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Ryan Stolte

Founder & CTO, Bay Dynamics

As a founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, Ryan Stolte has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.

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Miguel Pinto

Senior Product Manager, BitSight

Miguel is the Senior Product Manager at BitSight for the company's Analytics products. He has spent the last 20 years creating software products for enterprise and consumer markets at companies like Siemens, Vodafone, and Anubis Networks.

At BitSight, Miguel is responsible for Analytics propositions. He has an MBA from Maastricht University Business School and a degree in Computer Science from Porto University.

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Julie Conroy

Research Director, Aite Group

As Research Director of Aite Group's Retail Banking & Payments team, Julie covers fraud and authentication issues. She has more than a decade of product management experience working with banks, payment processors, and risk management companies, including a number of years leading the product team at Early Warning Services. Julie is fluent in Spanish, holds an M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. from the Michigan State University Honors College.

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Marc Trepanier

Principal Fraud Consultant, ACI Worldwide

Marc is a seasoned fraud prevention and risk management professional, with a broad skill-set in the financial services industry covering all aspects of fraud and risk management including prevention and detection, enterprise fraud risk assessments, payment card fraud, EMV chip deployments, fraud analytics, neural scoring engines, strategy, and policy. Marc supports customers across the Americas, bringing his expertise in payment fraud, identity theft, first and third-party abuse, skimming, counterfeiting, interception, wire, online and mobile fraud. Over the course of his 20-year career in fraud Marc has worked within both retail banking and solution provider environments, and it is his knowledge of both worlds that helps ACI clients to fight fraud effectively.

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Nathanael Coffing

CEO, Cloudentity

Nathanael is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cloudentity. His extensive knowledge of Identity and Data security has been a major driver in extending authentication and dynamic authorization to any user, service or thing. With a core focus on ultra-scale and microservices security creating the market's first microservices Zero Trust platform that provides the best customer experience bringing authentication, dynamic Authorization to API Security.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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Matt DeMatteo

Global Solutions Lead

Matt DeMatteo is a Global Solution Lead focused on developing and promoting Secureworks' Security Management and Monitoring services. Matt joined Secureworks in 2007 as a Security Analyst in the Providence, RI SOC. Matt has been working directly with clients for the past 10 years as a Presales Engineer, Account Manager, and Solution Principal. His goal is to help design Secureworks services that delivery value and work with Secureworks global sales force to promote best practices in solution design. Matt has a passion for understanding client's business needs and unique risks. Matt holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island, where he also was the Director of the Digital Forensics Lab.

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Ajay Cherian

Security Intelligence & Threat Protection Segment Leader - Asia Pacific

Cherian is responsible for Security Intelligence and Threat Protection Segment for IBM Security in Asia Pacific. This includes Security Operations Center Solution and Technology Sales, Channel Sales, Business Development, Client Acquisition & Retention, Key Account Relationships, Organisational Leadership, Technology Transformation Leadership.

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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, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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David Hamdani

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Docker

David Hamdani is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Docker, focusing on the Windows Server and MTA programs. Prior to joining Docker, David led platform marketing at Aera Technology, a leading AI applications company. David received his BA from the University of California Los Angeles.

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Kenneth Citarella

Senior Managing Director of Investigations, Guidepost

Kenneth C. Citarella currently serves as a senior managing director for the Investigations and Cyber Forensics practice. He joined Guidepost Solutions in 2010 as a project manager to investigate fraudulent claims for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in its administration of the $20 billion BP compensation fund. In that capacity, Citarella supervised 300 professionals, including more than 200 field investigators. He also manages several of the integrity monitorship projects Guidepost Solutions performs for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Using a team of attorneys, forensic accountants and investigators, Guidepost Solutions monitors all aspects of major public works construction projects to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. Prior to joining Guidepost Solutions, Citarella worked with a commercial litigation law firm and the Corporate Investigations Division of Prudential. Citarella had a distinguished 28-year career as a white-collar and computer crime prosecutor in the Westchester County, New York District Attorney's Office, which he concluded as Deputy Chief of the Investigations Division. He prosecuted investment frauds, larcenies, embezzlements, anti-trust violations, public corruption, forgeries and many other economic crimes.

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Rodrigo Figueroa

Head of Fraud Risk Management Oversight, PayPal

Rodrigo Figueroa currently serves as a Senior Director at PayPal, charged with heading the Fraud Risk Management initiative. He has more than 18 years of experience in Risk Management and 23 years in Financial Services. Figueroa joined PayPal recently to implement a second line of defense and oversight program for fraud risk management. Previously Rodrigo was the Global Head of Fraud Oversight for Citibank Consumer Banking.

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Dora Gomez

Director, New York Chapter, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and InfraGard NY Metro

Dora Gomez is a Director on the Boards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI). She is additionally the current Northeast Chapter President for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of their International Board of Directors. She actively manages and plans the chapter meetings and conferences for these organizations and is part of the steering committee for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and spent most of her career in the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Most recently she was a Divisional Director of Internal Controls at Wolters Kluwer.

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Ondrej Krehel

Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, LIFARS LLC

Krehel is the Digital Forensic Lead, CEO & Founder of LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, and the Captain at Cyber Team Six, an elite incident response team. He's the former CISO of Identity Theft 911, the nation's premier identity theft recovery and data breach management service. He previously conducted forensics investigations and cyber security consulting at Stroz Friedberg. With two decades of experience, he conducted a wide range of investigations including data breached through computer intrusions, theft of intellectual property, massive deletions, defragmentation, file carvings, anti-money laundering, financial fraud, mathematical modeling and computer hacking. Krehel's experience also includes working as the IT Security Technical Project Leader for the Loews Corporation, Fortune 100 in NYC, and as a computer analyst for the Slovakian government-owned utility company.

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Avner Gideoni

Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security

Avner Gideoni currently serves Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security's anti-fraud division. Prior to IBM's acquisition of Trusteer Gideoni formed and led Trusteer Security Research and Development team, consisting of world's top-notch researchers, analysts, and security developers. This team fights with financial fraud gangs worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He and the team make sure all Trusteer products are detecting new fraud schemes as they emerge, and its customers are safe.

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Myke Lyons

Global Director of Security Transformation, ServiceNow

Myke Lyons currently serves as the Global Director of Security Transformation for ServiceNow. There he is charged with helping Enterprises better respond to imminent security events, quickly find indicators and observables of compromise, and effectively remediate known vulnerabilities. Prior to moving to the Security Business Unit, Lyons led ServiceNow's information security group and was brought on board to help secure the cloud startup while creating a mantra of transparency. He has also held Senior Security positions at WPP Group, Grey Global Group, Y&R, and GE.

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Nick Hayes

VP of Strategy, IntSights Cyber Intelligence

Nick Hayes is the VP of Strategy at IntSights Cyber Intelligence. Prior to IntSights, Nick was a senior analyst at Forrester Research where he advised security and business leaders at Fortune 500 and growth companies on cybersecurity strategy, technology adoption, and industry and technology market trends.

During his time at Forrester, he pioneered the firm's digital risk protection (DRP) research and authored more than 100 published reports and technology evaluations, covering a wide range of cybersecurity, risk, and threat intelligence domains. Some of Nick's unique areas of expertise include social media weaponization, brand security, and threat detection, prevention, and response. Nick is a prominent speaker at leading industry events, such as RSA Conference, ISACA, Cybersecurity Chicago, and Forrester's annual security and privacy conferences. He also makes appearances and is regularly cited in high-profile media outlets, including CSO Magazine, Dark Reading, Financial Times, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and VentureBeat, among others.

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