and Anti Money Laundering issues for the various institutions in the region.

Yuri is a graduate of the Bachelor of Administration from the Universidad Chapultepec, A.C.; He has a Master's degree in SMEs from the Universidad Chapultepec, A.C. and Certificate in Risk Control and Fraud Prevention from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).

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Siva Balu

VP & CIO, YMCA of the USA

Siva Balu is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at YMCA OF THE USA. In this role, he is working to rethink the work of Y-USA’s information technology strategy to meet the changing needs of Y-USA and YMCAs throughout the country. YMCA of the USA is the national resource office for the nation's YMCAs. The Y is the leading nonprofit in 10,000 communities across the nation delivering positive change through 2,700 YMCAs focusing on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Siva is the creator of the new Y Cloud digital platform to deliver digital, virtual and mobile products to members across the nation. Y Cloud is the world's first digital platform built for non-profits by non-profit. As the CIO, Siva works with the key stakeholders across the nation’s YMCAs in achieving the strategic vision. He leads the creation and execution of the technology strategy through collaboration and thought leadership including digital transformation, data strategy, cloud strategy, information security, project management, mobile apps, social media, CRM, data warehouses & business intelligence, IT infrastructure & operations to support the YMCA movement. Prior to his current role, Siva has 20 years of healthcare technology experience in leadership roles for Blue Cross Blue Shield, the nation's largest health insurer, which provides healthcare to over 107 million members—1 in 3 Americans. He most recently led the Enterprise Information Technology team at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. He has created several highly scalable innovative solutions that cater to the needs of members and patients throughout the country in all communities. He provided leadership in creating innovative solutions and adopting new technologies for national and international users. Siva earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Bharathiar University in India, a master’s in business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and executive master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT in Innovation, Strategy and Artificial Intelligence.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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