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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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Deepen Desai

CISO & VP Security Research at Zscaler

As Chief Information Security Officer & VP Security Research at Zscaler, Deepen Desai is responsible for running the global security research operations as well as working with the product group to ensure that the Zscaler platform and services are secure. Deepen has been actively involved in the field of cybersecurity for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Zscaler, he held a security leadership role at Dell SonicWALL.

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Bryan Lee

Principal Product Manager , Zscaler

Bryan Lee is a Principal Product Manager at Zscaler with over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry in a variety of roles. His areas of expertise are in espionage threats, cybersecurity operations, and threat intelligence.

Prior to joining Zscaler, Bryan was a Principal Researcher with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks, responsible for the co-discovery of adversary groups such as OilRig, DarkHydrus, as well as contributing significantly to research involving other adversaries such as the Sofacy group.

Bryan got his start in cybersecurity working at the NASA Security Operations Center, ultimately moving into a lead position. Due to his diverse set of experiences and skills, Bryan has frequently shared his expertise with some of the most influential organizations and conferences in the world.

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Kevin Hanes

SVP and Chief Operating Officer at Secureworks

Kevin Hanes is the SVP and Chief Operating Officer at Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity that protects customer progress with the cloud-native security analytics software of choice. Kevin's diverse team around the world includes the Secureworks' Incident Response and Consulting business and Customer Advocacy, as well as responsibility for global client service and delivery of Secureworks' managed security services. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Computing for Dell. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in a Computer Systems Management from St. Edward's University, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Kevin has two patents issued and another 12 pending in the area of services automation.

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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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Kevin Bresser

Director of Higher Education, Okta

Kevin Bresser has serviced the technology needs within Higher Education for the past twenty-five years having worked with Career Services, Human Resources, Athletics, Financial Aid, Advancement, and Information Technology. He is passionate about building strong customer communities that are energized to share best-practices with their peers and help drive the direction of the business.

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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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Sami Laine

Principal Security Architect, Okta

Sami Laine is Principal Security Architect at Okta. Over the last two decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches. At Okta he helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

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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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Ivan Dwyer

Group Product Marketing Manager, Okta

Ivan Dwyer is a member of the Product Marketing team at Okta. Previously with ScaleFT, he led all things Product, Marketing & Community. As an early advocate for Zero Trust across the security industry, Ivan was a leading voice in promoting Google’s BeyondCorp initiative, one of the marquee examples of Zero Trust done right.

Since joining Okta, Ivan has let the team in on his obscure alter ego as a prominent historian and collector of rare Brazilian jazz records from the '60s to today.

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Ben Sabrin

Vice President, Advanced Server Access, Okta

Sabrin leads Okta’s efforts around securing cloud infrastructure and is a recognized leader in disruptive technology markets across cloud, big data, open source and security. He has over 10 years of experience in building the business behind open source and cloud technologies at organizations including JBoss, MongoDB, Rackspace and ScaleFT

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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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Jaime Dal Porto

Head of Customer Success, Yubico

Jaime is a seasoned technology executive with extensive knowledge of the financial services and tech payment industry, and specialized experience in security and innovation. As the Head of Customer Success, Services and Support at Yubico, she is responsible for a team that ensures successful customer experience from onboarding to deployment and support.

Prior to Yubico, Jaime spent over 27 years at Visa, most recently as Vice President, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, where she was responsible for digital, mobile, eCommerce and tech, and led relationships with companies such as Paypal, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Jaime led the US and global launch of Apple Pay, the global expansion of Samsung Pay, and the Person to Person payment service on Facebook Messenger.

Outside of work, Jaime is passionate about design thinking and education, and lives with her husband and two children.

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