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James McQuiggan

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

James McQuiggan is a Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4. Prior to joining KnowBe4, McQuiggan worked for Siemens for 18 years where he was responsible for various roles, including Product & Solution Security Officer for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. In addition to his work at Siemens, McQuiggan is also a part-time faculty professor at Valencia College in the Engineering, Computer Programming & Technology Division.

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Andrew Kopcienski

Principal Analyst, Mandiant Intelligence

Andrew Kopcienski is a principal analyst for the Mandiant Communications Center, with ten years experience in cyber intelligence.

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Eric Van Woerden

Senior Manager, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks Americas

Eric Van Woerden is a Senior Manager within Palo Alto Networks' Network Security product group. His primary focus is helping customers achieve Zero Trust across all vulnerable environments by leveraging a consolidated, AI-powered Network Security platform. Since beginning his cybersecurity career in 2012, Eric spends most of his time collaborating with customers and partners to ensure Palo Alto Networks delivers solutions that solve real customer problems. Previous to joining Palo Alto Networks, Eric was part of Microsoft IT's Infosec organization and has been working in technology for over 20 years.

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Pankaj Goyal

Director of Research, FAIR Institute

Pankaj Goyal is the Director of Research at the FAIR Institute. He is responsible for driving the research agenda for the Institute. He led the AI business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where his team built some of the most powerful AI systems and applications in the world for both federal and commercial entities. Pankaj has also spent time at McKinsey & Company in the High Tech Practice. Pankaj is embedded into the startup community. He is an angel investor and founded a startup in the mobile technology space. He has written a best-selling book, 'Before You Start Up'. Pankaj lives in Houston and invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn for continued conversations.

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Omar Khawaja

VP, Field CISO at Databricks

Omar is VP, Field CISO at Databricks and former CISO at Highmark Health. He also serves on the boards of HITRUST, The FAIR Institute, and Leadership Pittsburgh; he also serves as an advisor to a half dozen tech firms and as faculty for the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) program at Carnegie Mellon University. For his dedication and focus on cyber resilience, he has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, SANS, Forrester, Gartner, NACD, Reuters, HIMSS, CSO Magazine, CMU, and others. Omar is passionate about people, community, frameworks, communication, and measurement.

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Jackie Lebo

Risk Advisor, Safe Security

Meet Jacqueline Lebo, a seasoned Risk Advisory Professional known for her exceptional ability to steer organizations through turbulent waters and safeguard their operations. With a career marked by hands-on experience in risk assessment, compliance, and internal auditing, and most recently, enabling companies to manage their GenAI risk. Jacqueline is a trusted advisor to her clients, which include one of the largest social media companies in the world, with a focus on building the metaverse as well as Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, data infrastructure, technology, retail, and banking.

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Pete Chestna

CISO, Checkmarx North America

Pete Chestna serves as the CISO of North America at Checkmarx, where he provides customers and prospects with practical advice for building successful application security programs. Bringing more than 15 years of direct AppSec practitioner experience, Pete has held roles ranging from developer and development leader to his most recent position as the Global Head of AppSec for the Bank of Montreal.

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Eitan Worcel

Co-founder and CEO, Mobb

Eitan Worcel is the co-founder and CEO of Mobb, the recent Black Hat StartUp Spotlight winner. He is an application security expert with more than 15 years of experience as a developer, product management leader, and now business leader. Throughout his career, Eitan has worked with numerous companies to help them detect security issues and is now on a mission to help make those findings actionable with trusted automated vulnerability remediation. In the past, in his spare time, Eitan used to be a long-distance runner and participated in a few marathons, including the Red Rock Canyon Marathon, and even did an ultra marathon. Now, since starting Mobb, he simply doesn't have spare time...

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Jeremy Grant

Managing Director, Technology Business Strategy, Venable, LLP & Coordinator, Better Identity Coalition

Jeremy Grant was the founding leader of the National Program Office for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and senior executive adviser for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He led the White House’s initiative to catalyze a marketplace of secure, easy-to-use, privacy-enhancing identity solutions for online services through government and private sector partnerships. Grant is now managing director of technology business strategy for Venable.

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Omer Yoachimik

Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare

Omer Yoachimik has over 13 years of experience in Cyber Security from enterprise, start-up, and military backgrounds. He started his career in the Israeli Military Intelligence reaching Lieutenant rank and focusing on tactical cybertech for special forces. Omer is based out of London, where he has been leading Cloudflare’s industry-leading DDoS protection service for almost 4 years.

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Resha Chheda

VP of Product Marketing & Analyst Relations, Safe Security

Resha is a seasoned product marketing leader with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. She has expertise in a wide range of security technologies, including ATT&CK MITRE, CASB, NGFW, SSO, federation, and more. As a product marketing leader, Resha drives go-to-market strategies and develops sales enablement programs and marketing collateral. She is also leading Safe’s Analyst Relations and is skilled at identifying market trends, customer needs, and developing new business ideas to address those needs. Under Resha's aegis, Safe Security has continued gaining market traction and mindshare within cybersecurity.

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James Lam

President, James Lam & Associates & Board Director, FAIR Institute

James C. Lam is a board director, management consultant, and best-selling author. He is President of James Lam & Associates, a risk management consulting firm that serves clients across all industry sectors. As a board director, James currently serves as an independent director and audit committee member of World Gold Trust Services and WGC USA Asset Management. He is also a board director of the FAIR Institute. Previously, James served as a board director, chair of the risk oversight committee, and member of the audit committee of E*TRADE Financial and E*TRADE Bank. James has been recognized in the NACD Directorship 100 by the National Association of Corporate Directors, Lifetime Achievement Award by Shared Assessments, Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury & Risk Management magazine.

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Nicola (Nick) Sanna

President, Safe Security

Nicola (Nick) Sanna is President of Safe Security, the category leader in cyber risk quantification and management software, a board member of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and a member of the cyber risk and corporate governance working group at the World Economic Forum. Nick is also the Founder of the FAIR Institute, a 15,000 members research-driven not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline of cyber and operational risk management through education, standards and collaboration, that was named one of the 3 most influential industry organizations of the last 30 years. Nick is fluent in 5 languages and received a master's degree in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza.

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Pedro Vieira

IT & innovation Director, Águas do Porto, EM

Since 2009, Pedro Vieira e Moreira has been with Águas do Porto, the municipal water utility that manages the city's full urban water cycle. He has also been, for the past 4 years, Assistant Professor in Project Management at ISEP Polytechnic of Porto School of Engineering, and also co-founder and chief strategist of a startup. Since 2015, he has been assigned as Director of IT & Innovation Department. He is responsible for the major IT revolution inside Águas do Porto, by transforming the way technology is provided for workers and clients, as part of a broader strategy, in order to accelerate the pace of change needed in the utilities sector, assisting the decision-making process and thus the strategy choices of decision makers. He's leading the transformation into a smart utility and intelligent city accelerator, using innovation as mean to achieve it, and defines a change management direction that must be implemented across the organization, considering the multiple stakeholders involved and the effort that should be asked to the affected people and the processes that must be adapted into new realities.

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Pedro (Rui) Cunha

CISO, Timestamp SGS

Brought onboard of the Information Security World at mid-2001, started his path by transposing and adopting the "recently published" best practices of BS 17799:2000 into normal day operations, along with other subjects such as fraud detection and analytics and revenue assurance for a Portuguese mobile operator. With background in Computer engineering, Cunha have been having roles as a consultant, as internal security team member and, more recently, as CISO on a Portuguese bank, part of a multinational French bank. In between relevant experience on the Insurance market and on the telecom industry have also enriched his horizons and perspectives.

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Tom Field

Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG

Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

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Sergio Gramaca

Chief Inspector, Fraud Risk Inspection and Monitoring, Novo Banco

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Filipe Lousa

Global Data Protection Officer, Getronics

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Luís Valente

CISO, Universidade do Porto

Luís M. Valente currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Porto and researcher in the field of computer security and digital identity at the CRACS/INESC-LA Port. Working straight in the implementation of digital identity, interoperability and electronic administration projects on the University, his main research is focused on secure authentication and digital identity management user-centric.

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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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Pedro (Rui) Cunha

CISO, Timestamp SGS

Brought onboard of the Information Security World at mid-2001, started his path by transposing and adopting the "recently published" best practices of BS 17799:2000 into normal day operations, along with other subjects such as fraud detection and analytics and revenue assurance for a Portuguese mobile operator. With background in Computer engineering, Cunha have been having roles as a consultant, as internal security team member and, more recently, as CISO on a Portuguese bank, part of a multinational French bank. In between relevant experience on the Insurance market and on the telecom industry have also enriched his horizons and perspectives.

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Antonio Moreno

Global Business Director, Security and Biometrics, Nuance

Antonio Moreno currently serves as the Global Director for Product Strategy and Go to Market within the Biometrics and Security Group at Nuance. As part of its role, he is in charge of leading the Strategy and Roadmap planning of the Nuance's Security Product Portfolio. Prior to that, Moreno spent 12 years as part of the Agnitio Team, ending his tenure there as Senior Vice President of Product Management. He is also a well-known expert on Forensic Speaker Recognition, having participated in many workshops and conferences all over the world. Prior to this, Moreno worked in Telefónica I+D, the R&D division of Telefónica.

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