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Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Analysis and Intelligence, Darktrace

Fier is the director of cyber analysis and intelligence at Darktrace, based in Washington D.C. With more than 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Fier has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. Fier is a highly-skilled technical officer, and a specialist in cyber operations across both offensive and defensive arenas.

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Michael Sherwood

Director of Technology and Innovation, City of Las Vegas

Sherwood is the Director of Technology and Innovation for the City of Las Vegas. Sherwood has more than 20 years of management experience, specifically in the field of technology, process improvement and innovation with the majority of that experience being in municipal government operations. Most recently he served as the deputy director of public safety, business services and city technology for the city of Irvine, CA since December 2013. Prior to that, he was the CIO and the information technologies manager for the City of Oceanside, CA.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

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

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud, data security, and consumer compliance issues. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees. Formerly, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was SVP and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank.

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Alex Niu

Director of Solution Engineering, DataVisor

Niu has more than nine years of experience in financial industry serving large banks in the area of risk management using advanced analytics. As the director of Decision Science at American Express, Niu was involved in developing and implementing machine learning based solution for both credit assessment and fraud detection. He also led efforts to build machine learning models for credit line assignment for American Express portfolios. Prior to American Express, Niu served as a consultant to top financial institutions.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

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

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

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

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

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

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

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Miguel Pinto

Senior Product Manager, BitSight

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

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

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Brian Laing

SVP Corporate Development & Strategic Alliances, Lastline

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

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

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

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Bert Grantges

VP of Solutions Engineering

Grantges is a proven leader in Enterprise Sales Engineering with more than 10 years of sales engineering and consulting experience across a wide range of technologies, building and managing teams across the US, EMEA and APAC. During the course of his career, he has had the pleasure of working with some of the largest and most dynamic international companies while helping them see their vision of digital transformation come into fruition and ensuring the overall protection of their company and brands.

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Tim Bedard

Director, Security Product Marketing, OneSpan

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

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Ed Amoroso

Founder and CEO, TAG Cyber; former Senior Vice President and CISO, AT&T

Dr. Edward G. Amoroso is founder chief executive officer of TAG Cyber LLC. He recently retired from AT&T after 31 years of service, where he began his career in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs. He served as senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T from 2004 until 2016. He was elected an AT&T Fellow in 2010. Amoroso also has been adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past 29 years, as well as a research professor in the Computer Science Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a senior adviser within the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Amoroso's work has been highlighted on CNN, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has worked directly with four Presidential administrations on issues related to national security, critical infrastructure protection and cyber policy.

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Denyette DePierro

VP & Senior Counsel - Center for Payments & Cybersecurity, American Bankers Association

DePierro joined the American Bankers Association in March 2008. Prior to joining the ABA, DePierro was Legislative Counsel of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) in Washington, D.C., and the California Independent Bankers in Newport Beach, Calif. At the ABA, DePierro focuses on the state, federal and international regulation of technology, cybersecurity, privacy, data security and emerging trends in banking, including fintech, blockchain, internet of things (IOT), artificial intelligence and social media.

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David Pollino

Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Bank of the West (BNP Paribas)

Pollino is responsible for fraud prevention oversight and education at the bank. Pollino was recently named a top ten influencer by Bank Information Security. Prior to joining Bank of the West, Pollino served in senior fraud prevention positions for Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. During his career, Pollino has also worked as an information security consultant at @stake and UUNET advising Fortune 100 companies on information security issues. Pollino is the author of RSA Press: Wireless security, The Hacker's Challenge Books 1, 2 and 3, and Hacking Exposed: Wireless and frequently contributes to the Bank of the West blog.

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Patrick Bedwell

Head of Product Marketing, Lastline

Bedwell has worked in information security for 20 years, creating and executing marketing strategies for both startups and public companies. His experience covers a wide range of security technologies, from the network edge to the core and the cloud.

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