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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. 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 has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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Stephen Boyer

Co-Founder & CTO, BitSight

Stephen cofounded BitSight in 2011 and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding BitSight, Stephen was President and Co-Founder of Saperix, a company that was acquired by FireMon in 2011.

While at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Stephen was a member of the Cyber Systems and Technology Group where he led R&D programs solving large-scale national cybersecurity problems. Before MIT, he worked at Caldera Systems, an early Linux startup.

Stephen holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and Master of Science in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Stephen Owen

CISO, Bourne Leisure Group

On loan from Daemon Solutions, Stephen Owen has recently joined the Bourne Leisure Group as interim Group Security Director for Bourne Leisure Group and was formerly Data Protection Officer for Camelot Group, the operators of the UK National Lottery where he was well known for his detailed and pragmatic advice. He is a highly experienced information security practitioner and certified cloud architect with multiple digital transformation projects under his belt. Capping his data privacy and security expertise, Owen was also recognised by the industry and awarded a Fellow of Information Privacy from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2016.

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David Stubley

CEO, 7 Elements

Founder of 7 Elements, David Stubley brings over 17 years of experience within the technical security market, where he has held senior level positions within global blue-chip organisations. In this capacity, he was involved in the procurement of external security consultancy and testing resources. This valuable experience inspired Stubley to build a company that he himself would have wanted to work with during this time. A security testing and consultancy company that was responsive, technically astute and delivered tailored security testing as per organisation needs rather than off-the-shelf solutions.

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Barry McMahon

Sr. Intl Product Marketing Manager (IAM), LastPass by LogMeIn

Barry McMahon currently serves as Senior International Product Marketing Manager at LogMeIn where he internally and externally evangelises LastPass and Central. Helping the business grow globally is one of his key responsibilities which involves working with stakeholders across the business to define and refine our growth strategy. One element of this strategy is insights in to market forces and trends. With 18m+ people using LastPass and with over 3.3b remote session powered by Central, LogMeIn are in a unique position to share with the markets what they see happening in different industries and regions.

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Alain Sanchez

Office of the CISO, Senior Evangelist, Fortinet

Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the Network and Telecommunications domain. In December 2018, he joined Fortinet CISO office from Huawei Global Consulting Department where he was in charge of the Digital Transformation Practice, advising the board of Companies like Virgin Media, Telcel, INWI, Vodafone UK, China Mobile as these Service Providers targeted the enterprise segment with B2B Cloud and Security offerings. Sanchez previously held executive positions in Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, BT-Global Services and Nortel.

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Ran Shahor, Brigadier General (Ret.)

CEO & Founder, HolistiCyber

Ran Shahor is a Brigadier General (Ret.) who founded the leading edge Cyber Security program of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence branch and is considered one of the worlds top Cyber Security experts . After 27 years of military service, Shahor took upon himself multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector. Prior to co-founding HolistiCyber, he was the founder and the Co-CEO of Focal energy as well as Managing Partner of Star Ventures, a $1 billion global venture capital group. He started his career in the elite IDF special forces unit "Sayeret Matkal" which he also commanded.

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Mark Singer

Cyber and Tech E&O Claims Manager, Beazley

Mark Singer currently serves as a claims manager for the Cyber & Executive division of Beazley. He primarily handles insurance coverage issues arising out of cybersecurity, technology errors & omissions, data privacy, intellectual property, media and advertising liabilities. As a UK qualified lawyer, and before joining Beazley, he was a Senior Associate in the commercial litigation team at a large City law firm where he handled a wide range of complex contractual disputes.

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Teju Shyamsundar

Technical Manager, Product, Okta

Teju Shyamsundar currently serves as a Technical Marketing Manager with the Product Group at Okta. Prior to Okta, she worked at Microsoft and implemented enterprise mobility technologies across a large set of enterprise customers in various industries. Shyamsundar now works on integrating the Okta solution with our customers, partners, and applications, and enabling our team to be successful with securely connecting Microsoft technologies.

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Kevin Haley

Director of Product Management, Security Technology and Response Group, Symantec

Kevin Haley currently serves as a Director of Product Management in the Security Technology and Response group where he is responsible for ensuring the security content gathered from Symantec's Global Intelligence Network is actionable for its customers. In his role, he educates customers on security issues and serves as a media expert to explain security content and share how Symantec's telemetry and solutions protect customers from complex internet threats and other security risks. Haley was named one of the "100 People You Should Know 2018" by CRN, which "spotlights some of the channels' best and brightest people who may not be as visible as some channel chiefs or CEOs, but are just as important to the partner community. Consider them the channel's unsung heroes." He served as a technical advisor for Anthony E. Zuiker's digital crime thriller, "Cybergeddon" and shared his security expertise in the documentary "Most Dangerous Town". With a twenty-year history at Symantec, Haley initially joined to work on network and system management solutions. From there he became the Group Product Manager for Symantec's endpoint and mail servers' enterprise products. While working on the company's flagship enterprise product, Symantec Enterprise Protection (SEP), Haley created and managed a global team of technical product managers who evangelized endpoint security products and were responsible for field enablement and technical training for SEP, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Client Security, and Symantec Network Access Control.

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Thom Langford

former CISO, founder, (TL)2

As Chief Information Security Officer of Publicis Groupe, Thom Langford was responsible for all aspects of information security risk and compliance as well as managing the Groupe Information Security Programme. Additionally he was responsible for business continuity capabilities across the Groupe's global operations. Having successfully built security and IT programmes from the ground up Langford is an international public speaker and award winning security blogger. He is also the sole founder of Host Unknown, a loose collective of three infosec luminaries combined to make security education and infotainment films.

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Martin Overton

Ethical Hacker, Forensics & Malware SME

Martin Overton joined SunAlliance (now Royal Sun Alliance or RSA Insurance Group) in 1988 as a Security Specialist and ran their Hacking and Internet Security teams and he was responsible for their anti-malware strategy and remediation. In 2002 he joined IBM, working for the Managed Security Services Delivery commercial team in EMEA as a malware/anti-malware specialist. There, he was part of the Global Virus Emergency Team and the World-Wide Threat Team. During this period Overton also carried out penetration, web application, physical security and social engineering testing for many clients; so he is also considered an "Ethical Hacker" aka "A White-Hat Hacker". Soon after, he joined AIG as a Cyber Risk Technical Specialist. He served as a Subject Matter Expert on Cyber risks and solutions, acting as a technical resource for AIG underwriters, brokers and clients; turning technical risks into business language. Overton now runs his own cyber security consultancy helping clients to identify and remediate security issues, advising on best practice, regularly speaking at events, lecturing at universities, delivering training, blogging, testing and carrying out security research and so on.

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Ameya Talwalkar

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cequence Security

Ameya Talwalkar is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Cequence Security, a company disrupting the application security space. Over the past five years, he has helped several Fortune 500 companies fight various kinds of Automated Threats. Previously, Talwalkar served as the engineering head for Symantec's entire anti-malware platform - responsible for blocking over 5 billion threats annually. He has built several high performance engineering and threat research teams across the globe, fighting some of the most complex threats.

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Kenrick Bagnall

Detective Constable - Computer Cyber Crime (C3) Intelligence Services, Toronto Police Service

Prior to joining the Toronto Police Service, Bagnall spent 20 years working in the IT industry, primarily within financial services. During that time, he spent more than 12 years working in Bermuda as a senior network analyst for the Bank of Butterfield, then became an IT manager for Flag Telecom. From there, Bagnall was named senior vice president of IT for Capital G Bank (Now Clarien Bank) before returning to Canada in 2005. He has been a member of the Toronto Police Service since April 2006 and has worked in primary response, community response, criminal investigations and divisional fraud Investigations. In February 2015, Bagnall joined the computer cybercrime section of intelligence services, where he currently is a cybercrime investigator.

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