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Limor Kessem

Executive Security Advisor, IBM Security

Limor Kessem, CISO, CISM, is one of the top cyber intelligence experts at IBM Security. She is a seasoned security advocate, public speaker, and a prolific author of cybersecurity thought leadership. Helping security professionals understand and manage business risk, Limor is considered an authority on emerging cybercrime threats. With her unique position at the intersection of multiple research teams at IBM, and her fingers on the pulse of current day threats, Limor covers the full spectrum of information security trends affecting consumers, corporations, and the industry as a whole. On the social side, Limor tweets security items as @iCyberFighter and is an avid Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighter.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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Tim Bedard

Director Product Marketing - Trusted Identity (TID) Solutions, OneSpan

Tim is responsible for OneSpan's Trusted Identity Platform security solutions. With more than twenty years of IT security experience, Tim has successfully launched multiple cloud-based identity and access management offerings with responsibilities for strategic planning to go-to-market execution. Previously, he has held leadership positions in product strategy, management and marketing at SailPoint Technologies, RSA Security and CA Technologies. Tim is active security evangelist at industry leading tradeshows and events.

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Will LaSala

Director Security Solutions, OneSpan

Will LaSala is the Director of Security Solutions at OneSpan. He joined VASCO in 2001 and brings over 25 years of software and cybersecurity experience. Since joining OneSpan, LaSala has been involved in all aspects of product implementation and market direction within financial institutions as well as top Fortune 500 organizations for enterprise security, healthcare, U.S. government, online gaming and mobile application development. He currently empowers the markets and OneSpan's largest clients with direct communication of new products and features and security changes. Prior to joining OneSpan, LaSala worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer and Developer for a consulting firm in New England. Before that, he spent eight years as CTO at a prominent Internet Service Provider in New England. A security evangelist on mobile application development and authentication, LaSala is frequently quoted in the media and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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Tim Bedard

Director Product Marketing - Trusted Identity (TID) Solutions, OneSpan

Tim is responsible for OneSpan's Trusted Identity Platform security solutions. With more than twenty years of IT security experience, Tim has successfully launched multiple cloud-based identity and access management offerings with responsibilities for strategic planning to go-to-market execution. Previously, he has held leadership positions in product strategy, management and marketing at SailPoint Technologies, RSA Security and CA Technologies. Tim is active security evangelist at industry leading tradeshows and events.

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Will LaSala

Director Security Solutions, OneSpan

Will LaSala is the Director of Security Solutions at OneSpan. He joined VASCO in 2001 and brings over 25 years of software and cybersecurity experience. Since joining OneSpan, LaSala has been involved in all aspects of product implementation and market direction within financial institutions as well as top Fortune 500 organizations for enterprise security, healthcare, U.S. government, online gaming and mobile application development. He currently empowers the markets and OneSpan's largest clients with direct communication of new products and features and security changes. Prior to joining OneSpan, LaSala worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer and Developer for a consulting firm in New England. Before that, he spent eight years as CTO at a prominent Internet Service Provider in New England. A security evangelist on mobile application development and authentication, LaSala is frequently quoted in the media and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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Roji Oommen

Managing Director, Financial Services, CenturyLink

Roji is currently responsible for product strategy, alliances and partnerships within CenturyLink's Financial Services practice area. He works very closely with the clients that make up this vertical to deliver purpose-built IT infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Roji has more than 20 years of experience, at organizations such as Thomson Reuters, IBM and Bridge Information Systems, specializing in information technology for financial services firms.

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Michael Renshaw

Senior Director Security Specialist, CenturyLink

Michael Renshaw is CenturyLink's Senior Director of Security Evangelist Sales, with responsibility for the company's Western Region and Indirect Channel Security Sales. With 20 years of experience in IT, Mike has held a number of leadership positions in managed security, sales, and network engineering with several technology product and services organizations. He served with companies such as Akamai, Prolexic Technologies, Solera Networks and others.

Mike has worked with the largest financial, e-commerce, energy, and telecommunications companies in the world to create both network and security postures designed to withstand outages and the latest cyber security threats. He started his career as an engineer designing and installing IP and telephony networks, then found a natural fit in security protecting customers against DDoS attacks and many other forms of cyber threats.

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Perry Carpenter

Chief Evangelist & Strategy Officer, KnowBe4

Perry Carpenter currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. Previously, Perry led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research, in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. With a long career as a security professional and researcher, Mr. Carpenter has broad experience in North America and Europe, providing security consulting and advisory services for many of the best-known global brands. Perry holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University in Vermont and is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).

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Jeannette Jarvis

Director, Product Marketing, FortiGuard Labs

Jarvis has been a thought leader and respected advisor in cybersecurity for more than 20 years. With experience in business & technical strategy, product management and marketing, and global executive management, she has held numerous positions at well known companies in the IT and cybersecurity space. Jeannette is a distinguished speaker on a wide range of security security protection topics. She spoke at many prominent security conferences including RSA and Gartner Security Summit. Her published papers showcase her knowledge and expertise on various security issues encountered in the global corporate environment.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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John Salmon

Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Salmon specializes in providing e-commerce and IT advice, particularly in the financial-services sector. He has represented major insurance companies and banks on their key strategic IT and e-business arrangements in a number of cutting-edge projects. He has market-leading experience in dealing with wrap and corporate platforms and other online projects. Salmon lectures and writes extensively about IT and e-business legal issues, and has a regular blog on legal issues related to financial-services companies. He also has a keen interest in the use of IT in law firms and founded OUT-LAW.com, which has more than 500,000 unique users a month and is one of the most popular law firm websites in the world.

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Mark Johnson

CISO, DPO & Cyber Security Advocate

Mark Johnson is a renowned cybercrime and security awareness trainer with over 40 years operational law enforcement & security experience worldwide. His background includes operational drug enforcement in the Central American region, military intelligence operations focusing on organised crime & counter-insurgency, telecoms network fraud investigations in 26 countries on all continents, online 'Catfishing' internet investigations into social engineering and phishing, training for police and other public sector cybercrime & online investigations as well as shipping, retail, IT and manufacturing security experience in multiple markets.

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Jake Olcott

VP of Strategic Parterships, BitSight Technologies

Jake manages BitSight's insurance and government programs.

Jake served as cybersecurity attorney to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Homeland Security Committee. He previously consulted with Fortune 1000 executives on cyber risk management.

He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Sarb Sembhi

CTO/CSO, Virtually Informed

Sarb Sembhi currently serves as the CTO & CISO at Virtually Informed. Previously, he was CTO & CISO for the Noord Group. His contributions to the industry include the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Defence and Security Committee and its Cybersecurity working group, an Advisor to the Internet of Things Security Foundation, Smart Buildings working group. Other contributions include: Past President of the ISACA London Chapter, Chair of ISACA International GRA Region 3 Sub-Committee, Chair of ISACA International GRA Committee, ISSA UK Advisory Group member, InfoSecurity Magazine Editorial Group member.

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Christopher Greany

Managing Director, Head of Group Investigations and Insider Threat Program, Barclays

Managing Director Christopher Greany is the head of Group Investigations at Barclays. Working as part of the Chief Security Office (CSO) he leads the strategic implementation and delivery of investigations across Barclays international footprint. He is also responsible for the Barclays Global Insider Threat Programme and cyber forensics capability. The CSO team is tasked with providing a holistic security footprint across all of Barclays international operations. Before joining Barclays Christopher had a policing career spanning over 30 years. His last role was leading the UK and international policing response to Economic Crime and Cyber Protection as Commander in the City of London Police. Previously he led the National Police Coordination Centre, coordinating the UK policing response to national and international crisis and disaster. He has extensive international experience and has led the response to a number of significant events and investigations impacting UK interests abroad.

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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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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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