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Dan Sarel

VP, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Dan Sarel's interest in the cyber security world started about 2 decades ago. During these years he managed and helped design many security products in several disciplines. Including VPNs, Firewalls, endpoint security and database security. Dan served as an executive in various companies including Check Point Software, McAfee/Intel Security and Sentrigo. Dan's latest company, Demisto, where he was a co-founder and VP of Product, was acquired by Palo Alto Networks In February 2019, and is now known as Cortex XSOAR. Cortex XSOAR is providing the world's most advanced SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response).

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Jeremy Rasmussen

Chief Technology Officer, Abacode, Inc.

Jeremy Rasmussen is Chief Technology Officer of Abacode, Inc., a company that helps transform cybersecurity challenges into business competitive advantages. Abacode employs global thought leaders and industry experts in corporate governance risk & compliance, ethical hacking, security operations, and incident response to provide its clients with a holistic view of cybersecurity. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and founder of the USF Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC). Since 2000, he has taught USF courses in cryptography and network security, ethical hacking, digital forensics & investigations, and mobile & wireless security. He has more than 25 years of experience in performing R&D and developing cybersecurity solutions for government and commercial customers. Jeremy is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Project Management Professional (PMP). He was named the 2017 Technology Leader of the Year for Tampa Bay, FL.

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Rainer Singer

Sales Engineering Manager, Northern EU, Netskope

As Sales Engineering Manager for Northern Europe, Rainer Singer is responsible for technical sales activities in this region. His main focus is on finding the optimum solution with customers and partners for their specific requirements.

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Maria Konnikova

Pro poker player, speaker, author

Psychologist, Best-Selling Author of The Confidence Game, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Contributing Writer for the New Yorker.

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Chris Steffens

Research Director, Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Research Director for Enterprise Management Associates, Chris is a seasoned cybersecurity practitioner, with vast experience in cybersecurity, IT management/leadership, cloud, and regulatory compliance.

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Ricardo Villadiego

Founder & CEO, Lumu

Ricardo is a cybersecurity entrepreneur, who has dedicated much of his career to understanding the online attacks that put organizations at risk, designing innovative solutions, and building talented teams whose mission is to help organizations take control of the impact of cybercrime.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solution Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Alfonso Cabrera

Director of Platform Engineering, Red Ventures

Engineering Director passionate about AWS, DevOps, community, and continuous learning, Alfonso Cabrera works best in a DevOps enlightened culture and enjoys automating, scaling, troubleshooting, and treating all infrastructure as code. He takes pride in being easy to work with, intellectually curious, sharing knowledge, and being involved in the tech community. Cabrera launched the inaugural DevOpsDays Charlotte conference in 2015 and has continued organizing the event annually, as well as the Docker Charlotte and Ansible Charlotte meetups in the past.

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Oliver Crawford

Software Engineer, SkyScanner

Oliver Crawford has been a Software Engineer with SkyScanner for almost four years. He came to the SkyScanner team with a background in research and producing, having worked on a tool for translating graph queries written in Cypher to SQL at the University of Cambridge.

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Simon Maple

VP of Developer Relations and Community, Snyk

Simon Maple is the VP, Developer Relations and Community at Snyk. A Java Champion since 2014, Maple has also been a JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014 and 2017, and Duke’s Choice award winner. Simon is also Virtual JUG founder and organiser,

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Chip Witt

VP, Product Management, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has over twenty years of diverse technology experience, including product management and operations leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Webroot, VMware, Alcatel, and Appthority. He is currently the Vice President of Product Management at SpyCloud, where he drives the company's product vision and roadmap. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution, and underground monitoring.

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Matt Johnson

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Transunion

Matt Johnson is a seasoned product marketing professional experienced in directing and executing product marketing strategy, go-to-market, sales enablement and creating messaging that clearly communicates differentiated value. Matt currently works as the advisor for fraud product marketing at TransUnion.

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Tonia Dudley

Strategic Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Tonia also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense’s inaugural international customer advisory board. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, Tonia has managed programs in cybersecurity incident response, security awareness, and IT compliance for large global organizations. She has spoken at several cybersecurity and industry conferences on building successful security awareness and phishing programs. Her anti-phishing training programs have received three awards.

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Karl Lankford

RVP, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford is RVP of Solutions Engineering EMEIA at BeyondTrust. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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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

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

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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Mark Ostrowski

Head of Engineering for the East, US, Check Point

Mark has over 20 years' experience in IT security and has helped design and support some of the largest security environments in the country. As Head of Engineering for the US East at Check Point Software, Mark provides thought leadership for the IT security industry outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can pro-actively mitigate and manage risk.

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