
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Threat actors are always on the prowl for another victim. Luckily the tools used to detect and defeat those attacks are constantly evolving. Join us to learn more about how data from artificial intelligence and machine data can give security professionals the advantage.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Justin Fier
Director of Cyber Intelligence and Analytics, Darktrace
Justin Fier is one of the US's leading cyber intelligence experts, and holds the position of Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace. His insights on cyber security and artificial intelligence have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 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. He is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace's strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.

Justin Fier
Director of Cyber Intelligence and Analytics, Darktrace
Justin Fier is one of the US's leading cyber intelligence experts, and holds the position of Director for Cyber Intelligence & Analytics at Darktrace. His insights on cyber security and artificial intelligence have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, and VICELAND. With over 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. He is also a highly-skilled technical specialist, and works with Darktrace's strategic global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, protecting IoT, and machine learning.

George Nastasi
Associate Partner, Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting, IBM
George leads the IBM Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting practice in Canada. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in security operations working with partners and clients across North America and Europe. As a lead practitioner and subject matter expert, George works directly with organizations in a wide range of industry segments implementing technologies, including SIEM and SOAR, processes, organizational structure, and governance to manage cybersecurity threats and mitigate risk with quantifiable measures. Currently, George is collaborating with global teams to re-align threat management approach specifically for Cloud operations.

Ameya Talwalkar
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cequence Security
Ameya heads the product and engineering teams at Cequence and works closely with customers to identify new use cases and new attack vectors that can be addressed with AI and machine learning technologies. He has built strong engineering teams specializing in enterprise and consumer security in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Madrid, Pune, and Chengdu. Before co-founding Cequence Security, he was Director of Engineering at Symantec, where he was responsible for its anti-malware software stack that leverages network Intrusion prevention and behavior and reputation technologies, and anti-virus engines. Under Ameya's leadership, Symantec developed an advanced version of network intrusion prevention technology that blocks more than two billion threats a year. Ameya holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai's Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE).

Diana Kelley
CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve & former 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.

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.

Chris Calvert
Co-Founder, VP of Product Strategy, Respond Software
Chris has over 30 years of experience in defensive information security: 14 years in the defense and intelligence community and 17 years in the commercial industry. He has worked on the Defense Department Joint Staff and held leadership positions in both large and small companies, including IBM and HPE. He has designed, built and managed global security operations centers and incident response teams for six of the global Fortune-50. As he often says, if you have complaints about today's security operations model, you can partially blame him. It's from his first-hand experience in learning the limitations of the man vs. data SecOps model that Chris leads product design and strategy for Respond Software.

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.

Diana Kelley
CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve & former 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.

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.

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.

Shirley Inscoe
Senior Analyst, Aite Group
Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud and data security. 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.

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.

Diana Kelley
CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve & former 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.

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.

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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