Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Shaked Vax

Trusteer Products Strategist, IBM Security

Vax is the identity and anti-fraud solutions strategist at IBM Security. He is a financial industry subject matter expert specializing in online application security and performance, with a focus on digital banking fraud, digital identity theft prevention, consumer information protection and mobile banking security. With more than 17 years of experience in the security technology industry, Vax has previously held leadership positions for security product lines at Radware, Checkpoint Technologies and Compulite Industries.

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Diana Kelley

Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft

Diana Kelley is the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft and a cybersecurity architect, practitioner, executive advisor and author. At Microsoft, she leverages her 25+ years of cyber risk and security experience to provide advice and guidance to CSOs, CIOs and CISOs at some of the world's largest companies and is a contributor the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). She was the Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security where she built and managed the IBM Security Research Community Newsroom process and was a regular contributor to IBM X-Force research. Kelley is a faculty member with IANS Research, an Industry Mentor at the CyberSecurity Factory and a guest lecturer at Boston College's Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. She serves on the Board of Directors at the non-profit Sightline Security, was an IEEE "Rock Star of Risk" in 2016, speaks frequently at major conferences and co-authored the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers.

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Dena Bauckman

VP of Product Management, ZixCorp

Dena Bauckman currently serves as the VP of Product Management for Zix, a leader in email security. She has more than 20 years of experience in defining and executing product strategy and has direct experience with cloud and security solutions. Bauckman joined Zix twelve years ago and has since spoken to numerous industry and security forums on the need for privacy in email communications, industry specific legislation requiring such protection, and technical/business solutions for deploying and operating such services.

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Christopher Bontempo

VP Security Marketing, IBM Security

Chris Bontempo currently serves as Vice President of Security Marketing, Routes and Offerings for North America. He is responsible for demand generation and product marketing for IBM Security in the U.S. and Canada. Bontempo also focuses on route optimization and new offering launches for prospects, partners and IBM Digital. He joined IBM in 2005 and has led marketing teams in Market Intelligence, Cloud and IBM Security, which he joined in 2014.

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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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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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Diana Kelley

Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft

Diana Kelley is the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft and a cybersecurity architect, practitioner, executive advisor and author. At Microsoft, she leverages her 25+ years of cyber risk and security experience to provide advice and guidance to CSOs, CIOs and CISOs at some of the world's largest companies and is a contributor the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). She was the Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security where she built and managed the IBM Security Research Community Newsroom process and was a regular contributor to IBM X-Force research. Kelley is a faculty member with IANS Research, an Industry Mentor at the CyberSecurity Factory and a guest lecturer at Boston College's Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. She serves on the Board of Directors at the non-profit Sightline Security, was an IEEE "Rock Star of Risk" in 2016, speaks frequently at major conferences and co-authored the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers.

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Eric Bucher

Field Solutions Engineer, Cequence Security

Eric Bucher has over 15 years of experience in the security industry with a technical concentration in financial fraud, advanced persistent threats, forensics, exfiltration, DLP, and overall attack surfaces. His current career has taken him into the realm of bot construction and different attack modalities currently conducted through machine automation. Bucher now specializes in the use of Machine Learning algorithms and Artificial Intelligence as leverage and valuable countermeasures against this ever-evolving threat to online presences.

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Jade Catalano

Sr. Product Manager, Splunk

Jade Catalano currently serves as Sr. Product Manager at Splunk. With more than 10 years of cybersecurity experience, she has most recently been focusing on anti-fraud. Working closely with both the security product teams at Splunk and the customers, she strives to understand their biggest challenges around security and fraud, connect all the data points to help solve and strengthen organizations security ecosystems.

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Antonio Moreno

Global Business Director, Security and Biometrics, Nuance

Antonio Moreno currently serves as the Global Director for Product Strategy and Go to Market within the Biometrics and Security Group at Nuance. As part of its role, he is in charge of leading the Strategy and Roadmap planning of the Nuance's Security Product Portfolio. Prior to that, Moreno spent 12 years as part of the Agnitio Team, ending his tenure there as Senior Vice President of Product Management. He is also a well-known expert on Forensic Speaker Recognition, having participated in many workshops and conferences all over the world. Prior to this, Moreno worked in Telefónica I+D, the R&D division of Telefónica.

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Sridhar Govardhan

CISO, Wipro Ltd

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Ryan Stolte

Founder & CTO, Bay Dynamics

As a founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, Ryan Stolte has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.

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Jim Apger

Sr Security Architect, Splunk

Apger, a 20-year veteran of the tech industry is a member of the Global Security Specialists team at Splunk. His digital hardware and software background paved a path for him to spend nearly 10 years as an innovator in the network intrusion prevention space. Before joining Splunk as a security architect in 2014, Apger worked in the fields of web fraud detection, anti-money laundering, security information/event management, security operations and cyber threat intelligence.

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Mustafa Rassiwala

Sr. Director of Products, Lastline

Rassiwala has more than 10 years of experience in security product management, building DLP, SIEM, security analytics, fraud management and network security products. He has proven success at many companies including RSA, Symantec, HPE (ArcSight) and startups such as ThreatMetrix, Platfora and JASK. He has also held engineering roles at EMC/Documentum.

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Nicky Dewhurst

Director, Darktrace

Nicky Dewhurst currently serves as a Director at Darktrace. In her fifteen years' experience working in the defence and security sector, she has worked extensively for the UK government with partners around the world to deploy cutting-edge operational capabilities to defend against a range of threats to national security and specialized in the UK cyber defense effort.

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