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Ayelet Avni

Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead, IBM Trusteer

Ayelet Avni, current serves as a Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead for IBM Trusteer. In her role as an Offering Strategy Lead at IBM, she works with customers to build and drive Trusteer portfolio, an industry leading solution for cybercrime and identity protection. Prior to joining IBM, Avni held various management roles at leading companies including RSA, and Military security. She has over 20 years of experience developing successful security offerings, supported by a broad range of experience in design thinking, product strategy, engineering and product development.

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Michael Bunyard

Product Marketing Manager, IBM

Michael leads IBM IAM's product marketing efforts. He brings over two decades of product management and marketing expertise to this role. Prior to IBM, Michael led marketing for a start-up company in the endpoint detection and response market, product management for Fiserv's fraud detection solutions, and product marketing for BMC software's enterprise application integration solutions.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT Arbor

Tom has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he has worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at NETSCOUT he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on their industry leading Edge Defense and Threat Intelligence solutions. Tom routinely speaks at IT security events around the world providing insights into cyber threats and best practices in defense.

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Ryan Hendricks

Training Manager, Carbon Black

Ryan Hendricks, Training Manager for Carbon Black, 14 years of information security and intelligence experience. His first venture in the field started while working intelligence operations for the U.S. Navy and then continued in the government and private sector as an educator, facilitator, and advisor on a multitude of information technology and cybersecurity principals.

Ryan holds many certifications covering hardware, networking, operating systems, and information security. He worked as a trainer for the U.S. Department of Defense educating hundreds of soldiers, civilians, and contractors on everything from military communication systems to the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certifications in addition to creating and maintaining several virtual labs, physical labs, and education platforms.

Ryan currently supports all product training operations at Carbon Black to include creating content, updating materials, piloting and expanding the certification programs, mentoring the training team, and educating anyone who is willing to learn. A supporter of information security who believes an educated staff and end users is critical to a company's strong security posture.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Tim Bedard

Director, Security Product Marketing, OneSpan

Tim Bedard is the Director, Security Product Marketing and is responsible for OneSpan's Trusted Identity Platform security solutions for financial services. With more than twenty years of IT security experience, Tim has successfully launched and managed multiple cloud-based security, compliance and identity and access management (IAM) offerings with responsibilities for strategic planning to go-to-market execution. Previously, he has held leadership positions in product strategy, product 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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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

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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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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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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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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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Dr. Matt Kraning

CTO & Co-Founder, Expanse

Dr. Kraning is the CTO and Co-Founder of Expanse. He is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Expanse, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.

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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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Brian Laing

SVP Corporate Development & Strategic Alliances, Lastline

For more than 20 years, Laing has shared his strategic business vision and technical leadership with a range of start-ups and established companies in various executive level roles. The author of "APT for Dummies," he was previously vice president of AhnLab, where he directed the US operations of the internationally known security and software leader. Laing founded Hive Media and served as CEO. As the co-founder of RedSeal Systems, he conceived of the overall design and features of the product and was granted two patents related to network security. Laing was also founder and CEO of self-funded Blade Software that released the industry's first commercial IPS/FW testing tool.

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