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Mark Forman

Vice President, Digital Government, Unisys Federal

Forman is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of professional experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government's Chief Information Officer. He has a long record of accomplishments in government management reforms, spanning a variety of government and industry positions. Forman is a CIO Sage. He twice led the Industry Advisory Council's Presidential Transition initiative. He is a respected speaker on government use of cloud computing, government reform, IT risk management, enterprise architecture, data center consolidation, digital technologies, and cyber security. He has testified in state and federal legislatures, and given well over 100 speeches to a wide variety of industry groups and government officials from around the world.

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Shawn Kingsberry

Vice President and Director, Global Government Solutions, Unisys Federal

Kingsberry has more than 22 years of experience in the field of information technology and has a diverse background in both federal government and corporate settings, with extensive experience in large-scale information technology transformation, big data analytics, and enterprise computing, as well as secure hybrid cloud implementations. In his current role directing Enforce ™/Family Now ™ and Digital Investigator ™, he works to guide public sector consumers as they adopt cloud computing, data analytics and other digital government platforms.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew Peters' 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Peters has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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George Pradel

Sr. Systems Engineer, Global Alliances Data Protection Division, Dell Technologies

Pradel has more than 30 years of experience in IT and resides in Denver, Colorado. His experience includes the IT domains of cloud computing, security, server virtualization, desktop virtualization and monitoring tools. This unique combination of expertise provides him with a comprehensive understanding of customers environments and needs with an eye on real world issues. Pradel holds multiple certifications which in the past has included the CISSP security professional certification.

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Terence Gomes

Enterprise Security Executive - India, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, Microsoft India

Terence Gomes has been part of the Indian IT Industry for 20+ years with most of his time dedicated to advising organizations and partners around cybersecurity and cyber fraud. As part of Enterprise Cybersecurity Group at Microsoft his objective is to help CIOs and CISOs in building their cyber resilience strategy, keep their infrastructure & information safe as they transition to the cloud Before joining Microsoft, Terence served as Head of Fraud Prevention BU as well as Head of Strategic Alliances within RSA India & SAARC where he partnered with leading banks, financial institutions and service providers to tackle the growing menace of cyber fraud within the Indian financial sector.

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Sandip Chakraborty

Chief Technology Officer, Edelweiss General Insurance Co

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Brijesh Datta

CISO, Reliance Jio

Brijesh Datta has more than 25 years in Telecom, IT and Information Security. An ex-Army Officer and an IIT Delhi Alumini with a Master's Degree in Computer Technology, he was instrumental in defining Cyber Security practices for the Indian Army in the late 90's when this was a nascent field. Prior to joining the corporate sector in 2010, he was leading the Army's Cyber Operation's centre for 7 years and was awarded the prestigious Sena Medal on behalf of the President of India for his efforts. Brijesh is presently the CISO of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, where he manages security of all Jio vertical's ranging from Telco, IT, Media, Jio Money and Payments Banking.

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Sridhar Sidhu

Senior Vice President - Enterprise Information Security, Wells Fargo

Sridhara Sidhu currently serves as Head - Infosec Services and Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management for Wells Fargo where he has dual reporting to Global CISO and Global Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to Wells Fargo, he worked at Deloitte in various risk consulting groups (Financial Reporting Risk advisory, Corporate Governance, Finance Transformation advisory etc.) and as a regional lead of Finance Transformation Practice.

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Sunil Kumar Gupta

Co-founder and CEO, QNu Labs

Sunil Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO at QuNu Labs with the mission of accelerating the world's transition to Quantum safe security through best global Products and Solutions. QuNu has two products QRNG - Quantum Random Number Generator and QKD - Quantum Key Distribution. and an innovative Quantum Key Extension solution extending Quantum Key to any distance and at an affordable cost while ensuring provable security. Before joining QuNu Labs, he was COO at Paladion Networks responsible for driving and growing business for MEA and India regions. Paladion is a market leader in Cyber Security domain and is disrupting the current paradigm in Cyber Security space using AI-powered platform

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Steve Will

Chief Architect, IBM

Steve Will is Chief Architect for the IBM i operating system. He's an award-winning speaker, author of a top IBM i blog, and one of the most sought-after voices at customer briefings and events. Steve has worked on IBM i and its predecessors since before the creation of the AS/400.

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Jake Olcott

VP, Communications & Government Affairs, BitSight

For years, Jake has helped organizations create sustainable third party risk management programs.

Jake has held a number of leadership roles at BitSight since joining the company in 2015. Prior to BitSight, Jake served as cybersecurity attorney to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Homeland Security Committee. He previously consulted with Fortune 1000 executives on cyber risk management and served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Stephen Owen

CISO, Bourne Leisure Group

On loan from Daemon Solutions, Stephen Owen has recently joined the Bourne Leisure Group as interim Group Security Director for Bourne Leisure Group and was formerly Data Protection Officer for Camelot Group, the operators of the UK National Lottery where he was well known for his detailed and pragmatic advice. He is a highly experienced information security practitioner and certified cloud architect with multiple digital transformation projects under his belt. Capping his data privacy and security expertise, Owen was also recognised by the industry and awarded a Fellow of Information Privacy from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2016.

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Neal Conlon

Senior Vice President of Business Development, AppGuard

Neal Conlon currently serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development for AppGuard. He is dedicated to ensuring clients and partners are successful in protecting their business, mitigating risk, and doing it in a meaningful way. Before Appguard, Conlon was Sales Director at Plurilock, a behavioral monitoring startup with a focus on insider threat. In addition, he has worked for companies that include Morgan Stanley, Guggenheim Partners, and Cushman Wakefield.

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Claire Hatcher

Global Head of Fraud Prevention, Kaspersky

Claire Hatcher currently serves as Global Lead for Kaspersky's Fraud Prevention division. Prior to joining Kaspersky, she worked at RSA (part of Dell Technologies) for 6 years, where she had a number of roles within their fraud and risk intelligence business unit, including leading their business operations and sales strategy functions. Hatcher has worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years, specialising in fraud prevention for the past decade. Throughout her career in fraud prevention she has developed many relationships within the financial services sector, as well as with online retailers and other industries both within Europe and worldwide. This cross vertical and cross geographical experience provides a deep understanding of how fraud threats and trends emerge, develop and evolve.

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Steven Hunter

Senior Director, System Engineering, APJ, Forescout Technologies

Steven Hunter joined Forescout in June 2016 as Director, System Engineering Asia Pacific & Japan. He is responsible for developing and managing a team of experienced systems engineers within the region to work with organizations as they adopt and implement the ForeScout security solution. He regularly works with customers on their deployment of ForeScout's agentless security solutions. Prior to joining ForeScout, Hunter spent over 16 years at Cisco in various roles in Australia and Singapore, where he lead a team of presales engineers who consulted with the large enterprise accounts.

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Amit Sharma

Advisor (Cyber) and Director at the Office of Secretary, Department of Defence

Amit Sharma is additional director in the office of the scientific advisor of the defence minister, at the Defence Research and Development Organization (D.R.D.O), Ministry of Defence, Government of India. Sharma is part of various inter-ministerial committees related to information security, and was invited to be a peer reviewer by NATO CCDCOE for Tallinn Manual. He has delivered a number of talks on cyber warfare, cyber security and national security issues, at various forums such the NATO Centre of excellence at Tallinn, Estonia; Cyber security summit organised by Royal United Services Institute at London; "Scientific issues in countering terrorism" conference at Moscow; cyber deterrence issues at Garmisch Germany; IDGA Cyber Summit at Washington DC; Center for Land Warfare Studies CLAWS, National Maritime Foundation NMF and recently at S&T Conference organized by US Pacific Command.

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Brijesh Singh

Inspector General of Police (Cyber) and CISO, Maharashtra

Singh heads the cybersecurity department of Maharashtra State. He is an elite Indian Police Service officer with prior stint as special inspector general of police with the CID. He successfully implemented Crime Criminal Tracking and Networking Systems (CCTNS) project in Maharashtra State. Due to his efforts, Maharashtra implemented path-breaking IT schemes like online first information reports (FIRs), advanced forensics, and digitization of the state's crime records. Singh is also the designated Special Inspector General of Police - Women Atrocity Prevention, a special authority created by the Maharashtra government.

Further, the chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis has appointed Singh as the head of the state's information and publicity department, as well. He is the first IPS officer to hold this post. Singh subsequently took charge as the Chief information Security Officer (CISO) on June 18, 2016. Singh has also been designing apps for mobile platforms and holds several patents. He constantly contributes to the evolving software innovation space, and is the author of "Quantum Siege," which is among the top ten books on online ecommerce portal, Amazon.

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Suparna Goswami

Associate Editor, ISMG

Suparna Goswami is Associate Editor at ISMG Asia and has more than 10 years of experience in the field of journalism. She has covered a variety of beats ranging from global macro economy, fintech, startups and other business trends. Before joining ISMG, she contributed for Forbes Asia where she wrote about the Indian startup ecosystem. She has also worked with UK-based International Finance Magazine, and leading Indian newspapers like DNA and Times of India.

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Sameer Ratolikar

CISO, HDFC Bank

In his current role of Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Vice President at HDFC Bank, Ratolikar heads the Information Security Group and provides leadership to the development and implementation of Information Security program across the Bank. Prior he served as CISO with Axis Bank, where he was responsible for developing and implementing robust information strategies in line with business IT initiatives in a time-bound manner. Additionally, he ensured domestic and foreign information security, compliance, and gathered threat intelligence. Previously, Ratolikar served with Bank of India for six years. There, he facilitated information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program. He led Bank of India in achieving ISO 27001, Business Continuity and PCI-DSS certifications, implemented access control, data leakage prevention, identity and access management, two-factor authentication, encryption, IT GRC solutions, and established and SOC for SIEM. Prior to Bank of India, Ratolikar served as principal systems analyst of security and networking with National Informatics Centre, part of the India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Department of Electronics & Information Technology.

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Ved Prakash

Senior Business Development Manager, Thales Group

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