2024

Dr. Rohde, a pioneer in applying cutting-edge technologies, co-founded IBM’s Web Services and SOA Excellence Team for Europe. He later developed Cloud solutions for an international solution provider. As global Director of Research at Siemens Digital, he focused on AI, GenAI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, and Autonomous Factories in manufacturing and supply chain. Currently, as Executive Director […]

Dr. Madeline Sides is a Cybersecurity Compliance Manager at Ally Financial, where she has worked for five years in Incident Response, beginning her career through Ally’s Early Talent Program. Outside of Ally, Dr. Sides serves as the Vice President of Phish Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the cybersecurity community in Charlotte. In 2023, Dr. […]

Jason Skeen has nearly 3 decades of experience in the information technology field in private companies, healthcare, and government, with work ranging from hands on technology deployments to complex system implementations. Since 2016 he has been dedicated to the information security field with responsibilities in Vulnerability Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, and Security Operations. For […]

Matthew has spent his 30-year technical journey building networks, developing applications, and implementing cyber security solutions for Wachovia, Ruddick/Harris Teeter, Bank of America, and TIAA. Now, as the Booz Allen Hamilton Chief Cyber Architect, he takes this experience to lead the organization’s security stack within corporate services as well as its vast lab and client […]

Martin Strasburger leads the Enterprise Security department at Duke Energy Corporation, aFortune 200 company, and one of the largest combined gas and electric utilities in the UnitedStates. In this role, Martin works with company executives and the board of directors to definethe company’s security strategy across technology networks/systems, operational assets,facilities and personnel. To implement the […]

With more than 19 years of experience in information technologyand information security, Karthik is spearheading the GenerativeAI journey at MetLife by securing the use of AI platforms. Karthik isa certified cloud architect in AWS, Azure, and GCP and has beenResponsible for leading various security and Cloud transformationjourneys for various organizations globally. Karthik holds aBachelors degree […]

With almost 25 years of security experience Marc has an excellent ability to balance the necessity to secure data, with the practical demands placed upon a business in today’s highly competitive marketplace. To this end he has teamed with peer groups and business side partners in building numerous programs that placed appropriate controls on assets […]

Bio: Dr. Yongge Wang is a professor at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Wang has published extensively on research topics including algorithmic information theory, cryptography, and post-quantum security. Dr. Wang has proved several classical results in modern effective randomness research which are included as the fundamental theorems in most Algorithmic Information Theory graduate textbooks. Dr. Wang is […]

Adrian Wood, aka threlfall, currently works for Dropbox on their red team. He has worked as a red team consultant for WHITEHACK, a company he founded, and later as a lead engineer for an offensive security research team at a US bank. His research recently has been in supply chain attacks on CI/CD and ML […]

Sounil Yu is the author and creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad, which are reshaping approaches to cybersecurity. He’s a Board Member of the FAIR Institute; fellow at GMU Scalia Law School’s National Security Institute; guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon; and advisor to many startups. Sounil is the co-founder and Chief […]