Steve Wilson is Chief Product Officer at Exabeam. Wilson leads product strategy, product management, product marketing, and research at Exabeam. He is a leader and innovator in AI, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, with over 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams to build mission-critical enterprise software and high-leverage platforms.

Chitra Elango is Cyber security Director at FannieMae. She is an Industry recognized Cyber Security Leader, Innovator and Evangelist in DevSecOps, Application Security, Security Champion Program, and Vulnerability Management. Applying her development knowledge to security has made a huge impact in “moving security to the left”.

Karan Sondhi is Trellix's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Karan has over two decades of experience in the DoD and Intelligence Community. His most recent experience was serving as CTO for Microsoft’s $10 Billion JEDI contract with the DoD.  Before Microsoft, Karan spent 12 years leading and executing innovation efforts in Cybersecurity, Blockchain, and Automated Machine Learning at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Scott Armstrong has a diverse background in cybersecurity, supply chain risk management, and cyber-security automation, and is currently an Industry Principal at Interos.  At Interos he provides strategic insights and operational best practices to enable transformative supply chain risk intelligence solutions to the Public Sector, Aerospace, and Defense markets globally.

Robert A. Martin, a Senior Principal Engineer at MITRE, has dedicated his career to solving some of the world’s most difficult problems in business and engineering. His work focuses on the interplay of risk management, cyber security, and quality assessment and assurance.

Natalie is a principal solutions engineer at Chainguard serving the public sector market. She spent years designing, building, and leading complex systems in regulated environments at a major systems integrator, but has also taken her career in many other directions - including detours into project management, systems engineering, and teaching. She is passionate about diversity in technology and empowering engineers to build better.

Joseph Silvia is the Chief Executive Officer of MedWare Cyber, LLC. His mission is to ensure the utmost security and privacy of connected medical technologies and IoT devices, safeguarding patient safety and health outcomes. Joseph has over 20 years of experience in the field of cybersecurity, specializing in embedded and medical devices.

Shane is a Practice Director of Praetorian’s Professional Services division, specializing in Product Security Praetorian. He is primarily responsible for providing leadership and subject matter expertise on product security. Shane’s experience ranges from attack simulation and penetration testing to secure design and threat modeling, assessing customer’s organizational resilience to cyber threats and tailored recommendations to enhance their resilience and security posture.

Ken is the Chief Executive Officer at Vigilant Ops and a passionate advocate for the application of advanced technology to improve cybersecurity across all industries. He has collaborated with the United States Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Homeland Security, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on various cybersecurity initiatives, including cyber simulation exercises, industry guidance documents, and most recently, SBOM initiatives.

Dr. Allan Friedman is “the SBOM guy.” He is Senior Technical Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM) and related vulnerability and supply chain initiatives, and works to advance their adoption inside the US government and around the world.

Sakthi is a Product Security Leader with 19+ years of combined experience in Security Product management, Product Security Incident Response, Software Supply Chain Security, Cloud Security, Data Privacy, Risk Management, and Compliance. 
Sakthi currently leads the Product Security and Incident Response at Pure Storage.

Michael Machado is the Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust, the global identity security leader. With extensive experience in technology companies from startups to Fortune 100, he is an experienced security executive with deep expertise in cybersecurity, online fraud prevention, and delivering business value through security programs. He specializes in leading security programs for cloud product companies, cyber-risk governance, defending against online service abuse, advising security startups, and making security a brand strength.

Richard Bird is known around the world for his tattoos, bow-ties and expert insights on API security, zero trust, data privacy, and digital identity.  
 
A prolific presenter and speaker, Richard is the Chief Security Officer for API security leader Traceable.ai and a rare multi-time C-level executive in both the corporate and start-up worlds.

John is SVP of Strategy at Eclypsium. John has extensive history in hardware and firmware supply chain threats from experience at Intel and the United States government. At Intel he served as the Director of Advanced Threat Research, Platform Armoring and Resiliency, PSIRT, and was a CHIPSEC maintainer. Prior to this, he was Technical Team Lead for Specialized Platforms for the federal government.

Nico Popp is a Senior Operating Partner and Advisor at Crosspoint Capital. Nico joined Crosspoint from Tenable, where he served as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and launched Tenable One, the first Exposure Management platform. Prior to his tenure at Tenable, Nico was the CPO at Forcepoint, where he spearheaded the development of Forcepoint's human-centric SASE. He also held the position of Senior Vice President for Cloud and Data Security at Symantec.

Michiel Prins is a Co-Founder and Senior Director of Product Management at HackerOne, the leader in human-powered security. He is an information security expert, researcher, hacker, and developer. Michiel has been finding critical software vulnerabilities in technology for over 10 years.

Jefferson Jones is a DevOps expert specializing in GitLab implementations. With expertise in networking, systems engineering, data analytics, and cybersecurity, he optimizes CI/CD pipelines and enhances cloud security. As a neurodiverse individual Jefferson offers a unique perspective, championing diversity and innovation. Passionate about partnership and discoverability.

Arti Raman is the Founder and CEO of Portal26. She specializes in responsible use frameworks for enterprise consumption of Generative AI. She is also an expert in advanced data protection techniques, including high-performance encryption-in-use. Before Portal26, she was a senior product leader and head of UX and competitive intelligence for Symantec’s enterprise business. Arti holds a number of patents.

John Mark is the founder and Director of Fannie Mae’s Open Source Program Office. A proven open source product, community, and ecosystem expert, John Mark has built numerous enterprise software communities, launched new product initiatives, and implemented collaborative processes with internal and external stakeholders. He works cross-functionally with key stakeholders to improve products and processes with better ROI.

Roi Abitboul is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur with over a decade of experience. As the co-founder and CEO of Raven.io, he is currently leading efforts to revolutionize runtime cloud security. Previously, Roi co-founded Javelin Networks, a pioneering Active Directory security company acquired by Symantec, where he also served as VP of Engineering. Roi also served for eight years in the Ofek unit of the Israeli Defense Force, where he gained invaluable experience and honed his skills in advanced cybersecurity operations.

Dr. Jeremy Straub is the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Education and Research and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, both at North Dakota State University.  He holds a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, an M.S., an M.B.A. and two B.S degrees.  He previously worked in the software and electronics industry where he held executive, strategic leadership and software and technology development management positions at multiple firms. 

Cassie Crossley, Vice President, Supply Chain Security in the global Cybersecurity & Product Security Office at Schneider Electric, is an experienced cybersecurity technology executive in Information Technology and Product Development and author of “Software Supply Chain Security: Securing the End-to-End Supply Chain for Software, Firmware, and Hardware.”

Mario founded ReversingLabs in 2009. He serves as CEO driving all aspects of the company's strategy, operations and implementation. Mario has held senior technical positions at Bit9 (now Carbon-Black), Microsoft, Groove Networks, and PictureTel (now Polycom). He is the author of numerous research studies, speaking regularly at FS-ISAC, RSA, Black Hat and other leading security conferences. Mario is a graduate of Boston University and Swarthmore College.

Erez Yalon is the VP of Security Research at Checkmarx and oversees Checkmarx’s research team, which is comprised of analysts, pentesters, security engineers, and bug bounty hunters. Erez brings vast experience to his position and his efforts to empower today’s developers and organizations to deliver more secure applications.

Aeva Black is an open source hacker, advocate, and international public speaker with 25 years of experience building digital infrastructure and leading open source projects at successful technology companies. They serve as the Section Chief for Open Source Software Security at CISA, volunteer their time to serve as the Secretary of the Board of the Open Source Initiative, and spend any free moments riding motorcycles and supporting local LGBTQ+ community.

Ashok is the Chief Technology Officer at Trellix. As part of his mission Ashok leads technology and vision for  XDR Products, Threat Research and Intelligence, AI (generative, predictive,edge) across prevention, detection, investigation, remediation and forensics. This is applied across XDR, SecOps, Endpoint, Network, Email.

Over 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of new and emerging technology solutions.  Nick has experience leading cloud security, application security and cyber initiatives at multinational corporations and Government.  Also led technical architecture efforts to implement the US Federal Government Data Consolidation program, FedRAMP and HealthCare.gov “fix it” initiatives supporting DoD, GSA and CMS respectively. Recipient 
of the Ken Ernst North America Innovators Award.

Over 30 of years in cybersecurity, led development of multiple AI-based security solutions 
and built one of the first antimalware/antivirus technologies which is still on the market today. He holds over 14 patents in cybersecurity.  As a Fellow and CTO of McAfee, he led dozens 
of cybersecurity innovations from concept to commercial products. Recently he developed and launched the Lineaje AI platform.

Over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity product management. He has built and scaled successfully, over 50 high-growth cybersecurity products, created Symantec's Central Console for all products in the cloud: ICDM (Integrated Cyber Defense Manager) and led Symantec’s SaaS business launch for Endpoint Security the largest SaaS endpoint protection product globally.

Seasoned product leader and innovator, Indermeet Gandhi, has joined Lineaje to spearhead product and strategy initiatives for their software supply chain security portfolio.
Indermeet brings a wealth of experience from his leadership roles at Cisco, Starent Networks, and IBM, where he focused on AIOps, connectivity solutions, and security.