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Jeff Thorne

Director of Technology and Field Engineering

Jeff Thorne is the Director of Technology and Field Engineering at Trend Micro based. Prior to that Jeff has held various roles in the app dev and infosec community at VMware, Ooyala, and Third Brigade. He has extensive experience in hybrid cloud architectures, advanced breach detection, product management, and SW engineering. Jeff is a proud Canuck and now calls Seattle and London home.

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David Hamdani

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Docker

David Hamdani is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Docker, focusing on the Windows Server and MTA programs. Prior to joining Docker, David led platform marketing at Aera Technology, a leading AI applications company. David received his BA from the University of California Los Angeles.

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Christopher McClean

Vice President, Research Director Serving Security & Risk Professionals

Chris leads a team of analysts covering topics including risk management, compliance, audit, information security management, and brand protection. He also leads the company's coverage of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). In this role, he helps clients around the U.S. & world implement successful strategies, best practices, and technologies to support GRC programs as well as related functions such as enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, and corporate responsibility. Chris frequently contributes on these subjects at vendor and industry events as well as top media outlets.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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Todd Thiemann

Product Marketing Director, Arctic Wolf Networks

Thiemann is responsible for product marketing at Arctic Wolf. He has over 15 years of information security experience across a range of subjects including malware detection, SIEM, encryption, key management and IAM/authentication at leading cybersecurity companies including Trend Micro, Vormetric/Thales, PrivateCore and Nok Nok Labs.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Sharda Tickoo

Technology Head, Trend Micro

Sharda Tickoo currently serves as Technical Head at Trend Micro. Having spent considerable time in many technical roles at Trend Micro, Tickoo has also been a Senior Manager of Risk for EY.

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John Salmon

Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Salmon specializes in providing e-commerce and IT advice, particularly in the financial-services sector. He has represented major insurance companies and banks on their key strategic IT and e-business arrangements in a number of cutting-edge projects. He has market-leading experience in dealing with wrap and corporate platforms and other online projects. Salmon lectures and writes extensively about IT and e-business legal issues, and has a regular blog on legal issues related to financial-services companies. He also has a keen interest in the use of IT in law firms and founded OUT-LAW.com, which has more than 500,000 unique users a month and is one of the most popular law firm websites in the world.

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Sunil Chandiramani

Founder & CEO, Nyka Advisory Services and Independent Director- Jammu & Kashmir Bank

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Sameer Ratolikar

CISO, HDFC Bank

In his current role of Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Vice President at HDFC Bank, Ratolikar heads the Information Security Group and provides leadership to the development and implementation of Information Security program across the Bank. Prior he served as CISO with Axis Bank, where he was responsible for developing and implementing robust information strategies in line with business IT initiatives in a time-bound manner. Additionally, he ensured domestic and foreign information security, compliance, and gathered threat intelligence. Previously, Ratolikar served with Bank of India for six years. There, he facilitated information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program. He led Bank of India in achieving ISO 27001, Business Continuity and PCI-DSS certifications, implemented access control, data leakage prevention, identity and access management, two-factor authentication, encryption, IT GRC solutions, and established and SOC for SIEM. Prior to Bank of India, Ratolikar served as principal systems analyst of security and networking with National Informatics Centre, part of the India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology.

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Shivakumar Shankar

Managing Director, LexisNexis

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Bryn Norton

Director Solutions Architecture and Security EMEA, CenturyLink

Bryn Norton is Director Solutions Architecture and Security EMEA at CenturyLink, where he is responsible for steering customers and partners towards security best practice across the region. He runs CenturyLink's Security Practice and Solutions Architecture Team (SAT), a group of technology consultants focused on adding value to customer experience and bringing industry expertise to bear. Norton develops and delivers security solutions for a range of customers - from national infrastructure organisations through to global enterprises - driving the quality and assurance required to help meet today's business challenges. He is dedicated to improving communications between locations, users and customers. With over 15 years' experience in the technology and telecommunications industry, Norton joined Level 3 in 2008 from tPoint Solutions, a global IT solutions company specialising in virtualised, multimedia, contact centre and customer experience management technology. There, he held a Sales and Marketing Director role. Prior to this, he worked at Star Technology Services for five years as Business Development Manager. In 2017 Level 3 was acquired by CenturyLink.

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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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Diwakar Dayal

Managing Director - India & SAARC, Tenable

Diwakar Dayal currently serves as the Managing Director and Country Manager for Tenable's India & SAARC Business region. He is responsible for developing and executing Tenable's growth strategy for the region, creating a strong foundation of partnerships with customers and key partners to expand the Cyber Exposure company's presence in the security market across India & SAARC. Dayal has over 20 years of experience in the IT and security industry, leading high growth security businesses, focusing on advanced technology solutions & services in cyber security and networking. Prior to joining Tenable, he held various positions at Cisco for over eight years building a strong security sales team in India and also leading the security channel sales team across Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater china based out of Singapore for over 4 years. Diwakar also worked in Juniper leading their Advanced technology portfolio while creating Juniper's entry into Indian FSI market. Prior to that he spent time at Dimension Data, Wipro and Sify, driving the security consulting, solutions and integration business.

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Jeremiah Osburn

Director of Cybersecurity at Executive Office of the President

Jeremaih Osburn is a senior leader possessing a unique combination of both hands on technical skills and seasoned management experience supporting government, military, and private sector organizations. He has over 20 years of experience leading in a hands-on manner threat management and cyber defense teams and 12 years' experience working in 24/7 Security Operations Centers and information security environments supporting cyber threat analysis, forensic investigations, insider threat, and vulnerability analysis. Leadership skills have been awarded at the highest level for creating and developing world-class cyber defense teams in high-pressure environments.

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Adnan Baykal

Global Technical Advisor, Global Cyber Alliance

Adnan Baykal is the Chief Technical Advisor and the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Global Cyber Alliance, a not-for-profit organization who mission is to eliminate cyber risks around the globe. Before taking this role, Baykal served as Vice President of Operations at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization that provides cybersecurity services and support to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments throughout the United States. He was charged with overseeing all technical incident response and forensic analysis activities for CIS and for the Multi-State Information-Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). Prior to this role, Baykal served as the Vice President of Security Services as well as the Director of the CIS Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team (CERT). As the Director of CIS CERT, he managed a highly select group of expertly skilled individuals responsible for providing rapid cybersecurity and incident response services to all state and local governments across the United States.

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Georgea Mancuso

Special Counsel, Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP

Georgea Mancuso currently serves as Special Counsel for Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP. Her practice focuses on cyber risk, privacy and data security. She has extensive experience handling all types of cyber matters having worked as a senior analyst in the Cyber, Media and Technology Errors and Omissions Department at AIG as well as an Assistant Vice President for underwriting in the Cyber, Media and Technology Errors and Omissions Department at Swiss Re. Mancuso has worked closely with numerous business and in-house legal departments to evaluate and implement proactive cyber security controls and risk management procedures based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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Brian Duckering

Mobile Security Specialist, Symantec

Duckering has been a thought leader and respected advisor in enterprise IT for more than 15 years. With experience in engineering, product management, marketing, business strategy and technology evangelism, he has held executive-level positions at business- and consumer-facing companies, both large and small, and has multiple degrees in engineering and technology management. Duckering has spent the last eight years focused on enterprise mobility, with a focus on achieving both productivity and security.

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Paul Singleton

Systems Engineer Cloud Security, Cisco

Paul Singleton currently serves as a Senior Solutions Engineer with OpenDNS. With more than 15 years of experience in information security, he has provided information security consulting services for a variety of markets and industries, including private/public sector firms, and Fortune 100 companies. Singleton has his CISSP and CISA certifications and is also a retired Chief Petty Officer.

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