Paul Abbate
Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Appointed as the Deputy Director in February 2021, Paul Abbate oversees all domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has served previously as the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director for the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch where he oversaw all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, critical incident response, and victim assistance. Throughout his career, Paul has held various positions leading offices across the country to include the Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Newark Field Offices and served in oversees deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Prior to his role as Deputy Director, Paul served as Associate Deputy Director where he was responsible for the management of all FBI business and administrative personnel and functions.

Craig Adams, Chief of Product & Engineering, Recorded Future

Craig leads the global product and engineering teams at Recorded Future, focused on delivering a single authoritative source for security intelligence to amplify the effectiveness of security and IT teams. He previously served as the senior vice president and general manager of security and performance at Akamai. In his two decades at the company, he held leadership positions in sales, services and support, technical services delivery, and country management. He was responsible for establishing and expanding Akamai’s strategic presence in Asia Pacific and Latin America, and was instrumental in leading integrations of several acquisitions for the company. Craig has a degree in Management Information Systems from Utah State University.

Brig. Gen. Terrence Adams
U.S. Air Force

Brig. Gen. Terrence Adams is the Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Senior Military Advisor for Cyber Policy. As the DPCA, he serves as the principal advisor to the secretary on military cyber forces and activities. He is also responsible for assessing and overseeing the implementation of the cyber strategy of the department and execution of the cyber posture review of the department on behalf of the secretary. On behalf of the Principal Cyber Advisor, Brig. Gen. Adams leads a cross-functional team focused on synchronizing and coordinating military and civilian cyber forces and activities of the department.

Brig. Gen. Adams was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and enlisted in the Army as a private after high school. After serving in the Army for six years, he entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Alabama State University - Detachment 019 after graduating from Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama.

He commanded six times at the squadron, group, and wing levels, three of these commands while deployed. Most recently, he served as Commander, 628th Air Base Wing, and Commander, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. Brig. Gen. Adams deployed to Seeb Air Base, Oman, Kirkuk AB, Iraq, Ali AB, Iraq, and Al Udeid AB, Qatar in support of operations Southern Watch, Iraq Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn, and Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa. He has held a variety of positions at squadron, group, wing, major command, air staff and joint levels.

Prior to his current position, the general was the Director, Cyberspace Operations and Warfighter Communications, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.

Heather Adkins
Vice President of Security Engineering | CISO Google South Korea
Google

Heather Adkins is a 21-year Google veteran and founding member of the Google Security Team. As VP, Security Engineering, she has built a global team responsible for maintaining the safety and security of Google’s networks, systems and applications. She has an extensive background in practical security, and has worked to build and secure some of the world’s largest infrastructure. She is co-author of Building Secure and Reliable Systems (O’Reilly, 2020), co-chairs CISA’s Cyber Safety Review Board, and has advised numerous organizations on how to adopt modern defendable architectures.

Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State, State of Michigan

Jocelyn Benson is Michigan's 43rd Secretary of State.

In this role, she has become one of the nation’s most prominent leaders in ensuring elections are secure and accessible. Benson’s work overseeing Michigan’s 2020 and 2022 general elections, both of which drew record-breaking turnout and were more secure than any prior election in state history, earned her national recognition, including the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the Presidential Citizens Medal. She also implemented new voting rights for all eligible Michiganders prior to the 2020 election, including the right to vote absentee, and oversaw more than 250 audits after the election, all of which affirmed its integrity and accuracy.

Believing that a healthy democracy is one in which government works for everyone, Benson has also transformed the customer service operations of the Secretary of State’s office. She doubled the number of services available online, installed more than 160 self-service stations statewide, mostly at grocery stores, and ended the take-a-ticket-and-wait system that had resulted in hours-long lines at offices for years. Now, most transactions are conducted without an office visit at all and when residents do visit an office, they are in and out in an average of 20 minutes or less.

A graduate of Harvard Law School and expert on civil rights law, education law and election law, Benson served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. When she was appointed dean at age 36, she became the youngest woman in U.S. history to lead a top-100, accredited law school. She continues to serve as vice chair of the advisory board for the Levin Center at Wayne Law, which she founded with former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin. Previously, Benson was an associate professor and associate director of Wayne Law’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.

Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. She is also a co-founder and former president of Military Spouses of Michigan, a network dedicated to providing support and services to military spouses and their children. In 2015, she was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame and in 2016, she became one of a handful of women to have completed the Boston marathon while 8 months pregnant.

Katie Brooks
Director, Cyber Partnerships, Aspen Digital

Katie Brooks joined Aspen Digital in January 2022 and leads projects addressing citizen-centric and global cybersecurity challenges. Prior to joining Aspen Digital, Katie worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she supported federal and commercial clients on cybersecurity implementation and strategy. She previously worked at the Partnership for Public Service, where she designed and led programs to recruit entry-level talent to federal service. Katie is passionate about creating a more diverse talent pipeline into the cybersecurity field and has presented on the topic at events run by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, the Society of Women Engineers, and the Harvard Women in Public Policy Program.

She holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a BA from the University of Michigan, and PMP and CISSP certifications. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring national parks and experimenting with new Detroit-style pizza recipes. She is based in Washington DC.

Diana Burley
Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, American University

Dr. Diana L. Burley is a global cybersecurity expert with more than 30 years of experience driving digital transformation, implementing cybersecurity workforce initiatives, and promoting an equitable global technology community. Diana is currently Vice Provost for Research and Innovation at American University where she also leads the Khan Cyber & Economic Security Institute and serves as a member of the faculty. As both the university’s chief research officer and chief innovation officer, Diana oversees the university-wide R&D portfolio, research partnerships, and strategic initiatives to catalyze discovery. She advises government officials and regularly offers thought leadership at executive forums. Her board service includes the Cyber Future Foundation and the Global Cyber Security Advisory Group, and she has been honored by GET Cities, Executive Women’s Forum, SC Magazine, ACM, and others for her leadership in building the global cybersecurity workforce. She earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Eun Young Choi
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice

Eun Young Choi is a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she oversees the National Security Cyber Section; the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section; and the Foreign Investment Review Section.  Prior to her joining NSD, Eun Young served as the inaugural Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team at the Department of Justice, leading a team of subject matter experts drawn from across the Justice Department charged with combatting the criminal use of digital assets.  She previously served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, where she was responsible for coordinating and advising on cyber and cryptocurrency-related issues across the Justice Department and working on the development of interagency policy and strategy.  She began her career at the Justice Department as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she served as Cybercrime Coordinator and specialized in cyber, fraud, and money laundering investigations.

Erin Delmore
North America Business Correspondent for BBC News

Erin Delmore is a New York- based Business Correspondent for BBC World. She is an Emmy award-winning multimedia journalist with experience across national and local television, digital, print and radio. Her work appears in print, on air and online with the BBC, NBC News and MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, FOX News and FOX Business, CBSN, Cheddar, Sky News and others.

Jen Easterly
Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Jen Easterly is the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She was nominated by President Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As Director, Jen leads CISA’s efforts to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the cyber and physical infrastructure Americans rely on every day. She is a proud Mom, a mental health advocate, a Rubik’s Cube enthusiast, and an aspiring electric guitarist. 

Before serving in her current role, Jen was the head of Firm Resilience at Morgan Stanley, responsible for ensuring preparedness and response to business-disrupting operational incidents and risks to the Firm. She also helped build and served as the first Global Head of Morgan Stanley’s Cybersecurity Fusion Center, the Firm’s center of gravity for cyber defense operations.

Jen has a long tradition of public service, to include two tours at the White House, most recently as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Counterterrorism and earlier as Executive Assistant to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. She also served as the Deputy for Counterterrorism at the National Security Agency.

A two-time recipient of the Bronze Star, Jen retired from the U.S. Army after more than twenty years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Responsible for standing up the Army’s first cyber battalion, she was also instrumental in the design and creation of United States Cyber Command.

A distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Jen holds a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 2023 Sisterhood Award from Girls Who Code; the 2022 National Defense University Admiral Grace Hopper Award; the 2020 Bradley W. Snyder Changing the Narrative Award, and the 2018 James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a French American Foundation Young Leader, Jen is the past recipient of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship, the National Security Institute Visiting Fellowship, the New America Foundation Senior International Security Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and the Director, National Security Agency Fellowship.

Erik Gerding
Director, Division of Corporation Finance,
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Erik Gerding is Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He joined the SEC from the University of Colorado School of Law, where he is a Professor of Law. He was previously on the law faculty at the University of New Mexico and taught as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. Erik practiced in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Cleary Gottlieb. He is the author of Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation (Routledge 2014).   

Eric Goldstein
Executive Assistant Cybersecurity Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Eric Goldstein serves as the Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Goldstein leads CISA’s mission to protect and strengthen federal civilian agencies and the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber threats.

Garrett Graff
Director, Cyber Programs, Aspen Digital

Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished journalist and internationally bestselling historian, has spent nearly two decades covering politics, technology, and national security—helping to explain where we’ve been and where we’re headed. He is the founding director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program and a contributor to WIRED and CNN. He’s written for publications from Esquire and Rolling Stone to the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and edited two of Washington’s most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine, which he helped lead to its first National Magazine Award, the field’s highest honor.

Graff is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestsellers Watergate: A New History and The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, as well The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI and Raven Rock, about the government’s Cold War Doomsday plans. He is the co-author of Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battles Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat.

A regular voice and analyst on NPR, PBS NewsHour, the History Channel, and other outlets, he is also the host of “Long Shadow,” an eight-episode podcast series about the lingering questions of 9/11 and executive producer of “While the Rest of Us Die,” a VICE TV series based on his book Raven Rock, among other multimedia projects.

Jameeka Green Aaron
Chief Information Security Officer, Customer Identity, Okta

Jameeka Green Aaron is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), responsible for the holistic security and compliance of Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud, platform, products, and cloud infrastructure. She is a recognized industry leader and brings 25 years of experience to the role, with a career that has spanned a wide variety of industries, including aerospace and defense, retail, and manufacturing, at both Fortune 100 and privately held companies—including Nike, Hurley, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Navy. Jameeka lives in Irvine, CA, with her husband Amilcar who serves as Commissioner, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, City of Irvine. She is committed to advancing women and people of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. She is an advisor for U.C. Riverside Design Thinking Program, a board member of Digital Brands Group, and a member Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Jeff Greene
Senior Director, Cybersecurity Programs, Aspen Digital

Jeff Greene is the Senior Director for Cybersecurity Programs at the Aspen Institute.  Jeff joined Aspen in July of 2022 from the White House, where he served as the Chief for Cyber Response & Policy in the National Security Council’s Cyber Directorate.  Jeff led the NSC’s defensive cyber and incident response efforts, and his team developed and drafted Executive Order 14028 (Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity).  Jeff also ran the White House counter-ransomware effort and oversaw the whole-of-government effort to harden the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure in advance of Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine.

 Jeff previously served as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  Prior to joining NIST he was the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy at Symantec, where he led a global team of policy experts.  While at Symantec Jeff also served as an appointed member of NIST’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and was a special government employee working on President Obama’s 2016 Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.  Before Symantec Jeff worked on both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, was Counsel to the Senate’s Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina, and practiced law at a large Washington, D.C. firm.

Kashmir Hill
Technology Reporter, The New York Times

Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times and the author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives, particularly when it comes to our privacy.

Rob Joyce
Director, Cybersecurity Directorate, National Security Agency

Mr. Rob Joyce is the Director of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Cybersecurity Directorate, which is charged with preventing and eradicating threats to U.S. National Security Systems and critical infrastructure, with a focus on the Defense Industrial Base. Prior to this role, Mr. Joyce was the Special US Liaison Officer, London. As the senior NSA cryptologic representative in the United Kingdom, he served as the key interlocutor between NSA and GCHQ. Mr. Joyce has held a wealth of technical and leadership positions across NSA and the broader government, to include serving as Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House, Acting Homeland Security Advisor at the White House, and Chief of NSA’s Tailored Access Operations.Mr. Joyce began his career as an engineer and is a technologist at heart. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and earned a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the John Hopkins University.

Sean M. Joyce
Global Cybersecurity & Privacy Leader, US Cyber, Risk and Regulatory Leader, PwC

Sean is a Principal at PwC where he is the US and Americas Cybersecurity & Privacy practice leader. Since joining PwC, Sean has worked with many clients providing strategic guidance, crisis management and investigative support, incident breach response guidance and cyber security advice. He has consulted on some of the most prolific cyber breaches, providing guidance and expertise to top executives. Sean has also briefed many boards and senior executives on the challenges posed by the digital revolution, including the threat landscape, best practices in governance, and how to use cybersecurity and resiliency as business enablers.

Previously, Sean served as the Deputy Director with the FBI, and had daily oversight of the 36,000 men and women of the FBI and its $8 billion annual budget. He spearheaded several strategic initiatives including ‘next generation cyber’, a cross-organizational initiative to maintain the FBI’s world leadership in law enforcement and domestic intelligence. Also, he established a framework to operate and evaluate the FBI’s 56 domestic field offices. Sean served in many positions during his tenure at the FBI including; the Executive Assistant Director at the FBI’s National Security Branch, Section Chief of the Counterterrorism Division’s International Terrorism Operations Section, SWAT Team Leader, and Hostage Rescue Team Operator. Sean is a 2013 recipient of the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, the DIA’s Director’s Award, the FBI Meritorious Medal, and the 2011 Presidential Rank Award.

Sean holds degrees from Boston College and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.

Iranga Kahangama
Assistant Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Iranga Kahangama is the Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, he served at the White House in the National Security Council as Director for Cyber Incident Response. In that role, he was the principal author of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. He also oversaw the Federal Government’s response to a wide range of malicious cyber activity, including the Russia attributed SolarWinds incident, China’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers, and ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya Software. Prior to the NSC, he served as a senior policy advisor at the FBI, working on an array of cyber, internet, and technology policy issues. This included leading the FBI’s program on internet governance, where he was part of the US delegation to various internet governance forums including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He earned a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Sam King
CEO, Veracode

Sam King is the Chief Executive Officer of Veracode and a recognized expert in business management and cybersecurity. A founding member of Veracode, Sam has played a significant role in the company’s growth trajectory over the past 17 years, helping to mature it from a small startup to a company with a $2.5 billion plus valuation. Under her leadership, Veracode has been recognized with several industry distinctions, including a ten-time consecutive leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, leader in the Forrester SAST Wave, and a Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Application Security. In 2021, Sam was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year® New England winner, and her leadership style has been recognized by The Commonwealth Institute and The Boston Globe, which cited Veracode as one of the Top 100 Women-led Businesses in Massachusetts – ranking first among all software companies. Sam has been a keynote speaker at events such as Gartner Security Summit, RSA, Aspen Cyber Summit, Executive Women’s Forum, and the Boston Globe Summit on topics ranging from cybersecurity to empowering women and creating diverse and resilient corporate cultures. She has been profiled in business publications such as the Huffington Post, CNNMoney, Financial Times, InfoSecurity Magazine and The Boston Globe.

Prior to Veracode, Sam held leadership positions in cybersecurity and technology companies including Verisign and Razorfish. Sam received her Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BS in Computer Science from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, where she earned the prestigious Charles Babbage Award, presented to the student with the highest academic achievement in the graduating class. She currently sits on the board of Progress Software and ZeroFox. Sam is also a member of Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, where she was a charter member of the 2030 Challenge; a Tech Compact for Social Justice in efforts to bring more diversity to the local workforce.

Chris Krebs
Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer, Sentinal One; Former Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Christopher Krebs served as founding director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Chris was originally sworn in on June 15, 2018 as the Under Secretary for the predecessor of CISA, the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Before serving as CISA Director, Mr. Krebs was appointed in August 2017 as the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, after join DHS in March 2017 to serve as Senior Counselor to the Secretary, where he advised DHS leadership on a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and national resilience issues. Prior to coming to DHS, he was a member of Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team as the Director for Cybersecurity Policy, where he led Microsoft’s U.S. policy work on cybersecurity and technology issues. Before Microsoft, Chris advised industry and federal, state, and local government customers on a range of cybersecurity and risk management issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Raffi Krikorian
Chief Technology Officer, Emerson Collective

Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technical Officer of Engineering at Emerson Collective, where he focuses on using technology and data to accelerate solutions that promote social good. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Raffi served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Before moving to the political sector, he was the Engineering Director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet. He also designed the backend infrastructure at Twitter, where he served as Vice President of Platform Engineering. Today, Raffi’s work at Emerson Collective leverages innovative technology to help rethink complex societal systems and improve the lives of individuals and communities. Raffi also hosts the "Technically Optimistic" podcast, exploring technology's impact on society with influential guests. The podcast gained significant recognition and is now available as a Substack newsletter, with Season 2 in the works.

Puesh Kumar
Director for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, Department of Energy

Director, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) Kumar leads DOE’s mission to address cyber, physical, and natural hazards and threats to the U.S. energy infrastructure. Kumar has over 15 years of experience in grid modernization, cybersecurity, and emergency response within the energy sector. Most recently, Kumar was the principal manager for cybersecurity engineering and risk management at Southern California Edison. There, he led a team that addressed cyber threats to critical infrastructure at one of the largest electric utilities in the United States. Kumar previously served as director of preparedness and exercises for CESER’s Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration division and as senior advisor for policy and strategy at CESER. In those capacities, he led the development of national-level policies, strategies, and programs related to energy sector hazards and threats. Kumar has also held industry positions at the American Public Power Association as director of engineering and operations and at Memphis Light, Gas, and Water as a power systems engineer.

Laurie Locascio
Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Laurie Locascio is currently the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards & Technology & the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Locascio most recently served as vice president for research at the University of Maryland College Park and University of Maryland Baltimore. Before joining the University of Maryland, Locascio worked at NIST for 31 years, rising from a research biomedical engineer to eventually leading the agency’s Material Measurement Laboratory. She also served as the acting associate director for laboratory programs, providing direction and operational guidance for NIST’s lab research programs. As a researcher, she has published 115 scientific papers and has received 12 patents in the fields of bioengineering and analytical chemistry. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Locascio was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Peter McIndoe
Public Information Officer, Birds Aren't Real

Peter McIndoe is a son, a scholar, and Public Information Officer for the world-renowned Birds Aren’t Real movement. Peter came to the truth that every bird is a robot in 2017, through a combination of prophetic dreams and independent research. He has spent the past 7 years of his life on the road, campaigning in different cities, growing the movement through rallies and grassroots organizing. Peter’s efforts have been credited with growing the movement to millions.

Matthew Moynahan
President & CEO, OneSpan

Matt Moynahan is OneSpan’s President and Chief Executive Officer. OneSpan is a global leader in providing high-assurance identity and authentication security as well as enterprise e-signature solutions. Matt brings to OneSpan more than two decades of global technology experience across both on-premises and cloud services, and nearly every facet of cyber security. Before joining OneSpan, Matt served as CEO at Forcepoint, a global leader in cybersecurity, for nearly five years where he transformed the company’s offerings from predominantly on-premises to a cloud-consumption model and drove record new business growth prior to its acquisition by Francisco Partners in January 2021. Prior to Forcepoint, he served as President at Arbor Networks, a subsidiary of Danaher, where he was responsible for building one of the world’s largest commercial cloud DDoS platforms and network-based advanced threat protection systems. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Veracode, a SaaS pioneer of cloud-based software security testing platforms. He also served as Vice President and General Manager of Symantec’s Consumer Division, responsible for serving hundreds of millions of customers while delivering a superior end-user experience. Earlier in Matt’s career, he held various roles at Goldman Sachs including leveraged finance, corporate finance and equity capital market groups. Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Craig Newmark
Founder, craigslist and craig newmark philanthropies

Craig Newmark is a philanthropist who gets stuff done. Most commonly known for founding the online classified ads service craigslist, Newmark creates and funds networks that work to protect the country and to help people out.

Craig is on the boards of a number of organizations providing serious support in these areas.

In 1995, Newmark started curating a list of San Francisco arts and technology events, which he personally emailed to friends and colleagues. People were soon calling it “Craig’s List.”

When Newmark turned it into a company he chose a business model that prioritized “doing well by doing good.” Today, billions of ads have been posted on craigslist, the vast majority for free.

Newmark has not run the company since 2000. He retired at the end of 2018.

Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Newmark earned degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University. He lives in New York City and enjoys birdwatching, science fiction, and TV. Craig is not as funny as he thinks he is.

His sole serious social media efforts are via Twitter. He reminds you that “a nerd’s gotta do what a nerd’s gotta do.”

Vivian Schiller
Executive Director, Aspen Digital

Vivian Schiller is executive director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, which empowers responsible stewardship of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world. Her previous executive roles include president and CEO of NPR, global chair of news at Twitter, general manager of NYTimes.com, chief digital officer of NBC News, chief of the Discovery Times Channel, and head of CNN’s documentary and long-form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices have earned three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys. Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Suzanne Smalley
Reporter, The Record from Recorded Future News

Suzanne Smalley is a reporter covering privacy, disinformation and cybersecurity policy for The Record. She was previously a cybersecurity reporter at CyberScoop and Reuters. Earlier in her career Suzanne covered the Boston Police Department for the Boston Globe and two presidential campaign cycles for Newsweek.

Elke Sobieraj
Associate Chief for Policy, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Elke Sobieraj is the Associate Chief for Policy at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, she leads a team focused on national policy development and implementation in support of CISA’s mission to defend against today’s threats and build towards a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future. She previously served as the Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity at the National Security Council (NSC) where she drove policy priorities to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure. Prior to serving at the NSC, she spent over a decade supporting the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity mission where she led teams focused on cybersecurity assessments, industrial control systems security, outreach and engagement, international collaboration, and strategic planning.

Michael Steed
Founder & Managing Partner, Paladin Capital Group

Michael Steed is the Founder and Managing Partner of Paladin Capital Group and serves as Chairman of the Paladin Cyber Fund, Paladin Cyber Fund II and Paladin III Investment Committees. Mr. Steed provides management oversight of the firm’s operations and investments and is responsible for the strategic direction of Paladin’s current and future activities. Prior to forming Paladin Capital, he served as Senior Vice President of Investments of a major financial services company based in Washington, DC, and served as President of its SEC registered investment advisory firm. From 1981 to 1985, Mr. Steed served as Special Counsel to the Chairman and as the National Director of the Democratic Party of the United States of America (DNC). Previously, he engaged in the practice of law, both as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and in private practice. Mr. Steed serves on the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors for Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy Project, a member of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a founding board member of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and a member of the Board of National Alliance to End Homelessness. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and his JD from Loyola Law School.

Gary Steele
CEO, Splunk

Gary Steele is Splunk’s President and Chief Executive Officer. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk in 2022, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University. Gary serves as the co-Chair of the Aspen US Cybersecurity Strategy Group.

Corey Thomas
Chairman & CEO, Rapid7

Corey Thomas is the CEO of Rapid7, as well as the chairman of its board of directors. In 2021, Corey became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was appointed class-C director and deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He also serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors, LPL Financial board of directors, and Vanderbilt University board of trust. He is an active angel investor to technology companies, advisor to organizations undergoing technology transformation, and sought after speaker and panelist. He previously served on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors. Corey has extensive experience leading technology companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. Prior to joining Rapid7, Corey spent time at Parallels, Inc., Microsoft, Deloitte Consulting, and AT&T. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and a MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Global Cybersecurity Group.

Nicole Tisdale
Senior Advisor, Aspen Digital

For fourteen years, Nicole Tisdale has served as a national security expert at The White House - National Security Council (NSC) and the U.S. Congress - House Committee on Homeland Security. She is an expert on cybersecurity, counterintelligence, foreign malign influence, disinformation, and election security. She founded Advocacy Blueprints LLC, and authored Right To Petition, both focused on exercising the First Amendment right to advocate. Originally from Nettleton, MS, Nicole is a barred attorney (MS) and alumna of The University of Mississippi (BA, 2006; JD, 2009).

Aruna Viswanatha
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Aruna Viswanatha is a senior reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau covering national security, the FBI and the Justice Department. She has spent more than a decade covering federal law enforcement, and joined the Journal in 2015 from Reuters.

Cynthia Warrick
President Emerita, Stillman College

Dr. Cynthia Warrick is President Emerita of Stillman College, an HBCU liberal arts college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Named one of the Ten Most Dominant HBCU Leaders of 2023 by the HBCU Campaign Fund, Dr. Warrick’s career in higher education spans 25 years, serving at Grambling State University, South Carolina State University, Elizabeth City State University, Florida A&M University, Texas Southern University, University of Texas, and at her alma mater, Howard University. During her tenure at Stillman, she established the Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, and received $2.7 million in grant funding from the Economic Development Administration to support the development of a Cybersecurity and Information Technology Training Center; and another $2.7 million from NTIA for the Connecting Minority Communities HBCU Broadband grant.

Jack Weinstein
Professor, Boston University (Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.))

Jack Weinstein, Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret), is a Professor of the Practice of International Security at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His areas of expertise include nuclear, space, and cyberspace operations; defense strategy and policy; and organizational leadership. Prior to this position, he served in the USAF from 1982 to 2018. In his last assignment, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters Air Force. In 2005, he deployed to Southwest Asia as Director of Space Forces for operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He has commanded at the squadron, group, wing, and numbered Air Force levels. He also served as the Director of Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Programs, Director of Air, Space, and Cyberspace operations, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, and as the Vice Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command.

Sami Khoury
Head, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre). The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public. Sami began his career at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 1992 as a research engineer exploring the impact of emerging multimedia communications technologies. He held various management positions and leadership roles at CSE, including Director General Capabilities Development and more recently as Deputy Chief (ADM) for Enterprise Technologies and Solutions. In this role, he was CSE’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and responsible for IT and Information Security, as well as leading CSE’s overall Research program and 24/7 Operations Centre.

Sami holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (1988) and a Masters of Applied Science (1991) from Concordia University in Montreal. He completed a certificate program in Public Sector Leadership at the University of Ottawa in 2016. Sami received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the APEX Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2020.

Eun Young Choi
Director, National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, Department of Justice

Eun Young Choi currently serves as the inaugural Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) at the U.S. Department of Justice. As NCET Director, Choi leads a team of subject matter experts drawn from across the Justice Department to identify, investigate, support, and pursue the department’s cases involving the criminal use of digital assets; set strategic priorities regarding digital assets technologies; and coordinate with domestic and international law enforcement partners, regulatory agencies and private industry to combat the criminal use of digital

assets.
Choi previously served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, where she was responsible for coordinating and advising on cyber and cryptocurrency-related issues across the Justice Department and representing the department in the development of interagency policy and strategy.

Choi began her career at the Justice Department as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she was the office’s Cybercrime Coordinator and investigated and prosecuted cyber, fraud, and money laundering crimes, with a particular focus on network intrusions, digital currency, the dark web, and national security investigations. She served as the lead prosecutor in a variety of cases, including the investigation of a transnational organization responsible for hacking over a dozen financial companies (including J.P. Morgan Chase) and the theft of over 100 million customers’ data; an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange and the bribery of a former CEO of a credit union in furtherance of the Bitcoin exchange’s operations; a business email compromise scheme that targeted two U.S.-based multinational Internet corporations resulting in the loss of over $100 million; and the only U.S. prosecution brought in connection with the “Panama Papers.”

Choi has represented the United States at numerous trials and appeals, including arguing the appeal before the Second Circuit in the case against Ross Ulbricht, the founder and chief administrator of the Silk Road underground website, which was responsible for the sale of over

$200 million worth of illegal narcotics and other contraband over the Internet, using the Tor network and Bitcoin.

Prior to her time at the Justice Department, Choi was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Choi is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Kemba Walden
Principal Deputy National Cyber Director
White House, Office of the National Cyber Director

Kemba Eneas Walden is the Principal Deputy National Cyber Director in the Office of the National Cyber Director. Previously, she served as Assistant General Counsel in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) responsible for launching and leading DCU’s Ransomware Program. Kemba also served as a working group co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force and contributed to its report. Kemba started her career at Microsoft as Senior Counsel for Cyber and Democracy providing legal counsel to the Defending Democracy Program through the 2020 Presidential Election. Prior to Microsoft, Kemba spent a decade in government service at the Department of Homeland Security. At DHS, Kemba held several attorney roles, specifically as the lead attorney for the DHS representative to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and then as a cybersecurity attorney for the newly created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and its predecessor, which is responsible for cybersecurity, telecommunications, and infrastructure resilience. Kemba negotiated complex data protection, information sharing, risk mitigation, and national security agreements, supported DHS’s cybersecurity and risk management efforts in several critical infrastructure sectors. Upon her departure from DHS, her energy was spent as the primary cybersecurity legal advisor to the Elections Task Force (now known as the Elections Security Initiative). In addition to her work at Microsoft, Kemba was appointed to the inaugural Cyber Safety Review Board and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the School of Continuing Studies teaching a course entitled “Information Security Laws and Regulatory Policy.” Kemba also serves on the Advisory Committee to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security during the 2021-2022 Bar Year. Kemba graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia with a B.A. in Political Science, from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with a Master’s in Public Affairs, and from Georgetown University Law Center.

Paul Abbate
Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Appointed as the Deputy Director in February 2021, Paul Abbate oversees all domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has served previously as the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director for the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch where he oversaw all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, critical incident response, and victim assistance. Throughout his career, Paul has held various positions leading offices across the country to include the Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Newark Field Offices and served in oversees deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Prior to his role as Deputy Director, Paul served as Associate Deputy Director where he was responsible for the management of all FBI business and administrative personnel and functions.

Mieke Eoyang
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy
Department of Defense

Ms. Mieke Eoyang is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy.  The Cyber Policy office is responsible for establishing DoD cyberspace policy and strategy, providing guidance and oversight on DoD cyberspace activities, and managing DoD’s primary external relationships across the U.S. government, key domestic stakeholders, and our allies and partners.

Prior to that she was the Senior Vice President for the National Security Program at the think tank, Third Way, where she led their work on a wide range of national security issues including on foreign policy, Congress’ role in the national security policymaking process, non-proliferation, intelligence oversight, electronic surveillance, cybersecurity. She was the founder of the organization’s Cyber Enforcement Initiative which focused on improving the government’s efforts to impose consequences on the human behind malicious cyber activity.

Before joining Third Way, she was the Chief of Staff to Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) having previously served as the Subcommittee Staff Director for Intelligence Community Management on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. While there, she was the committee’s lead for cybersecurity, personnel management and worked on electronic surveillance reform, among other issues.

Prior to that, she served as the Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, advising him on all matters related to the Senate Armed Services Committee and Defense Appropriations during the Iraq War. Earlier in her career, she served as the lead Democratic Professional Staff Member on the House Armed Services Committee for the Military Personnel Subcommittee.

Ms. Eoyang received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Wellesley College.

Iranga Kahangama
Assistant Secretary for for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience
Department of Homeland Security

Iranga Kahangama is the Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, he served at the White House in the National Security Council as Director for Cyber Incident Response. In that role, he was the principal author of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. He also oversaw the Federal Government’s response to a wide range of malicious cyber activity, including the Russia attributed SolarWinds incident, China’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers, and ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya Software. Prior to the NSC, he served as a senior policy advisor at the FBI, working on an array of cyber, internet, and technology policy issues. This included leading the FBI’s program on internet governance. He earned a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Kashmir Hill
Tech Reporter, New York Times

Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives, particularly when it comes to our privacy.

She joined The Times in 2019, after having worked at Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion, Forbes Magazine, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. She has degrees from Duke University and New York University, where she studied journalism.

Yasmin Green
CEO
Jigsaw

Yasmin Green is the CEO of Jigsaw, a unit within Google that addresses threats to open societies. She leads an interdisciplinary team that researches and develops technical solutions to a range of global security challenges, including violent extremism, repressive censorship, hate and harassment, and harmful misinformation. Prior to Jigsaw, Yasmin’s roles at Google include deal negotiation for syndication partnerships, heading operations for Sub-saharan Africa, and serving as the Head of Sales Strategy for Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Yasmin is a member of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group and the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and the Tory Burch Foundation. Yasmin has been named one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40” most influential young leaders, and one of Fast Company's “Most Creative People in Business.”

Andrew Boyd
Director, Center for Cyber Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency

Andrew Boyd is currently serving as the Director, Center for Cyber Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency. The majority of Mr. Boyd’s career has been spent collaborating closely with partners from across all Directorates, Mission Centers, and the Intelligence Community. Mr. Boyd is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and served on active duty as an intelligence officer in the USAF from 1993-1998. He earned a B.S. in History from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1993, an M.A. in International Relations from Catholic University in 1997, and a M.S. in Strategic Policy from the National War College in 2013.

Emilio Escobar
Chief Information Security Officer
Datadog

With two decades of experience in Information Security and Compliance, Emilio Escobar has worked at large enterprises, medium-sized companies, and governmental organizations. Previously, Emilio served as the VP of Information Security for Hulu, where he played a pivotal role in setting up key security functions. Prior to that, Emilio worked for PlayStation, where he built and ran the

software security teams. Emilio’s unique approach to security and compliance has always prioritized partnerships and people—hiring the right talent to build the processes, procedures, and technologies that unite Security, Engineering, and Operations teams. Emilio holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico.

Dina Temple-Raston
Host and Executive Producer, Click Here podcast
Senior Correspondent, The Record by Recorded Future

Dina Temple-Raston is the host and executive producer of the Click Here podcast as well as a senior correspondent at The Record. She previously served on NPR’s Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology, and social justice and hosted and created the award-winning Audible Podcast “What Were You Thinking.” She was a longtime foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in China and served as Bloomberg’s White House correspondent during the Clinton Administration. She is the author of four books, including “The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror,” and “A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption.”

Sean Joyce
Principal, Global and US Cybersecurity and Privacy Leader and US Cyber, Risk and Regulatory Leader
PwC

Sean Joyce is a Principal in PwC’s Consulting Segment where he has two distinct roles as Global and US Cybersecurity and Privacy Leader, and as the US Cyber, Risk and Regulatory Leader. He is a key and active member of the U.S. Consulting Leadership Team.

Sean works with clients in various sectors providing strategic guidance, regulatory response, investigative support, incident breach response and serves as a senior advisor on cybersecurity. Notably, Sean has consulted on some of the most prolific cyber breaches, providing guidance and expertise to top executives and Boards. Sean works closely with many Boards and senior leadership teams on the challenges posed by digital transformations and the ever-changing threat landscape, understanding relevant cyber risks and threats, best practices in governance and cybersecurity risk oversight, and how to leverage cybersecurity and resilience as strategic business enablers.

Sean previously led the US and Global Financial Crimes Unit for PwC, focusing on the interplay between cybersecurity, anti-money laundering and sanctions, fraud, and anti-bribery/anti-corruption.

Prior to rejoining PwC, Sean was the Chief Trust Officer at Airbnb where he led Design Specialists, Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists to help grow and defend the Airbnb platform. He was also responsible for the Privacy and Community Policy, and was a member of the Airbnb Executive Committee.

Sean also served as the Deputy Director with the FBI, and had daily oversight of the 36,000 men and women as well as its $8 billion annual budget. With more than 26 years of service in the FBI, Sean brought a wide range of operational and leadership experience. He was an integral part of transforming the FBI into an intelligence-driven organization, and spearheaded several strategic initiatives, including ‘next generation cyber’, which was a cross-organizational initiative to maintain the FBI’s world leadership in law enforcement and domestic intelligence. Sean established a framework to operate and evaluate the FBI’s 56 domestic field offices.

Sean held many positions during his tenure at the FBI including: the Executive Assistant Director at the FBI’s National Security Branch and lead intelligence official of the FBI, Assistant Director of International Operations, Section Chief of the Counterterrorism Division's International Terrorism Operations Section, Joint Terrorism Task Force Supervisor, SWAT Team Leader, and Hostage Rescue Team Operator.

Sean is a 2013 recipient of the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, the DIA’s Director’s Award, and the FBI Meritorious Medal. In 2011 he received the Presidential Rank Award.

A Brockton, MA native, Sean holds degrees from Boston College and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.

David Pekoske
Administrator
Transportation Security Administration

David Pekoske was first confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Transportation Security Administration’s seventh administrator in August 2017 and was reconfirmed for a second term in September 2022. Pekoske leads a workforce of over 60,000 employees and is responsible for security operations at nearly 440 airports throughout the United States. TSA is also the lead federal agency for security of highways, railroads, mass transit systems and pipelines. Under his leadership, TSA improved transportation security through close partnerships and alliances, a culture of innovation, and development of a dedicated workforce.

During his tenure as TSA Administrator, Pekoske also served at the Department of Homeland Security as Acting Secretary from January 20 to February 2, 2021, and as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Secretary from April to November 2019, and again from February to June 2021. At the Department, Pekoske helped lead a unified national effort to ensure the continued security of the United States, coordinating components with missions ranging from prevention and protection to recovery and response. He was also a commissioner on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission that developed a consensus on a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against attacks of significant consequence.

Before joining TSA, Pekoske was an executive in the government services industry, where he led teams that provided counterterrorism, security and intelligence support services to government agencies. Pekoske served as the 26th Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, culminating a Coast Guard career that included extensive operational and command experience. As the Vice Commandant, Pekoske was second in command, also serving as Chief Operating Officer and Component Acquisition Executive of the Coast Guard. He is a recognized expert in crisis management, strategic planning, innovation, and aviation, surface transportation and maritime security. In addition, he has been twice awarded the Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal.

Pekoske holds a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. 

Bryan Vorndran
Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bryan A. Vorndran was named assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division in March 2021. Mr. Vorndran had most recently served as the special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Office. Bryan joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003. Over the past 19 years, he has served in various operational and leadership roles and has experience in the FBI's counterintelligence, cyber, counterterrorism, and criminal programs. 

Before joining the Bureau, Mr. Vorndran was an engineer for The Procter & Gamble Co. and for Merck & Co. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Lafayette College in 1998 and a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 2012.

Oleh Derevianko
Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Vision Officer
ISSP

Oleh Derevianko is a visionary business and social entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Vision Officer of ISSP, a private international cybersecurity company founded in 2008 in Ukraine and currently operating globally while remaining a leader of the Ukrainian cybersecurity industry. ISSP acted as the first responder to and investigator of many of the most sophisticated cyberattacks in history and was named by WIRED as ‘the go-to firm for victims of Ukraine’s cyberwar’.

Before founding ISSP, Oleh worked as CEO and Board Member in Ukrainian and international companies concentrating on new venture building, organizational development, and change management among other strategic tasks, and is passionate about lifelong learning, leadership, emotional intelligence, and creativity. In 2015-2016, Oleh Derevianko served as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

As the Co-founder and Chairman of ISSP, Oleh has presented on actual challenges of cybersecurity strategy and practice at MIT, Stanford, Texas A&M, The Atlantic Council, The Cambridge Cyber Summit, Berlin CyberSecurityForum, Web Summit, Collision, CYBERSEC European Cybersecurity Forum, the NATO-Ukraine Platform on Countering Hybrid Warfare, many other international cybersecurity and information security events, and has been referenced in WSJ, CNBC, Politico, WIRED, Le Monde, Reuters, BBC Future, NYT…, and two bestselling books on cybersecurity.

Valerie Cofield
Chief Strategy Officer, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Valerie M. Cofield serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Ms. Cofield serves as the principal policy and strategic adviser to CISA leadership and senior management, integrating strategy across all the organization’s mission areas and ensuring policy, strategy, and operational consistency throughout the agency.

Prior to CISA, Ms. Cofield served at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 22 years in a variety of roles. She was a Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for the Cyber Capabilities Branch within the FBI’s Cyber Division where she led coordination and deployment of the division’s technical tools and capabilities, and oversaw cyber-related training, recruiting, hiring, and budgeting for the division. She also served in a senior executive role as chief of staff of the Science and Technology Branch and as a DAD of the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), where she engaged with interagency partners and other key stakeholders on policy issues related to current and emerging technologies and their impact on law enforcement.

In 2019, Ms. Cofield was selected as the FBI’s senior detail to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. This Congressional Commission was authorized through the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Its mission was to develop a national strategy for preventing cyberattacks of significant consequences. While on the Commission, Ms. Cofield was a Senior Director and Task Force Lead. The Commission completed its report in March of 2020 with over 75 recommendations, 25 of which were included in the FY21 NDAA and enacted into law.

Ms. Cofield holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Accounting from UCLA.

Craig Newmark
Founder, craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Craig Newmark is a philanthropist who gets stuff done. Most commonly known for founding the online classified ads service craigslist, Newmark creates and funds networks that work to protect the country and to help people out.

Craig is on the boards of a number of organizations providing serious support in these areas.

In 1995, Newmark started curating a list of San Francisco arts and technology events, which he personally emailed to friends and colleagues. People were soon calling it “Craig’s List.”

When Newmark turned it into a company he chose a business model that prioritized “doing well by doing good.” Today, billions of ads have been posted on craigslist, the vast majority for free.

Newmark has not run the company since 2000. He retired at the end of 2018.

Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Newmark earned degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University. He lives in New York City and enjoys birdwatching, science fiction, and TV. Craig is not as funny as he thinks he is.

His sole serious social media efforts are via Twitter. He reminds you that “a nerd’s gotta do what a nerd’s gotta do.”

Alvaro Bedoya
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in May 16, 2022 as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. President Joe Biden named Bedoya to a term that expires on Sept. 25, 2026.

Bedoya was the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was also a visiting professor of law. He has been influential in research and policy at the intersection of  privacy and civil rights, and co-authored a 2016 report on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and the risks that it poses to privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights. He previously served as the first Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law after its founding in 2011, and Chief Counsel to former Senator Al Franken, of Minnesota. Prior to that, he was an associate at the law firm WilmerHale.

A naturalized immigrant born in Peru and raised in upstate New York, Bedoya previously co-founded the Esperanza Education Fund, a college scholarship for immigrant students in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Bedoya graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served on the Yale Law Journal and received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He lives in Rockville, Maryland with his wife, Dr. Sima Z. Bedoya of Louisiana, a pediatric psychologist at the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute. They have two toddlers.

Chris Krebs
Founding Partner, Krebs Stamos Group
Former Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Chris Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, Senior Newmark Fellow in Cybersecurity Policy at Aspen Digital, and previously served as the first director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). As Director, Mr. Krebs oversaw CISA’s efforts to manage risk to the nation’s businesses and government agencies, bringing together partners to collectively defend against cyber and physical threats. At CISA, Mr. Krebs also pioneered the Rumor Control program, which was designed to counter disinformation campaigns. Before serving as CISA Director, Mr. Krebs served in various roles at the Department of Homeland Security, responsible for a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience issues. Prior to his time at DHS, he directed U.S. cybersecurity policy for Microsoft. He also served in the George W. Bush Administration, advising DHS leadership on domestic and international risk management and public-private partnership initiatives. Mr. Krebs holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Vivian Schiller
Executive Director, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute

Vivian Schiller is executive director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, which empowers responsible stewardship of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world. Her previous executive roles include president and CEO of NPR, global chair of news at Twitter, general manager of NYTimes.com, chief digital officer of NBC News, chief of the Discovery Times Channel, and head of CNN’s documentary and long-form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices have earned three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys. Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Nicole Tisdale
Senior Advisor for Cyber Workforce and Education, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute

For more than a dozen years, Nicole Tisdale has served as a national security expert at The White House - National Security Council and the U.S. Congress's House Committee on Homeland Security. Recently, she led The White House’s cybersecurity advocacy efforts before Congress. She is an expert on issues of cybersecurity, intelligence, foreign malign influence campaigns, disinformation, and election security. Nicole wrote and published a book, Right To Petition, to help others exercise their First Amendment right to advocate. Originally from Nettleton, MS, Nicole is a barred attorney and graduate of The University of Mississippi (BA, 2006; JD, 2009).

Gary Steele
President and Chief Executive Officer, Splunk Inc.

Gary Steele is Splunk’s President and Chief Executive Officer. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk in 2022, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.

Megan Stifel
Chief Strategy Officer, Institute for Security and Technology

Megan Stifel is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Institute for Security and Technology, where she also leads the organization’s cyber-related work. She is a Liberty Fellow, a fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Megan previously served as Global Policy Officer at the Global Cyber Alliance and as the Cybersecurity Policy Director at Public Knowledge. She is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. Megan previously served as a Director for International Cyber Policy at the National Security Council. Prior to the NSC, Ms. Stifel served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Director for Cyber Policy in the National Security Division and as counsel in the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Before law school, Ms. Stifel worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She received a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Alan Armstrong
President & CEO, The Williams Companies, Inc.

Mr. Alan Armstrong is President and Chief Executive Officer of Williams, an energy infrastructure company. During his tenure, Williams expanded and now serves about 30 percent of all U.S. natural gas volumes. Armstrong also serves on the boards of the American Petroleum Institute and the Energy Infrastructure Council.

Robert Silvers
Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security

Robert Silvers was confirmed by the Senate as the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans on August 5, 2021. He is responsible for driving policy and implementation plans across all of DHS’s missions, including counterterrorism; cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and resilience; border security and immigration; international affairs; and trade and economic security. 

Mr. Silvers previously served in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama-Biden Administration as Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy. In that role he oversaw private sector engagement, federal government incident response, and diplomatic outreach pertaining to cybersecurity and emerging technology. Mr. Silvers also previously served as DHS’s Deputy Chief of Staff, managing execution of policy and operational priorities across the entire Department. 

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Silvers was a partner at the law firm Paul Hastings LLP, where his practice focused on cybersecurity and data privacy, government security review of foreign investments, and investigations and litigation at the intersection of law and national security. After graduating law school, he clerked for Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Morgan M. Adamski
Director, NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center

Ms. Morgan Adamski is the Director of NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center and is responsible for leading complex and groundbreaking initiatives for the agency specifically aimed at gaining insights against nation-state cyber actors and collaborating with the private sector. She drives the Center’s efforts to build bi-directional analytical relationships with private sector partners providing cybersecurity services to the Defense Industrial Base and National Security Systems as well as overseeing NSA programs aimed at shaping cybersecurity standards and products used in National Security Systems.

For more than a decade, Ms. Adamski has been at the forefront of NSA’s Computer Network Defense, Computer Network Exploitation, and Cyber analysis missions. Prior to her position in CSD, she served as a senior Cyber Policy Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) for Cyber Policy. Ms. Adamski acted a technical and operational subject matter expert to the DASD for Cyber Policy, specializing in operational issues in the Middle East and Eurasia area of responsibility. She was a primary contributor to the 2018 DoD Cyber Strategy and was responsible for orchestrating the Department’s new approach to cyber deterrence.

Ms. Adamski served as a Chief Operating Officer for NSA’s offensive cyber mission from 2016-2018, responsible for planning and executing operations against some of the agency’s hardest intelligence targets. Prior to serving in NSA’s offensive mission, she served as the NSA Deputy Director’s executive assistant (2014-2016) and as a senior SME for the Middle East cyber analysis office (2010-2014).

Ms. Adamski received the NSA Director’s Award in 2020, Director of National Intelligence Merit Unit Citation in 2019, and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2016.

Ms. Adamski graduated from Mercyhurst University with a Master’s of Science in Strategic Intelligence. She earned her Bachelors of Art in Peace, War, and Defense with a specialization in National Security from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Camille Stewart Gloster
Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology & Ecosystem Security, Office of the National Cyber Director

Camille Stewart Gloster, Esq is the Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology & Ecosystem Security in the Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House. She is a cyber, technology, and national security strategist and policy leader whose career has spanned the private, public, and non-profit sectors. She joined ONCD from Google, where she most recently served as Global Head of Product Security Strategy, and before that as Head of Security Policy and Election Integrity for Google Play and Android. Camille also worked at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she led cyber diplomacy, technology policy, privacy, and a number of technical policy areas like encryption and PNT for the Office of Cyber, Infrastructure & Resilience Policy. Camille has also held leadership roles focused on cyber and technology on Capitol Hill, at Deloitte, and Cyveillance, an open-source threat intelligence company.

Jeff Greene
Senior Director for Cybersecurity Programs, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute

Jeff Greene is the Senior Director for Cybersecurity Programs at the Aspen Institute.  Jeff joined Aspen in July of 2022 from the White House, where he served as the Chief for Cyber Response & Policy in the National Security Council’s Cyber Directorate.  Jeff led the NSC’s defensive cyber and incident response efforts, and his team developed and drafted Executive Order 14028 (Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity).  Jeff also ran the White House counter-ransomware effort and oversaw the whole-of-government effort to harden the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure in advance of Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine.

 Jeff previously served as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  Prior to joining NIST he was the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy at Symantec, where he led a global team of policy experts.  While at Symantec Jeff also served as an appointed member of NIST’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and was a special government employee working on President Obama’s 2016 Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.  Before Symantec Jeff worked on both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, was Counsel to the Senate’s Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina, and practiced law at a large Washington, D.C. firm.

John P. Carlin
Strategic Advisor and Chair Emeritus for Cybersecurity, Aspen Digital

John P. Carlin is co-head of Paul Weiss’s Cybersecurity & Data Protection practice and a deeply accomplished litigator who advises industry-leading organizations on matters involving privacy and cybersecurity, crisis management, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), sanctions and export control, white collar defense and internal investigations. He has served as a top-level official in both Republican and Democratic administrations, including as the Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, as the top national security official for the U.S. Department of Justice, as the Chief of Staff of the FBI and as an experienced Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Carlin has been featured or cited as a leading authority on cyber and economic espionage matters by numerous major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CBS’s 60 minutes, NBC’s Meet the Press, PBS’s Newshour, ABC’s Nightline and Good Morning America, NPR, CNN and Vanity Fair, among others.

Adam Bromwich
Vice President R&D, Symantec, by Broadcom Software

Adam Bromwich is Vice President of Engineering for the Symantec Enterprise Division, by Broadcom Software.  He is responsible for all R&D across Symantec’s market-leading portfolio of advanced security and threat intelligence products. Mr. Bromwich spearheaded Symantec’s leadership in threat analytics and machine learning, delivering transformative technologies such as hygiene-based file reputation, targeted attack analytics, and Symantec’s unique adaptive technology that customizes protection to each enterprise. Mr. Bromwich holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Yale University, and multiple patents in data center and endpoint security.

Rik Ferguson
Vice President of Security Intelligence, Forescout

Rik Ferguson is the Vice President of Security Intelligence at Forescout. He is also a Special Advisor to Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), a multi-award- winning producer and writer, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In April 2011 Rik was inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame. Rik is a researcher, storyteller, and futurist. He helps governments, law enforcement, businesses and individuals to understand the complexities of technology, and its intersection with cybercrime, contributing to global initiatives to combat cybercrime and reduce risk through participation at the United Nations, European and national Parliaments.

Alexandra Givens
President & CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology

Alexandra Reeve Givens is the President & CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a 27-year old nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age. With offices in Washington DC and Brussels, the organization works to protect users' online privacy, security, freedom of expression and access to information, with an emphasis on equity and justice. Prior to joining CDT, Alex served in the United States Senate as Chief Counsel focused on innovation and consumer protection for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and founded the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown Law.

Laura Galante
Cyber Executive and Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Laura Galante serves as the Cyber Executive and Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) for the Office of the Director for National Intelligence. CTIIC is responsible for integrating cyber threat intelligence collection and analysis across the US Intelligence Community (IC), guiding the IC’s strategic investments in cyber, and coordinating intelligence support to respond to national cyber incidents in collaboration with the National Security Council.

Hugh Thompson
Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital Partners

Dr. Hugh Thompson is a leading force in the information security industry. He has co-authored four books, written more than 80 academic and industrial publications on security, has been a contributor to The New York Times, and has been interviewed by top news organizations including the BBC, CNN, NPR, Financial Times, Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and others. He has more than a decade of experience creating methodologies that help organizations build demonstrably more secure systems. He joined Blue Coat in 2012 and served as CTO & CMO until the acquisition of Blue Coat by Symantec in August 2016. Dr. Thompson is now Managing Partner at Crosspoint Capital Partners. Dr. Thompson and previously CTO of Symantec and lead the researchers and architects in the Office of the CTO and was also responsible for additional areas such as analyst relations. In 2006, Dr. Thompson was named one of the “Top 5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security” by SC Magazine and has, for the past several years, served as the program committee chairman for RSA Conference, guiding the technical content for the world’s largest information security gathering. He previously sat on the Editorial Board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, and served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York for many years.

Heather Trew
Counselor to the General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Heather Trew is the Counselor to the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury focusing on virtual assets.  For the past three years, she served as Treasury’s Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement and Intelligence, after having worked for several years as the deputy in that office.  She is a member of the Senior Executive Service.  Prior to her seven years at Treasury, she spent eight years at the Department of Justice, where she she served in the National Security Division, including as a Deputy Unit Chief.  She has focused her legal career on national security topics.  Prior to her government service, she was an associate attorney with the law firms of Jenner & Block and Foley & Lardner.  She holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and an A.B. from Stanford University.

Jen Easterly
Director
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Jen Easterly is the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Easterly was nominated by President Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021.

As Director, Ms. Easterly leads CISA’s efforts to protect and defend civilian government networks, manage systemic risk to national critical functions, and collaborate with State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial partners as well as with the private sector to ensure the security and resilience of the Nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure.

Before serving in her current role, Ms. Easterly was the head of Firm Resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center at Morgan Stanley, responsible for ensuring preparedness and response to business-disrupting operational incidents and risks. Ms. Easterly joined the Firm in 2017 to build and lead its Cybersecurity Fusion Center, the operational cornerstone of its cyber defense strategy.

Ms. Easterly has a long tradition of public service, to include two tours at the White House, most recently as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, and earlier as Executive Assistant to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in the George W. Bush Administration. A former member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service, she also served as the Deputy for Counterterrorism at the National Security Agency.

A two-time recipient of the Bronze Star, Ms. Easterly retired from the U.S. Army after more than twenty years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Responsible for standing up the Army’s first cyber battalion, Ms. Easterly was also instrumental in the design and creation of United States Cyber Command.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a French-American Foundation Young Leader, Ms. Easterly is the past recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship, the National Security Institute Visiting Fellowship, the New America Foundation Senior International Security Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and the Director, National Security Agency Fellowship. 

A distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ms. Easterly holds a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the recipient of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award and the Bradley W. Snyder Changing the Narrative Award.

Senator Angus King
U.S. Senate

Senator King, formerly serving as the 72nd Governor of Maine, is currently serving his second term in the US Senate. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and the Committee on Rules and Administration. He has made it a priority not to miss Committee hearings, earning him praise from his colleagues and the reputation as a workhorse in the Senate. 

In his time in the Senate, Senator King has worked to strengthen America’s national security, conducted critical oversight of the nation’s Intelligence Community, supported common-sense budget priorities that promote prosperity and reduce the national debt, fought the national opioid and heroin epidemic, coordinated efforts to revitalize Maine’s forest economy, advocated for policies that contribute to cleaner, cheaper energy and mitigate climate change, and promoted increased access to critical community resources like rural broadband.

A leading voice on the importance of improving America’s cybersecurity, Senator King was selected by Congressional leadership to co-chair the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan effort established by Congress to review the threats facing America in cyberspace and develop a forward looking plan on how to defend ourselves against cyber threats. The commission, which consisted of bipartisan members of Congress, top Executive Branch officials, and nonpartisan industry leaders, laid out more than 75 recommendations to improve the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure and prepare the nation for future challenges in an increasingly digital world.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke
U.S. House of Representatives

Hailing from central Brooklyn, Congresswoman Yvette Diane Clarke feels honored to represent the community that raised her. She is the proud daughter of Jamaican immigrants and takes her passion for her Caribbean heritage to Congress, where she co-chairs the Congressional Caribbean Caucus and works to foster relationships between the United States and the Caribbean Community. Clarke is Chair of the Homeland Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Innovation Subcommittee, under the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and was Co-chair of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee during the 116th Congress. Clarke has been a member of the Congressional Black Caucus since coming to Congress in 2007 and today chairs its Immigration Task Force.

As the Representative of the Ninth Congressional District of New York, Congresswoman Clarke has dedicated herself to continuing the legacy of excellence established by the late Honorable Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman and Caribbean American elected to Congress. In the 116th Congress, Congresswoman Clarke introduced landmark legislation, which passed in the House, the Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6). This legislation would give 2.5 million DREAMers, temporary protected status, and deferred enforcement departure recipients a clear citizenship pathway.

Clarke is a leader in the tech and media policy space as co-chair of the Smart Cities Caucus and co-chair of the Multicultural Media Caucus. Congresswoman Clarke believes smart technology will make communities more sustainable, resilient, and livable and works hard to ensure communities of color are not left behind while these technological advancements are made. Clarke formed the Multicultural Media Caucus to address diversity and inclusion issues in the media, telecom, and tech industries. Clarke is one of the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, which develops programs to support the aspirations of Black women of all ages. Congresswoman Clarke is also the co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, where she is fighting for the right to universal health care.

Prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives, Congresswoman Clarke served on New York’s City Council, representing the 40th District. She succeeded her pioneering mother, former City Council Member Dr. Una S. T. Clarke, making them the first mother-daughter succession in the City Council’s history. She cosponsored City Council resolutions that opposed the war in Iraq, criticized the federal USA PATRIOT Act, and called for a national moratorium on the death penalty.

Congresswoman Clarke is a graduate of Oberlin College and was a recipient of the prestigious APPAM/Sloan Fellowship in Public Policy and Policy Analysis. She received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the University of Technology, Jamaica, and the Honorary Doctorate of Public Policy from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Congresswoman Clarke currently resides in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, where she grew up.

David M. Turk
Deputy Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy

Prior to his nomination as Deputy Secretary, Turk was the Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), where he focused on helping countries around the world tackle their clean energy transitions. He also directed reports on the digitalization of energy systems, the future of clean hydrogen, and a project tracking progress on a wide range of clean energy technologies.

During the Obama-Biden Administration, Turk coordinated international technology and clean energy efforts at DOE. During this time, he helped spearhead the launch of Mission Innovation—a global effort to enhance clean energy innovation.

Turk also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the U.S. National Security Council, where he coordinated interagency legislative affairs efforts by the full range of national security agencies and provided legislative advice to National Security Council decision-making. He also previously worked at the U.S. Department of State, including as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change and helping to coordinate New Start Treaty ratification efforts in the U.S. Senate.   

Earlier in his career, Turk worked in both the U.S. Senate, primarily on national security issues, and as the Staff Director of the National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee. 

Turk was born in Quito, Ecuador and raised in Rock Falls, Illinois. He is a graduate of both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia Law School. He and his wife, Emily Turk, have three children. 

Wael Mohamed
CEO
Forescout

Wael Mohamed is the driving force behind the success of important cybersecurity companies. With a unique combination of cybersecurity, digital transformation, and executive leadership expertise, Wael has been the go-to advisor for boards and executives for nearly 30 years. He is the CEO at Forescout, where he is transforming the 20 year old organization into a vibrant, fast-paced powerhouse in cybersecurity.

Most recently, he served as President & COO, and board member at Trend Micro Group, one of Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange 225 index companies. There he helped transform the company into a global cybersecurity leader and added over $4B in shareholder value during his 11-year tenure. Wael joined Trend Micro in 2009 after the acquisition of Third Brigade, a company he co-founded and was the President and CEO since its inception in 2004.

Previous roles included serving as the vice president of global sales and distribution for ZixCorp. Wael built and transformed the company into a global, high­ performance and high revenue growth team. He also held senior management positions with internet security company Entrust. He boasts a wealth of corporate board experience gained from 15 years of sitting on boards of businesses as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor.

Wael is a frequent lecturer and speaker at the Queen's Graduate School of Business in Ontario, Canada, where he completed an Executive Program in 2004. Wael holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Dalhousie University and the Executive Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School. Wael resides in Dallas, Texas with his family. In his spare time, he focuses on his hobbies, including judo, chess and meditation.

Noopur Davis
Chief Information Security Officer
Comcast

Noopur Davis is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security and Product Privacy Officer, Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the full range of cybersecurity and product privacy functions for all Comcast Cable businesses, including all products and services delivered to our residential and business customers. Her responsibilities include product security and privacy, security and privacy controls, privacy engineering and operations, data protection, security architecture and engineering, security operations and incident response, threat hunting, security intelligence and analytics, identity management, technical fraud, and the Legal Response Center.

Noopur joined Comcast from Intel, where she served as Vice President, Global Quality, Intel Security Group. Previously, she was a Visiting Scientist and Senior Member of Technical Staff at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, a Principal of management consulting firm Davis Systems, and held various leadership and technical positions in Fortune 500 companies such as Chrysler and Intergraph.

She is a champion of women in technology and serves on the Advisory Board of Comcast/NBCUniversal TechWomen. She is the recipient of the WICT/SCTE•ISBE/Cablefax Women in Technology and WeQual 2021 awards, and has been included on the Cablefax 100, Cablefax Diversity, Cablefax Most Powerful Women and Top Women in Technology lists multiple times.

Noopur holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Auburn University. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT).

Paul Abbate
Deputy Director
FBI

Appointed as Deputy Director in February 2021, Paul Abbate oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities. He has notably served as Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch where he oversaw all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, critical incident response, and victim assistance. Among other positions, he has worked in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, led numerous field offices across the country, and served in oversees deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Prior to his role as Deputy Director, Paul served as Associate Deputy Director where he was responsible for the management of all FBI business and administrative personnel and functions.

Window Snyder
Founder and CEO
Thistle Technologies

Window Snyder is a security industry veteran and CEO of Thistle Technologies. Previously she was chief security officer, vice president, and general manager of Intel’s Platform Security Division. Before that she was chief security officer at Fastly after spending five years at Apple leading security and privacy strategy and features for OS X and iOS. Earlier roles include Chief Security Something-or-Other at Mozilla responsible for security engineering, communication and strategy, and Founding Team Member at Matasano, a security services and product company based in New York City, acquired by NCC Group in 2012.

Chris Inglis
National Cyber Director
Office of the National Cyber Director

Chris Inglis currently serves as the National Cyber Director within the Executive Office of the President. Mr. Inglis was confirmed by Congress in June 2021. As the National Cyber Director, he will lead the implementation of national cyber policy and strategy. Mr. Inglis serves as the President’s senior advisor for cyber issues. 

Inglis retired from the Department of Defense in January 2014 following over 41 years of federal service, including 28 years at NSA and seven and a half years as its senior civilian and Deputy Director. Mr. Inglis began his career at NSA as a computer scientist followed by tours in information assurance, policy, time-sensitive operations, and signals intelligence organizations.

A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Inglis holds advanced degrees in engineering and computer science from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Kellogg Business School executive development program, the USAF Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, and Squadron Officers' School.

Mr. Inglis’ military career includes over 30 years of service in the US Air Force and Air National Guard, retiring as Brigadier General in 2006. He holds the rating of Command Pilot and commanded units at the squadron, group, and joint force headquarters levels.

After retirement from federal service, Mr. Inglis continued to serve in a variety of national security positions, including, as a U. S. Naval Academy Looker Distinguished Visiting Professor for Cyber Studies, as a managing director at Paladin Capital, and as a Commissioner on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission.

Mieke Eoyang
DASD for Cyber Policy
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Mieke Eoyang is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy.  The Cyber Policy office is responsible for establishing DoD cyberspace policy and strategy, providing guidance and oversight on DoD cyberspace activities, and managing DoD’s primary external relationships across the U.S. government, key domestic stakeholders, and our allies and partners.

Prior to that she was the Senior Vice President for the National Security Program at the think tank, Third Way, where she led their work on a wide range of national security issues including on foreign policy, Congress’ role in the national security policymaking process, non-proliferation, intelligence oversight, electronic surveillance, cybersecurity. She was the founder of the organization’s Cyber Enforcement Initiative which focused on improving the government’s efforts to impose consequences on the human behind malicious cyber activity.

Before joining Third Way, she was the Chief of Staff to Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) having previously served as the Subcommittee Staff Director for Intelligence Community Management on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. While there, she was the committee’s lead for cybersecurity, personnel management and worked on electronic surveillance reform, among other issues.

Prior to that, she served as the Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, advising him on all matters related to the Senate Armed Services Committee and Defense Appropriations during the Iraq War. Earlier in her career, she served as the lead Democratic Professional Staff Member on the House Armed Services Committee for the Military Personnel Subcommittee.

Ms. Eoyang received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Wellesley College.

Jonathan Welburn
Operations Researcher
RAND Corporation

Jonathan Welburn is a RAND researcher in the fields of operations research and computational economics and teaches at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research explores the topics of systemic risk in economic systems, supply chain risks, cyber security, and deterrence with the central theme of elucidating the spread of risk in complex and interdependent systems and potential policy solutions.

Jay Healey
Senior Research Scholar
Columbia University

Jason Healey is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs specializing in cyber risk and conflict and a part-time senior strategist at the National Risk Management Center at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Prior to this, he was the founding director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council where he remains a Senior Fellow.  He is the editor of the first history of conflict in cyberspace, A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012.

He helped create the world’s first cyber command in 1998, the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, where he was one of the pioneers of cyber threat intelligence. During his time in the White House, he was a director for cyber policy, coordinating efforts to secure US cyberspace and critical infrastructure. He created Goldman Sachs’ first cyber incident response capability and later oversaw the bank’s crisis management and business continuity in Asia. He served as the vice chair of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). He is on the review board of the DEF CON and Black Hat hacker conferences, served on the Defense Science Board task force on cyber deterrence, and is past president and board member of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association. He started his career as a US Air Force intelligence officer with jobs at the Pentagon and National Security Agency.

Sean Joyce
Global Cyber & Privacy Leader
PwC

Sean Joyce is a Principal in PwC’s Advisory Practice, where he is the US and Global Cybersecurity and Privacy practice leader and consults in some of the most prolific cyber breaches, providing guidance and expertise to top executives. Previously, Sean served as Deputy Director with the FBI, and played an integral role in transforming the FBI into an intelligence-driven organization. His 26 years of federal service spanned many positions across the Bureau, including the Executive Assistant Director at the FBI’s National Security Branch and lead intelligence official of the FBI, and Assistant Director of International Operations, among other roles. Sean is a 2013 recipient of the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, the DIA’s Director’s Award, the FBI Meritorious Medal, and the 2011 Presidential Rank Award. A Boston native, he holds degrees from Boston College and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.

Robert Joyce
Director, Cybersecurity Directorate
National Security Agency

As the Director of Cybersecurity for NSA, Rob Joyce leads efforts to prevent and eradicate cyber threats to the U.S. National Security Systems and critical infrastructure with a focus on the Defense Industrial Base. He assumed the position after serving as NSA’s top cryptologic representative in the United Kingdom and the Special U.S. Liaison Officer in London. He has also held positions in the National Security Council, serving as cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to the president from March 2017 to May 2018, including time as acting Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and Acting Homeland Security Advisor. Rob has lengthy history with the National Security Agency, serving in multiple positions with a cybersecurity emphasis, including the Director of Tailored Access Operations.

Joy Ditto
President and CEO
American Public Power Association

Joy Ditto became the American Public Power Association’s president and CEO on January 13, 2020. Before that, she was the president and CEO of the Utilities Technology Council, a global trade association representing electric, gas, and water utilities on their mission-critical information and communications technologies. She has testified before the U.S. Senate and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and is a past chair of the National Energy Resources Organization. She sits on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Advisory Committee.

Before joining UTC, Joy was with the American Public Power Association for 15 years, rounding out her tenure as the senior vice president for legislative and political affairs.

Earlier, Joy spent seven years on Capitol Hill, as legislative assistant to two representatives from Pennsylvania — Joe McDade (R), and Don Sherwood (R) — and a senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel (R). She was a staff assistant to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in her first job out of college. Joy advised her bosses on issues involving natural resources, agriculture, trade, tax, banking, the justice system, environment, and energy.

As a “Marine Corps brat,” Joy learned early that relationships are key to success, as are a willingness to work hard and an ability to see both “the forest and the trees.”

Joy is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a BA in history and minor in political science and has received an executive certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University.

Joy is married with two daughters. She is a competitive equestrian in the sport of eventing. 

Sam King
CEO
Veracode

Sam King is the Chief Executive Officer of Veracode and a recognized expert in cybersecurity, DevSecOps and business management. A founding member of Veracode, Sam has played a significant role in the company’s growth trajectory over the past 15 years, helping to mature it from a small startup to a company with a billion dollar plus valuation. Under her leadership, Veracode has been recognized with several industry distinctions including: an eight-time consecutive leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, leader in the Forrester SAST Wave, and a Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Application Security. Her leadership style has been recognized by The Commonwealth Institute and The Boston Globe, which cited Veracode as of the Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts, ranking first among all software companies. Sam has been a keynote speaker at events such as Gartner Security Summit, RSA and the Executive Women’s Forum, on topics ranging from cybersecurity to empowering women and creating diverse and resilient corporate cultures. She has been profiled in business publications such as the Huffington Post, CNNMoney, Financial Times, InfoSecurity Magazine and The Boston Globe.

In her previous role as the Chief Strategy Officer at Veracode, Sam was responsible for company strategy, product management, marketing, corporate development and the company’s customer-facing solution architects. Prior to Veracode, Sam held leadership positions in cybersecurity and technology companies including Verisign and Razorfish. Sam received her Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BS in Computer Science from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, where she earned the prestigious Charles Babbage Award, awarded to the student with the highest academic achievement in the graduating class. She currently sits on the board of Progress Software. Sam is also a member of Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, where she was a charter member of the 2030 Challenge; a Tech Compact for Social Justice in efforts to bring more diversity to the local workforce.

Ron Green
Chief Security Officer
Mastercard

Ron Green is Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer for Mastercard. In this role, he leads a global team that ensures the safety and security of the Mastercard network, as well as internal and external products and services. Prior to this role, he served as Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Fidelity Information Services (FIS) and was director, Investigation and Protections Operations at Blackberry. He has extensive experience working with international and federal law enforcement agencies both as an officer in the US Army and as a special agent in the USSS, where he worked protection and fraud investigations. He was one of the first agents to receive formal training on seizing and analyzing electronic evidence, and worked on a number of international cybercrime investigations.

Pedro Pizarro
President and Chief Executive Officer
Edison International

Pedro Pizarro is president and chief executive officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Edison International is also the parent company of Edison Energy, a portfolio of competitive businesses providing commercial and industrial customers with energy management and procurement services. He is a member of Edison International’s board of directors.  

Previously, Pizarro served as president of SCE and president of Edison Mission Energy (EME), an independent power producer subsidiary. Pizarro joined Edison International in 1999, moved to SCE in 2001 and progressed through several leadership roles before joining EME.

Before his work at Edison, Pizarro was a senior engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles, providing management consulting services to energy, technology, engineering services and banking clients.

Pizarro earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and held National Science Foundation and Department of Defense graduate fellowships. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University.

Pizarro is a vice chair for the Edison Electric Institute and serves on the boards of Electric Power Research Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Caltech and the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk. He represented the electric industry on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), co-chaired the SEAB Innovation Working Group and recently served on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

Stephen Schmidt
Chief Information Security Officer
Amazon Web Services

Stephen Schmidt is Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer for Amazon Web Services (AWS). His duties at AWS include leading product design, management, and engineering development efforts focused on bringing the competitive, economic and security benefits of cloud computing to business and government customers. 

Prior to joining AWS, Schmidt had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as a senior executive. His responsibilities at the FBI included a term as acting Chief Technology Officer, Section Chief responsible for the FBI’s technical collection and analysis platforms, and as a Section Chief overseeing the FBI’s Cyber Division components responsible for the technical analysis of computer and network intrusion activities. His Cyber Division oversight included areas of malicious code analysis, computer exploitation tool reverse-engineering, and technical analysis of computer intrusions.

Kelly Born
Director, Cyber Initiative
Hewlett Foundation

Kelly Born is the Director of the Cyber Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation, a ten-year, $130 million grant-making effort that aims to build a more robust cybersecurity field and improve policymaking.

Prior to directing Hewlett’s Cyber Initiative, Born served as the founding director of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, a leading academic center focused on improving the governance of digital technologies and their impact on security, geopolitics and democracy. Before joining Stanford, Born helped to launch and lead the Democracy Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic undertakings in America working to improve U.S. democracy. 

Earlier in her career, Born worked as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group, supporting strategic planning efforts at Fortune 100 companies, governments, and nonprofits in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. She holds a master’s degree in international policy from Stanford University. 

Michael Daniel
Founder and CEO
Cyber Threat Alliance

Michael Daniel currently serves as the President of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), which works to improve the cybersecurity of the global digital ecosystem by enabling real-time, high-quality cyber threat information sharing among companies and organizations in the cybersecurity field. Prior to joining the CTA in February 2017, Michael served from June 2012 to January 2017 as Special Assistant to President Obama and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the National Security Council Staff. In this role, Michael led the development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy and ensured that the U.S. government effectively partnered with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and other nations.

Chris Krebs
Senior Newmark Fellow
Aspen Digital

Chris served as founding director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Chris was originally sworn in on June 15, 2018 as the Under Secretary for the predecessor of CISA, the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Before serving as CISA Director, Mr. Krebs was appointed in August 2017 as the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, after join DHS in March 2017 to serve as Senior Counselor to the Secretary, where he advised DHS leadership on a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and national resilience issues. Prior to coming to DHS, he was a member of Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team as the Director for Cybersecurity Policy, where he led Microsoft’s U.S. policy work on cybersecurity and technology issues. Before Microsoft, Chris advised industry and federal, state, and local government customers on a range of cybersecurity and risk management issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Connie Lau
President and CEO
Hawaiian Electric Industries

Constance H. Lau is president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI), parent company of Hawaiian Electric Company which provides electricity to 95% of the state of Hawaii and American Savings Bank, Hawaii's third largest bank.

Connie chairs the National Infrastructure Advisory Council which advises the President of the United States on the security of the sixteen critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems and is a member of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council which represents the electric utility industry with the federal government.  Connie is a C3E Clean Energy, Education and Empowerment Ambassador for the Department of Energy and was 2011 Woman of the Year for the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment. She was one of U. S. Banker's 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking for 2004, 2005 and 2006 when she headed American Savings Bank.  She serves on the boards of Edison Electric Institute, Associated Electrical & Gas Insurance Services, Matson, Inc., Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii Business Roundtable, and chairs the boards of Punahou School, Consuelo Foundation, and the Military Affairs Council of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.

Connie holds a B.S. from Yale College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ang Cui
Founder and CEO
Red Balloon Security

Dr. Ang Cui is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Red Balloon Security, a leading cybersecurity provider and research firm that specializes in the protection of embedded devices across all industries.

Ang received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2015 and was part of the Intrusion Detection Systems Lab. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Embedded System Security: A Software-based Approach”, focused exclusively on scientific inquiries concerning the exploitation and defense of embedded systems. Ang is the creator of Firmware Reverse Analysis Konsole (FRAK) and the inventor of Software Symbiote technology, both of which enable pioneering firmware analysis and defense for embedded devices.

Since founding Red Balloon Security, backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Ang continues to research and develop new technologies to defend embedded systems against exploitation. He has led development of a portfolio of embedded security solutions to harden device firmware and provide continuous runtime protection and monitoring of device firmware. Over the course of his research, he has uncovered numerous, critical vulnerabilities within ubiquitous embedded devices such as Cisco routers, HP printers, and Cisco IP phones as well as led research efforts uncovering vulnerabilities on aerospace infrastructure, building automation systems, electrical grid devices, telecommunications equipment, and ATMs.

Ang has received various awards on his work on reverse engineering commercial devices and is also the recipient of the Symantec Graduate Fellowship and selected as a DARPA Riser in 2015.

Ang is passionate about creating a team of outstanding researchers, engineers, and executives whose best ideas are enabled by innovation, creativity, and autonomy to solve the most pressing challenges.

Nidhi Rastogi
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Dr. Nidhi Rastogi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research is at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, graph analytics, and data privacy. Prior to this, Dr. Rastogi was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) leading three cybersecurity, AI projects on enterprise systems and autonomous vehicles. For her contributions to cybersecurity and encouraging women in STEM, Dr. Rastogi was recognized in 2020 as an International Women in Cybersecurity by the Cyber Risk Research Institute. She was a speaker at the SANS cybersecurity summit and the Grace Hopper Conference. Dr. Rastogi is the co-chair of the DYNAMICS workshop since 2020 and serves as a committee member on several security conferences and workshops. Dr. Rastogi was a FADEx laureate for the 1st French-American Program on Cyber-Physical Systems’16, Board Member (N2Women 2018-20), and Feature Editor for ACM XRDS Magazine (2015-17). Prior to her Ph.D. from RPI, Dr. Rastogi worked on the security of heterogeneous wireless networks (3G, 4G, 802.1x, 802.11), Smart Grid through engineering and research positions at Verizon and GE Global Research Center, and GE Power. She has interned at IBM Zurich, BBN Raytheon, GE GRC, and Yahoo, which provides her a quintessential perspective in applied industrial research and engineering.

Frederick Chang
Chair of the Computer Science Department
Southern Methodist University

Frederick R. Chang is the Chair of the Computer Science Department in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (on leave). He is also the Bobby B. Lyle Endowed Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cyber Security and Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Founding Director of the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security and is a Senior Fellow in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy. Additionally, Chang’s career spans service in the private sector and in government including as the former Director of Research at the National Security Agency. 

Dr. Chang was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2016. He is currently the Co-Chair of the Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and he is also a member of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board of the National Academies. He has served as a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies and as a member of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency. He is the lead inventor on two U.S. patents and has appeared before Congress as a cybersecurity expert witness on multiple occasions. Dr. Chang received his B.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oregon. He has also completed the Program for Senior Executives at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been awarded the National Security Agency Director’s Distinguished Service Medal.

Marene Allison
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Johnson & Johnson

Marene N. Allison, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Johnson & Johnson, has responsibility for protecting the Information Technology (IT) systems and data worldwide through elimination and mitigation of IT risk. She co-leads the IT Risk Management Council and is a member of the Enterprise Compliance Council. Marene joined Johnson & Johnson in September of 2010. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Marene was Chief Security Officer and Vice President for Medco, the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. Prior to that, Marene was with Avaya as head of Global Security where she worked on securing the World Cup network in Korea and Japan in 2002. Before joining Avaya she was Vice President of Loss Prevention and Safety for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Before joining the corporate world, she served as a Special Agent in the FBI working on undercover drug operations in Newark, NJ and also working on terrorist bombings in San Diego, CA. 

Marene has a Bachelor of Science degree from The United States Military Academy at West Point, in the first class to include women. She has served in the US Army in the Military Police, at Ft Hood, TX, Ft Chaffee, AR and Ft McClellan, AL. She has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services appointed by the Secretary of Defense and the Overseas Security Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State. She is a founding member of West Point Women and currently serves on their Board of Directors. Marene is married, has one son and lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Congressman John M. Katko
U.S. House of Representatives

Congressman John M. Katko was first elected to represent the 24th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2014. He was re-elected for a fourth term in November 2020.   The 24th Congressional District includes all of Onondaga, Cayuga, and Wayne Counties and the western portion of Oswego County.  

A Camillus, NY native, John left his 20-year career as a federal prosecutor to run for public office because he believes Central New York deserves strong, independent leadership in Washington.

In Congress, John serves as Ranking Member on the House Committee on Homeland Security and as a member of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure. 

After graduating with honors from both Niagara University and Syracuse University College of Law, John began his legal career in private practice at a firm in Washington, D.C.  It was not long before John embarked on a career in public service, serving first as a Senior Trial Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and then commencing his twenty-year career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.   Early in his career as a federal prosecutor, John served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and with the DOJ’s Criminal Division, Narcotics & Dangerous Drug Section.   In this capacity, John served as a Senior Trial Attorney on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas and in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

John and his wife, Robin, ultimately returned to John’s hometown of Camillus, NY to raise their family.  For over 15 years, John served as a federal organized crime prosecutor in Syracuse for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of New York.   In this role, John led high-level narcotics federal prosecutions, concurrently holding the positions of Narcotics Chief, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Coordinator, Binghamton Office Supervisor, Team Leader, and Grand Jury Coordinator.  Notably, John served as Supervisor of the Narcotics Section, formulating the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force and successfully prosecuting the first-ever RICO gang case in the City of Syracuse, which led to a significant drop in the City’s violent crime rate.

John has been honored with the top prosecutor award by three separate Attorneys General, both Democrat and Republican, for his work on the Gang Violence Task Force and international drug-trafficking investigations.   John has lectured at Syracuse University College of Law and Cornell Law School, and has led attorney trainings for criminal investigations and prosecutions worldwide in Moscow, Croatia, Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, and El Salvador.  In 2011, John was selected to be the sole U.S. advisor on a highly sensitive prosecution in Albania.

John retired from the U.S. Department of Justice in January 2013 to run for Congress.

Keith Alexander
Founder and Co-CEO
IronNet Cybersecurity

GEN Keith Alexander (Ret.), Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, is one of the foremost authorities on cybersecurity in the world. A four-star Army general, GEN Alexander was previously the highest-ranked military official of USCYBERCOM, NSA/CSS, where he led these DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber attacks against the U.S. were on the rise. 

In recognition of cyber's increasing importance, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed GEN Alexander as the first commander of USCYBERCOM, a newly created military institution charged with defending the nation’s security in cyberspace against sophisticated cyber threats to businesses and government operations in an increasingly interconnected world. 

A leader with vision and a pragmatic approach to tackling the ever-changing cyber threat landscape, GEN Alexander built IronNet to bring this knowledge and experience to the private sector and fill in a critical gap between cyber threats and available security technology. IronNet provides best-in-class cyber defense based on complex behavioral modeling, big-data analytics and advanced computing capability. 

GEN Alexander holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy, an M.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and M.S. degrees in Systems Technology, Physics and National Security Strategy.

Tracie Grella
Global Head of Cyber
AIG

Tracie Grella is Global Head of Cyber at AIG. In this role, Ms. Grella is responsible for the company’s cyber-related products and services, ensuring AIG is creating solutions and delivering expertise to help Commercial and Consumer Insurance clients manage and mitigate this evolving risk. 

Ms. Grella had previously served as Global Head of Professional Liability for Financial Lines for AIG, responsible for establishing underwriting strategy and implementing best practices in multiple lines of business including cyber liability, reputational risk insurance, architects and engineers liability, and specialty professional liability worldwide. Ms. Grella began her insurance career with AIG in 1995 as a professional associate in AIG’s U.S. Executive Liability division, and subsequently held a number of positions of increasing responsibility, including President of National Accounts, Chief Underwriting Officer, and Division President for Professional Liability in the U.S. and Canada. 

Ms. Grella is commonly called upon as an industry expert by insurance trade and mainstream publications on cyber liability and professional liability issues. Ms. Grella was named a 2015 Insurance Executive to Watch by Risk & Insurance and a 2014 Woman to Watch by Business Insurance. Ms. Grella holds a B.S. in finance from Rutgers University and holds a CPCU designation. 

Jack Blackhurst
Executive Director
Air Force Research Lab 

Jack Blackhurst, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Executive Director, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is the principal assistant to the commander and the senior civilian executive responsible for managing the Air Force's $2.5 billion science and technology program along with an additional $2.3 billion of externally funded research and development. He serves a government workforce of approximately 6,000 people in the laboratory's nine component technology directorates and 711th Human Performance Wing.

He earned his Air Force commission through ROTC in 1974 and began his career as a Communications-Electronics Officer assigned to Strategic Air Command in the 509th Bomb Wing at Pease AFB, New Hampshire. After completing his master's degree through the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1979, he held numerous management positions within the Air Force personnel and human research communities, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, Technology and Engineering.

Mr. Blackhurst retired as a colonel in 2004 before moving to the AFRL as Director for the Human Effectiveness Directorate, 711th Human Performance Wing. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in January 2010.

Charles Carmakal
Senior Vice President & CTO
FireEye

Charles Carmakal is FireEye’s Strategic Services CTO and is one of the company’s leading incident response experts. He oversees a team that has helped over a thousand organizations respond to complex security breaches orchestrated by foreign governments, organized criminals, and political hacktivists. Charles has 19 years of experience helping organizations become more resilient to cyber attacks, including significant experience helping Fortune 500 organizations build and enhance security programs to combat advanced attacks. He frequently provides strategic security guidance to executive leadership and boards of directors.

John Carlin
Chair
Aspen Cyber & Technology Program

John Carlin, the chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber & Technology Program, left the Obama administration after serving as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the Department of Justice’s top national security attorney. In this Senate-confirmed position, John oversaw nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats.

The Justice Department’s National Security Division—working closely with the White House, the intelligence community, and prosecutors around the country—has helped to put together many of the most important cyber indictments and cases against hackers of the last eight years, ranging from the indictment of five Chinese military hackers for cyber-espionage to the case against Iranian hackers who attacked a New York hydroelectric dam, as well as being integral to cases like the hacking of Sony Pictures and the recent Russian attacks on the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Today, Carlin is also the global chair of the risk and crisis management practice for the law firm Morrison & Foerster and is a sought-after industry speaker on cyber issues as well a CNBC contributor on national security issues. A frequent commentator, he has also appeared on shows like Charlie Rose.

John Demers
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
U.S. Justice Department

John Demers became Assistant Attorney General for National Security on February 22, 2018. In that capacity, he leads the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat national security related cyber-crime, terrorism and espionage, to enforce export control and sanctions laws, to use the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and to conduct national security review of foreign investments.  In November 2018, John was selected to lead the Attorney General’s China Initiative, put in place to counter the Peoples Republic of China’s persistent and aggressive economic espionage, trade secret theft, hacking and other related crimes. 

Prior to rejoining the Department, John was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at The Boeing Company, where he held several senior positions including in Boeing Defense, Space, and Security and as lead lawyer and head of international government affairs for Boeing International.

From 2006 to 2009, John served on the first leadership team of the National Security Division, first as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General and then as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Law & Policy.  In addition, he has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.  From 2010 to 2017, he taught national security law as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.  John worked in private practice in Boston and clerked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated from Harvard Law School and the College of the Holy Cross.

Ed Devinney
Corporate Director, Cyber Programs
Northrop Gumman

Ed currently serves as Corporate Director of Cyber Programs on the Space, Intelligence and Cyber Team within Government Relations.  He is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal and external customer relationships to foster an in-depth understanding of cyber requirements for the Department of Defense and the Intelligence community.

Prior to joining industry, Mr. Devinney served 29 years active duty in the United States Navy retiring with the rank of Captain.  Ed served the first part of his career as a Surface Warfare Officer on multiple at-sea or Pentagon assignments, culminating with Commanding the Aegis Destroyer USS COLE (DDG-67) from 2008-2010.  Additionally, Ed has nearly a decade of Capitol Hill experience having served as the Navy’s liaison to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and as the Senate Director for the Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel.  Ed also served as Chief, Strategic Cyber Defense for the Secretary of Defense and finished his career at United States Cyber Command where he created the Corporate Partnerships Program and was the founder of Cyber Command’s first cyber incubator and prototyping facility, DreamPort.

Mr. Devinney has a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Oceanography from the United States Naval Academy, Master’s Degree in Financial Management from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master’s Degree from the Eisenhower School in National Resource Strategy/Finance.   Ed participates as a Board Member at Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) and is on the Executive Advisory Board for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). 

Dr. Stacey Dixon
Deputy Director
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Dr. Stacey A. Dixon became the eighth Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on July 1, 2019. In this role, she assists the director both in leading the agency and in managing the National System for Geospatial Intelligence.

From 2018 to 2019, she served as the fourth director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), after serving as its deputy director from 2016 to 2018. Before joining IARPA, Dr. Dixon served as the deputy director of NGA’s research directorate, where she oversaw geospatial intelligence research and development. Prior to that, she served as NGA’s chief of congressional and intergovernmental affairs, and then deputy director of NGA’s corporate communications office.

From 2007 to 2010, she was a staff member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and from 2003 to 2007, she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office’s advanced systems and technology directorate. Dr. Dixon holds both a doctorate and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She was also a chemical engineer postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. She additionally serves as a presidentially nominated member of the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Dixon is a native of the District of Columbia, where she currently resides.

Dr. Joan Donovan
Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Joan Donovan is the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Dr. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns.

Dr. Donovan leads The Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC). TaSC explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation, derail democracy, and disrupt society. TaSC conducts research, develops methods, and facilitates workshops for journalists, policy makers, technologists, and civil society organizations on how to detect, document, and debunk media manipulation campaigns. Dr. Donovan and the TaSC team produce: 

Media Manipulation Case Book 

Meme War Weekly (MWW) newsletter

BIG, If True webinar series

Dr. Donovan's research and teaching interests are focused on media manipulation, effects of disinformation campaigns, and adversarial media movements. She teaches a graduate-level course on Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns (DPI-622) with a focus on how social movements, political parties, governments, corporations, and other networked groups engage in active efforts to shape media narratives and disrupt social institutions.

Dr. Donovan's research can be found in academic peer-reviewed journals such as Social Media + Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JCE), Information, Communication & Society, Social Studies of Science, and Online Information Review. Her contributions can also be found in the books, Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols and Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Dr. Donovan's research and expertise has been showcased in a wide array of media outlets including NPR, Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and more.

Prior to joining Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Donovan was the Research Lead for Data & Society’s Media Manipulation Initiative, where she led a large team of researchers studying efforts to manipulate sociotechnical systems for political gain. She continues to hold an affiliate appointment with Data & Society. Dr. Donovan received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where she studied white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology.

William Evanina
Director
National Counterintelligence and Security Center

William R. Evanina of Pennsylvania was nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6, 2020 to be the first Senate-confirmed Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). Mr. Evanina has served as the Director of NCSC within the Office of Director of National Intelligence since June 2, 2014.  In this position, he is the head of Counterintelligence (CI) for the U.S. Government and is the principal CI and security advisor to the Director of National Intelligence.

Mr. Evanina chairs the National Counterintelligence Policy Board, and the Allied Security and CI Forum of senior CI and security leaders from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. His expertise is sought by the White House, Congressional officials, Executive Branch officials, and private sector executives.  In January 2015, Mr. Evanina addressed NATO on worldwide CI threats.

Prior to his selection as the Director of NCSC, Mr. Evanina served as the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Counterespionage Group where he led Intelligence Community agencies in identifying, preventing, and neutralizing espionage-related activities by foreign intelligence services. In 2013, Mr. Evanina was appointed to the Senior Executive Service.

Mr. Evanina has over 30 years of distinguished federal service, 22 of which as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). At the start of his law enforcement career in 1996, he investigated organized crime and violent crimes through the FBI’s Newark Field Office. He then served on an FBI SWAT unit for 10 years, ultimately supervising this unit. He led some of the highest profile terrorism investigations in our nation’s history including the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks, and the Daniel Pearl kidnapping. During his tenure with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Mr. Evanina was selected as a Supervisory Special Agent, and received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence for his leadership in the investigation into convicted spy Leandro Aragoncillo.

Mr. Evanina’s government career began in 1989 as a Project Manager with the General Services Administration, in Philadelphia.

Mr. Evanina was born and raised in Peckville, Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Arcadia University in Philadelphia. Mr. Evanina is married and has two children.

Nathaniel Gleicher
Head of Cybersecurity Policy
Facebook

Nathaniel Gleicher is an engineer and a lawyer, and works at the intersection of technology, policy, and law. He has taught computer programming, built and secured computer networks, prosecuted cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House. At the NSC, he developed U.S. government policy on key technology and cybersecurity challenges, including encryption, cyber deterrence, internet governance, and network security. Since leaving government, Nathaniel served as head of cybersecurity strategy at Illumio, and is currently the Head of Cybersecurity Policy at Facebook.

Sue Gordon
Former Principal Deputy Director
National Intelligence

She was the fifth Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) from August 2017 to August 2019. As PDDNI, Sue was a key advisor to the President and National Security Council and led the 17-member Intelligence Community. With more than three decades of experience in the IC, Sue has served in a variety of leadership roles spanning numerous intelligence organizations and disciplines. Prior to the DNI, Sue served as the Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from 2015 to 2017, helping the director lead the agency and manage the National System of Geospatial Intelligence.

Before joining the NGA, she served for 27 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, rising to senior executive positions in each of the Agency’s four directorates: operations, analysis, science and technology, and support. In 1998, she designed and drove the formation of In-Q-Tel, a private, non-profit company whose primary purpose is to deliver innovative technology solutions for the agency and the IC. She is the recipient of numerous government and industry awards, including the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award. Sue earned a Bachelor of Science from Duke University. A trusted authority on strategy, innovation and leadership, Sue is currently a consultant on global risk, technology, cyber and space issues and a member of the Board at Pallas Advisors, a Washington D.C.-based consultancy.

Garrett Graff
Director of Cyber Initiatives, Aspen Digital
The Aspen Institute

Garrett Graff, a director for cyber initiatives for the Aspen Digital program at the Aspen Institute, is an award-winning journalist who has spent nearly a decade covering national security. He has an extensive background in journalism and technology, including working as Governor Howard Dean’s first webmaster, helping to launch an internet strategy consulting firm, and, in 2005, becoming the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing. More recently, as a journalist, he’s been editor of both Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine—where he helped lead the magazine to its first National Magazine Award—and writes regularly for publications like WIRED and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

He has authored multiple books on both technology and national security, including, most recently, Raven Rock, about the government’s Cold War Doomsday plans, which was published in May 2017, as well as a 2011 history of the FBI, The Threat Matrix.

Yasmin Green
Director of Research and Development
Jigsaw

Yasmin is the Director of Research and Development for Jigsaw, a unit within Alphabet Inc. focused on solving global security challenges through technology. Yasmin was previously Head of Strategy and Operations for Google Ideas, now Jigsaw.

At Google, Yasmin served as Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa as well as Africa Operations Manager. Before joining Google, she consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton. Yasmin has experience leading projects in some of the world’s toughest environments, including Iran, Syria, UAE and Nigeria. In 2012, she led a multi-partner coalition to launch Against Violent Extremism, the world’s first online network of former violent extremists and survivors of terrorism. Based on her own interviews with ISIS defectors and jailed recruits, last year Yasmin launched the Redirect Method, a new deployment of targeted advertising and video to confront online radicalization.

Yasmin is a Senior Advisor on Innovation to Oxford Analytica. Until 2015, she co-chaired the European Commission’s’ Working Group on Online Radicalization. Yasmin was just named as one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40” most influential young leaders, and in 2016 was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.”

Outside of geopolitics and technology, Yasmin pursues her passion for art—in 2016, she produced the psychedelic papier-mâché art feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin. She also serves on the Board of the Tory Burch Foundation.

Meredith Harper
CISO
Eli Lilly

Meredith Harper serves as vice president and chief information security officer at Eli Lilly and Company. She is responsible for the company’s global information security program. 

Prior to joining Lilly in 2018 as senior director, deputy chief information security officer, Meredith served as chief information privacy and security officer at Henry Ford Health System, where she had ultimate responsibility for the protection of Henry Ford’s provider, insurance, retail and research businesses.    

Meredith is an active member of the Health Care Compliance Association where she holds dual certifications in healthcare compliance and privacy. She is certified as a Healthcare Information Security & Privacy Practitioner through the International Information System Security Certification Consortium Inc. and a Certified Information Security Manager through the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

She earned a master’s degree in health services administration and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Detroit Mercy. She also earned a master’s of jurisprudence in health law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  

Meredith serves on several advisory boards in support of empowering women and minorities to embark upon careers in technology, especially in information security. She has also served her community for 29 years through her Diamond Life membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

Lily Hay Newman
Security Reporter
WIRED

Lily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Additionally her work has appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, and Popular Mechanics. She lives in New York City.

Susan Hennessey
Executive Editor
Lawfare

Susan Hennessey is the Executive Editor of Lawfare and General Counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She is a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Prior to joining Brookings, Ms. Hennessey was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the National Security Agency. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Khoo Boon Hui
Board Member
CyberPeace Institute

Born in Singapore in 1954, Mr. Khoo Boon Hui has more than 30 years of policing experience as well as recognised expertise in security policy and organisational management.

He was the Commissioner of the Singapore Police Force from 1997 to 2010 and also served as President of INTERPOL from 2008 to 2012. After his stint in the Police, Mr Khoo was appointed Senior Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014. Upon his retirement from government, Mr. Khoo was appointed the Senior Advisor and subsequently Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Home Affairs on contracts which ended in 2016. He remains a Senior Fellow of the Civil Service College and the Home Team Academy.

Mr Khoo obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Engineering Science & Economics) from Oxford University in 1976 and his Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard in 1982. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Wharton in 2002 and has received numerous international honours and local awards.

He is an Advisor to INTERPOL, and holds advisory and board positions in Banking, Healthcare, Security, Cybersecurity, Defence, Casino Regulation, and Philanthropy. He co-chaired the first three US-Singapore Law Enforcement Homeland Security and Safety Co-operation Dialogue with his US counterparts and the first two ASEAN Senior Officials’ Roundtable on Cybercrime as well as the Singapore Safe City testbed initiative. He is the current Chairman of the Milipol Asia Pacific Conference 2017.

Rep. Will Hurd
Co-chair
Aspen Cyber Group

Will Hurd, a San Antonio native and co-chair of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, never planned on being a member of Congress. Congressman Hurd was excited to spend his entire career serving his country by stopping terrorists, preventing Russian spies from stealing our secrets and putting nuclear weapons proliferators out of business as an undercover officer in the CIA, until he realized that his expertise in cybersecurity and intelligence was sorely needed in Congress – the people charged with making informed decisions about how to serve and protect our country. Since being elected in 2014, Will has continued to blaze his own trail to deliver bipartisan results for the 800,000 Texans he calls his “bosses” by working with anyone – regardless of politics and party to help make sure our kids are ready for the future, that our country is safe and that the United States will always be the leader of the free world. Texas Monthly and Politico Magazine have called him “the Future of the GOP.” His efforts to put good policy over good politics have clearly struck a chord in a country that is often consumed with what divides us instead of what unites us.

Dr. Catherine Marsh
Director
IARPA

Dr. Catherine Marsh became director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in November 2019 where she is responsible for investing in high-risk/high-payoff research that has the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Marsh was the chief scientist for the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology from 2016-2019, where she was responsible for ensuring that leading edge science and technology underlies current and future mission capabilities. Before that, she served as the dean of the DS&T's George Methlie School. Her first assignment at IARPA was from 2013-2015 as the deputy director. Dr. Marsh is a renowned power-sources expert with extensive experience leading development teams both in industry and the government. Dr. Marsh joined the CIA in 2001 and served in several capacities to develop agile, flexible and innovative power solutions for the Intelligence Community. While in industry, she led the team that put lithium-ion technology on numerous platforms, including NASA's MARS Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Dr. Marsh is a Director of National Intelligence Fellow and member of the DS&T's distinguished expert cadre. She holds a bachelor's and doctorate in inorganic and analytic chemistry from Brown University.

Stephanie Mehta
Editor
Fast Company

Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital, and live journalism. She previously served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, where she edited feature stories and coedited the annual New Establishment ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017. She has worked as a writer and editor at Bloomberg Media, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. She received a BS in English and an MS in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.

Erin Miller
Vice President of Operations
Space ISAC

Erin has over a decade of experience building meaningful tech collaborations and has formed hundreds of formal partnerships between government, industry and academia to solve problems for warfighters and national security. Currently Erin is building a Public-Private Partnership (P3), called Space ISAC. This is the third non-profit launch Erin has led and has been passionate about P3 for her entire career.

Erin was the Managing Director of the Center for Technology, Research and Commercialization (C-TRAC) and brought three USAF-funded programs to bear at the Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation from 2016-2018. Her expertise in brokering unique partnerships using non-FAR type agreements led to the standup of the Air Force’s first cyber focused design studio, AFCyberWorx at the United States Air Force Academy, and the first space accelerator, Catalyst Accelerator, at Catalyst Campus in Colorado Springs - in partnership with Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX.

In 2020 Erin is a recipient of the Woman of Influence award. In 2018 Erin was recognized by the Mayor of Colorado Springs as Mayor’s Young Leader (MYL) of the Year Award for Technology. She is also the recipient of Southern Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce Award for Young Female Leader in 2018.

In her previous roles she developed and managed intellectual property portfolios, technology transfer strategies, export control/ITAR, secure facilities, and rapid prototyping collaborations.

Erin serves on the advisory board of CyberSatGov.

James Murray
Director
U.S. Secret Service

James M. Murray is the 26th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, sworn in to office on May 1, 2019. As Director, Mr. Murray is responsible for the successful execution of the dual Investigative and Protective missions of the Secret Service. He leads a diverse work force, comprised of more than 7,600 Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers, Technical Law Enforcement Officers, and Administrative, Professional, and Technical personnel.

Mr. Murray began his Secret Service career in 1995 as a Special Agent in the New York Field Office, where he conducted cyber-enabled financial crimes investigations and served as the agency’s representative to the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force. In 2001, Mr. Murray transferred to the Presidential Protective Division where he was ultimately promoted to the supervisory position of Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge in 2005.

From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Murray served as Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations, where he led combined agency efforts in support of the 2016 Campaign, Presidential Transition and Inauguration before returning to the Rowley Training Center to serve as the Special Agent in Charge.

Mr. Murray began his 29-year law enforcement career as a Special Agent/Investigator with the U.S. Department of Transportation while also serving as an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.

A native of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Mr. Murray earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Scranton and a Master’s Degree from Seton Hall University. He is also a graduate of the American University Key Executive Leadership Program and 2016 FBI Leadership in Counterterrorism (LinCT) FVEY Fellowship Program.

Anne Neuberger
Director, Cybersecurity Directorate
National Security Agency

Anne Neuberger is the National Security Agency’s Director of Cybersecurity, responsible for directing NSA’s cybersecurity mission. Prior to this role, she led NSA’s Election Security effort and served as Assistant Deputy Director of NSA’s Operations Directorate, where she led NSA’s foreign intelligence and cybersecurity operations.

Her previous roles also include NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer; Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center; the Navy’s Deputy Chief Management Officer; and a White House Fellow, working for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Prior to joining government service, Anne was Senior Vice President of Operations at American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), where she was responsible for directing operations, including dividend distributions, complex mergers, and acquisition processing for approximately 2,000 publicly traded companies.

In 2017, Anne was awarded a Presidential Rank Award for her service at the National Security Agency.

Anne earned an MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma, and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. She graduated from Touro College, summa cum laude, where she was awarded the Hannah Lander Award for Academic Excellence and a Merit Scholarship.

Dr. Samantha Ravich
Chair, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chairman of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and its Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab and the principal investigator on FDD’s Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare project. She is also a senior advisor at FDD, serving on the advisory boards of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) and Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). Samantha serves as vice chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB). She was also appointed to the congressionally-mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission and to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Samantha is a defense and intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur. She served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. She is advisor on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and a former non-executive Board member for the publicly listed firm DroneShield (ASX: DRO)

Her book, Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences (Cambridge University Press) is used as a basic textbook in international economics, political science, and Asian studies college courses. Samantha is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and advises the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. She is a frequent keynote speaker on: What Corporate Boards need to know about Cyber Security and Warfare; The Longer-Term Trends in International Security; and the Future of Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Samantha received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her MCP/BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joakim Reiter
External Affairs Chief
Vodafone

Before joining Vodafone in April 2017, Joakim was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Prior to that, he spent more than 15 years in the foreign service of Sweden, including as Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and at the Permanent Representation to the European Union. He also served as an EU negotiator with DG TRADE at the European Commission.

A Swedish national, Joakim holds a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Political Science from Lund University.

Diane Rinaldo
Senior Vice President
Beacon Global Strategies

Ms. Rinaldo is one of the country’s leading authorities on 5G, telecommunications supply chain security, privacy, and Internet governance. Prior to joining BGS, Ms. Rinaldo served as Acting Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Acting Assistant  Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. During her time at NTIA, Ms. Rinaldo directed the Administration’s efforts on privacy; testified in the House of Representatives and Senate on 5G and Internet security issues; served as a principal advising the White House and Congress on 5G and supply chain; as well as other successes in education and deployment of Internet access around the world.

Prior to her Executive Branch service, Ms. Rinaldo served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she focused on Congress’ landmark cybersecurity legislation, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. She also served as Congress’ oversight and budget monitor for the National Security Agency and the defense network systems, and as Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Mike Rogers as his top technology policy staffer.

Ms. Rinaldo also spent time in the private sector as the Director of Government Affairs and cyber policy for SAP, and as a Vice President at a top consulting firm in Washington, DC.

Recognized for her work on cybersecurity, Rinaldo was awarded the Executive Women’s Forum’s 2016 Influencer of the Year award; was named one of the top ten people in Washington, D.C. impacting cyber legislation; and has consulted on movies and television.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Maine and an Executive Certificate from Harvard University for Cyber Studies.

David Sanger
Reporter
New York Times

David is National Security Correspondent for The New York Times and one of the newspaper’s senior writers. With a team of his Times colleagues, he was the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, the third in Mr. Sanger’s 35-year career at the Times.

He is also the author of two Times bestsellers on foreign policy and national security: The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (2009) and Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (2012). He served as the Times’ Tokyo Bureau Chief, Washington Economic Correspondent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush Administrations and Chief Washington Correspondent.

Mr. Sanger spent six years in Tokyo and wrote many of the first articles about North Korea’s emerging nuclear weapons program. Returning to Washington, Mr. Sanger turned to issues of nuclear proliferation and the rise of cyber conflict among nations. His journalistic pursuit of the origins of Stuxnet became the subject of a major documentary, Zero Days.

Mr. Sanger was a leading member of the team that investigated the causes of the Challenger disaster in 1986, which was awarded a Pulitzer in national reporting, and was a member of a team that won again in 1999 for investigations into technology exports to China.

A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Sanger co-teaches “Central Challenges in American National Security, Strategy and the Press” at the Kennedy School of Government.

Lindsey Sheppard
Fellow, International Security Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Lindsey Sheppard is a fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she focuses on the nexus of emerging technologies and national security for the United States and allied and partner nations. Her research areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems, defense innovation policy, and technology ecosystems. Ms. Sheppard is a frequent writer and invited speaker on the global state of emerging technology application to the defense and intelligence missions.

Ms. Sheppard contributes expertise in computational modeling and simulation, system architecture and design, and GPS-denied operations from her prior experience in defense research and development. Before joining CSIS in March 2018, she was a member of the technical staffs at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. During this time, she was the programmatic and technical systems engineering lead on various software development projects. Ms. Sheppard’s work supported U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army procurement and technology development efforts to support operations in contested environments. She holds an M.S. and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Alex Stamos
Founder
Stanford Internet Observatory

Alex Stamos is a cybersecurity expert, business leader and entrepreneur working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. Stamos is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution.

Prior to joining Stanford, Alex served as the Chief Security Officer of Facebook. In this role, Stamos led a team of engineers, researchers, investigators and analysts charged with understanding and mitigating information security risks to the company and safety risks to the 2.5 billion people on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Before joining Facebook, Alex was the Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo.

In 2004, Alex co-founded iSEC Partners, an elite security consultancy known for groundbreaking work in secure software development, embedded and mobile security. After the 2010 acquisition of iSEC Partners by NCC Group, Alex formed an experimental R&D division at the combined company, producing five patents.

Alex has been involved with securing the US election system as a contributor to Harvard’s Defending Digital Democracy Project and involved in the academic community as an advisor to Stanford’s Cybersecurity Policy Program and UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber Security Task Force, the Bay Area CSO Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Alex also serves on the advisory board to NATO’s Collective Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia.

Stamos worked under Prof. David Patterson while earning a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and three children.

Kara Swisher
Host
New York Times ‘Sway’

Kara Swisher is the host of “Sway,” the new twice-weekly interview podcast about power by New York Times Opinion. She has been a contributing Opinion writer since 2018.

Over her career, Ms. Swisher has hosted hundreds of newsmaking interviews, going head-to-head with prominent figures including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Stacey Abrams, Kim Kardashian and President Barack Obama. Her early and no-holds-barred coverage of the technology industry earned her a reputation as “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist.” 

Ms. Swisher studied at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she wrote her first technology story for the school paper (it was in 1980 -- and the technology was pay phones). She subsequently received a graduate degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, became an editor at The City Paper in Washington, D.C., and interned at The Washington Post, where she worked her way up to reporter and covered nascent digital companies like America Online (a.k.a. AOL).  

Ms. Swisher moved to the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s as one of the first reporters on the internet beat and eventually began her popular “Boom Town” column. With her longtime collaborator Walt Mossberg, she was a co-producer of the technology conference “D: All Things Digital,” where they interviewed major tech figures including Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The duo later founded Recode, which was sold to Vox in 2015. 

In addition to her contributions to The Times, Ms. Swisher is an editor-at-large at New York Media, host of the “Pivot” podcast and executive producer of the Code Conference. She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web” and co-author of the sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere.”

She currently lives in Washington with her fiancée, various cats and dogs, and her three children, one of whom just left to start college in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dina Temple-Raston
Correspondent
NPR 

Dina Temple-Raston is a correspondent on NPR's Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology and social justice.

Previously, Temple-Raston worked in NPR's programming department to create and host I'll Be Seeing You, a four-part series of radio specials for the network that focused on the technologies that watch us. Before that, she served as NPR's counter-terrorism correspondent for more than a decade, reporting from all over the world to cover deadly terror attacks, the evolution of ISIS and radicalization. While on leave from NPR in 2018, she independently executive produced and hosted a non-NPR podcast called What Were You Thinking, which looked at what the latest neuroscience can reveal about the adolescent decision-making process.

In 2014, she completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where, as the first Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism, she studied the intersection of Big Data and intelligence.

Prior to joining NPR in 2007, Temple-Raston was a longtime foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in China and served as Bloomberg's White House correspondent during the Clinton Administration. She has written four books, including The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror, about the Lackawanna Six terrorism case, and A Death in Texas: A Story About Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, about the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas, which won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers prize. She is a regular reviewer of national security books for the Washington Post Book World, and also contributes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Radiolab, the TLS and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College.

Temple-Raston was born in Belgium and her first language is French. She also speaks Mandarin and a smattering of Arabic.

Maria Thompson
Chief Risk Officer
State of North Carolina

Maria Thompson joined the N.C. Department of Information Technology in January 2015 as the state’s first chief risk officer, reporting to the state chief information officer. This position was established as part of the state’s efforts to bring information risk management capabilities in line with industry standards.

In her role, Thompson is responsible for developing an integrated statewide framework to manage information risk, including operations, security and data protection.

She comes to NC DIT with decades of IT security experience. She began her career with 20 years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps and retired as the cybersecurity chief for the Marine Corps. Her previous roles include serving as the Iraq Theater of Operations Certification Authority. She also served as a senior security engineer for SecureInfo and senior security architect and program manager for Imperatis Corp. in Virginia. 

Thompson holds a Master of Science in information technology from the University of Maryland, University College - Adelphi.

Nicholas Thompson
Editor
WIRED

Nicholas Thompson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, a position he has held since January 2017. He’s also a contributor to CBS News, a frequent public speaker–who gives talks and moderates events around the world–and an occasional musician with three albums of instrumental acoustic guitar music. He was previously the editor of newyorker.com, a co-founder of the multi-media publishing company the Atavist, and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.

Matt Travis
Former Deputy Director
CISA

Matthew Travis is the former Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  In that role, he supported CISA Director Christopher Krebs in overseeing all six of the Agency’s operational divisions and also served as CISA's de facto Chief Operating Officer.  Prior to CISA’s inception in November 2018, Travis was the Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Travis was also the Chair of the DHS COVID-19 Secretary’s Advisory Group and remains the Chair of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) High-Level Risk Forum.

Prior to joining CISA in March 2018, Travis served as vice president of homeland security for Cadmus, a security and resiliency professional services firm. In 2010, he co-founded Obsidian Analysis, Inc., a homeland security consultancy. Obsidian was acquired by Cadmus in 2016. Previously, Travis served as president of the information security company Detica, Inc. and, before that, vice president at DFI International, a national security analysis firm.

From 1991 to 1998, Travis served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He initially served aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer.  Travis then served a tour as White House Liaison to the Secretary of the Navy and was also a White House Military Aide.

Travis is from Terre Haute, Indiana. He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a master’s in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.

Rep. Lauren Underwood
Chair
House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood serves Illinois’ 14th Congressional District and was sworn into the 116th U.S. Congress on January 3, 2019. Congresswoman Underwood is the first woman, the first person of color, and the first millennial to represent her community in Congress. She is also the youngest African American woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives.

Congresswoman Underwood serves on the House Committee on Education and Labor, the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs, and is the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Congresswoman Underwood co-founded and co-chairs the Black Maternal Health Caucus, which elevates the Black maternal health crisis within Congress and advances policy solutions to improve maternal health outcomes and end disparities. She also serves on the House Democratic Steering and Policy  Committee. Rep. Underwood is a member of the Future Forum, a group of young Democratic Members of Congress committed to listening to and standing up for the next generation of Americans, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the LGBT Equality Caucus. As a strong supporter of addressing the gun violence epidemic, Congresswoman Underwood is a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Prior to her election to Congress, Congresswoman Underwood worked with a Medicaid plan in Chicago to ensure that it provided high-quality, cost-efficient care. She served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), helping communities across the country prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters, bioterror threats, and public health emergencies. As a career public servant at HHS, she helped implement the Affordable Care Act — broadening access for those on Medicare, improving health care quality, and reforming private insurance. Congresswoman Underwood also taught future nurse practitioners through Georgetown University’s online master’s program. Congresswoman Underwood is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University. She graduated from Neuqua Valley High School and is a lifelong Girl Scout. She resides in Naperville, Illinois.

Tonya Ugoretz
Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Readiness, Outreach, and Intelligence
FBI

Tonya Ugoretz is the Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for the Cyber Readiness, Outreach, and Intelligence Branch. She oversees Cyber Division’s intelligence, operations support, workforce readiness, and outreach.

Ms. Ugoretz began government service in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow. In 2003, she became the first analyst to serve as the FBI Director’s daily briefer. She has also served as an Intelligence Analyst; a Targeting Analyst; a Unit and Section Chief in the Directorate of Intelligence; and as the FBI’s Chief Intelligence Officer from 2010 to 2012. She has served in joint duty positions with CIA, Customs and Border Protection, and the National Intelligence Council. Most recently, she spent three years as the first Director of ODNI’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), a multiagency center that builds understanding of foreign cyber threats to US national interests.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Ugoretz was an editor of foreign policy journals and IEEE publications. She received bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and in Spanish from Ursinus College, and a master’s degree from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. Ms. Ugoretz received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal from ODNI and the Director’s Award for Exceptionally Meritorious Service from the National Counterterrorism Center.

Dr. Claire Vishik
Fellow
Intel

Claire Vishik is an Intel Fellow and CTO of Intel GMT (Government, Markets, Trade) division. Her work focuses on hardware and network security, Trusted Computing, Artificial Intelligence, privacy enhancing technologies, some aspects of cryptography and related global policy and trade issues. Claire is on the Board of Directors of the Trusted Computing Group and TDL (Trust in Digital Life), co-chair of IEEE effort on blockchain, and adviser on numerous international research and  policy projects and initiatives, e.g., CyBoK, Queens University Belfast ECIT and the Imperial College Computing in the UK or the NSF Personal Data Protection Center at  the University of California at Irvine. Claire was among the researchers who  introduced new concepts, such as “risk engineering” or “integrated trustworthiness,”  used to examine complex horizontal technology areas. Claire received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Intel, she held leadership positions at Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science and AT&T Laboratories, studying Internet and computing technologies. Claire is the author of numerous peer reviewed papers and book chapters, editor of several books, associate editor of  two scientific journals, and inventor on 30+ pending and granted US patents.

Aruna Viswanatha
Reporter
The Wall Street Journal

Aruna Viswanatha is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she covers the Justice Department with a focus on national security. She has covered aspects of law enforcement, including financial crime, for more than a decade.

Brandon Wales
Acting Director
CISA

Brandon Wales was designated by President Trump as the Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on November 17, 2020. As Acting Director, Mr. Wales oversees CISA’s efforts to defend civilian networks, manage systemic risk to national critical functions, and work with stakeholders to raise the security baseline of the Nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure.

Prior to this, he was CISA's first Executive Director, serving as the senior career executive overseeing execution of the Director and Deputy Director’s vision for CISA operations and mission support. He was responsible for leading long-term strategy development, managing CISA-wide policy initiatives and ensuring effective operational collaboration across the Agency.

From August 2017 to December 2019, Mr. Wales served in multiple positions in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary’s office. He started as Senior Counselor to the Secretary for Cyber and Resilience, where he served as the Secretary’s senior advisor on cybersecurity, emergency management, incident response and building a more resilient nation. In January 2019, he was asked to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff (Acting), developing and advancing the Department’s strategic priorities. In June 2019, Mr. Wales assumed  the role of Chief of Staff (Acting), assisting the Secretary in overseeing the Department, ensuring close coordination across its operational components and managing interagency relationships.

Prior to the joining the Secretary’s office, Mr. Wales was the Director of the DHS Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA). OCIA provided integrated analysis of cyber and physical risks to the Nation’s critical infrastructure.

From 2009-2014, Mr. Wales was the Director of the Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC), an all-hazards analytic resource for public and private sector partners covering the full-array of risks facing the infrastructure community. As the Director of HITRAC, he also oversaw the Department’s advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis program, leading a team of researchers conducting ground-breaking and forward-leaning analysis of some of the Nation’s most complex infrastructure challenges.

During his time at the Department, Mr. Wales has been called upon to support a variety of Department-wide initiatives. When the Department began working on the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review in 2009, Wales was asked to lead the review of the counterterrorism and cyber security mission areas. Following the release of Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, in February 2013, Mr. Wales led the effort to identify critical infrastructure at potential catastrophic risk from cybersecurity incidents.

Mr. Wales’ contributions have been recognized with an Exceptional Performance Award from the Director of National Intelligence, a DHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence, and a DHS Distinguished Service Medal, the Department’s highest civilian award.

Prior to joining the Department in 2005, Wales served as a national security aide to United States Senator Jon Kyl and as a Senior Associate at a Washington-based foreign policy and national security think-tank.

Mr. Wales received his Bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and his Master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Sen. Mark Warner
Vice Chair
Senate Intelligence Committee

Senator Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008 and reelected to a third term in November 2020. He serves on the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget, and Rules Committees as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Vice Chairman. During his time in the Senate, Senator Warner has established himself as a bipartisan leader who has worked with Republicans and Democrats alike to cut red tape, increase government performance and accountability, and promote private sector innovation and job creation. Senator Warner has been recognized as a national leader in fighting for our military men and women and veterans, and in working to find bipartisan, balanced solutions to address our country's debt and deficit.

From 2002 to 2006, he served as Governor of Virginia.  When he left office in 2006, Virginia was ranked as the best state for business, the best managed state, and the best state in which to receive a public education.

The first in his family to graduate from college, Mark Warner spent 20 years as a successful technology and business leader in Virginia before entering public office. An early investor in the cellular telephone business, he co-founded the company that became Nextel and invested in hundreds of start-up technology companies that created tens of thousands of jobs.

Senator Warner and his wife Lisa Collis live in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three daughters.

Charlie Warzel
Writer at Large
New York Times

Based in Missoula, Mont., Charlie Warzel became an Opinion writer at large in 2019. Before that, he was a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News. He has been a technology writer for Adweek magazine and a producer at NBC News.

Pete Williams
Justice Correspondent
NBC News

Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent based in Washington, DC. He has been covering the Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court since March 1993. Williams was also a key reporter on the Microsoft anti-trust trial and Judge Jackson's decision.

Prior to joining NBC News, Williams served as a press official on Capitol Hill for many years. In 1986 he joined the Washington, DC staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant. In 1989, when Cheney was named Assistant Secretary of Defense, Williams was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. While in that position, Williams was named Government Communicator of the Year in 1991 by the National Association of Government Communicators.

A native of Casper, Wyoming and a 1974 graduate of Stanford University, Williams was a reporter and news director at KTWO-TV and Radio in Casper from 1974 to 1985.  Working with the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for which he served as a member of its board of directors, he successfully lobbied the Wyoming Supreme Court to permit broadcast coverage of its proceedings and twice sued Wyoming judges over pre-trial exclusion of reporters from the courtroom. For these efforts, he received a First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder and COO
Cloudflare

Michelle is co-founder and COO of Cloudflare, a web performance and security company that was named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50 List, selected by the Wall Street Journal as the Most Innovative Internet Technology Company for two successive years, and named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Before co-founding Cloudflare, Michelle held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two successful startups. She holds a BS degree, with distinction, from McGill University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was awarded the Dubliner Prize for Entrepreneurship. Michelle has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of the Top 15 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. magazine, and a 40 Under 40 leader by San Francisco Business Times. She was also featured as one of the Women Who Rule Silicon Valley in a recent issue of ELLE magazine.

Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and CTO
CrowdStrike Inc.

Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., leading its Intelligence, Technology and CrowdStrike Labs teams. A renowned computer security researcher, he is a thought-leader on cybersecurity policies and state tradecraft.

Prior to founding CrowdStrike, Dmitri was a Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, where he led company’s global Internet threat intelligence analysis and investigations. In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names.

In 2013, Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being selected as MIT Technology Review’s “Young Innovators under 35” (TR35), an award previously won by such technology luminaries as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Jonathan Ive. Alperovitch was named Foreign Policy Magazine’s Leading Global Thinker for 2013, an award shared with Secretary of State John Kerry, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. He was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security in 2011 and recognized in 2013 as one Washingtonian’s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity.

With more than a decade of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of eighteen patented technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention. Alperovitch holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.
 

Xavier Becerra
Attorney General
State of California

On January 24, 2017, Xavier Becerra was sworn in as the 33rd Attorney General of the State of California, and is the first Latino to hold the office in the history of the state.

The State’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Becerra has decades of experience serving the people of California through appointed and elected office, where he has fought for working families, the vitality of the Social Security and Medicare programs and issues to combat poverty among the hardworking families. He has also championed the state’s economy by promoting and addressing issues impacting job generating industries such as health care, clean energy, technology, and entertainment.

Attorney General Becerra previously served 12 terms in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. While in Congress, Attorney General Becerra was the first Latino to serve as a member of the powerful Committee on Ways And Means, served as Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and was Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security.

Prior to serving in Congress, Attorney General Becerra served one term in the California Legislature as the representative of the 59th Assembly District in Los Angeles County. He is a former Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice. The Attorney General began his legal career in 1984 working in a legal services office representing the mentally ill.

David Bowdich
Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation

In March 2018 David Bowdich was appointed to the Deputy Director position. In this role he oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities. In April 2016 he was appointed as the Associate Deputy Director of the FBI, where he oversaw the management of all FBI personnel, budget, administration, and infrastructure. Prior to this appointment, he served as Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office from December 2014 to April 2016. While leading the Los Angeles Field Office, Mr. Bowdich led a number of high profile investigations, to include the San Bernardino terror attack. From September 2012 to December 2014, Mr. Bowdich served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Counterterrorism Division in the Los Angeles Field Office. In that role, he led the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which was responsible for all international and domestic terrorism investigations in the Los Angeles region. Mr. Bowdich began his career as an FBI Special Agent in 1995 in the San Diego Field Office, where he investigated violent crimes and gangs and served as a SWAT Team operator and sniper. In 2003, Mr. Bowdich was promoted to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served in the Criminal Investigative Division and the Director's Office. Mr. Bowdich returned to San Diego and supervised a multiagency gang task force before being promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge over all non-white-collar crime criminal violations, the Imperial County Resident Agency, the SWAT Team, and the Evidence Response Team.
 

Geoff Brown
Head of NYC Cyber Command
Chief Information Security Officer, City of New York

Geoff Brown was appointed Chief Information Security Officer for the City of New York in 2016, a position focused on cybersecurity and aggregate information risk across all 100+ NYC departments and agencies. In July 2017, Mayor de Blasio established New York City Cyber Command, led by Geoff and charged with setting Citywide cybersecurity policies; directing response to cyber incidents; and advising City Hall, agencies and departments on the City's overall cyber defense.

Prior to joining City government, Geoff worked in financial services, developing and operating threat management disciplines including threat intelligence, detection, response and countermeasures.

Geoff also served in the federal government, including work with the National Commission for Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), supporting the investigation’s work with the first responder community in NYC. Geoff is a graduate of Middlebury College.
 

Brig. Gen. Jennifer G. Buckner
Director of Cyber, G-3/5/7
United States Army

Brig. Gen. Jennifer G. Buckner, deputy commander, Joint Task Force-ARES, United States Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Md., was promoted to director of Cyber, G-3/5/7, United States Army, Washington, District of Columbia in February 2018.

Buckner is a native of Downers Grove, Ill., and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1990. Her military education includes the Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence courses, Airborne and Jumpmaster schools, Air Assault and Rappelmaster schools, Command and General Staff College, and Joint and Combined Warfighting School. She holds two graduate degrees, served as the U.S. Army War College Cyber Fellow at the National Security Agency, and most recently completed Harvard’s Executive Education Program in Cybersecurity.

Buckner is a career intelligence officer. She has had numerous assignments in the 82nd Airborne Division, including collection and jamming platoon leader, battalion S-3 air, battalion S-4, and company commander. At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, she also served as the S-2 for 159th Combat Aviation Group, in the 18th Aviation Brigade (Airborne). She has served overseas in Korea, as TENCAP officer with the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, and in Puerto Rico, as U.S. Army South’s analysis and production chief and later secretary of the General Staff. After a tour in the Pentagon as Executive Assistant to the Army G-2, she commanded the 303rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, at Fort Hood, Texas, and in Iraq.

Her joint assignments include Joint Force Component Command – Network Warfare and later U.S. Cyber Command as an operational planner, Joint Interagency Task Force West in Iraq as an intelligence planner, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an intelligence planner supporting the Director of Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5).

Buckner returned to Fort Gordon, having previously served as the S-3 of the 206th Military Intelligence Battalion and Operations (J-3) Chief of Staff at National Security Agency – Georgia. She joins the Cyber Center of Excellence as the U.S. Army Cyber School Commandant having just relinquished command of the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, which included the Army’s operational cyber teams supporting U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force and Joint Force Headquarters – Cyber.

Her awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (Five Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Commendation Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Achievement Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service and Expeditionary Medals, Korea Defense Service Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Army Staff and Joint Staff Identification Badges, Master Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, and Australian and Honduran Jump Wings.

Buckner is a collegiate All-American swimmer, former All-Army triathlete, and now aspiring sommelier. She’s a cool aunt to two hockey-playing nephews and enjoys all things Chicago, particularly the Bears, Blackhawks, hot dogs, and pizza.
 

Mike Burgess
Director-General
Australian Signals-Directorate

The Director-General leads ASD and is responsible to the Minister for Defence. In December 2017, the Prime Minister announced Mr Mike Burgess as the Director-General Designate of ASD. Mr Burgess commenced his appointment on 4 January 2018. Mr Burgess became the first Director-General of ASD on 1 July 2018.

Prior to his appointment to ASD, Mr Burgess was an independent consultant specialising in strategic cyber security advice. In 2017, Mr Burgess was also a member of the Federal Government’s naval shipbuilding advisory board, a member of the board of the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network and a non-executive director of SC8 Limited.

Mr Burgess was a member of the Prime Minister’s expert panel for Australia’s 2016 Cyber Security Strategy. Previously Mr Burgess was the Deputy Director for Cyber and Information Security at the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) from 2008 to 2013.

Mr Burgess has a degree in electronics engineering from the South Australian Institute of Technology. He worked in private industry before joining the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in 1991 working in the field of imaging radar. Mr Burgess joined DSD as a collection engineer in 1995. During his career at DSD Mr Burgess held a variety of roles spanning the intelligence, security, capability development and executive aspects of DSD’s business. He left DSD in early 2013 to become Telstra’s Chief Information Security Officer. He held this role until November 2016.

John Carlin
Chair, Cybersecurity & Technology Program
The Aspen Institute

John Carlin, the chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & Technology Program, recently left the Obama administration after serving as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the Department of Justice’s top national security attorney. In this Senate-confirmed position, John oversaw nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats.

The Justice Department’s National Security Division—working closely with the White House, the intelligence community, and prosecutors around the country—has helped to put together many of the most important cyber indictments and cases against hackers of the last eight years, ranging from the indictment of five Chinese military hackers for cyber-espionage to the case against Iranian hackers who attacked a New York hydroelectric dam, as well as being integral to cases like the hacking of Sony Pictures and the recent Russian attacks on the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Today, Carlin is also the global chair of the risk and crisis management practice for the law firm Morrison & Forester and is a sought-after industry speaker on cyber issues as well a CNBC contributor on national security issues. His book, Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat, will be published in October 2018.
 

Rumman Chowdhury
Senior Principal, Artificial Intelligence
Accenture

Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She holds degrees in quantitative social science and has been a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013. She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, where she works with C-suite clients to create cutting-edge technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI.

Rumman has been featured in international media, including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Axios, Cheddar TV, CRN, Fast Company, Quartz, Corrierre Della Serra, Optio, Australian Broadcasting Channel and Nikkei Business Times.

She is a TedX speaker, a Forbes Tech contributing author and has been named by InformationWeek as one of 10 influential AI and machine learning experts to follow on Twitter. She was also named one of BBC’s 100 Women for 2017, recognized as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40, and honoured to be inducted to the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA).

Dr. Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a master's degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego.
 

Greg Clark
Chief Executive Officer
Symantec

Greg was named chief executive officer of Symantec and joined Symantec’s Board of Directors following the company’s acquisition of Blue Coat, Inc. completed in August 2016.

Clark served as the chief executive officer of Blue Coat and as a member of the company’s board of directors since 2011. As chief executive officer of Blue Coat, Clark delivered scale and profitable growth, transforming Blue Coat into the #1 market share leader and share gainer in Web Security. In addition to his significant leadership experience, Clark has deep security expertise and a history of successfully integrating companies into a single portfolio.

Prior to joining Blue Coat, Clark was president and chief executive officer of Mincom, a global software and services provider to asset-intensive industries, from 2008 to 2011, including through its acquisition by ABB Group. Clark was a founder and served as president and chief executive officer of E2open, a provider of cloud-based supply chain software, from 2001 until 2008. He also founded security software firm Dascom, which was acquired by IBM in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001, Clark served as a distinguished engineer and vice president of IBM’s Tivoli Systems, a division providing security and management products.

Clark holds a B.S. from Griffith University.
 

John C. Demers 
Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division
Department of Justice

John Demers became Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division on February 22, 2018. As Assistant Attorney General, John oversees all units and components of the NSD, including the Counterterrorism Section, the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, the Office of Intelligence, the Office of Law and Policy, the Foreign Investment Review Staff and the Office of Justice for the Victims of Overseas Terrorism.  Prior to rejoining the Department of Justice, John was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at The Boeing Company. He held several senior positions at the company including in Boeing Defense, Space, and Security and as lead lawyer and head of international government affairs for Boeing International.

From 2006 to 2009, John served on the first leadership team of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, first as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General and then as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Law & Policy. Before that, he served in the Office of Legal Counsel. From 2010-2017, he taught national security law as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. John worked in private practice in Boston and clerked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated from Harvard Law School and the College of the Holy Cross.
 

Tobias Feakin
Ambassador for Cyber Affairs
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australia

Dr. Tobias Feakin is Australia's inaugural Ambassador for Cyber Affairs. He leads Australia's whole‑of‑government international engagement to advance and protect Australia's national security, foreign policy, economic and trade, and development interests in the internet and in cyberspace. 

Ambassador Feakin was a member of the Independent Panel of Experts that supported the Australian Cyber Security Review to produce Australia's 2016 Cyber Security Strategy. He was the Director of National Security Programs at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2012 to 2016 and established the Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre.

He has also held a number of research and advisory positions, including with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, the Oxford University Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, the Global Commission on Internet Governance and the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.

Ambassador Feakin holds an Honours Degree in Security Studies and a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Politics and Security Studies, both from the University of Bradford.
 

Andrew Hampton
Director-General
Government Communications Security Bureau
Government of New Zealand

Andrew Hampton is the Director-General of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). He has been in this role since April 2016.

Prior to joining the GCSB, Andrew spent much of his career in the Justice Sector, including Treaty settlement negotiations, courts administration and leading various significant change programmes. Senior positions he held in the Justice Sector include Director of the Office of Treaty Settlements, Deputy Secretary for Courts, and Deputy Chief Executive at the Crown Law Office.

Andrew has also held senior leadership positions elsewhere in the State Sector.  He was Deputy Secretary and Director of the Secretary’s Office at the Ministry of Education.  He was also the first Government Chief Talent Officer at the State Services Commission, a new role responsible for leadership development, workforce strategy and employment relations across government.

Andrew has a BA (Hons) and MA (Dist) in Political Science from the University of Canterbury and has attended the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme.
 

Rep. Will Hurd
Aspen Cyber Group Co-Chair
Chair, Information Technology Subcommittee Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives

A former undercover CIA officer, entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert, Will is the U.S. Representative for the 23rd Congressional District of Texas. In Washington, he serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as Vice Chair of the Maritime and Border Security Subcommittee on the Committee for Homeland Security, and as the Chairman of the Information Technology Subcommittee on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
 

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Senior Member,  House Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security; Member, Budget Committee
U.S. House of Representatives

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is an influential and forceful voice in Washington.  She is serving her eleventh term as a member of the United States House of Representatives. She represents the 18th Congressional District of Texas, centered in Houston, which is the energy capital of the world.  Considered by many as the “Voice of Reason”, she is dedicated to upholding the Constitutional rights of all people. 

She sits on three Congressional Committees — a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and newly appointed by the leadership as a Member of the crucial Budget Committee.  She is currently the first female Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations and is leading the way on criminal justice reform through groundbreaking legislation including the Sentencing Reform Act, Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act, The RAISE Act, The Fair Chance for Youth Act, Kaleif’s Law, and the American RISING Act of 2015.  She has also introduced several bills including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R. 71, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2015, and H.R. 4660, an Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015 affirming the authority of the Attorney General to reduce prison overcrowding by developing and implementing lawful policies relating to requests for executive clemency from deserving petitioners.  She is a champion for women and children supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and introducing an amendment to HR2262 that provides for outreach to minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to business opportunities in the commercial space industry and authored H.R.45 the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research and Education Act of 2015.

She is the past Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Maritime and Border Security wherein she co-authored HR 1417, a bipartisan bill which has been touted as the best vehicle for accomplishing comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Congresswoman Jackson Lee is also the past Chairwoman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection which under her leadership she passed the Transportation Security Act of 2007 which increased the funding for America’s transportation security.  As Chairwoman, Congresswoman Jackson Lee supported enhanced technology, better intelligence, increased airplane cargo inspections, increased security for railroads, and implementation of the 9/11 Commission report. 

 She was named by ‘Congressional Quarterly’ as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress and the ‘U.S. News and World Report’ named her as one of the 10 most influential legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives.  She is a founder, member, and co-chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus and authored and introduced H.R. 83, the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2013.  She is also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Energy Braintrust, co-chair of the Justice Reform Task Force, a leadership appointed member of the International Helsinki Commission.   She serves as Senior Whip for the Democratic Caucus, past Chairperson of the Texas Congressional Democratic Delegation for the 113th Congress, and current Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Board.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee earned a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University with honors in the first graduating class including females, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School.  She is married to Dr. Elwyn Lee who is also a Yale Graduate and an Administrator at the University of Houston. 

Scott Jones
Head
Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity

Scott is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public.

Scott began his career at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 1999 and has held various positions including Assistant Deputy Minister of IT Security, acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer, Director General of Cyber Defence and a variety of positions of increasing responsibility across CSE, primarily in the Signals Intelligence and IT Security domains. He previously worked at the Privy Council Office as a National Security Policy Advisor in the Security & Intelligence Secretariat.

Scott holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electronic Systems Engineering, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and a Masters of Business Administration.

Andrea Jelinek
Chair
European Data Protection Board

Dr. In. Andrea Jelinek is a lawyer and the head of the Austrian Data Protection Authority since 1 January 2014, formerly head of the data protection authority from 1 December 2003 - 15 October 2010 and 1 July 2011 - 31 December 2013 head of PK 03 of the provincial police department in Vienna, from 18 October 2010 - 30. She was temporarily in charge of the Foreign Police Office of the BPD Vienna from 1 June 2011; from January 1993 to November 2003 she was a lecturer and from 1998 head of unit in the Legal/Legistics Department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (specialist areas and specialties): ECHR, constitutional law, SPG, alien law, asylum law); November 1991 - December 1992 legal adviser in the General Secretariat of the Austrian Rectors' Conference, 1988 - October 1991 trainee lawyer; 1983 - 1987: central services and adviser in the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research FWF, various activities in the private sector such as public relations, sales management.
 

Rob Joyce
Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy To the Director
National Security Agency

Mr. Rob Joyce is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy to the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) since June 2018. Rob has worked at NSA for over 28 years, holding various leadership positions within both focus areas of NSA: the Information Assurance and Signals Intelligence missions. His previous assignment from was Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House where he lead the development of national and international cybersecurity strategy and policy for the United States and oversaw implementation of those policies; in this capacity, he ensured that the Federal Government was effectively partnering with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, other branches and levels of government, and other nations.

In addition to the Cybersecurity Coordinator role, Rob was the Acting Deputy Homeland security advisor for six months and the Acting Homeland Security Advisor for a month, covering topics well beyond cybersecurity to include terrorism, health security and disaster response/recovery. From 2013 to 2017, Rob served as the Chief of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the NSA's mission element that provided tools and expertise in computer network exploitation to deliver foreign intelligence. Prior to becoming the Chief of TAO, Rob served as the Deputy Director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at NSA, where he led efforts to harden, protect and defend the Nation's most critical National Security systems and improve cybersecurity for the nation. He was elevated to the Senior Executive Service in 2001. Mr. Joyce began his career as an engineer and is a technologist at heart. He received his Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University in 1989 and earned a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Throughout his career with NSA, he has been the recipient of three Presidential Rank Awards: distinguished (2017), distinguished (2011) and meritorious (2006).

Sean Joyce
Practice Leader, US and Global Financial Crimes Unit, and US Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Leader PWC

Sean is a Principal in PwC’s Advisory Practice, where he is the US Cybersecurity & Privacy practice leader and a member of PwC's Global Cyber Strategy Team. Sean also leads the US and Global Financial Crimes Unit focusing on cybersecurity, anti-money laundering and sanctions, fraud, and anti-bribery/anti-corruption.

Since joining PwC, Sean has worked with many clients in various sectors providing strategic guidance, investigative support, technological changes, incident breach response and cyber security advice. Most notably, Sean has consulted in some of the most prolific cyber breaches, providing guidance and expertise to top executives. Sean has also briefed many boards and senior executives on the challenges posed by the digital revolution, including the threat landscape, best practices in governance and lines of defense, and how to use cybersecurity and resiliency as business enablers.

Previously, Sean served as the Deputy Director with the FBI, and had daily oversight of the 36,000 men and women of the FBI and its 8-billion-dollar annual budget. With more than 26 years of service in the FBI, Sean brought a wide range of operational and leadership experience. He was an integral part of transforming the FBI into an intelligence-driven organization. In addition, he spearheaded several strategic initiatives including “next generation cyber,” which was a cross-organizational initiative to maintain the FBI’s world leadership in law enforcement and domestic intelligence.

 A Boston native, he holds degrees from Boston College and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.

Elsa Kania
Adjunct Fellow
Center for a New American Security

Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Her research on Chinese military innovation in emerging technologies contributes to the Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative at CNAS, where she also acts as a member of the research team for the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Elsa has been invited to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). She is an independent analyst, consultant, and co-founder of the China Cyber and Intelligence Studies Institute. Elsa supports the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) through its Associates Program, and she acts as a policy advisor for the non-profit Technology for Global Security. Elsa was a 2018 Fulbright Specialist at and is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre. She has been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. Currently, Elsa is a PhD student in Harvard University’s Department of Government, and she is also a graduate of Harvard College.

John Kelly
Senior Vice President, Cognitive Solutions and IBM Research
IBM

As IBM senior vice president, Cognitive Solutions and IBM Research, John is focused on the company’s investments in several of the fastest-growing and most strategic parts of the information technology market. His portfolio includes IBM Analytics, IBM Security and IBM Watson, as well as IBM Research and the company’s Intellectual Property team.

 Dr. Kelly was most recently senior vice president and director of IBM Research. Under Dr. Kelly, IBM Research expanded its global footprint by adding four new labs (including IBM’s first in Africa, South America and Australia), creating a network of approximately 3,000 scientists and technical employees across 12 laboratories in 10 countries.

Prior to joining IBM Research in July of 2007, Dr. Kelly was senior vice president of Technology and Intellectual Property.

Dr. Kelly joined IBM in 1980. Between 1980 and 1990, he held numerous management and technical positions related to the development and manufacturing of IBM’s advanced semiconductor technologies. In 1990, he was named director of IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Center. Between 1994 and 2000, Dr. Kelly held several VP and GM positions across IBM’s businesses. In 2000, Dr. Kelly was named senior vice president and group executive for IBM’s Technology Group, where he was responsible for developing, manufacturing and marketing IBM’s microelectronics and storage technologies, products and services.

He has published numerous technical papers and recently published the book Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing with writer Steve Hamm on Columbia University Press. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Union College and a member of RPI’s Board of Trustees.

Bob Lord
Chief Security Officer
DNC

Bob Lord is the Chief Security Officer at the Democratic National Committee, bringing more than twenty years of experience in the information security space to the Committee, state parties, and campaigns. Previously he was Yahoo’s CISO, covering areas such as risk management, product security, security software development, e-crimes, and APT programs. Before that he acted as the CISO in Residence at Rapid 7, and before that headed up Twitter’s information security program as its first security hire. You can see some of his hobbies at https://www.ilord.com. 

Brad Maiorino
Executive Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton

Brad Maiorino is an executive vice president in Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial business, responsible for helping the firm’s clients deploy cybersecurity and risk management solutions to combat today’s dynamic threat environment.

Brad brings more than 25 years of experience, with diverse business experience and a track record of building and leading global cyber and risk management teams within Fortune 50 firms. His experience includes managing a wide spectrum of cyber, governance, risk and compliance issues across large, complex global organizations. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Brad held three chief information security officer positions at Target, General Motors and General Electric.

While serving as the chief information security officer for Target, he led the retail giant’s post-data breach response enabling a company wide transformation and preparing the company to defend against today’s threats. During this time, he was a member of the board of directors for the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), where he worked alongside his peers to strengthen the industry’s collective defense against today’s threats.

During his tenure, as chief information security officer for General Motors, Brad led the transformation of the automaker’s global information security and IT risk organization, building out a global team and establishing the company’s Vehicle Cyber Security Steering committee.

 Before that Brad was the chief information security officer at General Electric where he oversaw GE’s global information security program across all lines of business and led the design and build of the GE Cyber Security Fusion Center, a state-of-the-art security operations center.

Brad is on the Board of Director’s for NETGEAR, holding the roles of chairman of the Cybersecurity Committee and member of the Audit Committee. Brad is also a member of the Aspen Cyber Strategy Group, a faculty member for the World 50 NEXT Leader Program, and a strategic advisor for ClearSky Security.

Kevin Mandia
CEO
Fireeye

Kevin has served as FireEye Chief Executive Officer since June 2016 and was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in February 2016. He was previously President of FireEye from February 2015 until June 2016. Kevin joined FireEye as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004. Before Mandiant, Kevin was the Director of Computer Forensics at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee Corporation) from 2000 to 2003, and the Director of Information Security for Sytex (later acquired by Lockheed Martin) from 1998 to 2000. Kevin also served in the United States Air Force, where he was a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon, and a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).

Jeanette Manfra
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, 
National Protection and Programs Directorate
Department of Homeland Security  

Jeanette Manfra serves as the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C).

Ms. Manfra leads the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure.

Prior to this position, Ms. Manfra served as Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Director for Strategy, Policy, and Plans for the NPPD.

Previously, Ms. Manfra served as Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity on the National Security Council staff at the White House.

At DHS, she held multiple positions in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, including advisor for the Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications and Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Communications, during which time she led the Department’s efforts in establishing the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network.

Before joining DHS, Jeanette served in the U.S. Army as a communications specialist and a Military Intelligence Officer.
 

Ciaran Martin
CEO
National Cyber Security Centre

Ciaran Martin is currently the CEO for the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre. Previously, he was Director General for Government and Industry Cyber Security. He is a member of the GCHQ Board and the SIRO. Prior to joining GCHQ in February 2014, Ciaran was Constitution Director at the Cabinet Office. In this role, he was the lead official negotiator for the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Scotland in the run-up to the Edinburgh Agreement in 2012 on a referendum on independence for Scotland. Previous Cabinet Office roles included Director of Security and Intelligence, from 2008 to 2011, and Head of the Cabinet Secretary’s Office from 2005 to 2008. Before that Ciaran spent 6 years at HM Treasury and 3 at the National Audit Office, after graduating from Hertford College, Oxford in 1996.

Brendan McCord
Chief architect, Department of Defense Joint AI Center
Head of Machine Learning, Defense Innovation Unit

Brendan McCord was the primary author of the Department of Defense Artificial Intelligence Strategy and is Chief Architect of DoD’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).

 Mr. McCord also serves as Head of Machine Learning at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the DoD unit established to accelerate commercial innovation for defense. At DIU, he led the creation of xView, the largest open dataset in the world for object detection from overhead imagery, motivated the development of ncluster, the open source project that resulted in the world speed record for training deep neural nets using public infrastructure, and was part of the core team of Project Maven.

Prior to DIU, Mr. McCord led a team of deep learning research scientists and software engineers at an industry-shaping startup backed by Bill Gates, In-Q-Tel, and leading AI-focused VCs. He supported the successful spinout and fundraising of DARPA-backed deep learning research from Draper Laboratory and invested in seed and early stage technology companies as Senior Associate at Lux Capital.

Mr. McCord served in the US Navy as a fast attack submarine officer. He spent over 600 days underwater, completed two Chief of Naval Operations Priority One deployments under ice, finished first in his class at submarine school, was honor graduate of Nuclear Power School, and was the top ranked division officer on his submarine.

Mr. McCord is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Center for New American Security, focusing on AI and national security, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a past member of Business Executives for National Security. He holds an SB degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Mark D. McLaughlin
Vice Chairman
Palo Alto Networks

Mark D. McLaughlin became vice chairman of the board of directors for Palo Alto Networks in June 2018, following his retirement as the company’s chief executive officer and chairman of the board. Mark joined the company as president and chief executive officer in 2011 and became chairman in 2012. Prior to that, he held a number of key positions at Verisign, including serving as chief operating officer, executive vice president of Products and Marketing, and head of the company’s Naming Services business. Prior to Verisign, he was the vice president of Sales and Business Development for Signio, a leading internet payment company. Before joining Signio, he was the vice president of Business Development for Gemplus, the world’s leading smart-card company. Previous to Gemplus, he also served as general counsel of Caere Corporation and practiced law as an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP. 

For nearly a decade, Mark has had the honor of serving as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, a body that for more than 30 years has brought industry chief executives together to provide counsel on national security policy and technical issues to the U.S. president and the national security leadership. Mark has served two-year terms as chairman and vice chairman of the NSTAC. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as an attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army and earned his Airborne Wings. Mark currently also serves on the board of directors for Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM). 

Chandra McMahon
Senior Vice President & CISO
Verizon

Chandra is senior vice president, Chief Information Security Officer for Verizon. In this role, she leads the team responsible for information security strategy, policy, standards, architecture and processes. She and her team will work with and across the business units to protect our customers and our networks.

Prior to joining Verizon, Chandra held leadership positions of increasing responsibility at Lockheed Martin, where she was responsible for developing and delivering a portfolio of cybersecurity and information technology solutions and services for Fortune 500 companies in critical infrastructure industries such as financial, utility and technology companies.

Her expertise in the area of cybersecurity matters has led Chandra to engage with White House and Congressional staff, U.S. Government leaders and industry forums, and has been active in promoting cybersecurity information-sharing partnerships between the U.S. Government and industry.

Chandra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech, a Master’s degree in Engineering Science from Penn State University.
 

Lisa Monaco
Distinguished Senior Fellow, NYU Law School Center on Law and  Security and Center for Cybersecurity
Former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor

Lisa served as Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism from 2013 to 2017. She was responsible for advising the President on all aspects of counterterrorism policy and strategy and coordinating homeland security-related activities on issues ranging from terrorist attacks at home and abroad to cybersecurity, pandemics, and natural disasters. Monaco also chaired the Cabinet-level Homeland Security Principals’ Committee which advises the President on homeland security policy issues and crises.

Prior to her service in the White House, Monaco spent fifteen years at the Department of Justice, where she served both as a career federal prosecutor and in senior management positions at the Justice Department and the FBI. She was Counsel to and then Chief of Staff at the FBI. In 2011, Monaco was nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the first woman to serve in that position. Monaco made investigating and prosecuting national security cyber threats a top priority during her tenure and under her leadership, a nationwide network of national security cyber prosecutors was created.

Monaco began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She later served as Counsel to the Attorney General and then as a Federal prosecutor. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School.
 

Matt Olsen
Chief Trust and Security Officer
Uber

Matt Olsen is a leading authority on national security, intelligence, and law enforcement, having played a critical role in shaping the nation’s counterterrorism and cybersecurity efforts. 

Mr. Olsen co-founded IronNet Cybersecurity and leads IronNet's revenue strategy and business development, guiding IronNet’s direction and growth and providing security guidance to companies. Since November 2014, Mr. Olsen has been an ABC News contributor, providing analysis on national security events. Mr. Olsen also teaches law at Harvard and the University of Virginia and is an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

Appointed by the President to serve as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in 2011, Mr. Olsen led the government's efforts to integrate and analyze terrorism information and coordinate counterterrorism activities for three years. When he left NCTC in July 2014, President Obama credited Mr. Olsen with making the U.S. more secure, saying “every American is safer because of his service.” Prior to joining NCTC, Mr. Olsen was the General Counsel for the National Security Agency. 

Mr. Olsen also served at the Department of Justice in a number of leadership positions, responsible for national security and criminal cases, and for over a decade as a federal prosecutor. Mr. Olsen also served as Special Counsel to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He began his public service career as a trial attorney in the DOJ Civil Rights Division.
 

Former Rep. Mike Rogers
Former Chair
House Intelligence Committee

Mike is a former member of Congress, officer in the Army, and FBI special agent. In the U.S. House, he chaired the Intelligence Committee, becoming a leader on cybersecurity and national security policy, and overseeing the 17 intelligence agencies’ $70 billion budget. Today, Mike is a CNN national security commentator, and hosts and produces CNN’s “Declassified.” He sits on the board of IronNet Cybersecurity and MITRE Corporation, and advises Next Century Corporation and Trident Capital. He is Distinguished Fellow and Trustee at Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer
Harvard Kennedy School

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World--as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org; and a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer at IBM Resilient.

Alex Stamos
CISAC Fellow
Stanford university

Alex was the Chief Security Officer at Facebook, where he leads a team of people around the world focused on ensuring the safety of the billions of people who use Facebook and its family of services. Before joining Facebook, Alex served as the CISO of Yahoo and is widely recognized for revitalizing Yahoo’s security program with innovative technology and products. Prior to Yahoo, he was the co-founder of iSEC Partners and founder of Artemis Internet. Alex is a noted expert in global scale infrastructure, designing trustworthy systems, and mobile security. Alex holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Candace Worley
Vice President and Chief Technical Strategist
McAfee

Candace Worley is Vice President and Chief Technical Strategist for McAfee. She manages a worldwide team of Technical Strategists responsible for driving thought leadership and advancing technical innovation in McAfee security solutions.

Prior to this role, Candace served as Vice President for Enterprise Solutions for the Intel Security Group at Intel Corporation. She had worldwide responsibility for all facets of product and vertical marketing for the complete corporate products solutions set. 

Worley joined McAfee in 2000 and has held a number of technology leadership positions in her McAfee career including, five and a half years as the SVP and General Manager of the Enterprise Endpoint Security business. Prior to joining McAfee in 2000, she spent seven years with Mentor Graphics, where she led a team of product managers responsible for electronic design automation and electronic component software.

Worley holds a bachelor's degree in management from Oregon State University and an MBA degree from Marylhurst University.
 

Susan M. Gordon
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Sue was sworn in as the fifth Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) on August 7, 2017. As PDDNI, Ms. Gordon assists the DNI in leading the Intelligence Community (IC) and managing the ODNI. In particular, she focuses on advancing intelligence integration across the IC, expanding outreach and partnerships, and driving innovation across the Community.

With nearly three decades of experience in the IC, Ms. Gordon has served in a variety of leadership roles spanning numerous intelligence organizations and disciplines. Most recently, Ms. Gordon served as the Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2015 to 2017. In this role, she helped the director lead the agency and manage the National System of Geospatial Intelligence. She drove NGA's transformation to meet the challenges of a 21st century intelligence agency. She also championed agile governance, recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce, and expansion of geospatial intelligence services to the open marketplace. She is known for her commitment to diversity and inclusion and to the women and men of the IC.

Prior to her assignment with NGA, Ms. Gordon served for 27 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), rising to senior executive positions in each of the Agency's four directorates: operations, analysis, science and technology, and support.

Ms. Gordon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology (biomechanics) from Duke University where she was the captain of the Duke Women's Basketball team. She and her husband, Jim, live in Northern Virginia, and have two adult children who have also chosen to serve their country.
 

Andrew McCabe
Then-Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Andrew served as Acting Director of the FBI from May 9 to August 2, 2017. Following his time in this position, he resumed his previous role of deputy director, overseeing all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities.

Mr. McCabe joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996. He began his career in the New York Field Office, where he investigated and supervised organized crime matters. During the course of his career, Mr. McCabe has held leadership positions in the Counterterrorism Division, the National Security Branch, and the Washington Field Office, and has also served as the FBI's associate deputy director.
 

Rob Joyce
Then-White House Cybersecurity Coordinator
The White House

Mr. Rob Joyce is the Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy to the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) since June 2018. Rob has worked at NSA for over 28 years, holding various leadership positions within both focus areas of NSA: the Information Assurance and Signals Intelligence missions.

His previous assignment from was Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House where he lead the development of national and international cybersecurity strategy and policy for the United States and oversaw implementation of those policies; in this capacity, he ensured that the Federal Government was effectively partnering with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, other branches and levels of government, and other nations. In addition to the Cybersecurity Coordinator role, Rob was the Acting Deputy Homeland security advisor for six months and the Acting Homeland Security Advisor for a month, covering topics well beyond cybersecurity to include terrorism, health security and disaster response/recovery.

From 2013 to 2017, Rob served as the Chief of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the NSA's mission element that provided tools and expertise in computer network exploitation to deliver foreign intelligence. Prior to becoming the Chief of TAO, Rob served as the Deputy Director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at NSA, where he led efforts to harden, protect and defend the Nation's most critical National Security systems and improve cybersecurity for the nation. He was elevated to the Senior Executive Service in 2001.

Mr. Joyce began his career as an engineer and is a technologist at heart. He received his Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University in 1989 and earned a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Throughout his career with NSA, he has been the recipient of three Presidential Rank Awards: distinguished (2017), distinguished (2011) and meritorious (2006).

Mr. Joyce has served as a Scout Master and until lawyers got in the way, enjoyed participating with the Boy Scouts in the annual World Championship of Punkin Chunkin, building a contraption to fling pumpkins for distance. Over the Christmas holidays, he runs a computerized light display synchronized to music, which is likely visible from the International Space Station.
 

E.W. “Bill” Priestap
Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation

E.W. “Bill” Priestap is the assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington, D.C. Previously, Mr. Priestap served as the deputy assistant director of the Intelligence Operations Branch in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBIHQ.

Mr. Priestap entered on duty with the FBI in 1998, working organized crime and drug matters in the Chicago Division. Following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, Mr. Priestap focused on counterterrorism investigations in Chicago.

In 2003, Mr. Priestap was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA) at FBIHQ. While in OCA, he was detailed to the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he assisted with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

In 2005, Mr. Priestap was appointed the special assistant to the assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence at FBIHQ.

In 2006, Mr. Priestap was assigned to the New York Field Office, where he held counterterrorism and intelligence supervisory positions. He was then promoted to assistant special agent in charge, and he served in the Intelligence and the Counterintelligence Divisions of the New York Field Office.

In 2012, Mr. Priestap was promoted to section chief in the Counterintelligence Division at FBIHQ, and, in 2013, Mr. Priestap was named special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division in the New York Field Office.

Mr. Priestap is an attorney, and he holds master’s degrees in business administration and education administration.
 

Robert Hannigan
Former Director
Government Communications HeadQuarters

Robert Hannigan was Director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence and security agency and NSA equivalent, from 2014-17. He was a member of the Prime Minister’s National Security Council.

Robert established the National Cyber Security Centre as part of GCHQ in 2016, having been responsible for the UK’s first cyber strategy in 2009. He was also responsible for directing, with military colleagues, the national offensive cyber programme. He is a leading authority on cyber security, cyber conflict and the application of technology in national security and writes regularly on cyber issues in the Financial Times and elsewhere. He advises a number of international companies.

Robert spent much of his government career in national security. He was the Prime Minister’s Security Adviser at No10 from 2007-10, with a particular focus on Islamist terrorism, and was responsible in the Cabinet Office for the coordination and funding of the UK agencies, MI5, GCHQ and SIS. He chaired the UK Government’s interagency committee (‘COBR’) through numerous crises and was a longstanding member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which he chaired in 2011-12. As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas. He came to London from Belfast, where he was Tony Blair’s senior official on the Northern Ireland peace process, responsible for negotiations with political parties, paramilitaries and with the Irish and US Governments.

Robert is credited with bringing greater openness to the work of GCHQ, not least in an effort to promote cyber skills across the UK; he embarked on a major transformation of the organisation to make it fit for the digital era. Robert caused international controversy on his first day in office in 2014 by criticising Silicon Valley companies in the Financial Times, but he has also spoken at MIT in defence of strong encryption and US technology leadership.  He has a particular interest in Bletchley Park and the history of technology, computing and cryptology. He is a member of the UK Government’s new Defence Innovation Advisory Panel.

He was awarded a CMG by Queen Elizabeth for services to national security and the US Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Monika  Bickert
Head of Product Policy and CounterterrorisM
Facebook

Monika is Facebook’s head of product policy and counterterrorism. Her global team manages the policies for what types of content can be shared on Facebook and how advertisers and developers can interact with the site. Monika originally joined Facebook in 2012 as lead security counsel, advising the company on matters including child safety and data security. Prior to joining Facebook, Monika served as Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, where she specialized in Southeast Asian rule of law development and response to child exploitation and human trafficking. She also served as Assistant United States Attorney for 11 years in Washington, DC, and Chicago, prosecuting federal crimes ranging from public corruption to gang-related violence. Monika received a B.A. in Economics and English from Rice University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

John Carlin
Global Chair, Risk & Crisis Management Practice
Morrison & Foerster

John Carlin, the chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & Technology Program, recently left the Obama administration after serving as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the Department of Justice’s top national security attorney. In this Senate-confirmed position, John oversaw nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats.

The Justice Department’s National Security Division—working closely with the White House, the intelligence community, and prosecutors around the country—has helped to put together many of the most important cyber indictments and cases against hackers of the last eight years, ranging from the indictment of five Chinese military hackers for cyber-espionage to the case against Iranian hackers who attacked a New York hydroelectric dam, as well as being integral to cases like the hacking of Sony Pictures and the recent Russian attacks on the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Today, Carlin is also the global chair of the risk and crisis management practice for the law firm Morrison & Forester and is a sought-after industry speaker on cyber issues as well a CNBC contributor on national security issues. His book, Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat, will be published in October 2018.
 

Glenn Gerstell
Then-General Counsel
National Security Agency

Glenn Gerstell was appointed in August 2015 as the general counsel of the National Security Agency. Prior to joining NSA, Gerstell practiced law for almost 40 years at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he has served as the managing partner of the firm's Washington, D.C., Singapore and Hong Kong offices. Earlier in his career, he was an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University School of Law and New York Law School.

Gerstell served on the President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which reports to the president and the secretary of Homeland Security on security threats to the nation's infrastructure, as well as on the District of Columbia Homeland Security Commission.

A graduate of New York University and Columbia University School of Law, Gerstell is a member of The American Academy of Diplomacy and the Atlantic Council and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
 

Dr. Phyllis Schneck
Managing Director for Cyber Solutions
Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company

Phyllis has more than 15 years of government and private-sector experience in senior cybersecurity positions and leads Promontory’s cybersecurity practice.

She joined Promontory from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications and led responses to cybersecurity threats against corporations, civilians, and the government. During her DHS tenure, Phyllis led the defensive cybersecurity operational mission to mitigate and respond to cyberthreats across the federal civilian government and private sector. She supported the department’s mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure, working with all areas of the department, government agencies, law enforcement, and the private sector. Phyllis led the transformation of signature technology applying analytics to the central cyber protection that the DHS provides to civilian agencies.

Phyllis holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in computer science and mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University.
 

Dr. Daniel Earl Geer, Jr., Sc.D.
Chief Information Security Officer
In-Q-Tel

Dr. Geer currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel, the non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to the U.S. intelligence community. He’s also an Entrepreneur, Author, Scientist, Consultant, Teacher and Architect.

Dr. Geer has been an advisor to or Board member for a number of promising startups and their funding sources, over 100 refereed publications, two books and many book chapters, three patents, over two hundred fifty invited presentations twenty percent of which were keynotes including ten abroad, technology selection and standardization work, and five times before the US Congress of which two were lead witness.

Geer’s commercial teaching history both extensive in scope and in excess of ten thousand students in the aggregate. His participation in government advisory have included roles for the Federal Trade Commission, the Departments of Justice and Treasury, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the US Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the White House, and In-Q-Tel's counterparties.

In addition,he has had extensive experience in higher education at the Harvard University School of Public Health and as Head of systems development at MIT's Project Athena (the first large-scale academic distributed computing and networking environment), where his staff on his watch pioneered Kerberos, the X Window System, and much of what is take for granted in distributed computing.

He is a widely noted author in scientific journals and the technology press. He is also co-author of The WebSecurity Sourcebook with Marcus Ranum of Network Flight Recorder and Avi Rubin of AT&T Research.

He served as the President of USENIX, the advanced computing systems association, and received their lifetime achievement award.

Milestones: The X Window System and Kerberos (1988), the first information security consulting firm on Wall Street (1992), convenor of the first academic conference on electronic commerce (1995), the "Risk Management is Where the Money Is" speech that changed the focus of security (1998), the Presidency of USENIX Association (2000), the first call for the eclipse of authentication by accountability (2002), principal author of and spokesman for "Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" (2003), co-founder of SecurityMetrics.Org (2004), convener of MetriCon (2006-present), author of "Economics & Strategies of Data Security" (2008), and author of "Cybersecurity & National Policy" (2010).  Creator of the Index of Cyber Security (2011) and the Cyber Security Decision Market (2012).  Expert for NSA Science of Security award (2013-present). Cybersecurity Hall of Fame (2016).  Six times entrepreneur.  Five times before Congress.

Dr. Geer holds a Sc.D. in Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and a S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
 

Tom Wheeler
Klinsky Visiting Professor
Harvard Law School

Tom Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is the Klinsky Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the Schorenstein Fellow for Media and Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

For over four decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services. At the FCC he led the efforts that resulted in the adoption of Net Neutrality, privacy protections for consumers, and increased cybersecurity, among other policies. His chairmanship has been described as, “The most productive Commission in the history of the agency.” During the Obama-Biden Transition of 2008/09 Mr. Wheeler led activities overseeing the agencies of government dealing with science, technology, space and the arts.

As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact President Obama joked made him “the Bo Jackson of telecom.”

Prior to being appointed Chairman of the FCC by President Obama, Wheeler was Managing Director at Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage Internet Protocol (IP)-based companies. He is CEO of the Shiloh Group, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. He co-founded SmartBrief, the Internet’s largest curated information service for vertical markets.

From 1976 to 1984, Wheeler was associated with the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) where he was President and CEO from 1979 to 1984. Following NCTA Wheeler was CEO of several high-tech companies, including the first company to offer high-speed delivery to home computers and the first digital video satellite service. From 1992 to 2004, Wheeler served as President and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).

Mr. Wheeler wrote Take Command: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000), and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). His commentaries on current events have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other leading publications.

Mr. Wheeler served on President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board prior to being named to the FCC. Presidents Clinton and Bush each appointed him a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is the former Chairman and President of the National Archives Foundation, and a former board member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

He is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University and the recipient of its Alumni Medal. He resides in Washington, D.C.
 

Brad Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer
Microsoft

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer.

In this role Smith is responsible for the company’s corporate, external, and legal affairs.  He leads a team of more than 1,300 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 55 countries. These teams are responsible for the company’s legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, patent licensing business, corporate philanthropy, government affairs, public policy, corporate governance, and social responsibility work. He is also Microsoft’s chief compliance officer.  Smith plays a key role in representing the company externally and in leading the company’s work on a number of critical issues including privacy, security, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion, among others.

Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, and before becoming general counsel in 2002 he spent three years leading the Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) team in Europe, then five years serving as the deputy general counsel responsible for LCA’s teams outside the United States.

Smith has overseen numerous negotiations leading to competition law and intellectual property agreements with governments around the world and with companies across the IT sector. He has played a leading role within Microsoft and in the IT sector on government surveillance, privacy, intellectual property, immigration and computer science education policy issues. As the senior executive responsible for ensuring Microsoft fulfills its corporate responsibilities, he has helped the company achieve its consistent ranking in the top 2 percent of the S&P 500 for corporate governance scores. He has played a leadership role locally and nationally on numerous charitable, business and legal initiatives. In 2013 he was named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States. In 2014, the New York Times called Smith “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.”

In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic and legal organizations and in the broader technology industry. In March 2015, Smith joined the Netflix board of directors. He also works to advance several significant diversity and pro bono initiatives, serving as chair of the board of directors of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and as chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). In addition, Smith chairs the board of the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program, at the appointment of the governor.

Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy (also a lawyer), and graduated summa cum laude with a concentration in international relations and economics. He earned his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was an associate and then partner at the Washington, D.C.-based firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. He can be followed at http://twitter.com/@bradsmi.
 

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Prior to returning to Harvard and the Belfer Center, Sherwood-Randall served as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy from October 10, 2014 to January 20, 2017. In her capacity as Deputy Secretary, she was the Department's chief operating officer, overseeing a budget of nearly $30 billion and a workforce of more than 113,000 people. She provided strategic direction for DOE's broad missions in nuclear deterrence and proliferation prevention, science and energy, environmental management, emergency response, and grid security. While at DOE, she developed and implemented a new approach to fulfilling the agency's growing responsibilities for grid resilience and emergency response to meet growing natural, physical, and cyber threats.

Earlier in the Obama administration, she was the White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control in 2013-2014, with responsibility for U.S. defense strategy, policy, and budget planning. She served from 2009 to 2013 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council where she led the revitalization of America's alliances and partnerships in Europe.

In the Clinton administration, Sherwood-Randall served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 1994 to 1996. She led the effort to denuclearize three former Soviet states, for which she was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distingished Public Service and the Nunn-Lugar Traiblazer Award.

Sherwood-Randall worked at the Kennedy School on two prior projects. She was a Founding Principal of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project, where she worked with current Belfer Center Director Ash Carter from 1997-2008. Between 1990-1993, she was Associate Director of the Belfer Center's Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, which she co-founded with former Center Director Graham Allison.

Sherwood-Randall attended college at Harvard and then earned a graduate degree at Oxford University, where she was among the early ranks of female Rhodes Scholars. After finishing her education, she began her career working for then-Senator Joe Biden as his chief advisor on foreign and defense policy. She has also worked at Stanford University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Brookings Institution.

Born and raised in California, she is married to Jeff Randall, a neurosurgeon, and they have two college-aged sons.
 

Dr. Jason Matheny
Director
IARPA

Dr. Jason Matheny became IARPA's director in 2015, after serving as a program manager, associate office director, and office director. Before IARPA, he worked at Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity and Princeton University, and is the co-founder of two biotechnology companies. Dr. Matheny holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. He received the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology.

Andy Greenberg
Senior writer
WIRED

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture. He previously worked as a staff writer at Forbes.com and Forbes Magazine.

Greenberg's July 2015 article about Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek's Jeep hack resulted in the recall of 1.4 million vehicles by Chrysler.

Greenberg's 2012 book This Machine Kills Secrets, was a New York Times Editors' Choice.

In 2014, Greenberg was nominated along with Ryan Mac for a Gerald Loeb Award for their Forbes Magazine article, "Big Brother's Brain", and was named as one of the SANS Institute's Top Cybersecurity Journalist Award Winners.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife documentary filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall.
 

Tom Fanning
Chairman, President and CEO
Southern Company

Tom Fanning has been chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company since 2010. Under his leadership, our 32,000-strong team continues to build the future of energy and improve peoples’ lives. We focus on finding the best ways to bring clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to all our neighborhoods across the country.

With more than 35 years of experience at Southern Company, Tom also serves as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and holds senior positions in a number of business and public policy organizations. Tom is an internationally respected voice on topics that range from energy innovation and economic growth, to cybersecurity.

His passion for building better communities guides his vision, and Tom has led the industry in developing the full portfolio of our energy resources. From leading the nation’s nuclear initiative with two state-of-the-art units in Georgia to building an innovative coal gasification facility in Mississippi, and adding more than 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy since 2012, the Southern Company system is the only U.S. energy provider investing in nuclear, 21st century coal, natural gas, renewables and energy efficiency. 
 

Suzanne Kelly
CEO & Publisher
The Cipher Brief

Suzanne Kelly is CEO & Publisher of The Cipher Brief and most recently served as CNN`s Intelligence Correspondent before spending two years in the private sector. She also worked as an Executive Producer for CNN and as a news anchor at CNN International based in Berlin and Atlanta. In Berlin, she anchored a morning news program that was broadcast live in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and from Atlanta, she anchored a number of world news programs. She covered the NATO campaign in 1999 from Kosovo and Macedonia.

John Flynn
Chief Information Security Officer
Uber

John "Four" Flynn is the Chief Information Security Officer at Uber, where he's responsible for protecting the information and platforms that provide Uber's services to people all over the world. Prior to Uber, he led infrastructure security at Facebook and security operations at Google. He is the founder and former lead architect of Google's Innovative Intrusion Detection group which is credited with the successful detection of the Aurora attack in 2009. Following his role as technical advisor for the Obama 2012 presidential campaign, Mr. Flynn now serves on the board of directors for the Future of Automotive Security Technology (FASTR) and is a technical adviser for Google Ventures.
 

Oleh Derevianko
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
Information Security Systems Partners

Oleh Derevianko is a business and social entrepreneur. He is a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of ISSP – Information Systems Security Partners – private international cybersecurity  company, founded in Ukraine in 2008, and currently operating in 7 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Middle Asia. Having strong presence in the countries at the frontline of cyber and hybrid war such as Ukraine and serving both private and public sectors ISSP provides unique expertise for APT attacks analysis, detection and   response.

Oleh Derevianko is also a Co-founder and President of Kyiv Cyber Academy (KCA) with a mission to provide world-class learning opportunities for students who want to become  skilled professionals in a world that depends on the use of cyberspace. Ukraine is a rapidly rising high tech nation with the fastest-growing number of IT professionals in Europe. It’s current IT engineering work force of 90 000+ professionals is expected to double to over 200,000 by 2020.

In 2015-2016 Oleh Derevianko served as Deputy Minister, Chief of Staff at Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and as a social entrepreneur he is a Founder of the Institute for Self Realization (Kyiv), Author and Founder of School Angels initiative, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Chestnut Piano International Music Festival (Kyiv), and Member of The Aspen Institute Kyiv.

He received his Master’s Degree in International Economics with honors in 1997 from the Institute of International Relations at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. In 2001 he received a PhD in Economic Policy, also from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Additionally, Oleh Derevianko holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from Warwick Business School, and his continuous education includes MIT’s course on Cybersecurity technology, application and policy, and a number of leadership development programs in Columbia Business School and The Aspen Institute.
 

Thomas Rid 
Professor of Strategic Studies
Johns Hopkins University/SAIS 

Thomas Rid is Professor of Strategic Studies as Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. 

Rid’s most recent book, Rise of the Machines (2016), tells the sweeping story of how cybernetics, a late-1940s theory of machines, came to incite anarchy and war half a century later (translated into Chinese, Russian, German, Japanese, and Turkish). His 2015 article “Attributing Cyber Attacks” was designed to explain, guide, and improve the identification of network breaches (Journal of Strategic Studies 2015). In 2013 he published the widely-read book Cyber War Will Not Take Place. Rid testified on information security in front of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as well as in the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament. 

From 2011 to 2016, Rid was a professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2003 and 2010, he worked at major think tanks in Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem, and Washington, DC. Rid holds a PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. 
 

Catherine P. Bessant
Chief Operations and Technology Officer
Bank of America

Catherine P. Bessant is chief operations and technology officer at Bank of America, and is a member of the company’s executive management team. Since 2010, Bessant has led Global Technology and Operations (GT&O) and is responsible for delivering end-to-end technology and operating services across the company through nearly 95,000 employees and contractors in more than 35 countries.

GT&O provides the platforms and fulfillment services that enable the company’s consumer banking, wealth management, commercial banking, treasury services, sales and trading, and investment banking businesses, as well as risk management, finance and other critical support functions. Bessant’s team also oversees the company’s business continuity and information security strategies and policies.

Bessant has held a number of senior leadership roles for the company. Most recently, she was president of Global Corporate Banking. Previously, she was president of Global Product Solutions and Global Treasury Services; chief marketing officer; president of Consumer Real Estate and Community Development Banking; national Small Business Segment executive; and president of the Florida market. She joined the bank as a corporate banker in 1982.

Bessant represents the company on a number of important topics, including diversity and inclusion, serving as executive sponsor for the company’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride executive board and the LGBT Ally program and executive management team sponsor of the company’s disability advocacy initiatives.

Active in the community, Bessant was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her civic and business contributions to the State of North Carolina, and received the Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award from the Charlotte Business Journal. She serves as chairperson of the North Tryon Vision Plan Advisory Committee.

She serves on the board of directors of Zurich Insurance Group and Florida Blue, formerly Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. She also sits on the board of trustees for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and on the advisory board for the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Bessant is ranked No. 1 on Institutional Investor magazine’s annual Tech 50 list of financial technology leaders recognized for their achievements and innovation, and No. 3 among American Banker’s “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking.” She appears on Working Mother magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Working Moms” list of 2017.
 

Marc van Zadelhoff
General Manager
IBM Security

Marc has nearly 20 years of experience in strategy, venture capital, business development and marketing in the IT and security space. Currently, Marc is the General Manager of IBM Security.  Marc previously served as VP, Worldwide Strategy and Product Management for IBM Security – responsible for overall product management, budget and positioning for IBM’s entire global security portfolio. Marc’s prior responsibilities at IBM have included leadership roles in M&A, product management and marketing in both software and services. Marc was a member of the executive team of Dutch-based Consul before it sold to IBM and spent the rest of his pre-IBM years in IT venture capital and strategy consulting. Marc lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
 

Dr. Mark T. Maybury
Vice President, Intelligence Portfolios
MITRE National Security Sector

Dr. Mark Maybury has joined the MITRE National Security (MNS) Sector to assume the role of vice president of the Intelligence Portfolios. In this role, he leads MITRE in applying systems engineering, technology expertise, and innovation to help the intelligence and federal law enforcement communities improve mission effectiveness, integrate across agencies, and drive greater operating efficiency.

He comes to MNS from his most recent position as vice president and chief security officer of The MITRE Corporation and director of the National Cybersecurity FFRDC, which MITRE operates for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In these roles, he managed the overall cybersecurity strategy for the company, including outreach and partnerships, in addition to aligning and developing strategies and resources to realize MITRE’s next generation cybersecurity vision.

Dr. Maybury previously served as MITRE’s Chief Technology Officer, directing the organization’s independent research and development program and developing the corporate technology strategy.  

From 2010 to June 2013, Dr. Maybury served as the chief scientist of the Air Force. His responsibilities included advising the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force and providing assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. In this role, he identified and analyzed technical issues and brought them to the attention of Air Force and national security leaders. Dr. Maybury led strategic studies in energy, cybersecurity, and global science and technology. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), as vice chair of Science and Technology, as vice chair of a study on remotely piloted aircraft, and as a member on SAB studies on commercial space, rapid on-orbit checkout, and operating in contested cyberspace.

As executive director of MITRE’s Information Technology Division, Dr. Maybury oversaw the advanced research and development work for a wide variety of intelligence and defense systems. He led a division of experts in the disciplines of intelligent information systems, analytic tools, performance support, collaborative environments, geospatial information systems, distributed computing, networking, and data, information, and knowledge management. 

Since joining MITRE in 1990, Dr. Maybury has held several leadership roles. He managed MITRE’s Speech and Natural Language Group, served as director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Technical Center, led the Advanced Information Systems Technology Department, directed the Advanced Information Systems Center, and served as deputy division manager for National Intelligence. He has contributed his expertise in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to many sponsored projects over the years.

He also founded and was executive director of the Advanced Research and Development Activity Northeast Regional Research Center. The center was formed to bring together experts from government, academia, and industry and sponsor research on leading edge technology that could solve critical problems facing the intelligence community.

Dr. Maybury remains a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and sits on both the Defense Science Board and the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. He is a fellow in both the IEEE and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Maybury was a U.S. Air Force officer, serving as research team chief and then program manager at Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base.

Dr. Maybury has authored or edited 10 books and more than 60 refereed publications. He holds patents for both broadcast news understanding (6,961,954) and personalcasting (7,386,542). His awards include recognition from New York City and MITRE for support of World Trade Center rescue and recovery efforts, a Recognition Award from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for support to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, and a Special Recognition Award from President George W. Bush for planning for the Terrorism Information Sharing Environment. In 2016, Federal Computer Week magazine named Dr. Maybury among its Federal 100 Award winners. The award recognizes government, industry, and academic leaders who have played pivotal roles that affect how the federal government acquires, develops, and manages IT.

Dr. Maybury received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from College of the Holy Cross (Fenwick Scholar, valedictorian), a master’s degree in computer speech and language processing from Cambridge University, England (Rotary Scholar), a master’s degree in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a doctoral degree in artificial intelligence from Cambridge.
 

Jeff Greene 
Vice President, Global Government Affairs and Policy
Symantec

Jeff Greene is the Vice President, Global Government Affairs & Policy at Symantec, where he leads a global team of policy professionals who focus on cybersecurity, data integrity and privacy issues. Prior to joining Symantec, Jeff was Senior Counsel with the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he focused on cybersecurity and homeland defense issues. He also worked as a Subcommittee Staff Director with the House Committee on Homeland Security, Counsel to the Senate’s Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina, and as an attorney with a Washington, D.C. law firm. Jeff is a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB), and worked as a guest researcher supported the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He recently served as the staff co-chair of the “Internet of Things” research subcommittee of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and is a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. He speaks often on cybersecurity, the "Internet of Things," data breach, and privacy issues. He has a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University and a J.D. with Honor from the University of Maryland, where he has taught classes in Homeland Security law and policy.
 

Sarah Guo
Principal
Greylock Partners

Sarah’s mission is to partner with founders to productize disruptive ideas, get advantaged distribution, and build dominant businesses. She is interested in almost everything where technology can be used as a weapon to get us to the future, faster. She spends a lot of her time thinking about opportunities in B2B applications and infrastructure, cyber security, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and healthcare.

Sarah joined Greylock Partners as an investor in 2013. She is on the board of Obsidian and also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix and Skyhigh. Prior to joining Greylock, Sarah was at Goldman Sachs, where she invested in growth-stage technology startups such as Dropbox, and advised pre-IPO technology companies such as Workday (as well as public clients including Zynga, Netflix and Nvidia). Previously, Sarah worked with Casa Systems, a venture-funded technology company that develops a software-centric networking platform for cable and mobile internet service providers.

She is an advocate for STEM education for women and the underserved. She has taught Marketing in the Wharton Undergraduate Program and served as a teaching fellow in lower-income high schools for the Philadelphia World Affairs Council. Sarah has four degrees from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. She is part of Linkedin’s Next Wave and the Forbes’ 30 Under 30.
 

Matthew P. Moynahan
Chief Executive Officer
Forecepoint

Matt Moynahan is the chief executive officer for Forcepoint. He joined in 2016, bringing more than twenty years of security, cloud services and technology industry leadership, ranging from product development to sales to general management. Throughout his career, Moynahan has been steeped in nearly every facet of security, including digital rights management, encryption, application security, network security, web and email security, and insider threat.

Under Moynahan’s leadership, Forcepoint launched a bold new approach to cybersecurity, centered upon enabling customers to focus on what matters most: understanding people’s behaviors and intent as they interact with critical data and IP wherever it resides. Moynahan also championed Forcepoint’s acquisition of the Skyfence CASB (cloud application security broker) business, furthering the company’s ability to protect data anywhere, including within cloud applications.

Before joining Forcepoint, he held a series of senior leadership positions, most recently as president of Arbor Networks. During his tenure, Arbor Networks gained a leading share in the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) market, launched the world’s foremost cloud-based DDoS service and successfully moved into the Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) market. Prior to Arbor Networks, he was the founding president and CEO of Veracode, the leading cloud-based application security services provider acquired by Computer Associates in March 2016. Previous to Veracode, Moynahan served as vice president of Symantec’s Client & Host Security and Consumer Products & Solutions divisions, leading the latter to $2 billion in annual revenue

Moynahan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the board of directors of Care to Compete, a nonprofit organization supporting athletes with brain damage and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and is a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
 

Mark D. McLaughlin
Chairman and CEO
Palo Alto Networks

Mark D. McLaughlin joined as President and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in August of 2011 and became Chairman of the Board in 2012.

Before coming to Palo Alto Networks, Mark served as President and CEO of Verisign. Prior to that, he held a number of key positions at Verisign including serving as Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Products and Marketing, and head of the company's Naming Services business. Prior to Verisign, he was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Signio, a leading internet payment company. Before joining Signio, he was the Vice President of Business Development for Gemplus, the world's leading smart-card company. Previous to Gemplus, he also served as General Counsel of Caere Corporation and practiced law as an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP.

For nearly a decade, Mark has had the honor of serving as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), a body that for more than 30 years has brought industry chief executives together to provide counsel on national security policy and technical issues to the U.S. President and national security leadership. Mark has served two-year terms as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the NSTAC. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as an attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army and earned his Airborne Wings. Mark currently serves on the board of directors for Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM).
 

Mike Gregoire
Chief Executive Officer
CA Technologies

Mike Gregoire is Chief Executive Officer of CA Technologies, a $4.5 billion global software company. CA Technologies is helping companies seize the opportunities of the application economy—a world where software is crucial to global business and application development is the engine of innovation.

Mike joined CA Technologies on January 7, 2013. Under his direction, CA has accelerated its software leadership, with innovative offerings, a renewed brand, and strengthened market presence. He has brought fiscal discipline to CA operations; invested in developing, retaining, and hiring talent; and built a winning team focused on the success of CA customers in today’s rapidly changing technology landscape.

Mike is a 25-year veteran of the software industry, with a proven track record of success in delivering transformative technology to the marketplace. He understands the challenge of nurturing new innovations while getting them ready to solve real world problems in a competitive global environment. He took California-based Taleo from its pre-IPO start up phase in 2005 to its sale to Oracle Corp for nearly $2 billion in 2012. With Mike at the helm, Taleo developed and delivered cloud-based human resources software to over 5,000 corporations and 20 million end-users globally. In the process, he grew Taleo’s revenue by more than 400 percent.

Before Taleo, Mike spent five years at PeopleSoft as executive vice president of its Global Services Group, with responsibility for consulting, education, hosting and maintenance worldwide. Mike started his career as an architect and technical project leader at EDS, and rose to run a number of its operations and businesses, including its Global Financial Markets Group. 

Mike is widely recognized as a strategic thinker in the information technology industry. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee, the Business Roundtable’s Information and Technology Committee, and the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council. He also serves on the Executive Council of TechNet, an organization of CEOs that represents the technology industry in policy issues critical to American innovation and economic competitiveness. In addition, he sits on the Board of Directors of ADP, one of the world’s largest providers of human resources business processing and cloud-based solutions.

Mike exemplifies CA Technologies commitment to being a responsible corporate citizen. During his tenure, CA has strengthened its engagement with the communities where its employees live and work, with an emphasis on advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning for underserved youth. Mike is on the Board of NPower, a nonprofit that enlists and trains low-income young adults and veterans to become IT professionals. An avid cyclist, he also manages to compete in several races a year, many of which are fundraisers he rides in wearing the CA jersey. 

Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Computing from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and a Master of Business Administration degree from California Coast University.