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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Toronto Office, Miller Thomson LLP

Ahmad works closely with clients to develop and implement practical pre- and post-breach mitigation strategies. He advises risk assessments, compliance, due diligence, risk allocation, security and data breach incident preparedness, as well as engages with regulators and law enforcement, providing representation in case of litigation. Ahmad sits on the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance's Cyber Security Council and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section. Recently, he was appointed to the National Cyber Security Leadership Council on Youth and Education. Prior to his call to the bar, Ahmad was a political adviser to retired Lieutenant-General and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, and clerked for Justice Edmond P. Blanchard at the Federal Court of Canada and Competition Tribunal in Ottawa.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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Richard Bortnick

Cyber Liability and Insurance Attorney, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, Red Bank, NJ

Bortnick litigates and counsels clients on cyber and technology risks, exposures and best practices; directors' and officers' liability; professional liability; insurance coverage; and commercial litigation matters. He also drafts professional liability insurance policies of varying types, including cyber, privacy and technology forms, and is Publisher of the cyber industry blog, Cyberinquirer.com. He serves as a member of the Executive Corporate Board of The Franklin Institute science museum and is Co-Chair of the Computer & Technology Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Bortnick is a regular contributor and columnist for Advisen and was named by Advisen as their Cyber Risk Network 2015 Person of the Year.

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Warren Cooney

Assistant Vice President of Claims, AXIS Insurance

With more than 20 years of Financial Services and Insurance Industry experience, Warren Cooney is currently responsible for the Claims group at AXIS Insurance. Prior to joining AXIS in 2012, he served as a Complex Claims Director at AIG. Cooney has also spent time in Brussels, focused on insurance regulation, in the Financial Services Group of US law firm Steptoe & Johnson. Having started his Insurance career at a Commercial Insurance Brokerage, Cooney then worked in the Specialty Claims Group of Chubb and later in the Compliance Department of RBC Insurance. Additionally, he has spent time as a Senior Policy Advisor at Advocis, the financial advisors association of Canada, and in the Corporate Policy & Public Affairs Branch of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario.

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Tracy Kitten

Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

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Greg Markell

President and CEO, Ridge Canada Cyber Solutions Inc.

Greg Markell is a leading insurance expert on the topic of cyber and privacy liability. He has advised public, private, and non-profit organizations regarding their risk transfer of organizational exposure to cyber-related losses. His career in insurance began with underwriting for a large national insurer, starting in property and casualty before quickly moving into executive and professional risk, with a focus on director's and officer's (D&O) insurance. He then moved on to join a national brokerage, focusing on specialty insurance products for financial services companies, including D&O and cyber liability. Markell left this firm as a partner in 2014 and joined a top 10 global broker, where he was a resource for his colleagues for D&O and the practice leader for cyber and privacy liability.

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Ruby Rai

Cyber Underwriting Specialist, Financial Lines, AIG

Ruby Rai currently leads the complex Cyber and Technology risk portfolio for AIG Canada. She actively participates in public forums to promote AIG's expertise in cyber insurance and guides the team to stay ahead of the evolving cyber risk market. Rai's more than 11 years of insurance experience includes being a financial lines broker and spearheading a national cyber practice at a tier 1 brokerage in Canada. In her previous role as a broker, she advised clients in assessing their cyber risks and finding the right solutions for cyber risk transfer.

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Gord Jamieson

Senior Director of Canada Risk Services, Visa

Jamieson joined Visa Canada in March of 2001 where he now heads Visa Canada Risk Services and North America Acquirer Risk Services. Jamieson is responsible for delivering value-added services to improve client profitability and growth, engaging clients to influence security and fraud outcomes, demonstrating risk management leadership, reporting fraud performance by fraud type against benchmark standards and objectives, and managing compliance risk programs. Prior to joining Visa, Jamieson served as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 20 years where he investigating organized crime involvement in forged credit card manufacturing and distribution. The Canadian courts recognize Jamieson as an expert in this field of investigation. In addition, he has served as both the president and vice-president of the Central Canada Chapter of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI) and presently is a member of the IAFCI Board of Advisors.

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Art Coviello

former CEO, RSA Security; Venture Partner, Rally Ventures

Coviello has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high-technology companies and is one of the most recognized figures within the cyber-security industry. He joined RSA Security, Inc. in 1995 and became CEO of the Company in 2000. During his tenure, he was the driving force in the rapid growth of the company from $25 million in annual revenue to over $1 billion. Following the acquisition of RSA by EMC in 2006, Coviello continued to lead the company as Executive Chairman and President until he retired from the full-time role in early 2015. Coviello has played a leading role in several national cyber-security initiatives including as a founding board member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, and has served as an advisor to key government agencies as well as public-private initiatives. He is also an organizer of the Digital Equilibrium Project, which works to bring differing views together in pursuit of a digital constitution to support a safer world for individuals, organizations and nations.

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Peter Beardmore

Director of Solutions Marketing, RSA

Peter Beardmore re-joined RSA in 2015, bringing two decades of IT security operations, marketing, and sales experience to his senior marketing consultant role. His responsibilities include development of corporate messaging, market insights, and thought leadership. He also handles marketing and communications for the RSA Risk and Cybersecurity Practice. Previously, he instituted and lead the global product marketing practice at Kaspersky Lab over a seven year period. He helped establish Kaspersky as a security brand in The Americas and his efforts contributed to rapid growth of the organization's consumer and commercial businesses over several years. In his earlier tenure at RSA, he was senior product marketing manager for government business. Beardmore began his career in the US Army, serving in capacities including tank platoon leader and communications company executive officer. He later held a variety of sales, marketing, and business development positions at Cabletron Systems, Enterasys Networks, and Colubris Networks. He also ran a small internet marketing firm for several years.

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Art Coviello

former CEO, RSA Security; Venture Partner, Rally Ventures

Coviello has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high-technology companies and is one of the most recognized figures within the cyber-security industry. He joined RSA Security, Inc. in 1995 and became CEO of the Company in 2000. During his tenure, he was the driving force in the rapid growth of the company from $25 million in annual revenue to over $1 billion. Following the acquisition of RSA by EMC in 2006, Coviello continued to lead the company as Executive Chairman and President until he retired from the full-time role in early 2015. Coviello has played a leading role in several national cyber-security initiatives including as a founding board member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, and has served as an advisor to key government agencies as well as public-private initiatives. He is also an organizer of the Digital Equilibrium Project, which works to bring differing views together in pursuit of a digital constitution to support a safer world for individuals, organizations and nations.

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Joan Goodchild

Director of Multimedia Content, ISMG

Joan Goodchild is veteran writer and editor who has been covering security for more than a decade. Before joining ISMG, she was the editor-in-chief of CSO, where she led the team to several national awards, including an AZBEE (ASPBE) for website of the year and several Digital Eddie (Folio) awards for B2B website of the year. Her previous experience in business journalism includes roles as a broadcast and web editor with the Boston Business Journal and as a news writer covering the Windows OS with TechTarget. Prior to that, she worked as a television reporter and anchor for more than a decade. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting.

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Richard Parry

Principal, Parry Advisory; former Risk Management Executive, JPMorgan Chase

Parry is a career risk manager, with experience that spans the globe for international financial institutions such as Visa, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. Parry's expertise includes executive roles in fraud operations, fraud policy and oversight, customer authentication and identity management. After his tenure with Chase, Parry co-founded Turnkey Risk Solutions, an identity risk management company specializing in identifying synthetic identities and first-party fraud. Most recently, he created Parry Advisory, an advisory firm focused on identity risk and cybersecurity thought leadership.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Toronto Office, Miller Thomson LLP

Ahmad works closely with clients to develop and implement practical pre- and post-breach mitigation strategies. He advises risk assessments, compliance, due diligence, risk allocation, security and data breach incident preparedness, as well as engages with regulators and law enforcement, providing representation in case of litigation. Ahmad sits on the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance's Cyber Security Council and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section. Recently, he was appointed to the National Cyber Security Leadership Council on Youth and Education. Prior to his call to the bar, Ahmad was a political adviser to retired Lieutenant-General and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, and clerked for Justice Edmond P. Blanchard at the Federal Court of Canada and Competition Tribunal in Ottawa.

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Sunil Chand

Director of Cybersecurity, Grant Thornton, Toronto

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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 diverse cadre of senior-level editors and reporters. 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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Randy Sabett

Vice Chair, Privacy & Data Protection Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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Kenrick Bagnall

Detective Constable - Computer Cyber Crime (C3) Intelligence Services, Toronto Police Service

Prior to joining the Toronto Police Service, Bagnall spent 20 years working in the IT industry, primarily within financial services. During that time, he spent more than 12 years working in Bermuda as a senior network analyst for the Bank of Butterfield, then became an IT manager for Flag Telecom. From there, Bagnall was named senior vice president of IT for Capital G Bank (Now Clarien Bank) before returning to Canada in 2005. He has been a member of the Toronto Police Service since April 2006 and has worked in primary response, community response, criminal investigations and divisional fraud Investigations. In February 2015, Bagnall joined the computer cybercrime section of intelligence services, where he currently is a cybercrime investigator.

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Luis Cerritos

National Coordinator, Integrated Market Enforcement Teams, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

A 22 year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sgt. Luis Cerritos currently serves as the National Coordinator for the Integrated Market Enforcement Teams. Within this role, Cerritos is responsible for liaising and collaborating with key domestic and international stakeholders to strengthen the collective capacity to prevent, disrupt and investigate financial market misconduct and related criminality. Over the course of his career, Sgt. Cerritos has gained extensive experience in the assessment, design and implementation of emergency response protocols to manage operational disruptions due to human threats, infrastructure malfunction and natural disasters. He has 14 years investigational experience including various complex cases in relation to frauds, money laundering, drugs and weapons trafficking and homicides. Sgt. Cerritos is also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal for his contributions to the RCMP Operational Readiness and Response Program.

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Tracy Kitten

Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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Michael Theis

Chief Counterintelligence Expert, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Insider Threat Center

Theis is chief counterintelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence supervisory special agent supporting the U.S. intelligence community, and more than 30 years of concurrent computer systems engineering experience. At Carnegie Mellon's CERT Insider Threat Center, Theis focuses on research and development of socio-technical controls in computational endoparacology. Previously, he was the first cyber counterintelligence program manager for the National Reconnaissance Office, where he served as chief of cyber-CI investigations and operations for more than six years.

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Paul Bowen

Principal Security Technologist, Arbor Networks

Bowen brings to Arbor Networks more than 20 years of experience as a security practitioner. His current focus is on advanced threat detection and mitigation with Arbor's new Spectrum Platform. Previous to joining the team at Arbor, Bowen spent a decade managing global security for Estée Lauder, and another decade at ArcSight, before and during the HP acquisition. HP utilized his expertise and made him a conference speaker as a strategic evangelist from the Office of Advanced Technology. Bowen also previously worked with Mendicant and Fortinet.

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Kevin Flynn

Global Director of Products, Skybox Security

Kevin Flynn is currently Director of Products at Skybox. Prior to joining Skybox Security in August 2016, Flynn was Director of Product Marketing at Blue Coat Systems. With over 25 years of experience in high tech, he has been involved in cyber security technologies for over 15 of those years. His high tech experience started at Apple Computer where he was a product manager in Apple's Advanced Technology Group. Flynn then spent over a dozen years at Cisco as a product manager and marketing manager in their security technology organization. After leaving Cisco, he moved over to Fortinet for three years before joining Blue Coat in 2013. Flynn is a frequent speaker on cyber security topics at conferences worldwide and has authored numerous articles on cyber security issues.

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Tony Goulding

Director of Technical Product Management, Centrify

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Peter Beardmore

Director of Solutions Marketing, RSA

Peter Beardmore re-joined RSA in 2015, bringing two decades of IT security operations, marketing, and sales experience to his senior marketing consultant role. His responsibilities include development of corporate messaging, market insights, and thought leadership. He also handles marketing and communications for the RSA Risk and Cybersecurity Practice. Previously, he instituted and lead the global product marketing practice at Kaspersky Lab over a seven year period. He helped establish Kaspersky as a security brand in The Americas and his efforts contributed to rapid growth of the organization's consumer and commercial businesses over several years. In his earlier tenure at RSA, he was senior product marketing manager for government business. Beardmore began his career in the US Army, serving in capacities including tank platoon leader and communications company executive officer. He later held a variety of sales, marketing, and business development positions at Cabletron Systems, Enterasys Networks, and Colubris Networks. He also ran a small internet marketing firm for several years.

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Alex Mosher

Vice President of Security Strategy, CA Technologies

Alex Mosher, global vice president, CA Technologies As global vice president of CA Technologies, Mosher is responsible for CA's cybersecurity strategy and go-to-market plan and execution. Working to align CA's cybersecurity solutions and portfolio with customer requirements and objectives, Mosher leads a team that works to develop and implement action plans that enable customers to take control of security, identities, access and information across platforms and devices. Mosher joined CA in 2007. As a 20-year information technology industry veteran, he has amassed hands-on experience in virtually every aspect of the business, including sales and marketing, development and deployment services.

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Craig Gibson

Principal Threat Defense Architect, Forward-Looking Threat Research, Trend Micro

With 18 years of project management, product development, architecture and investigations experience, Craig Gibson's is currently dedicated to researching the evolution of the threat landscape - specifically trying to understand future impacts to government, health, banking and telecom sectors. As a United Nations delegate to China, Gibson has previously spoken internationally on topics including disruptive telecommunications, 9-1-1, public safety, payment cards, the security of voice services, call center authentication (cost reduction) and criminal code issues relating to fraud and unlawful interception of communications. Additionally, he has spoken on national infrastructure security topics to diplomats visiting Canada, as well as public safety, military officials and police executives.

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John Cloonan

Head of Products, Lastline

John Cloonan is Director of Products for Lastline with a passion for creating innovative information security solutions. Of his nearly 25 years of professional experience, he has spent more than 15 years in Information Security software development and service delivery. Cloonan has created strategies to help dozens of companies leverage their brands for marketing returns on investment, from solopreneurs to Fortune 1000 companies, and has passed on this knowledge to others as an adjunct professor.

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