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Patrick Knight

Senior Director of Cyber Strategy & Product Management, Veriato

Patrick Knight is the senior director of cyber strategy and product management at Veriato, an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in insider threat protection, where he helps organizations protect critical data from threats by trusted insiders. For over 17 years, his cyber security career has helped enterprises protect against online threats through the development of anti-malware, network intrusion detection, computer and network forensics and encryption technologies. He is a writer and speaker on topics of cyber security in multiple forums including Virus Bulletin. He served in the U.S. Intelligence Community and the United States Army for 12 years in the fields of Signals Intelligence Analysis and Cryptanalysis and as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian Linguist. He can be reached on Twitter at @PatrickKnight70 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/PatrickKnight70.

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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Sidharth Mutreja

Enterprise Solutions Architect- APAC

Sidharth Mutreja has over 14 years of experience in various roles in the information security field and has been delivering security solutions to various Industry verticals. At Kaspersky Lab, Sidharth holds the position of Enterprise Solutions Architect-APAC with key responsibility of designing and delivering complex security architecture with key emphasis on meeting current and future customer cyber security requirements while responding to today's cyber security threats & challenges. He also has a keen interest in Critical Infrastructure Security Solutions & IoT Security and has been working very closely with key players across APAC. Prior to working with Kaspersky Lab, Sidharth held various senior level technical positions at McAfee India and Hewlett Packard where he has successfully worked on multiple assignments across the Banking & Critical Infrastructure. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications (M.C.A) from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune and is a certified SABSA Chartered Security Architect - SCF

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Vishak Raman

Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC

Vishak Raman currently serves as Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC. He brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Information Security Services space with stints in product management, sales, marketing and business development. Prior to joining Cisco , Raman was the Sr. Regional Director - India & SAARC at FireEye. Raman also served as the Global Head of Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Managed Security Services (MSS) business at Tata communications. Prior to joining Tata Communications, he was the Sr. Regional Director for Fortinet (India/SAARC region) and is credited with having built Fortinet's Unified Threat Management success story in India/SAARC. Raman was also instrumental in setting up the first-of-its-kind Global Technical Assistance Center at Bangalore for providing support to Fortinet's customers worldwide. Prior to Fortinet, he worked at WatchGuard, Sify and HCL Technologies.

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Bithal Bhardwaj

CISO and Principal Risk Advisor, GE Africa & South Asia

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Ajay Kanwal

Managing Director & CEO, Jana Small Finance Bank

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Sanjay Sahay

Additional Director General of Police - Cyber, Karnataka Police

Sanjay Sahay belongs to the 1989 batch of the IPS, borne on Karnataka cadre and is an accomplished officer with a high degree of professionalism in wide and varied assignments. He has achieved 360 degrees of experience in all policing tasks while simultaneously maintaining keen interest in all staff functions and a passion for usage of appropriate technology in policing at all levels and in all fields. His important assignments provided significant value addition to his professional persona. He is credited to have created an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, the Police IT, Broadband networking and Data Center for the Karnataka State Police. He has immense expertise in a broad band of technologies like TETRA, Geospatial Technology, ERP, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing and Big Data.

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Shakeel Khan

Business Manager, APJ, Zscaler

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Pradeep Sharma

Security Strategist, RSA

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Anoop Das

Enterprise Manager, Middle East and India, Mimecast

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Don Leatham

Sr Manager Business Development, Splunk inc.

Don Leatham is a 15-year veteran of the security software market. Having held senior roles in security product management, OEM technologies, and strategic technology alliances, Don provides a unique perspective and understanding of how security technologies, products, and market relationships come together to form today's complex InfoSec environment.

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Hugh Pyle

Director, Solutions Management, ReversingLabs

Hugh Pyle is Director of Solutions Architecture at ReversingLabs, with a focus on integrations and developer tools for threat intelligence and object analysis. His career includes software engineering, product management and consulting roles in security and privacy, enterprise data management, and collaboration software with IBM, Microsoft, Ab Initio and several startups.

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Timothy Hunt

Seattle Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force, United States Secret Service

Timothy Hunt has been a member of the United States Secret Service since 2004. He currently serves as supervisor of the USSS Seattle Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF). This task force is a strategic partnership of local, state, and federal law enforcement entities, as well and partners from private industry and academia. The goal of the ECTF is to identify, prosecute, and suppress technology-based criminal activity. Before his current assignment, Hunt served as part of the USSS Covert Telecommunications Intercept Group. This group conducted Title III wiretaps and court-ordered pen registers, pursuant to relevant legal process, on telephone and computer networks in order to further USSS and partner investigations. Previously, Hunt served as a member of the USSS Seattle Field Office ECTF where he conducted forensic examinations of electronic media for evidence of criminal activity, and worked cases with a nexus to computers and electronic crime.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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Ronald Raether

Partner, Troutman Sanders

Ron Raether leads the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice and is a partner in the Financial Services Litigation practice group at Troutman Sanders. Ron is known as the interpreter between businesses and information technology, and has assisted companies in navigating federal and state privacy laws for over twenty years. Raether's understanding of technology led him to be involved in legal issues that cross normal law firm boundaries, including experience with data security, data privacy, patent, antitrust, and licensing and contracts. This experience allows Raether to bring a fresh and creative perspective to data compliance issues with the knowledge and historical perspective of an industry veteran.

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David Houlding

Principal Healthcare Program Manager, Microsoft

David Houlding currently serves as the Principal Healthcare Lead on the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences Team. He currently serves as Chair of the HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, a group of ~100 leaders from across healthcare worldwide, collaborating to advance blockchain in healthcare. Houlding also currently serves as an advisor to both the British Blockchain Association and Lifeboat Foundation. He has led the successful creation and deployment of a wide range of solutions to help reduce the cost of healthcare, improve patient outcomes, experiences, and engagement. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2018 Houlding served for over 10 years at Intel Health & Life Sciences where he was the Director of Healthcare Privacy & Security, responsible for enabling healthcare organizations worldwide to achieve compliance with regulations and data protection laws, and implement effective privacy and security programs. In his current role at Microsoft, Houlding works with key partners and industry influencers to enable healthcare organizations make use of cloud computing and related technologies to reduce healthcare costs, and enable new transformative healthcare use cases to improve patient outcomes, leveraging strategic technologies such as such as AI / ML, blockchain, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), and others. Houlding has a proven track record for innovation with 5 patents granted by the USPTO.

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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Colin Murray

Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Colin has been a solutions engineer at Cloudflare for the past 2 years. An IT security and networking pro, Colin is responsible for architecting scalable implementation plans for Cloudflare's enterprise clients (many in the banking space).

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Derek Yee

Director of Product Marketing, Cloudflare

Derek leads the team at Cloudflare supporting the performance services portfolio. Derek has been largely focused on the enterprise business segment, helping them solve their challenges for application delivery in a cloud first world. Prior to Cloudflare he spent 10+ years at Citrix supporting sales, marketing, education and enablement for their flagship networking product NetScaler.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years' experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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Ajay Cherian

Security Intelligence & Threat Protection Segment Leader - Asia Pacific

Cherian is responsible for Security Intelligence and Threat Protection Segment for IBM Security in Asia Pacific. This includes Security Operations Center Solution and Technology Sales, Channel Sales, Business Development, Client Acquisition & Retention, Key Account Relationships, Organisational Leadership, Technology Transformation Leadership.

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