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Nuno Almeida

Consulting Engineer, BitSight

Nuno has been working at BitSight helping organizations tackling their Security and Risk Challenges as a Consulting Engineer. Previously he’s had a number of different roles as a Pre- Sales Engineer in Telecom, Project Manager, IT Management Network and Systems Engineer.

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Scott West

Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management - SPM, BitSight

Scott West is the Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management (SPM), BitSight’s cyber risk-reducing platform that enables organizations to optimize their security program for efficiency, effectiveness and scale. Before joining BitSight, Scott built his passion for value selling in various Product Marketing, Senior Sales and Executive positions for more technology and software startups than he cares to remember.

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Keith Manville

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Keith is a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco where he covers the entire Cisco security portfolio with a focus on advanced threat protection. Prior to joining Cisco, Keith worked for the Department of Defense as a Blue Team Operator and spent several years as a Systems Administrator in manufacturing focusing on system hardening and incident response. Keith has a Bachelor’s of Science in Management from the University of Rhode Island and is currently working on a Master’s of Science in Cybersecurity at Roger Williams University where he is also an Adjunct Professor in Cybersecurity.

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Adam Tomeo

Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

Adam is a Product Marketing Manager for Cisco with more than 15 years of marketing experience in the information technology and services industries. He has expertise in professional services, software (on-premises, cloud, and hybrid), enterprise networking, storage, and security. Adam has held senior marketing management positions across the entire breadth of the partner ecosystem, including manufacturer, global distributor, global reseller, and regional MSP. His current focus at Cisco is Secure Endpoint.

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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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Ed Amoroso

Founder and CEO, TAG Cyber; former Senior Vice President and CISO, AT&T

Dr. Ed Amoroso is currently Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company supporting hundreds of companies across the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016.

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James Slaby

Director, Cyber Protection, Acronis

James is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis. He has also worked as an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud services and networking at research firms like Forrester and the Yankee Group. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and hundreds of tech publications. Slaby has also held product and solutions marketing roles at tech vendors like Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks, and Motorola.

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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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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Yohann Bauzil

Chief Information Security Officer, FR Airbus OneWeb Satellites SAS

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Mario Massard

Senior Systems Engineer, Illumio

Plus de 20 ans d'expérience dans les réseaux informatiques et la sécurité informatique, dans l'assistance et le conseil aux petites et grandes entreprises de la région EMEA du Sud. Et ces 10 dernières années sur le bigdata, le siem, l'accès privilégié et la gestion des identités, la sécurité "zéro trust", chez Splunk, Bomgar / BeyondTrust et maintenant Illumio

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Ahmed Mokdad

Associate, Covington & Burling

Mokdad is an associate at Convington and Burling. he has a depth of experience assisting clients across various sectors navigate and mitigate a broad spectrum of regulatory and compliance risks, with a focus on data protection and information security matters.

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Ross Saunders

Co-chair, Jo'Burg Chapter, IAPP

Saunders is the virtual CISO for a number of technology and software development organizations. He specializes in data protection and information security, raising awareness and educating staff on what can, and does, go wrong in data protection.

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Kerissa Varma

CISO, Old Mutual Limited

Varma is the Group CISO at the Old Mutual Limited, one of the largest financial services organizations on the African continent. She manages information security with dispersed teams across Africa. She has a demonstrated history of building and scaling security capabilities in a number of industries including healthcare, telecommunications, transport, government and financial services.

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Paul McKay

Principal Analyst, Forrester

Paul is a senior analyst on the security and risk team. He works with organizations to help them shape and deliver their cybersecurity strategies to support the delivery of their core business vision. Paul's research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions, Europe-specific regulation for cybersecurity, CISO and security leadership research, and the European vendor market landscape focused on managed security service providers and consultancies.

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Mark Johnston

APAC Head of Security, Customer Engineering Google Cloud

Mark is a passionate security advocate who leads Google Cloud’s team of Security and Networking specialists in Asia Pacific. With over 20 years of security domain expertise across the financial, government, telecommunications and education industries, he helps organizations adopt cloud computing using the shared responsibility model.

Prior to joining Google Cloud, he spent eight years at IBM where he led the APAC Security Tiger Team, and developed the IBM Enterprise Security Maturity Workshop executed at over 150 client sites worldwide.

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Nicholas Malbec

Head of Cyber Planning Office, French Cyber Command

Naval officer, former commanding officer of warships, Nicolas Malbec have been French Navy CISO from 2014 to 2016 and French Navy Chief Digital Officer from 2019 to 2021. He is also director of the Cyberdefense course at the French IT school Hexagone.

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Alain De Maght

CISO & DPO, Hôpitaux Iris Sud - Iris Ziekenhuizen Zuid

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Gene Spafford

Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University

Commonly known as Spaf, Spafford is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert. He is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. With nearly three decades of experience as a researcher and instructor, Spafford has worked in software engineering, reliable distributed computing, host and network security, digital forensics, computing policy and computing curriculum design.

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Krishna Mohan Kasi

Vice President-Business & IT Audit, BNP Paribas

Kasi is vice president, business and IT audit with BNP Paribas. He has 20 years of experience driving various initiatives across multiple cybersecurity domains. He effectively brings together strategic business goals, security frameworks, tools, technology, and teams with special focus on cyber risk management.

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