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Chris Calvert

Co-Founder, VP of Product Strategy, Respond Software

Chris has over 30 years of experience in defensive information security: 14 years in the defense and intelligence community and 17 years in the commercial industry. He has worked on the Defense Department Joint Staff and held leadership positions in both large and small companies, including IBM and HPE. He has designed, built and managed global security operations centers and incident response teams for six of the global Fortune-50. As he often says, if you have complaints about today's security operations model, you can partially blame him. It's from his first-hand experience in learning the limitations of the man vs. data SecOps model that Chris leads product design and strategy for Respond Software.

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Matt Ferrari

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, ClearData

Matt Ferrari is a skilled technology veteran with more than a decade of success delivering managed hosting and secure cloud-based computing to companies around the world. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), he is responsible for the strategy and execution of ClearDATA's healthcare technology platform and services. In this role, he oversees Engineering, Product Management, and back-office systems. Matt's HIPAA and HITECH expertise, combined with his extensive understanding of Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery, make him uniquely qualified to build healthcare storage environments for organizations that require a high degree of scalability, data security, and regulatory compliance.

Prior to ClearDATA, Matt was the Chief Technology Officer at HOSTING.COM. He architected and built the company's fast-growing line of managed cloud products and services at HOSTING.COM for over a decade, focusing largely on driving automation and cloud product innovation.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Matt has presented at events such as AWS Re:invent, EMCWorld, VMWorld, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), IT Expo, InterOp, and others. He joins top partners in panel discussions about cloud computing, and nurtures many strategic technology relationships.

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Markku Rossi

Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security

Markku Rossi currently serves as Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security. With more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, he is responsible for R&D and directs the company's technology strategy. Prior to his current role, Rossi served as CTO at Navicore and Chief Architect at Nokia. He also co-founded several companies, including Codento and ShopAdvisor. Rossi served SSH previously to these roles, serving as Chief Engineer and has been heralded as a major contributor to the SSH software architecture.

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Craig Dore

Lead IAM Strategist, RSA, APJ

Craig Dore is the lead IAM strategist for RSA Asia-Pacific, India and Japan. He has 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, 20 of which has been at RSA. Previously, he held other positions at RSA in engineering, QA and as a presales architect. He now serves as a product evangelist, public speaker, sales specialist, author of numerous published articles and technical expert.

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Rajnish Gupta

Regional Director - India & SAARC, RSA

Rajnish Gupta is regional director, India and SAARC, at RSA, responsible for supervising sales and driving the company's growth in the region. Previously, he worked at Symantec, where he managed the north and east regions and government business across India. He has also held senior-level positions at Cadence, MindTree and Wipro. He started his professional career with PCS in 1990.

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Kalyanaraman Seshadri

Industry Veteran and Senior Security Executive, RSA

Kalyanaraman Seshadri, a security consultant, has two decades of experience at security managed service provider companies. He recently led transformation initiatives at Cognizant as head of information risk management and global head of vendor risk management. Earlier, he led security for HCL Technologies, where he planned and executed security strategy, transformation and consolidation for more than a decade.

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Scott M Giordano

V.P. & Sr. Counsel, Privacy and Compliance

Scott M. Giordano is an attorney with more than 20 years of legal, technology, and risk management consulting experience. An IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), Scott serves as Spirion's subject matter expert on multinational data protection and its intersection with technology, export compliance, internal investigations, information governance, and risk management. Prior to joining Spirion, he served as Director, Data Protection for Robert Half Legal and established the global privacy program for Esterline Technologies Corporation in Bellevue, WA. During his career, Scott has held senior positions at several legal technology firms and is listed as co-inventor on Intelligent Searching of Electronically Stored Information, patent application no. 13/842,910. In addition, he taught the first law school course anywhere on electronic evidence and e-discovery. Scott is a member of the bar in Washington state, California, and the District of Columbia.

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Thomas Bain

Senior Vice President, Marketing, RiskRecon

Tom Bain is Senior Vice President of Marketing for RiskRecon. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company and has 15+ years of experience with leading IT Security organizations.  Previous to RiskRecon, Mr. Bain was Vice President, Marketing with Morphisec. He has served in previous roles at innovative cybersecurity companies including Chief Marketing Officer with Centripetal Networks and Vice President, Global Marketing for CounterTack/GoSecure. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and holds a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. Mr. Bain sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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David Severski

Lead Data Scientist

David F. Severski is an information security data scientist, specializing in quantified risk management. He has provided risk management expertise across diverse industries -- retail, aerospace, finance, energy, and healthcare. David brings both broad and deep expertise in a number of technical areas with a special focus on cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He strives to combine rigorous methods, technical expertise, and a human-centered approach to advance the state of evidence-based information security risk management. David lives in Seattle, Washington with a low-maintenance spouse, a high-maintenance house and a spiffy fedora.

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Chad Skipper

VP Product Innovation, Lastline

Skipper is the VP Product Innovation at Lastline. With more than 25 years in information security, he serves as an executive security technologist and strategist and has played a significant role in the security design and architecture of endpoint, network, cloud, and hosted security services, as well as in advancements of security prevention, management, monitoring, testing, and intelligence mitigation solutions. Skipper is a public speaker covering a variety of security topics and is co-author of "Next-Generation Anti-Malware Testing for Dummies."

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Chip Witt

Head of Product Strategy, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has nearly 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 Head of Product Strategy and manages the Customer Success Program at SpyCloud, which provides cloud-based security services to help businesses of all sizes prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution and underground monitoring.

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Ian Lowe

Product Marketing Management Director

Ian is Product Marketing Director for HID SAFE and is passionate about marketing all things related to Identity, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, and Digital transformation. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today.

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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Chip Mason

Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom

Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.

Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

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Colin Casillas

Business Development Executive, ReversingLabs

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Chip Epps

Director Product & Solutions Marketing, ReversingLabs

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Keith Casey

The API Problem Solver

Keith Casey currently serves on the Product Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously, he served as an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress. His underlying goal is to get good technology into the hands of good people to do great things. In his spare time, he helps build and support the Austin tech community, blogs at CaseySoftware.com and is fascinated by monkeys. He is also a co-author of "A Practical Approach to API Design" from Leanpub.

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Lisa Lorenzin

Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler

Lisa Lorenzin is Director of Transformation Strategy at Zscaler, specializing in secure access to private applications. She has worked in a variety of Internet-related roles since 1994, with over twenty years of focus on network and information security, and has contributed to open standards for endpoint integrity and network security from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Lorenzin is currently concentrating on software-defined perimeter / zero-trust architecture and seamless user experience across cloud and mobile environments.

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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 Sanders

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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Marcus Carey

Enterprise Architect, ReliaQuest

Marcus Carey is currently an Enterprise Architect at ReliaQuest. Marcus is renowned in the cybersecurity industry and has spent his more than 20-year career working in penetration testing, incident response, and digital forensics with federal agencies such as NSA, DC3, DIA, and DARPA. He started his career in cryptography in the U.S. Navy and holds a Master's degree in Network security from Capitol College.

Marcus was previously the founder and CEO of Threatcare (acquired by ReliaQuest), a venture-backed cybersecurity and software services company based in Austin, Texas. He regularly speaks at security conferences across the country. Marcus is passionate about giving back to the community through things like mentorship, hackathons, and speaking engagements, and is a voracious reader in his spare time.

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