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James McQuiggan

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

James McQuiggan is a Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4. Prior to joining KnowBe4, McQuiggan worked for Siemens for 18 years where he was responsible for various roles, including Product & Solution Security Officer for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. In addition to his work at Siemens, McQuiggan is also a part-time faculty professor at Valencia College in the Engineering, Computer Programming & Technology Division.

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Brian Golumbeck

AI Services Co-lead, Optiv

Brian Golumbeck is a Director within Optiv’s Strategy and Risk Management advisory organization. In this role he leads clients through security strategy, risk management, compliance, and industry-leading AI solutions. He has extensive experience guiding both small and large companies through organizational transformation and emerging technology deployments, emphasizing the people and process components.

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Jaimen Hoopes

GM of Data Security and Vice President of Product Management, Forcepoint

Jaimen Hoopes serves as the GM of Data Security and Vice President of Product Management at Forcepoint since November 2021. In that role, he is responsible for the company's data security products and strategy. Jaimen earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems and an M.B.A. in Business Administration from Idaho State University.

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Christine Livingston

Managing Director – Global AI Leader, Protiviti

Christine Livingston is a Managing Director and global leader of Protiviti’s Artificial Intelligence practice. She has spent over 18 years in technology consulting and applies her engineering background with advances in technology to unlock enterprise innovation. With over a decade of experience in AI-ML deployment, she has delivered hundreds of successful AI solutions, including numerous first-in-class AI-enabled applications. She has helped many Fortune 500 clients develop practical strategies for enterprise adoption of AI, and has won several awards for AI solutions delivered for clients.

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Shane Wiggins

AI Product, Partnerships, and Solutions Director, OneTrust

At OneTrust, Shane leads product development for the Data & AI Governance solution as Director of Product. He guides a cross-functional team of data scientists and engineers in advancing responsible AI adoption. As a certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP), Shane also serves on OneTrust's AI Governance committee, where he represents R&D interests in shaping the company's AI strategy.

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Cedric Husianycia

Global Black Belt - EMEA Linux Advanced Migration Sr Specialist, Microsoft

As a Global Black Belt - Linux Migration Specialist at Microsoft, Cedric works with enterprise customers across EMEA to help them move their Linux-based workloads to Azure cloud. He have over 15 years of experience in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence solutions, and he hold multiple certifications in SAN, Storage, NAS, NetBackup, and SFA technologies.

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James Read

Principal Solution Architect (Microsoft/Cloud & Service Providers), Red Hat

James is the primary Solution Architect for Microsoft Azure in EMEA (and historically covered GCP & AWS as well). Historically have supported the OEMs, mainly HP and DELL. A core responsibility to support for in-country colleagues, and co-ordinate EMEA partner activities at a technical presales level.

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Cedric Husianycia

Global Black Belt - EMEA Linux Advanced Migration Sr Specialist, Microsoft

As a Global Black Belt - Linux Migration Specialist at Microsoft, Cedric works with enterprise customers across EMEA to help them move their Linux-based workloads to Azure cloud. He have over 15 years of experience in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence solutions, and he hold multiple certifications in SAN, Storage, NAS, NetBackup, and SFA technologies.

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James Read

Principal Solution Architect (Microsoft/Cloud & Service Providers), Red Hat

James is the primary Solution Architect for Microsoft Azure in EMEA (and historically covered GCP & AWS as well). Historically have supported the OEMs, mainly HP and DELL. A core responsibility to support for in-country colleagues, and co-ordinate EMEA partner activities at a technical presales level.

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Paul Veeneman

Director, IT/OT Cybersecurity & Risk, Lansweeper

With over 28 years of experience across various industries including Finance, Oil and Gas, Healthcare and Manufacturing, Paul has been actively working within the Nation’s critical infrastructure, addressing challenges, providing guidance, insight and innovation in Operations Technology, Industrial Controls, IoT, IIoT, SCADA cyber security knowledge, expertise, and education. Paul currently holds the CISSP, CISM, and CRISC certifications, and serves on several boards, including the local Minnesota chapters of InfraGard, the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), and the International Society of Automation (ISA).

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John Pelton

Senior Director, Security Operations, Optiv

John has eight years of experience leading teams within MSSPs and spearheading Detection and Response teams across a diverse range of SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and MDR tools. His teams support many industries, including Financial Services, Tech, Media, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. His teams are focused on 24/7/365 coverage of alert monitoring, threat hunting, playbook development, content development, and gap assessments mapped to common frameworks.

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Jesse Trucks

Minister of Magic, Splunk

Jesse Trucks has worked in IT and Security operations for over 20 years. In that time, he has worked for the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) supporting HPC clusters and supercomputers and at multiple telecoms and managed service providers as well. Trucks has extensive experience in designing and implementing risk mitigation and security programs, compliance auditing processes and systems, and defensive security operations. He has developed multiple bespoke monitoring and automation systems, and he has implemented a multitude of commercial monitoring, SIEM, and automation systems. Trucks has worked for Splunk for over six years and is also co-founder and Principal of a small elementary school. He resides in Knoxville, TN, where he adores family life, roasting coffee, raising poodles, and amateur radio (callsign N9MOM)

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Michael Gusev

Principal Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Michael Gusev is a tech industry veteran with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable front-end and back-end solutions for high-load systems on cloud platforms. As a consultant and leader, he has guided businesses of all sizes in software development, security, and performance, while managing teams and driving projects from concept to production. An active open-source contributor, Michael is passionate about fostering innovation and sharing knowledge through teaching and mentorship.

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Richard Cassidy

Senior Director, Security Strategy, Exabeam

Richard Cassidy has been consulting to businesses on cyber security strategies and programs for more than 19 years, working across highly regulated industries including finance, insurance, retail, manufacturing, government and military. During his career, Richard has been heavily engaged in the design and implementation of solutions, helping organisations in evolving security, compliance, risk management, data assurance, automation, orchestration & response practices. Richard’s security operations experience includes managing CERT, breach response teams, threat intelligence & hunting teams, as well as teaching customers a practical understanding of how their data and assets are targeted by cyber-criminal groups, driving effective security practices and mitigation strategies. Combining hands on experience of the technologies and services that have evolved over the past two decades, with a detailed perspective on end user security risks, Richard focuses on delivering thought leadership tracks that help decision makers define practical security, compliance and data assurance strategies. He is well versed in showing organisations how to better navigate a highly complex and automated threat landscape, in tandem with achieving (and maintaining) regulatory, compliance and data assurance mandates that business leaders face in today’s technology landscape. Throughout his career, Richard has participated in a number of speaker sessions at events including BlackHat 2017 and most recently at IP Expo 2018. During his time at Alert Logic Richard narrated a partner track for IP Expo as well as talk tracks on topics including the cyber kill chain, threat intelligence, applied threat intelligence, and the role of the SOC.”

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Chris Bourke

Regional Director, Unstructured Data, Rubrik

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Srujana Puttagunta

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Rubrik

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James Blake

Head of Worldwide Cyber Resiliency Strategy, Cohesity

James works with customers to ensure they have the right people, process and technology in place to build the appropriate resiliency to withstand cyber attacks, and provides thought leadership to ensure Cohesity products deliver meaningful the operational outcomes. Prior to joining Cohesity, James was the Global Director of Cyber Transformation for JPMorgan Chase. For several years he led HP Enterprise's Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting practice who built over 91 end-to-end Security Operations Center capabilities for over 91 of the World’s largest organisations including two of the largest US banks. Before HPE James was the CISO of Mimecast. He also co-founded the Security BSides London and is on the board of the UK South West Tech Cluster.

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Mark Molyneux

Field CTO EMEA, Cohesity

As a technology leader Mark has played key roles in hundreds of major incident responses and CritSit recoveries, and overseen global patching programmes. Mark is a former Director at Barclays where he held the position of Head of Group Storage, Virtualisation and Public Cloud, leading technology operations and engineering, spanning the global bank. Mark was also appointed to IBMs Storage Board of Advisors for 5 years. Prior to this, Mark also held the role of UK Business Development CTO at Dell Technologies, leading hybrid and multi-cloud conversations with global FinServ customers plus many other verticals, visioning operational resiliency and modern data management principles to enable regulatory compliance, control data growth, monetise data, and cost efficiency, using experiences such as his journey to hybrid multi-cloud, strategy and vision, operational knowledge, and wider general experience, to help form a joint outcome.

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Filip Verloy

Field CTO, Rubrik X

Filip Verloy serves as Field CTO EMEA & APJ for Rubrik X. In that role, Filip engages and advises customers, partners, and the security industry at large, sharing his experience, insights, and strategies on data security. Before joining Rubrik, Verloy was the Global Field CTO at API security start-up Noname Security and has previously served at various IT vendors including Citrix, Dell, Riverbed, and VMware in roles ranging from Staff Architect to Solutions Executive supporting some of the largest and most complex customer environments. He has been in the IT industry for over 25 years, spanning the customer-, consulting-, and vendor side.

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Scott Dowsett

CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE Global Field CTO (OCTO), Anomali

Scott holds the position of Global Field CTO at Anomali. Formerly Vice President of Global Sales Engineering at Anomali. He has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and computer networking. Scott frequently speaks at SANS, Anomali Detect, and numerous industry conferences. Scott holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium and the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. In addition, he is also certified in Risk and Compliance and Data Privacy. Memberships include OASIS Open Member, Advisory Board member CSU, Chico Cybersecurity for Executives program.

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Scott Dowsett

CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE Global Field CTO (OCTO), Anomali

Scott holds the position of Global Field CTO at Anomali. Formerly Vice President of Global Sales Engineering at Anomali. He has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and computer networking. Scott frequently speaks at SANS, Anomali Detect, and numerous industry conferences. Scott holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium and the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. In addition, he is also certified in Risk and Compliance and Data Privacy. Memberships include OASIS Open Member, Advisory Board member CSU, Chico Cybersecurity for Executives program.

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Pedro Vieira

IT & innovation Director, Águas do Porto, EM

Since 2009, Pedro Vieira e Moreira has been with Águas do Porto, the municipal water utility that manages the city's full urban water cycle. He has also been, for the past 4 years, Assistant Professor in Project Management at ISEP Polytechnic of Porto School of Engineering, and also co-founder and chief strategist of a startup. Since 2015, he has been assigned as Director of IT & Innovation Department. He is responsible for the major IT revolution inside Águas do Porto, by transforming the way technology is provided for workers and clients, as part of a broader strategy, in order to accelerate the pace of change needed in the utilities sector, assisting the decision-making process and thus the strategy choices of decision makers. He's leading the transformation into a smart utility and intelligent city accelerator, using innovation as mean to achieve it, and defines a change management direction that must be implemented across the organization, considering the multiple stakeholders involved and the effort that should be asked to the affected people and the processes that must be adapted into new realities.

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Luís Valente

CISO, Universidade do Porto

Luís M. Valente currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Porto and researcher in the field of computer security and digital identity at the CRACS/INESC-LA Port. Working straight in the implementation of digital identity, interoperability and electronic administration projects on the University, his main research is focused on secure authentication and digital identity management user-centric.

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